Satan within the Particulars: Nova Settings and what you do (and don't) have to know

1. Major menu

Nova Settings, like most settings menus, begins with the primary menu. Whereas this record appears fairly simple, this is what every of them maintain and a few of the settings we’ll be approaching in them:

• Desktop: This holds residence display settings akin to variety of display, measurement of every house display, and margins round these screens. One of the best theming gems hiding in listed here are subgrid positioning, widget overlap, and lock desktop.
• App & widget drawers: That is the place you will manage your app drawer. The hidden gems listed here are Drawer teams and their technique for populating tabs and folders.
• Dock: You’ll be able to outline what number of gadgets seem in your dock and what number of pages your dock has. It is oft ignored, however re-organizing your dock can utterly change the best way you employ your house screens.
• Folders: These settings relate to how a default folder appears. The Background shade and transparency might be fairly an asset when coping with specific themes and icon packs.
• Look & really feel: That is the place you possibly can change your icons in addition to the animation speeds. You can too tweak the notification bar right here, together with darkening the icons on the notification bar in order that they present up higher towards a light-colored wallpaper.
• Night time mode: You’ll be able to let Nova change sure features to a darker theme based mostly on the time of day otherwise you personal time-based preferences.
• Gestures & inputs (Prime solely): Dictate what sure button and gestures do within the launcher, comparable to launching an app or executing a Tasker activity shortcut. Even in the event you do not use gestures, utilizing the House button to open a often-used app if you’re on the default house display could be very handy.
• Unread rely badges (Prime solely): You’ll be able to configure the unread badges and the plugins used for them. When you’re into that type of factor.
• Backup & import settings: It is best to all the time again up your launcher format and theme when you’re proud of it. Should you’re new to Nova, that is the place it is best to start by importing your format out of your previous launcher.
• Labs (Prime solely): that is the place experimental and troubleshooting settings lie. Whereas there could also be a number of issues in right here helpful to a small portion of customers, most won’t have to enterprise into these.
• Choose Default House: if the setting for choosing your launcher are hiding in Settings, you will get a shortcut to it right here in Nova Settings
• Superior > Error & utilization reporting: Assist make Nova higher by sending again knowledge about your utilization and any crashes you may run into. Nothing identifiable is shipped, so depart this on please.
• Superior > Restart Nova Launcher: Typically issues can get a bit glitchy, so earlier than you go begging help for assist, restart Nova Launcher to see if that clears something up.
• Superior > Aggressive desktop: in case your gadget will get just a little kill-happy with its reminiscence administration, you should use this feature to maintain your desktop from need to be re-rendered each single time you come again out to the house display.

2. Desktop

Desktop holds a lot of the settings for a way your house display pages look and behave.

• Desktop grid dictates the dimensions of the grid on which you place widgets and apps on your own home display. Whereas most launchers are 4×4 (four rows by four colulms), Nova Launcher can right down to 2×2 or as much as 12×12. Nova’s ace within the gap is hiding in right here, too:
• Subgrid positioning lets you place gadgets in between the rows and columns of your grid. This will successfully double the positions you’ve got obtainable to you when making an attempt to put apps or resize widgets.
• Icon format lets you resize the app icons on your property display in addition to customise or take away app labels, do you have to not need app names cluttering the house display.
• Width padding and Peak padding modify the area across the outdoors of the icon grid. Growing the padding will push icons in from the edges of the display; this may be helpful when you use a thick case which will impede the sides of your display.
• Persistent search bar provides a Google Search bar to the highest of your property display (or to the left aspect of the house display in panorama), just like the Quickbar in Action Launcher.
• Search bar type permits you to choose a emblem and search bar fashion in your persistent bar. Observe: types don’t embrace colours. Night time Mode can flip the search bar from white to darkish gray, however aside from that, white and clear are your solely colour choices.
• Scroll results are the animation that you’re going to see when swiping between house screens. You could have a number of types to select from, some extra flashy just like the Zoom Fade and Throw, and others extra extra delicate like Easy and Pill.
• Wallpaper scroll dictates whether or not your wallpaper stays in a single place or scrolls with your property screens. Should you’re utilizing a large wallpaper with a variety of element, scrolling lets you see extra of the picture.
• Infinite scroll will scroll from the final house display again to the primary when turned on. In any other case, you will see an overscroll animation and keep on the final house display.
• Web page indicator units the fashion of the web page indicator that sits between your own home display and dock. You possibly can select between dots, a strong line, or no indicator in any respect.
• Web page indicator colour units the colour of your chosen web page indicator.
  +Add icon to Residence display provides each newly put in app to your property display. Simply flip it off. You don’t need each app you put in on your own home display. And As a result of Nova is aware of you do not actually need it, both, they even notice that it’s worthwhile to flip it off in Google Play, too, when you’re at it.
• Superior > Widget overlap lets you place widgets and shortcuts on prime of one another, both overlapping or utterly on prime of one another.
• Superior > Overlap when putting lets you overlap when putting widgets and shortcuts on your house display. This could typically result in putting apps on prime of folders somewhat than in them, nevertheless it does forestall Nova from pushing widgets out of the best way when you attempt to place a widget in the identical space.
• Superior > Lock Desktop prevents you from making any modifications to the house display. If it’s essential forestall somebody from messing up your house display after you get every thing in its correct place (like youngsters, or technically-challenged customers who long-press the whole lot), locking your desktop can maintain issues from being by chance modified.
• Gradual shadow add a tender shadows to the highest and backside edges of the display. This will add additional distinction and permit the notification and navigation bars to point out up higher.

