Flick Launcher allows you to modernize your Android phone

Android users have the possibility to personalize their phone through the different launchers that we can find in the Play Store. This one that we bring you is a very complete one. It's called Flick Launcher and it's heavily inspired by the Pixel Launcher. It simplifies our start menu and nallows us to access some very cool features.

The app is still in beta, ie in testing, but you can download and use it now to see how it goes.Of course, do not be surprised if it gives you some failures. We are going to tell you about some of the tools that this Flick Launcher offers and that make it special.

Shortcuts in apps

One of the great improvements of the Flick Launcher is that it allows you to access the app's shortcuts. This function emulates the iPhone's 3D Touch, without pressure control, mind you. Simply by keeping your finger pressed on the icon, we make a small menu appear.

Depending on the app in question, some options or others will appear. For example, in the case of YouTube, we can access our subscriptions directly or do a search In the case of Chrome, we can enter an incognito tab directly. In all cases, it allows you to create custom accesses, and in apps that are not native, it allows you to uninstall them directly from that direct access.

Customize icons

Keeping your finger pressed on the home screen, several options will appear. We can change the wallpaper, add widgets, more pages at the start or enter settings Entering this section we will access a menu that allows us to customize the interface of our Flick Launcher.

For example, we can select if we want square or round icons We can also choose if we want them larger or smaller, and we can even Decide the number of rows and columns for each app block. We can even put a color border to choose from. We also have the option to decide the background color of each block, and its opacity level.

Gestures

In this same section of Settings, there is a special section to enable gestures. One of them is to double tap the screen to lock and unlock the phone. Another option is to customize that double tap to open the app that we want.

We can also customize gestures such as drag one or two fingers up or down In all cases, we can choose which app will open when we make those gestures. This type of functions reminds us a lot of the Android customizations of mobiles such as the ZTE Blade V7 Lite.

Lock apps with fingerprint or password

Lastly, the Flick Launcher settings menu allows us to shield our apps with a lockWe can choose between two options to unlock: fingerprint or password. For devices that have a fingerprint, it is as easy as choosing the app that we want to secure and that's it. Our fingerprint settings will be maintained, and we will only have to put our finger, and the app will open.

The other option is to add a typed password. It is an option designed for those terminals that do not have a fingerprint reader. The effect is the same, only in this case you have to type the password.

In summary, this Flick Launcher is an app that allows us to reinvent the interface of our Android. We can speed up use through shortcuts and gesture systems, and have our apps secure with their blocking system. Highly recommended.