Well, I thought it was time to revisit the other big home screen replacement app called ADW.  I remember way back when it first came about, you needed to have root permissions to install it.  Now it’s available via the android market.  Originally, this was a decent replacement launcher.  It was better than stock and was pretty zippy once you configured it right … Then LauncherPro came out and I’ve been hooked and even blogged on it here.  Well, It seems that even LauncherPro has sacrificed speed and performance for a few added features … I’d rather take speed and performance.

With this in mind and my disappointment with the road LauncherPro was heading, I decided to give ADW another shot.  Last time I used it, was about a month ago and there weren’t any improvements.  What caught my attention to retry ADW was that cyanogen was making it his default launcher for his CyanogenRom.  Knowing cyanogen, that speaks volumes.  I downloaded it from the market and was most pleased.

• We have speed again.  Minimal to no choppiness in desktop screen transitions.
• Pinch zoom now available to preview all available desktop screens.
• Adjustable widget sizes.  Resize any widget … May not look good for all widgets though
• Adjustable desktop space from 4×4 up to 8×8 … (well …8×8 doesn’t look so good but the 5×4 is what I wanted anyway)
• Adjustable app drawer.  (I took out the so called galaxy side scrolling thing.  Reminds me too much of an iFail)
• Drag to uninstall … (looks like it was inspired by LauncherPro)

I’m sure there is lots more, these are just the few I’ve been tinkering with that I thought deserved to be mentioned.

Android Market Link