three. App & widget drawers

You’ll be able to corral and management your app drawer and widget drawer with the next settings:

• Grid sizes dictate what number of apps will present on every web page of your app drawer (or when you have a vertically scrolling app drawer, what number of apps will seem on display at a time). Like the house display grid measurement, it’s going to go from 2×2 to 12×12. In contrast to the house display grid measurement, you possibly can set totally different grid sizes between portrait and panorama, do you have to use your app drawer lots in panorama.
• Icon format permits you to resize the app icons in your app drawer in addition to customise or take away app labels. Whereas eradicating labels is extra widespread on the house display, we advocate leaving them on within the app drawer.
• Ceaselessly-used apps provides a bar to the highest of the app drawer together with your most-used apps, do you have to not need to hunt for them time and again in your app drawer. Its effectiveness might be offset by how most of the most ceaselessly used apps are in your dock and thus are straightforward to seek out with out even opening the app drawer. All apps outdoors probably the most steadily used apps shall be sorted alphabetically.
• App drawer fashion permits you to choose one in every of three types in your app drawer: horizontally paged screens, a vertically scrolling grid, or a vertically scrolling listing. The record lists far fewer apps on display at one time, so if in case you have numerous apps put in, be ready for lots of scrolling.
• Widget drawer type lets you choose considered one of three types for the widget drawer: horizontally pages screens sorted by widget measurement, a vertically scrolling gird of widgets sorted by measurement, or a vertically scrolling record of widgets grouped by app, witch widgets being sorted alphabetically by app fairly than by widget measurement.
• Card background will set your app drawer background to a white card moderately than your wallpaper.
• Background will permit you to choose a colour/opacity to overlay in your desktop wallpaper within the app drawer. These tints might help make apps extra seen towards notably noisy or colourful wallpapers.
• Quick scrollbar activates or off the power to shortly flip a number of app drawer pages with both a collection of dots on the dot of the display or by tabs for those who’re utilizing app drawer teams.
• Scroll accent shade units the colour of the dots used for quick scroll when enabled. If utilizing customized colours for drawer tabs, these customized colours will override Scroll accent colour.
• Transition animation units the animation that you will notice each time you open the app drawer.
• Scroll results are the animation that you’re going to see when swiping between pages of the app drawer. If utilizing horizontal pages, you have got a number of types to select from, some extra flashy just like the Zoom Fade and Throw, and others extra extra delicate like Easy and Pill.
• Infinite scroll will scroll from the final app drawer display again to the primary when turned on. In any other case, you will see an overscroll animation and keep on the finish of the listing.
• Search bar will allow a everlasting Google search bar on the prime of the app drawer, do you have to want to voice search and app relatively than hunt via pages and pages of icons.
• Pull to look will add a gesture to the app drawer, summoning the search bar with a swipe down on the display.

Tabs and drawer teams within the app drawer are vastly under-used, which suggests most of you’ll be able to skip this part solely. For many who love the group tabs offer you, this is the place you’ll be able to tweak a number of issues:

• Tab bar activates the tabs bar, and provides a menu button to the app drawer so you possibly can shortly entry Nova settings and different settings from the app drawer.
• Tab fashion lets you choose the fashion of your tabs, from the extra delicate Materials to Basic to the birght Colorblock.
• Menu enables you to exchange the menu button added to the tab bar with a shortcut to look or to the Google Play Retailer.
• Isolate tabs stops you from swiping from one tab to the subsequent whereas swiping between app drawer pages.
• Disguise apps enables you to maintain apps from being seen on the launcher, or you possibly can come right here to unhide them in the event you by chance hid them which making an attempt to type apps into tabs/folders. Word: hiding an app isn’t the identical as disabling it, and disabling an app will routinely disguise it from Nova Launcher (and hold it from operating within the background or taking over assets).

