The menu button brings you a few options including quick shortcuts to built-in Android features such as ‘Search’, ‘Manage applications’ and the usual ‘Settings’.
The process has to be repeated for all the tiles that you want to move. Moving tiles isn’t exactly the way it’s done on Windows Phone 7, as it requires you to specifically select the menu option for each tile by tapping and holding on it, and once you have tapped ‘Move Tile’, you then have to tap and hold on another tile and select ‘Move here’. Once pinned to the home screen, you can tap and hold on any tile and you will be able to unpin it or move it to another location. You also get the handy option of uninstalling the app in that menu. Tiles can be pinned to the home screen from the apps list by tapping and holding on any app in the list and selecting ‘Pin Tile’. Here is a side-by-side comparison of the Metro UI running on HTC HD7 with WP7 Android Launcher running on Google Nexus S. One thing that sets it apart from the launcher on Windows Phone 7 devices though, is landscape mode support including the compatibility with accelerometer auto-rotation.
If you envy the Metro layout of Windows Phone 7 devices and want your Android phone to have the same look when it comes to the launcher, read on for our complete coverage.
WP7 Android Launcher is a free replacement Windows Phone 7 style launcher for Android that turns the home screen of your Android phone to the Windows Phone 7 Metro layout with tiles, similar to our recently featured Windows Phone 7 Metro UI for iPhone.
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