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ADWLauncher EX or Honeycomb Stock Launcher.

What do you guys use Honeycomb Stock Launcher or ADWLauncher EX? Their seems to be some problems on Stock Launcher on 3.1. ADWLauncher is superfast. Does anyone know how to get rid of ADWLauncher's dock?

There's an ADW setting to get rid of the dock, and not use a "hidden" dock, and even to hide the menu bar on the top (as well as edit what is there).
Takes some dicking around, but once you've got ADW set up, you won't want to go back to the space-wasting, tacky "Tron" blue neon, sluggish stock launcher, unless you really really really miss the fancy widget/wallpaper/app placement + menu.

Yeah, figured it out. Phew. I think most of widgets that I use should work. It's blazing fast.
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How is adw fast when it's pretty much an overlay on TW?
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mroneeyedboh said:
How is adw fast when it's pretty much an overlay on TW?
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It feels fast, let's see how it behaves after I have added several widgets.
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I wasn't saying you're wrong. But I was askknve
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I wasn't saying you're wrong. But I was askknve
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I can't tell you science behind it. Lol it doesn't hurt to try. It won't change anything on your system.
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How is adw fast when it's pretty much an overlay on TW?
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To my understanding adw is not an overlay but a replacement. You use either stock launcher or an alternative.

he's right, it's fast because it replace the stock one. When you press home it fires up the ADW apk instead of the default one.
ADW is better programmed, has more options and is a lot faster than the default.
It's a good purchase.

ADW all the way!!

To tell you the truth...if it weren't for ADW, I was seriously considering selling my Tab. The lag was just killing me. Love the customization abilities of ADW.

Was close to sticking ADWLauncher EX, but could not find a way to get the menu bar to be translucent like the stock launcher. The black didn't look good to me, and hiding it still left a black bar at the top. Am I missing a setting? I looked and looked. Thanks.

I think Honeycomb isn't ready for widgets.
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ADW is NOT faster or smoother than Touchwiz launcher. Touchwiz launcher is actually better.

ADW is amazing on the tab. Its MUCH faster than stock. I turned off all animations on the stock launcher and its still faster than stock. My only gripe is that ADW hasn't totally optimized widget sizing when it comes to turning the tab. For example, when you look at a Gmail widget horizontally and then flip the screen the widget looks way to stretched vertically. You can edit the number of columns and rows but I can't get it to look all that great.
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But the Touchwiz launcher is still faster than ADW....

Is it possible to use multilive wallpaper widget? Meaning so you can have different wallpapers on each screen. For some reason I cant make it work.

Evan2ac said:
But the Touchwiz launcher is still faster than ADW....
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No, it's not. It's much much faster than TW.
You are using ADW EX, right, and not just the free ADW?
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joekletch said:
Was close to sticking ADWLauncher EX, but could not find a way to get the menu bar to be translucent like the stock launcher. The black didn't look good to me, and hiding it still left a black bar at the top. Am I missing a setting? I looked and looked. Thanks.
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It's handled via themes. Mine is transparent, but it's been a month or more, forget what I did to get it that way.
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Thor S said:
Is it possible to use multilive wallpaper widget? Meaning so you can have different wallpapers on each screen. For some reason I cant make it work.
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Turn on Desktop Scrolling in ADW (General Behavior/Animation and Effects).

Croak said:
No, it's not. It's much much faster than TW.
You are using ADW EX, right, and not just the free ADW?
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Incorrect by scientific standards. I can load up widgets on my home screens and the Touchwiz launcher runs perfectly smooth while ADW shutters and I used the paid version of ADW.
ADW is not as optimized for the tab10 hardware.

Sorry for mixup when I said ADW is faster than stock I meant touch wiz as it is now the default launcher on my tab. TW brought improvements to honeycomb but in my experience ADW trumps it.
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Semi-Transparent/Transparent application menu while keeping original launcher

Is it possible to make the applications menu semi-transparent/transparent while keeping the original launcher? I don't like it when I press the app drawer and the app menu turns the background black.
Its something like this(in the attachments) but I also want it to be completely transparent.

If you get an alternate launcher from the Play Store like Nova or Apex, I believe there is an option in the settings to adjust the opacity of the app drawer. I don't think there is a way to do this with the stock launcher, though.
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RockNrolling said:
If you get an alternate launcher from the Play Store like Nova or Apex, I believe there is an option in the settings to adjust the opacity of the app drawer. I don't think there is a way to do this with the stock launcher, though.
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I hope to keep the stock launcher because I want to keep it original while doing some mods to it to make it look better

Unless you somehow mod the stock launcher and change the background transparency then no you can't do it. I use Nova launcher and my app drawer is semi transparent. Nova is much better than the stock launcher IMO. Maybe talk to a dev and see if they can help you out with the mod if you wanna keep everything stock.
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SPreston2001 said:
Unless you somehow mod the stock launcher and change the background transparency then no you can't do it. I use Nova launcher and my app drawer is semi transparent. Nova is much better than the stock launcher IMO. Maybe talk to a dev and see if they can help you out with the mod if you wanna keep everything stock.
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EDIT: Thks Nova launcher is a better option everything looks better.
Thank You SPreston!

