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The new ADW Launcher. Dare I say it?... Looks better than Launcher Pro?
http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/1...eleased-transitions-to-a-whole-new-dimension/
The app drawer performance does looks a little laggy tho
Its wicked goodbye launcher pro
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MasDroid said:
The app drawer performance does looks a little laggy tho
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Well it wasn't playing on an actual phone as you could see. Can't say anything about the smoothness untill you try it on your own phone Or did you already? I'm gonna try it out!
EDIT: I was right. Super smooth scrolling on homescreen and app drawer
EDIT2: The 3D app drawer wasn't as smooth but still smoother than in the video. Without the effect it's superb!
Interesting notes:
- You can set the app drawer background to transparent so it displays your wallpaper behind but reduces performance.
- Couldn't find an option to change the dock background easily, annoying.
- There are 8 different home screen scrolling transitions which all work perfectly smooth.
- There is no option to change app drawer / app opening transition, so you always get the zoom effect.
- 3D app drawer isn't perfectly smooth.
- It stutters for a fraction of second every time you open an app.
Other than that it's very nice launcher I'm still sticking to Launcher Pro because it's still much faster and because I have only one homescreen so I don't benefit from the cool transitions and stuff.
it's awesome !!!
thanks man, gonna try it now!
erm, how to change the number of homescreens?
i don't usually use 5 screens
With free versions he means normal ADW? I'd like to try it but I'm not gonna buy it without a trial longer than 15minutes.
When I scan the barcode it just says it can't be found...? sigh...
EDIT: Nevermind, played around with Market Enabler and got it
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With free versions he means normal ADW? I'd like to try it but I'm not gonna buy it without a trial longer than 15minutes.
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Trust me, within 2 minutes you'll be convinced
garduna said:
Trust me, within 2 minutes you'll be convinced
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I doubt it. I care for speed more than for fancy transitions and I already bought Launcher Pro Plus. Also using the calender widget from that.
// Tried it, back to LP.
I bought it:
2 problems, ADW freeze two times so I should reboot. and when I put a widget I can't delete ???
I doubt I'll ever use any other launched after buying this. Always liked ADW more then LP, but now, words cannot explain the love for Ander after this beauty
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GANJDROID said:
I doubt I'll ever use any other launched after buying this. Always liked ADW more then LP, but now, words cannot explain the love for Ander after this beauty
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You had better keep the emotions to yourself
Looks Nice!
I tried it it´s just so amazingly fast and nice to watch.
Is there a way of loading the sense apps though?
It must have setting to change the icon of folder, sort icons, quick manager icons & folder.
I dont see myself buying it for now, I might not like it. Right now Im still enjoying the original SENSE and I have LP Pro so meh
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You had better keep the emotions to yourself
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Haha, sorry, I just can't contain these feelings anymore he's done amazing work with this.
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Is it possible to disable fade in effect when an app its opened?
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Awesome launcher. I love the icon backgrounds/settings (gives icons a much more consistent look and size). Been using it a couple of days with Oxygen 2.0 RC with no problems at all. Its smooth and fast.
Worth every penny.
any way to set the number of screens to 2 instead of the default 5??
every time I put my Xoom in portrait mode, the homescreens lag, likely around 15 - 20 fps. landscape mode is perfect, probably like 60fps. I'm just wondering if anyone knew a fix for this, or just an explanation lol
Oasisplayer311 said:
every time I put my Xoom in portrait mode, the homescreens lag, likely around 15 - 20 fps. landscape mode is perfect, probably like 60fps. I'm just wondering if anyone knew a fix for this, or just an explanation lol
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I also was getting that while using stock launcher, I stopped using it last week and switched to ADW so everything is super smooth.
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every time I put my Xoom in portrait mode, the homescreens lag, likely around 15 - 20 fps. landscape mode is perfect, probably like 60fps. I'm just wondering if anyone knew a fix for this, or just an explanation lol
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same here. Not terrible but noticeably slower. Wondering if its because it has to render the widgets in portrait and theyre optimized for landscape? I really don't know.
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I also was getting that while using stock launcher, I stopped using it last week and switched to ADW so everything is super smooth.
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I gave Launcher Pro a try since I use it's on my Droid X, but the small App Icons just bugged me. Is ADW any better?
martonikaj said:
same here. Not terrible but noticeably slower. Wondering if its because it has to render the widgets in portrait and theyre optimized for landscape? I really don't know.
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could be. I haven't tried removing the Widgets and seeing if it increases the speed. might give that a try. But rendering Widgets in portrait shouldn't be any slower than landscape... "shouldn't" lol
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I gave Launcher Pro a try since I use it's on my Droid X, but the small App Icons just bugged me. Is ADW any better?
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You mean on the homescreen? Not sure how small you're talking about, here's my HS:
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You mean on the homescreen? Not sure how small you're talking about, here's my HS:
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I'm talking about the app drawer. sorry I wasn't specific
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I'm talking about the app drawer. sorry I wasn't specific
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I have mine setup like this, transparent background, I beleive the icons are the same size as the homescreen ones. I could set it up to have multiple pages, but I like having everything on one screen lol.
