I really need a way to hide my apps from the app drawer,
do I have to be rooted? Someone please help, if this is
Already answered somewhere sorry, lol I suck at forums. Need help!
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Go to the market and get ADW launcher. Awesome app that you don't need root to use. Has a slide bar on the bottom to hide any app you want. Other than that, I'm not sure of a way off the top of my head to do so.
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jedinyte said:
I really need a way to hide my apps from the app drawer,
do I have to be rooted? Someone please help, if this is
Already answered somewhere sorry, lol I suck at forums. Need help!
Thanks
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When you say you are trying to hide apps from the app drawer....what do you mean? I dont think you can actually hide them from the app drawer if they are installed unless the app is designed to be hidden after install, such as "mobile defense" is. If you want to restrict access of apps so that someone cant just open your phone and get into your apps, there are apps out there that will require you to put in a password to gain access to your apps. I think the name of one of them is app protector.
If you are looking to hide them on your homescreen (ie: your app drawer dock)
then the best launcher to use would be "Launcher pro" or "ADW Launcher" In my personal experiance, I like Launcher Pro alot better. ADW has more settings options but there are a few functions on Launcher pro that I like more especialy the dock and app drawer ones.
Advanced launcher was in older versions of CyanogenMod. It had this feature. I don't know if the launcher is still being developed, but these new launchers should really take a cue from that. I found the feature useful, and I could definitely use it now. It also allowed you to put folders in your app drawer, which I thought was pretty cool.
I believe app safe will hide them. Its from the people that made photosafe and video safe and what not. Check the market for it. But I'm not entirely sure.
ADW is the only simple easy way. With ADW you can still have the app on your screens but hidden from the launcher drawer. You can also use the keyboard and type the app name and it shows up.
launcher pro just added this feature as well
poetik517 said:
launcher pro just added this feature as well
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Thanks for pointing that out. He hasn't updated the changelog on his blog so I didn't know what made it into the updates.
At least now I don't have to see my bloatware.
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One of the things I miss most from winmo is that, on WinMo, you always can access your 'all programs' drawer from the notification bar/start menu. You could use your phone heavily all day and only see the Home screen once.
I've searched high and low for an Android equivalent, but find nothing. Anyone know of anything?
Closest I've found is multitask manager, it attaches to search button, and let's you put preferred apps in it, but you can't put 'launcher' or 'rosie' in it.
Anyone know what I'm trying to describe? Or have any suggestions ?
Thanks
Also, I just realized this is probably in wrong subforum, toast or MOD, feel free to move it. Thanks. Sorry.
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i am not sure the question here. are you saying you want it so that you have to go to the home screen to launch the app draw or are yous aying you dont want to have to go to the home screen to launch the app draw?
I am not sure what you are using but i dont have to go to the home screen to launch app draw. also you may try playing with launcher pro you can set up the dock to have apps on it. i use a combination of app organizer and launcher pro. I have the favorites group mapped to my dock and then i can favorite apps and get to them from that dock button. Works well for me.
I think you can set up the Power Strip app to show your app drawer.
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i am not sure the question here. are you saying you want it so that you have to go to the home screen to launch the app draw or are yous aying you dont want to have to go to the home screen to launch the app draw?
I am not sure what you are using but i dont have to go to the home screen to launch app draw. also you may try playing with launcher pro you can set up the dock to have apps on it. i use a combination of app organizer and launcher pro. I have the favorites group mapped to my dock and then i can favorite apps and get to them from that dock button. Works well for me.
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He means he wants a universal way to access the app drawer from anywhere. In WinMo, the start icon / app drawer is always on the status bar.
Yeah, awardtour, you nailed it. Thanks. I see i accidentally used a double negative in my OP, making it confusing.
Yeah, i want to be able to launch my app drawer from the notification bar, or search button (any 'button' that is always present).
I use adw EX and LPP a lot, but have never found a way, within android, to acheive this functionality. If anyone knows, please share. Thank you.
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I'm not sure of the name, but I'm pretty sure there's a gesture based app launcher on the market (or maybe here) somewhere that allows you to program a gesture to a app launcher so no matter what you're doing you can swipe the gesture and have an app menu come up. I'll see if I can find it for u.....
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I'm not sure of the name, but I'm pretty sure there's a gesture based app launcher on the market (or maybe here) somewhere that allows you to program a gesture to a app launcher so no matter what you're doing you can swipe the gesture and have an app menu come up. I'll see if I can find it for u.....
