So we just put up my five favorite apps that I'm using right now we had a lot of
questions to show what's on my home screen how I set up my android phone
so I thought it was a school opportunity to show you what's on my galaxy s8+ before I
jump in and show you how I tweaked it and minimalized it up I want to thank our
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getting past the vrv app you'll notice it looks like for the most part like I
have color turned off on my screen kind of on a bit of a minimalistic kick
right now it's why I'm actually using Nova
I kind a dig the default Samsung launcher but I go back and forth but I seems to
always come back to Nova just for customization I'm using it for years on
Android you should try it if you haven't checked it out but I'm going for that
sort of simple look as I'm using the min icon pack which is also free it looks
really nice it's not the easiest to find like apps for example the app drawer
kind of looks like notification tray from Android but I can get pass that with
my stuff that I use right on the home screen starting from the top of the
phone I'm using Nova's persistent search bar and they have a ton of different options you can
pick from I picked the black one because kind of
match the theme you can search obviously you can hit the microphone to talk and
do your search mostly I use it just to tap the Google icon that pulls up Google
Now for me sort of eliminates the need to have the Google now launcher or the
pixel launcher sort of have that all the way on your left home screen so below
that is my favorite weather widget it comes from weather timeline we actually
featured it in the 5 apps video you can look at if obvious reasons I know it
looks like I'm a huge Brooklyn Nets by seeing the color
scheme here it just simple clean and looks really nice and breaking up my
nice color scheme I know I'm going to get some crap for I've got the Google
News widget and I've got the weather there as well in yellow just like
knowing your news I don't go take a chance to read up and what's going on so
at a quick glance I can see the stories that are happening to the right
of all that there's a Tesla app helping me control my car
I'm trying to up my smart home game I moved a few months ago so I've got my
main Smart Home apps in their nest let's be control my nest cams I'm not using a
thermostat right now gets that a minute I've got a ton of nest cams in there let
me see what my kids are doing I've got a nest outdoor cam and I've got one
in the main room so I can watch what's going on during the day or
even talked to my wife or kids I'm currently using the Ecobee3 so I've got
two of those one upstairs and downstairs I'm using that instead of the
nest right now it's got room sensors lets you sort of get unified temperature
but it doesn't learn like the nest does kind of a trade-off
I had a nest my previous place and I am just trying something new and then
ring I've got the ring doorbell Pro which is absolutely awesome I think we
reviewed it a while back let you see who's at door gives you alerts and
somebody crosses a field you can talk to them it's really nice for security gives you
a little peace of mind when I'm traveling I can sort of see
what's going on outside of my house the other stuff you're obviously aware of
things like Google photos and camera I've got a messaging folder that I use got
Allo Duo messenger and What's App in there got a YouTube folder for
YouTube studio and then YouTube kids because I let my kids play with that and
below that I've got TechnoBuffalo shortcut and the VRV app the dock is
pretty simple I've had my dock set up the same way for years almost on any
platform that I'm on whether it's iOS or Android my dialer is all way on the
left I got chrome I've got a folder in the
middle now for social icons Facebook Instagram LinkedIn and Twitter and then
I've got the easily do email app talked about that also in our five apps video I
absolutely love it for iOS or Android and then just a default messaging app
I should also say I'm using G board instead of Samsung's default keyboard I like the
way it looks and I've got the number row turned off I tried to keep it with a
minimal fee try and keep my number of home screens
down so I've got the persistent search bar again at the top and then below that
I've got calendars agenda widget again for a really simple elegant look and
feel it'll show me what I've got going on during the day so obviously a ton of
other apps I've got here but I wanted to kind of give a highlight of the things that
I'm using the most if you like this kind of videos and you want to see us do more give it a
thumbs up to let us know and if you want to see us do more and maybe have your setup
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I'll feature it an upcoming video and can show to know why your setup is
boss the baller the King anyway guys hope you enjoyed till next time i'm Jon
Rettinger from TechnoBuffalo