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A nice way to put an end to the same old launcher apps.
Try it, select one of the transitions you like, I am a fan of the book style transition.
And then notice all this does not even come at the cost of being slower than adw or lp.
Scrollable widget support is almost done.
Most other things you would expect are there.
Updated often.
A great launcher for a great phone.
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Just wanted to spread the word about this new launcher.It's called Go Launcher. Has some pretty nice features. I would say it's about on the same level as LP and ADW.
http://androidspin.com/2010/12/16/go-launcher-another-home-launcher-replacement/
Thanks bud, looks promising!
Looks very good for customization and whatnot
This seems kinda interesting. I think I may give it a shot.
i am a big big fan of touchwiz. i tried the other launchers and i always went back to touchwiz.
except this time. kinda.
literally, the only thing that is keeping me from using this launcher as my main launcher is that the weather channel wide widget is not generating every time i try. i like this thing that much. it is so much snappier on obsidian 4.2 (yes i know there are other versions out there, but i feel safer using the version on their website as i figure its the finished version) than the modded tw launcher in use there. like noticably faster and more responsive. i will definitely be keeping my eye on its development.
I have tried the Go Launcher for a while. It's pretty good and it's faster than ADW.
In addition, it uses less memory than the ADW and LP. One thing I'd like to see
is the capability to hide the Dock as in ADW. And apparently, ADW has so many
themes which is really attractive.
But overall, Go launcher is a good choice.
zeam launcher
Go launcher is aight, takes up a lot of memory and causes phone to lag after a while. Honestly, try the zeam launcher. Way way better. The app drawer can hold a lot of apps. you'll love it!
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Go launcher is aight, takes up a lot of memory and causes phone to lag after a while. Honestly, try the zeam launcher. Way way better. The app drawer can hold a lot of apps. you'll love it!
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i agree i use zeam and love it
Speaking of go, the sms app is the best I've used thus far. Maybe I'll give the launcher a try.
I'd pass on go launcher if I were you. I tried it for 2 days last week and ended up hating it.
If I spent too much time in an app or just away from the home screen, the launcher would have to reload all of the apps onto the home and app screens. Screen orientation was always buggy as well. Half the time I flipped the screen, the dock bar wouldn't turn with it. I'd have to move to another screen or flip and flip back to get the dock to move. The dock bar email/messaging unread count wouldn't clear after reading either. The app menu scrolling was very choppy, regardless of how long I let it sit to load.
It's a decent looking launcher, but has a ton of bugs still.
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I don't know about you guys, but I'm still forced to use good old Launcher Pro on my SGS II. Reason being that it's the smoothest launcher I've tried - in a sense that it's the most responsive to swiping screens. Also, its calendar widget is very nice, same as in Go Launcher.
I admit I'm a bit over-sensitive to even slightest lag. Even a several millisecond delay when swiping screens or opening the app drawer pisses me off.
My personal experience:
Go Launcher Pro - best customization, worst response. Heavy and sluggish. After deep sleep, there's a huge delay when swiping screens, until screens are cached. Until they are, it feels slllllloooowwww. Same on my Nook Tablet - horrific delays after deep sleep.
TouchWiz launcher - pretty damn fast and responsive, but even TW 4.5 has very limited customization. Also, when using multiple widgets, I start noticing an FPS drop in swiping from widget-heavy screens. For example MIUI Clock (from market) - swiping to and from the screen with it will always have noticable frame-skip.
Zeam Launcher - very smooth, but same frame skip problem as TW launcher. Unfortunatelly, very little customization.
Launcher Pro - fastest, lag-free swiping. Sadly, an abandoned project and missing lots of customization that'd be nice for modern ROMs.
Nova Launcher for ICS - fast and smooth, but still FCs every once in a while, lack customization. It's in beta, obviously.
ADW Launcher - haven't tested it for a while, but I remember not-so-great swiping response and lacking customization that I wanted.
What's your experience like? What do you recommend?
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I don't know about you guys, but I'm still forced to use good old Launcher Pro on my SGS II. Reason being that it's the smoothest launcher I've tried - in a sense that it's the most responsive to swiping screens. Also, its calendar widget is very nice, same as in Go Launcher.
I admit I'm a bit over-sensitive to even slightest lag. Even a several millisecond delay when swiping screens or opening the app drawer pisses me off.
My personal experience:
Go Launcher Pro - best customization, worst response. Heavy and sluggish. After deep sleep, there's a huge delay when swiping screens, until screens are cached. Until they are, it feels slllllloooowwww. Same on my Nook Tablet - horrific delays after deep sleep.
TouchWiz launcher - pretty damn fast and responsive, but even TW 4.5 has very limited customization. Also, when using multiple widgets, I start noticing an FPS drop in swiping from widget-heavy screens. For example MIUI Clock (from market) - swiping to and from the screen with it will always have noticable frame-skip.
Zeam Launcher - very smooth, but same frame skip problem as TW launcher. Unfortunatelly, very little customization.
Launcher Pro - fastest, lag-free swiping. Sadly, an abandoned project and missing lots of customization that'd be nice for modern ROMs.
