

It’s available in Google Play as Espier Launcher and Espier HD ( for larger screens). It offers quite a few customization options, including some that require a paid upgrade. This launcher replaces the app drawer with the infinitely long chain of iOS home pages, and uses icons that look a lot like Apples. This is an iPhone inspired home screen app which looked pretty good on my tablet: Click to Embiggen Espier Launcherįirst up is the Espier Launcher. Sidenote: Scroll down to the end of the post for a few tips on how to install these apps and how to switch between them. I didn’t finds that home screen (not yet), but while I was exploring I found a few fun alternatives that I thought would be fun to share. In short, I was looking for a home screen which would put my ebook library front and center. I was looking for a home screen that behaved and looked like the home screen on the Kobo Arc 7 (or possibly the home screen on the Kindle Fire HD). I was reminded of the many options today when I set out to find a new home screen app for my Hisense Sero 7 Pro. Don’t like the home screen on your tablet? There are a hundred alternatives to choose from! If you don’t like how something looks, you can search Google Play for a replacement.ĭon’t like a widget? There’s a dozen alternatives.

You can also choose a default action so that you’ll never have to see the default launcher again if you don’t want to.One of the great things about Android is that it is almost infinitely customizable. Once it’s installed you can tap the home button on your Kindle Fire and choose between the Amazon launcher and the GO Launcher. You don’t even need to venture outside the Amazon Appstore.Īll you need to do is download a free app called GO Launcher EX. If you’d rather have a different launcher that looks more like the Android interface seen on most phones and tablets, you can do that. That Amazon book case that greets you every time you turn on the tablet? It’s just an app called a Launcher. OK, now you have all the information you need to install third party apps that aren’t available in the App Store - but here’s something you may not have realized. I just did this and now my Fire looks almost the same as my Droid Bionic. In it they tell you how to change the Amazon launcher and use a more “standard” Android one – Go Laucher EX, for example. The best article on modifiyintg your Kindle Fire that I’ve seen is the one just published in Liliputing.
