Sony put a skin
over the app drawer that made my eyes want to commit suicide.
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.
Not exact matches
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.
Our Galaxy S8 Plus was stuttering all
over the place, particularly in the notification
drawer and the Recent
apps section.
Some of them add special features and other improvements
over Android's default home screen, bringing customizable
app drawers, widgets, and other functionality.
That appears to be a big thing
over in Asia, but on the Western side of the world, many of us prefer and
app drawer.
The
app, like other iMessage extensions, is available by tapping the iMessage
apps drawer in iMessage, then scrolling
over to the Google
app icon.
This Android Marshmallow update brings a pack of features to the Samsung Galaxy Note 4, which includes various bug fixes, a new
app drawer design, better stability, greater control
over app permissions and improved battery life thanks to the OS» Doze mode that kills all background processes when the device is sleeping and prevents
apps from waking up the device when its display has been off for a while.
This is why an
app called Smart Launcher has been gaining popularity lately with
over 10 million installs — it has an
app drawer that analyzes your
apps and usage data to automatically group
apps into well - organized tabs.
The home screen launcher still swipes
over to Google Now, though you do lose the Pixel Launcher's long - press
app functions, as well as the swipe up gesture to access the
app drawer — there's the old - fashioned button taking up space in your dock instead.
Stock Android doesn't come with a whole lot of bells and whistles, and apart from a few aesthetic changes, such as the now vertically - scrolling
app drawer, the most notable additions with Android 6.0 Marshmallow are Doze, more granular control
over app permissions, and Google Now on Tap.
Head
over to the Google
app by long - pressing the home button or launching it from the
app drawer.
While other key Android manufacturers either plump for stock Android or increasingly try and skin in a very restrained fashion, Huawei's EMUI still feels like it lags behind even if it has come on a lot in terms of usability
over the last couple of years - the
app drawer is back if you want it.
If you look at the beginning of this video that Google released
over the weekend to show off Google Maps» capabilities, you'll notice that it features a Nexus 6P home screen that doesn't contain an
app drawer:
To go there, you have to first launch the Settings
app, and then head
over to the Notification
Drawer under the personal section.
The drop - down and settings menus are clean and clutter free with simple text and logos, while the
app drawer shows the
apps on top of a frosted glass backdrop
over the homescreen wallpaper.
All major user interface features of the Nexus Launcher have been carried
over to the Pixel Launcher, including the Google lozenge and weird date orientation and a revised
app drawer design with instant search access.
The latter provides more - comprehensive themes that take
over every part of the interface, including the notifications
drawer and individual
apps such as Dialer, Messaging and Gallery.
You have control
over the size of those custom icons, the padding between them, the labels underneath them and even the number of rows and columns in both your
app drawer and on the home screens.
To enable this
app, you have to launch the App Drawer first then head over to the WirelessDi
app, you have to launch the
App Drawer first then head over to the WirelessDi
App Drawer first then head
over to the WirelessDisk.
The M3 runs Android 4.4 KitKat with the Amigo 2.0 UI layered
over it, but surprisingly this is a different one from the Amigo UI in the Elife series, because there is a full - fledged
app drawer and you get the home screens to edit and use as you wish.
It also loses the ability to have an
app drawer, so instead all of your downloaded
apps appear
over a number of pages and look a lot more cluttered than if you had designed your own homescreen.
As previously mentioned, Huawei has received a lot of flack for its user interface
over the years, but EMUI 5 (first introduced on the Mate 9 and Honor 5X) offers much better performance than before, and adds some nice features as well — most mentionable is the long - requested option to enable an
app drawer to the home screen.
It's one of the best third - party user interfaces out there, with the biggest change
over stock Android being the lack of an
app drawer.