Vire Launcher For Android Completely Transform Your UI Into A Better Look

There are pretty lot of Launcher available in the Android Market for free which provides customization to it's best, replacing your phone custom launcher and giving it a whole new UI.

                                     

Some of the successful launcher for Android Smartphones includes ADW, Apex which was smooth and much accepted and downloaded by users world-wide. There's something new this time from Xda-Forum member navdeepsangwan and winograd as they have created Vire Launcher for Android. Just like other launcher this too have great features and is very smooth so whatever hardware you are on you wont feel any problem using this launcher.

                               

Some of the features includes 3D Transition Animations, Automatically Themed Icons, Reflection Effects & Multi-Touch Controls.

                               


Currently this package is in beta mode and the author has issued this for free in Play-Store so that he can get feedback about this app.

                               


The 3D home effect that HTC tried to implement in Sense 3.5 is one of the awesome feature the package contains and also by using on board accelerometer users can see lots of visual changes on the UI. 

                               


The entire UI is amazingly customizable so one should try this app on their phone with just minimum requirement of Android 2.2 and up. 

(Download Link- Play Store)


Source: Xda-Developers

10:05   by Unknown ·   0

Firefox OS Developers Preview for Android devices

           In this evolving smartphone age where everyday in the world a new phone and a new technology related to it is being introduced, the very base of it the operating system is also evolving. Now the dominating operating system for mobiles is Android provided by Google, if we even see its stage and time period of evolution it has increased exponentially. Slowly other companies have also started developing there own operating system in order to make a place in the smartphone technology market. Apple has its iOS, Samsung has also come out with Tizen OS and Ubuntu is also trying to enter the smartphone market. Among these Mozila is also trying to develop a mobile OS, which is called as the Firefox OS.

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          The project name for Firefox OS is "Boot to Gecko (B2G)", it is a open source operating system just as Google Android. This operating system is designed to run web based applications and the installed apps on a smartphone , tablet and smart TVs. This operating system was introduced in February 2012, from them it has been trying to make itself relevant in the existing Mobile OS battle.

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            Thus Mozila has launched its developers preview of its Firefox OS in the form of a APK file for android smartphones. The developers have done a very good job by converting the OS into a APK so that one does not have to flash a new custom rom just to have a feel of it. One can have a taste of this OS just by installing the APK from the below given download link and the homescreen will be replaced by Firefox OS homescreen. As it is a Developers Preview, there are still bugs present in the APK but still it is worth to installing and having an experience of this new OS.

             The APK is available on the official website. You can also visit this link for the developers preview.

09:52   by Unknown ·   0

Multitasking Launcher For All Android Phones, SWAPPS

                 Recently Ubuntu has become the most talked about Operating System, people are trying to know all the features of it and exploring its interface. The Unity interface offers an incredibly quick and intuitive way to access your most commonly used applications from a launcher that appears on the left hand side of your screen. Developers have liked this feature and have built an "pseudo launcher" for Android devices called as Swapps.

                   The most exciting feature of this launcher is that it does not replaces the devices main launcher, just as in Multi-tasking feature of Samsung Galaxy Note-II. You can access all your applications from wherever you are without returning to the home screen in your Android devices. It is activated by swiping from the left hand side of the screen to reveal a list that is separated into three parts: favorite apps selected by the user, recently used apps. and a complete list of all the applications currently installed on the device. You can add up to ten of your most commonly used applications to the favorites section, and you can also customize any gesture for exiting this launcher.This is an application for making multitasking just a little bit easier in all Android phones because Multitasking feature is available only in recently available high end phones.

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Features:

• Contains full application drawer just like in your home application
• 'Recently Used' panel contains 5 last applications you opened
• 'Recently Used' applications background process can be closes by long press on the application
• 'Starred' panel holds up to 10 of your favorite applications
• It is accessible anytime, regardless of which application is currently running, using a simple swipe
• Notification icon can be disabled or made transparent in the settings screen.
• Fully customizable swipe-area (Side, Width, Height)
• Doesn't affect battery life!!!

You can get this application from Google Play Store.

Source-XDA Developers

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