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Kellen

It’s not often that you get to merge personal passions into a professional life, but that’s what Kellen did when he launched Droid Life in 2009. After working years of unsatisfying jobs in the medical and property management fields, he took a risk to try and create an online community while playing with the coolest gadgets on the planet each day, a risk that has turned out to be incredibly rewarding. Outside of Droid Life, Kellen is your typical Portlander who drinks way too much good beer, complains often about the Trail Blazers, and can be found out on the streets for a run, rain or shine.

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  • Two features I’m looking for in a ICS launcher which I think I will code up this weekend.

    1) Double tap a folder = a single click on the “top most” object in the folder

    2) Moving home screen objects “zooms out” just like when dragging widgets to the home screen.  This makes moving between screens simpler and makes room for drop targets above the screens (no more goofy remove target sliding in under the top most desktop objects)  

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  • tried both apex and nova, then tried sslauncher it is far better then apex or nova. Kellex u need to do a review on that one AWESOME!!!

  • Just when I had gotten used to Apex, Nova has to come out with this awesome update. MAN IT SUCKS TO HAVE CHOICE

  • This is what I’ve been waiting for. Now I can chuck Go Launcher for good.
    But the Bulk Add to desktop is crashing the Nova for me. 🙁
    Anyone else having this issue?

  • Does anyone know if Nova or Apex have the ability to remove the dock? I like having icons at the bottom. So far, ADW EX is the only one that I’ve found that allows it. Last time I tried Nova, I didn’t see the option.

  • Is there a choice to hide notification bar?  I want this.  I want this, bad.

    • You can hide it in Nova, too, but not through the settings.  Rather, it’s one of the ‘Nova Actions’ that you can add to a home screen as an icon or set a gesture to perform. 

    • Yes. Go to Nova Settings > Behavior and it’s a checkbox. Then use the Gestures screen to set up a gesture to pull the notification bar up and down. 🙂

  • Nova works the best, but I’m on Apex because of the features. I’m sure Nova will surpass, but until then, eh.

  • Folder icons are huge now. Kind of looks like crap if you have folders ans regular icons on the same home screen. 🙁

  • Apex has had this for nearly two weeks.

    BTW, that new logo looks terrible.

  • Epic. This totally changes the way I organize and categorize my apps. Now I don’t have to worry about sorting everything into folders within my dock. I can put the less common ones into launcher groups. Amaaaaazing!

  • All these new ics launchers still seem to function around the same old ics launcher look instead of diferentiating and doing something new

    • That’s because the ICS launcher looks great. The older replacement launchers were different from stock (or the various overlays) because they saw a better way to do it. The ICS launcher is fantastic, these are just offering some extra options.

      • Nova, apex, trebuchet, saw 2 others on play store that wern’t great upgrades but versions of it

    • Only the size of folders in the dock seem to be enlarged. Unfortunately using simple text makes everything look out of whack instead of uniform like it was. I hope they get that corrected.

      • Yeah you are right. My dock icons are folders with a custom icon. I kind of like how large they are. I haven’t tried simpletext as an icon yet though..

      • my simpletext dock icons seem the same, but my non-dock simpletext icons are way bigger now.

  • I’m wondering why none of the ICS based launchers have added icon theming in the drawer. That’s really what I’m looking for. To be honest, I’d take a completely stock ICS launcher with just the ability to tweak icon shortcut icons and have the drawer pull a full icon pack automatically.

      • I agree that it would be nice to see some more customization changes in Apex, but I continue to use it because 1) the pro beta is free 2) it was the first of the ICS launchers to write for the new Gmail API and show an unread bubble on the app and 3) you can change the icons on the home screen.

        What I would like to see that would make the experience complete is the ability to change the color of the unread icon bubbles. Other than that..

    • yeah i really like this feature to be added. This one of the reasons why i dont by the pro version yet (and because Im cheap/poor)

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