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Samsung patents home-screen backup and sharing among your devices, possible new feature to Samsung SideSync

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In a new patent filed by Samsung, the tech giant is taking a page from third-party launchers: saving and transferring your home-screen designs to be used later on the same device or porting it over to a different device altogether.

Samsung is wanting to add in the extra benefit of making all of this cloud-based, something not really offered by other custom launchers.

When I backup my home-screen layout on a launcher like Nova, to retrieve that file and transfer it elsewhere (to Google Drive for example) the process is actually a little cumbersome. First you need a file manager app like Solid Explorer, then navigate to your Internal Memory, go to data>com.teslacoilsw.launcher>backup in order to find these saved backups. From there you can share the file to your cloud or, if you’re connected to your computer via USB and have done the same navigation from Windows’ file explorer, you can copy/paste it out to your computer’s hard drive.

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As you can see in the picture above, Samsung intends on making the process extremely simple. You can select from a number of saved home-screen setups and utilize them as you see fit.

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The method in which Samsung wants to implement this home-screen transfer feature is not unique with the company. Samsung offers a service called SideSync, which allows you to synchronize your smartphone, tablet, and PC for screen and data sharing. This home-screen backup and sharing sounds like a perfect fit for the SideSync program.

That being said, there’s no official word on whether or not this home-screen sharing feature will be exclusive to Samsung devices, but I can’t imagine that it would allow for anything outside of the Samsung ecosystem. Worse yet, it may only allow sharing of your home-screen setups done inside of TouchWiz.

Source: Phandroid

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