Like the GUI controlling home sreen and app icons, etc.
How or what is this called that renders thia?
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Are you dealing with Android as it is found in Nexus phones or Android in a random Android phone, not especially a Nexus ? – air-dex Jun 14 '13 at 2:03
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1If you're looking for the general term, it's launcher. – onik Jun 14 '13 at 5:26
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It gets the name of the Android OEM front end interface :
- Touchwiz for Samsung
- HTC Sense for HTC
- MotoBlur for Motorola
- ...
For the "basic" version of Android - i.e. the version embedded in Nexus phones and tablets - people often refer to the Android version as "stock Android". So what about "stock Android UI" or "stock UI" in this case ?
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...and, accordingly, Vanilla Launcher or Vanilla GUI. If I remember correctly, the current one is Trebuchet? – Izzy♦ Jun 14 '13 at 6:22
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@Izzy - No, Trebuchet is the launcher made by the Cyanogenmod team. As far as I can discern, the basic vanilla android launcher from Google doesn't have an actual name. – Compro01 Jun 14 '13 at 14:22
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The app that runs the vanilla launcher on a 4.2.2 Nexus device is called "Launcher" in the Apps list, its package name is
com.android.launcherand it comes from an APK source of/system/app/Launcher2.apk. So given all that, I'm pretty sure that it's called "Launcher" – GAThrawn Jun 18 '13 at 14:43
