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Latest LauncherPro brings Friends widget and custom homescreen grid sizes
September 22, 2010 | by Lars Aronsson
Android Apps, Android News, Productivity
You know you’ve made it on the Android Market when blogs start reporting on your app’s updates. Such an application is the prominent homescreen replacement LauncherPro, which just received an update to version 0.7.9.0. The new release includes an option to customize the homescreen grid size: i.e., you can decide the number of columns and rows on your homescreen yourself. This way, you may fit a lot more on it if you want to.
For Plus users, the last of the promised widgets has been added – a Friends widget that combines feeds from Twitter and Facebook. It works just as the other LauncherPro social network widgets, and the update also brings a few bug fixes for the Plus version. Even though the new HTC Sense UI will arrive for current HTC devices in one way or the other, the company might have a hard time keeping up on the launcher front if Carnales keeps adding new cool features on a weekly basis.
Those who follow the developer on Twitter might have noticed that he has bold plans to rewrite the entire app from scratch in order to be more familiar with the code and gain better control over it. How, and if, this undertaking will affect updates to the current incarnation of the launcher is yet unclear. Carnales has also stated on Twitter that widget skinning soon will be a feature.
On a side note, Carnales was recently contacted via Twitter by ZodTTD, the coder behind the PlayStation emulator psx4droid, regarding a business proposal. Not sure if that’s going to result in anything, but if these two developers were to work together, the outcome would likely be pure awesomeness.
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first of all congrats for your awesome page, second i want your help this time. im a launcherpro plus user i`d paid for launcherpro v.0.7.8.1 i just want to know if i upgrade to v.0.7.9.0 am i going to lose my pro paid features or its going to be the same? thnx
Thanks! You won't lose your Plus license when you upgrade, all updates to the app are free once you've purchased it.
thnx so much
Maybe you can help me with a question: Why would I download an application that I am allowing to read my messages? Not to mention pretty much everything else personal on my phone. Seems insane to me.
Well, if you’re going to limit yourself to only using apps that can't access any of your various messages, you won’t be able to enjoy Twitter clients, Facebook or messaging apps. Some users rather not give their Gmail log-in info directly to minor third-party applications for understandable reasons, but other than that, it’s completely safe to let apps access data on your phone.
Cool. Well, thank you. This app just seems to be particularly virulent in it's total access to my phone. If you have suggestions for other Launcher-type apps I'd love to hear them.
Awesome. Thank you so much. Keep up the excellent work.