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What would you do if you had an opportunity to show off the power of Android?

Like the title says, I'm interested in what you guys consider a feature worth showing off!

Flash (Adobe), Customization and on and on....

Holding the nexus in my left hand and making a call.
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Voice to text and in the UI in general i.e. the ability to add widgets and customize the launcher. After showing my EVO to a new iPhone 4 owner last night, all she had to say was: "why would anyone want an iPhone when they could have one of those?" I said, "you know, that is a really good question." Priceless!
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Google voice, show them real visual voicemail; widgets, show them important stuff without even opening an app; flash, show them the full web experience; live wallpaper, It's a battery hog for most things, but still really cool; replacements for all normal features, handcent, t9 dialer, different keyboard (like swipe).
There's loads of things you can showcase.

I would load some porn apps, since android is for porn right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IraQfhlMwi4

Use the Maps live wallpaper that comes with Cyanogen while listening to music and doing other things.
If I'm showing off to an iphoner, move icons around and change the battery.

Google Navigation

I can scan your body and know in which pocket is your iphone, using metal detector.
I can sync my flash led rhythm with the beats on a dance floor.

Great guys! Keep 'em coming

Whats your favorite restaraunt ?
Hold search button...
say ""Navigate to mickeys steakhouse""
Show them navigation pop up automatically.
Wipe there drool and sweep away there broken iphone particles.

fubaya said:
Use the Maps live wallpaper that comes with Cyanogen while listening to music and doing other things.
If I'm showing off to an iphoner, move icons around and change the battery.
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Pretty sure maps live wallpaper is stock since eclair. And what makes you think you can't move icons around on an iPhone?
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pwig said:
Pretty sure maps live wallpaper is stock since eclair. And what makes you think you can't move icons around on an iPhone?
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They couldn't on iOs 3... can they on the new one?

eyegor said:
They couldn't on iOs 3... can they on the new one?
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Yes they could. It's always a grid from top left (except the dock), but you can rearrange them or move them to a different screen. It's been that way since iOS 1

cbaltzer said:
Yes they could. It's always a grid from top left (except the dock), but you can rearrange them or move them to a different screen. It's been that way since iOS 1
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big deal

chowdarygm said:
big deal
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Oh, I know it's weak compared to Android, I just don't like people hating on iOS when they're not even informed about it.
Disclaimer: I own an N1 and an iPhone 3GS (and prefer the N1 )

xManMythLegend said:
Whats your favorite restaraunt ?
Hold search button...
say ""Navigate to mickeys steakhouse""
Show them navigation pop up automatically.
Wipe there drool and sweep away there broken iphone particles.
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more like:
Whats your favorite restaraunt ?
Hold search button...
say ""Navigate to mickeys steakhouse""....say it again.....say it again.....say it again.
look around you, friend is already at the steakhouse eating something while you tried to get the search recognize the right words.

Depends on how bad your speech is for recognition. For some reason I can dictate diaries into the phone, while my friend had to take 5 tries to make it understand a sentence.

Showing the resident iPhone lover the trackball alert function. I ask him, how does he know he has an email/voicemaile etc?

What would you change? (My Setup)

Just curious what you guys would suggest for changes. I realize everyone is different, but hearing some suggestions would be nice.
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The icons I found from this post from XDA. (thank you XDA user mikebeecham)
The background is from AndroidCentral. I typically roll black... always come back to this.
The ROM is Onyx 2.1 via Team Whiskey (leaked 2.2).
The 1x1 weather widget is Beautiful Widgets (I really do not like the 4x2 style).
I only have ONE screen... LP lets you have 15 icons at the bottom, that have swype gestures so there are really 30 apps I can open with nothing on my desktop and not opening the app drawer.

