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[Android Apps and Games] kendall316:
you dont need that extra icon in nova. if you go to your app drawer and press the 3 button menu in the top right you can access nova launcher settings from there

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maybe a newb question but i used to use adb but dont have a working comp anymore. how do i install this into the /system? if i go into file explorer and copy the apk it wont let me get out of the sd card to get to system
[Android Apps and Games] thanasisc4:
Get a file explorer with root permissions such as root explorer.

Then just hit the mount R/W button on top, and paste the apk into /system/app
[Android Apps and Games] namurt:
Err... I think you've misunderstood me. That 3 button menu you're referring to also shows up on my homescreen. I don't see a way to remove it. Again, I'm running an alpha ICS build on my Kindle Fire. I don't know if the tablet UI's of Nova and/or Apex differ from the phone UI's.

Does Apex have this menu icon on the homescreen?
[Android Apps and Games] datsyuk:
THANK YOU for creating a launcher that has a smooth drawer opening no matter if I'm sitting on the homescreens or coming out of the browser and go to the drawer. Nova was great, but could not do this.

Extremely smooth launcher, very nice work OP.
[Android Apps and Games] dennisxl:
I still cannot reproduce this on my end. Which homescreen and dock settings did you change from the defaults?

Stacktrace?

I'm on stock 4.0.2 with my Galaxy Nexus, and I had no luck reproducing this issue. Will definitely look into this bug.

Apex settings > Behavior settings > Screen orientation

Apex has different UI and settings for phones and tablets. To answer your question, there is no menu botton in the top right corner on tablets.
[Android Apps and Games] windroidHD:
dennisxl,

Any chance that future version will have option to disable animation of app drawer launch?.

Sent from my SGH-I897
[Android Apps and Games] wuli:
I'm attaching my logcat for the force close after pressing apex setting. Hope this helps.
[Android Apps and Games] Masix:
I have set homescreens to 1.

Grid size to 7*6.

Hide the search bar.

Hide dock (and dock divider).

Use gestures to open app drawer.

Then swipe right or left on your only homescreen.

You will notice a small blue dot on the left side where the dock divider would be.

Then open en close app drawer.

If you have done this you should see the blue divider :).
[Android Apps and Games] thetiger1401:
Hello

in french it's possible or not ?
[Android Apps and Games] carlphilipp:
Very good launcher, can't wait the updates
[Android Apps and Games] kendall316:
Why is it that both this and Nova launcher have the dock bar lower then stock? its the only thing keeping me on stock or liberty launcher. the bar that goes across the top of your dock items is a good 1/8" lower on screen and it makes the dock look cluttered. anybody know why or have a fix for it?
[Android Apps and Games] VincentDHam:
i was wondering that too. i hope it gets changed.
[Android Apps and Games] kendall316:
yeah i find it extremely annoying. only reason i really need either of these 2 launchers is because i would like to change icons.
[Android Apps and Games] VincentDHam:
whats liberty launcher??
[Android Apps and Games] kendall316:
I'm not quite sure. It came with Gummy. just a few tweaks you can do like remove status bar and stuff. I like the way the status bar looks on it because they removed the google out of it. so its just a clean looking rectangle with the microphone symbol
[Android Apps and Games] mcbyte_it:
agree, on Google Play (ex-market) it is not available for the tablets because it is listed as incompatible, please fix, I am already using it on my Transformer TF101 and it is working just fine :)
[Android Apps and Games] ieisha:
will that install as a system app?
[Android Apps and Games] odub303:
Inability to change APPADJ value.
[Android Apps and Games] demo23019:
another great update was really smooth before but even smoother now

and thanks for adding margin setting
[Android Apps and Games] QuickCs:
apex launcher is the best launcher , but i can't drop widget from widgets tab , from menu.How can i do this ?
[Android Apps and Games] Lancerz:
Read the notes...it states you can't do that unless you install it as a system app.
[Android Apps and Games] Amz95:
Moved back to nova earlier this week because it had the option to change the folder icon, just updated APEX and now it is perfect, great update :)
[Android Apps and Games] floomat:
Since last Update no background on folders does not work anymore for me on my galaxy nexus. On tablet I didn't get the update yet. Does updating it over market still installing it as a system app? Thanks for the latest update, best launcher IMHO.
[Android Apps and Games] bala_gamer:
addition of margins changes is great!! can you pls fix the wallpaper zooming bug? its annoying when the wallpaper gets zoomed automatically when changing and it looks quite ugly.
[Android Apps and Games] iekansh:
Have you tried using wallpaper wizardii from market?

