Skin = title page on mobile?

[THAIPHUKET]

I am not sure about the terminology. I hope you understand what I mean. I like to have on my tablet a beautiful photo. But it becomes very convoluted and distorted by icons for my applications. Is there an app which permits a sequence of photo-blank-blank?

The blanks are for apps & shortcuts only

[RichCor]

Launcher: the 'home' application that displays wallpapers, icons and widgets

Wallpaper: the background color, 'image', or live visual animation used as a backdrop of the launcher desktop

Skin/Themes: preset collection of various display elements

Each device usually ships with a way to set a photo or image as the background wallpaper image. But getting the image to play nicely with app icons, widgets and text is difficult.

Some photo/image editors will allow you to adjust an image, darkening; lightening; add vignette; etc.

Attempting to add 'knockouts' for the icons is not a simple task as each 'launcher' and device type will have slightly different 'grid' definitions.

If you have a PC with photo editor application, I might suggest you load the same image on your tablet launcher and pull up the same photo on the PC in the editor then do whatever adjustments you know how to make on the PC, then copy the edited image to the tablet for use as your new background.

[THAIPHUKET]

Again much obliged,

I was hoping for a launcher with 3 or 5 skins. Only Skin 1 for photo, skin 2-5 blanks to be populated with app icons.

According to the famous KISS rule = Keep It Simple

[RichCor]

What you are calling 'skins' are called launcher 'screens', 'pages' or 'desktops'. Many launchers will either preset a screen/page/desktop to act as the 'home' screen, or the primary screen displayed when the 'home' hardware or soft-key is pressed. Some use the 1st screen as 'home', some the middle screen, while others' let you select which of the many will act as the primary home.

As far as Android launchers go, many devices allow you to replace the built-in default launcher app with one downloaded from the Google PlayStore, but generally all will use the same background image for all screens or pages. Some have a 'scrolling affect' where the wallpaper position 'adjusts' as you move through the launcher screens/pages/desktops. I don't know of any that will let you have a 'blank' or different background color or image assigned to some of the pages.

Some Android 'purists' will only have utilize one launcher screen (for whatever) and primarily always use the 'app / widget drawer' to select their apps, since they're all listed there anyway.

My favorite replacement Launcher is Nova Launcher. Lots of nice features and settings.

[THAIPHUKET]

Appreciate your generous sharing of details necessary to understand the basics

[dddave]

Check out this YouTube video:

You'll see many more good videos on the subject listed on the You Tube sidebar when you watch this but this gives the best overview IMHO.

This one on "wallpapers" by the same guy is pretty good also.

Edited December 21, 2015 by dddave

[THAIPHUKET]

My Apex launcher got a mention in between. Changing not worth. Please, not too many options, I stick to KISS = Keep It Simple!

Thanks anyhow!