There's even an option to
add an app drawer, if spreading app icons across multiple home screens isn't your thing.
While there's supposed to be an option to
add the app drawer back, not having an app drawer means your home screen will be littered with random icons, all organized in the order they were installed in.
3,000 mAh battery Fast fingerprint reader EMUI now let
's you add an app drawer 4 GB of RAM NFC microSD expansion
EMUI 5.0 has already been seen on the Huawei Mate 9 (Huawei owns EMUI and the Honor brand) and includes a new design inspired by the colors of the Aegean Sea, tighter security and the ability to
add an app drawer to the home screen — for those who prefer a more traditional Android setup.
Users can
add the app drawer back to the home screen within settings, but we prefer the swipe function.
Moreover, it allows you to
add app drawer or adjust the transparency.
But you can
add an app drawer in settings and there are a bunch of themes you can download from the Play Store to change everything else.
If you'd like to give the stock launcher a go but want the app drawer back, LG actually included a way to
add an app drawer to its launcher via a separate download.
You can
add an app drawer, but it's disabled as standard, there are alterations to app icons and the notification shade, plus a few tweaks to the settings menu.
Huawei finally
added an app drawer, and took a more standard approach to notifications, ditching the two - screen alerts / settings setup.
If you don't like the launcher, go ahead and swap it out, but just
adding an app drawer makes a big difference.
Not exact matches
The
app drawer is gone entirely, forcing every
app onto a home screen, and Lenovo employs an obnoxious handholding feature that prompts you to
add each installed
app to a folder after each one finishes downloading.
On a top bar, above the home screen, there's a Google search bar, a voice - commands button, and buttons to
add widgets and open the «
apps drawer.»
The home screen comes outfitted with a clock and basic
apps such as Email, the SlideMe
app store, Settings, with the option to
add more shortcuts by dragging and dropping from your
app drawer.
You can
add or remove home screens, create folders and disable or uninstall
apps directly from the
App Drawer.
As seen in the video, Sony
added some nice little bounce «physics» to the
app drawer so that when you hit the top or bottom, the little icons do a little stretch and bounce thing.
There's an ever - present Google search button and voice search button in the upper left corner, and in the upper right corner is the button to open the
apps drawer along with a button to
add app shortcuts, widgets, or change the wallpaper of your home screen.
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Add option to Automatically turn off the Torch - Turn Off Flashlight through Volume Down Press -
Add option to Hide
App from
App drawer
Features list: Call Recording Auto call recording 4 Ways Reboot (Reboot, Recovery, Hotboot, Download) Full Color / Transparency customization for Status bar and Notification
drawer elements Secure Samsung Keyboard Option to keep «
Add Call» button with Call recording menu Disable Camera shutter sound (+ Screen Capture) Skip Music with Volume buttons Save Call Logs View Enable Keyboard Symbols Enable Hangouts Calls trough cellular Enable Camera while calling Unlimited and Customizable Multi-View support Bypass Exchange Lock check Notification Panel Customization Long Home key behavior Long Back key to kill
App (+ white list) Disable increasing ringtone Messaging Tweaks (raise limits and conversion) Disable Scrolling cache Enable Full rotations White / Colored Circle Battery Transparent Notifications panel Customize Clock format and size Customize Battery text helper size Customize Quick Settings buttons number per row Collapse Quick Settings after toggle 2 line formatted date on the panel header Dark themed Multi-Window Disable Boot sound Customize Two line date header format White / Black Email
App background (Supported on some devices) Transparent Quick Settings buttons background Default hidden SMS logs
Add Call button to Logs and Contacts list Disable Accounts icons on Contacts list Custimize Wifi AP Clients number Disable Launcher page rotation
Add Exit button to browser SMS Automatic input mode Disable Call number formatting Enable unlimited Contacts joining Enable Gallery Rotation trough button Set default Browser view to Desktop Hide Wireless charging popup Hide Full Battery Notification Clock position Status bar (Hide, Left, Right, Center) NFC behaviors (UN / Locked on Screen ON / Off) Hide Headset icon and notification bar Disable TW DVFS Blacklist for Application where you want to disable DVFS when it's default enabled Hide Smart Stay, Alarm, NFC icons on status bar Launcher: Enable Scroll wallpaper and Hide Dock labels Disable Wake Home button Use separate Address field on Contacts
Add Fast PIN unlock (to be used with caution)
Added SMS sent time details Enable Screen ON options on Messaging
App Disable low Battery warning
Add custom carrier label on notification label Set low Camera battery level Change System Holo Dark / Light background Acces hidden Lockscreen shortcuts menu Disable SEAndroid / Knox notifications and container Disable volume control sound Disable low battery sound Auto Disable Knox notifications when Knox
Apps are installed Set SELinux to Permissive mode on boot ScreenShot and ScreenRecord (Requires Busybox) on Power menu CM Numeric Circle battery Screen Off animation (CRT / Fade) Expand all notifications Disable Temperature check on Camera recording and Flash Enable Heads up notifications (Optional ongoing notifications and display delay customization) Support SHealth and Private mode (Disable secure storage on both
Apps) Disable Battery and USB cover warning And much more to come
Some of them
add special features and other improvements over Android's default home screen, bringing customizable
app drawers, widgets, and other functionality.
