Larva Labs Intelligent Home Screen makes Android more data-centric

Custom home screens appear to be all the rage these days on the Android platform. Just shortly after the G1 launched last fall, apps like aHome and Open Home, and Panda hit the Android Market. HTC has even gotten into the game with their Sense UI on the HTC Hero. The idea is simple. Create a customized home screen app to give users a different UI or experience. Now, Larva Labs is getting into the game as well. You might know them more for their games such as Retro Defense or Word Pops, but Larva Labs appears to be committed to giving you a unique home screen unlike all the others out there. The Larva Labs Intelligent Home Screen offers more of a data centric perspective which allows you to stay on top of all your information and feeds without the clutter of icons or widgets. To be honest, it actually looks a lot more like the standard view on a Windows Mobile handset than anything we have seen on android before. But don’t let that put you off. One of the major criticisms that Android and the iPhone have both gotten is that they are app centric handsets, not data centric. The Intelligent Home Screen pulls all the data from your Calendar, Email, Phone Stocks, News, Twitter, Weather, and more and displays them all on the home screen in layered fashion. You can even prioritize the information by dragging the feed up or down on the screen and by color coding. And if you need more details from any of the feeds, just tap the feed icon on the right side. The idea is simple and elegant and might be the key to making the Android platform a more business centric handset.

We have a few more images after the jump and a short video of the Intelligent Home Screen in action.

Source: Android and Me

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