Like the GUI controlling home screen and app icons, etc.
How or what is this called that renders this?
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Sign up to join this communityLike the GUI controlling home screen and app icons, etc.
How or what is this called that renders this?
It gets the name of the Android OEM front end interface :
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 ?
com.android.launcher
and it comes from an APK source of /system/app/Launcher2.apk
. So given all that, I'm pretty sure that it's called "Launcher"