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So many home screens?!

SO, I'm a simple iPhone user, aka these 5 home screens and moving backgrounds confuse and fluster the hell out of me. While I try and downloads hoards of apps to put the the phone I still can't quite figure out what the hell to do with 5 home screens, in reality I have only filled one page and even still its only really my phone and weather widget.
Are there any apps / widgets / clocks / keyboards ya'll would say are "required" for the nexus? I really don't know where to look some one should make a suggested app thread.
look forward to hearing your responses.
JG

it all depends on you decorate it to your liking
for me on my main screen i have my
Mainscreen
-flipclock from beautiful widgets
-Most used apps: gallery, aim, maps, camera, gmail, browser and market
Second Screen Left
-Search bar on top
-picture frame of me and my girlfriend in the middle
-A folder for games and a folder for tools on each side of the frame
-and the power control on the button
and then on other screens i have my friendstream(facebook widget), favorite contacts, end all task widget, flashlight widget, music player widget, bookmarks widget, news widget
oh and im using the the desire rom btw but there are equivilant widgets on the market

You don't to have to have live wallpapers, and on the iphone don't you get how many screens you need to compensate for the amount of applications you have installed? So unless you had a minimal amount of applications, wouldn't you have more (or equivalent) than five screens? So how come now it is confusing you?
Ok, back to the matter at hand. Usually I just decorate my home screens with applications that i need, apps that are not used regularly stay in the app wheel thingy (its not really drawer anymore). Really your homescreens will be determined by your needs, and likes. Decorate with the most essential applications that you need, and expand on that by adding widgets and etc. I'm sure others could recommend apps for you, I've been an Android user since the G1 (which isn't long really), but apps just come to mind without hesitation.

On my main screen I have a nice clock and my most used programs. The screen to the right has toggles for various settings. To the right of that is speed dials. To the left of the main screen is weather and news plus a few more program shortcuts and to the left of that is my music player widget.

I only use 3 screens, centre is big clock and most used apps, to the right is a bunch of regularly used apps. to the left is some widgets and speed dials.
I keep the other 2 blank for some reason.

Rock3nrenigade said:
Are there any apps / widgets / clocks / keyboards ya'll would say are "required" for the nexus? I really don't know where to look some one should make a suggested app thread.
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For the love of god please use the Search button!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=620092&highlight=apps
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=617667&highlight=apps
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=633104&highlight=apps
+ a dozen other of the same threads
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Regina Launcher

androidcentral: Android Quick App: Regina homescreen and launcher replacement http://bit.ly/hJj8BK
I found some other thing cool about it that they don't show. You can slide the dock left or right to scroll through homescreens, each page can have a different wallpaper, the grid is a little different as you can set icons offset of each other, its hard to explain. The secret workspace feature is cool cause it gives you three more screens to use. Look for it on the market, for a great price of: Free.
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-=-New Project: Finder for Android!-=-

I would like to start a new project for Android tablets: recreating the conceptual function of the classic Mac OS Finder for Android.
I am not a developer but that doesn't mean I cant put the design out there and hope people will help me realise this dream. I admit I don't know the complexity of combining the two applications together but I can say one of the biggest hurdles most independent Android app developers have expressed is design and that is what I am offering.
Why?
Anyone who knows about classic Mac OS before Mac OS 8 can see a massive amount of similarities between it and Android. Android is much better suited as as a desktop replacement in my opinion than for a phone OS, but even on tablets people still can't get out of the mindset restrictions of phone and pretty much all launchers show this (almost no difference conceptually between a phone and tablet launcher).
NO MORE!
I would like a launcher that replicates the core concepts behind the Mac OS Finder. This includes app launching and file management built together. Nothing that I propose is actually new, it just requires combining functionality of already open-sourced projects like Trebuchet (which already has several offshoots). This takes some of the concepts MIUI has but further towards a desktop concept.
My Ideas:
There will be only be either 3 or 5 (user selectable) screens or desktops. The main desktop dedicated as Home and widgets would not be allowed on Home. The desktops to left and right would be only for widgets.
There will be a persistent bar at the top fulfilling many of the same functions as the Mac OS menu bar. There would be an Android menu that would link to favourite applications and standard android shortcuts as well as to the settings app. All the way to the right would be the persistent search spyglass like launchers have now. In between would be Item, Edit, View and Action menus with large touch points (designed for fingers).
On the right side of the screen will be an Applications Icon that will bring up a standard app drawer as launchers do now but it will look more like a window. Under the Applications icon will be icons for inserted media with their Volume label name under their disk type name (MicroSD, SD Card, etc) including internal storage. This is the part that would act just like any standard file system app but all file functions are handled with long presses and through dragging and dropping where options will be presented after the drop (copy here, move here, shortcut here) or through the Item and Edit menu. The file system will be presented with spacial windows and not as a browser (there are plenty of those already and most for free). Windows don't need to overlap (they didn't in Windows 1 and 2) but it would be preferred if they could.
Long pressing on the Home desktop will bring up a menu for New Folder, New Shortcut and Wallpaper. Long pressing on Widget screens will bring up a menu for Widgets and Wallpaper.
Won't you help make this a real app?
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[Idea] Fast intuitive launcher