Drawer teams permit Nova to transcend its simplistic A-Z sorting and supply customers a bit extra management over how their apps are organized by means of app drawer tabs and folders. It makes populating folders simpler than simply about any app drawer system I’ve ever tried.

• Create a brand new tab by tapping the + within the prime proper nook. You’ll be able to title it as you would like.
• Edit a tab/folder by tapping the pencil icon subsequent to a tab or folder. As soon as you’ve got opened a tab/folder, you possibly can:
• Hold apps in essential app tab duplicates apps once they seem on this tab, holding one within the Apps tab and one other in your designated tab.
• Tab colour might be modified by tapping on the coloured circle subsequent to the tab’s title. This shade will override the scroll accent colour.
• Delete tab/folder could be discovered beneath the three dot menu icon within the edit tab. If you delete a tab/folder, the apps inside it’ll return to the Apps tab. You may also long-press on a folder within the folder listing to delete it and long-press and drag a tab as much as a garbage can on the prime of the menu to delete it.

• Choose apps for a tab/folder brings up an inventory of all of the apps within the Apps tab, in addition to any apps at present within the tab/folder. Tabs also can see any folders within the Apps tab and add them.

• Folders first places any folders in a tab at first of a tab as an alternative of the place they might naturally fall in alphabetical order with the remainder of the apps.

• Superior > Routinely shut the app drawer when you open an app with this setting enabled. When you click on again after opening an app you will be taken to the house display as an alternative of the app drawer you have been simply in.
• Superior > Keep in mind place will allow you to hop out of the app drawer after which if you re-enter it, it is going to be on the identical web page. This may be helpful to some, however annoying to others, so toggle it as you see match.

four. Dock

The dock is an under-appreciated a part of the house display, each by customers and by launcher builders, who typically have few or no choices in any respect for his or her dock. Nova appreciates the dock, and allows you to customise to your coronary heart’s content material.

• Dock background however a coloured form beneath your dock, like a shelf to carry it up. You possibly can select from a number of shapes and colours for the dock, or you’ll be able to depart it off and let your wallpaper shine via.
• Dock pages dictates what number of scrolling pages of dock gadgets you have got. You possibly can have as much as 5 pages, however after three issues can get a bit troublesome.
• Dock icons dictates what number of icons seem on one web page of your dock. You possibly can have as many as 7 gadgets in your dock, be it 7 apps, 6 apps and an app drawer shortcut, or perhaps a few 1×1 widgets.
• Icon format lets you resize the app icons in your dock in addition to allow and customise app labels, that are turned off by default on the dock.
• Width padding and Peak padding regulate the area across the outdoors of the dock. Growing the padding will push icons in from the edges of the display and away out of your nav bar and residential display, which may help keep away from fat-fingering a app on the dock if you meant to hit Current apps.
• Infinite scroll will scroll from the final web page of your dock again to the primary if enabled. In any other case, you will get an overflow animation and keep on the final web page of your dock.
• Dock as overlay strikes your dock on prime of your desktop grid, permitting you to cover it by means of gestures to cover/present the dock and provides extra actual property to gadgets in your desktop like widgets or that superior wallpaper.
• Routinely shut the dock after an app is opened whereas that is enabled. Whenever you go into an app after which again to the house display, the dock will probably be hidden.
• Keep in mind place will keep on the dock web page you have been final on whenever you return to the house web page when enabled. In any other case you will be taken again to the primary web page each time you come back to the house display.

5. Folders

To not be confused with the folders in your app drawer, these settings concern house display folders.

• Folder preview is the default icon for a folder, displaying the primary few apps within the drawer in certainly one of 4 preparations, from Stack to Fan to Grid. Remember that you possibly can all the time substitute these previews with icons for a single app or a customized picture when modifying the folder on the house display.
• Folder background is a strong form which you can have seem behind the folder preview, reminiscent of a circle or sq..
• Transition animation is the animation proven each time you open a folder on your property display.
• Background for the window of your folder is the sq. behind the open folder, which could be set to any shade or transparency your coronary heart wishes. Clear folder backgrounds can forestall a folder from taking you out of a theme, or they may also help accent a theme with out overshadowing it.
• Icon format permits you to resize the app icons in your folder in addition to customise or take away app labels.

