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5 Best Android Launchers

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One of the things that I think makes Android a truly beautiful platform is <strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">customization</strong>. I’m not talking about custom ROMs or root mods. I’m talking about how no other major mobile platform out there lets you customize your device the way Android does. There may be some caveats, but you have the ability to make your Android device completely unique. My wife hates using my Nexus 5 because it’s so different than her Galaxy S4. Maybe that’s a bad thing, I’m not sure. But what I do know is that I have my Nexus 5 set up exactly the way I want it and I love it. I think my home screen looks awesome, and not only is it super functional, it’s also fun to use. The beauty is that I can change it tomorrow if I get a new idea. My home screen isn’t going to look like everyone else’s iPhone (although I could make it look like iOS if I wanted) or Windows Phone; my device looks like no one else’s <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">because it’s Android</em>.</div>
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This is the first post of a recurring series about <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">making your Android device yours</em>. Today I’m going to cover custom launchers because I think it’s a fantastic place to start if you’re interested in customizing your device. My goal here is to offer customization ideas that will work for all Android devices, whether you’re still running Gingerbread or you’re on the latest version of Android, Kit Kat. <strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You don’t need to be rooted</strong>. You don’t need to be running a custom ROM. All you need is a little bit of time and an itch to change things up a bit. If that sounds like you, read on <a href="http://androidandme.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Action-Launcher.png" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #8ba82f; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Action Launcher" class="alignright  wp-image-71935" height="677" src="http://androidandme.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Action-Launcher-630x967.png" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; float: right; margin: 0.38em 0px 1.5em 1.62em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="441" /></a>my friend. We’re going to have fun diving into the world of customization and making your device truly unique.</div>
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If you’re not familiar with what a launcher is, you likely use one every time you turn on your phone. When you use your phone, you are interacting with your phone’s launcher. If you’re not using a custom one, you’re using the stock launcher. The launcher controls how the phone works when you interact with it, controls the homescreen layout and its transitions. Using a custom launcher enables you to modify home screen transition animations, tweak the look of app folders and change how your app dock is organized. There are many different ways you can customize your homescreen, and a great way to start is with the launcher.</div>
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Another good thing to know about using a custom launcher is that you can always go back to your stock launcher. If you don’t like what you’ve come up with, you can re-enable your default launcher by uninstalling the custom launcher or going into Settings > Apps, finding your custom launcher and clearing the default. Your stock launcher should return just as you left it.</div>
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There are tons of custom launchers out there. If you want to use one, look around and try to find one that you think will suit your desires best. Below I’ll list what I think are the most popular launchers for customizing your device. These aren’t necessarily the most unique options, but they are very popular. Just know that there are many others there that will allow you to do lots of different and crazy things to your device’s layout.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nova and Apex Launcher</strong></div>
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I’m not sure how much crap I’m going to get for lumping these two launchers together, but as far as I can tell, there isn’t a huge difference between them. They both offer a very stock Android look with a plethora of customization options. I’ve tried to snoop around and see which of the two the masses prefer and it really seems like a toss up. It comes down to personal preference and maybe even your device? I’ve read that some find one faster than the other. I use Nova because it was on sale once and that’s what I bought. If you’re trying to decide between the two, try out their free versions, which allow for a ton of customization without requiring you to spend a dime. If you end up wanting to try out premium features like gestures, buy the pro version of the app.</div>