I also have the text set to white instead of black, I can see it just fine, camera doesn't really pick it up though.
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same here. Not terrible but noticeably slower. Wondering if its because it has to render the widgets in portrait and theyre optimized for landscape? I really don't know.
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That seems logical, however, it's just as choppy and laggy when you have the Xoom upside down (camera down, HDMI up). I only observe smooth transitions when in the standard, landscape position (and even this isn't always lag-free).
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I have mine setup like this, transparent background, I beleive the icons are the same size as the homescreen ones. I could set it up to have multiple pages, but I like having everything on one screen lol.
I also have the text set to white instead of black, I can see it just fine, camera doesn't really pick it up though.
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that's how launcher pro looks. I just don't like the small app icons. Plus I'm ADD so looking for an app in that is like looking for buried treasure haha
dxTop
I use dxTop Pro on my Xoom, pretty nice interaction. But I didn't set it as default. So each time I hit the home button I get a pop up to select either dxtop or launcher (the xoom default home). I find dxTop as a good alternative. That's why I don't use it as default, just when I wanna play around with a new home. Plus it offer the same exact 3D effects as the default home on the xoom. But with dxTop you have a "cube like" interface. So you can swipe up, swipe down, swipe left and right, and there is a swip for the center. So in all u have about 5 different swipe positon. Not just the current left to right position on the xoom default. You can google it for a demo and more info. Just thought i'll add my 2¢.
I am strongly considering the Note II. I know one handed use isn't really ideal, but you do need to do that occasionally. One issue I can see is bringing down the notification window. Are there any shortcuts to doing this? Any other times that one-handed use seems like a PIA?
Thanks!
Well you can replace Touchwiz launcher with something like Apex which has gestures, for example swipe down and notification bar will come down or double tap etc.
Not sure of a similar gesture based app exists that works with Touchwiz.
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jreuschl said:
I am strongly considering the Note II. I know one handed use isn't really ideal, but you do need to do that occasionally. One issue I can see is bringing down the notification window. Are there any shortcuts to doing this? Any other times that one-handed use seems like a PIA?
Thanks!
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I do this onehansed with no real issue. I would say I have average size hands. Might be difficult with small hands. I have to stretch to reach all the way across the screen onehanded, but it isnt impossible. I will say note2 is more comfortable for this than note1
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Well you can replace Touchwiz launcher with something like Apex which has gestures, for example swipe down and notification bar will come down or double tap etc.
Not sure of a similar gesture based app exists that works with Touchwiz.
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Agreed, a replacement launcher is sensible anyway, given how horrid Touchwiz is (personal opinion, I know), so something like Apex or Nova (my choice) gets around this. With Nova a simple downwards-swipe anywhere brings down the notification menu.
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Agreed, a replacement launcher is sensible anyway, given how horrid Touchwiz is (personal opinion, I know), so something like Apex or Nova (my choice) gets around this. With Nova a simple downwards-swipe anywhere brings down the notification menu.
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will i lose any of S-pen functionality/
GMD Gesture is an app that lets you cray your own features that work any where. I got it originally for my tablet, but now use it on my galaxy nexus too. Works great. Waiting for the note 2 to hit states.
Hell Guardian said:
will i lose any of S-pen functionality/
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The only thing you'll lose is page buddy.
- Frank
Finally put nova launcher on, cannot stand that white mess at the bottom of my screen with the pixel launcher when using anything other than a black wallpaper, i mean what the hell was Google thinking with that awful looking feature, i really have no idea, either way glad I did cause now been able to get rid of that unsightly long Google search bar as well, and don't know if I'm imagining it but now since I've switched to the nova launcher and have ambient display disabled the phone is unlocking faster to screen on without the Google launcher ? so seems it's not just the ambient display issue but also seems to be the pixel launcher is lagging, go figure but it's faster for me, hip hooray.
Funny, I just switched to Nova Launcher yesterday. I don't care for the search bar either. I am looking for the APK that will allow Google Feed to work with it.
But I don't think the phone unlocks any faster than with the stock launcher. Each phone, like each person, is unique so I don't doubt that you see unlock speed gains.
But yeah, I don't now why I waited so long to switch to Nova. It rocks!
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Funny, I just switched to Nova Launcher yesterday. I don't care for the search bar either. I am looking for the APK that will allow Google Feed to work with it.
But I don't think the phone unlocks any faster than with the stock launcher. Each phone, like each person, is unique so I don't doubt that you see unlock speed gains.
But yeah, I don't now why I waited so long to switch to Nova. It rocks!
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Yeah I don't know why I didn't do it sooner, my home screen is so much cleaner and can have light wallpapers haha, I'm not sure if it's me but it does feel a bit quicker, could be in my head.
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Funny, I just switched to Nova Launcher yesterday. I don't care for the search bar either. I am looking for the APK that will allow Google Feed to work with it.
