[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] KidCarter93:
I've put this thread here to give you guys a variety of launchers found on the market. I, like many of you, get bored using the stock launcher or it hasn't got the ability to customize it the way we'd like, so we'd like more a choice. So rather than having to find them all over the place I will keep everything here in one place.

If you notice any information in this guide which is incorrect, or any bad links, let me know and I'll fix it as soon as possible. Also, I know that there are a load that aren't on this list, so if there are some which aren't on the list but you think they should be, let me know and I'll look into them and update the list.

All credit goes to Goku80 for the idea for this guide. Check out his guides [LAUNCHERS]Launchers & Lockscreens for the HTC One X[LOCKSCREENS]

[LAUNCHERS]Launchers & Lockscreens for the Galaxy SIII[LOCKSCREENS]

Apex Launcher - 4.0+

Features include:

Customizable homescreen grid size and up to 9 homescreens

Scrollable dock with up to 7 icons per page and up to 5 pages

Infinite & elastic scrolling (homescreen, drawer and dock)

Fancy transition effects (tablet, cube, etc.)

Hide elements as you want (persistent search bar, status bar, or even the dock)

Customizable icons and labels for shortcuts and folders

Choose different folder preview styles and background

Multiple drawer styles (transparent/opaque, horizontal/vertical, paginated/continuous)

Drawer apps sorting (title, install date, mostly used)

Hide apps from the drawer

Lock your desktop to prevent accidental changes

Enjoy homescreen gestures (pinch, swipe up/down, double tap)

Advanced theme engine (icon packs, skins, etc.)

Backup/restore settings and data

Optimized for both phones and tablets

Lots of other customization options!

Apex Launcher Pro unlocks the following features:

- Multiple configurable drawer tabs

- Unread count notifications

- Dock swipe gestures

- Two finger gestures

- More transition effects

- ADW, LauncherPro, and Go Launcher theme support

- Batch add option for folders

- Option to merge folder contents

- Widgets in dock (1x1 only)

- Overlapping widgets

Nova Launcher - 4.0+

Features include:

Scrollable Dock (for Tablets and Phones)

Keep all your favorite apps on the dock, with up to 7 icons per page and up to 3 pages.

Customizable App Drawer:

Transparency

Scrolling style, choose between horizontal paginated or vertical continuous

Scroll Effects

Enjoy eye candy when scrolling your desktop and drawer. Effects include Cube and Cardstack and more for Prime users.

Infinite Scroll

Never be far from your favorite page, loop through your desktop continuously.

Folder Icons

You can chose a background, preview style or even replace the whole icon.

Backup/Restore

Export your settings and layout before a wipe to quickly get back up and running.

Widgets in dock

Add any 1x1 widget to the dock

Bulk Add

Add multiple apps to the desktop or a folder at once

Activities shortcut

Select hidden activities from your favorite apps

*Nova Launcher Prime Features (Paid version)*

Highly customizable, performance driven, home screen replacement for Android 4.0+

Nova Launcher Prime unlocks the following features in Nova Launcher:

Drawer Groups:

Folders in App Drawer

Unlimited custom tabs

Organize apps into tabs and folders in the app drawer

Gestures

Quickly start Nova Actions or Apps from gestures on the desktop, such as pinching, swiping or two-finger swiping.

Hide Apps

Keep a clutter free drawer by hidding never used apps.

Dock Swipes

Get more use out of your dock apps by setting swipe-actions

Unread Counts

Never miss an email. Unread count badges for SMS, Missed calls and Gmail. Counts show in the dock, desktop, drawer and folders.

More Scroll Effects

Zeam Launcher - 2.2+

Description

To add Applications grid shortcut, select Add > Shortcuts > Applications grid.

Try toggle Manage wallpaper if screen scrolling isn't smooth, select Preferences > Workspace > Manage wallpaper.

Zeam, thanks to its minimal aesthetic, not only looks fast but feels fast. It's also incredibly simple to use, and unlike the other launchers it actually works very well out of the box.

My favorite feature in Zeam is configurable gestures -- but not only can you bind swipe actions, like ADW, but you can also bind double tapping the screen and the Home hardware button to actions.

SSLauncher - 2.2+

Features

Decorate screen with a variety of styles for shortcuts and widgets.

Create a widget poping up when tap a shortcut.

Support formatted text for current date & time, missed calls and unread SMS/MMS messages.

Support scrollable widgets.

Easy and quick access to pages for contacts, bookmarks, application drawer, application group.

Many useful features of application drawer: app parcel(folder), showing/hiding app, marking star for favorites apps, changing application icon and name, uninstalling app and so on

Create application group and manage list by drag and drop.

Save and load your theme, page layouts and settings.

Convert the saved theme file to apk. (contact us by e-mail for more informations)

Hide status bar, open status bar by swiping down.

