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[-Pyromaniac-]

New play store is hot as fuck mang. I expect gmail to be updated soon to match the iOS app and the web app in look. And then I expect key lime pie to refine the rest of the OS in a similar style.

Will be one nice ass OS. Almost makes me want to not get the S4 or any other phone other than something running stock or close to it...almost

 

[Battersea Power Station]

Do people really rhyme holo with polo? I thought it's the prefix in holographic and read it as such.

 

[VanWinkle]

I didn't even realize there were some screenshots of the storefront on the link back there. I only looked at the video. Man. It looks so good.

 

[gcubed]

Do people really rhyme holo with polo? I thought it's the prefix in holographic and read it as such.

Yes holo as hollow not polo

 

[Jayayess1190]

looks terrible. harder to navigate, more scrolling, less information displayed per screen.

So, just like the iOS App Store in iOS 6? I like it though.

 

[mturco]

looks terrible. harder to navigate, more scrolling, less information displayed per screen.

You have a point about the scrolling, but how is it harder to navigate? It navigates exactly like it does now.

 

[The Faceless Master]

You have a point about the scrolling, but how is it harder to navigate? It navigates exactly like it does now.

More scrolling + less info = harder to navigate

 

[mturco]

More scrolling + less info = harder to navigate

That's kind of a stretch. Plus, the whitespace makes it all easier to read. Are you saying you prefer the current Play Store?

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

Overall people seem to be loving the new look. FACELESS, I am disappoint.

Shits slick.

 

[mturco]

Overall people seem to be loving the new look. FACELESS, I am disappoint.

Shits slick.

I've been lurking in this thread forever and I swear he never likes anything that isn't made by Samsung.

Also, yeah, it looks great like everything Google's done design wise in like the last 6 months.

 

[Battersea Power Station]

Not gonna lie. I'd buy that day 1. There's something that turns me on about having all my apps on the same platform.

 

[The Faceless Master]

I've been lurking in this thread forever and I swear he never likes anything that isn't made by Samsung.

Also, yeah, it looks great like everything Google's done design wise in like the last 6 months.

pretty sure i can find a lot of things that contradict that both ways. i mean, i don't even use the Samsung launcher, i use Nova.

and Google Search + Now is waaaay better than Siri and i disabled S Voice within an hour or so of getting my Note 2.

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

Nova instead of Apex? TSK TSK. At least it's not Go launcher.

 

[mturco]

pretty sure i can find a lot of things that contradict that both ways. i mean, i don't even use the Samsung launcher, i use Nova.

and Google Search + Now is waaaay better than Siri and i disabled S Voice within an hour or so of getting my Note 2.

Haha fair enough. S Voice was a huge flop and they haven't even improved it for the S4, have they? They should just drop it and use Google Now.

Edit: Also, yes, count me in the Apex camp. It was a tough decision though. They're both very good.

 

[buhdeh]

Nova > Apex

 

[The Faceless Master]

Nova instead of Apex? TSK TSK. At least it's not Go launcher.

i was in the Apex camp back when i tried both on my Epic. Apex was better. i switched to Nova .. i dunno exactly when, but it was after i got my GN2. Apex had an issue with displaying my vision properly.

screens coming to explain more...

 

[Talon]

Not gonna lie. I'd buy that day 1. There's something that turns me on about having all my apps on the same platform.

Jokes on you, there are no more apps.

Everything's a bookmark.

 

[cuevas. PhD.]

I don't mind webapps

 

[The Faceless Master]

Apex

Nova

note the way the icons get clipped in Apex in landscape

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

Good lawd son. That's my only reaction.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

I'm sorry, that looks absolutely vile. Do all people who use custom launchers make them look like Steve Jobs's worst nightmare?

 

[Vanillalite]

Warning....

Warning....

Incoming hater bomb....

That shit looks fucking gosh damn terrible either way. Industrial design is not your forte. Note to self disregard Faceless when it comes to design opinions.

Transmission Out...

 

[wsoxfan1214]

Wtf is that.

Nova is better though.

 

[Talon]

...what am I looking at here?

 

[Cipherr]

...what am I looking at here?

Landscape Home screens.

 

[malyce]

So tacky, smh. Nova>Apex, but I've given Nova a break in favor of Action Launcher.

 

[Battersea Power Station]

Touchwiz looks like a combination of Jolly Ranchers, Fisher Price, and Windows ME.

