00:00Alright, what's up Amayaan, today I will show you how to install Launcher 14 alongside some
00:06custom icons.
00:07To get started we need to go to this website, I will provide the link in the description.
00:12Yep, Launcher is just like Launcher and it is the exact copy of Pixel Launcher but even
00:18better.
00:18It has some extra customizable abilities and some latest Android features.
00:24There is also quick switch support if you are using a rooted smartphone.
00:29You can download the Magisk module and you will be good to go.
00:34So here are some links if you want to stay in touch with the team.
00:37First of all go to this website, I will provide the link in the description.
00:41So you can download it for yourself and hit download Launcher 14.
00:45Launcher 2 is also available on Playstore but that is no longer supported and no longer functioning.
00:51So after you go to this website simply download Launcher 14 Beta 2.
00:55This is the latest version available.
01:16Let's wait for the installation to complete and then we will get into it.
01:20Well, it certainly took its time to install.
01:23Now let's open it up.
01:24And now as you can see we are into the Launcher.
01:29So first of all we are going to tap to set up the At A Glance widget.
01:37So also in the general settings we need to turn on the home screen rotation.
01:42I always turn it on because I need it sometimes.
01:45Here are some fonts if you want to change the fonts.
01:48There are lots of fonts available for you to change.
01:51You can select whichever one you want or simply just let the defaults do its job.
01:57You can change the fonts for general, headings, headings medium, body and body medium.
02:06Icon style is one of my favorite ones customizable abilities.
02:11You can change icons if you have downloaded an extra icons.
02:15For example custom icon packs, third party included.
02:18I will show you how to get to that.
02:21So in icon shape we can select some pre-picked shapes.
02:26These are available for you to change.
02:30And also you can also customize your own.
02:34Create custom icon shape.
02:36Let's do that first.
02:38Here we can see there are some slides available for you to change the option as much as you like
02:44or however you want to change it.
02:47Let's select a random shape and I think this looks beautiful so I'm gonna hit apply on it.
02:55This looks very nice.
02:57After you have applied it, go back.
02:59Now the custom icon shape is now applied.
03:02Auto adaptive icons is good for dark mode users especially me.
03:08So let's change the theme to dark.
03:11Here are some action curlers for the wallpaper.
03:14But I am going with the wallpaper settings.
03:16We do not need to change that.
03:20For notification dots we need to allow notification access to launch here.
03:25You can do that.
03:27Also we need the notification count.
03:30There are some other settings as well but I pretty much go with the default launcher system.
03:36So it looks as much as pixel like as possible.
03:40Okay so at a glance widget is so there are some other providers as well.
03:45I am going with the launcher version I don't think I need to change anything else.
03:50Also I don't have anything else pretty much installed.
03:54So I am going with the time and battery settings.
03:59Yep.
04:00You can also customize it later.
04:01Simply long press on it and hit customization.
04:04And then you can change the settings as well.
04:06So these icons look dope.
04:08Look dope.
04:09I like it.
04:10Now let's get into the custom icon packs.
04:13Go to your google play store and search for icon pack.
04:18There are a lot of third party icon packs available.
04:21For example let's try this nothing icon pack
04:24adopted version.
04:26Let's install it.
04:28First before installing we need to make sure that it is supported in launcher.
04:32Most of the third party icons are always supported in launcher but
04:36if it is not supported you can also give it a try.
04:40If it works works if not your luck.
04:45But I think most of the third party icons available from the play store are always supported in launcher.
04:52Launcher is an open source version and it is always supported.
04:56So let's try other icon pack.
04:58This is the lux icon pack and this is pretty much dark mode and color.
05:03So I like it as well.
05:05Let's see if it is compatible with launcher.
05:09There are lots of features here.
05:12So icon pack supported launcher section.
05:15Here you can see the launcher is right here.
05:19It is supported along with a lot of ton of other launchers as well.
05:25Unfortunately the original launchers that come with your phones are not supported.
05:30So all you need to do is install launcher or any other launcher that you want.
05:35For example the nova launcher right here.
05:37There are some other blue icon packs which are paid.
05:42I am also going with the free versions.
05:45I am not paying for these things.
05:47Okay now these are being installed.
05:49Also I have to show you other things as well.
05:52So if you go back to your home screen.
05:55If you press the home icon it goes back to your original launcher.
05:59And if you turn on launcher you can see the installation available.
06:08Installation progress is available.
06:10So let's change the default home app.
06:14So go to your apps and into the default apps.
06:17Depends on your mobile phone.
06:20On the home app select launcher and now launcher is your default home app.
06:25You can change the settings.
06:27If you go to your home it won't quit.
06:30It will always boot into the launcher.
06:33And let's go ahead and apply custom icon packs.
06:39So after you have opened the icon app.
06:42If you hit apply it says launcher does not support the auto system.
06:47You have to do it manually.
06:49This which is a very good thing.
06:52None of your apps have to show you apps, ads.
06:55And launcher will automatically apply your settings, your icons.
07:02So it is not automatically supported.
07:04So long press on the home screen.
07:06And go to your home settings.
07:10In the general there is nothing right here.
07:13Sorry not in the general.
07:15I need to turn off some notifications now.
07:18I don't need people to disturb me.
07:20Sorry about that.
07:21Okay so where we are supposed to be going?
07:24Yeah.
07:25Go to your icon style and select the third party app that you just installed.
07:30For example this nothing icons and in dark mode it looks really beautiful.
07:35I love it.
07:38Let's go ahead and change some as well.
07:41In wallpaper and style you can use that and open the apps directly to see what other features
07:48these apps provide.
07:52Okay so some of the apps are not supported by the third party custom icons.
07:59But you can also auto adopt icons to feel much better.
08:04Let's try the other one.
08:05This is the Lux Free and yeah man this looks beautiful.
08:11Unfortunately most of my apps are not supported by this third party icon app packs.
08:18So I always go with the original icons.
08:22I don't change much.
08:24So you can hit this is how you can install widgets on your launcher home.
08:32Like I the Brave Dino game good game.
08:38But when you are offline I want to play some games.
08:41So this bar is right here.
08:45Most of the time it is the Google app but if you do not have a Google app installed it
08:49always opens into YouTube.
08:51I actually disabled my Google app so that is why it is giving me the YouTube bar.
08:59If you don't want this bar you can also change it go in the settings.
09:03In the dock here you can change the dock option.
09:08If you do not want or you want to change some things in the app drawer you can change those.
09:13This is highly customizable.
09:15I don't need drawer search so I will turn off the search bar in the drawer.
09:20You can also change your folder styles.
09:23You can also change what the gestures do to your phone.
09:27I'm gonna keep the defaults.
09:29I don't think I need to change other thing.
09:32Okay so this looks like this looks pretty neat without the you know without the bar.
09:39So in the about section you get to know everything about this launch here.
09:44I will also make a video on how you can keep those open source apps that you downloaded from other
09:49websites up to date.
09:52That's why I will make another video.
09:55But this video was only about launch here and some third party custom icons.
10:01Anyway that's been it.
10:02Thanks for watching.
10:03I will catch you in the next one.
10:04Take care.
10:04Goodbye.
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