I find myself chocked full of lameness, in the sense that I rarely deviate from stock. About the only areas where I bother to customize is wallpapers and ringtones, though I have a massive collection of both courtesy of Ringdroid and Google image search.
And even there it seems that I tend to think a bit narrowly. Most all of my wallpapers are either artwork of Audrey Kawasaki or Sumi Keiichi.
Currently running TW's Obsidian v2...Heck, even my screen layout and icon positions have become a matter of course. I've kept my screen layout pretty much identical since July regardless of firmware.
I r the suk

If you got some good artwork/backgrounds, post em man!

s15274n said:
If you got some good artwork/backgrounds, post em man!
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I would...but it's actually REALLY A LOT LOL.
Furthermore it's stuff that is too easy to find if you understand how to use Google's Image search. Though wallpapers in our screen's native format are harder to come by (960x800), the aspect ratio of 1280x1024 traditional desktop wallpapers is nearly identical (1.2, compared to 1.25). An app like Wallpaper Set And Save will fit these with no discernible distortion.
In other words, I'm so lazy that I do not break out Irfanview and Gimp to custom resize, I just use backgrounds optimized for the 1280x1024 desktop resolution. Making that one change though opens up a world of millions of wallpapers to those like me who would rather look for new and interesting stuff than spend all day in image editing software resizing things....
Lazy I be.

Makes a lot of sense actually, thanks. Never really understood the point of those apps.

It reminded me of what your rockin
Still flashing

haha, that's awesome. Did you find that on androidcentral?
This background is hysterical to me.
And here are a few more that I found recently from either Google Images, XDA or Team Whiskeys site:

s15274n said:
haha, that's awesome. Did you find that on androidcentral?
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Zedge wallpapers ,they've got some really good ones
Still flashing

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It reminded me of what your rockinhttp://tapa.tk/mu/4ccaf030-bba8-fa7b.jpg[/IMG
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Neat!
Don't blame me, blame my keyboard's autocorrection algorithm.
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Also go to devientart.com they have wallpapers that are cool as hell
Still flashing

Check out the little icon im rockin as my launcher I love it I'm also pimpin the clear pull down bar and shiny plastic swype keYboard
Still flashing

I like it... I am more stock Guy.. not sure why so many people hate the TouchWiz UI, I love the features and have not found it to cause me any issues.
I am waiting the segmented Battery to get posted over to FROYO and a nice shade bar to come along but here is my setup.
Pretty simple but I don't feel I am lacking anything.
Sent from my Vibrant Galaxy S

Xperia Arc Home (Runs great, no force closes!)

Thanks to an XDA user named Lef.teris here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=970643&page=1, the system dump for the Sony Xperia Arc has been posted. Another user named Paolo599 ripped the home launcher (called Sony Ericsson Home)... this can be found:
http://www.multiupload.com/2YETWLF218
I've been using it for the last 20 minutes with no force closes. Sony decoupled it's launcher with it's Time and Mediascape apps, so I'm guessing this is why it's relatively pain free to use.
Try it out, it's very cool. You can drag and drop apps into the dockbar and it has a folder management system FOR the dockbar. 5 screens. Very clean looking. It's app drawer also has "pages" as well. Only thing I see wrong is that it's made for slightly bigger phones because the dock text is cut off.
Lemme know how you like it. I don't know if the demand is there, but I'm sure if the home works this good- all we need to grab is the walls and the sounds and we can transform the look of our Vibrant's pretty fast.
Screenshots: (Credit robertd0619)
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Font in screenshots will not be the font on your device, obviously.

Nice, got any screenshots?

Of it in action on my phone? No. But this is what it generally looks like minus the widgets and the dock text (it's made for higher res phones) http://topnews.net.nz/images/sony-ericsson-xperia-arc-01.jpg

That's pretty clean.. I like the silver battery mod.

Pretty cool, always nice to have new options. It does look a little cut off at the bottom though.

Well, according to the Arc section- Sony has made everything in the launcher open source to distribute and mod so maybe someone can mess with the resolution?
Maybe a full on port?

