Adapticons Brings Android O’s Adaptive Icons to Android 5.0+

Adapticons Brings Android O’s Adaptive Icons to Android 5.0+

When Google announced Android O, they talked about a feature that will help bring uniformity to the icons on your smartphone or tablet. They’re calling it Adaptive Icons and it’s similar to what we’ve seen from multiple OEM skins in the past. Some like this feature of using icon masking to make their application icons look similar, but others dislike it and disable it immediately if they can. Now a new application called Adapticons brings this type of functionality to Android 5.0+ devices. With this application, you can set custom icons for your home screen based on a lot of different styles.

As with the other features coming in Android O, Adaptive Icons will be limited to the devices which are running the new update. Hence, bringing this feature to Android 5.0+ devices is a major benefit to the Adapticons application. The developer does warn that Android O support for this application is possible, but it’s not as simple as older versions of Android. Thankfully, the developer has thought of it and offers Android O users 3 different ways to set custom icons that they pick.

You may be thinking this application is similar to another popular solution to this problem, Materialize, and that is true. The two applications do share similarities but this developer added their own twist to the approach. To begin, you’ll open up the Adapticons application and be presented with a list of applications and games you have installed on your device. Tap on an application and choose between 3 different icon shapes (although many more are available behind an in-app purchase). Must Read:iPad keeps restarting

You can then manually adjust the size and position of the icon itself while also having the ability to adjust the size and rotation of the icon mask itself. You can pick out a color for the icon mask, change the icon, set a custom title under it, or make it grayscale. Unlocking the full application with the in-app purchase (of $1) also adds support for icon packs, importing icons from the gallery, removes ads, and lets you customize multiple icons at the same time.

Adapticons (Free+, Google Play) →

How to jailbreak ios 9.3.2?

Now that iOS iOS 9.3.3 and 9.3.2 are available, can one jailbreak iOS 9.3.2 or 9.3.3 firmware on compatible iPhone, iPad or iPod touch devices?

Much to the displeasure of a lot of iOS device owners around the globe, it seems that the days of carefree jailbreaking are long behind us. Gone are the days when Apple would release a new major version of iOS and the jailbreak teams would have it liberated within a matter of weeks, if not days. Gone are the days of seeing an untethered jailbreak solution being pushed out at record speed.

Thankfully, it isn’t all doom and gloom, and thanks to the likes of TaiG and Pangu, we do still have an active and throwing jailbreak community, albeit one that adopts a more leisurely pace these days.Must Read:How to import contacts from iPhone to mac?

We aren’t going to pretend that iOS 9.3.3 is a revolutionary update to Apple’s iOS platform. In fact, it’s quite the opposite in the fact that it’s entirely made up of fixes and slight tweaks to improve the overall experience that users receive when interacting with hardware running it. Nevertheless, it’s a new update, and like the ones before, it definitely brings the question of “what’s the current state of an iOS 9.3.3/9.3.2 jailbreak?” into the forefront of our minds. Well, to put it as honestly and bluntly as possible, there hasn’t been a great deal that’s changed in the world of jailbreaking in recent months.

As the majority of you may already know, there isn’t currently a working jailbreak solution available for iOS 9.2, 9.2.1, 9.3, 9.3.1 or 9.3.2 firmwares. Sure there has been some who claim to have jailbreak available for iOS 9.3.x devices, but they don’t plan to make their private exploits public, and the public release of iOS 9.3.3 doesn’t change any of that, and in actual fact just means that we can add iOS 9.3.2 to the list of firmware versions that can’t be jailbroken in the mainstream just yet.

The interesting thing here is that as Apple continues to launch new firmware versions with security patches, it also continues to shut down the digital signing of older versions quicker than it has historically. iOS 9.3 is no longer being signed, which means that if you have upgraded to this latest release, then iOS 9.3.2 would currently be the lowest firmware version that you could migrate back to. Although that will change sooner rather than later now that 9.3.3 is out to public.

The real advice here appears to be to stick on as a low a firmware version as possible, but only if that is deemed secure.

At MOSEC 2016 conference in Shanghai, the China-based Pangu Team demonstrated iOS 10 jailbreak. The team also hinted at a jailbreak coming for iOS 9.3.2/9.3.3 devices soon.

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