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Zeam launcher has something like that, but you'll have to be on one of your homescreens though...
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Yeah, awardtour, you nailed it. Thanks. I see i accidentally used a double negative in my OP, making it confusing.
Yeah, i want to be able to launch my app drawer from the notification bar, or search button (any 'button' that is always present).
I use adw EX and LPP a lot, but have never found a way, within android, to acheive this functionality. If anyone knows, please share. Thank you.
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Alright, this is what I was thinking of. Create a list of apps, call up via gestures from anywhere.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mobilemerit.wavelauncher
It actually looks pretty cool. I think I'm gonna buy it. I'll report back and give my opinion
Did you try this app alt. drawer?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1154299
Will check these out. Thanks to all you guys.
Lol i think i posted this like a year ago, and stumbled on it today thru my control panel, made a comment, now im getting hits
Thanks guys.
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Hey, I tried wave launcher, its free on getjar right now. Its EXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR! !!! Thanks for the suggestions. You can launch the wave no matter where you are (i.e. browser, messaging, app, etc) and and can have the app drawer button on the wave.
Hell, without even using the wave aspect, if you just hold the hotspot for a sec (to launch wave) it'll automagically open app drawer! !!!! Pure awesomeness. Just thought I'd share and thank.
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Hey i just got an Epic, rooted and I'm currently running the Truly Epic rom right now. But I was wondering if anyone know which rom or roms allow the user to sort the apps in alphabetical order and add more apps to the doc?
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Hey i just got an Epic, rooted and I'm currently running the Truly Epic rom right now. But I was wondering if anyone know which rom or roms allow the user to sort the apps in alphabetical order and add more apps to the doc?
Thanks
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all roms place apps in alphabetical order...for the more apps to dock use launcher pro...download from market
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all roms place apps in alphabetical order...for the more apps to dock use launcher pro...download from market
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I already have launcherpro and know everything launcherpro can use. However, i wanted to just go with Touchwiz for awhile.
Now when i use Touchwiz and go to my Apps>Menu>Edit....nothing shows up that will allow me to place the apps in alphabetical order. And when I attempt to add an app to the dock, one of the previous apps goes back into the the list with all the rest of my apps. So I'm only allowed to place 3 apps + the apps icon at the current moment. But i know I saw a video on youtube that had these features...I think was the Frankenstein Rom but I'm not sure
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all roms place apps in alphabetical order...for the more apps to dock use launcher pro...download from market
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Not exactly. TouchWiz likes to do some funny categorizing which screws up the alphabetical listing. Using a different launcher like LauncherPro or ADW fixes this.
Zeam has a similar look as touchwiz and allows you to add icons
Sent From Da Hood.
Nebula Rom has a nice modified touchwiz that allows editing and sorting. 4 interchangable apps in the drawer, and home button in the middle of it.
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@OP
To sort your apps out in alphabetical order, open up your app list, press menu -> sort, then press menu again and there should be an option to sort a-z.
Better yet, go install GTG Touchwiz
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=822523
It has a 5-icon dock and has an option for an alphabetical grid or alphabetical list.
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@OP
To sort your apps out in alphabetical order, open up your app list, press menu -> sort, then press menu again and there should be an option to sort a-z.
Better yet, go install GTG Touchwiz
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=822523
It has a 5-icon dock and has an option for an alphabetical grid or alphabetical list.
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QFT.
TwGTG is great if you prefer the feel of TW
I don't like to hold the home button to get the task manager. Are there other options like double clicking or maybe a gesture? I'm using Go Launcher EX.
I had Apex Launcher on captivate and saved my settings from there where swipe up would bring up my task manager. It worked on my S3 as well but if i reset my settings to blank i wouldnt be able to save it...
the best thing to do that might work which im gonna try since i just switced to Go Launcher is to bring my settings over to my captivate and then use the task manager as the swipe up gesture and then load the settings saved from there back on my device.
I'm using nova prime and I have double tap to open up recent apps works perfectly
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Check out this app called task changer in the market. You can set swipe gestures to open ics switcher.
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Check out this app called task changer in the market. You can set swipe gestures to open ics switcher.
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BEST RECOMMENDATION EVER.
Back in the Nexus S days I'd always hope that a dev would switch out the search key for recent apps, but this app totally makes up for the lack of that hardware key!
THANKS
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Check out this app called task changer in the market. You can set swipe gestures to open ics switcher.