In the short time you've been using it did you notice any selling points of the launcher beyond the look of it?

regP said:
In the short time you've been using it did you notice any selling points of the launcher beyond the look of it?
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Folders, the app drawer looks nice, at least unique with custom ordering. Btw, its free, small, and you can switch off at any time, why do you need to be sold?

I dont need to be sold. Every launcher has its own set of features.. Was wondering what this launcher had.

regP said:
In the short time you've been using it did you notice any selling points of the launcher beyond the look of it?
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Love the dock/folder integration.

The bottom dock icon doesn't line up. Maybe just mine. Posted some screenshots of the launcher.
3rd screenshot the icons shake to rearrange like the iphone.
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The bottom doesn't line up because the Arc has a higher resolution than our phones. A dev is going to have to mess with it if they want it to be perfect.
I'm gonna add a screenshot or two of yours to the main post and give you credit.

richiehd said:
The bottom doesn't line up because the Arc has a higher resolution than our phones. A dev is going to have to mess with it if they want it to be perfect.
I'm gonna add a screenshot or two of yours to the main post and give you credit.
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no problem sir. i hope one of our themers here can give this a edit to make the icon docks line up.

Flashed it earlier.. I like how the app drawer and how the dock lets you have folders. If the dock were black and wasnt so tall id rock this over adw

Same here. I love how we can do this with android.
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Go Launcher HD for Tablets v1.0 Beta

I just stumbled across this today and so far I really like it. I was using the Trebuchet launcher on Thor's ICS v96, and although it does have a lot of customization it is slightly laggy. So far Go Launcher HD is running super smooth with no noticeable lag.
http://golauncher.goforandroid.com/2012/03/go-launcher-hd-v1-0-beta/
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Finally, going to test it right now. Btw the official download server is sooooo slow (6 KB/s), so here's a forum attachment:

has any one found outh howe to change theme

Looks really pretty. Let's go test it.
Thanks for notice.
Can you tell me, what is name of your weather widget?

mad-monk said:
has any one found outh howe to change theme
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It appears there is very minimal options available (It is a BETA, I will forgive them)
Themeing is not a option, yet.. Maybe keep an eye out.
I like the new dock, but they need to use more of the screen for available widgets, utilizing ALL of the screen.
I can compare say, Stock Launcher, to GoLauncher Ex, where the margins on the side are smaller, giving more space, maybe I am insane. At this stage, I have set up something, but I am not a huge fan and will go back to GoLauncherEX until they sort out the theme issue and give us more options. Hopefully they can implement all those of the normal EX and maybe some more? EG, making wallpapers work better (most of us are faced to use Multipicture Live to correct incorrect showing wallpaper)
in short, it is good, but not great.. yet. Hopefully with updates, this is fixed

It's only a beta but so far so good. I'm sure themes will be an option down the line, and I agree that the top and bottom margins are way too big.

Really like it can't wait to see what happens next really sleek and fast launcher compared to the phone ver. On tablets...
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Can you tell me, what is name of your weather widget?
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It's HD Widgets.

Looks to be out of beta now. I've decided to give it a run.

greavous93 said:
Looks to be out of beta now. I've decided to give it a run.
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Where do you see its out of beta?
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dincdoes.me said:
Where do you see its out of beta?
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Click the link in the original post and scroll down to the download links. You will see this:
Download beta1: Please click here ---<< there is a line struck through this
Download beta2: Please click here ---<< there is a line struck through this
Download v1.0: Please click here

I saw after I posted running sense beta 1
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I gave this a shot - though I have little patience for beta testing. I hate the dock and since there are basically no settings to speak of, I'll wait till they have a final release.

drkalo said:
Finally, going to test it right now. Btw the official download server is sooooo slow (6 KB/s), so here's a forum attachment:
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thank u so much we have not ability to online buy , not any kind !!!! we are in island and even market normally will not open for us
thank u so much , i almost disappointed

