Thankfully, EMUI 5.0 is en route to deliver the Nougat update, as well as the ability to hide those oft - used
apps in a drawer of their own.
Game Launcher: A special launcher that can hold all your games instead of mixing them with
apps in the drawer
The ability to colorize folders is a nice touch anyone who wants to organize
apps in the drawer rather than on the home screen.
The ZenUI launcher lets you go with a particular color theme and bundle up
apps in the drawer by category if you want to keep things neat and tidy.
This makes a lot of sense compared to the redundancy of having both customizable home screen pages and many pages of hard - to - find alphabetically organized pages of
apps in the drawer.
Accessible as
an app in the drawer or in the settings menu, the Booster allows for user programmed limits to the performance clip and even the refresh rate of the screen when playing certain games.
You'll also be able to swipe between the various
apps in the drawer below the input box.
Its 1.5 - inch 420 x 320 capacitive display was also bright, and sliding through pages of
apps in the drawer was fluid.
It's a great way to put a quick dark theme on a single app, and the ability to mix and match across
the apps in your drawer is just plain cool.
Not exact matches
You can actually stash your
apps in an
app drawer instead of stuffing them
in folders.
Huawei, like a lot of Chinese phone makers, uses its own Android skin — EMUI 4.1
in this case — which doesn't include a catch - all
app drawer.
Recipients can choose to keep payments
in their «Cash
Drawer» (on the
app,
in other words) or the money can be sent directly to the bank account associated with their debit card.
But since the update that introduced the new shortcuts menu
in the
app drawer I've been miserable, dragging
But since the update that introduced the new shortcuts menu
in the
app drawer I've been miserable, dragging A man has been charged
in relation to a robbery
in Sydney's eastern suburbs early on Sunday which is believed to be linked to a dating application.
As I suspected these
apps can not be uninstalled and there is no way to hide them
in the
app drawer.
If you've tried EMUI
in previous years and didn't like it, give the M5 Pro another chance: the UI is good these days, and you have the option of using Huawei's traditional, iOS style
apps - menu - free look or one with the
app drawer reinstated.
The desktop
drawer unfortunately doesn't arrange
apps in alphabetical order.
It doesn't show up
in the
app drawer but there's Gmail and Google Drive and once you sign
in with one of those the Play Store is accessible but there still is no icon for it so it's not easy to get to without using a separate launcher.
In my opinion the home screens and drop down nav bar seem well placed and styled, but the
app drawer is still the same gross looking design as found on the slide.
Simply trying to drag down the notable Android notification bar or open the
App drawer would take several attempts, often resulting
in a crash.
The good news is that most of these
apps are tucked away
in an
Apps4U folder instead of cluttering up your home screen or
apps drawer, and can be fully uninstalled.
Launch Android Market
app from your
Apps drawer and follow the on - screen instructions
in order to enter your Google Account credentials.
Better yet, you can choose which of your
apps to dock
in the
drawer to launch
in a floating window.
The default screen shows a carousel of your most recently - used
apps and features, and you can setup a stash of Favourite
apps that pop - up as a little
drawer from the bottom of the screen when you tap a star icon
in the persistent nav menu.
Apps in the
app drawer can now be sorted according to All, Downloaded and Frequent.
Beyond the core
apps in the dock (mail, Web,
drawer), two of the five home screens come with preinstalled
apps for YouTube, text messaging, news and weather widgets, and more.
I love just swiping around, watching the
app drawer expand and close, pulling the down and expanding the delightfully bouncy notification panel, and generally trying not to think about how it's all going to be ruined on other phones that cover it
in proprietary software that doesn't look half as good.
In fact, the menu itself is organized into a list rather than the standard Android «
app drawer» for simplified menu navigation.
Since the release of Jelly Bean, my quad core smartphones are
in the
drawer and I'm using it again with the Galaxy Nexus because JB is just so much fun and I do not use an
app that even remotely needs a quad core platform.
You can either buy songs from the Amazon MP3 store, which is available as a pre-loaded
app found
in the
app drawer on Android or you can connect your device to your computer via a USB cable and drag and drop your tunes over to the pre-loaded 8 GB memory card on your device by switching it to USB storage mode.
Home screens behave as they currently do on Android (swipe left or right to navigate, open an
app drawer, retrieve widgets, and so on), except you now get a customizable «favorites tray» that resembles the dock
in iOS.
It features a new / modified homescreen and the
apps drawer and allows you to modify it
in every possible way.
Another addition is the QSlide bar
in the notifications
drawer, which allows you to launch select
apps - Video, Browser, Calendar, Email, File Manager and Calculator -
in resizable windows.
The key
in question looks as though it may open an
app drawer.
It looks overly cartoonish, and simplifies things by nixing the
app drawer in favor of an iOS - like home screen populated with every installed
app.
In addition to its own icons and a modified settings menu, LG has gone a step further and removed the
app drawer, so all your
apps are spread across the home screens, iOS - style.
Android 5.0.2 with the Galaxy S6 version of TouchWiz (this is 5.0.2, but it includes features like multi user support and alphabetical sorting
in the
app drawer) no doubt helped the tablet perform well, and we can only imagine how good the experience will be on the retail units.
BB10 can best be thought of as an operating system with four main states: on your homescreen,
in an application,
in your messages (BlackBerry Hub), or
in your
app drawer.
This might be Android 5.0.2, but Samsung has fixed things like the missing A-Z sorting
in the
app drawer and included Multi User support, which isn't there on the company's smartphones but is very important on a tablet.
The changelog, which remains same for all four models, reveals that the open beta update brings a new Toolbox Card
in the shelf homescreen and a Hidden Space for the
app drawer.
It is not clear what OnePlus means by the Hidden Space
in the
app drawer, but it notes that the update also brings support for editing dynamic icons like the weather, clock and calendar.
The launcher managed to open the home screen
in 0.36 seconds and the
app drawer in 0.38 seconds, narrowly beating Jelly Bean's times of 0.4 seconds and 0.5 seconds.
Delete ebooks from the built -
in reading
app and other
apps — From the homescreen, open the
app drawer (middle grid icon at the bottom of the screen) and tap «Explorer».
You can place whatever
apps, albums, movies, websites (anything that appears
in the main carousel) you want into the favorites
drawer for quick access.
Installing
apps — With an SD memory card inserted, install
apps by tapping the
App Store icon in the app draw
App Store icon
in the
app draw
app drawer.
The notification
drawer and navigation buttons work the same as any normal phone or tablet, but the home screen shows all the
apps you have installed
in a vertical list.
Gone is the selection of widgets
in the
app drawer, replaced by a long - press on the Home screen and the rather swish new drag & drop UI seen above.
If you have any trouble getting it to install, go open the «NookColor Tools»
app in the
app drawer, un-check «Allow Non-Market
Apps» then make sure to re-check the box again.
Once installed, it will appear
in the Nook's
app drawer where you can use it to successfully run searches
in the Android Market.
As mentioned
in the getting started tips guide for the eReader Pro, Google Play doesn't show up
in the
app drawer initially.