It’s like having Windows Phone 8 with Android apps, but that’s just for the main theme. Sliding your finger right to left brings up your list of programs and long-pressing one of them allows you to turn it into a tile. Tiles can be resized – just long-press and select the size of your tile the same way as in Windows Phone 8. If you have ever used a Windows Phone, the similarity of Launcher 8 is astonishing. Then you’ll get a brief lesson on how to play with tiles. I suggest tapping the always button after you decide for Launcher 8, otherwise you’ll keep getting the question.

Then you’ll have to confirm things with the Android system. Once the installation is done, you will be asked, in not-very-clear English, if you want to set it as your launcher. More than that, it doesn’t just look like a Windows Phone there are many ways in which it actually feels like Windows Phone.

This little launcher allows you to turn your Android smartphone into something that you could swear is a Windows Phone (at least at first sight). Launcher 8 free (fake wp8) – this is the full name of the launcher – is one of the most interesting ideas I’ve ever seen on Android so far (and believe me, I’ve seen quite a few).

Windows phone 8.1 launcher