Phoenix Launcher

[Shane Rouse]

LauncherFenix es un launcher gratuito para Minecraft tambin conocido como launcher pirata. Se trata de un gran sustituto del launcher oficial. No solo permite acceso Premium al juego, sino que tambin, ofrece acceso No-Premium, lo que te permitir jugar a Minecraft gratis. Adems, incluye muchas herramientas que te facilitarn tareas como la instalacin de mods, cambio de texturas (skin, capa, elytra), entre otras opciones.

Para poder iniciar el juego, lo nico que necesitas es este launcher, que podrs descargar desde la seccin Descargas, y debes asegurarte de poseer, preferiblemente, la versin 1.8 de Java, la cual podrs descargar desde su pgina oficial www.java.com.

El LauncherFenix posee tres tipos de acceso: Premium, LauncherFenix y No-Premium. El tipo Premium es para aquellos que compraron el juego o poseen una copia original. El tipo LauncherFenix les permitir iniciar sesin en el launcher con su cuenta de esta pgina, lo que les brindar acceso a opciones como el cambio de skin/capa desde el mismo launcher. Y por ltimo, el tipo No-Premium que no requiere de ninguna cuenta, solo ingresas el nombre con el que deseas jugar y ya podrs ingresar al juego. Los tipos de cuentas LauncherFenix y No-Premium, te permitirn jugar a Minecraft gratis.

Este launcher est destinado a todas las personas que desean jugar Minecraft, tanto premiums como no-premiums, y busca facilitar tareas comunes mediante herramientas que no posee el launcher oficial. El launcher se encuentra en continua actualizacin por lo que se irn agregando nuevas funciones y herramientas segn se vean necesarias, al mismo tiempo que se solucionarn los bugs y errores que se presenten. Si realmente te gusta el juego y tienes la posibilidad de comprarlo, hazlo! puedes adquirirlo desde la pgina web oficial de Minecraft; adquiriendo una cuenta premium podrs acceder a los servidores exclusivos, y recuerda, siendo usuario premium tambin podrs seguir utilizando este launcher y disfrutando de sus herramientas gratuitas!

VERY. its something I use all the way to the end of the game. 2 heavies with boom blast and grenade launchers + Fury 2 = 3 x 2 = 6 long range explosives in 1 turn! Better than a single scarab! LOL! make quick work of minions. Esp crabs and tritons as it removes their limps easy, making them basically useless.

Decided to write a new one that will properly inject just a singular game with it's necessary data (hashes, file size, etc) into the XML and then launch the emulator and send it keystrokes to make it fullscreen. Future launches will clear out any previous written XML in the pertinent areas so that the rom area of the config file stays clean.

3. If you're going to be using it for 3DO, you should go to 'File' -> 'Add BIOS to 3DO folder' and choose a valid 3DO bios. This will make it appear under the 'BIOS' node when on the 3DO view of the emulator. The next step is very important. You must double click the newly added bios file in the 'BIOS' node so it 'attaches' it to the emulator. The text becomes bold if you've done this. If you fail to do this when the emulator tries to launch a 3DO ISO via my launcher the emulator will complain you haven't chosen a BIOS file. You need only do this once.

Ask an Android power user what they love about their device, and you'll almost always get the same response: customizability. Truth be told, that's entirely valid. Android excels when it comes to customization, and a lot of it doesn't even require a rooted device to enjoy.

The most comprehensive of these modifications without a root is a launcher. A launcher dictates everything you see when you look through your apps. App icons, app ordering, widgets, and almost everything else are determined by the launcher. Many people might not realise this, but they can change their device launcher.

If you spend enough time looking around different technology focused websites you might notice a recurring point among users. They don't like TouchWiz. They don't like Sense. They especially don't like MOTOBLUR. But occasionally they like the concept of rooting even less.

That's where Phoenix Launcher comes in. Many people have observed Android's Ice Cream Sandwich as being the most beautiful release of the operating system yet. That's why it comes as a shame to people with handsets that can't be upgraded to ICS officially, assuming they don't have the specs and don't want to root.

I'm in both camps. The Samsung Galaxy Ace (ie. my daily phone and also the device used in this review) has only 256MB of RAM, so is not going to see an official update in all probability. I don't want to root either, but this isn't what I'm going to be discussing in this article. This article is about Phoenix Launcher; a free (and paid) launcher that claims to recreate the ICS experience on non-ICS devices.

