They've done a good job, although some of
the standard app icons still look a little cheap.
Long - pressing the QSlide app window and dragging it to either side of the screen will dock it, shrinking it to the size of
a standard app icon.
Not exact matches
Navigation is often condensed into the so - called hamburger
icon that has become
standard in mobile
apps.
Amazon has done away with the
app carousal and implemented a fairly
standard interface that has all of your
app icons on the home screen.
The update should include all the
standard KitKat features and improvements — faster / smoother performance, white status bar
icons, wireless printing support, full - screen album art and a new camera shortcut on the lock screen, options to select the default home and SMS
apps, enhanced sound controls for specific Samsung
apps, and general stability improvements.
Directly below the display are the
standard Android device controls: the back
icon, the physical home button and the
icon which shows all opened
apps and controls multi-window mode.
The big addition here is an
app drawer that looks a lot like what you'd expect from a
standard Android device, but with bigger
icons.
You'll find widget
icons for screen lock you can put the device to sleep without hitting a physical button), and for muting sound and microphone with a single touch; a link to Lenovo's
App Shop (more on that in a moment); and an overhaul of Honeycomb's
standard basic home navigation buttons.
Replacing the envelope
icon — which was for sharing via DMs — with a more
standard «arrow in a box,» the Share option now includes sharing via DMs, saving tweets to Moments, and sharing via outside
apps such as email.
The last three
icons are
standard Windows interface
icons for minimizing the
app, going to full screen mode, or closing it.
It comes with 54
standard animated
icons to help you easily set alerts for a variety of
apps, and apply different
icons to incoming call notifications to indicate specific contacts.
To perform a
standard factory reset, tap the Settings
app icon on your device's home screen.
We still prefer the
standard look of Google's Android over TouchWiz's cartoony
icons and largely redundant flourishes (like a separate
app store, video player, etc.).
They only include
icons for a few dozen «
standard» Samsung and system
apps, and the rest?
Each pack usually has a unique set of
icons for all of the
standard system
apps, such as Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Photos, and they typically include dozens more for popular
apps like Facebook, Instagram, eBay, and so on.
You can add an
app drawer, but it's disabled as
standard, there are alterations to
app icons and the notification shade, plus a few tweaks to the settings menu.
Take the Netflix
icon for example (pictured below)-- it's normally a lot bigger than
app icons that actually follow Material Design
standards, but once you've «Materialized» it, it will match perfectly and your
icon rows will look tighter.
Adaptive
icons have a lot of potential to jazz up our
app drawers while keeping things consistent and beautiful, but that's not happening until
app developers update their
icons to the new
standards.
Only below these items were the
standard grid of
icons to share an image or video through other installed
apps.
That means there's no
app tray and all
app icons are spread across multiple homescreens, plus there are various other changes to
standard Android.
Most
standard Android devices also have the ability to run a «custom launcher» — that's an
app that runs instead of your usual home screen and allows you to change the look and feel of your device, from something as simple as the look of your
app icons, all the way to deciding how your
app drawer scrolls and how many
icons fit onto one screen.
The
app icon makes it look like a
standard Google camera
app, but it's slightly reworked by OnePlus, with an HDR mode and a Clear Image mode.
As
standard, a small dot
icon in the bottom left corner lets GS8 owners hide the on - screen navigation buttons for home, back and recent
apps, freeing up space for whichever
app is currently on - screen.
There are some
standard, built - in
apps on the watch that can not be removed, such as Settings, Maps, Weather, Alarms, Timers, and Stopwatch and the Time
icon that brings you back to the watch face.
This means that your
apps icons will get sized down automatically to fit the same
standards.
This year, Google is rolling on Adaptive
Icons, a new two - layer
icon pack
standard that should make it easier for
app drawers to find consistency while also offering quirky abilities like simple animations.
With this setting, there is no
app tray
icon on the home screen, but users can set the interface back to the
standard look if they desire.
The one missing feature is Google's Pixel Launcher, which would replace the Idol 5S»
standard app - drawer
icon with sleeker swipe controls.
For Android purists, it's a rather gimmicky take on Google's OS, with the
standard theme featuring some rather peculiar UI design alterations that in some ways make it feel more like Apple's iOS rather than Android - especially the brightly coloured gradient - heavy
app icons.
If you're content with your
app icons being scattered everywhere across your homepage and other pages, the default
Standard layout will suit you fine.
To access swipe down from the top of the home screen > hit the settings cog
icon > tap Home Screen Style (visible within first page) > choose between
Standard and
App Drawer options.
Using the
standard launcher, the first thing you'll notice is that the
app drawer has been removed in favour of all your
icons living directly on one of the home screens.
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.
Go to Settings > Home Screen Style, and select either Drawer to activate the
app drawer, or
Standard to show all
app icons on your home screen.
The home screen doesn't look much different from any
standard Android home screen, and what the cyanogenmod here has, is the sharp edges for everything, from widgets to
app icons.
These replace the
standard notification badges that show up on the right side of each
app icon and provide you with the number of missed calls, unread messages on different
apps, and more.