But it's up to you!įor a 'Preview' product, this is surprisingly stable. Launcher settings are in the main phone app drawer under 'Microsoft Launcher Preview' - the top item is a link to the phone's default Settings hierarchy, but everything below is new and you can customise a huge number of things about how the launcher looks and behaves (right) including how it responds to gestures - knock yourself out here to mimic your previous favourite launcher!Īlso present is the choice of dark (left) or light (right) theme - both work well, though the light one is dazzling at night, plus it uses up more battery power on modern AMOLED screens.
As shown on the right, you can customise what's shown here, essentially up to date information and shortcuts that are useful to your life.
Off to the left of the homescreen is the 'Your feed' pane, of which just a fragment is shown here. And it's not hard to see why most don't allow rotation - transforming a portrait layout to landscape is a tougher computer science problem than you might imagine! I'm sure Microsoft Launcher will get further tweaked in this department as the months roll on. Rotating the phone also rotates the homescreen, unlike most standard Android launchers. Note that here the icons are all labelled - the labels are optional. The main home screen, with typical Android home features: a time and weather widget from the launcher provider (so Bing Weather) space for widgets and shortcut icons a search widget from the launcher provider (so, as you'd expect, searches are done through Bing!), including camera capture and voice search facility (Bing again), and then a five icon 'dock' that's persistent however many home screens you add (right) the dock can be swiped up to reveal a second row of shortcuts, a unique feature. You can grab this for any Android phone here in the Play Store.
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