Top 10 Step PRO Beginner Tutorial

Nova is the best launcher for Android. If you have already installed it, we have a type of tutorial below for to Set Up New Launcher in 10 Steps | and exploit its potential.

The launcher or desktop not only allows you to customize the icons and wallpaper. In this case that concerns us, you can configure Nova Launcher in a lot of aspects to get more out of it.

Accelerate your speed, use gestures to open hidden applications and organize the app drawer like a PRO, are some of its possibilities.

Note: In this Nova Launcher tutorial, some features are only available in the Prime (paid) version.

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1. Speed ​​up Nova Launcher

To make the launcher faster you have to remove all animations or visual effects. This is done by applying the changes indicated below.

• New Settings> Appearance:

Travel speed> Faster than light.

Animation speed> Faster than light.

• New Settings> Appearance> Application Animation> System.

2. Remove the Google search bar

To clear or remove the search bar at the top of the home screen, apply the following change:

Nova Settings> Desktop> Permanent Search Bar> Disable Switch

3. Multi-function start button

Nova Settings> Gestures and Inputs> Home Button.

With one press, the home button displays the main desktop screen. If you are already on that screen, pressing the home button again can execute a custom action. You can choose to open X application, run a shortcut or any of the multiple options offered by Nova.

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4. Activate OK Google

Nova Settings> Gestures and inputs> Keyword “OK, Google”

This function allows you to open the Google Assistant from the desktop or from the application drawer, when pronouncing the keyword OK Google.

For this to work correctly, tap on “Confirm Google settings” and on the next screen activate the option “Ok Google at any time” and complete the configuration.

5. Open applications with gestures (Prime)

Nova Settings> Gestures and Inputs.

Here you can configure Nova to open specific applications by gesturing on the home screen. For example, pinch, reverse pinch, swipe up, swipe down, or double tap. Through these you can quickly open applications that you have hidden and there is no shortcut icon.

6. Organize the app drawer (Prime)

Nova Settings> Applications> Drawer Groups.

This is a powerful feature of Nova Launcher. It will allow you to organize your applications by categories, each one in a different tab. And in each group of applications, you can create folders (just as you would on the desktop).

7. Add a multiple dock

New Settings> Dock> Enable

The dock is the bottom block of icons on the home screen. The logical thing is to put there the shortcuts to the most used applications (the phone, the messages, the browser and the access to the app drawer).

In Nova Launcher you can add multiple docks, which can be alternated by sliding from right to left or vice versa. Simply enter the “Dock Pages”. And in the “Dock icons” you can configure the number of icons in each dock.

8. Hidden menu Labs

1. Open Nova Launcher settings. Long press on an empty area of ​​the home screen and select “Settings”.
2. In that Settings screen, press and hold the volume down button for two or three seconds. A notice will appear on the screen indicating that the Labs menu has been enabled.
3. In the Nova Configuration, the Labs menu will be visible and can be accessed.

9. Google Now en Nova Launcher

Normally it is only necessary to do a long press on the home button to open Google Now. This can be disabled and instead of opening Now, Google Assistant can be opened. For this you have to disable the “Long-home for Now” option in the hidden Labs menu mentioned above.

Now can also be opened with a swipe from the left of the desktop (same as Google Now Launcher and Pixel Launcher). But for this you need to install the application Nova Companion.

10. Hide apps (Prime)

Nova Launcher Settings> Applications> Hide Applications

There you can leave all the applications you want to hide marked. To unhide, you have to uncheck the hidden applications.

In Nova Launcher Prime you can also use gestures to open these hidden applications, drawing gestures on the home screen.