Since it appears that another person on our team has moved to Android we might just see some more reporting in that direction!
Good deal, if you ask me. I’m glad that we have a diverse group that doesn’t mind using different handsets as per their preference!
This was passed to me to check out: LauncherPro for Android.
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Here are some of the neat features:
- Experience up to 7 home screens for widgets, shortcuts, bookmarks, and apps
- Pinch to see all home screens at a glance
- Faster/smoother scroll in list of Android Apps
- Numbered notification icons for new text messages, missed calls and new emails
Randy Kinnick says
Our lead pastor just moved to the Android (Droid X) and it is a sweet handset. We all use Macbooks, but our cell phone service is on Verizon. Who knows whether Verizon will really get the iPhone this next year? I am due an upgrade in May, so I’m wondering if the Android is the way to go. Is there a good sync app for marrying the Android OS with Mac?
Eric Frisch says
This is basically just offering other Android users what those of us with HTC phones have always had in the Sense UI… but I love it, so I’m glad others will have a chance to experience it!
dewde says
agreed.
Mickey says
Launcher Pro is great! I love that you can make the dock so much more useful, and you can even have badges on some items (gmail, sms, etc). This is a must-have for any Android user.
dewde says
HTC phones do all this stuff out of the box.
peace | dewde
brett barner says
Agreed. Though I wish you could do more stuff with the bottom bar outside a giant “Phone” button, app drawer, and add whatever button.
I just switched back to Sense from Launcher Pro. It was just a little too laggy for me sometimes. The developer is currently re-writing the launcher from scratch (currently it just runs on top of the Android Launcher which accounts for the slight lag, the rewrite is supposed to build up the Android base from scratch) and hopefully it’ll be more streamlined.
Don says
I personally hate sense, it’s slow and doesn’t look as nice as the default versions of some apps (the music app for one, I like how it shows the album cover in the background instead of just having black).
Plus the whole being required to have seven home screens was a pain, I only use one right now, I used to use three, way less than seven.
I’ve rooted my phone, and installed cm6, which I found a welcome lack of sense. AWD works perfectly, and exactly the way I want, I can use one of my few hardware buttons as a drawer opener and such.
The only nice thing about Launcher Pro is that it has notifier emblems, other than that, if I want to use any feature that comes standard with AWD, I have to buy the paid version, which I don’t want to do because I’ve got exactly what I want with AWD, minus notifiers (but wait, I’ve got a status bar, which tells me if I have emails or not by a simple icon at the top of my screen.
The whole notion of notifiers in this manner seems too much like iOS emulation for my own tastes, which is not something I want to emulate.
Eric J says
I use launcher pro, here is a tip though make sure you remove all of the widgets in your default launcher (stupid blur) as they can run in the background still!