Opening the app tray launches Android's 3D app menu.
Add or remove an apps tray button: By default there is no apps tray button and
you open the apps tray with a swipe.
This will let you use the phone in landscape to watch videos, returning to the home screen and
opening the apps tray without needing to constantly rotate your phone.
If you want plain and simple alphabetical order,
open the apps tray, open the menu top right and select «sort».
Open the apps tray, tap in the search bar to access the search page.
Put an apps button on the home screen: For years Samsung has had an apps button you can tap to
open the apps tray.
Not exact matches
Along the top are shortcuts for search, voice commands, and
opening the full
app tray.
The extra one
opens - up a
tray of widget
apps that sit on top of your home screen, rather than «in» it like most widgets.
Yet this year, Amazon added the Quick Switch feature from within
apps; with a side swipe from the right, you can reveal a
tray of
open apps without going back to the home screen.
When docked, there's a sort - of Windows - style Start menu offering recent
apps, although by the time you've tapped the button, you might as well have
opened the Android
apps tray to select what you want.
Even with more than a dozen
apps open simultaneously, we were able to switch between them quickly (thanks to the
app tray, which now holds up to 16 of your most recent
apps) without delays and without crashing.
The notifications
tray is seeing a pretty major overhaul, too, with expanded Gmail notifications that include a richer preview of unread messages, while also giving you access to more options without needing to
open the relevant
app.
The
app tray opens instantly and scrolling is ultra smooth both within
apps and outside.
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.
However, we are fans of the new
app tray that pops out of the right side of any
open app.
Yet this year Amazon has added the Quick Switch feature from within
apps; with a side swipe, you can reveal a
tray of
open apps without going back to the home screen.
The Zera Food Recycler is designed to fit right into the kitchen as a freestanding appliance, and to be as simple to use as just scraping your plate or pan into the
opening, after which the automated and
app - controlled unit stirs and aerates the food scraps along with a little bit of secret sauce («a plant - based additive»), and the finished product drops into a
tray at the bottom.
Everything looks silky smooth, even little stuff like swiping down to
open the notification
tray or swiping up to see the
app drawer.
You can even make gestures on the fingerprint reader to perform actions, such as swiping down to
open the notification
tray or swiping left and right to browse through photos when using Huawei's gallery
app.
Once the APK file has downloaded,
open it from your notification
tray or with any file browser
app.
Beyond that, you can drag your finger outside of the arc, then you'll see Paranoid Android PIE - style navigation controls, which let you go home, back, view your recent
apps, or
open your notification
tray.
First,
open the Settings
app on your Chromebook by clicking the menu button and selecting settings or clicking the «system
tray» area at the bottom - right corner of your screen and selecting Settings.
Either swipe down from the top of your screen to fully expand your notification
tray, then tap the little gear icon, or
open your
app drawer, then select the «Settings» entry.
When docked, there's a sort - of Windows - style Start menu offering recent
apps, although by the time you've tapped the button, you might as well have
opened the Android
apps tray to select what you want.
To fill that void, an
app from developer ztc1997 will now let you touch your finger scanner to
open the notification
tray on almost any device.
Slide your finger up from any side of the bottom edges and an
app tray with the ones currently running will
open.
Up front are three capacitive navigation keys, with the first being assignable to
open either the Recent
Apps tray or an
App Menu.
There are small enhancements, such as the Google Now widget on the top left of the home screen, the revamped
app drawer that you can access by simply swiping up from the quick access bar, and new gesture controls that let you
open the notifications
tray by swiping down in the fingerprint sensor in back.
KitKit used layers in animations, with the
apps tray opening as a sort of zoom to the centre, and new pages rising up from behind as you swipe through.
To learn more about this action,
open the Moto
app from the
app tray, then go to «Actions» and tap «Swipe to shrink the screen».
To turn Data saver on,
open Settings from the
app tray and go to «Data usage», then tap «Data saver».
On first boot, the system guides the user through basic operations, such as swiping to
open up Facebook, Messenger, or the
Apps tray — and tapping to just swipe through status updates in the glorious full - screen.