Desert Island is a new experimental launcher launched by Google days ago and that is based on what would be the purest minimalism that we have seen in an app launcher. In fact, you won't be able to do much more than choose 7 apps.
And we can ask ourselves the reason for it, but let's say that if we are looking for a launcher that makes us focus on work tasks or that our digital day in our mobile is simpler, this launcher is more than divine to achieve those goals.
The minimalism of the text of 7 apps
We talk about this Google launcher being an experimental app. Being an experiment, you can give other freedoms, since they do not try to accumulate thousands of reviews and downloads, but trying to discover new ways of interaction with all those apps and services that a smartphone usually gives us during the day.
We already know that Digital Wellbeing is one of the new sections we have in Android to thus have parental control of the apps of our children or even knowing how much time we spend weekly in that large number of apps installed on our mobile device. In other words, more and more attention is being paid to managing and balancing our offline life (that of a lifetime) and digital.
You just have to go around to realize the dependency that these types of devices have created for millions of people. You enter a bus and 90% are looking at their mobile screen. That is, a dependency has been created, and Digital Wellbeing, like this app called Desert Island, come to try to make us control a little more what we spend the day on and with which apps we do it.
Desert Island as an experimental launcher
Desert Island is based on the premise that you have a lot of apps and you have to manage well which ones to use. That is, the moment you launch it, it will indicate that you have to select 7 apps that you will always have on the main screen of the launcher.
You should know that even if you select 7 apps and have access to them on the main screen, you can always go to the app drawer to access anyone. But a great point for Desert Island is that it will show you every 24 hours a series of statistics related to the use of those 7 apps and the rest.
That is, you are going to take control of your mobile with 7 apps. You'll having to decide what they are going to be. Let's say a WhatsApp, a Gmail for email, an Instagram for social networks and 4 more that you will have on hand every time you turn on your mobile.
The minimalist interface
Once these 7 apps have been chosen, you will find them on the main screen with their text and all the rest in white. We have in the upper left the clock and in the right a button to open the menu to choose the rest of the apps and what would be the 7 default apps again. And that's it, there is no more. In fact, if you try to go home or use the back button, they don't work when you're on the main screen.
You can only open those apps and go back to home. Is this Google's experiment to offer a different alternative to Digital Wellbeing o Digital Wellbeing. And perhaps here is also the original of this launcher that can come in handy to those who start to be tired of this cramming of apps, games and more.
Desert Island is an experimental launcher that you have for free from the Google Play Store. You are warned that it is not like the rest of the launcher, but that it is dedicated so that turning on the mobile means having the 7 most important apps that we use the most; Of course, do not miss the statistics, because you may be surprised by the use you give to other apps and not to the ones you think are more important.
