Lights, Camera, Action Launcher
Action Launcher review
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As Android grows and evolves, launchers rise to fame and fall into obscurity. They have continued to grow and evolve, too, and none more openly than Action Launcher.
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Swipe right
Google Now vs. Quickdrawer: An Action Launcher dilemma
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Action Launcher implemented a Google Now page months ago, leaving users with a big decision — use Google Now or their beloved Quickdrawer.
Ultimate guide to the ultimate launcher
Nova Launcher: Everything you need to know!
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Nova Launcher is one of the most popular, customizable, and reliable launchers on the market. Whether you’ve used it for years or are just discovering its awesomeness, here’s what you need to know!
Set up a Super-Nova
13 essential Nova Launcher tweaks you need to know
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Nova Launcher is a launcher with a feature list as long as my arm and the settings menu to match. Here are the diamonds hiding in the rough of Nova settings.
Old school solution to new school problem
A case for home screen folders
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Folders are criminally overlooked and underappreciated, and they can do a lot of cool things if you just take a little time to customize them.
Come to the dark side!
Make switching to Nova Launcher as easy as possible
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Wwitching launchers is getting easier all the time, and Nova Launcher makes things ridiculously easy for you to get started.
Dynamic over Dots
Dynamic Badges are the best notification badges
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Once upon a time, unread notifications were ugly numbers on our app icons. Today, we’ve got choices for our notification badges, and the best ones live on Nova Launcher.
Halloween ain’t just for horror
Get cute this Halloween with an adorable jack-o-lantern theme
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Halloween is a holiday devoted to dressing up in awesome costumes, playing tricks on our friends and soliciting sweet treats from total strangers. Get your phone dressed up for the event.
Mo' movies, mo' problems
Common Movies Anywhere problems and how to fix them
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Movies Anywhere is a new and growing service, and it isn't anywhere near perfect yet. Here are the issues and bugs with Movies Anywhere and how to deal with them.
Tic’ing all the boxes
TicHome Mini is everything I wanted in a Google Home: portability
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The Google Home line has tripled this fall from one device to three, but the most exciting Home this fall isn’t made by Google.
Sit down in a Lawnchair
Lawnchair comes to Google Play with Pixel-y goodness
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Lawnchair, a Pixel-esque Launcher with some handy customization, has finally made the jump from xda to Google Play, making it accessible to far more users.
It’s a two-horse race right now
The best launchers for theming your Android phone
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There’s a lot of launchers out there. They all have their uses (hopefully), and one of the most varied and complex uses for a launcher is theming. These are the launchers that taking theming and launchers as a whole to new levels.
Come together my movies
How to set up and get started with Movies Anywhere
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Movies Anywhere is the bigger, better, multi-studio version of Disney Movies Anywhere, and it’s an absolute breeze to set up. Get your movies out of Amazon and iTunes and watch them, well, anywhere!
50 million Novas
Nova Launcher joins the 50 million downloads club on Google Play
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Nova Launcher, one of Android’s most popular and customizable launchers, has a new accomplishment under its storied belt: over 50 million downloads on Google Play.
Get low
Here's what's new in the Google Pixel 2 launcher
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The Pixel 2 is coming, and a new home screen comes with it. From search bars to widgets to wallpapers, here's what's new with the Pixel 2 launcher.
Take your music to the Max
Everything you need to know about Google Home Max
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One of Google Home's bigger features is the way it plays and controls music, and that's about to get supersized and super-smart with Google Home Max. Here's what we know about Google's answer to the HomePod.
Licking off Oreo’s creamy white filling
How to get rid of Oreo’s creamy, white Adaptive icon filling
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From all the changes that come with Android Oreo, the most immediate and perhaps the most noticeable change users see isn’t the new emoji or multi-window: it’s all that horrible white on their app icons.
Substratum and Andromeda and Oreo, oh my!
I'm in love with rootless system theming
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System themes have required one of two things: a phone with a theme engine or root access. With Android Oreo, we finally have enough groundwork laid that system theming is possible, even without root!
ROARRRR!!!!!
Your home screen is worthy of a dragon wallpaper
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Dragons are strong, powerful, majestic, terrifying, and sometimes, they’re even cute. No matter what kind of dragon inspires you, there’s a wallpaper for that.
All the pixels
The state of 4K across Google Play and YouTube
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You’ve got a shiny 4K TV and a shiny 4K streaming device, and now you need some content to showcase all that lovely ultra high definition awesomeness. Here’s what Google’s offering up.