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Google hides “Rocket Launcher” Easter egg in Ice Cream Sandwich

By Michael Crider
on 30 Nov, 2011

What's that? Ice Cream flavored Nyan Cat isn't nearly enough geeky madness for you? You crave more functionally useless but smile-inducing hidden gems in Ice Cream Sandwich? Then feast your eyes on "Rocket Launcher", a Star Trek-style starfield full of flying app icons that lives just below the updated ICS launcher.

ROU UI video teases a new experience for Android

By Cory Gunther
on 10 Oct, 2011

The extremely wide array of options and customizations of Android is one of the many things that makes it great. From custom ROM's, themes, and the ever popular home launchers. What we have here is a teaser video of the new and upcoming ROU UI Launcher for Android, it looks extremely polished and impressive. While currently still under development, it is coming soon and I can't wait to check this out when finally released.

Android Ice Cream Sandwich Unofficial Launcher and Screenshots [Download]

By Cory Gunther
on 19 Sep, 2011

Before we get started what we have here are screenshots of Android 2.4 Ice Cream Sandwich, or at least the launcher running on a phone. This is an unofficial launcher of Android 2.4 Ice Cream Sandwich made by a few awesome developers over at XDA and we have some pictures for you and a video.

Samsung Pure Breeze Android Launcher app Review [Video]

By Chris Burns
on 9 Sep, 2011

If there's one thing that device manufacturers across the board are NOT known for, it's optional user interfaces. Instead it's nearly always a face over the top of Android that, if you're not too keen on hacking your device, you're sort of stuck with. Of course manufacturers don't want you to see it that way, promoting their devices alongside their user interfaces as added value - take TouchWiz for example on Samsung devices (video included below aside Pure Breeze video). TouchWiz is what Samsung places on the vast majority of their Android devices, namely their Galaxy S II line coming to the USA this month and the Infuse 4G which we're using for this hands-on look at what Samsung has silently released as a brand new Launcher - Pure Breeze!

Gravity Home: A Live Wallpaper and Home Launcher in One

By Cory Gunther
on 27 Jun, 2011

We all love the live wallpapers on our Android phones right? They allow us to do cool things like fly through space, play duck hunt, or even float through the clouds right on our phones home screen. Today I have something really unique and quite fun to show you. It's called Gravity Home and it is a live wallpaper and a home replacement launcher like ADW or LP but at the same time. Yup it replaces the home launcher with a live wallpaper and adds in some physics that makes your icons float around, neat huh?

LauncherPro Plus now in the Android Market

By Cory Gunther
on 20 Apr, 2011

For those that don't know. Launcher Pro is a home replacement app that is probably the most popular for Android, next to maybe ADW. It changes the look and feel of your device. With LauncherPro you get tons of features and enhancements, you can speed up home screen scrolling, add as many or as little home screens as you'd like, and more. Most of you should know plenty about LP already.

ADW Launcher EX Released: Silky Smooth

By Sam Koutroulakis
on 28 Dec, 2010

We all know how many home screen replacements continue to hit the android market, a whopping 36 and counting. Each with their own levels of functionality and cosmetic differences, they suit our devices up to meet our own personal needs. Ander Webbs has released his latest home screen replacement ADW Launcher EX for the low, low, lovely price of $3.30.

GO Launcher for Android Updated

By Dylan Bailey
on 27 Dec, 2010

XDA member ch213q has posted an update to GO Launcher, the home replacement for your Android device. The release version (v 1.22) brings in some very impressive features. Some features include extremely smooth scrolling, convenient icon pop-menu and gesture support screen and are now even more customizable. The latest verison 1.22 even includes a Christmas theme. Originally posted by ch213q [APP] GO Launcher v1.22 released Go Launcher is an amazing home replacement app for Android . -Extremely smooth scrolling -Convenient icon pop-menu -Gesture supported -Useful app drawer to uninstall apps and kill tasks -Removable screen previews (Up to 30 screens) Supported android versions: 2.0 and above GO Launcher V1.22 update: -New Christmas theme -Supported long press search button response -Fixed customized icons turn to default after reboot -Fixed crash problem of memory overflow For more information on GO launcher, check out the application thread. [Via XDA]

Gingerbread launcher hits Android Market for Froyo devices

By Shane McGlaun
on 9 Dec, 2010

If you are running Froyo but want a taste of Gingerbread on your device ahead of any update to the full Gingerbread OS you can grab the Gingerbread launcher on the app store right now. The new launcher app is part of Android 2.3, but can be downloaded and installed on Froyo devices.

T-Mobile Launches Device Tune-up Beta

By David Junior
on 16 Jun, 2010

T-Mobile has just released Device Tune-up for open beta testing. This is a new feature in the My Accounts app from T-Mobile. It’s essentially a task killer that aims to improve on your phones performance and it should help your battery last longer by killing apps that run in the background.