Square Home

In this post, I would like to let you know some tips for the app drawer that you might not have noticed yet.

1. Smart picks

As you already know, it picks up your favorites apps to the top automatically when you set "Sort order" to "Smart" in the app drawer options. By the way, have you guessed out that the top apps are picked differently according to some situational factors such as current time of day, your location, or whether your headset is plugged or not? Your favorite apps can be different depending on it's day or night, at home or at work, and with your headset or not. The app drawer of Square Home analyses your use cases based on the situation and picks the most proper apps to the top. You can change the number of top picks in the app drawer options.


2. App search

To search an app quickly, you click the magnifier icon on the bottom menu bar of the app drawer and select a index letter. By the way, have you ever tried to sliding on the index letters? You…

Have you set "System wallpaper" enabled for your home screen? If so, how do you set the tile effect and styles to match well to your wallpaper?
There is a simple and well-known solution to do this as you know already. It's using several tile background effects in Home options > Tile size & style. Take a look at these screenshots where "Blurred" and "Transparent" effects are used respectively.

Another way is just disabling effect and applying translucent styles to tiles like in this screenshot.

However, I think it's a little bit still boring even though they are great features that cannot be found in the other launchers. You might want to make it more colorful and fancy. But selecting tile colors to match them well to the wallpaper is pretty hard and annoying.
There is a good solution in the case. Just try to turn on "Colors from wallpaper" in Home options > Tile size & style. It overrides the first 9 tile styles with the c…

Are you still using a boring icon-based home launcher on Android?
Android can do much more better and Apple-like icons are not best selection for your device.
Metro UI introduced by Windows OS has more potentials than icons. It not only has a simple and beautiful design, but also is the best solution to efficiently expose various information on a compact screen.

Right here, there is a launcher where you can efficiently implement the Metro UI for your Android. It's easy to use while still powerful.

1. You can easily add your favorite apps into the desktop and organize them efficiently.


2. App tiles get live when you have some notifications.


3. It supports a lot of built-in widgets and normal Android widgets as well.

4. Have fun with brilliant features like Cube!


5. Smart app drawer helps you to fast access the favorites apps by analyzing your using pattern according to current situation.

6. Just long-press a contact in the built-in contacts page for direct call.

7. There are tons o…