A launcher is kinda like a skin that's been placed on top of operating system and in this case we're talking about android, It's just like what we've seen the likes of HTC and Motorola, they've put a branded interface over their phone line to set themselves apart from the competition, there are mulitple launchers that can be downloaded from the Play store. All these launchers are opitional and you call download and install whenever and if ever when you like.
One of the launchers that i use as my daily launcher is nova launcher, It features great customization to an already very customizable operating system. You can edit how many icons you have on the app draw, edit how big your icons are, change the animation speeds, you can change the way you're scrolling through the different screen, you can give the scrolling a cube effect.
With nova launcher Prime, you have access to many many more features that set itself apart from other launchers like gestures, swiping up from the bottom to simulate a home button press which we all know is the touchpad Webos Gesture, for returning to the home screen, and launching the app launcher etc.
One thing that i will say about Android Ice cream sandwich and i might not remember to say this again but i really don't like the screen real estate that you lose with Android 4.0, you've got an entire screen of ICS awesomeness but then you've got the bottom where the back, home buttons etc live. Now i'll admit it the bottom bar works really well, the bar knows when to dim down to give full concentration on the content being displayed but it's just a shame that the bar at the bottom has come at a price and we lose screen real estate because of it.
Sorry for the late reply but things at college at getting hectic
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