Android: A look at the Android Central editors' homescreens

A look at the Android Central editors' homescreens

2. Ara Wagoner

My homescreen looks kinda busy, but in my defense, I did hide as much as I could. I have three homescreens and two dock screens that scroll independently. On the actual homescreens, I have music, Timely, and Keep on my main home screen. To the right is my more utility-centric screen with my toggles, Drive, battery widget, and weather. The left screen was empty for a long time until I got my Hue lights, and I mostly use it when I need to drag something out of my other screens for capping purposes.
My dock has eight spots on two pages, and only one of those icons is actually an app rather than a whole folder: the dialer. Next to the dialer are my other frequent communications apps: Hangouts and Falcon Pro 3 (finally replacing Carbon). Next is a folder of Google apps, or it was until QuickPic replaced Photos. Next are my quick shortcuts for my most-used tools. The secondary dock page has apps divided into four folders: on-the-go, office, work, and entertainment.
And because I have Nova, there are gesture shortcuts hidden throughout my homescreen. Double tap the wallpaper to open Play Music, tap the home button on the homescreen for Google+, double-finger swipes up and down to connect/disconnect from Bluetooth sources, and swipe up from the entertainment folder to deactivate my Tasker-made driving mode.
It's full of tricks and secrets, but my homescreen helps me get in and out quickly and helps keep me from opening tons of apps and settings for basic tasks.