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I can't find that app?
task+manager search results:
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=task+changer+&c=apps
edit: N/m, Google Play buried it on the second page.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...mNvbS5mdXRvbnJlZGVtcHRpb24udGFza21hbmFnZXIiXQ..
edit 2: I see why now.
* This app is no longer supported. It will be taken off the market in a few months. Thank you for your support.
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So this is how I run my phone. I gesture everything from the right side of the phone since my thumb is always there. Lower half leads to 12 shortcuts that I always use. Swipepad beats going to the homescreen. And top half has multitasking options. Remember to hit the thanks button if you use either of these apps. Both are free
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.conduction.swipepad.android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pacosal.taskchangertitanium
try apex. I have double tap on homescreen to open facebook. Should work for the task manager too
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You could always put a shortcut to the taskbar onto your desktop.
I put all my favorite apps into folders on my launcher.
The stripe at the top left is a slider for my screen brightness.
This keeps my desktop clean for when I use my animated fishtank desktop.
You can also use wave launcher btw. You can just swipe to bring it up
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Thanks everyone. I went with Wave Launcher. Very easy to set up.
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I can't find that app?
task+manager search results:
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=task+changer+&c=apps
edit: N/m, Google Play buried it on the second page.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...mNvbS5mdXRvbnJlZGVtcHRpb24udGFza21hbmFnZXIiXQ..
edit 2: I see why now.
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The app is called Task Changer, and search for it by:
"task changer"
With the quotations. Otherwise the stupid play store doesn't give you the exact hit.
I got the Samsung task manager to be a gesture when I swipe up in Go Launcher ex
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I got the Samsung task manager to be a gesture when I swipe up in Go Launcher ex
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ahhhh i use apex launcher which also supports gestures but theres no way for it to take me to the built in samsung task manager, i also use swipepad and cant find a shortcut to take me to the samsung task manager....very frustrating =/
I'm not sure if its considered a task manager, but my newest app does contain a Recent Apps feature.
Here's a link to a preview video I made http://youtu.be/UIEIqQYU0ZI
You basically create gestures to do all kinds of things and you're also able to move the little Trigger to quick-activate a gesture.
In the video, you'll see that if I drag my Trigger icon up and release, it'll launch out Recent Apps even if I didn't create a Recent Apps gesture. You can customize that part however you want.
Besides Recent Apps, other features are
Launching Apps
Changing Settings, including a whole Profile
Creating and launching App Panels (In the video I set the drag right action to be launch an App Panel that holds all my apps, so I can access all my apps no matter where I am)
Pulling Notification Bar
Opening a Webpage
And just... a whole lot more. The beginning of the video is a preview of the gestures that can be created.
The app will be released as soon as I am able to fully test out all its features on my Galaxy S III that is arriving tomorrow. Release date should be in the next 2-3 days and no later than the 15th.
erikikaz said:
The app is called Task Changer, and search for it by:
"task changer"
With the quotations. Otherwise the stupid play store doesn't give you the exact hit.
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Hi all,
the Task Changer Titanium is better http://market.android.com/details?id=com.pacosal.taskchangertitanium
Try it for several days and you will see.
BTW, I am the developer.
Thanks
MMontanez347 said:
ahhhh i use apex launcher which also supports gestures but theres no way for it to take me to the built in samsung task manager, i also use swipepad and cant find a shortcut to take me to the samsung task manager....very frustrating =/
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What you can do that i did is you can save your Launcher settings to your SD card and go back to your previous galaxy S and load it there.
I had Slim ICS on my Captivate and had gotten Task manager to install on the phone. Since it became a actual app it showed on my list for gestures. I saved the settings back to the SD and transferred back to the S3 and works .. just dont remove the gesture in the options in your launcher on your S3 or youll have to reload the settings again !
how to input license number?
pacosal said:
Hi all,
the Task Changer Titanium is better
Try it for several days and you will see.
BTW, I am the developer.
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Hi Mr "Task Changer Titanium" Developer
I just bought a license and gave 5 star reviews on the app and the license app .... I got the thank-you pop up with the license number, telling me to enter it into the settings ... but I don't see anywhere in the TCT settings to enter it and I am still getting the periodic pop-up saying "you need to buy a license to run this ...."
JUST SO happy to have a touch/capacitive HOME solution again !!!