Before I delve into the features offered by Phoenix Launcher, I would like to thank its developer for providing an APK of the full version for review. The developer, Andreas Bratfisch, also alerted me that he removed the free version of the app from the Play Store in order to refine it, though this is expanded upon later in the review.

First impressions are that it does this pretty well! The time I've spent with a Galaxy Nexus handset wasn't really long enough to form a complete understanding of how Android 4.0 feels, but this seems pretty accurate apart from the lower resolution of the Ace's screen. This is a good first point: Phoenix works on lower resolution screens, and fits perfectly.

Some applications tend to work best on certain resolutions, but Andreas has stated Phoenix runs on LDPI, MDPI, and HDPI devices, but not X-HDPI (yet). Having spoken to him, I know he's using a Nexus S, with a flashed 4.0.4 ROM. The Nexus S has an MDPI display, while my Ace has an LDPI, so we can be 100% certain that it displays on both of these. Having looked through user reviews for the app on the official Play Store, the highest resolution device tested at the time of writing was a Motorola Atrix.

The settings are varied enough to let you decide how close to ICS you really want to be and how unique you want your launcher to be. The settings aren't as broad as they are in, say, GO Launcher Ex, but they're more than enough for the vast majority of users. If you're an Android power user with custom ROMs, kernels and all the rest, you might prefer to stick to your normal launcher with custom skins and other tweaks.

As someone who really enjoys the Holo UI Google are pushing with Android 4.0, I want to see more Holo apps. I'm already using SeriesGuide to remind myself to watch more television, and QuickPic for the few shots I take, alongside Reddit News Lite for what I do on Reddit. Being able to use the launcher which the Holo UI takes its inspiration from is something I like.

If looking unique is your main concern, Phoenix might not be the launcher for you, since it goes for the stock Ice Cream Sandwich look. There are plenty of other launchers though, and if you want something good looking quickly, then Phoenix Launcher is the way to go... assuming you're a fan of the ICS styling, of course.

This is the app drawer for Phoenix Launcher, and I'd be lying if I said it was perfect. I'm being completely honest when I say that I like it, though. One thing I would change which isn't exactly ICS-native is the scrolling between apps. At present it is horizontal, and I have always preferred vertical scrolling on an endless page. This is a small change at the end of the day though, and I'd still use a launcher I liked even if this one change was not provided. As you can see though, all of the apps installed are sorted alphabetically, which is the norm for most launchers. I noticed this was not the case with the stock TouchWiz launcher Samsung provide, which seemed to just spit apps into an order it determined on the fly.

Something that impresses me a lot about Phoenix Launcher is how it manages to be such an authentic replica of the app drawer in Ice Cream Sandwich; even the Widgets option is present and ready for those who place widgets on their Android homescreen. It's great to see it looking as if it's native to Android 4.0, since it gives me hope that developers won't all just flock to ICS and forget people tied to Gingerbread, Froyo, and maybe even earlier.

The implementation isn't perfect, but that isn't the developer's fault. For whatever reason, the functionality is only available to rooted devices. It's a shame but the developer isn't at fault for Google's design. More positively, he has found a workaround. When going to place widgets on a non-rooted handset, you get the following message:

Tapping the button will open the default Android widget options, which is good enough for most. It might not be 'native', but it's better than a button which simply has no function apart from looking good. While I can appreciate the concern for completing the ICS look, Google really did taint an otherwise perfect feature with their design. I imagine most people who would consider downloading this application are on phones which won't be receiving Ice Cream Sandwich officially, or are unrooted and unwilling to root and install a custom ROM.

To use an Irish colloquialism, the 'Widgets' button is about as useful as a chocolate teapot, but I appreciate the developer has done the best to make the launcher effective for unrooted devices. He explains also that the launcher is primarily designed for rooted devices to take advantage of this feature, which is understandable enough.

The advanced settings button? It's also there, and includes a few options which can be particularly useful in different scenarios. There's a shortcut for the Play Store, which was implemented extremely quickly, to be fair. I'm not sure whether the was even around when the Play Store was still the Android Market, but it adapted extremely quickly to reflect the direction Google wanted to take their marketplace in.

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