The develpment team of the app carefully reviewed the progress the part few years including the recommendations of Google on options and settings. This new version, ADW Launcher 2.0 is believed to be one of the best today. Of course, that's app from scrath and reprogrammed it to make sure they've tackled a lot of points and added many new features.
The list is quite long but here are some new things you could do with the ADW Launcher 2.0: new ways to manage screen, add widgets and shortcuts, change the wallpaper, lock/unlock the desktop or access settings, and some icons effects section. You can even change compositions and choose image fifters now.
Several items were also improved like the app categories in app drawer, way to apply internal/external themes, managing users gestures, context menu for all desktop objects, folder properties dialog, Also added were the following new features as listed on the ADW Launcher site:
- Fast scroll app drawer style
- Dynamic UI coloring using wallpaper colors
- New section to configure icon badges
- Indexed fast scroll app drawer style
- Visual mode to configure desktop, icons appearance, folder appearance, and app drawer options
- Option to change the top panel/widget
- Option to change the content type of bottom panel (dock/widget)
- New wrap folder mode to folders
via : androidcommunity