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Hello everybody,
I'd like you all to know that I would like to open-source ARM Launcher to continue active development. see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2326240
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I've just released version 0.99.16 to google play. This release contains the following improvements/features:
Allow custom icons in the main dock (a lot of requests for this).
Fix that an item drop preview will not be shown for the top left corner.
Google play compatibility with devices like nexus 7 (thanks to a dear college for letting me borrow his nexus 7).
Improved start-up time.
Support for quick restart after being killed by android when more resources are needed.
Due to the change of the way the dock works, long pressing the icons it contains now starts a drag. To access the quick popup, long press the drawer icon.
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Hello all,
I'd like to announce a new Launcher for android. ARM Launcher. The goal is to have a fast, user friendly and highly configurable launcher. All devices with android 2.3.3 and higher are supported.
Features:
Support for various theme formats.
Sidebar to quickly start your favorite applications, recent applications or search all applications
The launcher supports Launcher Pro+ themes and includes the same widgets (except for the gmail widget).
Not limited by a 4x4 grid. ARM Launcher has much more grid cells to allow you to layout your screens as you'd like.
All widgets can be re-sized.
Lots of integrated widgets
Long press the default icons (dialer, drawer, contacts) in the bar to easily access your recent messages, recent applications, bookmarks, contacts and recent calls.
And much more.
ARM Launcher is not based on the android 4 stock launcher like for example Nova and Apex Launcher are. Instead ARM Launcher has been built manually from scratch using the the android Stock Launcher only as a reference.
If you'd like to try ARM Launcher, please download it from google play. Search for "ARM Launcher" to find it. Any feedback or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Please not that this application is a launcher, you'll have to start it using your device's home button.
For screenshots please visit sites.google.com/site/armlauncher/screenshots
Thank you!
I love your launcher , No lag in animations , Light on RAM. Just wonderful . Widgets are beautiful especially the message conversations and calender. Thanks.
Re: Announcing ARM Launcher
I would like to call it the new (and definitely improved) LauncherPro. Nice animations, especially when you move icons around! Widget are almost identical to the ones from LauncherPro
I'm using this as launcher from now on.
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I just tried on my one x and it works great, worth trying...
Gonna test it on tf700t also and let you know...
Especially i like resizing the widgets as you wish pixel by pixel...
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And the link
http://sites.google.com/site/armlauncher/screenshots
Re: Announcing ARM Launcher
You should change the title of the thread to:
[2.3+] [Launcher] ARM launcher [11 feb]
And highlight the main differences between Apex, Nova and ARM. Yours is a lot better when it comes to home page customization.
[Q] Would it be possible to integrate something like Unity launcher or Swapps as "recent apps"? I mean like a side toolbar. Swipe gestures are the hype of 2013
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looks awesome,i test it. :good:
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have installed and i must say its a realy cool launcher with many cool features, keep it up!!!!! :good:
Extremely nice launcher, some bugs here and there, but definitely worth. Could you add the "caroussel" swiping effect from LG if possible. And some customizations such as transparency support, local icon use and contol over the app drawer such as removing tabs to show icons only would be very nice. Let me thank you once again sir. Really hats off to u for this awesome launcher. I don't have words to describe the joy of using this launcher.
Thanks
Nic thanks
Eeuwe said:
You should change the title of the thread to:
[2.3+] [Launcher] ARM launcher [11 feb]
And highlight the main differences between Apex, Nova and ARM. Yours is a lot better when it comes to home page customization.
[Q] Would it be possible to integrate something like Unity launcher or Swapps as "recent apps"? I mean like a side toolbar. Swipe gestures are the hype of 2013
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Thanks for your comments, what kind of gesture were you thinking about? Something like swiping up or down? You can long press the drawer icon and it will show you your recently opened applications.
I am a bit familiar with apex, but not so much with nova. They are a lot like the android stock launcher aren't they?
Odp: [2.3+] [Launcher] ARM launcher [11 feb]
Where is the link to apk?
Why can i not find on my tablet google play?