No was to edit drawer grid size? Its 4x4 size is a bit annoying.
[Android Apps and Games] iekansh:
No way is what I meant.

Sorry for double post, edit error.
[Android Apps and Games] Toast95135:
For some reason now my drawer is messed up

App icons from the next page overlap. I used to have the same issue with the home screen on the last version, widgets and icons from the other pages would show in the holographic tabs, I had to move everything over a space to stop that from happening. I have a TF101 btw.
[Android Apps and Games] Thracks:
Also confirmed.
[Android Apps and Games] niteh@wk:
I got zoomed wallpaper issue in Nova, Apex, GO Launcher. The devs of GO launcher fixed it. Hopefully Apex will be fixed too.
[Android Apps and Games] Simer03:
I keep getting force closes when trying to move apps from the dock and then duplicates arrive....I'm hating version 1.0 with a passion

Sent from my Nexus Prime
[Android Apps and Games] otis_bartleh:
Dodol wallpaper maker.... works well to create portrait or landscape wallpapers and crop as you wish...
[Android Apps and Games] doomed151:
Have you tried adjusting margins?
[Android Apps and Games] Toast95135:
Where is the margin adjustment?
[Android Apps and Games] AKDMA:
Home screen and dock settings.
[Android Apps and Games] :
Hi,

I come from Nova launcher,I'm testing version 1.0.0 of Apex Launcher and this is just awesome :)

It's smooth and the different settings are just great (like the scrolling time,drawer backround transparency,drawer style,etc...):)

With the stock animation in the app drawer and with the scrolling speed setting it's fast :eek: :)

Uses less memory than other Launchers,keep that up!,light and speed are good!

A speed settings for the animation home/app drawer like scrolling speed would be the top...

In any case no issues,no issues thank you very much for this launcher,the best for me;)
[Android Apps and Games] grayhaze:
Donation

As soon as you have a donation version available, you'll have my money. Excellent work. :)
[Android Apps and Games] Toast95135:
Are you on a phone? There are no dock settings for me, or anything labeled margins :confused: I messed with the grid size but that didnt help anything.

I updated today ota from the apk posted here originally, not from the market. Which says its incompatible with my device :l
[Android Apps and Games] gladi8r:
From a landscape perspective, the horizontal margins are off with the Asus TF101.

Vertical is fine. The new margin settings have no effect. The margins were fine on 0.7 beta and prior. Maybe why it's not Market compatible? ;)

Also, changing the icon on a mutli-app folder causes it to disappear. It is still on the screen, but you cannot see it. Forcing a restart of Apex makes it reappear, and it works normally from then on.

I don't have any dock or dock settings either. I don't normally use it, so I don't miss it. I'm just wondering if it is supposed to be there.

Even with these issues, this is still the best.
[Android Apps and Games] speedy_kevin:
Vertical drawer :D

Okey, you won. Using apex now instead of nova.
[Android Apps and Games] jjdavola:
As asked HERE (and sorry for repeating myself), but my question for all the TF101 users is what grid size do you use??

The margins don't appear to make any difference on the TF101n and changing the grid sizes just seems to make the homescreens even worse.

Plus my app drawer has the same issue as them:

Even with those issue Apex is the best, but with those items fixed, it would be even better.
[Android Apps and Games] brunoisa10:
excellent Launcher , better than Nova which is fantastic

could you add the customization of the Background for an open Folder ?

I don't want to see the black background like in Nova

edit : seen there is a link for wishes so I'll search on it to see if my wish is there :)
[Android Apps and Games] MrBauer:
That! Couldn't get used to the horizontal drawer, so having the vertical drawer back is awesome.

Rest of the launcher ain't bad either ;)
[Android Apps and Games] xdp:
This launcher seems like it might be a tad smoother/easier on memory than Nova, however one problem I'm having is very poor scrolling performance on scrollable widgets. Poor performance isn't even the right phrase...it often downright ignores my attempt to scroll at all. If I do it repeatedly it may eventually scroll some. I'm not sure if this is due to the gestures but I have them all set to do nothing. I don't experience this on Nova.
[Android Apps and Games] KBanause:
After rechecking for an update and being asked again if I want to update I just pushed "download" (not "market") to get v1.0 on my TF Prime :D
[Android Apps and Games] KBanause:
I just got the "double icons on drawer"-bug again (this time with version 1.0 from the market) see screenshot.

