Play Store: Google Now Launcher now available

[tigerpierre]

Just downloaded it to my Nexus 7!

 

[Photo_Drew]

I like it on my Nexus 7. The large icons look nice enough and the entire screen for GNow with a swipe is nicer than using the widget and waiting for it to open. So unless the always listening feature starts impacting battery I think I'll keep it.

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[Crisdean]

It made a mess out of my widgets and the icons were too big. I like the approach but rather pass on that. Like the 'old' way better.

 

[Citizen Coyote]

I like it on my Nexus 7. The large icons look nice enough and the entire screen for GNow with a swipe is nicer than using the widget and waiting for it to open. So unless the always listening feature starts impacting battery I think I'll keep it.

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Genuinely curious... how is swiping from the left any different from swiping from the bottom?

 

[someguy01234]

Genuinely curious... how is swiping from the left any different from swiping from the bottom?

If you are on a different launcher, swiping from the bottom make it pop up, not slides out. I guess the main coolness of it is the slide out animation and that it run the background at all time for instant (search) accessibility. But I think Google could implement it to be system wide accessible, not just from the launcher.

 

[Ry]

I'm using it on my Nexus 7 (2012) now. The only thing I really like is the fact that I can control how many home screens I have.

 

[Cocophone]

Anyway to make the icons smaller?

 

[rob damiani]

Re: GEL Launcher now available for all on the Play store

It does on my S4 GPE. I uninstalled it because it seems to have made all of my widgets inoperable.

...does not have voice-only activation from the home screen. =(

 

[rob damiani]

right? The launcher destroyed all of my widgets!

How do you access your widgets when using the launcher?

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[Rocketsaucev2]

right? The launcher destroyed all of my widgets!

You just long press an empty space and hit widgets...

-Moto X-

 

[Almeuit]

I am tempted to try this...

Anyone suggest me doing so? I've been a Nova Launcher Prime user for a good long while now.... Change is scary lol.

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[spackmanstephen]

I am tempted to try this...

Anyone suggest me doing so? I've been a Nova Launcher Prime user for a good long while now.... Change is scary lol.

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Try it...

No harm in doing so. If you don't like it, delete it.

the big print giveth, the small print taketh

 

[stackberry369]

Not available for the note 3

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[someguy01234]

DO NOT USE IT. its drains your battery. I updated the launcher on my nexus 5 and nexus 7 and it drained my battery in a matter of hours ....just uninstalled it and my devices are normal again

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I use it, it doesn't drain battery. Ymmv.

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[NEXUS_HTC_PS]

DO NOT USE IT. its drains your battery. I updated the launcher on my nexus 5 and nexus 7 and it drained my battery in a matter of hours ....just uninstalled it and my devices are normal again

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I use it on my GPE ONE and I'm getting great battery performance. I think this is the best launcher it there.

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[Ry]

DO NOT USE IT. its drains your battery. I updated the launcher on my nexus 5 and nexus 7 and it drained my battery in a matter of hours ....just uninstalled it and my devices are normal again

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I have not noticed a significant battery drain on my Nexus 7 (2012).

 

[zorak950]

I hate to pile on, but I haven't seen any impact on my battery from the launcher, either. That's on a N4, though.

 

[odd1ne]

I got it on my note 2 and nexus 7 2012 and have not noted any battery drain at all. Just works really well with swipe left and ok Google works great every time.

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[Xingularity]

I got it running on my Nexus 10 and sideloaded the previous version on my Note 3. I haven't seen any difference in battery life on either one.

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[quicksilver53]

I have been using it on my One and it is great. No noticeable drain.

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