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over time people want to change the way that their smartphone looks depending on what platform that may be easy or not so easy to do but we always want to refresh things on Android that's not difficult especially when you're running tile launch or beta I'm Joe Levi this is PocketNow let's go take a look this app is called tile launcher and it tries to emulate Windows Phone 8 with its nice tiles you can rearrange them you can resize them you can do all kinds of stuff with them you can put widgets in here you can see that I've got widgets down at the bottom I've got widgets over here pretty much the only thing that these tiles don't do is animate like Windows 8 live tiles but you can do a whole bunch of other stuff with them adding tiles as simple as coming in here let's take our barcode scanner drop it right there if I want to modify that I can tap it and resize it whichever direction I want to go I can move it by long-pressing and moving it around I can tap the wrench icon to go in and change the name if I don't want this to be barcode scanner if I just want it to be nothing put a space in there I can change the background color or image to whatever I'd like let's do a different color in here choose a color and then tap on the color picker let's choose that bright lime green and save that and now I've got it and I can do lots of stuff if I want to change some of the settings launcher settings in here general lets me change the theme from light to dark icon pack I've got all these kind of built-in if we want to change to an iPhone like theme you know an Android phone running a Windows 8 like skin with an iPhone icon pack you know you can do that with your workspace you can either show or hide the launcher you can define how many screens you want how many rows on those screens when you get over here to tiles you can change the background transparency of them all kinds of fun stuff you can even change whether you want this to scroll horizontally or if you want it to scroll vertically so I've got mine so it's scrolling up and down rather than side-to-side now I can also set up another screen that has favorites on it I haven't done that and I of course can customize my wallpaper this also switch over here looks pretty good on a tablet the first device that you saw was my Nexus 4 this is a nexus 10 much larger you can see with horizontal scrolling setup if I want to add something again let's just do a quick widget ad here let's add another analog clock just because we can and we'll put that right there we can even move that off to the side a little bit so now we can see it just peeking in off the side really kind of cool it's currently in beta it's available either from xda-developers as an apk or from the Play Store we'll have a link for you over at pocketnow.com it's not as feature fill to some of the other launchers that you may know of but hey you know it does exactly what it's supposed to it's quick it lets you do a really neat kind of Windows e or non Android you look on your Android powered device I think it's kind of neat and I'm probably going to run this for the next couple days what do you think about it head over to pocketnow.com and let us know your thoughts in the comments over there and you know while you're at it why not tell your friends about pocket now on Facebook or Twitter on Twitter we're at pocket now it's for pocket now I'm Joe Levi thanks for watching