I was disappointed again by how few tiles had animation or information - note that Email here is different from Mike's Outlook, with the latter supporting proper live tile function. Not as sophisticated as Mike's layout, but I'm just trying the system on a test phone here, so I haven't got anywhere near as many applications installed. It's installed in the usual way through the Play Store and then - in my case - can be made the phone's default launcher (when you use the home button or gesture) in Settings/Apps: Still there's enough here for me to try Launcher10 for myself. It's slightly unreal to see titles like Lightroom and Google Pay within a 'Windows' Start screen, but that's the promise of Launcher10.Plus, with some creative tile resizing, you may not even notice that many of the familiar icons are static. Outlook, Facebook, Photos (of course), Contacts, and the Play Store.

But there are good examples of Launcher10 tiles which do show information and even animate.Ditto Pocket Casts, which should show a currently playing (or a new) podcast through its artwork. Twitter is a disappointment - seeing latest tweets scrolling through used to be a highlight of my Windows experience.

It all depends on the application and how it's been implemented. You'll note that, even more so than under Windows 10 Mobile, many tiles don't shown information of any kind. Apologies for taking up a lot of vertical space in this feature with his example, but in this case a picture may well be worth a thousand words. The live tiles actually work and the customisability/functionality is better than my 950xl ever was. For those windowsphone addictss amongst us who can't bear any circular icon cobblers, I can't more heartily recommend Launcher10 on android.

And Mike has - obviously - put a lot of effort into customising his Launcher10 hi there. Here's the tweet that started me thinking.

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