The final version is available at the Market
Here's the apk

Google launcher experience

I just want to share with all of you my experience with Google launcher. After installing the launcher, I notice the tablet is running really smoothly. No lags at all. Also apps open faster and reduce battery usage. Please do the same and share your experience here and let us know.
Note: if you are a big fan of the magazine UI you will lose it because it is a part of the TouchWiz. Not a big deal for me for faster performance, it is actually worth losing this feature.
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woowdy said:
I just want to share with all of you my experience with Google launcher. After installing the launcher, I notice the tablet is running really smoothly. No lags at all. Also apps open faster and reduce battery usage. Please do the same and share your experience here and let us know.
Note: if you are a big fan of the magazine UI you will lose it because it is a part of the TouchWiz. Not a big deal for me for faster performance, it is actually worth losing this feature.
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Are you serious? Google now launcher is not even showing in playstore due to not compatible with the new note pro 12.2
You might talking to other launcher similar

ad78 said:
Are you serious? Google now launcher is not even showing in playstore due to not compatible with the new note pro 12.2
You might talking to other launcher similar
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No, all you have to do is side load the right apks. You can Google how to install the Google Experience Launcher. It won't be on the play store for non nexus devices
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imitenotbecrazy said:
No, all you have to do is side load the right apks. You can Google how to install the Google Experience Launcher. It won't be on the play store for non nexus devices
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That is right. I downloaded the apk and installed it in my note 12.2. It is working just fine and it actually makes the device run better and faster.
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i did last night, yes its smooth but its ugly. no way to adjust the icons and make folders?
i stick with nova prime for now

ad78 said:
i did last night, yes its smooth but its ugly. no way to adjust the icons and make folders?
i stick with nova prime for now
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I agree with you but this is a screen shot of mine. I put the app that I use more often.
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Holy wide margins Batman!
Just think, we've paid a premium for a screen that's a little over 10 inches wide in landscape and launchers like this or Touchwiz piss away about 3 inches of it on margins. This is my #1 reason for installing Nova Prime within 20 minutes of owning the tablet LOL.

muzzy996 said:
Holy wide margins Batman!
Just think, we've paid a premium for a screen that's a little over 10 inches wide in landscape and launchers like this or Touchwiz piss away about 3 inches of it on margins. This is my #1 reason for installing Nova Prime within 20 minutes of owning the tablet LOL.
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Yeah true. I guess its just the novelty of sideloading Google Launcher that's not really made for the Note Pro or something. I found it way too limited compared to Nova. I had Nova Prime on my Note Pro within a few minutes out of the box!

Wow clean home screen.
I try to use as much as I can on mine LOL.
Back on topic though I wouldn't mind always on search from Google Now Launcher. I currently run Switchr as a left sided swipe action so I wouldn't make use of the swipe for Google Now.
Currently I have long press of home button to trigger Google Now and then have to say Ok Google to bring up voice search (or double tap home to bring up Samsung's S-Search which I never use).

^ Those Widgets look great. Specifically the weather, calendar and tasks. Mind saying what those are?
I usually keep my main homepage pretty clear but have calendars and other Widgets on the secondary pages. But the Note Pro is so big there's room to stretch out a bit!

Anyone care to share their Google now apk. Thanks in advance
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I tried this and while it was very quick, the lack of customizations made me go back to Apex then to Nova Prime. Think I'll stick with Nova for now. Google Launcher is just too basic for me at this point. Good start though.

toanau said:
Anyone care to share their Google now apk. Thanks in advance
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I got it from here: http://d-h.st/iNW

There's one thing that bugs the crap out of me with the google kitkat launcher. When you hold down on the home screen and it brings up the 3 icons for wallpapers, widgets, and settings. "Settings," when you press it, it takes you to GOOGLE settings. The settings app that most people are unaware even exists. I keep forgetting and clicking on it hoping for the normal settings. Annoys me to no end. I always immediately revert to nova at that time.

There is a xposed module to configure the GEL called "xposed gel settings"
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