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<a href="http://playboard.me/android/apps/com.teslacoilsw.launcher" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #8ba82f; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">(Playboard)</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teslacoilsw.launcher&hl=en" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #8ba82f; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">(Play Store)</a></div>
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<a href="http://playboard.me/android/apps/com.anddoes.launcher" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #8ba82f; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">(Playboard)</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.anddoes.launcher&hl=en" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #8ba82f; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">(Play Store)</a></div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ADW and Go Launcher</strong></div>
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Again, I may get blown up for lumping these two launchers together, but ADW and Go Launcher provide a very typical Android experience while departing from the stock Android look. These launchers have tons of skins that can be applied to make your device look like Windows Phone, iOS and everything in between. If someone already has come up with a look that you like, you can easily apply it to your own device. It just depends on the number of customizations used and how much work you want to put into your device. It’s yours. You get to choose.</div>
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<a href="http://playboard.me/android/apps/org.adw.launcher" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #8ba82f; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">(Playboard)</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.adw.launcher&hl=en" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #8ba82f; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">(Play Store)</a></div>
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<a href="http://playboard.me/android/apps/com.gau.go.launcherex" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #8ba82f; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">(Playboard)</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gau.go.launcherex&hl=en" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #8ba82f; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">(Play Store)</a></div>
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<a href="http://androidandme.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/OffCorner-Nexus-5.png" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #8ba82f; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="OffCorner Nexus 5" class=" wp-image-71936 alignleft" height="574" src="http://androidandme.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/OffCorner-Nexus-5-571x1024.png" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; float: left; margin: 0.38em 1.62em 1.5em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="320" /></a><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Action Launcher Pro</strong></div>
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Action Launcher Pro is my launcher of choice lately. I reviewed it for DroidDog when it first came out, and its features are so useful to me that no other launcher has been able to compete. It’s a beautiful, Holo-styled launcher with a new take on getting around and organizing your home screen.</div>
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There are two main features worth noting when discussing Action Launcher Pro:</div>
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<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The app drawer is accessed by swiping from left to right, like you’re accessing a home screen to the left.  Scrolling through the app drawer that is now a list is super quick, and you can jump to a section using the letters on the right side.  This means that you no longer need to swipe through several pages of an app drawer just to find the YouTube app.</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Covers:  In the screenshots shown here, all of the icons in my dock are covers, indicated by the small box in the bottom-right corner of the icon.  Covers are basically fancy folders, except that when you press on the cover, it launches the app that you’ve clicked.  To access the folder, you can either double-tap on the cover icon or swipe up, giving you access to the folder.  I like to use the cover like the developer, Chris Lacy, by putting quick dial widgets in my phone cover.</li>
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I love Action Launcher Pro because it’s got a super clean look, it gives me fast access to any app, it’s being actively developed and it’s always getting new features.</div>
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This is just a brief list of popular custom launchers. As I’ve already stated, there are many others that are probably great as well. If I’ve left out a killer launcher that you feel is worth mentioning, please comment below and let us know what you’re using and why you think it’s awesome. You can also use the HTML <img> tag and show us your own homescreen. Thanks for reading, and don’t forget let us know what topic you’d like to see covered in an upcoming edition of “Make your Android device yours.”</div>
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5 Best Android Launchers