You can implement nice screen without launcher 7, dvr, minimalistic text, wp clock, clockr etc.

Go Launcher EX Launcher - 2.0+

Features:

Thousands of personalized themes

Various widgets and screen locks (weather, switcher, calendar…)

Extremely smooth transition animation

Smooth flipping operation

User-defined folder to easily categorize apps

Many options in preferences to help you customize you phone!

=Tips=

1. How to get themes, widgets and lockers?

a) Search ‘go launcher theme’, ‘go widget’ or ‘go locker’ in Android Market.

b) Use GO Store via menu button in GO Launcher.

2. How to set transition animation?

Use ‘Effects settings’ via button in GO Launcher.

3. Icons are too small?

Use ‘Icon Size’ option in ‘Preferences->Visual settings->Icons’ to make icons bigger.

3. Long press the app icon to enter editing mode on home screen and app drawer.

4. Glide up to open menu and glide down to pull down notification.

Launcher 7 Windows Phone 7 Style Launcher - 2.1+

Description and features

Unlike other current WP7 launchers (Windows Phone Android, Metro UI), this one allows you to properly modify your start screen. Just long press on a tile and drag tile where you want!

This version is free, but does have an ad in application list. Ad free donate version is available if you don't like the ad.

Also supported:

2 x 1 tiles

Original Windows Phone 7 backgrounds!

Freely configurable tile colors

Launcher options are available from Application List (press menu in app list)

Layout animations

Animated contacts tile! (still work in progress)

Windows 7 Launcher Pro has the following features:

1x1, 2x1 and 1x2 tiles with configurable colors

Widgets in a tile! (provided that widget fits)

Almost real like tile animation

Almost real like tile re-arrange mode

Almost real like status bar

Animated contacts tile (supports G+ synced contacts)

Pinnable contact-tile which animates like the real phone

Folder tiles

Webpage tiles

Picture hub (use with care, it needs memory!!!!)

Filterable application list

Stock wp7-like colors and color selection

CC3D Launcher - 2.2+

Description and features

CC 3D Launcher is a fashion, funny, cool "home replacement" app. It maximizes your user experience on your Android phone, with the newest Android 4.0 feeling.

Highlights:

Simple, Fast, Fluid, Powerful, Efficient, in High Definition

Features:

Android 4.0 Experience

Folder Management(overlay icons to create folder; drive-and-drop icons into folder; rearrange icons of folder)

3D effects: Full 360 degree rotation. Different animations and transitions. Zoom in, zoom out

Various screen transition animations

Apps'icons with special graphic effects

Widgets (weather, switch & monitor, calendar, slides, contacts, SMS, music, etc)

MIUI Home Launcher - 4.0+

Description and features

Optimization: substantially optimize drawing performance, and speed sliding screen switching experience

Optimization: significant reduction in memory size

Optimization: improve the speed of the initial start

Optimization: Improving Desktop to quickly switch design details to improve the animation efficiency

Fix: in some models, press the HOME key to unlock directly

Repair: the icon does not change after changing theme style

Repair: the cascade and the box to cut the screen effects

Fix: some models (NS 4.0.4, etc.) icon layout

Features:

Unique MIUI theme interface and gestures

8000+ Themes, Wallpapers and Ringtones available!

Support for up to 9 screens or more

Works on all NON-MIUI ICS 4.0 based devices.

SPB Shell 3DLauncher - 2.1+

Description and features

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Latest update(version 1.6.1)

Has native support for ICS.

They also added homescreen looping and horizontal app drawer.

ADW Launcher/ADW Launcher EX - 2.0+

Description and features

ADW.Launcher, beyond tweaking your android desktop

Opensource home replacement app

Customizable application drawer (old one or iphone/galaxy one)

Customizable drag&drop action buttons

Unveil the Dockbar flicking-up the app-drawer button and drop UNLIMITED shortcuts/folders!

Themes

What makes ADW different?

It's highly customizable, almost in every aspect you can think of

-Hundreds of themes to enjoy!

-Screens editor to add,remove and swap your desktop screens.

-Icons editor to create your own customized shortcuts or edit existing ones

-Customizable main dock with support for fixed shortcuts from 0 to 5.

-Customizable hidden dockbar easy to trigger with support for unlimited icons with scroll. Just swipe up your finger over the main dock to reveal the hidden one, swipe down to return to the main one!

Differences between ADW.Launcher and ADWLauncherEX

-5 different app drawer styles/behaviors

-3D Nexus One like application drawer

-2 different plain vertical drawer styles, the "old one" and a new fast and smooth one

-2 different Iphone-like horizontal application drawers, a traditional paginated one and a new one with continuous fling

-Different desktop transitions: new animations while navigating through your desktop screens. Try them all, they're crazy!!!

