If you are finding your stock home screen tiring and looking for a change in the way you use your Android device then you may go for some newly developed Android launcher available at Google Play. Here we would be having a look at the top five android launchers and analyze them on the basis of their design, speed, features and customisation.
Last week we conducted a poll to decide the best android launcher and the results comprising of the top five Android launchers are provided in this page.
Voting for this section is closed and to see which the top five Android launchers are, take a look at our weekly Hive Five follow up post.
ADWLauncher EX, available only at $4, is a highly customizable and flexible launcher supporting Android 1.6 and higher. This android launcher is a paid version of ADW. It comes loaded with numerous amazing themes, customizable backgrounds or screen layouts, icon sets that can be customized, switchable animations, dock styles with different shortcuts, hidden dockbar and lots more. This android home screen launcher is tweakable for the advanced but is user-friendly and fast for the beginneers. This launcher supports a large number of devices.
Nova Launcher
NovaLauncher can be installed for free and support all the Ice Cream Sandwich devices. After its installation on the ICS device you can customise ADW icon themes if you like to use them, customizable themes to change the look of you launcher. A scrollable dock with 7 icons on each page, launch animations and scroll effects that can be toggle on/off, dockbar with 1*1 widgets and lots more. The android launcher unlocks all the unread count badges for SMS, email as well as voice mail, it can let you to hide all the applications that are never used but do not like to uninstall any gestures for launcher actions.
Go Launcher EX
Go Launcher EX is another fully customizable android launcher. You can download different icon packs and themes to customize many widgets, Go launcher EX, lockscreen tweaks and lots more. The smooth, folder groups, rounded corners, beautiful animations with clean customizable layouts make this android launcher quite popular. These launchers are also able to support smartphones running 2.0 or higher. Developers are constantly updating Go launcher with new themes, Go-flavored widgets and application, so that you can access a wide range of tools in your android smartphones or home screen. You can access these features without any price.
Apex Launcher
Apex Launcher supports only Ice Cream Sandwich devices and can be installed freely.This launcher is very fast and highly customizable. It features up to 9 homescreens, seven dockstars with 5 icons in each, beautiful themes, scroll effects, transitions and also replacement icons. Any element of Apex launcher can be can be easily hidden.you can also lock your homescreen. With $4 you will be able to get Apex Launcher Pro which adds many finger gestures, support forunread count badges, 1*1 widgets in the dock and collects themes from other launchers like Launcher Pro, Go Launcher, ADW.
Launcher Pro
Launcher Pro is availed by many as the first non- stock launcher and is free to install. This launcher is not frequently updated still it provides smooth transition, dock scrolling, customizable layouts with home screen previews. This launcher support many android devices running 2.0 or higher than that. Launcher Pro also support infinite scrolling, replacement icon packs and lot more. If you are looking for a fast launcher you may start with Launcher Pro.
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