PreHome was a tools app developed by Salt. It was removed from Google Play Oct 24, 2021 and is no longer available for download.
Download Statistics
PreHome had been downloaded 220 thousand times before it became unavailable.
User Ratings
PreHome was rated 4.38 out of 5 stars, based on 1.8 thousand ratings.
App Information
PreHome was free to download. The APK download size was 69.77 kB. The last available version was 1.0.2. The last update was on December 30, 2012.
Technical Requirements
PreHome required Android 1.6+ or higher. The app had a content rating of Everyone. The app had been available on Google Play May 2010.
Description
*** This app doesn't work correctly on Android 4.4 or later ***
PreHome is a simple and lightweight task switcher. You can use actual Home by pushing [Home] button on PreHome. Tasks that already killed are drawn with translucent.
PreHome shows the task list which Android OS has.
Recent changes: Ver.1.0.2 - Changed method to switch tasks that is same as the HOME application uses. - Changed to be finished when user taps outside of the PreHome window.
Ver.1.0.01 - Speed up (Changed thread priority to draw icons to high)
Ver.1.0.0 - Speed up (Disabled animation for showing PreHome) - Fixed problem that the PreHome was displaied for a moment when you used double click mode.
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★★★★★
P-E-E-F-E-C-T! Long press search and double tap home options! kill app actually works! I just tried them all, search ended, Pre WINS! -DINC w/GB2.3.3
★★★★★
Pretty good Since I switched my Nokia N900 to Samsung Galaxy Note I've been looking for a way to have a similar "Alt+Tab" function as it had in the Maemo 5 OS (You just simply had a constant task switch button in the upper-left corner and it took you to a Windows 7-like Alt+Tab menu, where you had a live preview of all the currently running apps and could jump to any one of them, and had a function to kill them 1 by 1). Now this app, does not show you a preview (that would be André Rabold's Perfect Task Switcher...however that requires rooting to have previews and I do not want to void my software warranty just yet), but it gets the job done. PreHome makes it remarkably simple to navigate between apps with a simple Home button push, and with another push you can get back to the actual home launcher. So I would say this is one of the most useful apps for someone who likes practical things, and I'm glad to have it. (The only way it could be better if it could show live previews of the running apps.) Thanks for the great app :)
★★☆☆☆
Set not as a default home it never sticks as the default home even after i set it to be so. it lets me select it as a default home everytime. needs to fix this. it has been like this for awhile.... i ask to fix this as a long time user
★★☆☆☆
No better than default task switcher Motorola Electrify running Gingerbread - doesn't work any differently from stock task switcher (by long-hold on home key). For example, if I'm in the middle of composing a text, and I need to switch to, say, a browser to look something up, when I switch back to text with PreHome, I'm returned to the Text app main menu, rather than the text message I was composing. Does the same thing within K9 (great email app). Uninstalling. If I'm missing something, please comment. Thx.
Technologies used by PreHome
PreHome is requesting 7 permissions and is using 1 libraries.
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