One of the things that I think makes Android a truly beautiful platform is customization . I’m not talking about custom ROMs or root m...

10 Different Smartphone Screen Types

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<b style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">TFT LCD</b><br />
<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">TFT stands for Thin Film Transistor technology. TFT LCDs are the most common type of display units used across mobile phones. TFT LCD offer better image quality and higher resolutions compared to earlier generation LCD displays but their limitation lies in narrow viewing angles and poor visibility in direct light or sunlight.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">Large TFT displays consume more power and hence are not battery friendly. But since these are cheaper to manufacture these are found on budget phones, feature phones and lower end smartphones.</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">IPS-LCD</b><br />
<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">IPS stands for In-Place Switching. IPS LCDs are superior to normal TFT LCD displays with wider viewing angles and lower power consumption which leads to a much improved battery life. IPS-LCDs are costlier than normal TFT LCD and hence are found only on higher end smartphones. A higher resolution (640 x 960 pixels) version of IPS LCD is used in Apple iPhone 4 and is called Retina Display because of its brilliant picture quality.</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">Resistive Touchscreen LCD</b><br />
<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">Touchscreen LCD displays are of two types – Resistive and Capacitive. Resistive touchscreens contain two layer of conductive material with a very small gap between them which acts as a resistance. When the resistive touchscreen is touched with finger (or stylus) the two layers meet at the point of touch thus making a circuit at the point of touch. This information is recognized by the mobile’s processor / chip and passed on to the mobile’s OS there by triggering and event / action at the point of touch.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">Resistive Touchscreens are not as responsive as capacitive touchscreens and often require a stylus to identify point of touch accurately. These are used only in lower end smartphones and feature touch phones.</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">Capacitive Touchsceen LCD</b><br />
<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">Capacitive touchscreen technology consists of a layer of glass coated with a transparent conductor (like indium tin oxide). When a capacitive touchscreen is touched by human body (finger), an interruption is created in the screens electrostatic field (which is measurable as a change in capacitance) which is detected by phone’s processor or chip and which in turn instructs phone’s operating system to trigger and event or action accordingly.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">Capacitive touchsceens are much better and responsive to human touch when compared to resistive touchsceens and hence the user experience for touch is much better with capacitive touchscreens. Capacitive Touchsceens are used in most of the higher end smartphones.</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">OLED</b><br />
<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">OLED stands for Organic Light Emitting Diode and is a newer technology for displays of mobiles and monitors. In OLED technology a layer of organic material (carbon based) is sandwiched between two conducting sheets (an anode and a cathode), which in turn are sandwiched between a glass top plate (seal) and a glass bottom plate (substrate). When electric pulse is applied the two conducting sheets, electro-luminescent light is produced directly from the organic material sandwiched between. Brightness and color can vary depending on the electric pulse.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">OLEDs are much better compared to LCDs because of their exceptional color reproduction, blazing fast response times, wider viewing angles, higher brightness and extremely light weight designs.</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">AMOLED</b><br />
<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">AMOLED stands for Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode. AMOLED displays are a type of OLED displays for mobiles and are rapidly gaining popularity in top end smartphone segment. AMOLED screens have all the attributes of an OLED display like brilliant color reproduction, light weight, better battery life, higher brightness and sharpness and light weight designs.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">AMOLED displays are now getting into main stream and most of the latest higher end smartphones like Nokia N8 are now coming with AMOLED displays. If you can shell out a little extra, our suggestion is to go with AMOLEDs over TFT LCDs.</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">Super AMOLED displays</b><br />
<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">Super AMOLED displays are an even advanced version of AMOLED displays developed by Samsung. Super AMOLED display is built with touch sensors on the display itself, as opposed to creating a separate touch sensitive layer (as in capacitive touchscreen). This makes it the thinnest display technology on the market.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">Super AMOLED displays are also much more responsive than other AMOLED displays. Samsung’s recent top of the line smartphone Samsung Galaxy S I9000 comes with Super AMOLED.</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">Retina Display</b><br />
<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">Retina Display is a term used by Apple for its high resolution (640 x 960 pixels) IPS LCD (with backlit LED) used by them in iPhone4. They call it the Retina display because its pixels cannot be individually identified by the human eye, thus making the display super sharp and brilliant.</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">Haptic / Tactile touchscreen</b><br />
<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">Haptic technology has been used by Blackberry and Nokia for their touchscreen smartphones targeted towards enterprise market. This technology provides a tactile feedback on a touch action on the screen thus providing an immediate and unmistakable confirmation to the user. Haptic technology has been found to significantly improve user performance, accuracy and satisfaction while typing on a touchscreen.</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">Gorilla Glass</b><br />
<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">Gorilla Glass is a special alkali-aluminosilicate glass shield with exceptional damage resistance that helps protect mobile displays from scratches, drops, and bumps of everyday use. Many companies like Motorola, Samsung and Nokia are now using Gorilla Glass to make their mobile displays more durable and reliable. It is always better to go for a smartphone with Gorilla Glass for that added protection and peace of mind.</span></div>

10 Different Smartphone Screen Types

Thought I'd share this TFT LCD TFT stands for Thin Film Transistor technology. TFT LCDs are the most common type of display units us...