For those of you wondering, yes, you can still enable an actual
app drawer icon on the launcher as well within the settings 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.
The popular Nova Launcher's newest beta update will include several key Android L features, including the Android L folder preview, the Android
L app drawer icon and some Android L app animations.
The bottom dock is customizable with the
movable app drawer icon which can be dragged and placed anywhere in the dock.
The new app drawer can be accessed by swiping up or down on the home screen as the
dedicated app drawer icon isn't present in the pre-configured layout.
Getting a dark search bar outside Action Launcher might be reason enough for some users to turn on Night mode, but you may not want it plastering dark grey over your app drawer - or even worse, changing your
custom app drawer icon to a boring, standard (but dark) one.
In place of
the app drawer icon normally found at the bottom of the screen is a round shortcut that takes you to LeEco's Live application.
The lack of
the app drawer icon unclutters the main interface, too.
There's
no app drawer icon on the home screen by default, as you can simply swipe up or down to view all of your apps, but if you prefer having one, you can just turn it on in the settings.
The Pixel launcher does away with
the app drawer icon and now the app drawer can be accessed by simply swiping up on the home screen.
You can also configure each specific setting individually — for example, if you don't want
the App Drawer icon to change colors, just untick that box.
Next, just tap
the app drawer icon, then any app you launch from here will open in freeform window mode.
Try disabling Night Mode for the app drawer and then try changing
the app drawer icon at that time.
To restore
your app drawer icon simply long press and hold on a blank space on the homescreen and then select Widgets - > Nova Actions - > App Drawer and that will add the app drawer icon back to your homescreen.
There's
no app drawer icon, just the hinted slide mechanism on the launcher.
If this is the case, you can simply keep the Smart Drawer icon on your home screen or dock, or you can switch to a different home screen app like Nova Launcher or Action Launcher 3, which both allow you to remove
the app drawer icon.
We'll be using More Shortcuts to launch the S8's Record Screen app, as it doesn't provide
an app drawer icon.
The image also shows the navigation bar groups on - screen buttons to the left, and
an app drawer icon to the right of the controls.
Unlike the LG V30, Google removed
the app drawer icon, adopting a swipe up gesture for accessibility.
A nice touch, though, is that when you hold down
the app drawer icon (the little dots in the bottom middle of the home screen) for a second, a preview of each home screen pops up with the option of touching one to quickly navigate.
The new launcher has
no app drawer icon and instead, users have to swipe up to access the app drawer.
The Pixel Launcher is also similar to the Google Now Launcher, except there's
no app drawer icon.
It was a new style of approach by Google by ditching
the app drawer icon and add the swipe up gesture to launch app drawer instead.
Now when you tap
the app drawer icon, watch the animation.
It gets even better as taking a closer look will inform you that the static icons have increased to five in number, which is the result of removing
the app drawer icon that usually takes up some space on the screen.
Tap
the app drawer icon in the dock at the bottom of the display and you'll find a vertically scrolling list of all your installed applications — of which very few come preinstalled.
Instead, you pull it upwards from the app dock which - because
the app drawer icon is no longer there - has space for a fifth app.
In addition, the home screen of Android Nougat has
no app drawer icon, instead, you can now have an additional shortcut in the same place.
What makes Action Launcher unique is its sliding panels; swiping in from the left pulls in a vertically scrolling app list, eliminating the need for
an app drawer icon taking up precious home screen space, and swiping in from the right opens a drawer that holds additional apps and widgets.
According to Android Police, the new launcher will not include
the app drawer icon.
The immediately noticeable change is that there is n longer
an app drawer icon.
Long - press
your app drawer icon, and scroll down to My photos.
Long - press
the app drawer icon.