Nova Launcher is a powerful and elegant launcher that lets you customize aspects of your home screen, icons, and folders.
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Introduce about Nova Launcher
Nova Launcher is a speedy app launcher (which means it modifies the basic interface of your phone or tablet somewhat, changing the user interface you use to browse and launch apps in the process).
It mostly focuses on bits and pieces of functionality that fit right in with what's already there, such as infinite scrolling along your Home screen, meaning you can scroll left or right and loop through all of your apps and widgets, or color controls, meaning you can organize your folders or other items by color.
What is Nova Launcher?
One of the features that stands out and makes a difference in Nova Launcher is its outstanding graphic quality. Even the simple action of sliding your finger to switch desktops shows an elaborate transition in three dimensions.
Besides aesthetic matters, Nova Launcher allows you to customize the gestures you use on your device. You can even set up shortcuts to make your Android device shake. Some of the features are included in the paid version only.
Besides all this, you can also customize the icons on your different desktops and make backups of your settings to import them to other devices. This means that if you like the style on your mobile phone, you can easily put it on your Android tablet as well.
Nova is as usable as possible on its own, and the features it provides (like swiping over apps to do specific things with them) will improve the usability of your other apps, as well.
The only potential problem the launcher faces is that when starting your phone or tablet, it will generally take two or three seconds longer than the default launcher to display your icons and allow you to launch apps. This is not a large increase, but it is noticeable. Fortunately, as previously discussed, the launcher is very fast outside of booting (which a phone at least will not do often).
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Nova Launcher is not feature rich, but it makes up for this by having each feature count. You can organize your apps into "subgrids" on the Home screen, letting you place them more easily and usefully. It improves scrolling both on the Home screen and elsewhere. And it includes both themes and widgets.
The Prime version of Nova Launcher provides a few extra features, and chief among these are gestures. You can set swiping, double-tapping or pinching on your Home screen, among others, to launch apps of your choice. You can also have those same apps do specific things if you swipe over their icons. In a sense, Prime embodies the Phrase "world at your fingertips": it reduces the need to use the app drawer to near zero.
This conflicts a little with one of its other features, the ability to hide unused apps in the drawer and organize the drawer further, but that doesn't mean the option to do that is unwelcome.
Overall, Nova Launcher only provides a handful of features, but all are welcome and none overstay that welcome. It's as fast if not faster than the default launcher and many other launchers besides, provides functionality that feels natural like infinite scrolling, and it has widgets, if you find yourself wanting more functionality.
The Prime version adds to its existing utility a variety of swipe features and ways to organize your app drawer.
Available Versions of Nova Launcher
Nova Launcher combines versatility with elegance to offer a different home screen full of new possibilities. A real treasure for lovers of Android customization.