The best part is that you can assign different gestures to different things in different places. You can even deep dive and open activities that you wouldn't otherwise be able to run - things in your engineering mode tests or activities of the core OS. Swipe up, swipe down, double tap, swipe with two fingers - these gestures (and more) can be set to do things like open your app drawer, pull down the notification shade, open your recent apps and more. You can use gestures anywhere on your home screens as well. My personal favorite is jumping straight to the compose function in Google Inbox, but the list of things you can shortcut to if you know what you're doing is pretty impressive.īut that's just the beginning. Instead of just opening an app, you can access specific features within different apps. You can launch apps, access settings, and access the app drawer or notification panel without touching any of the regular buttons. Nova's gesture list includes single and double-finger gestures that can do just about everything. Russell Holly: The core of any personalization experience is getting to the stuff that matters to you as quickly as possible, and when you purchase the Prime upgrade to Nova Launcher you gain access to quite a bit to accomplish that goal. The paid version (Nova Prime) even allows "swipe" actions - for example showing my bookmarks when swiping up on the Chrome icon.Ĭustom is the key here, and Nova Launcher gives you the options to focus on all the fine details of what you see on your screen, how it all looks and how things work together. Want portions of widgets (you get to resize them all) to overlap so you can create a cool design? Nova can do that. You have control over animations, the way your wallpaper scrolls (or doesn't scroll if that's how you want it) and placing of your home screen widgets. Things don't stop with the icons and dock. One of the coolest features allows for a scrolling dock, where limitless icons can rest for you to flip through. You have control over the size of those custom icons, the padding between them, the labels underneath them and even the number of rows and columns in both your app drawer and on the home screens. If one day I feel like I want to have an iPhone style on my G4, I can add a dock that resembles it, change up the icons and placement, and boom, a whole new feel in just a few minutes.Īnd there's a lot more to customize in the look and feel department. In addition to being able to customize the icons, Nova gives me the option to set different dock backgrounds, making it even more custom. From being able to mix and match icon packs, to being able to change the icon size for the dock, home screen pages, and app drawer independently, the options are unlimited. While almost all launchers let you apply custom icon packs, I really like the granular control that Nova gives me. Jared DiPane: One of the things I really like about Nova Launcher is the way it uses custom icon packs, and how I can get my screen to look just the way I want it to.
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