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This is pretty much the default setup for the Nexus. The main Home screen has a time and
date app that opens the Alarm app when the time is tapped, and the Calendar app when you
tap the date.
Apps you use all the time, such as Gmail, Chrome, People, and Google Maps are in the
Favorites Tray.
Additional Home screens contain the apps you use most frequently, arranged in groups by
function or alphabetically, or any way that works for you.
Widget Madness
This setup extends Apps Galore by adding large widgets to additional home screens, such
as Facebook, Twitter, calendar, a note widget such as ColorNote or EverNote, Flipboard,
and Feedly. By swiping the home screen, you can see recent activity in your social net-
works, keep an eye on upcoming events, see your notes, and keep an eye on the news
without opening an app. Of course, tapping any of these widgets opens the full app.
Stacked Favorites
This is my current setup because I've never liked screens that are too cluttered with icons
and widgets. (I like clean computer screens too.)
My lock screen has a Beautiful Widgets widget that displays the time, date, current weather,
and forecast. That way I can see that information just by opening the cover, which wakes
the device to the lock screen.
I have two Home screens. The main Home screen has the Google Search bar at the top
and a Beautiful Widgets widget that takes up the rest of the screen above the Favorites
Tray. The widget shows the time, date, current weather, five-day forecast, and battery state.
Nova Launcher Prime let me resize the widget to fill the screen. Tapping the time opens the
Alarm app, tapping the date opens Calendar, tapping the weather opens NOAA Weather
Free, and tapping the Battery icon opens battery status.
The Favorites Tray has the apps I use constantly- from left to right, Gmail, Chrome, DW
Contacts, EverNote, Google Maps, and The Photographer's Ephemeris.
The second Home screen has app folders arranged alphabetically across the top half of the
screen. Tapping any folder expands it to show the app icons. Below that are three widgets
for playing music- Jet Audio, Google Play Music, and Amazon MP3.
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