My Android Home Screen Shortcuts and Essential Apps

The main purpose of this post is to record the current configuration on my Android phone in case I need to recreate it from scratch. It gives me peace of mind to have such a record although I have become pretty good at making Nandroid and ext backups.

I am using the five home screens available in Cyanogen's and Dwang's ROMs for different categories or related categories of apps. (I recently switched to Dwang's and find it very stable and zippy.) Here are the screens from left to right. The middle one is the default home screen.

Leftmost: system administration and networking

Center-left: multimedia



Center: communication and information management

Center-right: news and reference

Right: games and tools (and dictionaries)

Other apps or activities without screen shortcuts
[...] = not available/needed in Dwang's ROM

• [CM updater]
• [Spare Parts]
• [Amazon MP3]
• AndroBlogger
• Astro file manager
• Babbler Lite
• Calling Card
• FBReader
• GV Dialer
• Layar
• NewsRob
• Ringdroid
• ShootMe
• Soccer Livescores
• Thinking Space (mind map)
• Toggle Google Voice
• Where Did We Park
• Wikitude