Flow Home - informative replacing outdated grid home screen icons
Android / / December 19, 2019
For over 30 years our screens are filled with personal technology and small non-informative icons. Times are changing, and these small images are still there. It is this thought guided by the creators of the excellent working replacement of your screen Flow Home.
Larva Labs - a company that has become one of the main ideas of visionaries-party working screens and in due time gave one of the first and still the most unusual solutions Slide Screen. Recently, developers have returned to the origins of the ideas presented and Flow Home - completely rethought Android home screen.
Nearly 30 years the main computer screen is a grid of icons - small images that display the essence of the application and information about them. Times are changing, the huge beige box fell to the size of the rectangle is placed in a pants pocket, and the rows of icons are still occupied his usual place.
Flow Home developers believe that our powerful and functional smartphones deserve more. They worked on the idea of space organization on the screen of your gadget will end up with a stylish and modern skin for Android-smartphone. Flow Home idea is not new. To understand it, will be enough to recall the decision from HTC with integrated tape
BlinkFeed. But despite a good idea, users repeatedly returned to the familiar to the iconic appearance options.Nevertheless, it Flow Home has all chances to stay on your smartphone permanently. The app brings together all what you use most often. This may be a tape Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or, for example, the weather. Small widgets each of them grouped together into a kind of news feed. Unlike many similar solutions, Flow Home widgets are not just informational. Each of them has several features, such as archiving and rapid response in the case of e-mails or feyvorit to retweet for Twitter. Moreover, the tape Flow Home is not only functional, but also look just fine.
The developers have not forgotten about the usual icons. For example, located on the right or left button is responsible for calling a small custom list of applications that are used most often. It is convenient and, according to the creators, improves the ergonomics of using the smartphone with one hand.
The beta version of the new shell can be downloaded now from Google Play. However, you still have to find somewhere or ask for a special invitation code, without which the Flow Home features will be unavailable to you.