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nickmartens1980 said:
Thanks for your comments, what kind of gesture were you thinking about? Something like swiping up or down? You can long press the drawer icon and it will show you your recently opened applications.
I am a bit familiar with apex, but not so much with nova. They are a lot like the android stock launcher aren't they?
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I'm not talking about the up and down gestures which are less useful with scrolling widgets, imo. I mean the side toolbar which one can expand with a gesture from the side of the screen to the middle, the are a few and work reasonably well: unity launcher, Swapps. But if these Ubuntu phone inspired functions would be part of ARM launcher that would be excellent!
Nova and Apex are practically the same, the stock launcher with a lot of options. And that's exactly what I love about your launcher... This one is really different!
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ncc74656 said:
Where is the link to apk?
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Here it is: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.nickm.enlaunch.launcher
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Lpp feel. Pretty good. Let me play with it fr a bit.
Nice. This feels pretty solid. Plenty of options and features. Could give apex and nova some competition.
I has a sig
ayk33 said:
Why can i not find on my tablet google play?
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Well that is pretty weird. It is activated for all devices on Google play.
Eeuwe said:
I'm not talking about the up and down gestures which are less useful with scrolling widgets, imo. I mean the side toolbar which one can expand with a gesture from the side of the screen to the middle, the are a few and work reasonably well: unity launcher, Swapps. But if these Ubuntu phone inspired functions would be part of ARM launcher that would be excellent!
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I definitely like the way Swapps looks. I will probably add something similar. Nice suggestion!
I'm running it on CM7 Atrix so I don't see why it lags? I think the first goal of any launcher before features, is making it smoother than launcher pro.
Keep it up though, it can be great.
Smooth
Working very smoothly on my galaxy prevail.
Fantastic launcher for beta. Really smooth and fast overall. But no gestures mean no go for me. I will keep an eye on this though. Hopefully see more features in the future.
I really like the look and feel of this launcher. Long-pressing the dock icons is a unique feature.
Transparent widgets would be great.
The app drawer acted up at first. Some icons were missing although the name of the app was visible, and I couldn't open any apps from the drawer. Once I changed the drawer direction and chose the recent apps view, it settled down and began to work properly.
jeffreygtab said:
I'm running it on CM7 Atrix so I don't see why it lags? I think the first goal of any launcher before features, is making it smoother than launcher pro.
Keep it up though, it can be great.
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Lag? Really? It works flawlessly here. I think old phones with singlecore processors would be laggy, I guess. But with multicore it should run lagfree.
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Hey guys,
I'm currently using the Google Now Launcher, I really used to love the big & clear icons.
Lately I gave Nova Launcher a try and I really like it - you can add more icons to your homescreen,
the icons are smaller and customizable.
I think I'll switch to Nova.
What's your launcher of choice?
Nova no doubt it.
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Nova no doubt it.
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haha, why no doubt? google now launcher is pretty good. very stable as well.
don't you think?
Nova is much more customizable and it allows you to disable animations. It feels faster than Google Launcher, but Google Launcher falls in with a close second place to me.
I run 100% stock these days, don't even unlock the bootloader. Android in it's current state doesn't need anything else IMO
Huawei home ( no apk drawer ) - fast rock solid.
Apus launcher is replacement is fine too.
Try inspire i started using it with nexus 5 kii kat. It still keeps some of the originality the google launcher has including the google now page !!!
Omni launcher
Nova ftw!
Stock.
I'm using aviate and quite like the change.
Nova launcher for me. Swipe gestures are something I've gotten too used to now to go back to GEL.
Everythingme launcher
TopTomy said:
What's your launcher of choice?
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Apex Launcher with Herathon Night theme.
GNL and Lucid Launcher
seeker02uk said:
I'm using aviate and quite like the change.
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same here, i'm using aviate and like it very much
Nova,have everything i whant
Google Now Launcher with XGELS.
The developer of XGELS is doing a really great job at implementing popular features from other launchers such as Nova.
