Yahoo’s Aviate Is a Smart, Simple Take on the Android Homescreen — wired.com

Aviate is a slick rethinking of the Android homescreen experience, and it’s now available for the masses—along with some useful new features. The launcher blends Google Now-like smarts, personalization, and organization into its three neatly organized homescreens, two of which are markedly different than what you’ll see in Android. The main screen is dominated by a large image, with five app icons populating the bottom of the screen. Swipe to the right, and you’re taken to a screen of your apps, organized neatly by “collection.” Social, music, productivity, and transit apps, for example, are each lumped together automatically by category. When you download a new app, it’s slotted straight into the appropriate collection. Here Aviate also recommends apps you should try based on your usage patterns.

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