For example, Home k nows every time you launch an app using the app launcher.
Swipe up to see a home screen, or app launcher of your favorite app icons.
The app launcher is relatively similar to stock ICS, which you can navigate by side-swiping the screen.
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Other than that, you'll be hard-pressed to find any major variances in Cover Feed, chat heads or the app launcher.
Google has created a seductive app launcher, sort of like how Apple operates with its iLife suite but still unique.
It expands the regular Facebook application out to take over the app launcher, to take over the UI, and to take over the home screen.
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This is all made possible because Android allows third-party companies to alter the lock screen and other core features, such as the app launcher, which displays app icons and widgets.
Users can access their favorite apps with a single click through the app launcher and find new favorites from the thousands of Chrome apps and games featured in the Chrome Web Store.
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The Chrome team has also borrowed a bit from Android: in addition to pinned apps, that tray is home to an app launcher, which looks exactly like the one used on Google's mobile products.
Most complaints thus far have centered on Home's failings as an app launcher -- when you install Home on any phone, it rearranges your apps because there's no folder support and no app dock.
The update also tweaks and rebrands the "quickplay" item that was introduced just last year -- removing the app launcher from the Xbox guide, and renaming it to "recent" on the console's home screen.
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We spent some time with it, and while we're impressed with the new lock screen, honeycomb app launcher, and browser, it's obviously just a paint job -- it's still kinda laggy and the media features haven't been changed at all.
Well, the big change is that the previously static phone, contacts and apps icons at the bottom of the UI have now been turned into a user-customizable dock, with three links of your choosing sidling up next to the App Launcher.
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Most other Android skins have now taken to using that as an app launcher dock, but HTC insists on giving you instant access to things like personalization options (which, in themselves, are hardly all that varied) instead of giving you the only option you truly want -- to clear that junk away from the screen.
By swiping your finger in from the edge of the screen you can perform various actions, such as bringing up the app-switcher and app-launcher screen, an extended menu of options, of take yourself to the BlackBerry Hub, which is where you will find a tailored list of all incoming communications and alerts.
Ubisoft may need to provide more incentive than a unified launcher to get gamers to install a fourth digital distribution app.
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