any of you android slutes want an Aviate invite?

[Eschaton]

I've already given one to Positive Touch, himu, and Treesong tho, so ask them for one

PM emails for invite...

"We want to connect people to personalized information at the moment it’s useful," reads the mission statement of Aviate, a replacement launcher for Android available today in private beta. It sounds almost exactly like the tagline of Google Now, and that’s no coincidence — Aviate co-founders Paul Montoy-Wilson and William Choi used to work for Google. While Montoy-Wilson worked for Google Play and Choi worked on search, the two had of course heard of Google Now, their employer’s best effort at predicting what information you’ll need next. But, the duo thought they could do a better job at it.

To the founders of Aviate, you shouldn’t even need to open Google Now. The apps and information you need should already be sitting on your home screen as soon as you need them. "What is the right product to bring contextual info to users?" asks Montoy-Wilson. "We decided it’s not an app with push notifications. It needs to live and breathe within the context of your phone — within the context of the experience where you access all of your content."

Aviate uses a variety of factors including the time of day and your location to determine what you’re likely doing, and provide the appropriate apps, buttons, and links for that moment. For example, when you wake up and unlock your phone, Aviate provides a widget filled with your next few appointments, the weather, and even an icon for Twitter, since you like to scan news headlines in the morning. On the way to work, Aviate pops up Waze, Pandora, and Gas Buddy. When you head out to lunch, your home screen adapts itself to the restaurant you’re in, providing photos and tips from Foursquare, as well as the option to check in. As you walk to your car after happy hour that evening, Aviate pops up quick links to get directions home and check on traffic. When you plug in your headphones for an evening walk, your music apps appear. And finally, as you slump into bed after a long day, your home screen includes a new "Set Alarm" button, and a link to your Kindle app.

Whereas Google Now provides the raw information you might need at any given moment, such as the weather or a boarding pass, Aviate hopes to also provide the apps you need. Google may envision a future where the world runs on Chrome apps inside a web browser, but today, apps are the way we do everything on our phones. And don’t worry, you can pick up to 10 apps to stick to the bottom of your home screen — and Aviate expects the scheme to work for most people. Where virtually every other launcher replacement for Android skews towards power users, Aviate is meant to be used by everyone.


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"In 10 years, are our phones always changing?" asks Daiss. He seems to say that perhaps someday in the future, our phones won’t have buttons and panes and pages to swipe through, but instead present the information we need along with a few buttons for how to act on that information. If you’re in a Starbucks, a custom Space could pop up offering you the option to order your drink in advance — which presents some interesting monetization ideas. If you're at an airport, Aviate could pop up your boarding pass.
Aviate is the promise of Google Now, but in a way that feels more hardwired into the device itself. "Google Now focuses on an engine for a Google data set," says Montoy-Wilson. "As a startup we have the flexibility to rethink the problem and build it exactly as we believe users want it. If we’re your home screen, which you use 50–100 times per day, we could be the interface that you interact with more than any other interface in your life.

[Tasty]

Stock for me all the way. 

[Great Rumbler]

What does it do?

[Positive Touch]

Stock for me all the way. 

:jerkoff

[Howard Alan Treesong]

I'll take one, if you still have it. Thanks.

[Himu]

I want one.

[Brehvolution]

I want one.

Pm email. Last one!

Himu got the last one or you have one left? 

[Brehvolution]

Himu, Treesong, PT....invite pls. 

[fistfulofmetal]

I have it. used the HACKERNEWS code when someone first discovered it. I got 5 invites of someone wants one.

[Himu]

I'll drop you an invite later, Zero

[Himu]

This thing is fucking amazing. It simplifies so much. How do I send zero an invite?

[Brehvolution]

I pM'd you my email.

[Himu]

I know but I'm trying to find a way so I can send the invite.

[headwalk]

What does it do?

one day i'm going to start a castrated post-rock band called "twinkly curiosity" and make so much money.

[fistfulofmetal]

I know but I'm trying to find a way so I can send the invite.

swipe to the left all the way and there's an "Invite" option in the lower left.

[Brehvolution]

I know but I'm trying to find a way so I can send the invite.

[Himu]

Sent!

[Brehvolution]

I'm in.

I'll pay it forward if anyone else wants in.

[Himu]

This thing is fucking amazing. It simplifies so much. How do I send zero an invite?

