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Is there a launcher with these features?

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moeburn

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I love how Holo Launcher can let me cram so many icons onto my homescreens. I'm very messy, and I tend to install a ton of apps. So I like being able to scale my desktop to 7 rows by 6 columns, AND have the icon size scale down, AND have the text size scale down, AND let the text fit on more than one line!

But Holo Launcher makes you use that awful icon-page app drawer. I would like my app drawer to be in a list, like in Nova Launcher. Much easier to find the app I want through the hundreds I have installed, because in Nova Launcher, I can just click on the first letter of the app name, like in most music players.

And while Nova Launcher DOES let me fit 7 rows by 6 columns on my home screen desktops, it doesn't let me change the font size (I would have to do that in system settings, which changes it system-wide), nor does it allow multi-line labels. Where Holo Launcher would display:
ES File
Explorer​

Nova Launcher would display:
ES File Exp...​

Because it doesn't allow multi-line labels.

So is there a launcher that allows very dense home screens, label text size adjustment, multi-line labels, AND a list-view app drawer?

Thanks for any help!
 
I believe ssLauncher will do what you want (the paid version is required to remove page titles though).

I highly recommend that if you get this launcher that you go to YouTube and watch the ssLauncher HowTo videos created by My Color Screen. You'll be completely lost unless you watch a few vids... then it's easy as pie.
 
Petrah said:
I believe ssLauncher will do what you want (the paid version is required to remove page titles though).

I highly recommend that if you get this launcher that you go to YouTube and watch the ssLauncher HowTo videos created by My Color Screen. You'll be completely lost unless you watch a few vids... then it's easy as pie.
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Thanks! That sounds like a pretty good suggestion, although it looks quite a bit like Lightning Launcher or Themer, which I tried both and then quickly ran away from, because they both made it seem like I'd have to sit through 2 hours of youtube videos to figure them out. Why can't they do it like ADW launcher (yet another feature I'd like combined), where they show you little tooltips and tutorial screens to show you all the coolest features?

One more feature I forgot to request, that I assumed would have been standard on pretty much any "highly customizable" launcher, is the ability to view in landscape mode. I use my phone in portrait when I'm using it as a phone, but I use it in landscape when I plug it into my DIY gamepad/gameklip. I'd like my homescreen to be able to flip accordingly, even if it looks butt-ugly when it tries to fit the same 42 icons on a different orientation, like Holo Launcher.
 
Have you tried apex launcher? That's the one I'm using. I can custom size the grid and icon size. I don't use labels so can't say about that
 
gbsa said:
Have you tried apex launcher? That's the one I'm using. I can custom size the grid and icon size. I don't use labels so can't say about that
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Yeah, I tried Apex launcher, it was so close to Holo launcher that I honestly had to look in the settings->about menu to figure out whether I was running Holo or Apex sometimes. But it just felt like Holo launcher minus a few key features, like landscape-mode or multi-line labels.
 
Oh, and I'm probably asking for a bit much now, but does anyone know of an app drawer that allows you to sort by date installed? Because like I said earlier, I install a TON of apps. It's been the way I've used computers since Windows 95; just downloading lots of games and programs for the joy of their functionality. In Windows, I'd usually just sort the Start menu by date installed, so that I could easily see the 5 most recently installed programs that I haven't tried out yet, or I could easily find that game that I got hooked on the night before, without having to remember what its called.

Unfortunately, with Android, every single launcher I've seen only allows you to view your list of apps by alphabetical order, except for a select few that like to try and auto-group apps into category. Is there any that allow sorting by date?
 
So let's break it down:

Nova: has landscape mode, but not have multiline labels or arrange the apps by "last installed"

Apex: Has no landscape mode for phone?

Holo: Has page by page app drawer but you want it in a list?

So you want a launcher that can have multi-line labels, grid editing, and list view app drawer in order of last installed date?

It's been a while, but I remember Go Launcher EX having those features. But it's not as sleek as Nova, Apex or Holo.
 
I'm using apex right now and it does have landscape mode. Go launcher tended to drain my battery so I uninstalled it.
 
chanchan05 said:
So let's break it down:

Nova: has landscape mode, but not have multiline labels or arrange the apps by "last installed"

Apex: Has no landscape mode for phone?

Holo: Has page by page app drawer but you want it in a list?

So you want a launcher that can have multi-line labels, grid editing, and list view app drawer in order of last installed date?

It's been a while, but I remember Go Launcher EX having those features. But it's not as sleek as Nova, Apex or Holo.
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Well I tried Go Launcher, and it had the strangest limitations of all. I could change the font size, but only one step down, from 12pt to 10pt. Holo let me go all the way down to 6pt. I couldn't enable multi line labels, and there was no list-view app drawer.

But Holo has everything I need; small fonts, multi line labels, landscape view, EXCEPT for a list-view app drawer.

But that's okay.

Because I just realised I can install a SEPARATE APP DRAWER on top of ANY launcher!!!

yay!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=JakedUp.AppDrawer&hl=en
 
I just found the most perfect app drawer ever. It's called Quad Drawer:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.levelup.quad

Ignore the main selling point of the app, which is this "predictive keyboard" thing that I don't want and will never use. You don't have to use it, and it doesn't show up unless you tell it to. If it wasn't their main selling point, i wouldn't have known it was there.

But it has everything i DO want in an app drawer: It has list view, supports landscape, and has pretty much every tab grouping I could have ever asked for: "Recenty installed", "recently used", "most used", and of course, alphabetical. You can even tell it to keep track of how many times you've used each app, so that I can easily go through and uninstall apps that sounded cool at the time, but that I never ever used. Or I can go through and find all the games that I installed and meant to play later, and never ended up playing.

Combined with Holo launcher's landscape mode, small icon labels, and multi-line icon labels, my Android is now perfect. Just. Perfect.
 
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