Nova Launcher for ICS - fast and smooth, but still FCs every once in a while, lack customization. It's in beta, obviously.
ADW Launcher - haven't tested it for a while, but I remember not-so-great swiping response and lacking customization that I wanted.
What's your experience like? What do you recommend?
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Where do you get that LauncherPro is an abandoned project? Yeah, it hasn't been updated in quite some time (May 2011, I think), but the forums on their website looks active, and it's still available in the market? I'm just curious, as I use LP, and I'd hate to see development on it stop.
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Where do you get that LauncherPro is an abandoned project? Yeah, it hasn't been updated in quite some time (May 2011, I think), but the forums on their website looks active, and it's still available in the market? I'm just curious, as I use LP, and I'd hate to see development on it stop.
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Development on it has stopped a long time ago. Last update was simply to add transition effects.
Francisco has moved on to music app and other things. His "representatives" (whatever that means) kept telling everyone on the forums that development is not dead, he simply hasn't touched the code for past, oh, year or so. So yeah. It's as dead as it gets.
Forums are active mostly because people are asking when development will continue, begging for updates.
I find ADW Launcher EX to be smooth, and its far better than normal ADW.
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Development on it has stopped a long time ago. Last update was simply to add transition effects.
Francisco has moved on to music app and other things. His "representatives" (whatever that means) kept telling everyone on the forums that development is not dead, he simply hasn't touched the code for past, oh, year or so. So yeah. It's as dead as it gets.
Forums are active mostly because people are asking when development will continue, begging for updates.
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Well that sucks. LauncherPro is definitely my favorite launcher at the moment.
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TouchWiz launcher - pretty damn fast and responsive, but even TW 4.5 has very limited customization. Also, when using multiple widgets, I start noticing an FPS drop in swiping from widget-heavy screens. For example MIUI Clock (from market) - swiping to and from the screen with it will always have noticable frame-skip.
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This, for some reason the Program monitor seems to do this whenever I use it, I can have the digital clock and accuweather widget running along with the google search bar and droidstats and its smooth. Use the program monitor widget and it starts to stutter
Go launcher EX is the one that i have fallen for. Fast and stable with alot of customization.
And check out Nemus launcher too.
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Go launcher EX is the one that i have fallen for. Fast and stable with alot of customization.
And check out Nemus launcher too.
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This. Been using GoEx for a couple of months now. Have tried other launchers (incl Touchwiz), but keep coming back to GoEx for the reasons Mariosraptor mentioned.
I flipflop between LPP and adw Ex. Given up GO, I found it sluggish and I hate the home icon on the dock.
adw>LPP for customisation, LPP>adw for speed. If LPP had more gesture actions and we could resize dock icons it'd be perfect for me, but development is deader than a dodo.
Haven't installed/used TW for 6 months.
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I flipflop between LPP and adw Ex. Given up GO, I found it sluggish and I hate the home icon on the dock.
adw>LPP for customisation, LPP>adw for speed. If LPP had more gesture actions and we could resize dock icons it'd be perfect for me, but development is deader than a dodo.
Haven't installed/used TW for 6 months.
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I like ADW Launcher EX as well... But the thing I REALLY like about LPP over ADW is the scrollable dock, allowing for 10 more shortcuts. If ADW had that, I would move over in a heartbeat.
Was a launcher pro plus user but go launcher is what I prefer due to its widgets, the Facebook and twitter ones are useful for quick updates. Calendar widget is good as well.
I find the supported decant not as smooth as launcher pro but no big issue.
ADW ex is also good use it on my tablet and its fast and customisable.
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I like ADW Launcher EX as well... But the thing I REALLY like about LPP over ADW is the scrollable dock, allowing for 10 more shortcuts. If ADW had that, I would move over in a heartbeat.
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In the dock you can have other five apps in go launche. How? Just make use of the gesture feature on every icon on dock. That is what i have done for a long time.
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the only thing that annoys me with ADW EX is that you can not have folders in your app screens like go launcher. yes i know you can have them on your desktop but not really the point is it and makes the app screen full of apps...specially if you have over one hundred...or the feature is there and i do not know how to work it? any ideas from someone to correct me please
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In the dock you can have other five apps in go launche. How? Just make use of the gesture feature on every icon on dock. That is what i have done for a long time.
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Fair enough - but then you have to remember what each of the icons' gestures launches. It won't display it, right? I still prefer the scrolling dock.
EDIT: also, in LPP, you can add gestures to each of the possible 15 icons in the deck as well. Leading to a whopping potential 30 shortcuts, just in the dock. I don't use the swipe gestures though; 15 total dock shortcuts suffices for me for now.
Personally, i prefer and use 360 Launcher from XDA, that is surely the most customizable, fast, smooth and easy to use launcher ever seen!
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Tested some launcher and a lot of rom (most with an other launcher or modded TW)
I always get back to launcher pro!
Sure long time no updates but maybe because most users are happy with it ;-)
CHEERS ;-)
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I would say that the Go Launcher is the most beautiful one in the matket but from time to time you have lags here and there when you turn on effects like sphere or cylinder. for smoothness you can go for ADW Launcher imo I dont like the aesthetics of Launcher pro at all...