-New Icons configurations/look and feel: Tweak your desktop icons, change its sizes, add coloured backgrounds, change font size, color, etc!

-New fast presets mode: Quickly change the whole desktop configuration by 1 click!

-Editable desktop icons for applications, shortcuts and folders!

-Lots of code improvements

-More, more more to come!!

MXHome Launcher - 2.1+

Description and features

MX Home is an launcher application that is specialized in 3D effects on its 'Theme page'

It provides totally different experiences by highlights from 3D effects and creative ideas.

▣ Major Features

Dynamic 3D G-sensor movement

Various graphic & sound effects

Coffee bean poping-out effect by shake

3D water bubble background effect

Shortcuts for 8 major App.’s

Control tray

[Battery, Wi-Fi, BT & sound]

▣ Easy Management

Quick App. manager

*Edit / Info / Delete / Uninstall

Quck task manager

*Just touch on Smart Menu icon at workspace

*Close all application / View recent run

▣ Icon Pack

Workspace Array - 4*4, 5*5

Live icon effect - Zoon, Bounce, Rotation

▣ Dock Bar

MX Button - 3D MX theme open

Scroll type - Horizontal, Vertical

▣ MX Theme

Theme Change : Text -> Image

Theme Position : Up, Down, Left, Right

▣ Application

User Icon' dock menu

*enables a user to change icons at dock menu

Smart menu

*sort by Categrory / ABC / Date

View of memory usage

▣ Icon Pack

Workspace Array - 4*4, 5*5

Live icon effect - Zoon, Bounce, Rotation

▣ Dock Bar

MX Button - 3D MX theme open

Scroll type - Horizontal, Vertical

▣ MX Theme

Theme Change : Text -> Image

Theme Position : Up, Down, Left, Right

Lightning Launcher - 1.5+

Description and features

Lose the fat, keep the muscle. Be warned, Lightning Launcher is on steroïds.

Lightning Launcher: Lose the fat, keep the muscle. Be warned, this launcher is on steroïds.

Tips, please read this first:

Use "LLW App Widget" if you want to add Android widgets.

This app is started through the HOME key and not from your app drawer since LL is itself a launcher. If you cannot select it through the HOME key then you need to clear the defaults for your current launcher.

for any question or suggestion, do not hesitate to ask: pierrox@pierrox.net

This application has been designed to minimize memory usage and be fast: the more memory you have for your applications, the faster they will run. In other words Lightning Launcher has been built from the ground to preserve your phone's resources and keep it smooth.

In spite of its ridiculously small size (less than 60kb!), Lightning Launcher is packed with a fair amount of features and brings to Android a very unique concept: the home screen can be seen as a giant surface on which you are free to put icons, shortcuts or widgets exactly where YOU WANT, and not limited to a 4x4 grid. Pinch to zoom in or out the desktop, use the home key to switch between a full scale view or the normal size, or double tap on empty space as in the web browser to immediately see all your icons. And everything stay functional whatever the zoom level is: widgets are alive, icons can be clicked, and so on.

Lightning Launcher drops rarely used features and focuses on useful ones but comes nevertheless with numerous customization options. Icons and widgets can be moved, scaled and even rotated freely. Each object can be configured independently, you can change the font, the label, the icon and much more !

The package is extremely small, only a few kilobytes. What it means is that the Android system do not need to load several megabytes to run this app. Lightning Launcher starts faster and run in perfect harmony with your other apps.

For people kindly asking why the CALL_PHONE permission is needed (notice that this the only one needed by LL!): this is needed for direct call shortcuts, and this permission is included in all major launchers, including Go and Pro.

For other people not asking why and putting stupid one star comments: go away, you have just lost a unique chance to try something new and better, have a good day.

DXHome Launcher - 2.1+

Description and features

DXHome, a highly customized launcher replacement app., is a perfect launcher for Android phones. It is created by the Dianxinos Enterpriser team in Innovation Works invested by Dr. Kaifu Lee. Highly customizable with various themes, colorful desktop transitions, easy operating……, just like its name in Chinese, Dianxin is making the home of your Android phone colorful and enjoyable!

What could you get from DXHome?

So many themes to enjoy!

Want your phone to change with your mood?! Try themes we designed for you!

DXHome presents its first six themes of totally different styles!

NO.1 Dianxin Default Desktop Theme--- it is peaceful, clear, warm……, all the nice feelings DXHome wants you to feel. Name it by yourself. It’s our gift~^-^~

NO.2 Midsummer Theme--- get fidgety from the hate outside? Pick some cool and fresh air here!

NO.3 Cake Theme--- are you a foody? How about some candy and cakes now~^-^~ Try it and tell us how it’s like? DXHome is “cooking” more and more for you if you like~

NO.4 Batman— a big Batman fan? Here he comes! COOL!

