‘SquareHome’ is a new launcher application with Windows 8 styles.
Enjoy the usability and beauty beyond Windows 8.

You can use the following features very intuitively with ‘SquareHome’.
create a tile by dragging an application, shortcut or widget.
resize the tile by dragging right-bottom corner.
control the size of widget in a tile by clicking the centeral button when resizing it.
change the style and form of a tile.
so many forms are supported: auto image, custom image, CPU load, available memory, battery level, missed calls, unread messages, unread Gmails, date/time…
apply a theme or icon pack easily.
make group of tiles and set the group label by tapping the header of it.
create a folder by dragging the group header.
easy search for applications, shortcuts and widgets.
hide useless applications.
assign behaviors to many gestures.
other many intuitive features.
What’s in this version : (Updated : Oct 3, 2013)

supports Portuguese(Brazil)
tile icon can be changed
added a new form: notification (counter)
enhanced battery level form
fixed some bugs and optimized
Required Android O/S : 2.2+
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‘SquareHome’ is a new launcher application with Windows 8 styles.
Enjoy the usability and beauty beyond Windows 8.

You can use the following features very intuitively with ‘SquareHome’.
create a tile by dragging an application, shortcut or widget.
resize the tile by dragging right-bottom corner.
control the size of widget in a tile by clicking the centeral button when resizing it.
change the style and form of a tile.
so many forms are supported: auto image, custom image, CPU load, available memory, battery level, missed calls, unread messages, unread Gmails, date/time…
apply a theme or icon pack easily.
make group of tiles and set the group label by tapping the header of it.
create a folder by dragging the group header.
easy search for applications, shortcuts and widgets.
hide useless applications.
assign behaviors to many gestures.
other many intuitive features.
What’s in this version : (Updated : Sep 12, 2013)


fixed the force close when dragging a tile group
supports correct sorting orders for language
added ‘hide app drawer button’ option
fixed a bug for some image selectors.
improved the tile arrangement algorithm
Required Android O/S : 2.2+
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It comes in handy when you want to launch apps, common settings, favorite contacts quickly.
Recommended by AddictiveTips.
Hotest Apps by AppBrain.

Features:
“Start” button
Tap on the “start” button to open taskbar. Scroll up/down to launch app. If you add folders, contacts, settings, click on theme to execute.

Change start button location
Click an hold for a while, then move around to change its location.

Smart “Start” button
Start button will be dimming if taskbar does not open in two seconds. It also learn the way you use “start menu” area and taskbar, then smartly adjust them for you.

Reorder apps
Open setting > Edit start menu item, then drag the icon in the right and move to change item order.

Hide apps
Open setting > Edit start menu item, then click on action bar > hide to exclude apps.

Create folder
Open setting > Edit start menu item, then click on action bar > add new to add new folder. Type folder name, select icon and folder type.

Folder type includes:
Applications
Settings
Contacts
Bookmark

What’s in this version: (Updated : Sep 5, 2013)
Improve gesture
Support new languages: Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Slovenian
Full change logs: http://www.rootuninstaller.com/2013/06/taskbar-windows-8-style-change-logs.html

Required Android O/S : 2.1+
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Next Launcher is a new launcher application which is full of glorious 3D elements and dynamic effects. Fancy 3D visual elements, gorgeous transition effects and humanized gestures bring you a unique and splendid operation experience and visual enjoyment.

Features:

Various operation for icons: icons support rotation, reset, select, align and so on. Operation is easy and fantastic.
Unlimited screen layout: placing icons or widgets randomly which forms your own home screen.
Stereoscopic screen preview: lots of screen display effects, dazzling animation of screen switching about adding or deleting screen.
Quick screen management: adding different kinds of elements in screen edit including application icons, folders and widgets. It’ll support changing wallpapers and themes soon.
Rotatable dock: inverting upward or downward the Dock can quickly switch among home screen, screen edit and screen preview.
Powerful app drawer: icons can be arranged by names or by time, and folders can be created by overlaying icons. Batch mode and operation of adding apps to screen are also available.
Beautiful scrolling effects: a variety of app drawer scrolling effects that provide a distinctive screen switching experience.
Fancy 3D widgets: 3D widgets that are based on Next Launcher are coming soon!Tips:

Please make sure your device has installed Google Play.
Phone performance:Android 2.3.3 and up; Dual-core models is better.
Suggestion:Watch the video of Next Launcher first, to know about the cool operation of the product.
Notice: We suggest users which use Galaxy Nexus don't remove the Menu icon. ;-)
Update:
(New) 3D Scene mode Beta (Menu->Preference->Switch to 3D scene mode)
(Fix) Freezing in some devices

Screenshots : Let's look!!

This application is designed by a motive from the ‘Start’ menu for Windows series.
Have you ever had some difficulties to search or manage applications installed on your device?
This app supports very similar user interface to ‘Start’ menu of MS Windows. So you can search and manage all applications easily.
Also, you can categorize your all installed apps to folders and create shortcut to a folder or a predefined group such as starred, hot, hidden and more. Other folder management apps are no more needed!
The application drawer will be successfully replaced by this.

Features:
Very similar UI to Windows Start menu
pin apps to the favorites list
hot apps list
decorate panel by adding a widget
hide, app info, uninstall, folder for apps, shortcuts and activities
create shortcut to folder or more.
various skins: Windows 7, Windows XP, Mac OS…

What’s in this version : (Updated : Aug 17, 2013)
added the option ‘Hide for’, in which you can select applications to hide the floating button when running
fixed some bugs
Required Android O/S : 2.2+
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