Everyone wants to reinvent the home screen wheel, but the latest comes from a gang who knows a thing or two more about it than anyone else. Larva Labs, the company behind one of the earliest and most radical home-screen replacement apps Slidescreen, has come back with a new concept.
My homescreen got stuck on the enter invite code screen. I can´t go back to my home screen or open the settings app to disable this the only app i can open is the browser. Edit: i had to browse the app store on my computer and install a new launcher from there to be able to disable FLOW, which is now uninstalled.
It’s called Flow Home, and its goal is to deal death to the age-old wall of icons. Their goal is to show the the stuff often hidden beneath said icons, using information from your notifications to give you a look at all your latest happenings at a glance.
Photos coming in from the likes of Facebook and Instagram would show, and you’d be given a quick glance at who posted them (and any caption they might have written alongside it). The latest Tweets show up showing you 140 characters of your friends’ mindless musing. Or perhaps you just want to see the contents of your latest email without having to jump into the app. That’s Flow Home’s proposition.
Some might liken it to Windows Phone’s Live Tiles or HTC BlinkFeed, and that wouldn’t be an inaccurate way to put it. Flow Home’s biggest challenge will be to provide a comprehensive launcher experience worth getting rid of your usual freedom for. That is to say you won’t be freely arranging widgets and icons to your hearts’ content if you decide to give it a go as you’ll be sacrificing freedom for a home-screen that aims to be informative.
Apps are still easily accessible using a pie button on the bottom right. It’ll show a handful of your most used apps, though anything else you need can be found by swiping to the right and performing a quick search.
Flow Home is a bit light on extensive customization options (you can change between a few different layouts for the home-screen but not much beyond that), though the team is quick to remind everyone that it’s still in beta and they’ll be doing their best to add many new features where and when they make sense. You can give it a try now from Google Play if you’re interested in trying something a little different.
Android launcher apps are a dime a dozen these days, with new ones popping up all the time. Most of them just ape different features from established launcher apps and mix in a twist here and there, but every once in a while a new offering comes along that is worthy of your attention — and for many people, Flow Home will definitely be worthy of your attention.
Imagine Flipboard was your home screen, but instead of just news, that gorgeous user interface was also packed with content from your favorite social networks and updated in real time. That’s the basic idea with Flow Home, and it could end up being one of the best launchers on the market.
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For those unaware, Android launchers are apps that replace your standard home screen and other areas of the Android interface with customized screens that offer all sorts of different takes on what a home screen should be.
Some apps like Yahoo’s Aviate and Nokia’s Z Launcher offer faster and easier ways to access your most used apps. Other options like Nova and Apex simply add features to a more recognizable Android home screen layout.
Now, there’s a new app called Flow Home that basically merges elements from the beautiful user interface we all know and love in Flipboard with elements from HTC’s BlinkFeed. The app offers content from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr and Feedly in a sleek interface that is refreshed constantly.
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Flow Home is free and is currently an invite-only beta, but as noted by Android Central, the developers behind the app regularly give away invites on their Twitter feed and on the app’s Google+ page.