{"id":37640,"date":"2021-11-20T18:56:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T18:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/droix.net\/knowledge-base\/article\/learn-more-about-the-t8-and-t8-s-launcher-home-screen\/"},"modified":"2021-11-20T18:56:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T18:56:22","slug":"learn-more-about-the-t8-and-t8-s-launcher-home-screen","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/droix.net\/knowledge-base\/en-gb\/article\/learn-more-about-the-t8-and-t8-s-launcher-home-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn more about the T8 and T8-S Launcher Home Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a screenshot of a typical T8 and T8-S launcher homescreen&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/droix.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/upload_2015-5-27_20-58-44.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-176\" src=\"https:\/\/droix.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/upload_2015-5-27_20-58-44-1024x587.png\" alt=\"upload_2015-5-27_20-58-44\" width=\"980\" height=\"562\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are some extra shortcuts on the right and you&#8217;ve probably got the buttons at the very bottom hidden, but other than that (working from left to right, splitting into thirds):<\/p>\n<h4>Left section<\/h4>\n<p>Top left is obvious in terms of time and date. Click the area to the right if you&#8217;d like weather reports.<br \/>\nBelow that we have DroidBOX\u00ae Share (T8-S has this insstalled) and the blue swirly icon is for the Flix Universe app.<br \/>\nBottom left is the free RAM available, click it to free up some when possible<br \/>\nThe six dots in a circle is the standard Android icon for the list of all applications installed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Middle section<\/h4>\n<p>XBMC shortcut. Will open Kodi (new name for XBMC).<br \/>\nThe globe opens the browser app, the shopping bag is Google&#8217;s Play Store.<br \/>\nThe office filing envelopes are for the File Manager (though some prefer ES File Explorer)<br \/>\nThe cogs take you to Settings<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Right section<\/h4>\n<p>Clicking the magnifying glass will open Google Now if it is enabled, or allow you to turn it on if not.<br \/>\nUnder My Favorite you can add and remove shortcuts to the apps you&#8217;ll see when you click the six dots in a circle icon on the left. Tick or untick the apps you want after clicking the \u00b1 sign and then press the Return button on your remote to save the selection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a screenshot of a typical T8 and T8-S launcher homescreen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":859,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kbtopic":[310,282],"kbtag":[744],"class_list":{"0":"post-37640","1":"kb","2":"type-kb","3":"status-publish","5":"kbtopic-android-tv-box","6":"kbtopic-hardware","7":"kbtag-droix-en-gb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/knowledge-base\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/37640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/knowledge-base\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/knowledge-base\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/knowledge-base\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/859"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/knowledge-base\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/knowledge-base\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/37640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/knowledge-base\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kbtopic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/knowledge-base\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtopic?post=37640"},{"taxonomy":"kbtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/knowledge-base\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtag?post=37640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}