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There are some things you can’t change, though. For one, you can’t change the overall size of the homescreen. But you can make the icons bigger, make them more transparent, or put them on a diagonal line. The goal here is to keep the overall look of the homescreen, but make it more pleasant to use.

For example, let’

When you get a new Android smartphone, you may spend a lot of time thinking about the perfect way to organize your homescreen. You’ll decide which apps make it to the main homepage, choose the right weather widget, and select the shortcuts that are necessary for daily use. Even your icon pack needs some consideration. What you probably don’t consider, at least as often, is how you get to your homescreen. These days, many of us rely on gesture navigation, flicking our thumb up from the bottom of the screen to return to our personalized space.

The gesture navigation scheme is basically a mix of the traditional Android navigation paradigm (like a tab bar) and iOS's approach to navigation, which is to give the user some control over the screen they're looking at. It's faster and more intuitive, but also a little bit harder to learn.