Highly recommend Nova Launcher for S3

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I really enjoy using Nova as well, I have tried touch wiz, apex, and go launcher as well.

Go has a huge amount of customization available from widgets to texting apps, and can make for a very personalized device. However, I find it to be "annoying" to use, and I really do not care for the interface out of personal preference. Seems to have a lot of "fufu" which is why my ex preferred it on her skyrocket.

Apex is nice, and offers a lot of features, and you can customize a lot with it, but as far as ease of use is concerned it is not my number one. Not that I have trouble with it, but I feel there are more intuitive options like Nova.

TouchWiz really pissed me off. I love a lot of the features, but the app drawer and home screen really irked me. I like to customize it to my liking, because I have always ran AOSP until I got this S3. So to not be able to move things around that I had was too much of a restriction for me.

Nova is the bomb! Very intuitive with plenty of customization options to choose from. It gets the job done, and has a pretty intuitive interface. I would imagine the average user to enjoy Nova launcher over the others.
 
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I prefer apex because they have tablet ui mode and grid size can go up to 10x10. Last Nova i used only went to 7x7.

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I love ease of being able to stack on screen as well. I like packing my folders on the bottom instead of a dock. The apps can't quite reach the bottom so I placed my clock in text form down there. All thanks to Nova! And a couple of text apps.

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I also agree. Nova launcher is great. You should also try and TSF Shell. It's a pretty penny but the theme is absolutely amazing

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    Fadingintofall
    Just fyi... the "work around" to get the app drawer alphabetized is clicking the menu button with the app drawer open and then clicking, "view type" and switching to alphabetized. Not exactly complicated. Or even a work around.

    Nova is great, but I'm actually enjoying touchwiz. I do want to switch over and play with nova more... But eh, not seeing a huge need. Coming from sense (which I hated) I'm quite happy on tw.

    Though I do miss being able to back everything up

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    android94301
    Hey folks,

    I highly recommend replacing the touch Wiz launcher with nova launcher. I have found it much more intuitive, and much easier to use. (I am not affiliated with Nova in any way.)

    Several advantages:

    1. The bottom bar (dock) of apps is highly customizable, with as many apps as you choose. You can also create multiple pages of docked apps, so it's possible to access 10 or 15 apps on the lower dock.

    2. The App drawer is automatically alphabetized, unlike touch Wiz, which I find so much easier to use. There are of course workarounds on touch Wiz, but why bother? I just dock the icon for the app drawer on the lower dock so it's always available.

    3. Nova has one step back up of your screen layouts so that if you are wiping your phone regularly in order to reflash ROM's, it's trivial to reset your screen layouts by doing a restore from nova. This saves a lot of tweaking time.

    4. You can customize the layout of your desktop with variable margins, a persistent search bar on all pages, gestures, and with nova launcher prime ($4), you also get unread counts for SMS, missed calls, and Gmail, which is very nice.

    5. Basically everything is customizable and modifiable. I greatly prefer it over the stock touch Wiz launcher. Check out the free version of nova, as it has virtually all the features other than the unread counts.
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    Div033
    I noticed Nova was a bit smoother than Apex for me, so I've been using Nova and loving it :)

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    Falcyn
    Apex and Nova are both based on the stock 4.0.x ICS launcher, so they're very similar, but Apex gives more features for free.

    You're definitely making a mistake if you use Go Launcher or ADW or LauncherPro on this phone, since those are Gingerbread-based. The ICS launcher is just a much, much better base.
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    Div033
    Death&co said:
    I recently purchased Nova Launcher but haven't had the free time to set everything up the way I like it yet.

    One thing I did notice was when I hit the home button it asked me which launcher I wanted to use. Touchwiz or Nova Launcher and if I wanted to select one as a default. Since Nova Launcher is completely new to me I choose TW as the default. Once I get everything set up, where can I go to make Nova Launcher the default?
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    Go into settings and select application manager. Then find Touchwiz launcher under all applications and press clear defaults.

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