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Go Launcher HD - Tablet Edition (Android 3.0+)

GO Launcher HD is the exclusive tablet version of GO Launcher EX on Android platform. It brings you with the fascinating interface, practical utilities, as well as extremely personalized and smooth operating experience.
Ready for a brand new operating experience on Android tablet Platform? Try it out!
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I wish it was available for CM7.
http://golauncher.goforandroid.com/2012/03/go-launcher-hd-v1-0-beta/

look amazingly beautiful

Cant get it to install. Problems parsing package.
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Been using it since yesterday. Love it lots, although don't like that I can't do a 10x10 grid anymore. The options relocation to the top is great though.

I like this launcher and realize it is still in beta but I can not seem to get it to set up more than three rows. Am I missing something or is this a limitation of the beta or of the Fire itself? Thanks

Not really a big fan honestly. Feels and looks a little clunky for me.

Google Reader Tablet Mode

Does anyone think there's a way to set Google Reader to tablet mode on the N7? It's really annoying that Google disabled it. I think it would work great in landscape mode on the N7.

nyijedi said:
Does anyone think there's a way to set Google Reader to tablet mode on the N7? It's really annoying that Google disabled it. I think it would work great in landscape mode on the N7.
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It does work great in landscape mode, use one of the free rotation apps to force apps into landscape mode.

jabsys said:
It does work great in landscape mode, use one of the free rotation apps to force apps into landscape mode.
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Sorry, my post wasn't very clear. I know it "works" in landscape mode, but that's not what I mean. On a 10" tablet, in landscape mode, you get 2 panes. The left pane shows a list of articles, and the right pane shows the selected article that you're reading. As you know, on the N7, it just lists all articles. It doesn't efficiently utilize the extra space like on a 10" tablet.

Honestly I don't think it's ever used dual pane. I used it on my flyer and I don't remember it looking any different. I could be wrong, I dunno I can't remember how it looked. If it is supposed to use dual pane than then the tablet models tricks should do it
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nyijedi said:
Sorry, my post wasn't very clear. I know it "works" in landscape mode, but that's not what I mean. On a 10" tablet, in landscape mode, you get 2 panes. The left pane shows a list of articles, and the right pane shows the selected article that you're reading. As you know, on the N7, it just lists all articles. It doesn't efficiently utilize the extra space like on a 10" tablet.
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changing dpi may put it in tablet mode with dual panes. Check out paranoid android rom for per app customizations.
Edit 1. I'll test now
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Cor-master said:
Honestly I don't think it's ever used dual pane. I used it on my flyer and I don't remember it looking any different. I could be wrong, I dunno I can't remember how it looked. If it is supposed to use dual pane than then the tablet models tricks should do it
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Nah, it definitely uses dual pane. I have a 10" Transformer Prime and it's dual pane in landscape mode.
jamesbra said:
changing dpi may put it in tablet mode with dual panes. Check out paranoid android rom for per app customizations.
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Thanks. Maybe I'll look into it, but I think I like the "phone mode" in general on the OS. It's just Reader that I really want to change.

I downloaded Google reader just to see if I can get it in dual pane mode. It may be the options I'm setting but when I configure it to tablet UI, it remains in one pane. I'll play around with it more to see if I can get dual pane.
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Setting dpi at 175 did not enable dual pane. 165 did. Thanks for this thread. I really like the reader app and didn't know it offered dual pane
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Google needed to lay off the whiskey when they were designing this new 7 inch tablet ui. Honestly I like the split bar, but everything else should of just stayed the same. You think reader in single pane is bad, YouTube got totally raped! Honestly the ipad doesn't have a separate tablet ui, and I along think Google figured they needed to ditch their tablet ui to compete or something.
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The nexus should have a modified tablet UI not the hybrid phone UI. Looks best IMO.
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See since I've dealt with honeycomb the past 6 months on a 7 inch tablet, I would agree there was room for improvement. And honestly I live the split bar, but I don't like that the whole system favors the tablet being held in portrait, nor do I like that the recent app menu takes up the whole screen, or that dual pane has been eliminated from many apps. It needed tweaked yes but they over thought it, or maybe they didn't think hard enough. Yeah really I like the split bar as it allows for less clutter and keeps the buttons from being bumped by accident, everything else shouldn't have changed imo. The nexuses default launcher quite frankly sucks. It's pure rubbish! A freaking dock on a tablet, and a search bar that's 6 inches long wtf?
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Check out Reader HD: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ageofmobile.reader
It does what you want and is more customizable.

karnovaran said:
Check out Reader HD: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ageofmobile.reader
It does what you want and is more customizable.
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Wow I need to check that out. I still don't get why reader isn't integrated into currents
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[4.2]Tablet UI on Android 4.2?