NO.5 Clothing— want your phone to be cute? DXHome makes suit for your icon! Try it on!

NO.6 Tree & Shadow— at the end, come and sit down beside the tree, just enjoy the peaceful nightfall now.

Espier Launcher - 2.1+

Description and features

Espier Launcher is the best launcher for your smartphone

Espier Launcher is a desktop for your smartphone or tablet which is based on Android 2.2 or later. It brings you an entirely new interaction experience, and makes your smartphone and/or tablet to be different from the rest.

Main Features

Simplified Menu

Rename and hide the apps

Theme manager

Icons arrange

Internet

Support android 4.0

EZ Launcher - 2.2+

Description and features

EZ Launcher, the most convenent way to operate your phone.

EZ Launcher(beta) is coming, a cool home replacement app, with the most convenient way to operate & organize your phone.

#Features:

Genius app list brings you the app you most want

Auto category can help you automatically categorize your apps

Quick app search to find the app you want in app list directly

Pre-loaded app manager tool with all task manager, uninstaller, app2sd and etc functions in one place

Useful and handy widgets: Clock & Weather Widget, Task Manager Widget, SMS Widget, Switch Widget, Bookmark Widget, Calendar Widget

Hide folders page, hide apps in app drawer

Balancer Launcher - 2.1+

Description and features

Useful Launcher, good performance, run fast, has cool ui~~

Balancer Launcher is a Home(Launcher) app, like ADWLauncher,LauncherPro,Go Launcher,Launcher7,Zeam,Regina Launcher etc, which is focused on provide users a brief and useful Home. The Launcher has smooth ui effect and perfect performance, it can launch application quickly.

Be compared with some other similar applications, It has better performance and do cut off some useless settings, we think a simple and cool application is what a user wanted exactly and we will try our best to create one for you.

Features:

Support apps' sort

Can uninstall apps quickly

Built-in File Browser

Cool wallpapers

good sunny clock widget

Nemus Launcher - 2.1+

Description and features

A Home replacement Application with

Low memory usage

Quick response

Easy App finding/management

Easy Workspace management

Easy Folder management

[Features]

DockBar page count customization

Page indicator hiding

Grid size customization

Hiding system status bar with gesture

Missed call & Received sms badge display

Widget Resizing

Themes (native ZIP themes & SSKIN themes downloadable from market)

1 to 9 workspaces

Various App list styles

Expandable folders in workspace & app list

Workspace and app menu switchers (screen preview)

Highlight recently used apps

Scrollable bottom docks / QuickSetting docks

Scrollable widgets

App-Hide&Lock / Screen-Lock

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FTL Launcher Pro - 2.3+

Description and features

Make no mistake, this is the fastest launcher you'll ever run. Small, light, configurable. The Gingerbread launcher as it should have been. No useless stuff, no compromises. Performance and usability are the driving forces here.

On version 3.0 Pro users have a all new game to play now: The Pro version can use existing ADW, GoLauncher and LauncherPro Icon and Dock themes, giving FTL and unprecedented array of possible theming. You can even mix Dock and Icon themes from different launchers. Google Play is yours for the take.

And of course you still have the other extras: configurable homsecreen grid from 4x4 to 6x6, resizeable widgets, and, never seen in any launcher: control over core Android window animation speed.

Important: FTL supports all resolutions and ICS, but only 800x480, 854x480, 960x540 and 480x320 devices have 3D drawer enabled! But as it is natively accelerated anyway, 2D drawer should be very fast.

Features:

Theming support: The Pro version can use existing ADW, GoLauncher and LauncherPro Icon and Dock themes, giving FTL and unprecedented array of possible theming.

Tweaked for extreme speed and smoothness

Fully accelerated 3D Waterfall app drawer

Option to use "normal" 2D app drawer

Configurable support for resizeable widgets: only when adding them to the homescreen, you cannot edit them later.

Configurable Homescreen grid: From 4 to 6 rows, and 4 to 6 columns

Configurable number of homescreens: from 1 to 9 with configurable default homescreen

Choice between 3 and 5 icon Dock

Configurable Dock icons size

Configurable "swipe down" and "swipe down" independently to any of the following:

Includes anim speed: precise control over core Android windows/transition animation speed

Configurable Support for launcher auto-rotation

Configurable Infinite looping of homescreens

Configurable support for scrollable widgets

LauncherPro - 2.0+

Description and features

Simple. Powerful. Fast. Customizable.

If you can't open it, download "ClearDefaultHome" or "Home Switcher"

- Super-smooth scrolling

- Animated screen previews (like Exposé or HTC Sense)

- Up to 7 home screens

- App drawer (2D and 3D!) with a fly-in effect and smooth scrolling

- Scrollable shortcut dock.