Why trust GreenbotMicrosoft’s garage keeps cranking out those Android apps. The latest is a custom launcher that repaints your home screen design replaces the wallpaper with a serene background.
Arrow also auto-suggests your most frequently-used apps repurposes the home screens to different uses, like reminders contacts.
Microsoft Arrow remakes your Android home screen changes up some of the icons.
Surprisingly it doesn’t have a Bing button prominently on the homepage, unlike some of Microsoft’s other efforts to get its search engine more prominent play on Android. The interface reminds me of Yahoo’s Aviate with the use of translucence redesigned icons.
Strangely, I found the wallpaper stuck around even when I switched away from the Arrow luancher.
You can request access to the beta build by joining the official + community. If you want to play around with Arrow now, grab the A.
The story behind the story: In many ways Microsoft is back to the company’s roots as a software maker. Microsoft has a wide range of apps for Android, such as Office for phones tablets. Other projects include Torque, which powers your voice searches on Android ar with Bing (if that’s something you really want), the Next lock screen.
