Galaxy S8 lag may get fixed with TouchWiz Home update

There's this particular little bit of the experience that has particularly bugged those who need to dip into their app drawer that has been paved over.

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Play Store downloads indicate that Google Pixel sales have finally breached 7 digits

The installation count for the launcher app, exclusive to the Pixel and Pixel XL, has rolled over from the 500,000 milestone to 1 million.

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Nova Launcher discounted by 80 percent through January 1

Nova Launcher is one of Android’s most prominent paste-on home screen launchers. This month, it celebrated its fifth year of existence with a major version 5.0 update. And for the rest of the month, you’ll get to take advantage of some holiday generosity to experience some of its premium features at a discount.

The Nova Launcher Prime “key app”, which unlocks several extra features as stowed away in the base app, is being sold not for its usual $4.99, but for 99 cents or “the cheapest price in your country/region that the Google Play Store will allow.”

The discount is good through to January 1.

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Five years later, Nova Launcher 5.0 brings up Android 7.1

Nova Launcher is catching up with its times — it’s five years old this year and the Android app that dresses up your user interface with something a little more cleaner.

And in a fitting update to version 5.0, we see some Pixel Launcher-esque features like the swipe-to-drawer mechanism, the search button, app sorting, launcher shortcuts, gestures, background draw options and an easy, quick reset button to activate changes.

Of course, as you see above, there are the risks of bugs. But don’t let that kick your calves into leaving before a patch.

Nova Launcher has had at least 10 million downloads and over 680,000 five-star ratings.

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BlackBerry apps on Android get a major refresh

The Priv, DTEK50 and DTEK60 will head into 2017 with a new look in some of their apps. BlackBerry has announced updates to its Hub+ apps, Android keyboard, Launcher and Password Keeper that include bugfixes and performance tweaks.

Beyond that, Hub+ apps now keep your cadre of accounts more organized by allowing users to hide some of them and prevent them from syncing data. A default email account can also be set for use from within the Hub. Emails can be prioritized by contacts and shown with the contacts’ avatars besides the message previews. Attachments in the .eml format are now viewable. The Tasks app can now hide completed tasks.

The Android Launcher gets “a sleeker, sexier look” with a dark theme while the keyboard has some new tricks in its same sleeve, including a more responsive switchover to different languages, Stoke and Zhuyin Chinese input and fingerprint support for Password Keeper access (as on the DTEK60). Speaking of the Keeper, there’s now a built-in webview browser, a revised and clarified password font and non-Latin character support.

If you already have these apps and haven’t taken the time to check out updates, you will probably want to do so ASAP.

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Nexus Launcher looks to be rebadged as Pixel Launcher [UPDATE: APK]

It seems that the oddity that was the Nexus Launcher is no more. Or, as leaker @LlabTooFeR would say “Don’t know anything about Nexus Launcher… There is only Pixel launcher…”The original launcher, thought to take better advantage of Google Assistant features and to differentiate the upcoming so-called Pixel (neé Nexus) phones, had its

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Nexus Launcher, Google Assistant expected in Android Nougat Maintenance Release 1

Android 7.0 Nougat wasn’t as flashy as you expected it to be, right? Where was the Nexus Launcher? Where’s Allo and Google Assistant and that “not a home button” home button? Where ...

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The Nexus Launcher: leaked, dissected and pointed back at Google

If you want the Nexus software experience (at least on the home screen) without getting a Nexus device, you can apparently just go on the internet and get it. The .apk is out for the so-called Nexus Launcher — and that brings some pertinent questions to a head.First off, is it going to replace the Google Now Launcher? That one still exists on the Play Store for now, but could it get ...

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Galaxy Beta Program’s “New Note UX” makes app drawer optional

We got an early hint at what the Galaxy Beta Program would bring to the fore, including a bit of what the supposed Note 7 would have for hardware. But as the program has officially launched in Korea and China, there’s more we need to learn about in preparation for the next S Pen-toting phablet.What Samsung has dubbed the “New Note UX” has spread out to select Note 5 users and it is ...

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