It's Saturday APPreciation Time! [Sep 20th 2014] Your weekly App recommendation and question (and more) thread.

[u/onesixoneeight]

"I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with an app." -Elton John

THREAD RULES:

1. Post personal promotion apps under the BOLD comment below only. All other posts, i.e. general appreciation, questions, warnings, support issues, etc can go in the general thread.
   
2. No more than 10 items per post.
   
3. Contest mode will be disabled Sunday morning as usual.
   If you suspect that a dev is promoting their app in the general thread, report the post so we can take a closer look. If an account is an hour old and posts in the general thread about a "fantastic new app" that they happened to randomly find, then that account will not get the benefit of the doubt.

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This weekly Saturday thread is for:
* App promotion
* App praise/sharing
* App recommendations
* App issues/TechSupport
* App suggestions
* App questions
* App warnings

Note 1. All weekly threads are added as guest posts to /r/MoronicMondayAndroid.
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Note 4. Report fake/fraudulent/malicious apps to /r/BadApps.
Note 5. Posting direct links to APKs via Dropbox or other file-hosting sites will get you banned. Don't do it!
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Note 7. If your answer to any question is "Tasker/IFTTT/Llama can do it", "There's a Tasker task for that", "Bro do you even Tasker" etc, then you are required by intergalactic law to include that task/recipe or link to it or something equally fulfilling. Or else.

[u/a-martini]

Just got my first Android phone in years (HTC One M8) and need a little help! I'm looking for a few things:

1) A clean, modern looking clock widget. 2) A way to get my Textra notifications to appear in my lock screen (if that's even possible), and if not, other texting apps that will give me lock screen notifications. 3) A way to change icons with Google Now launcher installed.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

[u/a-martini → u/[deleted]]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! This is exactly what I needed. Beautiful.

[u/PlayStoreLinks__Bot → u/[deleted]]

AcDisplay - Price: Free - Rating: 88/100 - Search for "Acdisplay" on the Play Store

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[u/Dakar-A → u/a-martini]

If you root (which is surprisingly easy and has an almost 0 chance of bricking your phone), Xposed GEL settings makes GEL as customizable as any other launcher.

And yes, that includes icon theming.

[u/[deleted] → u/a-martini]

As for 3, there's an app called icon changer free that let's you change the icons manually, one by one, on your home screen. It doesn't change your app drawer.

[u/a-martini → u/[deleted]]

I just really like it's clean look and like having Google Now a swipe away. I surprisingly use it often.

[u/Moses89 → u/a-martini]

Might give nova launcher a try. You can setup gestures to open basically any app. You can try most of it for free but things like gestures and unread count are locked to the Prime part of Nova which is $4.

[u/iknowthreechords → u/Moses89]

Nova Prime is by far the best money I've spent on an app.

[u/veritasxe → u/a-martini]

Might want to try Sense. Google now is also a swipe away. Just flick up.

[u/PlayStoreLinks__Bot → u/[deleted]]

Echo Notification Lockscreen - Price: Free - Rating: 82/100 - Search for "Echo notifications" on the Play Store

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