Revolution Launcher

Revolution Launcher is a marking menu based home screen for your device.

What is a marking menu you ask? Basically, it is a circle of icons around a center point you navigate by using a swiping gesture from the center point toward the item you want to select. In the case of Revolution Launcher, you can also press the center button to open and close the menu and press the icons like traditional shortcuts.

Using the launcher is as simple as unlocking the screen, putting your thumb on the middle button, swiping towards a shortcut, and getting on with your life. No stretching to reach the upper corner for an icon, or repositioning your hand where you almost drop the phone you paid multiple hundreds of dollars for.

In experiments and real world use, marking menus are up to 3.5 times faster, less prone to error, and easier to remember.

- User learning and performance with marking menus. Kurtenbach, G. & Buxton, W.

The idea of a pocket sized computer pretty much pushed the grid and folder interface onto smart phones so it was familiar to a generation of keyboard and mouse users. Even if your smartphone is, in fact, a pocket sized computer; most people aren't carrying around a keyboard and mouse to use the phone.

A more traditional grid lies underneath the marking menu.

The hybrid navigation of grid and gadget is where things really make a change in your digital life. For frequently used apps and tasks, use the marking menu gadget. For not so frequently used shortcuts, use the grid.

Categories sort and organize your apps in the app drawer.

And, you can create shortcuts on either the grid or gadget linking to any app drawer category. For example, one swipe on the gadget and you're looking at an app drawer full of games, or your social media apps, or your photography hobby tools, I think you get the picture.

The "Hidden" category can reclaim space taken by apps you can't uninstall.

Revolution Launcher was built with ease of use and customization as it's two core philosophies.

Things like themes, custom fonts, colors, cool wallpapers, tweaks to the interface, these are where you get to make it yours.

The Theme Manager is a great place to explore and install themes from all sorts of theme makers. Deep links on websites can be used for auto installing themes or simply downloading and loading them as ZIP files from anywhere.

To complete the look, get some icon packs and apply them to your entire home screen. If the icon pack doesn't have an icon for a particular app, you can pick your own. Not just from icon packs either, select any image on your phone to use as an icon.

Switching to night mode is great for your eyes at night.

Revolution Launcher themes have night modes that are also great for your eyes.

Wallpapers can be chosen separately for day and night, or choose one and it will dim when night mode is on.

As of versions 5.0 The Theme Maker's Kit is available for anyone to make and share their own themes.

If you have basic graphic arts skills and can edit some text documents, the community would love to see what you can come up with!

Visit War Elephant Software @ www.WarElephantSoftware.com for more information, themes, social media links, etc.

This is currently a one man show, but I'll do my best to ensure every user gets the personal support they need to fully enjoy the app.