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Hi everyone, so today I'm taking a look at a new launcher.
This is called QM Launcher and
the idea is to kind of re-invent the way we think about these 3D desktops.
So this is the matrix
and basically it's a giant cube and each one of these grids on the cube or
squares on the cube represents an icon.
Now where this is quite clever
is in the motion that edges
are important.
So an application that's placed along an edge is available from multiple edges.
If it's placed on a corner, it's available from three edges,
one, two and three.
So what I'm going to do, just show you how this works, we'll add an application to the edge
just add any old thing, there we go.
Pick it up and we can just drag it where we want it to be
and you can see there now it's available on three edges altogether.
With this particular type of launcher
it kind of changes the nature of the Android desktop because
you don't have any widgets, you only have this kind of one screen here so what
they've done is added this widgets area
and you can use this to add any old widget you like it to basically
and you can then rearrange that widget wherever you'd like it to be.
So that kind of takes over your traditional kind of widget sitting on your home
screen. Instead you have a couple of these widget panels that you can pull down
from the top, as you see, it's been
quite nicely done, this has integrated so the cube actually does move
out of the way.
Likewise down here at the bottom you have a set of quick launch options
very very similar. The one thing I think I'd really like to see the developer do is
work on the kind of presentation we've got here.
It's great, the functionality's really really good and it's a clever idea but
the GUI could use a bit of work, some areas don't quite meet properly.
You can see here across the top on this widget drop down and it just feels like
it could do with a little bit of extra polish.
At times it occasionally feels like this has been developed on a slightly older
Android handset
just because of the graphics style really but it's clever,
very very clever.
and you can see if you press your centre button you can bring all of your apps in
using an app drawer style thing. It's very quick and fluid, that's one thing I found really
really enjoyable about this application is the raw speed of it,
you can use that to open up your applications
long press, grab an app
drop it onto the cube
or onto the matrix as it were.
You can spin the cube any which way you like.
In the options, or
preferences, there's not a huge number of things you can change here really just
the speed of the matrix is it going to snap to the grid
as it moves along that's all you can do is have it snapping
each time to a particular face.
But that's QM Launcher not a bad attempt at producing a different kind of
way of interacting with an Android device.
Worth checking out if you're interested in, you know, something a bit different.