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00:00:00 – 00:19:34
The video discusses the features and customizations available in Nova Launcher, focusing on its upcoming version 8. Key points include enhanced animations, deep customization options, and improvements like micro results in the search bar. Users can customize home screen elements, app drawer settings, and gestures, with recommendations to optimize the user experience. Nova Launcher version A is also mentioned, emphasizing integration with gestures and improved animations, alongside promotion of a home screen customization app called Palette. Overall, the video showcases the versatility and advanced functionalities of Nova Launcher for Android users.
00:00:00
In this segment of the video, the focus is on Nova Launcher, a popular third-party home screen launcher for Android phones. The transcript highlights the long-standing success and active support for Nova Launcher, especially with the upcoming release of version 8. The narrator mentions an active community of beta testers and the improved animations in this new version, particularly noting the fluid app opening and closing animations introduced with Android 12. The transcript also mentions the default setup screen and upcoming customization options to explore in Nova Launcher version 8.
00:03:00
In this segment of the video, the focus is on exploring the customization options available in Nova Launcher. By long pressing the home screen and accessing settings, users can customize the launcher’s color palette, including system default, adapting to current wallpaper, or setting a custom color palette. The updated settings menu allows for changing individual colors of elements within the launcher, like pop-up menus or text, using presets or custom colors. The segment highlights how these color configurations can be deeply customized, affecting various elements within the launcher. Additionally, there are familiar settings carried over from previous versions, with notable new additions like a larger search bar. It mentions an issue with search result generation in the current beta version that may be fixed in future updates. Overall, users have access to various home screen customizations like icon sizing and grid settings within Nova Launcher.
00:06:00
In this segment of the video, the key points include customization options for Nova Launcher, such as changing dock settings, enabling advanced settings like widget overlap, and modifying app drawer settings. Important details discussed are the ability to categorize apps, adjust folder settings like alignment and appearance, and utilize features like pull to search in the app drawer. Additionally, enabling “Remember position” under advanced settings is highlighted as a useful feature for maintaining app drawer scroll position.
00:09:00
In this segment of the video, the focus is on customizing the home screen using Nova Launcher version 8. The video demonstrates how to enhance folder appearance by selecting unique icons from an icon pack and disabling the reshape option. It also introduces new features such as micro results in the search bar for smart functionality like calculations and unit conversions. Additionally, the video highlights the ability to customize search providers and add custom search providers. The segment also briefly mentions the icon style settings, gestures, and inputs, including new swipe left and swipe right options for launching apps or shortcuts on the far left or far right home screens.
00:12:00
In this segment of the video, the speaker recommends changing the home button action to “none” to avoid accidentally launching the Nova search shortcut. They demonstrate how to enable Google Discover on the left of the home screen by downloading and installing the Nova Google companion APK. The notification badges menu is discussed, where users can enable notification badges on app icons and choose between different styles, with the dots style being preferred. The backup and restore feature of Nova Launcher is highlighted, allowing users to create and restore backup files of their configuration settings and home screen layout. The Labs menu in the beta version of Nova Launcher 8 provides access to experimental settings, system permissions, debug, and weather settings. The Advanced menu includes options to restart Nova Launcher and choose the screen lock method.
00:15:00
In this part of the video, the speaker discusses the lock options available in the gestures and inputs menu. They mention two lock options – one that locks the screen similar to pressing the power button and another that completely locks the device, forcing the user to enter their pattern to unlock. Additionally, the speaker highlights an updated widgets interface in Nova Launcher that makes navigating through widgets quicker. They also mention advanced icon theming options, including the ability to customize app icons, change or remove app labels, and set swipe gestures for specific icons. The speaker emphasizes the value of these features in enhancing the functionality of the home screen. Lastly, they note that some settings require the paid version of Nova Launcher, but offer a promo code for Nova Launcher Prime to channel members, along with access to other monthly promo codes and a members-only Discord.
00:18:00
In this segment of the video, the speaker provides information about Nova Launcher version A, mentioning that there are similarities to previous versions and some settings menus may need refining. The major highlights of this version are the integration with gestures and improved animations. The speaker also promotes their home screen customization app called Palette, which features over 1500 unique setups compatible with Nova Launcher. Viewers are encouraged to check out the app and consider subscribing to the channel.