{"id":271568,"date":"2026-06-12T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/i-used-hyperdroid-to-make-my-android-devices-look-and-feel-like-windows-11-and-dont-regret-it\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T17:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T21:00:11","slug":"i-used-hyperdroid-to-make-my-android-devices-look-and-feel-like-windows-11-and-dont-regret-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/i-used-hyperdroid-to-make-my-android-devices-look-and-feel-like-windows-11-and-dont-regret-it\/","title":{"rendered":"I used HyperDroid to make my Android devices look and feel like Windows 11 &#8211; and don&#8217;t regret it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/hyperdroid-android-launcher-made-phone-tablet-look-like-windows-11\/\">I used HyperDroid to make my Android devices look and feel like Windows 11 &#8211; and don&#8217;t regret it<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/hyperdroid-android-launcher-made-phone-tablet-look-like-windows-11\/\">https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/hyperdroid-android-launcher-made-phone-tablet-look-like-windows-11\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-12 15:05:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.zdnet.com\">www.zdnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"c-shortcodeImage_credit g-outer-spacing-top-xsmall u-block\">Jack Wallen\/ZDNET<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Follow ZDNET: <span class=\"c-commerceLink\"><span>Add us as a preferred source<\/span><\/span> on Google.<\/p>\n<h3>  ZDNET key takeaways  <\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>If you&#8217;re a fan of Windows 11, there&#8217;s an Android launcher for you.<\/li>\n<li>HyperDroid looks and feels just like the Windows UI.<\/li>\n<li>HyperDroid is free to use and install, but is best suited for tablets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Have you ever wondered why a developer hasn&#8217;t bothered to create an Android launcher that transforms the UI into that of, say, Windows 11? Well, wonder no more, because the unthinkable is now not only thinkable, but also a reality.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to HyperDroid, you can transform your Android phone into something quite desktop-like. I didn&#8217;t believe it until I witnessed it. Upon installing HyperDroid, I launched it and was immediately taken aback.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Also: 6 Android launchers that are better than your default home screen (and most are free)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wow, the developer nailed it: the look, the feel &#8212; my Pixel 9 Pro looked like it waltzed off the Microsoft campus, ready for action.  <\/p>\n<h2>Outstanding performance<\/h2>\n<p>OK, I can&#8217;t lie: I&#8217;m not a fan of the Windows UI (even though I did give it the old college try), but if you&#8217;ve followed me long enough, you know that. Even so, this is impressive. You have a taskbar, desktop menu, desktop launchers, search, system tray, and pretty much everything you&#8217;d expect from a desktop environment, all while running on an Android phone.  <\/p>\n<p>I took this one step further and installed HyperDroid on a Nubia Pad Pro tablet to see how well it played out on a slightly larger display, and I was all the more impressed. You can add apps to the desktop for quick access, add widgets, theme the UI, and access quick settings from the system tray.   <\/p>\n<p><strong>Also:\u00a0<\/strong><strong>How to clear your Android phone cache &#8211; the 30-second routine every user should be doing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are some features that don&#8217;t seem to function as expected, such as the widgets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For some reason, every widget claims there is no access to the internet, and eventually, no matter what widget I attempted to add, it seemed to think it was either AP News&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/hyperdroid-android-launcher-made-phone-tablet-look-like-windows-11\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used HyperDroid to make my Android devices look and feel like Windows 11 &#8211;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":271569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/cf45fa002ea3ed75846a3fdc4d5eaee41380d03e\/2026\/06\/08\/cdfeab3b-897a-4319-b58a-7180afaa5644\/hyperdroidhero.jpg?auto=webp&fit=crop&height=675&width=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,72],"class_list":["post-271568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-pixel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271570,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271568\/revisions\/271570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}