 

[buhdeh]

Keeping it simple, brah

 

[The Faceless Master]

pretty sure i've mentioned before that i have a case with a kickstand. portrait launchers look ridiculous when my phone is propped up on a flat surface.

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

Out of the ones seen, buhdeh wins. You win NOTHING.

 

[The Faceless Master]

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

That wallpaper sucks too. Throw some landscape nature shit on AT LEAST.

 

[buhdeh]

It's 1:48AM, Faceless. You need some sleep.

 

[The Faceless Master]

That wallpaper sucks too. Throw some landscape nature shit on AT LEAST.

it looks better in motion.

 

[Threi]

team nova for me as well (as said apex has some issues with grid options, and nova has better widget overlap)

@ faceless where the folders at man?

 

[ThatObviousUser]

Keeping it simple, brah

Simple = best.

Full wallpaper:

 

[overthehill99]

Had to reset my phone and now for whatever reason all my contacts are gone. I syned with Google right before I reset, and after syncing many more times still nothing.

This is really odd and very annoying.

 

[malyce]

Had to reset my phone and now for whatever reason all my contacts are gone. I syned with Google right before I reset, and after syncing many more times still nothing.

This is really odd and very annoying.

Log into GMail from a browser, if your contacts are there then you're fine.

Settings>Accounts>youremail@gmail.com>Contacts[check]

 

[Nitsuj23]

New to Android, but plan on getting an S4 after loving my N7. I'm just not really sure how launchers work. If I use Nova or whatever other launcher does that replace TouchWiz? And do you have to root something to change the launcher?

Thanks!

 

[BIGWORM]

Simple and clean, my homescreen and lockscreen. I'm using Nova.

 

[The Faceless Master]

New to Android, but plan on getting an S4 after loving my N7. I'm just not really sure how launchers work. If I use Nova or whatever other launcher does that replace TouchWiz? And do you have to root something to change the launcher?

Thanks!

whatever launcher you have set as default will be the one that shows when you press the Home button.

no, you don't need to root.

 

[Sleeplessnights]

Stock is the only right way

Spoiler

It's horrible

Edit: I just tried Nova, how do I get the minimalistic looks on it?

 

[OriginalThinking]

Overall people seem to be loving the new look. FACELESS, I am disappoint.

Shits slick.

Not enough Touchwiz.

Spoiler

Amirite?

 

[brotkasten]

I hate that you can't remove the search bar on the stock launcher. It's almost been a year since I switched to Android and I've never, ever used the search bar. And it's on all home screens. What a waste of space.

 

[Nicktendo86]

I hate that you can't remove the search bar on the stock launcher. It's almost been a year since I switched to Android and I've never, ever used the search bar. And it's on all home screens. What a waste of space.

Download nova or apex launcher. They look just like stock but you van remove the search bar.

 

[3phemeral]

Avast is either reporting a bunch of false positives from apps installed directly from the Play Store or my phone suddenly just got massively infected. Anyone else getting Android: FakeInst EY [trj] warnings for gmail, zagat, splashtop, pulse, superuser (the new opensource one by koush) etc.?

 

[Battersea Power Station]

I hate that you can't remove the search bar on the stock launcher. It's almost been a year since I switched to Android and I've never, ever used the search bar. And it's on all home screens. What a waste of space.

Not that I think having the bar there is right for everyone, but can I ask for why you're not using it? I probably use mine like 5 times a day, and then a voice action here or there.

 

[Groof]

Shit man, y'all need to learn how to use gestures and more docks for added minimalism and functionality.

Only one home screen. Swipe up for app tray. 4 docks with 5 most used apps each. Used to use Minimalistic Text for ever more minimalism, but DashClock works just as well.
Oh and #teamApex

 

[brotkasten]

Not that I think having the bar there is right for everyone, but can I ask for why you're not using it? I probably use mine like 5 times a day, and then a voice action here or there.

I simply have no use for it.

Shit man, y'all need to learn how to use gestures and more docks for added minimalism and functionality.

Only one home screen. Swipe up for app tray. 4 docks with 5 most used apps each. Used to use Minimalistic Text for ever more minimalism, but DashClock works just as well.
Oh and #teamApex

Your wallpaper, please.

 

[Groof]

Your wallpaper, please.

Here ya go. It's a personal photo by a friend of mine.