3 Best Launcher Apps and 17 Themes for Android

A major reason behind the immense popularity of Android platform is it’s customization. It empowers you to customize each and every aspect of the interface. The most basic and known Customization is the home screen, using launchers.

A launcher basically is an application to customize your Android desktop i.e. homescreen. This app runs when you press the HOME button. Launchers let you to get an extremely personalized Android experience. There are many Android Launchers out there, they vary in their features, performance, but all of them do the same thing, letting you customize your home screens.

Here are a few amazing launchers for Android, along with some nice themes they support –

1. ADW Launcher

ADW LAuncher is the most popular launcher app for Android. It has a wide variety of customization options, and support to themes. You can customize everything on the home screen, from the wallpaper and icons, to the dock and stock widgets.

Features :

• You can have upto 7 customized home screens for widgets, shortcuts, etc.
• You can preview all the home screens together.
• You have full control over the number and view of your home screens. You can set the default screen , orientation sensor, wallpapers, and scroll speed.
• You can set the animation effects, and number of rows and columns.
• Left Action Button (LAB) and Right Action Button (RAB) where you can drag and drop any app.

There are about 150 custom themes for ADW. Here are my top 7 out of them –

Elegant

 

Black Glass

Fairy Tale

 

Eye Fold

GingerBread

Rustik

Sense Glass

ADW Launcher works with Android 2.1 and above.

To download ADW Launcher, click here.

2. Go Launcher Ex

Go Launcher is an extra version of Go Launcher app for Android. Go Launcher is relatively new to Android market, but it has gained huge popularity rapidly. There are not many themes available for Go Launcher, but the ones available are very beautiful, worth your Android.

Features :

• Scrollable and resizable icons.
• Icon pop-up menu.
• Easy to view and removable home screen previews.
• Soft Scrolling Sensation.
• Directories and task manage in app cabinet.

Here are 5 cool themes for Go Launcher –

Classic

Ink

Backyard

Sketch

Wood

Go Launcher works with Android 2.0 and up.

To download Go Launcher, click here.

3. MIUI ROM

MIUI ROM is a ROM for Android smartphones, which combines the iOS and Android to give an amazing new interface to your phone. The latest version of MIUI supports some brilliant themes and user interfaces, but it still has’nt been ported to all non-chinese languages for all phones.

Here are 5 themes for MIUI ROM –

Suave

Paper

Cartoon

GingerSuave

Arc

I think now you are all set to give your Android device a makeover.