While many (most) Android application can rotate your screen to provide a horizontal view of the interface, and that the tablets it is usual that we can choose one or another position to use the device, on smartphones home screen almost always appears in vertical (portrait) and we can not turn it to lie the device’s natively. The launcher of Google Now Yes offers this possibility.
The boundaries between a tablet and a Smartphone are already so diffuse in terms of size the concept phablet could be used almost everything. Not, however, keep moving between the 5.5 and 7 inches to the talk format, and for many users there will be occasions in which suits them to use your device as one mini tablet rather than a mobile phone to use. He iPhone in the Plus version has that possibility since its launch and Google going behind to add a similar attribute in its own launcher.
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Google Now Launcher: rotate screen horizontal mode
Although there are other ways, which I will detail in the following section, a good way to set the automatic rotation is through Google Now. Just download the Launcher:
WP-Appbox: Google Now Launcher (free, Google Play) →
Now we must select it as the default Launcher on our Android settings menu. Specifically, in the home section. If we click on the application of Google Now discharged, will take us directly there.
Once you are selected, we do a long press on the home screen and touch the button below on the right, where it says settings.
The last option, we will allow rotation and make sure that the switch is lit. So, to return to the home screen, we see how this tour by rotating also the phablet or smartphone.
We can get the same thing with an app
If you do not want to replace the launcher of your terminal by the Google Now, and we want to keep the icons, effects, the apps drawer and other customizations of the manufacturer, we can always take hold of any of the following applications. You put the three that best seem to work. For my part, I have only tried the first one, which I just purchased brand new the first Nexus 7.
WP-Appbox: Ultimate Rotation Control (free, Google Play) →
WP-Appbox: Rotation Control (free, Google Play) →
WP-Appbox: Rotation – Orientation Manager (free, Google Play) →
The others, yet appear to have improved the bet and have good ratings by the community of users.
The article how enable the horizontal view (landscape) in the beginning of your Android phablet was published in TabletZona.