Microsoft released Arrow Launcher for Android

Microsoft has, despite the presence of its own mobile operating system, continues to successfully develop applications for Android. We already told you about project GarageIn which Microsoft programmers are trying to improve the competitive platforms. And today we want to introduce an entirely new product - a home screen Arrow Launcher.

Arrow Launcher is currently in beta testing, so to download it, you will need to enter into a special community. Make it could all users who have a Google+ account, completely free of charge. The second option - to download the program from the official site, a link to which can be found at the end of the article.

After installing and running the program, we will show a small training course, after which you can begin to deal with the device of this launcher. Home Arrow Launcher screen contains three desktops, which can be navigated swipe left and right.

The main desktop is called Apps and showing us shortcuts. They are divided into two sections: Recent contains the most recently used programs, and Frequent - the most popular. Forming the contents of these sections is done automatically based on the analysis of your actions, or manually drag and drop icons to create a folder can not be.

All other programs can be found in the list of applications, which is organized in accordance with the alphabet and has a search bar. It is accessible with a special icon on the Quick Access Toolbar. At the same panel are run dialer icon, Program for text messaging, camera, web browser. And if you pull up the bottom dock, it will expand to half of the screen and in front of us will have another stack of favorite programs, as well as icons of favorite contacts. Very comfortably.

People left the desktop is used to display contacts. It works on the same principle as the applications screen, that is, it contains a section of recently used and the most popular contacts. With any of these you can contact or send a message just one touch. If necessary, you can view specific details of the recording, or cause a standard dialer.

Right Desktop is a simple list with the ability to assign a notification. You can add new elements to assign the reminder time, mark items as priority or made it. Great tool to create a to-do list, shopping, reminders, alarms, and so on.

Settings Arrow Launcher has not yet contain any interesting options, except for the possibility of changing the wallpaper (including automatic). But let's not forget that this is only a beta version, which is exposed to the test, so that in the future, I hope, developers provide users with the tools to fine-tune the appearance and behavior of the launcher.

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