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User Rating4.13/5ADW.Launcher. Opensource home replacement app. Features: Customizable desktop previews, Customizable application drawer (old one or iphone/galaxy one), Customizable drag & drop action buttons, Unveil the Dockbar flicking-up the app-drawer button and drop another 6 shortcuts/folders/apps! Check the site for more information or meet me on xda! (For Android version 2.0 and higher).
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Price: Free
Tested on: Nexus One
Pros
Cons
ADW.Launcher Android App is a home screen replacement app that takes the favor mostly from the app launcher menu from Android 2.2 (Froyo). The difference ADW.Launcher offers is individual control at various levels of the launcher… lets dig in.
Screen Preferences
You can control how many home screen panels you want from 3-7, whether to have Live Wallpapers or not, orientation sensor, which screen is your default screen and even scroll speed.
Drawer Settings
This houses configuration for your Android Apps drawer like animation effects or even configure how many rows and columns display.
Previews Settings
A few settings for home screen display, I wouldn’t recommend changing anything here. However I am disappointed the app lacks the Pinch feature to see home screens at a quick glance similar to the HTC Sense UI it emulates. 
UI Settings
When I first saw LAB and RAB near the Android Apps launcher icon I wondered WTF?!? Upon further investigation they stand for “Left Action Button” and “Right Action Button”; yet they have a cool feature where you can drag and drop any app icon there!
For those who like the effects of HTC Sense UI or need more home screens than 3 or 5 as some stock Android versions offer, then this app is for you. Plus it provides an alternative way to customize your Droid.
Whenever you install a new home app Android presets all home screen apps every time you press the Home button. Click the checkbox “Use by default for this action” then select your desired home screen app.
If you want to change your default home app (or any default app), go to Settings Menu » Applications » Manage applications » find the default app and select it » click “Clear defaults” button. The next time you press the Home button you will be prompted which app to use… follow the steps above.
If used, every time you tap the Home button.
Your organization or imagination determines the final UI, however the app is all about giving users freedom to customize their home screen.
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Should you Download ADW.Launcher? For those who want granular control of home screen and launcher features… Yes! Personally I would like to see a few more feature enhancements!
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You should checl ADWSettings/UI Settings/Tint AB……
Buttons don’t “dissappear leaving a silouette….” you just turned the TINT ON
Thanks for the clarification, we’ve got that cleared up!
LOL!
“Bug: LAB/RAB icons disappear after a while leaving a grey silhouette of the icon moved there”
thats a feature not a bug
Yeah no offense Mr.Wells you should change your cons. I thought everyone would prefer to remove that ugly LAB/RAB, but its definitely not a bug and for sure isnt a con. Nice review tho.
And there’s a version for Donut too. Your CONS list is quickly disappearing LOL
I agree with you and it’s also said that there is no pinch to preview and it’s a con. But you can configure downward or upward slide to give you the previews. And one finger slide is much easier than pinching!
link is broken. marketplace has no such item
The market is having known issues (started Thursday). You can download the .apk for installation here: http://jbthemes.com/anderweb/category/adwlauncher/
How do I uninstall if I do not like?
Go to Settings > Applications > Manage applications > find and click app to uninstall. Do this for any app you want to uninstall.
running it on a sony x10 and get the occasional FC when resuming from
screen lock, but on the whole VERY nice
How do you have this running on the x10? 1.6 firmware?
When i look for ADW.Launcher its not in the market . I got the incredible and would love to try this launcher
Try it now. Seems Google fixed that issue: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/06/application-visibility-issues.html
Another con. If you’re using a HTC phone, you don’t get the SenseUI widgets with this Launcher. But whoa… this thing is blazing fast and oh so smooth. Even the default SenseUI isn’t this smooth.
It works well on Sony Ericsson X10 that runs on 1.6.
I would like to know where did you get the wallpaper for the app? It is really nice. I am running it on a Behold 2 Android 1.6 and it is running very well.
It came with wallpaper gallery on the Nexus One phone. Unsure if those can be exported, but will find out.
Can only get 5 screens on my X10i, is it possible to get the described 7?
Found out how to do it so sorted now
How did you do this. I can only get 5 homescreens on my Droid 2
Great for Donut!!!! Really like this app!
Installed this app but could not connect usb on my Samsung Captivate due to running Google search. Task killers and application enders could not stop Google search. After uninstalling this app Google search killability enabled and usb connectivity returned!!!
is there anyway to resize the widgets? i love the UI, but not being able to actively resize a widget once it is created is a deal breaker for me.
For some reason i dont have the desktop screen option. I have default but not desktop. I really want to change the # of screens to 3 but dont know how. The current version i have is 1.1.5
Hi,
I just upgraded from 1.6 to 2.1 on my Xperia x10i
the problem is that I can’t seem to figure out how to reset the defaults of the home screen so as to start ADW launcher…
Tried settings>applications>manage applications…
No data on ADW so can’t clear the cache…
I installed ADW launher…Its also show in Applications…Manager Application…but how can i launch it? no icon to launch the application anywhere…
i cant download anything from appmarket. it says you are in a forbidden country
I would like to display a htm file (not just a link) on one of my home screens. Is this possible with this app?
Its a great app, but there is no possibility of upgrade! Every time you want upgrade , you must uninstall the old version..and then install new version.. It’s not nice!
Hi Guys,
Need some help with the ADW launcher.
I desparately want to install the Ubuntu Brown theme for android andfor that the pre requisite is to install the ADW launcher.
I installed the ADW launcher, but cant find it in the menu/browser->more>downloads/Astro file manager.
But every time i restart the phone, its asking me to use the ADW launcer as default.
My main motive is to install the Ubuntu theme.
Can you guys please help me out?
Thanks,