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hey guys it's Brandon minimun from pocketnow.com not too long ago a new project showed up on Kickstarter for a new Android home screen or launcher called chameleon chameleon was mainly designed for tablets allowing you to have a more beautiful display in a different home screen for different scenarios so you would have a work home screen and an evening home screen and the home screen would changed based on your location or the time of day chameleons had a lot of promise well chameleon is out in beta right now to those that have backed the Kickstarter project I've got a copy of a beta here and while it's not really done or even close to done we can begin to see the underpinnings of what just might be one of the coolest launchers to come out for Android tablets and actually Android phones too let's check out chameleon beta for Android let's get to it oh and here it is chameleon launcher and again it's in beta and it operates a little bit different than other launchers out there or a lot lot bit different and the real promise is in the future potential of these widgets so right now I've got a handful of widgets i've got a twitter search for HTC up there which will update on a regular basis got a pocket now newsfeed XD developers new news feed and the weather up here and all of these are kind of scrollable within their own frames now let's say I want to add a widget so you tap and hold on one of the homescreen box and you go to widgets now the real promise here is with the addition of widgets chameleon UI when they first came out showed a Netflix origin a Spotify widget Facebook widget and right now you're limited to only 5 which aren't incredibly useful but some of them are pretty cool so you can go to this Twitter widget click the Settings button and where did it go I must have hit the X button actually so we go back to Twitter and hit the Settings button and from here we can either add a Twitter feed account if you've got an account that you want to watch or we can do a search which is cool because if you want to see trending topics like what's going on with Mars right now we can type in Mars click done and it will stream in all the tweets that are occurring as a result of the Curiosity rover thing landing on Mars now we can go to other home screens too we can do the same tap and hold we can change there's some tooltips there we can change the wallpaper limited selection right now but they're all actually kind of nice and we press the checkmark and we've got three blank home screens there and you can add more home screens as you wish down here we press the home screen chooser this is where you would go to add a new home screen or edit the content of a particular home screen now you also get a doc down here with chameleon and so you can tap and hold these and throw them away and then here's the app tray we can go into the app tray and add whatever you want down to the dock and the dock is actually side scrollable so if we add more than can fit what you'll see is that if I do this right it doesn't like duplicates okay if I do this right it will kind of push over some other ones to the side so when we go back it Scrolls to the side and you have a different set of dock icons on every home screen so again the idea is that you have a different home screen for a different time of day apparently there will be advanced functionality that lets the tablet automatically switch to a home screen based on location time and that kind of thing so so far so good you can't really get this right now unless you back to the project and if you back the project you download this from google play then your send an email to allow it to authenticate to your device but this looks promising we'd love to see new launchers we'd love to see people try to change the Android UI because that's what's Android is all about customizing and customizing and customizing so anyway if you like this video please give us a thumbs up and let us know what you think about chameleons that's it for now and thanks for watching