For more ways to make folders awesome, read this!

6. Look & really feel

This part of Nova offers with animations, icons and different visible points of Nova Launcher that impact a number of sections of the launcher. Whereas there’s not so much in right here you will mess with regularly, the primary merchandise in right here is purpose sufficient:

• Icon theme is the place you apply all these lovely icon packs you obtain. There is a barely hidden function within the Icon theme menu it is best to find out about:
• Reset customized icons will wipe all of the customized icons you’ve got set in your app drawer. Should you’ve individually set an icon, it won’t be effected by setting one other icon pack later, so having this feature to nuke all of the customized icons in your app drawer — however not on your own home display, this feature won’t purge customized icons on your property display — might be fairly useful when making an attempt to wipe the slate clear between themes.
• Display orientation lets you restrict Nova to portrait, panorama, or, normally, permits it to auto-rotate together with your gadget. Resulting from how skewed some parts can look when rotating a portrait-based house display setup sideways, locking Nova in portrait could make some sense to themers with a really specific setup.
• Scroll and animation speeds cope with how shortly Nova goes via the animations you’ve got set within the different menus. When you might imagine that you really want your animations as quick and brief as potential, there does come some extent the place it goes from fast to only abrupt.
• App animation is the the transition you will see between Nova launcher and any app you open, and again to the house display.
• Present notification bar can take away the notification bar when disabled, for those who do not want the time, standing symbols, and notifications cluttering the highest of your display.
• Clear notification bar will substitute the boring pink or black bar on the prime of the house display with a clear bar, permitting extra of your pretty wallpaper to shine from edge to edge in your display.
• Darkish icons will flip the white icons in your notification bar black in an effort to make them extra seen towards on white/mild wallpaper. If this is not sufficient to make you notification bar actually seen together with your theme, you may as an alternative attempt turning on Gradual shadow within the Desktop settings menu.
• Search as overlay has searches by the search bar or different Nova actions executed in a pop-up moderately than leaving Nova and opening the complete Google search app.

7. Night time mode

Night time mode in Nova is fairly nice and we expect more apps should act like this. This is how one can customise it:

• Night time mode schedule can comply with one among 4 schedules: All the time, Auto, Comply with System (which outdoors of Android N acts like Auto), and Customized, which you’ll be able to set to no matter time-frame you need. If you don’t need Night time mode in any respect, simply set Night time mode for a 5 minute stretch at three AM, like Home windows Replace.
  Night time mode all the time applies to Nova Settings, however you possibly can select whether or not it applies to 4 different sections of the launcher:
• Search bar will flip the persistent search bar on the house display and app drawer from white to darkish gray.
• Drawer will flip the white card background for the app drawer darkish gray. If you do not have the cardboard background enabled, it’ll change your background tint to a strong darkish gray, blocking out your wallpaper. For those who have been utilizing a clear tint over your wallpaper for the app drawer background, you might be higher off leaving this off.
• Folders It will change the folder window from its earlier shade/transparency to a strong gray card. Once more, in case you have transparencies in your folder window, you could be higher leaving this off.
• Drawer icon will exchange your app drawer icon with a darkened model of the default app drawer icon. In the event you’re utilizing an icon pack or customized icon, this can substitute that icon whereas night time mode is lively. You’ve got been warned.

eight. Gestures & inputs

Gestures and inputs allow you to add some invisible magic to your property display. For every of the Gestures and Button Actions out there to your specific system, you’ll be able to both launch and app or execute a Nova Motion or App Shortcut. All of those actions are set in the identical means, you faucet the gesture you want to set then choose the specified motion from the menu.

Notice: Whereas there are an ungodly variety of choice listed within the submenu for Actions for Nova Launcher shortcuts, most of those actions aren’t issues you’ll be able to truly use as shortcuts. Earlier than setting one as a shortcut, be sure to know what it does.

• House button will re-purpose the house button when you’re on the house display, letting the house button pull double obligation.
• Solely on default web page will restrict the house button shortcut to on the default display in your house display, with the button nonetheless functioning as a house button whereas on secondary house screens.
• Lengthy-press Menu isn’t an out there choice for all units, however it however provides you an additional gesture choice if it seems in your gadget.
• “Okay Google” hotword faucets into the voice recognition in Google Now to allow you to do hands-free searches in Nova, even when your have not allowed Google to pay attention on each display.
• Affirm Google Settings will take you into the suitable Google Now menu to make sure that voice detection is turned on and the app has a current vocal mannequin to match to.