How do you feeel about it from a graphic design perspective? I feel like it's a really cool amalgam of concepts from stock android and W7... The auto-app sorting is just too

Shit is

[TakingBackSunday]

i'd like one

[Himu]

i'd like one

pm me

[Brehvolution]

I don't think it's for iphone, breh.

[fistfulofmetal]

i like that it takes all the functions of Android and makes it feel like they are more ingrained into the phone. I'm not opening multiple apps to get where I need to go. At an OS level I hit 'SEND EMAIL' and my email app pops up. plus it just looks really clean.

a bit more polish and some better integration and this thing will be a must have.

[Dickie Dee]

Can anyone spare an invite?

I'm interested, don't know how I feel about another shell ontop of the base OS. Handling all the competing settings and permissions seems like it'd be a nightmare. By y'alls impressions I guess they're playing nice with each other for now...?

Is this basically another launcher? I guess I'd have to take off Nova Launcher?

[Himu]

light theme > dark theme

[fistfulofmetal]

Can anyone spare an invite?

whats your email addy?

[Dickie Dee]

Is this basically another launcher? I guess I'd have to take off Nova Launcher?

"We want to connect people to personalized information at the moment it’s useful," reads the mission statement of Aviate, a replacement launcher for Android available today in private beta.

[Dickie Dee]

Can anyone spare an invite?

whats your email addy?

PM sent

[fistfulofmetal]

Can anyone spare an invite?

whats your email addy?

PM sent

sent

[TakingBackSunday]

Already invited half the office to this.  Shit is GUD

[Huff]

Anyone have anymore codes?

[Dickie Dee]

Can anyone spare an invite?

whats your email addy?

PM sent

sent

 

[Dickie Dee]

I'm worried about turning my GPS on, especially since the PRISM revelations

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Actually wasn't sure about battery or if it ate up data so shut it off and never bothered checking if it actually made a difference

[close]

[Brehvolution]

Huff, pm me your email address.

[Brehvolution]

Huff, pm me your email address.

Sent

[Beezy]

Can someone help me to get in on this?

[Tasty]

https://plus.google.com/u/0/110154690075671339616/posts/DhZxVaRFK4x

[Steve Contra]

https://plus.google.com/u/0/110154690075671339616/posts/DhZxVaRFK4x

Linking to google+

[fistfulofmetal]

i could not give less of a shit if people know how i go home and what kind of j-pop i'm listening to when i go home

[Dickie Dee]

fuck, this thing is noiiicccce

[Sausage]

Anybody still got invites?

[Dickie Dee]

Anybody still got invites?

PM your address

[Positive Touch]

Himu, treesong and positive should have 5 invites

my invite never went through  stupid-ass hotmail

[Dickie Dee]

Outlook.com is pretty awesome now though. I like it much better than gmail

[Positive Touch]

oh yeah i forget i have a gmail

pm'ed you

[Howard Alan Treesong]

how do you add a Widget to the home screen in this?

EDIT: Sort of figured it out - picture is area for widgets - can't add just a 1x1 tile widget, tho

[brawndolicious]

Was afraid to take an invite and find out I don't like it but if anyone has an invite, I'd appreciate it.

[Positive Touch]

oh yeah i forget i have a gmail

pm'ed you

Don't have any invites left, i had to ask Zero Hero for one for my friend 

noooooo

someone pm me

[Huff]

Huff, pm me your email address.

Sent

thank you!!!

[G The Resurrected]

if someone needs any pm me I've got 4 left

And thanks Himu!

[Positive Touch]

where the shit are my widgets

[G The Resurrected]

Apparently since this app uses foursquare to find places near you. I live near in a strip club called "Nasty Den" there is a mayor who is female of this establishment... I think there's something going on in my home I don't know about.

[Shaka Khan]

Ummmm, invites anyone?

[Beezy]

Can someone help me to get in on this?

Give me a fucking invite, nerds.

[Himu]

Pm me your email beezy and jin. I have two more.

[brawndolicious]

Muchas gracias to G.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

my battery life seems a lot better than with Nova Launcher, oddly. like, significantly.

I want 1x1 widgets and I want the ability to make custom groupings

[Positive Touch]

I still don't know how to add widgets

[fistfulofmetal]

I still don't know how to add widgets

press and hold on any widget and theres an option in the upper right to add widget.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

And the photo is a giant "widget"