Still, the whole thing felt forced, and splitting the physical QWERTY keyboard into two to make room for what was little more than a glorified secondary apps tray didn't make for the most intuitive typing experience in the world.
Not exact matches
Designed for control with your hands or feet, Edge - Board ™ trainer gives you the flexibility to
do a wide range of core and full - body training exercises — from lunges and abdominal extensions to hamstring curls, push - ups and pike - ups, all while the removable device
tray securely holds your smartphone for training with the M - Trac ™
App.
With airline - style
tray tables that deploy from the center console, large LCD screens to surf the Net or watch videos, cupholders that keep your beverages cool or hot, a built - in footrest and a remote (or iPhone
app) to commandeer all the controls from the driver, it's such an easy place to get work
done (or just lounge) that it wouldn't surprise us if more folks bought S - classes in which to be chauffeured than to actually drive (read: China).
Without the
app tray up, you're looking at a simple wallpaper, so you don't get the same sense of immediate control as you might from widgets, notification bar controls or lockscreen controls.
Despite what we learned at CTIA — that the Galaxy Tab 10.1 would have Samsung's lightly - customized TouchWiz UI with Live Panels and the mini
apps tray — our limited edition Galaxy Tab 10.1 didn't come with many of those customizations.
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.
App switching is
done via a soft - button on the
tray, displaying the last 5 used
apps in a column.
In operation is feels very much like the Torch
did, offering a slideable
tray of
apps on the screen, with the ability to scroll left or right to access favourites or downloads, or head into media.
For example, the keyboard doesn't always pop - up when you want it to if you're running a «desktop»
app, and the
apps tray takes that bit longer to pop - up than it would on a mobile - focused OS.
Sony still adds plenty of its own services, as
does Samsung, HTC, or LG, but with the Z Ultra you can simply throw the
app icons you don't want into a folder in the
apps tray and ignore it.
We like the small
tray of mini
apps you can access on the Recent Apps menu, if only because we got some use out of the floating calculator to do some math while we were Web brows
apps you can access on the Recent
Apps menu, if only because we got some use out of the floating calculator to do some math while we were Web brows
Apps menu, if only because we got some use out of the floating calculator to
do some math while we were Web browsing.
Jumping to all the different corners to navigate has always been a bit jarring, and I can't help but wonder why Google didn't just center the
app tray on the bottom edge, like it has on phones.
For those that don't know what a «launcher» is, basically that's the part of the user interface that contains your home screens and
apps tray.
It's very similar to other Chinese Android options in that it doesn't have an
app tray, so all of my
apps were scattered on the home panels, à la iOS.
Good Lock, an
app from Samsung,
does just that, giving users a way to easily tweak the notification
tray, quick settings panel, and recents menu — not to mention get a more stock Android - like appearance.
Then, just make sure you have «Unknown sources» enabled in your Settings (check out our instructions on
doing so for the Samsung Galaxy S3, Galaxy S4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7... the process is pretty much the same for all devices) and install the
app by tapping on it from your Notifications
tray or Downloads folder.
Just steer clear of any items that don't appear on your phone's home screen or
app tray.
pressing the
App button on Android essentially turns it into a
tray full of icons just like iPhone, so what Android
does offer is to some more complicated but to others more powerful.
Huawei has
done away with the
app tray, instead opting to have all your
apps stored on homescreens - mimicking the way Apple's iOS
does things.
They all land in the
app tray just like Chrome OS
apps do, but there's no way of telling what is Android and what is Chrome, especially if both
apps have the same icon.
For those that don't know what a «launcher» is, basically that's the part of the user interface that contains your home screens and
apps tray.
The square folders and squared
apps tray icon don't sit as naturally with material design's use of circles - like the new instant action button in Gmail for example.
However, HTC's
apps tray is customisable - you can still use folders and search, which Google Now's launcher doesn't allow.
Remove a folder from the
apps tray: If you don't like folders you've created, or want to break the
apps out of the default folders Samsung offers, long press on the folder and select «delete folder» from the pop - up menu.
Do we want folders in the
apps tray?
Accessing the
apps tray isn't a huge deal and removing the
apps button doesn't make a huge difference either.
You can group things in the
apps tray so you don't have to
do it all on the home screen.
The
app does also show you the battery level of both earbuds in your notification
tray (interestingly enough, both earbuds are never synced on battery level, other than at 100 %).