Best apps for using themes on Nexus 5

I find AOSP plain and boring so i try new homscreen replacement now and then and have compiled a list of top 5 android homescreen replacements and they are
1] Next launcher
2] Go launcher
3] themer
4] Buzz launcher
5] Nova launcher
here is the blog post i wrote about it Top 5 android theming apps

Wergin said:
Good apps thanks
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welcome

Also Apex Launcher (similar to Nova but some slight differences).
I tend to use either Nova or Apex (currently Nova since they were the first to add in KitKat's transparent status bar) but Themer is on track to be very cool for people who want something a little less like an extended version of the stock launcher. It's still in beta but it's from the folks at mycolorscreen who have become the best source for custom theming on Android.

My number 1 spot would go to Themer. Liked it from my old phone. Since I'm not that keen on customizing anymore, and I want to have Google Now with just 1 swipe away on my homescreen, I don't use it currently. But from all the launchers I have tried so far, themer is my favorite one. The second place goes to Action Launcher.

Good information sharing..

Where is the Mi Launcher?

And tsf launcher too
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@hapticc - your page isn't opening mate
about the launchers, my favorite atm is holo launcher...
cos all i need from a launcher is gesture swipes.. up & down for notification & app drawer..
nova & apex have these only in paid version..
i wish GEL would incorporate gestures..
along with access for google now & LMT, that would be perfect

Sliding Explorer
Sliding Explorer have full screen on 4.4:laugh:

solved said:
Where is the Mi Launcher?
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Doesn't work...
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I was always a nova user since i had a galaxy nexus. Since getting the nexus 5 though, i discovered more customization tools for themes and widgets, and ive been using Go launcher just because it works with the aesthetic/homescreen setup im currently using.
If nova launcher had a few more tweaks to it like icons not clipping/cropping, id probably go back to using it.
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Juansegovia20 said:
And tsf launcher too
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TSF launcher is great but next launcher has replaced it.
letmedanz said:
@hapticc - your page isn't opening mate
about the launchers, my favorite atm is holo launcher...
cos all i need from a launcher is gesture swipes.. up & down for notification & app drawer..
nova & apex have these only in paid version..
i wish GEL would incorporate gestures..
along with access for google now & LMT, that would be perfect
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Fixed the link sorry for inconvenience
aangelsmithh said:
Good information sharing..
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Thanx for positive comments its make me blog more and more

DigitalUnderground said:
Doesn't work...
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Yeah they updated it to work on their website but the play store version wasn't updated yet. I had a thread on it. The only thing I don't like about it is non transparent nav bar. The notification bar is transparent but not the nav bar. In the broken version it was transparent. Not sure why it was removed unless that's what caused the issues
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working launchers

Hey guys just wanted to see what luck everyone has with launchers on the hdx 7.
My favorite launcher is nova, but until the wallpaper issue is fixed for non rooted users then it looks I'm stuck with using aviate.
In case you haven't gotten around to trying it, aviate seems to be 100% working, widgets wallpapers and all. Great alternative to mojito.

I haven't tried on a non rooted device but apex works great on my rooted hdx.
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None if you don't root. AND the reason Aviate Works is it's portrait only, so it never has to worry about the reverse rotation issue.

js1988 said:
Hey guys just wanted to see what luck everyone has with launchers on the hdx 7.
My favorite launcher is nova, but until the wallpaper issue is fixed for non rooted users then it looks I'm stuck with using aviate.
In case you haven't gotten around to trying it, aviate seems to be 100% working, widgets wallpapers and all. Great alternative to mojito.
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On a non rooted device?

I'm using Nova Launcher ( installed from 1mobile ). My HDX is not rooted.

js1988 said:
Hey guys just wanted to see what luck everyone has with launchers on the hdx 7.
My favorite launcher is nova, but until the wallpaper issue is fixed for non rooted users then it looks I'm stuck with using aviate.
In case you haven't gotten around to trying it, aviate seems to be 100% working, widgets wallpapers and all. Great alternative to mojito.
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That would be cool. I'll check both of those out when I get home tomorrow. I use go launcher ex but it sucks with no widgets or background. I'm non-rooted.
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holeshot77 said:
That would be cool. I'll check both of those out when I get home tomorrow. I use go launcher ex but it sucks with no widgets or background. I'm non-rooted.
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If you're looking for a more traditional android experience, buzz launcher works backgrounds and all but no joy on widgets.

js1988 said:
If you're looking for a more traditional android experience, buzz launcher works backgrounds and all but no joy on widgets.
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I didn't like buzz launcher but its there and it works with backgrounds so yah.

Best - Third Party Launcher

Post here which third party launcher you guys are using
I'm using inspire launcher & it works so smooth

Touchwiz ...and forever touchwiz

I usually use Google Launcher with Xposed GEL settings
but as for third party launchers, I prefer Inspire Launcher or Next Launcher
On a side note, "Best" anything threads are discouraged on XDA

Best ???, choose what you like most.
For me Nova Launcher works fine.

Nova paid..ultimate customized
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Nova Launcher :good: :angel:

Brada can you show some screenshots of your nova customization??
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Nova paid..ultimate customized
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I started using dodol launcher and am really enjoying it.

never looked into dodol launcher - will definately try that one
solomoninusa said:
I started using dodol launcher and am really enjoying it.
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GO launcher
i have searched NOVA launcher as best , but i find Go launcher nicer than Nova in some points like : I am not able to hide app like i can do in GO launcher, other like nice effect and icon in go launcher ( yes, you can install huge icon pack in go launcher).
:good: try go and Nova launcher and share your experience here.:good::good:
[ tried Dodol and themer beta, they have cool themes but i dont like those much ]