Next Steps

This chapter showed just how easy it is to customize the Android graphical user experience to your liking. Whether it’s embracing the mobile lifestyle to the fullest or harkening back to a legacy PC user experience, Android gives you the freedom to choose how you want the interface to look and behave. This is a significant advantage, especially compared to platforms like those powered by Apple iOS. Android allows you to express yourself without jailbreaking or rooting your device, something that might be required to do to achieve the same effect on other mobile platforms.

Now that you have the knowledge and the tools to customize your Android device the way you see fit, explore the numerous themes available for download. If you’re ...

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