Nova Launcher 4.0 Released With Material Design, New Animations And More

Nova Launcher 4.0 released with Material Design, new animations and more

BY Rajesh Pandey

Rajesh Pandey

Rajesh is a 26-year old freelance writer from Kolkata, India. He loves to tinker around with his Android devices and flash custom ROMs on them....

All Articles by Rajesh Pandey

Published 14 May 2015

Why trust Greenbot

We maintain a strict editorial policy dedicated to factual accuracy, relevance, and impartiality. Our content is written and edited by top industry professionals with first-hand experience. The content undergoes thorough review by experienced editors to guarantee and adherence to the highest standards of reporting and publishing.

Nova Launcher, one of the most popular third-party launchers on the Play Store, has received a major update to v4.0 today.

This is the first major stable release of Nova Launcher in 8 months and after numerous beta and alpha releases. There are quite a bunch of new goodies present in this update, including a Material Design makeover, more animations, updated launcher code and more.

The full change log of the update is as follows:

Full Material Design

– All settings screens/dialogs

– More animations

– Edit Shortcut dialog tinted based on colors of the icon

– New icons

– Bundled wallpapers

Rebased on top of Launcher3

Individual icon layout settings (size, font, etc) in Desktop, Drawer, etc

Max icon size boosted to 150%

Widget Search

Pull down in the drawer for search

New grouped Widgets drawer

Support for Android for Work (Lollipop)

The developer had rolled out most of the features mentioned above to the beta channel of the app back in March itself. The final version does contain two new features compared to the beta though: a new Circle app animation and three new wallpapers.

Do keep in mind that you will need to buy the paid unlocker of the launcher to access all the customisation features offered by it.

Download: Nova Launcher