Updated from v0.8 where I did a complete data clean.

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I just noticed that the icons get displayed correctly after:

a restart of Apex

or a rotation of the screen

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[Android Apps and Games] R187J:
Looking Sexy

I tried Nova Launcher on my Motorola Droid And it just didnt cut it then i tried this and im in love

dont really need it on my rezound though cuz i love ICS and sense 3.6

keep up all the good work and improvements i will be watching for them
[Android Apps and Games] ^Fs:
I'm most impressed that this feature rich launcher still remains free after leaving beta.

I've had no issues thus far on my tablet or phone.
[Android Apps and Games] Veeon:
congratulations for the debut of Apex Launcher on Google Play Store!

It's a really great app, I'm really enjoying it.

Can you add an option to choose between the old android market and the new play store icon in the upper right of app drawer?

Or maybe the option to change icon just as the other icon in homescreens.

Thanks for attention and good work.
[Android Apps and Games] deklica:
There is still bug, where search bar is off, and widget is on top of the screen, for example "Power control", and when I drag icon to top of the screen to remove, red trash icon is under widget, I can't see it... that because space for them or search bar is expanded for apps or widgets...

Can you make to be on top, or option to not expand that space...
[Android Apps and Games] DsturbD:
whats the diff between a system app and a regular app install? if i get it from the app store is it installed as a system app or regular app?
[Android Apps and Games] The Gingerbread Man:
I asked this yesterday. If you go to apex settings/drawer settings/drawer tab icon/launch specified app and choose play store the icon is shown to be the right one and launches the store. Win :D
[Android Apps and Games] The Gingerbread Man:
That depends on how you have it installed currently. You can use titanium to easily convert it to system app by long pressing on apex in titanium if your rooted or put in the system/app folder and set permissions correctly which are rw r r. The difference is if you want to use the widgets tab in the app drawer or not.
[Android Apps and Games] DsturbD:
dont currently have it installed, so how does it install from the market?
[Android Apps and Games] budwizer:
I just ran the installer from the Market and it seems to have installed as a System app as I have the Widgets tab in my app drawer. Give it a shot and if it doesn't work uninstall it and then push it like the OP states.
[Android Apps and Games] Jezz_X:
OMG these 2 options are great :) win win win
[Android Apps and Games] Milamber33:
If you don't have it installed as a system app, the tab will still be there and you will still see the widgets, but it will error if you try to place one on your home screen, I believe.

Suggestion: detecting if it is installed as system and disabling the Widgets tab if it's not would reduce confusion.

Sent from The Past into The Future via The Present. :)
[Android Apps and Games] DsturbD:
yep, worked the same as you said, thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] kenkiller:
Yup....trying to scroll on my Wizz widgets activates the swipe gestures very often.
[Android Apps and Games] Pandur2000:
I am using Slim ICS 2.8. Since google-play i couldnt ownload any apps - they simply would not start to download. This morining then my apex launcher told me to ownload 1.0 - done, and instantly my app-downloads started too after i installed apex launcher 1.0. What has the launcher to do with market/play?

Great work by the way!
[Android Apps and Games] KBanause:
Pure coincidence...

But did you restart your device this morning? If yes then maybe your cache was full and Google Play Store was unable to download anything. The reboot might have cleaned it.

Gesendet von meinem Nexus S mit Tapatalk
[Android Apps and Games] Pandur2000:
I rebooted it yesterday a few times and cleared cache. This morning i only installed apex launcher without any reboot.
[Android Apps and Games] RDELEON774:
Anyone getting a bug that doubles the dock icons? Its annoying as hell. If I move the icon there is another underneath if I move that one another and another. Goes away fine if I restart launcher. Any way to fix this? Did a fresh install.

Deleon
[Android Apps and Games] faddys123:
Has any one got a flash ablezip for installing as root app?
[Android Apps and Games] robba16296:
Just move it with a file explorer to system/app , worked on my saga
[Android Apps and Games] SergioA:
Samsung "Active applications" widget

Hi there!