I've just upgraded to Android 4.2 and noticed the lack of tablet ui when I changed the DPI.
Is there any watt till get it back or has it been fully removed? I loved the old UI.
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pankomputerek said:
I've just upgraded to Android 4.2 and noticed the lack of tablet ui when I changed the DPI.
Is there any watt till get it back or has it been fully removed? I loved the old UI.
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Yeah, WTF happened? Just did the same. 160 dpi with the 213 dpi gui? No thanks.

the update has unified the tablet UI... look at the nexus 10 and you will see you are now running the "tablet' UI. there is no split in UI like there was before (ie. no tablet and phablet difference)

Of course there are changes in 160dpi. It's not the same as 213, Youtube is still totally different, market, gmail. Just navigation and notification bar are splited. But Yeah, old ui was much better. There is too much wasted space in new UI

Hopefully some custom ROMs will add this in. Its a shame, I used to be able to operate with almost one hand and now I need the other to use the notifications. Some things were added tipi the top right quick settings but I really want it on the bottom.
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That's exactly what I suspected, no tablet UI included. I am definitely won't update to this. Let's hope the community will fix that.

They're doing away with the old tablet UI to unify the devices.
-Brought to you by Marino's Galaxy Nexus-

Yeah, and that is dumb as hell in my opinion!

i dont think it is necessarily dumb. i believe it is important to not have a split experience when it comes to your OS. If you want something different that is what custom ROMs are for. But for what google is putting out they want everyone to have a similar experience no matter what device they are on. that way going from your phone to a tablet is more natural

Using Tablet UI, I experienced accidentally pressing the Nav buttons and expanding the status bar while playing games. I think keeping the buttons away from where the fingers will accidentally press them is not dumb at all. I hope they find a better way to implement Tablet UI.

When I saw that the Nexus 10 had the new UI, I feared that this would happen.

Just flashed 4.2 and it was such a pity to discover that there's no tablet ui (( I liked it so much

nickriley said:
Just flashed 4.2 and it was such a pity to discover that there's no tablet ui (( I liked it so much
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Seems tablet ui is being worked on for 4.2...
Here's some files you can beta test:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1780970&page=84
Let me know (or better yet, the dev), if they work.

ace7196 said:
Seems tablet ui is being worked on for 4.2...
Here's some files you can beta test:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1780970&page=84
Let me know (or better yet, the dev), if they work.
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Gotta give this a try when i get home! very nice! Thank you!
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Now we can have multiple user accounts on our Nexus 7... I'm wondering if it's possible to have one user running at 213 dpi and another at 160 dpi, so have different resolutions per user?
I read it's a change to the system build properties file in a thread about tablet UI, so I imagine it wouldn't be that hard for some savvy person to write a script to swap that at user logon, like in a .profile or similar, if android has those. I guess it must run as root, which is surely achievable on a rooted device... :fingers-crossed:

Key Lime Pie
Hopefully Google will figure something out for Key Lime Pie, unified UI is good for noobies but power users like us want something more and that's why we went with android.

4.2(4.2.1) Official update NO TABLETUI

Just wondering.. Does anybody else know that their beloved Tablet UI will NOT be in the Official 4.2 update? The New notification widgets wont be able to support the tablet ui Notification area. What are your thoughts on this?

