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Comment by capnhooke | Hacker News Reader

One thing I really liked about this was the vertical scrolling of the home screen. I think it would be cool if Android did this with their home screens. That seems to be how we naturally read on our devices (webpages, news apps, email etc), so why should we have to horizontal swipe to change screens?

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You can definitely get vertically scrolling launchers on Android.

And Android M has a vertical app drawer by default.

I think Android had a vertical app drawer back in the pre-Gingerbread era, too (though I can't find any screenshots to prove it, atm).

http://www.technorms.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/screensh...

I think it was in the Nexus S that the rolling effect pictured in the app drawer was added to make the scrolling more interesting.

It does this now in Android M

That's for the app drawer only isn't it?

yep, only for the app drawer and I don't think that this new drawer design is final (or at least I hope so).

One quibble: this interaction is for the All Apps drawer/card, not the home screen(s) a.k.a. "widget panels".

> so why should we have to horizontal swipe to change screens?

Because you change screens and you don't scroll. As the swipe motion is over more than 80% of the screen that would not work from top to bottom, only scrolling feels natural.

I believe it is customizable by applying different themes.

install fdroid, and then install ver1 of adw. launcher

you can also install v2 from the app store but one looks better.

you can have vertical scroll with or without snapping

forgot to add: ironically, my fireOS phone scrolls sideways just like android... sigh

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