LauncherPro better than Helix and ADW? You be the judge.

[Brendanmurphy]

This launcher is perfect =D I love it. But 1 little nit pick even when overclocked live wallpapers make the launcher crawl

 

[Optimus]

I would go even further...either Motorola or Google should hire this guy . I mean really, they failed to port an updated launcher to the Droid and this fellow did it with almost seamless effort. Other devs have tried this and failed(clockwork launcher...give my money back!!, even helix to an extent). Yes this does FC every once and awhile but it's so reliable I would say it behaves better on average than the stock launcher. It's definitely faster or as fast. Google may have built the framework but this dev has taken that and made every facet of the presentation customizable.

I have never said this about an app before, but I really hope this Dev either puts up a donate button or charges a reasonable price for his Launcher. This is the fist app that I have ever WANTED to just give the Dev money for (and that includes all of the app I have on my iTouch as well).

Kratos

 

[kratos]

I would go even further...either Motorola or Google should hire this guy . I mean really, they failed to port an updated launcher to the Droid and this fellow did it with almost seamless effort. Other devs have tried this and failed(clockwork launcher...give my money back!!, even helix to an extent). Yes this does FC every once and awhile but it's so reliable I would say it behaves better on average than the stock launcher. It's definitely faster or as fast. Google may have built the framework but this dev has taken that and made every facet of the presentation customizable.

I agree to a point. Yes, Google does need this Dev to help make things better, but I would worry a little that they may hire him and then push all of his ideas and knowledge under the rug. And if that happens, we will once again lose out on awesome apps and/or products like LauncherPro.

But, one thing is for sure. This Dev knows what he is doing and does it better than anyone else (at least thus far).

Kratos

 

[Redflea]

What I want is for him to be pulled into the CyanogenMod Koush team...I imagine this dev would be able to contribute a lot of smarts to the CM ROMs built from source.

The launcher is the key app on the phone and can either make it a pleasure to use or a pain...Launcher Pro makes it all ice cream and chocolate sauce.

The dev deserves some sort of Android community award for best app of the year...

 

[3devious]

The dev deserves some sort of Android community award for best app of the year...

More like the android team deserves a kick in the junk for not putting that in android so that this dev could have been working on even better things!

 

[SoDroid]

there's another launcher! I haven't tried it because I love LP so much, but its called Zeam and can be found in the market. If anyone ttries it, please post your opinions. I'm sure I'll be playing around with it by the end of the weekend.

 

[kratos]

there's another launcher! I haven't tried it because I love LP so much, but its called Zeam and can be found in the market. If anyone ttries it, please post your opinions. I'm sure I'll be playing around with it by the end of the weekend.

Yea, I saw that app on the market as well. I'm hesitant to try it as there are quite a few bad comments on it. That and it only have 4 stars where as LauncherPro has 5 stars.

Some of the comments I've seen are talking about how Zeam doesn't play well with live wallpapers. I LOVE live wallpapers and now that I have them, I don't know if I could go without.

Also, the dock has the app drawer button on the far right and I don't like the look of that. Also, I'm not sure I could get use to having the app drawer button on the far right instead of in the middle.

LauncherPro now had a 3D app drawer that is is just as fast as LauncerPro it's self. This 3D app drawer is faster and more stable than HelixLauncer 2's and (as I've read multiple times) Google's own Nexus One!

Also, LauncherPro has the ability to add a fifth row for apps and widgets on each home screen. You can add a fifth app to each row in the app drawer.

And Finally, LauncherPro is the fastest most stable Launcher I have tried! And I have tried almost all of them (including the infamous HelixLauncher).

So, to make a long post short (not really), I don't think I'm going to even try Zeam. I mean I am extremely happy with LauncherPro and do really see anything special in Zeam that would make me want to delete all of my widgets from LauncherPro just to try Zeam. Maybe if some of those things that everyone is complaining about and that dock get fixed and changed, I might give a small amount of consideration to trying Zeam.

Kratos

 

[Optimus]

I'm the same way. The only reason many of us switched launchers so often was because we never had the perfect balance of speed/performance/features...but launcherpro has balanced all of that beautifully. There are highly specialized launchers like sweeter home or slidescreen that completely change the UI. But any launchers that are derived from the stock launchers will have a hard time being better than launcherpro, it's faster than stock and has the features of all that have come before it....alot of our search is over .

 

[Les Common]

For those that just update and don't read the release notes...

quote from the slightly flakey web site, my emphasis added:

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[Clementine_3]

Yeah, the smoooooth is back. The previous update was a little jerky/laggy sometimes, then that was fixed but not all the way, and now it's back to butter!

 

[Cbrown]

I've been getting a LOT of FC's with the last two updates

 

[King_Bean]

No FC's here.

 

[kratos]

I've been getting a LOT of FC's with the last two updates

I have not had any FC's with LauncherPro, EVER! I have not had any lag or bugs. In fact, my phone seems to run smoother and faster with LauncherPro installed.

Kratos

 

[marvinj920]

I absolutely love this app/update. More than the extra 10 dock slots, I love that it stays retained in memory. Probably the SINGLE most important feature, IMHO.

 

[Optimus]

I get FC's but no more than I was getting with the default launcher. It's all good. Impressive new features..I agree with another, the memory feature seems to prevent the excessive loading and stuttering(more a design fault of android rather than the launcher itself).

 

[cyberkamote]

hands down to Launcher Pro! It's simply awesome, I tried ADW but found it a bit limited and not as smooth as Launcher Pro plus the 3D apps! amazing!