I have not found any launcher or appdrawer that simly uses folder icons that is suitable (could choose custom) to the group. All/most launchers uses the iPhone app-miniatures-impossible to easily see-folderstyle. Also icons and foldericons are too small. So here is a suggestion.
3*4 big foldericons, e.x. social (phone, messaging, facebook), office (word, excel, etc), media (camera, pictures, musicplayers), tools, games, settings (settings apps, widgetsettings)
When a new app is installed, it is automatically asked in what folder to put it, or if create a new folder for it.
(I only found 3 icons in my example, and not very intuitive suitable icons, soo you have to imagine 3 more rows)

a extra feature: it could open up a cloud of widgets when sliding a foldericon. Example sliding the social icon pops up a circling cloud of facebook stats, tweets, messages, last phonecalls, and contacts. Or it pops up when simply clicking a icon, and further clicking on the widget opens the app.

Sounds good :thumbup:
Thanks don't hurt ya know?
HTC Desire HD (PACMan)
Samsung GNote 10.1 (Stock)
Sony Xperia Z (borrowed, rooted)

Wexler comes to mind...

With some work it could be done kind of, using SSLauncher: Only 2 pages. One page with informative widgets and hidden buttons to start shortcuts. One page with big folders 2*3 grid, when clicked they open folder showing app icons at normal size.
Minimal, non-distracting, fast. Screenshots below.

Sound almost exactly like folder organizer. You can have a scrollable folder on your home page(like the tools one in screen) or have icons like the those in the screen( tools games) when you click on the icon, you get an app drawer with only the apps you specified as that category. It also asks what you want to categorize an app as when you in install it, on a per app basis,
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What launcher do you use and why?

What launcher do you use and why?
How about performance, animation, customize, unread count and other?
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I actually use the default TW launcher. Customize the grid size, slap a theme on - it seems pretty damn smooth this time around.
Action Launcher 3 is my go-to besides that. To me it's the Google Experience Launcher + the tweaks it needed.

Nova Launcher has custom resizable grids, custom scrollable dock, and a host of animations and is very fast.
But the reason I can't live without it is gesture support. I can double up every icon with two functions depending on tap or swipe up. I can do this on any icon, any folder (tap opens the folder, swipe up opens the most used app in the folder), and even the icons within the folders. I can pull down the shade from a swipe down motion from anywhere on the screen instead of reaching for it. Through the use of swipes, folders, and a resized grid, I have every shortcut I need on a single screen. I only scroll to the other screens for widgets.

Flow Home Beta. Because it's everything I need right there on my home screen without having to open multiple apps to get the same info.

We're already discussing that here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6/general/whats-favorit-luancher-t3098775

Hanson68 said:
Nova Launcher has custom resizable grids, custom scrollable dock, and a host of animations and is very fast.
But the reason I can't live without it is gesture support. I can double up every icon with two functions depending on tap or swipe up. I can do this on any icon, any folder (tap opens the folder, swipe up opens the most used app in the folder), and even the icons within the folders. I can pull down the shade from a swipe down motion from anywhere on the screen instead of reaching for it. Through the use of swipes, folders, and a resized grid, I have every shortcut I need on a single screen. I only scroll to the other screens for widgets.
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This, plus LMT, is my approach as well.

Thread closed.
As already mentioned, there is considerable overlap here with the discussion in this thread - let's try to keep the conversations unified and what not - thanks!