Amazon App Store – Free App Of The Day – Wave Launcher
Wave Launcher is a unique, gesture-enabled, quick action-bar for Android. It resembles a well-known and loved feature on WebOS phones like the Palm-Pre, and works throughout your entire operating system.
Regardless of any application currently running, you can swipe you finger from the virtual gesture-area at the bottom of the screen towards the middle to show the wave–A fully configurable quick-launch action bar.
The Amazon App Store offers one paid for app for free per day. This is today’s one – don’t miss out, head to the Amazon App Store today and get downloading.
• Touch the very bottom of the screen and slowly swipe your finger up towards the middle of the screen.
• When you get towards the middle, the wave appears.
• Without raising your finger, swipe left or right to select the desired application.
• To launch the app, simply raise your finger from the screen.
• If you change your mind and don’t want to launch anything, simply swipe the wave back to the bottom.
Notable Features
• Use the wave for any app or shortcut you can add to your home screen
• Dynamically update recently-used apps.
• Use it anytime with a simple gesture, regardless of which application is currently running
• Supports custom icons from ADW themes (more coming soon)
• The wave responds to your finger movement, changing its shape, icon size, and transparency
• Can be enabled by swiping from the bottom, left, or right side of the screen
• Small memory footprint, and won’t interfere with running applications
• Fully customizable gesture-area with a single long-press and swipe
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said. Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London. Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art. Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK. She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: joanne@theappwhisperer.com