[Q] What launcher do you suggest?

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Hey guys and girls this will be my first android device and reading up on all the apps and widgets is a little daunting.

So this is the question : im going to be changing my dock icons because they remind me to much of my current Iphone 4, So i need a launcher?

What launcher does everyone suggest i try out and why?

I dont mind paying for a launcher just as long as its not to buggy or a memory/power hog.

Thanks in advance.

i'm going to go for LP Sense:
https://market.android.com/details?i...t.lpslatesense
runs great on my Hero...just need to get a SGS2

why use a different launcher off the block.. try the new twiz 4 launcher that comes with it first for a while..

I personally like ADW EX i like the swipe animations and the overall feel of it on my EVO. I have seen it run slowly on lower power devices. The level of customizations that are available to the user is amazing. And you can get it for free in some Roms. Thats how i stumbled upon it. It has several ways to anaimate screen swipes. But if you want a true 3d effect try shell 3d. I dont know of a way to get it for free but i did try it out for a while and it was pretty cool, but it even felt kind of slow on my evo.

Ive gone with slide screen its beautiful, how about a lock screen, this drag the background thing is so poor

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Try LauncherPro.. The best in my opinion

I tried launcher pro and finds its not smooth atm on this phone, it feels a bit jerky when going in to the apps window.

Originally Posted by Jabbypants

I tried launcher pro and finds its not smooth atm on this phone, it feels a bit jerky when going in to the apps window.

That's weird, it's flawlessly smooth on my Galaxy S 1. However, if you're using a live wallpaper then the transition into the app drawer (and then scrolling through it) is stuttery.

Apart from that, I'd throw my vote to LauncherPro too, especially if you buy the Plus version.

Reasons:
- Easily resize widgets and change homescreen grid sizes
- Virtual looping of homescreens (get to the end and it'll flick back to the farthest, no need to scroll all the way back)
- Homescreen transitions (instead of boring sideways scrolling can have 3D flips or the widgets rotate away)
- 'Plus' adds lots of extremely handy smooth, scrollable widgets almsot identical to what HTC Sense provides
- These widgets have now been made theme-able as of the latest update
- Can use in landscape or portrait
- Scrollable dock (scroll through 3 docks of 5 icons each)
- Dock icons and background can be changed, so my icons look like WP7's
- Can set an action for swiping up from any dock icon (eg: touching Internet icon launches the browser, but swiping the Internet icon instead displays a list of bookmarks!)
- On my Galaxy S was smoother for me than ADW

Originally Posted by minty1978

i'm going to go for LP Sense:
https://market.android.com/details?i...t.lpslatesense
runs great on my Hero...just need to get a SGS2

I'm going to use the wp live wallpaper so I don't need a clock, but I do like the animated weather on wake up ( reminds me of my HD2 love you forever and ever ) so that sounds like a good pick.

what about go launcher ? any thoughts?

And I've seen touch wiz in vids I like the tiled widgets but I dislike the dock icons looking like iPhone. so can I Change the dock icons to stock android without a launcher?

Originally Posted by Jabbypants

I tried launcher pro and finds its not smooth atm on this phone, it feels a bit jerky when going in to the apps window.

Its pretty smooth on mine apart from the pinch to zoom for homescreen preview.

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