Nova Launcher is a highly customizable home screen replacement for phones and tablets running Android 4.0 or later. It has a scrollable dock for apps, with up to 7 icons per page and up to 3 pages.
Nova Launcher features:
· Customizable App Drawer: Transparency; Scrolling style, choose between horizontal paginated or vertical continuous.
· Scroll Effects: Enjoy eye candy when scrolling your desktop and drawer. Effects include Cube and Cardstack and more for Prime users.
· Infinite Scroll: Never be far from your favorite page, loop through your desktop continuously.
· Folder Icons: You can chose a background, preview style or even replace the whole icon.
· Backup/Restore: Export your settings and layout before a wipe to quickly get back up and running.
· Widgets in dock: Add any 1x1 widget to the dock
· Bulk Add: Add multiple apps to the desktop or a folder at once
· Activities shortcut: Select hidden activities from your favorite apps
What's New in This Release:
· Minor bug fixes What's New in 2.3:
· KitKat scroll indicator (Desktop - Scroll Indicator)
· KitKat folders styles (Folders - Folder Background, Light Background)
· KitKat font (Look and Feel - Icon Font - Condensed, Android 4.1+)
· KitKat app drawer icon
· Google KitKat icon theme (Look and Feel - Icon Theme)
· Small autohiding tabs in app drawer (Drawer - Small Tabs)
· Transparent system bars on KitKat (Look and feel - Transparent Notification Bar. Requires KitKat)
· Backup/Restore from external sdcard
What's New in 2.2.2:
· Fix drawer overscroll not showing
· Fix drawer squishing on some Samsung devices
· Fix for Textra unread counts not showing on the desktop
· Minor other fixes and optimizations
What's New in 2.2.1:
· Add transparency control to dock background
· Fixes and optimizations
What's New in 2.2:
· Custom Dock Styles
· Custom Unread Count Badge Styles (Prime)
· New scroll effects (Prime)
· Optimizations and fixes
What's New in 2.1.1:
· Fix shortcuts installed from third party apps
· Fix inconsistencies in drawer groups
· Fix live wallpapers not showing on some devices
· Misc fixes and optimizations
What's New in 2.1:
· New icon and wallpaper picker. Swipe between pages of themes
· Ability to change icons & titles of apps in drawer, independent of applied icon themes. Drag app from the drawer to the Edit icon
· (Prime) Improved grouping of apps. Drag app from drawer to Edit icon
· (Prime) Ability to drag a drawer folder to the desktop. Stays linked with drawer folder.
· Settings > New Apps for adding newly installed app shortcuts to the desktop. More advanced than the Play Store setting.
· Optimizations and fixes
What's New in 2.0.2:
· Fix rendering of HD Widgets Colourform
· Minor fixes
What's New in 2.0.1:
· Fix blank widget previews
· Improve icon theme handling
· Improve accessibility
· Fix swipe actions for icons in folders
· Reduce memory usage
· Improve animations
· Misc fixes and optimizations
· Improve gesture detection
What's New in 2.0:
· Custom Icon Size (Prime)
· Swipe actions on any desktop icon (Prime)
· Custom wallpaper cropping
· Increase maximum desktop grid size
· Infinite Scroll Drawer Setting
· Alphabetical list drawer style
· Small Icons Dock Setting
· Force wallpaper scrolling on USA SGS2
· Aggressive Desktop Setting (Keep in memory)
· Lower memory usage
· Improve scrolling performance
· Fixes, optimizations and tuning
What's New in 1.3.4:
· Fixes for Motorola Jellybean
· Optimizations for 4.2
· Misc fixes and optimizations
What's New in 1.3.3:
· Fixes for 4.2 (Dock, QSB, expand notifications)
· Added Expand Quick Settings Nova Action on Android 4.2
· Update Stock Jellybean theme for 4.2 icons (Camera, Clock)
· Fix unread counts in drawer not always updating
· Fix Widget Picker on some Samsung 4.1 devices
· Fix drawer tab sometimes not being selectable
· Optimizations
What's New in 1.3.2:
· Unread counts for Email, Reader, GVoice and more via TeslaUnread 2.0 (Prime)
· Include Android 4.1.2 changes
· Fix Transparency on Samsung Jellybean
· Fix blank desktop when leaving drawer
· Fix icon pack crash on some HTC devices
· Fix drawer not correctly remembering position
· Miscellaneous fixes
What's New in 1.3.1:
· Fix preview screen
· Misc minor fixes
What's New in 1.2.1:
· Nova Action to jump directly to desktop pages (supports Tasker's "Go home" action)
· Work around wallpaper zooming on TouchWiz devices
· Widget fixes
· Misc fixes and optimizations
· Updated translations
What's New in 1.2:
· Color Themes, change the blue accent
· Icon Themes for all apps (ADW and Go Icon Packs)
· Widget overlapping w/ send-to-back/bring-to-front
· Lock desktop w/ temp unlock
· Faster widget loading
· SGS3/TouchWiz workarounds and fixes
· Fix FCs
· Performance improvements
· Updated translations
What's New in 1.1.4:
· Fix blank screen on some devices
· Unread count fixes
· Fix accessibility talkback on dock icons
· Fix "None" height margin on some hdpi devices
· Fix FCs
What's New in 1.1.3:
· Unread counts via TeslaUnread (Prime)
· New Gestures: Rotate Clockwise, Rotate CCW, and Double-tap (Prime)
· Support for selecting icon from Go Launcher icon packs
· Set default screen by dragging checkmark on preview screen
· Hide scroll indicator
· "Reverse" wallpaper scrolling mode
· Animation/Scroll speed preferences
· Show Recent Apps Nova Action
· Support for Cyanogenmod nightlies "Launcher" setting
· Misc fixes
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