I've a little problem with Apex Launcher (v1.0.0) running on a Samsung Galaxy S2 with WanamLite V9.1 LPH [ICS 4.0.3] using the Samsung "Active applications" widget: the number of programs running in background is locked to the actual number there is when you activate the widget and it never changes opening/colosing apps.

The widget runs correctly if I launch it from the original Samsung TWLauncher...

Have you got any idea why it behaves like this, is it possible that a widget behaves differently if called from the "original" Samsung launcher than from a custom one?

Thanks in advance!
[Android Apps and Games] evok3r:
Just wanted to say THANK YOU for this great launcher.

I was using Nova Launcher before (and since day one of Nova Launcher I didn't want or need anything else) and have also purchased the prime version, but I always had Apex Launcher installed since I found it here and have watched its progess. Starting from version 0.6 I copied my layout of Nova Launcher to Apex, waiting for the last few features to come that I was missing.

Now with 1.0 Apex has all the features of Nova (except for some animations), but everything seems to be snappier and better implemented. It is now installed as system app and has replaced Nova - which I am very happy with :)

@dev: is there a way to get you a drink of your choice or two? :)
[Android Apps and Games] bagl0312:
Yes, I am having exactly the same problem. I also noticed that restarting the launcher the additional copies disappear.

It seems not even related to the phone reboots.

I kept the phone switched on all the night, after "cleaning" the duplicated icons in the dock, and this morning I found at least five copies of the each icon in the dock.

Indeed, it is very annoying
[Android Apps and Games] semsem1969:
Hello,

i went to market to upgrade but it says device incompatible..

Asus Transformer TF101 running ICS

thanks
[Android Apps and Games] jonoathome:
Showing not compatible for Motorola xoom mz604 in the market..

Clearly is..
[Android Apps and Games] The Gingerbread Man:
The phone version is being concentrated on for now and tablets later, been said quite a few times
[Android Apps and Games] KBanause:
damn those "Thanks" buttons are too close to the quote button....

If you have Apex Launcher already installed:

Let it check again for an update and choose "download". You will get v1.0 like before as normal download to install. Worked on my TF Prime.
[Android Apps and Games] ekerazha:
Yeah... likely the whole tabs bar should be hidden if root permissions are unavailable.
[Android Apps and Games] The Gingerbread Man:
new version up on play, fixes tablet compatibity, the folder back ground, folder scrolling and updated translations. Get on it ;)
[Android Apps and Games] aca_demik:
Crashes all versions, after b0.6, when I go into the drawer.

Apex instaled as system app. Reboot.

Tablet Zenithink C71.
[Android Apps and Games] Milamber33:
A logcat might help the dev work out what the issue is, you know... ;)

Sent from The Past into The Future via The Present. :)
[Android Apps and Games] brk3:
Hi just quick question, if I install it to /system/app will it still update from the market?
[Android Apps and Games] jjdavola:
Since no ASUS Transformer users are telling me the grid size (or tricks) they use to maximize their screen real estate with Apex, let me ask a n00b question. :rolleyes: ;)

If I install the apk in system/app (like I did) does that mean I can never install the Market version and leave the great developer a glowing review? In other words, do I have to continue to install the apk with Root Explorer if I like swiping from Apps to Widgets in the drawer?
[Android Apps and Games] budwizer:
Yep, just tried adding a Widget from the app drawer and like you said it failed. Thanks for the heads up. I rarely install widgets much less from the App Drawer.

Agree it would be good to just have it disabled if it is not installed correctly. Although I am sure it's probably more difficult to do than it sounds.
[Android Apps and Games] longthanh:
i wonder why xperia x10's not have 4.0:(
[Android Apps and Games] KBanause:
Why do you have to install it via Root Explorer? You already have it installed. So you can just download the APK, open the notifications, press the "download finished"-notification and install/upgrade it. Once it's in /system/app you don't have to move newer versions to /system/app again...
[Android Apps and Games] Fr33L4nc3r:
Looking forward the implementation of dock icon swipe gestures :)

Reducing the size of dock icons / customizable margin between dock icons (they are too close, especially when there are 7) would be awesome too.

Quick question :

Would the "Resize" option be relevant / possible for Apps on Homescreen ? Or is it only possible for widgets ?

