After spending more than a year in beta, Aviate is finally ready to take off. It is currently available to download for free globally from the Google Play Store. If you follow the world of tech blogs, you must have read about Aviate, the contextual information home screen that adjusts itself depending on the time of day and your location. It was recently purchased by Yahoo.
A major part of Aviate is its contextual information. Like Google Now, this is the part you have little control over. It will work in the background keeping tabs on your phone and will provide you with new and useful information based on its algorithms.
This tutorial will focus on understanding and customizing another part of Aviate. The part you can and should customize to better suit your needs.
How it works
Aviate (free) brings the same smart and contextual information as the Cover lock screen, instead just showing up on your home screen. Aviate knows what kind of apps and information you need at a given time, whether you’re at home or traveling, if you’ve plugged in a headset and changed its behavior accordingly.
Aviate has a three-pane interface. All contextual goodness is limited to the first frame. It will be the default pane when new updates are available. You can switch between the five presets available from the sidebar.
The middle pane is your home screen. By default, it has only one wallpaper and five icons at the bottom of the screen. You can swipe up from the icons to interact with your favorite contacts.
The last pane is the app drawer, but not your traditional one. Here, your apps are grouped by category.
Now that we know what Aviate is and how it works, let’s start making it better suited to our needs.
1. Customize Widget Position
You can add widgets to a scrollable contextual pane or even a static centered home screen.
The problem with the static center screen is that it’s static. No matter how many widgets you add, it won’t scroll down (which eventually leads to the mess shown in the screenshot below). The middle screen is a nightmare for gadgets, so don’t install any there.
The contextual screen will keep changing the information but below all you can add any widget or gallery you want. They will appear in all their glory and will be scrollable.
2. Bring your own icon pack
Aviate is a pretty good looking app. But Android’s native icons don’t really match Aviate’s edgy and modern look. Thankfully, you can change the icons to anything you want. Aviate supports the usual icon packs you find on the Google Play store, which are compatible with launchers like Nova and Apex.
Open Setting from the sidebar and tap the button that says Set icon pack. Any icon pack apps you’ve downloaded will show up here. You also have the option to get more icon packs from the Google Play Store.
3. Organize your own content
Like I said, apps in Aviate are grouped in a “Collection” of related or similar apps. You will find collections of Productivity, Utilities, Music, Games, etc.
Aviate does not yet allow you to create your own Collections. But this app has over a dozen smartly curated Collections to offer.
What you can do is move the app icons between them, or remove the app from the Gallery entirely. You can also sort the Collections yourself according to your needs.
If you’re not really ready to live within the confines of a predefined Collection, what you can do is start adding 10-20 most used apps to a Collection (it doesn’t matter what it is). Which collection) and pin it at the top.
4. Pin shortcuts in apps list
Like any Android launcher, Aviate allows you to pin shortcuts. Only here it is not on the home screen. The shortcuts will be listed in alphabetical order along with the applications.
To pin the shortcut, tap keyboard shortcuts button, select the type of shortcut you want, customize it and it will be added.
5. Find more apps from Launcher
At the end of each collection you will find a light bulb the icon will show suggested apps. You can scroll through recommended apps for a certain category and install something directly if you want.
6. Try the dark theme
Finally, try the dark theme from Setting. It’s so beautiful.
Widescreen images and gifs via the Yahoo Aviate blog.
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