[Ascend Mate 7 General] blackinfinity:
I have always hated the stock huawei launcher.

Huawei is equipment with kind of bad hardware with and cpu that are not optimized enough.

A lot the performance and lag related problem seem to be solved with Marshmallow since I seen people say how impressed they are how much faster apps are open etc

they really see the difference so it is clear because people see the difference there is a performance problem with mate 7 lollipop is just that people are used to it.

Huawei is trying to mask its performance problems with using slow animations, slow animations makes me very frustrated and make me very unproductive since everything is going so slow, I want fast and smooth animation, I have set in developer options 0.5x on all 3 animation related settings. This solves a lot of things the problem is the hardware is not really designed for these fast animations, when using this settings you will see a lot more easy the performance difference between launcher since the hardware is working more close to its maximum capacity.

God knows when marshmallow will be released I would guess around q4 2016 not earlier honestly.

So what can we do if you are as me a desperate need for a real world performance boost and cant stand the sluggish software performance ?

I can tell you your best chance to get a new phone with new performance is to change launcher.

Please consider my main goal is performance here, if you ask me a lot of launchers have way too much bloat since they are free they must make money some how, the search function

in many good launcher is one example, the search function is filled with so much bloat crap that it slows down the performance , besides this there is many good launcher like c laucnher cheetah launcher launcher line launcher but all have this really bad search function which just make me hate the launcher, please note that the differences in launchers are not in the home screen or app drawer they all have equally well optimized performance here, it is when opening and switching app and also browsing you will sere the best differences

I did earlier a research and tried out many launchers in the end I did end up with Apex laucnher, it did gave me the fastest and smoothest animations , Nova Launcher does really not like Mate 7 please consider I use the 3GB variant, but I found a lot more sluggish performance in web browser a lot more lag when opening and switching app.

Last week I decided to try a lot more launchers a chance, focusing on performance, unfortunately not many laucnhers have the same good folder management as nova/apex/google now but they have a lot bigger folder which is non-ergonomic and one hand usage for a big phone like mate 7 on earlier test I did diss all laucnhers who not have this folder management, but I have now decided to compromise in this regard and be open to try other launchers as well

After trying like 30 launchers I was about to give up, but then I tested this kind of new laucnher called "launcher lab" , i was very postively surprised it works very well with Mate 7, it is a plus that it is kind of mordern looking but I focus mainly on performance and animations, the laucnhers has its own app opening animation which seem to work well with the Mate 7 Gpu.

[IMG="Best launcher for Mate 7 2016"]https://lh3.ggpht.com/0Gp6X7V2bmA1JkVeeEk7-SPgxPZVVn8BvOu3_BStfOi5p3rzbomYn2ojfVvj3ywU6mA=w300-rw[/IMG]​

So to sumurize, Laucnher lab is the best possible upgrade in the wait for Marshmallow, this laucnher is faster then Apex for me less micro lag and will for sure give better and fast animation performance when opening and switching apps, no lag, while you can get fast and smoth animations with other laucnhers I see no micro lag with this one, the biggest difference I see in chrome, chrome is now a lot more fast switching tabs are a lot more smooth and opening REMEMBER THIS IS ALL WHEN HAVING 0.5X ANIMATION SPEED ON ALL 3 ANIMATION SETTINGS IN DEVELOPER OPTIONS SO IF I AM GOING TO RECOMMEND YOU THIS LAUCNHER THIS IS A REQUIREMENT.

You can download it here

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gtp.launcherlab

I no longer recommend this launcher it become sluggish after some time

I now recommend

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.pierrox.lightning_launcher_extreme

it gives superior launcher I am impressed with this one