A list of Android Apps that replace your Home Screen Launcher and provide a better interface on your Mobile Phone or Android Tablet.

1. Replacing your
Android Home
Screen Launcher
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2. Introduction
Most Android devices come with some type of custom
Home Screen Launcher that controls how you interact with
your phone. Each manufacturer & cell phone carrier often
implements their own enhancements to the standard
Android stock interface in order to make their devices stand
out from others.
For instance, Motorola smartphones come with Motoblur,
HTC provides HTC Sense and Samsung devices have
TouchWiz. Some of their "enhancements" are great, while
others are annoying and unnecessary.

3. Switching
Below are some third-party Home Screen Launcher Replacements that are
widely used to provide a better interface. They make it easier to use your
device by providing shortcuts (e.g. swipe to get a history of apps recently run)
or more screen real estate (e.g. 25 App Icons on a home screen. Note that
you'll start with blank screens when you switch to a new home screen. Then
you'll have to put the icons and widgets onto those screens again.
I've tried a couple of these launchers and they're very similar. Even though
tablets have a great interface, you can still improve how they work with these
apps too. All of these are rated very highly in the Google Play store.

4. The Best Apps
Launcher Pro (FREE for the base version, but $3.49 for a key to unlock the "Pro" features)
I like being able to hide what apps show up in the App Drawer when I hit the home button. It also has
some nice shortcut features.
Go Launcher EX (FREE)
Haven't tried this yet, but it looks very impressive, and it's very popular at Google Play.
ADW.Launcher (FREE)
A widely used that's often bundled with custom ROMs. There's an extensive guide to using ADW.
Launcher HERE with numerous pictures and walkthroughs. I just switched over to this recently and
it's my favorite right now for phones.
Zeam (FREE)
Zeam Launcher is a minimalistic and lightweight launcher alternative. It's designed for low and mid-
range devices whose home screens are a bit sluggish.
As usual, Lifehacker has a great review of some of these launchers here: Battle of the Android Home
Screen Launchers

5. Launchers for Tablets
All of the home screen launchers mentioned above will work on Tablets just
fine, but they don't take advantage of the extra screen real estate that a tablet
has.
The first launcher I've seen designed for tablets is GO Launcher HD for Pad.
It's by the makers of Go Launcher EX, and it's far better than the stock launcher
that came with my Honeycomb tablet.

6. Managing your launchers
Once you've got more than one home screen launcher installed, hitting the
home button on your device will bring up a menu like this:

7. Managing your launchers
Android is asking which launcher to use, and if you want to
make it the default launcher. Select the one you want to
stick with and then click the "Use by default for this action"
check box.
If you install one of these and don't like it, you can always
switch back to your stock home screen system by
uninstalling the App. All your settings in the old home
screen launcher will be exactly how you left them.
There are also Apps like Home Switcher that easily allow
you to switch between using multiple Home Screen
systems.

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