Looking forward to seeing what future updates bring!
Last Trebuchet on Paranoid 4
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Another one for stock GNL with XGELS.
The most recent update to the S8 and S8+ gave us the option to hide the navigation bar, and all is well until Nova Launcher updated their app just a few hours ago, and now the navbar is back in the desktop and I can't find a way to hide it. Isn't there a way to hide it? Damn Nova, fixing things that aren't broke.
It might not happen. There’s a thread on it on Google+. Long and short of it, the Dev decided to go with the TWiz implementation of having the navbar visible in launcher view.
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Darn this Sucks, wonder if it works on action launcher
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I tought it was somerhing wrong and did a full reset.Nova had autoinstalled and i Just could not understand what was causing the problem with the navbarkeys on the homescreen. I use KLWP and hate the navbarkeys on the homescreen and applauncher. Glad i could Reed this post. I unninstalled Nova and downloaded Nova 5.2 and turned off autoinstaller.Happy to hide ny navbarkeys again..
It's sad that we don't get to have the option for this. I also just uninstalled Nova and reinstalled 5.2.
Suggest you all vent your frustrations at the developer or it'll be stuck that way for good.
Here's another thread on the Nova update & a reply from the developer. https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3629965
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So now I'm choosing between 5.2 ability to hide navbar or 5.3 google now integration.
Action launcher allows you to hide navbar.
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BratPAQ said:
So now I'm choosing between 5.2 ability to hide navbar or 5.3 google now integration.
Action launcher allows you to hide navbar.
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Look for the 5.3 beta then you'll have the best of both worlds!
saidmarroun said:
Look for the 5.3 beta then you'll have the best of both worlds!
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Do you have the link for the beta mate?
From0toHero said:
Do you have the link for the beta mate?
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Sorry I can't post any links, just Google "Nova Launcher beta" and download the latest beta version
saidmarroun said:
Sorry I can't post any links, just Google "Nova Launcher beta" and download the latest beta version
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Fine thank you will do that
Sharpshooterrr said:
It's sad that we don't get to have the option for this. I also just uninstalled Nova and reinstalled 5.2.
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How do you get the 5.2 version please?
You can use BxActions to set the Bixby Button to toggle Full Screen which will hide the statusbar and navbar or you can set it to hide the statusbar and navbar for only the app you're in.
russellcausier said:
How do you get the 5.2 version please?
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From here:
https://help.teslacoilapps.com/beta
I know the link says beta but I'm pretty sure the ones not labeled beta on that page are stable releases. I downloaded and installed the one dated Jun 6, 2017 and so far so good. Nova launcher shows up when you press on recents, but that's the only difference from the Play Store version, from what I can tell.
From0toHero said:
Do you have the link for the beta mate?
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Here you go:
https://help.teslacoilapps.com/beta
If you guys are searching for a alternative to Nova there is Apex Launcher and Apex Launcher Pro. There you still can hide the nav bar and its comparable to Nova in many ways.
From0toHero said:
If you guys are searching for a alternative to Nova there is Apex Launcher and Apex Launcher Pro. There you still can hide the nav bar and its comparable to Nova in many ways.
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Apex launcher is quality too yes but the widgets don't have that padding which fills spaces not a major deal but did my head in can't believe nova changed it it was perfect before last update
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Apex launcher is quality too yes but the widgets don't have that padding which fills spaces not a major deal but did my head in can't believe nova changed it it was perfect before last update
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To be honest i like nova also more. But i want to hide the nav bar
just go with adb workaround, and everybody happy
https://forum.xda-developers.com/tmobile-galaxy-s8+/themes/hide-navigation-bar-root-t3599909
I'm surprised no one made a homescreen thread here so I thought I'll start it!
Nova 3i
Nova 3i
Nova 3i
bader469 said:
I'm surprised no one made a homescreen thread here so I thought I'll start it!
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how can you change the looks of status bar icons??
