GS3 ICS 5 icons GS2 ICS 4 icons??

**bxborn31** · 07-09-2012, 07:27 PM

so i was looking at the screen shots of the at&t gs3 and it holds 4 apps and the applications icon on the bottom of the screen. the gs2 only holds 3 apps and the applications icon on the bottom of the screen. why is that?

**andel7539** · 07-09-2012, 08:21 PM

Screen size. Bigger the screen, the more real estate for icons there will be. If you want more icons on the dock and/or the home screens, I can suggest using a third party launcher like Nova Launcher for example.

**bxborn31** · 07-09-2012, 08:51 PM

I used apex with ics theme. Was laggy. Is nova better?

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**gxgs** · 07-09-2012, 10:09 PM

Originally Posted by andel7539

Screen size. Bigger the screen, the more real estate for icons there will be. If you want more icons on the dock and/or the home screens, I can suggest using a third party launcher like Nova Launcher for example.

Screen resolution dictates the amount of icons at a given dpi. Size can be 7 inches, with 480x800 it would still have 4 icons, they would just look large.

You can get a similar effect by changing the pixel density of the screen elements by decreasing the dpi of the android ui.

Though surely, you can get 5+ icons in 480x800 with other launchers at stock dpi, it just resizes the icons or reduces the space between the icons.