Squarehome2: Best Android Launcher ever!! Period!!

[sand_man]

Been using Squarehome2 launcher on and off for the last 4 years. It's hands down the best launcher EVER!!

There's just so much goodness to this launcher! Just going to link to a bunch of Youtube videos and let you decide for yourselves...

[video=youtube;tyNSnx3atm4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyNSnx3atm4[/video]

 

[Coasti]

Why not use it all the time then?

 

[APoc184]

Have you used Nova? How does it compare and why would you personally go for SH2 over Nova?

 

[NeonNinja]

"Best" is subjective.

 

[sand_man]

Why not use it all the time then?

When I'm not using it, it usually means I'm back to using an iOS device. Tend to jump from platform to platform every couple of years.

What really irks me about Android is the general lack of fluidity when it comes to the UI. Now Squarehome2 is hardly a resource hog but it does tend to exasperate the issue on less equipped handsets. My last droid was a S4 and UI fluidity was significantly inferior in relation to the equivalent iPhone.

Just got myself a Oneplus 3T and with 6gb's of ram and a beast of a CPU, Squarehome2 runs BEAUTIFULLY!!

I would imagine the user experience to be just as gratifying on most of your top end droid phones but on the mid to low end devices? Not so much...

 

[Chevron]

/Grammar Nazi on

exasperate

verb
irritate intensely; infuriate.
"this futile process exasperates prison officers"

exacerbate

verb
make (a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling) worse.
"the exorbitant cost of land in urban areas only exacerbated the problem"

/Grammar Nazi off

 

[sand_man]

Have you used Nova? How does it compare and why would you personally go for SH2 over Nova?

I've used Nova but again, over 3 years ago and on a S4.

I'm finding the traditional icon layout a bit stale and dated.

A recent setup on my iPhone 6s

Nova launcher and the like are essentially icon-centric while SH2 brings a more novel, modern and fresh look in the form of a tiled theme but not tiled and restricted in the Windows 10 mould.

An old setup on my S4 using Nova...

Current setup oneplus 3T/SH2...

 

[backstreetboy]

Looks fugly. Too much wasted space by large tiles. You can open any app by voice anyway.

 

[Spliffcat]

1 out of 10
Nova is still the best.

 

[sand_man]

Geesus, but this is a tough crowd?!!

 

[Bryn]

Geesus, but this is a tough crowd?!!

Yeah, sorry. Nova craps on that convoluted mess above. Without Nova I would be an iPhone user by now.

 

[sand_man]

Yeah, sorry. Nova craps on that convoluted mess above. Without Nova I would be an iPhone user by now.

Oh well, as you were then....

 

[Dairyfarmer]

1 out of 10
Nova is still the best.

Got a long way to go to beat Go.

 

[sand_man]

Yeah, look perhaps my screenshots didn't do the launcher justice.

I promise, in practice it's an absolute pleasure to use. Try it...

There's no disputing Nova is the king of launchers but take a look at SH2's Play stores reviews and ratings! It's right up there with Nova scoring a 4.6 with 13k downloads, no where near Nova's 950k downloads but still....

 

[saor]

Looks fugly. Too much wasted space by large tiles. You can open any app by voice anyway.

Yeah. Looks like Windows 8/10. Especially with that Microsoft color scheme.

edit:

SquareHome 2 is the best launcher with metro UI of Windows 10

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ss.squarehome2&hl=en

 

[Bryn]

Got a long way to go to beat Go.

 

[sand_man]

Let me try and sugarcoat the screenshot a little. See if I can convert any of you hardcore Nova junkies...

 

[GhostSixFour]

Nope. Prefer a clean UI. That stuff is waaayyy too busy.

 

[sand_man]

Nope. Prefer a clean UI. That stuff is waaayyy too busy.

This better?

 

[backstreetboy]

You can use volume down and power to take a screenshot. No need to share these big images. Looks much better though.