Droid Hacks » home http://droidhacks.com Tips and Tricks for Android Users Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:44:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Long Press on the Home Key http://droidhacks.com/2009/05/long-press-on-the-home-key/ http://droidhacks.com/2009/05/long-press-on-the-home-key/#comments Fri, 29 May 2009 18:58:15 +0000 Lead Hacker http://droidhacks.com/?p=41 Intuitive to Nokia users, but I don’t think folks coming from other platforms have picked it up. If you press and hold the home key you get a list of recent apps, which makes switching around a lot easier if you’re bouncing back and forth. Here’s what the app list looks like when it comes up:

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]]> http://droidhacks.com/2009/05/long-press-on-the-home-key/feed/ 1 Launcher Dock http://droidhacks.com/2009/05/launcher-dock/ http://droidhacks.com/2009/05/launcher-dock/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 16:02:28 +0000 Lead Hacker http://droidhacks.com/?p=34 Another widget I’m running now that I have Cupcake installed is “Launcher Dock”. It’s a 1×1 widget that holds launchers for up to 8 apps. I put some of my less frequently launched (but still relatively frequently used) apps in there so that I can have all their icons on the main screen.  This is a shot of my main screen with a configured Launcher Dock by the bottom right corner, just above the San Mateo weather widget:

launcher_dock_1When you tap the widget once it brings up a selector with launchers for each of the apps you’ve added plus an icon to start the widget configuration interface. Here’s what mine looks like after tapping on the widget:

launcher_dock_2And what the configuration interface looks like if you tap on that center icon:

launcher_dock_3I think it’s a pretty slick widget. Great way to increase launcher density if you have a few widgets taking up some space. And it looks pretty good there on the home screen.

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