You can also change the layout
of app icons on your home screen and in the app drawer, allowing you to further change the sense of space.
Instead of full notifications, users will now only see a
row of app icons underneath the clock.
Once the feature is enabled, you will notice a little orange icon in the bottom - right
corner of the app icons, this indicates the secondary account.
You have to look closely at first, but once you learn the
position of the app icons, it's easier to check notifications quickly.
If the keyboard's not visible, you should see a small
strip of apps icons at the bottom of the screen.
The home screen itself which i was greeted with for the first time came with a
bunch of app icons which was a turn off for me and would be the exact unpleasant feeling.
If you look closely, you will see that
many of the app icons have been revamped with new graphics and a more uniform look.
Once the feature is enabled, you will see an orange icon in the bottom - right
corner of the app icons, indicating a secondary account.
Make sure the desktop grid is 5 by 5 and bring the
size of app icons on the homescreen to 125 percent.
The default Pixel Launcher of Android O supports five distinct
shapes of app icons, users running the latest developer preview of Google's upcoming operating system have uncovered.
Google says that the color of the Notification Dot will actually respond to the
color of the app icon as well.
At any point, you can exit a book and go back into the pop - up menu, by pulling up the discreet, ever - present tab at the bottom of the screen; it provides a single - row
view of app icons, accessible by scrolling left to right.
Most navigation on the iPad is done with simple touch gestures, such as touching an icon to launch the application or swiping your finger left or right across the screen to move from one
screen of app icons to the next.
As it turns out, swiping to the right reveals a fairly standard
list of app icons arrayed in a grid.
Icon packs can be installed like any other app, and once you've done that, all it takes is a quick trip to your launcher's settings menu to apply a whole new
set of app icons.
If you scroll down a bit further on this same menu, there are some options for adjusting the
look of the app icons.
In many ways it feels as pure and light as stock Android - you can change the size and
style of the app icons on the home screen, as well as choose the layout for them, for example - with a few minor tweaks and a lot of customisation options.
Many custom Launcher users already know the power of a notification icon on
top of an app icon on your Homescreen.
Instead of cluttering the dashboard touchscreen with a
gaggle of app icons, buttons and sliders, Krenn turns the entire touchscreen into «one big control» that's easy to use without ever looking down at it.
The user interface is new, while still evoking some BlackBerry 6 elements like the
drawer of app icons collected into groups with a status bar on top.
If you're running an app, swiping up from the bottom bezel minimises the app into a smaller window, where you can swipe to switch between open apps, and shows you the
dock of app icons (more on that later).
As there is no apps tray a
glut of app icons sprawl across the majority of the screens too, but a quick tidy and that's soon addressed to your liking.
The menu interface has been noticeably Apple'd and Wii'd, binning the Sony PS3 / PSP austere XMB chic for a far more approachable cutesie bubble
world of app icon, swipe - able windows and one - home - button - press - from - anywhere familiarity.
The only irritation coming from Android is the big
dump of app icons on your home screen and its general lack of customization options.
If there is a downside to Dynamic Badges, it's that if you have multiple badges in a folder, rather than getting the individual pictures or colors, you get a
mini-folder of app icons on your folder icon telling you which apps in the folder have notifications.
We will basically be making a blank icon for the first page of this folder with matching color as the wallpaper to make it look invisible, and then moving
rest of the app icons that we want to hide in the same folder to the second page and so on.
An indent with a numeral «2» at the bottom right corner
of the app icon lets you know that the particular version is a secondary instance of the app.
On Time is a widget that displays your chosen
selection of app icons, but you can set different selections for different times of day.
And just like the real dots, Nova Launcher's notification dots will match the color
scheme of the app icon they appear on.
The latter works about the same as similar features from Samsung and LG phones, with a customizable clock widget being displayed at all times, along with a
cluster of app icons showing you any pending notifications.
But unlike on iOS, Google's implementation relies on a long
press of an app icon, rather than the force with which you push down onto the icon on Apple's pressure - sensitive displays.
It's still chock -
full of app icons, but the editable menu of quick shortcuts looks good and works well.
Prior to the update, using Google Play Music shortcuts as adaptive icons would result in a
mixture of app icon styles and most of the icons appearing as fairly small depictions of the app's sections they were supposed to denote.
For instance, you could set up your own list of shortcuts for long pressing on the App
Shortcut of an app icon instead of having to use the pre-configured app shortcuts that are integrated by the developers.
To cater for the
pages of app icons you'll accumulate, Huawei has bumped the number of available homescreens from five up to nine, though I wouldn't be particularly optimistic that the UI would remain smooth with nine full pages of widgets, folders and icons.
Remove the icon background: One of the things that Samsung likes to do is apply a background and create a «squirkle»
out of all app icons.