Google should create home screen standard for most devices ... - Tecmundo

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Since Android smartphones began to be released, users now have a few options with the pure form of the operating system and with several changes made by manufacturers. Thus, some of the most interesting devices end up joining software often troublesome, created by companies to differentiate their products. However, a change from Google can help alleviate some of this.

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home screens of the devices usually are chosen by manufacturers to be modified, usually presenting icons and custom widgets by default, a feature of Android 4.4 (KitKat) shows that Google wants to take over this space.

screen interface initial 5 Nexus first device with the new version of Android, has much greater integration with Google Now Unlike other traditional launchers, all screen functions are managed by the application. While the Nexus 5 has a file called GoogleHome.apk that the system recognizes as the launcher, it just does not pass a model that redirects all the functions present in the home screen for the Google Search app.

With this method, the company maintains backward compatibility with other equipment and allows the interface of the home screen is updated by Google Play instead of the old need to wait for an update of the operating system.

While the change is not applied by default to other devices, you can test the new interface to download the latest version of Google Search app on any device with Android 4.1 or higher via Google Play. From there, just download the file GoogleHome.apk (via AndroidPolice) and install it on the device like any other regular application.