I want a tablet, not a bigger phone. I don't like the new UI and I hope that Asus will keep the current one or at least provide it as an option.
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I just install a different launcher from google play(nova, apex..), problem solved. Big deal is when will asus release 4.2 update for our tablet ?
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tritran18518 said:
I just install a different launcher from google play(nova, apex..), problem solved. Big deal is when will asus release 4.2 update for our tablet ?
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more than the launcher, i think the concern would be the change to the notification bar, because in 4.2 there is a status bar and the lower bar are just the 3 buttons, basically a big phone, maybe asus willl find a way to theme nicely the two panel pulldown thingie!
androidheadlines . com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/tablets-pulldown.png

Y should Asus change something (except the bloatware)? I think they didn't do it in 4.1 so they won't do it in 4.2 except the navbar button style... - only good thing would be to get a bigger area for the top bar, because I nearly can't touch it because of the case which is a bit awful, but this UI is awesome, you just have to use it for a time and also on your phone - navbar buttons in the middle is a bit awful with dock use, that's the only disadvantage...

I will stay on 4.1 if we don't get tablet UI on 4.2, or before someone will made a port of tablet UI for 4.2, the phablet UI just sucks!

On my cusions nexus 10 its the phablet ui, you can't change the LCD density to make it tabletui, you can only make the phabletui bigger or smaller

It is highly likely that Asus keeps the tablet ui. No sense in changing the UI that radically in an ota, the non techy people would have a hard time with it.
Though for the record, the hybrid ui is great on the Nexus 7.

That sucks...no tablet ui supported.

Honestly its weird but I like tablet ui on my note 2 and phablet ui on my transformer.
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Phablet UI is a mess. It is silly to have such UI on 10 inch screen. I cannot be more user unfriendly. It is total disaster from ergonomic point of view I hope Asus will keep tablet UI or I will either stay with 4.1 on use some custom ROM.

KejPi said:
Phablet UI is a mess. It is silly to have such UI on 10 inch screen. I cannot be more user unfriendly. It is total disaster from ergonomic point of view I hope Asus will keep tablet UI or I will either stay with 4.1 on use some custom ROM.
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Remember, they're appealing to the masses by keeping the ui consistent between tablets and phones. However, i don't see why they couldn't remove the status bar and put the buttons in the middle or slightly shifted to the left, keeping the bottom bar ( its lots of unused space) and toggles on the left of the buttons.
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4.2.1
I had 4.2.1 on my galaxy tab 10.1 for a while.
I think it is a desaster.

Tablet UI

Is there a way to get the tablet UI on the 2013 Nexus 7 yet????
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Gadzooks1123 said:
Is there a way to get the tablet UI on the 2013 Nexus 7 yet????
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Install the Paranoid Android ROM.
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How about a way on stock ROM? Just a mod or tweak or something?
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Gadzooks1123 said:
How about a way on stock ROM? Just a mod or tweak or something?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2418867

Gadzooks1123 said:
Is there a way to get the tablet UI on the 2013 Nexus 7 yet????
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The Nexus 7 comes with a tablet UI, unless you are talking about the old UI from HoneyComb that was depreciated a while ago. I don't understand why people are still hung up on legacy layouts.
"It's very clear what Google is doing - keeping users' attention on two general parts of the homescreen UI. The search / voice / notification area, and the app drawer / nav button area. Just like a modern Android phone. It makes sense - the experience across all [stock-ish] devices is now extremely consistent."
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/1...just-like-a-giant-phones-and-thats-fantastic/