I'm asking because I would like to have 2*2 "Icons" instead of 1*1 and want to get rid of Desktop Visualizer, as it doesn't allow to select custom shortcuts - Activities, which Apex supports.
[Android Apps and Games] bagl0312:
Hi,

on Transformer I put a grid size in Landscape of 7(rows)x10(columns).

In Portrait mode it does not work very well, I put a grid size of 9(rows)x7(columns), but part of the desktop is cut

The application is now available in Market/Play-store so you can just install/update it normally, even if you moved it originally to /system/app
[Android Apps and Games] KBanause:
Let me ask you one question: Have you never ever updated any system app via the market?
[Android Apps and Games] pliskent:
Apex on HTC desire z

Hi

How can I remove those new buttons at bottom level?

Those back and home buttons.

I have physical buttons, and now apex hides part of my virtual keyboard.

Backspace is hidden because those buttons on bottom.
[Android Apps and Games] KBanause:
It seems you have a ROM installed which has the navigationbar activated. You should ask the ROM creator to remove those buttons (and you should provide a screenshot so we can see which buttons you actually really mean).
[Android Apps and Games] brk3:
Nova launcher that comes as a system app on AOKP updates itself from the market.
[Android Apps and Games] jjdavola:
Thank you. I told you it was a n00b question. :o I just didn't want to lose my settings and widgets again and want to leave the developer well deserved review on the Market.
[Android Apps and Games] KBanause:
As does any other system app (even pre-installed apps of the phone manufacturer). Maybe you have to check manually for an update the first time but then you should get a notification once an update is available...

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But there's already an updated version in the market which fixed the tablet error. So you should be able to install it now (I haven't tried it yet but the web-market reports my TF Prime as compatible now).
[Android Apps and Games] bagl0312:
It is normal to update system applications through the market. The new version will go under:

/data/app

but the system will still threat the application as a system app since the original version was under:

/system/app
[Android Apps and Games] Pecata:
I just saw yesterday that the Apex Launcher came out of Beta status and I donwloaded it from the market-Great Launcher! Verry smooth and customizable. Worth trying!
[Android Apps and Games] spyderoid:
Just for Android 4.xxx :(:(:(:(
[Android Apps and Games] jjdavola:
I'm aware of it and that is why I asked the question. I didn't want to install the update from the Market and then lose the ability to swipe from Apps to Widgets in the drawer or worse yet have to recreate all my widgets.

Thanks again!
[Android Apps and Games] daytonboi:
Not sure if its been addressed...I'm doing this from my droid 3, and the search isn't working to well for me...but on my xoom with ics the launcher leaves about a half inch of unusable space on either side of the screen.
[Android Apps and Games] vlt96:
Yea dude ICS is to GB like Win 7 is to Win XP... the launcher needs tons of GPU on GB, and the UI HW/A ICS has makes it possible to run as smooth on my crappy Optimus One like it runs on Galaxy Nexus... and also low requirements... OH AND 2MB IN SIZE!!! If you want just to make it work on GB, you need at least 10MB... and will lag out...
[Android Apps and Games] ezio84:
Amazing launcher, i like Nova but this one is flawless too :D

Found two bugs:

- After setting Portrait Grid=5x5, i can't resize calwidget and evernote widget to 5 columns, their layout is blocked to 4. But after setting 6 columns, i can resize them to 5, and if I return to Portrait Grid=5x5 the two widgets are correctly displayed on 5 columns;

- Changing a folder icon in the dock sometimes make it invisible, and i need to restart Apex.

BTW, thank you very much!
[Android Apps and Games] mbcheung:
Thanks for the hard work!

First I wanted to say thanks for the hard work, this app is awesome and I'm glad to see it come out of beta status. I've been using this on an ICS ROM for the Incredible by Hanger for about a week and like it way more than Nova, Trebuchet, or stock.

Secondly, I wanted to ask if there was any way to add a toggle for the dock (show/hide) to the behavior settings. I run a pretty minimalist setup and love that I can hide the status bar easily with Apex. While I see that you have an option to hide the dock in the dock settings menu there's no way to toggle it quickly (unless I'm missing something). Obviously, not a huge deal if it doesn't happen, but I thought it would be a cool feature that wouldn't be too difficult to integrate. Thanks again, and keep up the stelar work!