How to make your Android phone look like a Pixel 2

Taking advantage of the landing of Google's Pixel terminals in the Spanish market, we propose a wash of each in your terminals. It's the good thing about Android: its high level of customization. We can change the application launcher and, with it, the aesthetics of the icons, add functions by gestures, adapt the desktop grid and so on. Why have we named the latest Google terminals before? Well, because the apk (installation file) of the Google Pixel 2 launcher has already been leaked.And if you want to try it, have its functions and visual aesthetics, we will teach you how to do it.

After the tutorial we will explain what you can find, again, in the launcher of the Google Pixel 2 We advise you to Keep the tutorial with your mobile in hand, so that you don't get lost and get, satisfactorily, to have the aesthetics of the Pixel 2 on your own phone.

So you can have the Google Pixel 2 launcher on your device

Before getting into the subject, some things that you should keep in mind:

The application you are installing comes from a trusted external source. Despite this, you must give permission to your phone because, by default, Google only allows you to install applications from Google Play. To do this, you just have to enter Phone Settings>Security>Allow the installation of Applications from unknown sources.Only if you give permission, you will be able to install apps outside of the store. Of course, be very careful with what you install, because you could end up with a nice virus. Never install apps from sources you don't know or have any doubts about.

Once you have given permission, we will go to this link, corresponding to the APK Mirror page, a well-known Android application repository, completely legal. Here we can only download applications that are free, never paid.

Once downloaded, we proceed to install it. Next, press the start button and choose the Google Pixel launcher as the default launcher. It's that simple. If you want to go back to the old launcher, you should do the following:

Go into phone settings and look for something similar to 'Default Launcher' or 'Home'. Depending on the model, something different will appear.

Here you can choose which launcher you prefer to use and switch between one and the other without having to uninstall any of them. If in the end you want to get rid of it, you will have to uninstall it, directly, from the list of applications in settings. And you will not be able to be using it if you want to uninstall it, you must have another one in use. NEVER, and we put it in capital letters to make it clear, delete a launcher if this is the only one you have installed... You could be left without a mobile phone.

The launcher is only compatible with phones that have at least version Android 6 Marshmallow.

What's new in the Pixel 2 launcher

Some users may think what benefits they would have if they installed the Google Pixel 2 launcher. And here we go: just say that many of the new features that it includes have been incorporated as a result of the arrival of Android 8 Oreo, so its installation can be very interesting.

To access the launcher settings you just have to press and hold an area free of widgets on the main screen.

Reporting point pending

Just above the corresponding application icon, we can have a small dot as a notice that we have pending issues in that app. A WhatsApp message that we have not read, for example, a pending email or an update to be installed. Something very useful if you are clueless users.

Icon mask choice

Starting with Android 8 Oreo, all icons will have the same shape: either square, or circular, shaped like a teardrop or with rounded edges. At the moment, only Google's own. As the version of Android is implemented on more devices, the rest of the applications.All this to try to standardize the ecosystem of icons, since now each app designs its image in the way they want. Thus, we can add a mask to all those icons, if we want, to give the desktop a clearer and cleaner appearance. So that we understand each other: more similar to the iOS interface.

New information and search widgets

Now, we will have Google's own widget located in the bottom part of the screen. At the top, two widgets that form a single one, with information about the weather and the day we are in.

And these are the news of the launcher of the Google Pixel 2. Do you dare to install it?