Nokia's New Homescreen Replacement App for Android
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Nokia's New Homescreen Replacement App for Android
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Re: Nokia's New Homescreen Replacement App for Android
#2You have to download and install the APK manually. With the ease of publishing something to Google Play, why haven't they done so? Is it just to limit initial deployment to people who know how to do this?
Also "Sorry, we are not currently supporting rooted devices". I wonder why.
Re: Nokia's New Homescreen Replacement App for Android
#3One of my favorite things about android is some of the high-quality UI modifications that are out there. I've been using Cover for a while and couldn't go back to the default lock screen, it's just too useful.
Also been playing around with Aviate, but to more mixed results.
Between things like that and Facebook chat heads, I feel like Android is the place to be for high-productivity smartphone users.
Re: Nokia's New Homescreen Replacement App for Android
#4You have to download and install the APK manually. With the ease of publishing something to Google Play, why haven't they done so? Is it just to limit initial deployment to people who know how to do this? Also "Sorry, we are not currently supporting rooted devices". I wonder why.
This is a common practice for such pre-releases. Though they could have added the APK on the Google Play store but then they will have to introduce a new internal API where they keep a check on the pre-release users. Can be done but I think this manual distribution can be used for many other things!
But it's annoying that they do not want to support rooted devices!
Re: Nokia's New Homescreen Replacement App for Android
#5One of my favorite things about android is some of the high-quality UI modifications that are out there. I've been using Cover for a while and couldn't go back to the default lock screen, it's just too useful. Also been playing around with Aviate, but to more mixed results. Between things like that and Facebook chat heads, I feel like Android is the place to be for high-productivity smartphone users.
I tried Aviate but the UI made me uncomfortable. This launcher looks great to me. Will give it a try soon.
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#6Sadly, the launcher tells us it doesn't support rooted devices. Given that this is a limited release to presumably early adopters, I find this not only annoying but counter-intuituve. sigh
Re: Nokia's New Homescreen Replacement App for Android
#7One of my favorite things about android is some of the high-quality UI modifications that are out there. I've been using Cover for a while and couldn't go back to the default lock screen, it's just too useful. Also been playing around with Aviate, but to more mixed results. Between things like that and Facebook chat heads, I feel like Android is the place to be for high-productivity smartphone users.
Cover looks cool. Seems like the sort of thing amazon would like to launch next - with a quick launch button to it's flow app - as a way to spread the new firefly button("push to visual search") functionality faster.
Re: Nokia's New Homescreen Replacement App for Android
#8Sadly, the launcher tells us it doesn't support rooted devices. Given that this is a limited release to presumably early adopters, I find this not only annoying but counter-intuituve. sigh
Does it actually refuse to launch if your device has root?
Re: Nokia's New Homescreen Replacement App for Android
#9I was close to install it, then I read their ZLauncher Privacy Policy and I discovered they read your text messages and call logs, and I abandoned it. I guess, trust really affects our perception of a system, and our willingness to share personal information with it. Unfortunately, if there is no trust, the relationship/interaction man-machine will never achieve its full potential.
Re: Nokia's New Homescreen Replacement App for Android
#10I was close to install it, then I read their ZLauncher Privacy Policy and I discovered they read your text messages and call logs, and I abandoned it. I guess, trust really affects our perception of a system, and our willingness to share personal information with it. Unfortunately, if there is no trust, the relationship/interaction man-machine will never achieve its full potential.
Machine learning is sort of hard to do without corpus.