So I downloaded the Nova Prime Beta and installed. Can't see any significant differences...transitions and other UI features appear the same. What am I missing if anything in the beta? Anyone have any tips?
If you install other launcher, then can you uninstall TouchWiz? Otherwise its just installing more things.
If you install other launcher, then can you uninstall TouchWiz? Otherwise its just installing more things.
And if it doesn't affect the functionality/battery life, what difference does it make if it's "installing more things"?
Its like having two anti virus program on a computer. It just doesn't make sense.
Now if I come from a stock Android made by Google, then it would make sense to install a Launcher.
I just feel TouchWiz and Sense 5 are the Launcher.
On the question of resource usage of two launchers vs. one obviously the extra launcher is going to take up space on the on-board flash storage but the amount of space is unlikely to be that high, perhaps the same a couple of photos or music tracks and this phone comes with loads of storage and the ability to expand it further with an SD card.
It does appear that, for the most part, the launcher is treated the same as any other app and loaded into RAM when first required and then cached until such time as the RAM is needed for something else. That does mean when you first activate a new launcher it will be in RAM along with the cached copy of the previous launcher but this is a temporary situation and you should see no slowing down of the phone on that account.
Back to the original question I have finally bit the bullet and gone for Nova Prime. Initially I had a problem with the Google Now widget only using half the space allocated to it on my home screen but this was when I had slightly increased the number of icons in the grid. Increasing the number still further to 7x5 seems to have mostly solved it. It is possible 8x5 may be better still but by then the icons are rather small & cramped for my taste.
Regarding the calendar widget I admit I was puzzled at first, then I was reminded that there are actually two calendar widgets. There is the one that comes as part of Samsung's variant of the calendar which seems to be wide and short and only displays the appointments for the current day and there is the stock Android calendar widget which tends to be taller and narrower and displays the next few appointments in a scrolling list. Of these I prefer the stock Android one and this seems to be still available when not using TouchWiz as the launcher unlike the first one.
Someone said Nova Launcher require "Nearly 90 / 100 Mb of cpu ram necessary for this to work... "
Is that too much?
The only reason I would install a Launcher is to get rid of that annoying Google Search thing at the top of the screen. You can disable it but you cant reclaim that one line of space. There is no hack or mod for it.
Whether that's too much is probably up to you to decide, but the Note 3 comes with 3072MB RAM total so even at 100MB it's only taking up 3% of your RAM. It's possible that TouchWiz occupies even more than Nova Prime.
Have you ever actually used one?
That Google Bar thing and the Mic on the right side? It is annoying. I don't want that on top of my screen. Its Google saying "I am still here".
Touchwiz is not just a launcher. It has ton of apps, widgets and UI elements in it. Even rooted, not sure if it's possible to remove just launcher without killing other things in touchwiz. I think Sense is the same way.
Majority of the Touchwiz software elements can still be used, when using a 3rd party launcher. There are some widgets that can't be used and some homescreen gestures that don't work, when switching, but the most important ones (for me), I've been able to re-create using Nova Prime.
I meant, have you ever actually used a launcher before?
Yes I have use a Launcher before. Nova is the best. Apex was OK.
Go Launcher has the most theme you can choose to install. It is free. I didn't like it.
The thing with Launcher is you want to have a nice count on your phone call, email and txt msg ICON. The Telsa plug in has this. The stock Android by Google do not give you this count option. These are short comings on stock Google and that's why we need all these Launcher.
I'm confused though. You seem to draw arguments about y it's not good to use a launcher, which I personally don't agree with, but contradict yourself by saying they are needed?
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