Definitely Go Launcher for me. Highly customisable and zero lag.
Of you have lag on wakeup, maybe try a different kernel and governor etc.
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Go launcher EX is the one that i have fallen for. Fast and stable with alot of customization.
And check out Nemus launcher too.
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Tried Nemus yesterday and I liked it, but it needs a "hide status bar" option IMO.
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imo go launcher ex
I've seen a few comments here and there about poor performance with Go Launcher EX on various ICS ROM's.
The symptom for me was very slow performance opening the app drawer (over 100 apps), as well as screen transition slow downs when I had lots of widgets on my seven home screens (I use several Android Pro widgets). Go Launcher appeared to reach a point where it needed to ask for more memory and I would see an su request (granted successfully) and then transitions between home screens would be painfully slow. Eventually, Go Launcher would typically crash and restart and things would be fast again temporarily.
What appears to have worked for me was to increase the dalvik.vm.heapgrowthlimit setting in build.prop from 48m to a larger value (I'm at 96m now, but I think 64m worked fine). I made the change using Rom Toolbox, rebooted and things have been silky smooth with Go Launcher since then.
No promises that it will work for anyone else, but thought I would share in case it does. FYI I'm using BAMF Rezound 0.6, but tried this on at least one other ROM as well with success.
I noticed this myself. Switched back to CleanROM GBE. Runs like butter.
I never really had a problem with it, but then again I had mine OC'd to 1.7 GHz and always on performance. I've recently switched to Nova Launcher since it's essentially the ICS launcher which is pretty damn smooth.
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I never really had a problem with it, but then again I had mine OC'd to 1.7 GHz and always on performance. I've recently switched to Nova Launcher since it's essentially the ICS launcher which is pretty damn smooth.
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+1 for nova launcher, silky smooth on any ICS rom!
same problems here with go launcher so i uninstalled it. launcher pro works good but the icon resolution is far too small. i also think nova is a bit on the buggy side yet.
Another +1 for nova launcher. It is smooth as silk and the aosp look is just awesome! Had it on my Inc, transformer, and now my rezound
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Another +1 for nova not one problem and everything is ridiculously smooth i love it
go launcher is super slow on gingerbread too. it's alot of lag when opening and closing the app drawer. any solutions for this?
If you're on ICS, why not take advantage of that and run NOVA launcher?
if you're into the widgets that come with golauncher then a better alternative for gb or ics is using adw ex with APW.the widgets with APW are far better than go widgets. this setup is so exquisite on Scott's newest 3.6 release.
Lots of chatter about launchers.. apex, golauncher hd, etc which one do you like??? I'm running Nova Prime... it's a paid edition but I like it... your preference???
I use ADW EX with the hubs setup. Smooth...
tried a couple so far (nova, go launcher) but came back to the stock launcher. I think it's better then the alternatives at the moment. Keeping my eye on the go launcher tablet version though
I was running stock launcher for most of the time. Though I have paid version of ADW EX, I somehow did not like it on tablet. Since last one week I am using Go Launcher HD Beta and I like it very much.
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I use ADW EX with the hubs setup. Smooth...
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Same here like the options
Apex launcher is definitely the best out of the ones I've tried; I really liked Trebuchet for a while because of how smooth and bug free it was, but there wasn't a lot of options. Nova had a lot of options, but didn't work very well in my experience. Apex has the best of both; a ton of options and it's rock solid. Give it a try.
i have been using SPB Shell 3D.
+1 for Apex
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Spb Shell is cool. i just wish we could speed up the screen transitions...it seems so slow.
but it is very smooth.
Apex is so far the best for my needs.
Trebuchet for me, all I need is less homescreens.
ads ex with a hubs layout here. Btw, I found a slightly cumbersome work around for the lack of scrollable widgetw on ads ex. If you use android pro Widgets (calendar, twitter etc)and scroll one of its Widgets,you can then scroll any widget (gmail for example)once.For some reason once you lift your finger, the widget won't scroll again, but you can repeat the process as needed.
Odd behavior to say the least.
I use Nova Launcher Prime with a very minimalist layout. With the card stack animation (for both homescreen and app drawer), and MultiPic LWP on 3D rotate, it looks amazing.
I guess I'll get around to putting some screenshots up in the screenshot thread sometime.
Thanks to those who recommended apex. Using it now and love it!
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been using apex since like v0.02 LOL, its F'ing fantastic!
its like 1.02beta now and the updates are becoming nice and frequent, big improvements every time and its the nicest launcher i have found thus far
Is portrait available on APEX...cant seem to find the setting to get it to work...Thx
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Trebuchet for me, all I need is less homescreens.
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Same here, exactly the reason i use Trebuchet too.
ADW-EX. Nothing else does HUBS properly that I've found. Scrollable widgets are busted as has been noted and the workaround isn't great, so I'm going to give LPP a try I guess.
I use Nova launcher prime . i love the gestures , and transitions . apex is good too
I've been using apex for the last few days and really like it.. seems like stock launcher with a heck of alot more options.