The look of Android smartphones does not only differ from the outside of an iPhone, the operating system also looks different. And then those looks are also different per smartphone: Samsung throws its TouchWiz sauce over it and HTC has an almost playful appearance with Sense. Want your Android to get an Apple experience? Then you can make an iPhone clone with a few simple adjustments!
Tip 01: Customize Android
Android is great, the big advantage is that you can adjust a lot of the operating system to your wishes and you have a lot of options that you can switch on or off. Possibly an even bigger advantage is that you have a lot of choice in terms of budget. For under 200 euros you already have a great Android device at your disposal. The iPhone, on the other hand, is an expensive device, the cheapest version starts at 489 euros. You also pay for the design, which is sleek and simple. Fortunately, you can make your Android device look like an iPhone with a few tricks. Not only in looks, but also in functionality.
With a few tricks you can make your Android device look like an iPhoneTip 02: Home screen
On the iPhone, you have four fixed apps at the bottom of your screen. All apps are shown above in different screens. So by swiping from left to right, other apps will appear. Apps can be combined into folders by superimposing them. With Android, not all apps are standard in the main screens, you can decide for yourself which apps are there. The rest is in the launcher. If you want to imitate the way of iOS, it is best to install the Nova Launcher app. When you start the app, Nova Launcher asks if you want to load a backup. click on Next one to skip this. In the next screen you can choose a light or dark color scheme. This does not matter for our purpose, choose one of the two and tap Next one. In the following screens you can adjust a few more settings. If your smartphone asks you to select a home screen app, choose Nova Launcher and tap All the time.
Nova Launcher
Most of the customizations in this article are done with the free version of the Nova Launcher app. With the paid version you can do a lot more, but for this article the free version is enough. Nova Launcher allows you to make many changes to the look and feel of your Android device. Also, if you don't want to create an iPhone clone but want to customize other things, this app is a good choice.
Tip 03: Dock
Open the Nova Launcher settings by tapping the six dots and choosing Nova Settings. Tap on dock / Dock icons to determine how many apps should be stuck at the bottom of your screen. Set here 4 and tap Finished. On the iPhone, the dock has a semi-transparent background. To set this up, go to dock / dock background and choose below Form the option Rectangle. The background in iOS automatically adjusts to the background image, choose at Colour a slight variation of the color that is common in the background image. If you choose white, the white letters are almost unreadable. Put the Transparency at approximately 20%. Put the slider behind Show behind navigation bar at. Go to dock / Icon layout and put the slider behind Label at. Make sure the check mark behind Shadow is off and that the check mark behind Single line on. Tap on desktop and then desktop grid. Now you can choose how many apps you want to have on your screen. An iPhone 5 or SE has four rows of five apps, an iPhone 6 or 7 has six rows of four apps. You can put the parenthesis for Sub-grid positioning leave. Finish by pressing Finished to tap. For a full Apple experience, scroll down and slide the slider behind Add iconon home screen at. Now a newly installed app will be added to your desktop automatically.
Tip 04: Folders
Folders in iOS display apps in groups of nine when you tap them. To mimic this, go in the settings to folders and tap Folder example. Choose Grid. Now if you look at your apps on your screen, you'll see that the apps are grouped in folders in a grid, but the background is a transparent circle. You have yet to download the correct background for your folders: a gray square with rounded corners. You will find this here. Save the file and open it when you are in Nova Launcher folder background tap and for Amended chooses. A folder currently has a maximum of two by two apps, as opposed to three by three in iOS. Unfortunately, you cannot change this with Nova Launcher. If you have three apps in a folder, the third will be placed in the middle of the first two, the solution is to always have an even number of apps in a folder. When you tap a folder, you'll see a white screen with the folder's apps. To make this look a little more like iOS, head over to Window / Background and choose below transparency a value of approximately 60%. To display the name of the app in white, go to Icon layout and choose your back Colour the color white. You can also choose a lighter variant of your background here and then the transparency at approximately 20% to make.
The right background for your folders: a gray square with rounded cornersTip 05: Icons
The next step is to make your existing icons look more like iPhone icons. Apple has guidelines on what an icon looks like and all icons on an iPhone have rounded corners. The most convenient is to install the app Adastra – Icon Pack from the Play Store. To install the icons, go to Nova Launcher and tap Appearance & behavior. Tap on Icon theme and choose Adastra. You see that now standard icons of, for example, the Google Play Store and Chrome are square with rounded corners. On some smartphones, the icons are very small. You can adjust this by at Appearance & behavior the slide behind Normalize icon size to turn off.