rmkilc said:
The Nexus 7 comes with a tablet UI, unless you are talking about the old UI from HoneyComb that was depreciated a while ago. I don't understand why people are still hung up on legacy layouts.
"It's very clear what Google is doing - keeping users' attention on two general parts of the homescreen UI. The search / voice / notification area, and the app drawer / nav button area. Just like a modern Android phone. It makes sense - the experience across all [stock-ish] devices is now extremely consistent."
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/1...just-like-a-giant-phones-and-thats-fantastic/
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Except that that is simply not the case.
On phones the navigation buttons never leave the short side of the screen leaving them easily accessible with your right thumb while in landscape. On tablets the nav bar is terrible with the buttons spread out across the bottom while holding your device in landscape. The centred buttons are barely reachable on a 7" tablet like this. On 10" devices unless you are some kind of mutant, bred to be a piano virtuoso, good luck getting your thumbs where they need to go while cradling the tablet in 2 hands. Similarly the top-of-screen based notification pull down is simply not an ergonomic solution to something that you will be doing thousands of times with your device. Again this is not so bad on a device of this size, but is seriously ridiculous on large tablets.
It is all well and good for Google to say that they want users to have the same user experience across all devices, but they do not deliver on that. Given no other option, I would far rather use this tablet in full phone mode, with navigation buttons that never leave the short edge of the screen, than use the new "Tablet UI". I have actually clicked the DPI up to 340 and find the phone UI much easier to use than the default one, with the obvious exception of the full screen notification shade (which just looks ugly on this device). At least though, this configuration would be more condusive to one handed landscape navigation.
So, for me, I am going to keep using the old tablet UI as long as Google leaves the code in there for me to use and hope that they come to their senses one day over at the AOSP and realize that they've actually taken a step backwards in terms of user friendliness.
No need for nay-sayers to jump in when someone asks for a customized user experience. That's the beauty of Android! It isn't a one size fits all, apple-corer OS. The only limit is your imagination, and how much time you want to spend learning and tweaking. I say tweak on, young man, tweak on!

rmkilc said:
The Nexus 7 comes with a tablet UI, unless you are talking about the old UI from HoneyComb that was depreciated a while ago. I don't understand why people are still hung up on legacy layouts.
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Because it's functional. The notification area is always visible even when apps are running full screen.
I can see the clock. I can see if the downloading is finished. I can see if a new email has come in.
The new Mod for tablet UI is working nicely.
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/tablet-ui-mod-for-the-2013-nexus-7-on-stock-rooted-jss15q/

The ipad has a tablet ui too and its really useful. Less pressing on the back button when navigating thru the settings ap
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csrow said:
Because it's functional. The notification area is always visible even when apps are running full screen.
I can see the clock. I can see if the downloading is finished. I can see if a new email has come in.
The new Mod for tablet UI is working nicely.
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/tablet-ui-mod-for-the-2013-nexus-7-on-stock-rooted-jss15q/
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The new UI is much better looking, to be fair. And the notification area on the old one felt a bit rushed - for example, if a notification came in, it hijacked the entire notification area so you couldn't get to other notifications until it was gone - or at least, that's what I thought until I figured out that (for whatever reason), notifications could be cancelled by pressing somewhere else on the navbar (in other words, that 'feature' was a nuisance and user unfriendly in many ways).
I had plenty of moments where I went to get an email by opening the notification drawer when something else suddenly notified me and I ended up somewhere I didn't want to be like Appy Geek instead.
Also, the fact that it was a tap to open instead of at least a swipe upwards made no sense at all.
I get that you power users are happy to have to practice using your technology like it's some sort of art form, but please save the rest of us the bother.

Kookas said:
The new UI is much better looking, to be fair. And the notification area on the old one felt a bit rushed - for example, if a notification came in, it hijacked the entire notification area so you couldn't get to other notifications until it was gone - or at least, that's what I thought until I figured out that (for whatever reason), notifications could be cancelled by pressing somewhere else on the navbar (in other words, that 'feature' was a nuisance and user unfriendly in many ways).
I had plenty of moments where I went to get an email by opening the notification drawer when something else suddenly notified me and I ended up somewhere I didn't want to be like Appy Geek instead.
Also, the fact that it was a tap to open instead of at least a swipe upwards made no sense at all.
I get that you power users are happy to have to practice using your technology like it's some sort of art form, but please save the rest of us the bother.
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Agreed, it was a very inconsistent experience. Also, trying to get expandable notifications to work properly with gestures was a pain.

That's what's great about Android on a Nexus device. You get to choose what you like and everyone will be happy.
No one option is better than another. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean someone else should not be using it.

The OP simply wanted to know if it was possible to use Table UI on the N7 v2 and everyone is on a full blown discussion of who prefers what.
Here is the link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=45084692
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I recommend trying out LMT (better than the pie control in paranoid/CM). I find it much better than having this blasted button bar using space all the time)
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Apex launcher has a tablet ui setting. For the most part is seems stock just bring the app icons to the bottom in landscape mode along with the app drawer in the upper right corner.