You might have 9 swipe gestures you should use on the house display in Nova, and whereas they are not as intuitive or numerous as Action Launcher, they will nonetheless show fairly helpful, particularly the straightforward gestures like Double faucet and Swipe up/down.

9. Unread rely badges

In case you goal for Inbox Zero and attempt to see and reply to each little factor that involves your telephone, you may want Unread rely badges for apps on your house display. Even when your inventory launcher does not help it, Nova Launcher Prime does thanks to some downloadable plugins like TeslaUnread.

• Unread rely badges may be turned on or off utilizing the toggle on the prime proper nook of the display, although you’ll be prompted to obtain TeslaUnred if you do not have an unread plugin put in already.
• Place and measurement: You possibly can selected which nook the unread badge seems in and the way huge or small it’s, relying on how a lot of an intrusion you need the badges to make.
• Presets give you a number of beginning factors from which to configure the colour and form of your unread badges. Materials is a barely rounded white sq., Holo is the sharp gray sq. with a pointy blue border, and Basic is a spherical pink dot with a white border. Preset will change to Customized when you make any modifications to one of many commonplace presets.
• Colours: You could have three colours you possibly can set, the border, the badge itself, and the check atop that badge. These colours could be chosen from any shade and any transparency, so be happy to mess around with badge colours to match or accent your Nova theme.
• Nook radius dictates whether or not your unread badge is a sq., an oval, or one thing in between.
• Supplier allows you to decide between the unread plugins you could have put in, TeslaUnread or MissedIt!
• Supplier settings will take you into the badge supplier’s app as a way to set which apps have badges and which don’t. Some apps are higher supported by the plugins than others, relying on how common and the way straightforward it’s for the plugin to select up on unread messages/emails/and so forth.

10. Backup & import settings

As talked about initially of this text, that is the place most new customers ought to truly start their Nova journey. You possibly can import your previous launcher’s format slightly than construct one from scratch. You can even create and restore your backups from this menu, and you need to actually, REALLY be backing up your launcher.

A phrase about widgets and imports/backups: widgets are dealt with quite oddly in Android, particularly with regard to launcher knowledge. From some launchers, Nova will pull the widgets no drawback. From some, Nova will pull placeholders however you will need to set the widget again up the best way it was. And from some launchers Nova cannot pull widgets in any respect. The Android group must type that out in a future model of Android, however that is a low precedence for individuals who do not theme their telephones or switch telephones regularly.

• Import will start by warning you that importing a format into Nova erases the house display format you’ve got already made. You will then be given your selection of put in launchers to import. As soon as you choose one, an inventory of the weather from that residence display format might be listed for you. You possibly can import the format or cancel if it does not sound correct.
  
• Backup creates a brand new backup of your present residence display format. When you enter the backup menu, you’ll be able to rename the backup and specify the place the backup goes: Doc storage, System storage, or you possibly can instantly share it to any service you want by means of Android’s sharing intent (like Google Drive).
• Restore or handle backups will listing any backups in your system, and allow you to search around backups which are sitting in cloud providers accessible by means of the Paperwork browser. as soon as you choose the backup you need, you are requested if you wish to erase the present format and substitute it with this backup, simply in case you tapped on the mistaken backup.

What you need to know about backing up your launcher

11. Labs

This part options experimental options, which aren’t to be confused with Beta options discovered within the Beta model of the app, and debug options if Nova is misbehaving and you must ship knowledge about it to the builders to allow them to repair it. You should not have to mess with many of those, however the builders have provided them up for the few Nova Launcher Prime customers that do.

