User Rating3.50/5aHome offers the ability to customize the Home screen with skins and icons.
Price: Free, $4.99
aHome Android app features a console that allows you to launch the app, go to the Theme Downloader, or read the FAQs. aHome is cool because it allows you to easily download premade themes from the market (some free, some at a cost), to customize your phones desktop/home screen. aHome comes with a few widgets like location-based weather and digital clock that enhances your phone by bringing the information to you. The free version offers most everything as the paid except auto-rotate.
aHome Android app is more cool-factor than useful; i.e. showing off to your iPhone buddies that your G1 or Android powered phone home screen can look like the iPhone home screen, or Mac OS X, or Windows Vista, Star Wars, or even Mario Brothers… etc.
Gripe Alert: Our biggest gripe with aHome or even Open Home Android apps are their saturation of the market with themes. Another is the lag when returning to the “Home” screen. Lastly the responsiveness of swiping the screens seems far less sensitive (almost as if you should swipe an icon versus desktop free space).
If you replace your default home screen with aHome, then you would be using it every time you tapp the “Home” button. (If you don’t want to be asked every time which app to go home with, tapp the checkbox for “Set as Default”. To clear aHome as default: tapp Menu > System Settings > Applications > Manage applications > aHome > Clear defaults)
aHome Android app is all about Interface; search the market for “ahome” to see all the themes offered.
(3.9 out of 5)
Should you Download aHome? Give the free version a spin, check out the themes available and determine spending the $5 bucks!
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This was the first app I downloaded, and it was pretty cool!
i just got my htc and i cant even find ahome app… only the themes is all i can
Download openhome.
I cant find either one.
How can I make ahome my default home setting, because every time I go back to home I have to restart it
@douglee63
You have to clear the Defaults of any other “Home” app you have. Maybe you have the default Home that your phone came with, if so… follow these instructions to clear and apply aHome as your default:
Tapp “Menu” button
Tapp “Settings”
Tapp “Applications”
Tapp “Manage Applications”
Browse for Home
Tapp “Clear Defaults”
Tapp “Home” button on phone, you should be presented with options for which Home app you want to use. Before tapping the aHome, check “Use by default for this action”.
what if you don’t anything set as default this is crazy i cannot get anything going lol!!
I like it………………………..
Yeah, this is what’s really bugging me about aHome. The thing is, i don’t care for all the themes too much right now. All I want is the ability to have more desktops than the default home screen. Currently, I have all 3 screens filled with stuff. I guess this really is a fault of the current Android UI. If you download a lot of apps, they fill up your apps drawer, and there is just no way to group them into folders, unless you want to manually create a folder on the desktop and copy programs to it. but then the next time you download a new app, you have to search for it in your drawer just so you can drag it to a folder, that btw will no longer be in alpha order cuz all new icons that you copy will be copied to the end of the list.
All you need to do is drag an icon or widget over to the right edge of the screen and presto, as many screens as you need.
Android may only have 3 screens, but you can put about 16 folders on each screen and each folder can hold a HUGE number of apps. Do the math: 3 x 16 x 20 (say…) and you have 480 icons….which is almost three times what you can fit onto an iPhone set of 8 screens…..and you can put a lot more than 20 icons in each folder.
A lot of people don’t know about the folders…..it’s a huge advantage over the iPhone.
gah! folders! you just saved me five bucks and made me feel like an idiot all at once. so um, thanks?
Can someone be kind enough and send this app to me?
flymsrenee@gmail.com
Nevermind….i found and bought it…. =) thanks though
What did you type when you searched for it?
Searching “ahome console” gets it but the it’s still buried in all the aHome themes. Try scanning the QR Codes above with this review or visit this page on your phone then tap on the QR Code, it will take you directly to the app in the Android Market.
Nevermind….already found it…i LOVE it!
I downloaded the $4.99 version of ahome and download the mac osx “skin” How do I get the wallpaper to look like the stock osx one as pictured above? Also my icons arent showing up like above with the browser looking like safari etc how do i do this?
thanks,
DJ
ehousehead@me.com
i try to load wallpaper in theme and it says failure to load wallpapers from theme
i also cant delete icons and widgets
ok i figured out how to delete widgets and icons but my icons are still wrong and my wallpaper as well
because the skin wasnt working 100% i rebooted my phone….. now it goes to a black screen after the android screen….. and wont boot up! I hope I can fix this I want a refund this is bull!
Do I have to pay $4.99 every month?
No, this is a one time fee.
Random question, I used the “aHome lite” version, and was generally happy till it came to widgets.
Is it me? Or does aHome Not support 3rd party widgets (like Last FM, Facebook, e.t.c)? If not, then I will not be buying the full version unfortunately. I really like widgets.
Anyone?
the full version supports 3rd party widgets
how do i actually download ahome?
If on your phone, tapp the QR Code that says “Free App” or “Download” to go directly to the market and downloard/buy.
If on your PC, use Bar Code Scanner to scan the QR code on your monitor with your phone to go directly to the market.
Hey, i cant find Ahome on the market on my Htc hero, i just found ahome lite?
somone now how to get it
I purchased ahome and used it for a while, but the latest version is slowing down my phone so much it is not usable. I had to remove ahome. I installed open home instead and it is much better….
Is it just me, or are the aHome and Openhome applications not listed in the market?
All I can find is hundreds of themes and icon packs. No application to actually download though :S
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Sean
Have you tried Scanning the QR Codes on our reviews?
I downloaded the free version, but cant find the vista theme, i found the “Happiness Vista” but its not the same, any help?