Nova 3
Nova 3i. I'm using Ruthless Launcher with Urmun icon pack. Also using fluid navigation. Similar navigation in emui 9
can anyone confirm that nova 3 has EIS? how is it? i have seen video recordings, footage looks extremely shaky.
Nova 3i, using Lawnchair and Borderlight.
Supersonic27543 said:
Nova 3i, using Lawnchair and Borderlight.
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Where to find walls like that?
Supersonic27543 said:
Nova 3i, using Lawnchair and Borderlight.
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Nova 3i not allowing any third party launcher
ayazuddinkhan said:
Nova 3i not allowing any third party launcher
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You can change the launcher at Apps&Notifications>>Default Apps>>Launcher?
KWGT + Stock Launcher
(Deep black theme + one ui icons) customized
Greetings fellows, can I just ask if Nova 3i is a branch of Nova 3? I just got my 3i today, I don't really feel excited about that amount of "permissions" and "setups" needed. Still a little to catch up with Huawei devices I guess. Have you guys debloated apps? There's almost 250 in total and I'd really like to get rid of those that I will never be using.
Stock launcher & free themes "Hi Cloth"
First day using, dumped the screen protector as I failed badly trying to do it myself. Having difficulties to type as the keyboard is much bigger. Not used to new style phones where there is so much permissions and accounts to setup. Fingerprint face unlock password voice print. Free themes are not very impressive, guess I will go for klwp. Can't wait for recovery and root/magisk. Has anyone tried magisk already?
I always used Nova Launcher, I liked how I can customize my devices.
With this phone I am going to see how far I can get with the Pixel Launcher.
What will I miss ?
Do you think I will give up and go back to the Nova Launcher ?
There are still some basics that will keep me work Nova indefinitely until the pixel launcher implements them.
1) Dock app count. I will never be ok with only 5 apps in the dock. I've been using 7 and I couldn't settle for less.
2) static search bar on the homepage. I don't need it, and I'd certainly want that space if I couldn't adjust how many apps I have in the dock.
Until those are modified, it will always be Nova for me.
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I couldn't live without Nova gestures, and folder swiping. Nova is running very well on 4a-11, so why wouldn't you use it? I tried Pixel launcher for about 2 hours, that's all I could take.
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AstroDigital said:
I always used Nova Launcher, I liked how I can customize my devices.
With this phone I am going to see how far I can get with the Pixel Launcher.
What will I miss ?
Do you think I will give up and go back to the Nova Launcher ?
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There is no comparison; not even close. Boils down to personal preference. If you don't need the extra functionality offered by Nova or other launchers then why bother. If you do then the choice is obvious.
I been using the Pixel 4a for only a day, got it yesterday "updated to Android 11 last night".
I think I can live with the native interface, but I may give in and turn on Nova Launcher with this device; I like that I can skin and resize icons, hide apps in the App tray, and as was mentioned have more icons in the dock.
Thanks for the replies.
I assume with nova though you lose the same recents and lose the nice animations you get with the pixel launcher. Is that still the case?
mashuto said:
I assume with nova though you lose the same recents and lose the nice animations you get with the pixel launcher. Is that still the case?
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I believe recents are the same. Animations still there.
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tcat007 said:
I believe recents are the same. Animations still there.
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I loaded up nova briefly and the animations (specifically app opening and closing) and definitely not the same as the pixel launcher. I tried changing them but didn't see any way to get them the same. Recents did seem the same though.
Well the animations themselves may be similar. But the big difference seems that ok the pixel launcher the animations originate from the icon and return to the icon when closing. That's the one specifically I mean.
mashuto said:
I loaded up nova briefly and the animations (specifically app opening and closing) and definitely not the same as the pixel launcher. I tried changing them but didn't see any way to get them the same. Recents did seem the same though.
Well the animations themselves may be similar. But the big difference seems that ok the pixel launcher the animations originate from the icon and return to the icon when closing. That's the one specifically I mean.
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Yeah, I just looked at Pixel one, the closest Nova has is Pie one. Only issue I've had so far is Google Feed background sometimes turns white, and Nova needs a restart.
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