• Lengthy-home for Now as an alternative of On Faucet: Do you have to choose Google Now to the On Faucet pop-up, however do not need to utterly flip off on-tap, you possibly can at the very least get again the previous performance on Nova Launcher with this setting.
• Restart widgets on resume: Restarting the widgets can pressure them to replace, which is beneficial if some widgets do not replace like they need to.
• Massive Grid Measurement Choices: Nova Launcher already helps a 12×12 grid for the house display and app drawer, however in the event you want extra, it will let the gird choices go all the best way as much as 16×16. May be helpful on extra-large units.
• The wrong way up display: Flips the display for Nova Launcher and locks it in portrait. Whereas that is right here for some admittedly bizarre situations, this can be a nice function to prank another person’s telephone with. Not that you’d ever advocate messing with one other individual’s launcher with out their categorical consent….
• Dangerous intent-filters: Some apps can do dangerous issues to a launcher. Nova helps you weed these rotten apples out if in case you have one messing with Nova.
• Gmail Unread Rely: That is an experimental function and does not truly appear to work proper now. Should you want an unread rely for Gmail, use the Unread rely badges plugins.
• Reset first run assist: One other function that does not appear to work fairly but, however as soon as it does it ought to be a helpful function for customers returning to Nova after spending some time on one other launcher. This could give a rundown of the launcher as we noticed it once we first put in it.
• Permissions: you’ll be able to flip off/on sure permissions for Nova Launcher right here within the settings, do you have to not need to do it from the system menu for no matter purpose. Remember that turning off permissions means some issues won’t work, particularly with the Storage function disabled.

The debug settings listed here are, once more, not one thing most individuals will want, however there are some things that may come in useful for themers and theme builders.

• Debug > Present Element in Edit dialog enables you to see which exercise or part of an app known as once you faucet on an app or shortcut, which may be useful to themers who’re making an attempt to open particular elements of an app once they faucet or swipe on a shortcut.
• Debug > Present Export PNG provides a brand new choice to your property display icons once you long-press them, permitting you to export absolutely clear icons and widgets for modifying and mock-ups. It is one other useful gizmo for themers and theme builders, however not one thing the on a regular basis consumer will typically want until you simply have to repair that one flaw in that one icon.
• Debug > Present gadget information brings up the technical details about your gadget’s hardware and software program. It even has an choice so as to add it to an e-mail so you possibly can ship it off to the builders to make use of find and fixing points with the app… which might be the one cause you’d ever use this.
• Debug > Export Icons for theme dev will push all the app shortcuts in your system to a compressed file. Icon pack builders can take the ZIP and use it as a base for his or her icon pack, or they will use it to determine which actions they should tie their icons to in a completed pack.
• Debug > Clear icon cache may also help clear up the occasional bug when an app icon replace does not take.
• Dump icon measurement debug pngs to /sdcard: this can be a debug software for theme builders referring to icon packs and the sizes of their icons.

12. What this all means for you as a Nova consumer

On the finish of the day, Nova does have a variety of settings and customization, however there are a number of settings to regulate as a daily consumer:

• Desktop grid and subgrid positioning: Adjusting your desktop grid might help you not solely match extra in your display however it could possibly assist what’s already there match higher. And subgrid positioning helps you resize your widgets and place shortcuts in additional methods to make sure that issues look good to you.
• Widget overlap may also assist with getting issues locations the best way you need them.
• Use Drawer teams to shortly corral your apps into helpful classes or part should you do not like scrolling by way of your whole listing of apps. Or activate the search bar within the app drawer and let the telephone discover it for you with a voice search.
• Cover apps you do not use and do not like. Disabling an app will cover it from the launcher, too, however that is not all the time an choice.
• Do not be afraid so as to add extra icons to your dock. Going from 5 areas to 7 actually could make a distinction.
• Even including a couple of easy gestures can take icons off your display and get you into apps faster.
• Lock your desktop once you’re accomplished setting it so that you or your mom do not mess it up. You also needs to again it up when you’re at it!

And this is a number of extra settings as a themer to get just a bit extra superior in your work:

• Change your Web page indicator shade, App drawer background, and Folder window background (to not be confused with Folder background) to match the primary colours of your theme. And even higher, set them to an accent colour that may assist your icons pop when displayed with it. Do not forget you could additionally use transparency.
• Should you’ve set plenty of customized icon in your drawer you need to purge for a brand new app, Reset customized icons earlier than you set the brand new pack. You will nonetheless should manually change over those on the house display, however at the least your app drawer can be taken care of.
• In case you have a light-weight wallpaper, you possibly can darken the icons in your notification bar in order that they’ll nonetheless present up in Look & really feel.
• Night time mode is superior, however in case you’re utilizing customized icons or clear colours, chances are you’ll be higher off with out it.

Some other tips in Nova Settings you employ on your theme? Any options you would like Nova Settings would add or re-organize? I want all the colour settings have been collectively like Quicktheme in Action Launcher. Share your Nova ideas within the feedback and we’ll see you quickly with extra themes!