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  • - 2011, HTC Desire

    Running ADW Launcher on probably Android Froyo, and the Tron Legacy theme. Tron Legacy was released only a month prior to this screenshot, and I was a huge fan, so I themed everything I had with Tron themes. It was a tough decision whether to go for the Nexus One or the Desire, in the end, I picked the Desire because it had slightly more RAM and physical navigation buttons. Plus, the optical joystick on it was awesome. Also most likely running a custom ROM, not sure which one but possibly Oxygen.

    - 2013, Nexus 4

    I guess I was testing out TeamViewer for Android here. Not sure about the launcher, but still stuck on the Tron theme lol. Running Android Jellybean, Paranoid Android, with pie controls in the second screenshot (man I miss the pie controls. And old PA, with the per-app DPI, Halo and other cool stuff).

    - 2013, Nexus 4

    Still on the Tron theme (don’t judge), but this time I’ve switched to Smart Launcher. This is probably the launcher I liked the most and stuck with the longest, thanks to it’s automatic app categorization, which meant I no longer had to create folders and manually organize my apps. I stuck with Smart Launcher until it’s inevitable enshittification started. Running CyanogenMod 11 (KitKat).

    It’s November 2013 and I finally got over Tron lol, and started getting more into minimal home screens.

    Running XuiMod (Xposed module), which brought back the Gingerbread-style recents. (on KitKat).

    Bonus video showing off my entire setup running Smart Launcher, crDroid and a few of my apps at the time: https://youtu.be/2JMBPtKzx2o

    I’ve got tons more screenshots and videos, but don’t want to spam this thread. If anyone’s interested though I’ll be happy to share. :)



  • From from what I heard, apparently it’s a lot slower than Box4Droid, although it’s easier to use.

    There’s also the upcoming Cassia emulator, which looks promising and should be better than either of them.

    As for the use case, there are plenty of good PC games without a decent Android port/equivalent. A lot of us spend more time on Android than on PC, so it makes sense that we’re starting to see more and more projects like these (besides, most native Android games suck).





  • d3Xt3r@lemmy.worldOPtoAndroid@lemdro.idSync for Lemmy is now available for everyone
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    I left Reddit because Spez is an asshole and he killed third-party API access (which, btw, impacted more than just clients - many useful bots/scripts died too as a result of this change).

    For many of us, Sync was Reddit, and killing Sync basically killed Reddit for us, but now that Sync is back (for Lemmy), many of us are more than happy to pay a subscription to support the dev, instead of supporting Reddit. ljdawson is an awesome developer who actually listens to his users and updates his apps regularly. If you don’t want to support him and/or use a different app, that’s your call of course, but for fans of Sync, it’s like coming back home after a long time and getting that feeling of “there’s no place like home”.