Another solid indicator has popped up that ’s forthcoming phones will bear xel bring.

A leaked A of what’s dubbed the xel uncher has appeared, taking the place of a previously leaked add-on called the Nexus uncher.

The new xel uncher reworks the home screen’s performance in a few noticeable ways: It replaces the omnipresent search bar with a pull-out tab that takes you into Now. There’s also a date widget that, for now at least, you can’t replace.

There are a few other aesthetic changes, like a slide-up entry into the app drawer, which gives you room for five apps replaces the l apps button. Additionally, you’ll find a new design for folders, with the cascade of one behind another replaced with a snapshot of up to four different icons.

The A is obviously prerelease software, so it’s bound to have bugs other hiccups. You can download it here at your own risk.

y this matters: By all accounts is going to make a more aggressive st with this year’s hardware launch. The new phones, rumored to be the xel xel X/a>, should include exclusive software tricks to distinguish them from the rest of the Android ecosystem. The marketing may emphasize that these are the perfect synthesis of top hardware ’s operating system services.