Expand creativity by choosing from thousands of alternative app icons with the glim lite UI icon pack
Change your launcher
Download Nova
Launcher and Glim
from Play. Set Nova as
your default launcher by
selecting Settings>
Home and Nova.
Increase
dock icons
Open Nova Settings,
then select Dock>Dock
Icons. Once that’s done,
whack up the number
into your dock.
Apply Glim
icons
screen, scroll toNova
and tap the red Apply
text. Read the pop-up
window; tap OK.
Customise
your icons
On your home screen,
long-press each app
icon, select Edit and tap
the app’s icon in the
pop-up that appears.
Browse for
icons
Tap Glimand choose a
new app icon from
Glim’s huge catalogue.
Give that icon a tap,
then select Done.
Change your
wallpaper
Finish things off with a
Glim wallpaper.
Long-press on your
home screen, then
selectWallpapers>App
&Themes and then
Hide notifications
Android displays
information about your
notifications on the lock
screen. If you don’t want this,
open Settings, selectSound&
Notification, then tap ‘Whenyour
device is locked,’ followed by
‘Don’t show notifications at all’.
Don’t add to home 09
screen
Whenyou install an app, Play adds
a shortcut to the home screen
by default. To prevent Play from
creating these shortcuts, open the
Play app and tap the menu icon.
Select Settings and then deselect
‘Add icon to Home screen.’
Try Android M
If you own a Nexus 5, 6 or
9and you’re feeling adventurous,
you can flash an early release of
AndroidM to your device (http://
goo.gl/Yok2Xv) . However, this is
only a developer preview release
somake sure you read Google’s
disclaimer carefully!
Hexy Launcher
Free
Hexy displays your apps as
hexagonal tiles, arranged in a
grid on your home screen. Hexy organises
your apps automatically, with the most
frequently used ones appearing in the
centre, but if you can’t spot the one you’re
after you can filter the apps in your grid using
Hexy’s useful search bar.
Launcher 10
Beta Free
This unique launcher adds
integrated live weather effects,
sowhen the forecast says snow, expect to see
snow falling on your home screen and settling
on your app icons. This launcher also adds a
sidebar containing recent and favourite apps,
plus other useful shortcuts such as toggling
Wi-Fi functionality on and off.
Action
Launcher 3
Free + IAPs
This launcher gives you an
additional way of accessing apps. Swipe from
the left of your home screen to see a complete
A-Z of all apps installed on your device. If you
upgrade to the Plus version, Action Launcher
also automatically extracts colours from your
wallpaper and then uses them as a basis to
customise your layout.
Yahoo Aviate
Launcher Free
Aviate is a contextually-aware,
‘personal assistant’ launcher
that gathers your favourite apps together and
arranges them based on different activities,
such as Social, Productivity and Photography. If
you tell Aviate your home and work location, it
will also offer you different apps that are based
on your current location.
Buzz Launcher
Free
If you’re a fan of theming your
device, then you may want to
take a look at Buzz Launcher, which gives you
easy access to a user-created library of
thousands of themes. To see what’s available
before you install the app, view details at
homepackbuzz.com.
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