So how do you like Nougat's pink home screen?

In My Humble Opinion
1

AT&T finally rolled out Nougat to my phone.

The pink home screen was quite a WTF moment.

I’m trying to give it a chance. But, damn! It’s Pink :eek:

On a more serious note. Android’s new split screen is a bit confusing. I’m not sure how that will work on a phone’s screen. It makes more sense on a tablet.

I already miss my empty screen. Now when you hit the square you get this split screen. I liked it better with just my desktop.

For those of you that haven’t seen Nougat.

Put your sunglasses on and take a look.

2

My wife informed me, my phone is Fuschia.
This one.

:o

I’ll give it a couple days. I may have to make a change.

3

It’s his home, I suppose Ted can do with it as he pleases - barring an HOA.

What? Nougat? Oh, never mind.

4

My tablet doesn’t show that.

5

Stop worrying, we won’t think any less of you.

6

You know you can make the background anything you want, right?

7

Or indeed install a third-party launcher that works in a different way and doesn’t have non-removable search widgets etc

8

In fact, these are probably the only sane response to a fuchsia home screen. <shudder>

FWIW, I use ADW2 launcher on all my Android devices, except my no-name tablet that refuses to install it for some damn reason. :confused:

9

I use Arrow launcher - initially because I hoped it would be a little bit Metro-UI-like, but now I don’t care.

10

I’m tempted to go all Steve Jobs and say “you’re pressing it wrong”. Because that square menu button, on a brief press (a touch), should just give you the screen list of current and recent programs. Press-and-hold the square menu button for a screen split. (This changes the menu icon to a “split square” that you can press-and-hold again to undo the split.

My upgrade to 7.x didn’t turn my screen pink. In fact, upgrading from Marshmallow to Nougat changed very little visually; my chosen background remained, and icons and widgets I had earlier came back (with slightly updated icon graphics, but no big whoop.) But I am using an aftermarket launcher and a non-standard background, so I guess Google knew better than to mess with it.

11

I may end up going to a third part launcher.

I wanted to give stock nougat a try out first.

My mom’s Samsung Galaxy S2 tablet already had nougat when she bought it. Her screen is a gorgeous blue.

I guess that’s something Samsung picked. Andriod is a little different on her tablet.

12

Are you just talking about the background? You can change that, no third party launcher at all.

13

Your phone has taken a long time to get to Android N. We are on Android O now (only for Pixel and Nexus phones at the moment though).

14

I’m still on Marshmallow and unlikely to get an upgrade until I get a new phone. No matter. As others have said, you can save any image as your wallpaper. As for a custom launcher, Nova Launcher is pretty good.

15

My phone came with Nougat, but the first thing I did was what I always do: install Nova launcher and customize to my heart’s content.

16

It’s generally a little bit different on every device - or at least different between brands.

Manufacturers are tending toward deploying a more ‘stock’ Android experience at the moment - mainly, I think, because Google Pixel proved that people like that - but most of them do tweak it a little bit, and especially in the preloaded wallpaper and lock screen background - but both are usually* pretty simple to change.

*I have encountered one phone - the Bluboo S1 - which does not permit the user to change the lock screen background - the option just isn’t there.