But I don't think the phone unlocks any faster than with the stock launcher. Each phone, like each person, is unique so I don't doubt that you see unlock speed gains.
But yeah, I don't now why I waited so long to switch to Nova. It rocks!
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Search for Nova Companion app
Scott said:
Funny, I just switched to Nova Launcher yesterday. I don't care for the search bar either. I am looking for the APK that will allow Google Feed to work with it.
But I don't think the phone unlocks any faster than with the stock launcher. Each phone, like each person, is unique so I don't doubt that you see unlock speed gains.
But yeah, I don't now why I waited so long to switch to Nova. It rocks!
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My mind is blown that you, of all people, just tried Nova.
hatdrc said:
Search for Nova Companion app
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Thanks this worked, it's one of the reasons i didn't want a different launcher but with the wahed out crap at the bottom and the ugly search bar, this now works with a swipe to the left cheers.
Also just to add i am certain the phone is now unlocking faster with nova installed and ambient display disabled, it's win win all round.
i love nova, but the only reason i stick with the pixel launcher is because google can query the google weather API more reliably and frequently than third parties (like Nova) can, so the weather display is more accurate on google's pixel launcher
hatdrc said:
Search for Nova Companion app
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Yep, works great!
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My mind is blown that you, of all people, just tried Nova.
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No No... Not just tried, just switched. I have used Nova for years but I got placement with the Pixel 2 XL.
Ady1976 said:
Finally put nova launcher on, cannot stand that white mess at the bottom of my screen with the pixel launcher when using anything other than a black wallpaper, i mean what the hell was Google thinking with that awful looking feature, i really have no idea, either way glad I did cause now been able to get rid of that unsightly long Google search bar as well, and don't know if I'm imagining it but now since I've switched to the nova launcher and have ambient display disabled the phone is unlocking faster to screen on without the Google launcher ? so seems it's not just the ambient display issue but also seems to be the pixel launcher is lagging, go figure but it's faster for me, hip hooray.
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I use pixel launcher modded. Has an option to get rid of the white :good:
Reuben_skelz92 said:
I use pixel launcher modded. Has an option to get rid of the white :good:
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Can you share the link to the modded launcher? :good:
Reuben_skelz92 said:
I use pixel launcher modded. Has an option to get rid of the white :good:
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Also can that be used not rooted, I don't want to root.
And does the modified launcher get rid of that ugly search bar ?
The search bar is not hideable with that rootless pixel launcher unfortunately and there's no mention of removing the white cloud at the bottom of the screen.... here's my nova setup, so much more room on the home screen.
Ady1976 said:
The search bar is not hideable with that rootless pixel launcher unfortunately and there's no mention of removing the white cloud at the bottom of the screen.... here's my nova setup, so much more room on the home screen.
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What app do you use for weather?
constantin_frunza said:
What app do you use for weather?
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I'm using Yo window weather app from the play store, was recommended to geoweather but it's crap, kept coming up with cannot connect to server for weather data stupid error, however this yo window has great reviews and works fantastic it's this one https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=yo.app.free
It does the job perfectly for me.
Ady1976 said:
Also can that be used not rooted, I don't want to root.
And does the modified launcher get rid of that ugly search bar ?
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Sorry think you have to be rooted.
Ady1976 said:
The search bar is not hideable with that rootless pixel launcher unfortunately and there's no mention of removing the white cloud at the bottom of the screen.... here's my nova setup, so much more room on the home screen.
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Rootless and modded pixel launcher are slightly different. The modded one has the option to remove the white
Reuben_skelz92 said:
Rootless and modded pixel launcher are slightly different. The modded one has the option to remove the white
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Aah right ok no problem, I'll stick with nova, works perfectly anyway and now with the companion apk it's Google now integrated.
Hey y'all
I just got the Google Q beta 3 on my pixel and with the full navigation mode you get the IOS like animations. I say IOS like for lack of a better term as they were the first to offer a polished version of gesture animations (to my knowledge, don't want to debate that).
I know that my oneplus 6t and Huawei Mate 20 pro also had that same animation style.
What I mean is that when you swipe up to go home the app animation goes back into the app icon itself, funny enough one ui has a similar animation for when you close a folder.
I'm surprised that our phones don't have it. It makes the whole gesture thing seem like an after thought. I asked Samsung and they told me to download a different theme...
So here are my questions
1- Is there a name for that animation style?
2-Is there an actual theme that would enable it or maybe a launcher?
I'm just a bit surprised that my $1700 phone would have such an unfinished gesture navigation implementation.
Not debating but informing you that WebOS was gesture navigation based before everyone else.
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Not debating but informing you that WebOS was gesture navigation based before everyone else.
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????? That has absolutely nothing to do with my question hence why I didn't want to debate that fact, but thanks for your input. ?
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XDAs gesture navigation is probably the closest to ios you will find
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XDAs gesture navigation is probably the closest to ios you will find
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I'm fine with Samsung navigation, I actually like it very much. It's really the navigation transition animations and more specifically the apps. The way that they kind of pop back into the actual app icon. As opposed to the just fading out.
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