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singular launcher

boyo1991

boyo1991

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im wondering WHY android does not have a preloaded launcher?! its all fine and dandy that all these phone companies want to make their own launcher and such, but, as an example... i can work around everyones launcher but when they ask me to fix their phone, i get GOlauncher, and use that while i fix their phone and suggest it (they usually keep it but some want the original factory from the company) what i guess im trying to ask is, why doesnt android come with a native launcher?!
 
there is a vanilla launcher and some devs use it in their roms. But its all by preference. the vanilla launcher is very plain and basic. I think it only has 2 icons plus the app drawer icon. The manufacturers usually remove the vanilla launcher and load their own.
 
All Android phones have native launchers. :) There are Android phones that come with a stock OS and some like HTC, Most Motorola and Samsung phones have custom skins that go on top of the Android OS. Android users and makers have a choice in launchers which, IMO, is what makes Android so appealing. Everyone has a choice or a say in what launcher they want. :D
 
xmr405o said:
All Android phones have native launchers. :)
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I think you mean all Androids are running Android OS regardless of skin, as the 'skin' is a launcher for the Android OS, while some phones use Google's house launcher, called Launcher.

So if I were to create a smartphone and license the use of Google's wonderful OS, Android, I could either create AdamLauncher as the interface through which my users interact with my phone's Android OS, preinstall a popular launcher from the Market such as ADW, or use the Google supplied Launcher in every phone I made, if I so chose, free of charge
 
The changes HTC and Samsung makes also go deeper than just skins, as they often replace the Android core apps with their own (like calendars or sms), or add their own. For example even if you use Go Launcher, on an HTC phone, when you set an alarm clock, you get dials, on a Samsung, you get a + and - button. Heck even the notification pull down bar is different on phones from both brands and you cant change those via launchers.
 
UssjTrunks said:
The interface you see before you apply a custom launcher (like Go Launcher) is still a launcher, just a really bad one.
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What he sees on his friends phones according to him are manufacturer launchers such as Sense, which aren't really bad, but he just prefers to install Go on them. He was just wondering why manufacturers remove the Google one, and its because they want to make phones as attractive to prospective buyers as possible through fancy widgets and color schemes. They don't do it to all phones though
 
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