The folks over in our Post Your Android Home Screenshot thread often share impressive setups for their launchers. Themer, an app designed to use advanced home screens, is at the moment not something that can feature in the thread because Apple complained about the app and got it removed from Google Play.
Apple accused Themer of copyright infringement because its Seven theme used its imagery. To be fair, Seven was a blatant iOS 7 rip-off with backgrounds and icon choices clearly meant to replicate Apple. However, Themer removed Seven from its app more than a week ago and Google still hasn’t allowed it to be re-listed in Google Play. It could just be a temporary waiting period, but the company behind Themer, My Color Screen, fears Google has left the app in limbo without any sign of when it will return.
We’ve seen other cases of Google being slow to respond to developers getting their app reinstated, even when they have done nothing wrong. We can only hope the long wait time won't continue in this case. Otherwise, one of the better ways to get Android themes will be kept from the 1 million-plus people who have downloaded the app. It will continue to work on devices that have already been installed, but reinstalls and new installations are currently unavailable.
Read the full letter detailing the absence and Apple's original complaint letter here.
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