This time I bring you a video post with which Google's Pixel Launcher lovers are going to freak out in colors because it is just as it should be Google's Pixel Launcher by default.
The Launcher that I present to you today, a project by an XDA developersIs based entirely on Google's Pixel Launcher although with those additions that many of the lovers of the sensational Google application launcher we miss in its official version of the application. An application that we will have to download externally to the Google Play Store, that is, in APK format, which does not need to be a Root user to give us that plus configuration that is undoubtedly missing from the Google Pixel Home.
To begin, tell them that the Launcher that responds to the name of lawnchair, we are going to have to download directly from this link which will take you to the official thread on the XDA forum. Regarding the minimum requirements to install the apk in the official XDA forum, no minimum version of Android is mentioned, so I suppose or wish that it will be valid from Android Lollipop onwards. The best thing in these cases is that Try to install it and tell us from which version of Android you have tried it, what brand and model of terminal as well as if the installation has been possible or not.
Once the apk has been downloaded and before going to the Download folder of the root of the internal memory of our Android terminal, we will have to enable the permissions to be able to install external applications to the Google Market, or what is the same, to be able to install apps from unknown sources or apps from unknown sources.
This option is within the adjustments of our Android in the section of Security.
Once this small requirement is made, we can click on the icon of the downloaded file in apk format to skip the Android package auto-installer and begin the guided installation of the application that should be by default the official Google Pixel Launcher.
From among the peculiarities I extra functionalities that this Lawnchair offers us and that Google's Pixel Launcher does not have an official account, we can highlight the following:
- Based entirely on Google Pixel Launcher
- Google Now active by swiping without having to be a root user.
- Support for Google Search Bar Widgets.
- Possibility of modifying the desktop and application drawer grid in terms of columns and rows.
- Ability to change the size of the Home and application drawer icons.
- Customize the transparency of the app drawer.
- You can also change the text size of the icons in a totally personalized way.
- Compatible with icon packs.
- Possibility of activating application hiding.
- Gesture down to enter the search for apps, contacts and files.
Among all these functionalities that for me Google Pixel Launcher should already have as standard, I personally like the ones that I like the most and excite because I miss the Google launcher, they are without a doubt the support to apply icon pack and the possibility of adapting the grid of the Home and the app drawer to our total whim and convenience.
Likewise, the possibility of being able to adjust the size of the icons manuallyBoth the Home icons and the app drawer icons as well as their text seems to me to be another of the added functionalities that cannot be lacking in a good Android Launcher and that Google is already taking centuries to include in its official Launcher .
It is for this and a lot of other things that you will notice in the day-to-day use of Lawnchair, that This Launcher is for many as Google's Pixel Launcher should be standard.
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I don't see the option to configure the launcher, I install it, I set it as the default launcher, but I can't find the settings section.