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Cover: the Android app that changes your phone depending on where you are

Cover is a new lock-screen replacement app for Android that promises to serve you the right apps at the right time on your smartphone. The premise of Cover is that you don’t use the same apps on your smartphone at home, in your car and at work, they constantly change with your needs at each of those times. Cover learns your app usage behaviour and then brings the apps it predicts you will need to your lock screen in the form of a vertical list of app icons which can be swiped to immediately launch the related app.

Cover will for instance suggest Waze, Audible and Voice search when you get into the car because you have a habit of using navigation, listening to audio books or searching for things without using your hands in the car. This list changes to Gmail, your calendar app and task list manager when you get to the office bringing a location and context based awareness to the apps it suggests you will need.

Cover allows you to ‘Peek’ at an application instead of fully launching into it so you can quickly check who sent you an email or what your next appointment is with a simple swipe. Once you’re inside an application you can quickly switch to another app in your list by dragging in a quick launch menu from the right of the screen.

CEO and lead designer of of Cover, Todd Jackson, has already addressed the security concerns that are bound to arise from an application that knows where your home and work locations are as well as the time of day that you get to them. In an interview with The Verge Jackson says that all data sent to and from your phone to Cover’s servers is encrypted, and users have the option to provide their email address or not. If you do provide Cover with your email address, the app will sync across multiple devices, but opting out of giving up your information doesn’t restrict any features on a single device.

Take a look at the video above to learn a bit more about cover and to see it in action and sign up at coverscreen.com if you’re looking to jump on the COver wagon when it launches.

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