To do so, open the Samsung Pay
app from the
app drawer, then follow the instructions to sign in to your Samsung account and
add your cards (you might need to update the
app the first time you run it).
That said, I hope LG
adds a little bit more to its Android skin, because even though its relatively clean and bloat free, not having an
app drawer installed by default is pretty annoying.
There are plenty of ways to customize the EMUI home screen, but before you start rearranging
apps and
adding widgets, you should decide whether or not you want an
app drawer by going to Settings > Home screen style.
If you
add a dark enough wallpaper to your home screen, Android's stark white paint job in the quick settings,
app drawer, folder backgrounds, and Google Feed page is replaced with a sleek, dark / black look.
With EMUI 5.0, Huawei finally
added a traditional
app drawer.
To
add an icon, drag the item (either from another home screen or from the
app drawer) to the transparent tab on the right side of your screen.
Additionally, an
app drawer has been
added in case you prefer the feel of the stock Android experience.
The swiping up from the bottom of the screen in order to reveal the list of installed
apps has also been
added to the Pixel C, with the
app drawer no more.
To the right, you have the
app drawer with a useful search option, and you can
add your favorite
apps to the shortcut menu that's easily accessed from the main home screen.
They can
add pops of color from the notification images they pull in, and if they can't get one of those, at least they use the
app's colors instead of pulling a color to match your icon pack, thus making the dots blend in with your
app icons, especially in the
app drawer.
In the
app drawer, Sony also
added a slide - out menu to help you reorganize and search for
apps.
An
app called Snap Swipe
Drawer will allow you to
add any home screen widget directly to your notification tray in a few simple taps — and with Android's wide array of available widgets, it's an even better experience than Apple's restrictive implementation.
A new feature recently
added to the Google Now Launcher puts a dedicated section at the top of your
app drawer for your four most commonly - used
apps.
What's even better is that you can
add scenes to an iOS Today widget or Android notification
drawer, so you don't even need to launch the
app to set a lighting scene — just swipe down from the top and tap it (you can also create other Android widgets for scene controls).
With Android 4.4.4 CM 11 M8 Snapshot released you will get the following major changes: «heads up» notification, VPN fixes, custom homescreen grid sizes, Interface replaced by Status Bar, Notification
Drawer and Gestures, now the «expanded desktop» option is listed under «display», all lock screen related elements are now under «lock screen» while all duplicates have been removed from «Security» menu, Navigation Bar controls are now found under Buttons,
added Protected
Apps component, Search Panel Google Now option
added to Trebuchet launcher, Whisper push fixed, and others more.
For those running Lollipop, the new Google
app update
adds the Marshmallow - style vertical scrolling
app drawer, complete with suggested
apps at the top of the screen.
Launchers from phone manufacturers and third parties alike are getting more themable and more adaptable,
adding gestures to do things like access shortcuts and open the
app drawer.
The home screen lacks an
app drawer, which is unfortunate, and EMUI 4.1 also lacks the ability to
add any sort of personal information or news feed to the left of home — Google or custom.
That update dramatically changed the
app's user interface, as it
added a whole bottom
drawer's worth of tabs, panels, and media libraries.
LG throws in its custom overlay, which
adds some software features including gestures and UI modifications, and T - Mobile populates the
app drawer with several useful
apps, all of which can be uninstalled.
It runs the latest Android 4.4.4 KitKat OS, and the MIUI version is v5, and there's no
app drawer and this again reminds me of Apple's iOS where you see similar icons for a few
apps, but at least, there is a widget for clock and I can
add widgets wherever I wish, on empty spaces or on an extra home screen.
Features like the bottom - located search bar, At a Glance widget, and transparent
app drawer from the Pixel 2 were
added to the original Pixel and Pixel XL with Android 8.1.
Evie continues to
add and tweak new features, such as expanded language support, as well as
app drawer and folder customizations.
The Mate 7 let you unlock your phone just by tapping the sensor and in the Mate S, Huawei have not only made this feature faster but also
added gesture support to let you access the camera, take a selfie, pull down your notifications
drawer or bring up the recent
apps menu.
Whether you try to
add more pages to your dock or just a custom
app drawer icon, we hope these tips can make your dock more vibrant and more versatile.
As with previous Huawei devices, Emotion UI does away with the
app drawer in favor of an iPhone-esque arrangement that sees all your
apps just
added to the homescreen.
The most noticeable one is the missing
app drawer button that also creates room for a fifth icon to be
added in its place.
Lacy has
added the slide - up
app drawer and caret (little arrow) above the semi-transparent dock.
Like ZTE's MiFavor, it removes the application
drawer so all
app icons are spread across your homescreens, slightly alters the notification shade, and
adds in a split - screen mode activated by swiping up from the bottom of the display.
While many launchers have begun to
add gestures to launch the
app drawer and other specific actions, gestures have been at the core of the Action Launcher experience for years, and they help make it one of the most intuitive and customizable launchers on the platform.