Thanks for you help
Alice the Brit - in currently sunny, steamy & wet Florida
- wanting to get above minimum posts so I can post pics of home screens and such
Also guy's there's a app made just for the Galaxy S III to provided this shortcut. It's in the Play Store https://play.google.com/store/apps/...5kcm9pZGFoZWFkLmdhbGF4eXMzX3Rhc2ttYW5hZ2VyIl0.
Hi,
is it possible to add apps on the lockscreen or the google now menu that appears when you swipe from the middle of the screen?
i used a lockscreen app on my Arc S, but if there is a way to do this without an additional app, plz let me know
thx!
There's an app called Launch Now. You can select up to seven apps to choose from. You still slide up like you would for google now but a menu just pops up instead. It's only $1 and totally worth it
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5zaW1vbi5MYXVuY2hOb3ciXQ..
thanks, i know that there are apps put there that can do this, but i would prefer a way that doesnt need an additional app.
i saw something like that in a review, and i thought it was a feature of jellybean, but i guess it was some touchwizz/sense kinda 3rd party launcher app
heldgop said:
thanks, i know that there are apps put there that can do this, but i would prefer a way that doesnt need an additional app.
i saw something like that in a review, and i thought it was a feature of jellybean, but i guess it was some touchwizz/sense kinda 3rd party launcher app
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The major ROMs have this feature. It's called Navbar Targets I believe. I know that AOKP has it, and I think CyanogenMod does too. Other such as CNA do as well. I'm sure that these ROMs will be ported to the Nexus 4 very soon. You configure these targets via settings, so you don't need another app.
If you want an app drawer on your edge screen use this....
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=JakedUp.AppDrawer&hl=en
It should of been an option from stock... Just add it to your quicklauunch edge screen.,
It works great with a secondary launcher if you wanna hide the dock on the homescreens.
Note: Hold the menu button within the app to change settings and font.
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If you want an app drawer on your edge screen use this....
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=JakedUp.AppDrawer&hl=en
It should of been an option from stock... Just add it to your quicklauunch edge screen.,
It works great with a secondary launcher if you wanna hide the dock on the homescreens.
Note: Hold the menu button within the app to change settings and font.
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Thanks! I Just changed dpi to 300 with Xposed App Settings and it looks pretty good too!
Thanks for posting, but the drawer takes forever to load and can't be customized. There are much better options available.
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Thanks for posting, but the drawer takes forever to load and can't be customized. There are much better options available.
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Hi. That's weird. Mine comes up immediately. For customization you need to open the app drawer and then do a long press of recent apps to get to a menu to select settings. Then you can change fonts, background color and such. What are some of the better options available? Always interested in checking out new apps! Unity launcher is nice in that you can set up shortcuts (including floating windows with the use of the app "floating window shortcuts")
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.altlimit.applauncherplus
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Hi. That's weird. Mine comes up immediately. For customization you need to open the app drawer and then do a long press of recent apps to get to a menu to select settings. Then you can change fonts, background color and such. What are some of the better options available? Always interested in checking out new apps! Unity launcher is nice in that you can set up shortcuts (including floating windows with the use of the app "floating window shortcuts")
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I mentioned holding the button in the OP. Thanks for reposting though. Thought it was a bad omission on Samsung's part.
Yeah didn't know about the paid one either, but hey its what this forums for, right? Mine is quick as well. Easy to customize.
I'am looking for a way that i can make on my home screen 5x5 for my icons.
Is this possible and what i can used for it.?
Ehhh... Is there a way to just have a "system" friendly shortcut icon to launch the app drawer? In other words, I already use a nice launcher app and I like its look and want to just open my app drawer to be the same as when I open it using the android app dock, not having this whole miui layer...
Currently using Next Launcher, but the launcher I use is irrelevant, I just want a system level call to open my normal app drawer rather than have an entire app represent the drawer. Another UI to manage is not what I want, as it is unaware of theme or font changes.
Isn't there a way to simply make a shortcut icon and put it in my edge bar.????????
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leonlfm said:
I'am looking for a way that i can make on my home screen 5x5 for my icons.
Is this possible and what i can used for it.?
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Have you tried or are willing to use a replacement launcher? I use Next Launcher which lets you control the icon grid spacing both on the home screen desktop and in the app drawer plus let's you have fine pixel resizing of widgets (widgets normally only resize in blocks spaced as wide as your icons, but this app lets you resize widgets pixel by pixel for finer control)
Many launchers also offer this flexibility not just the one I mention. Check them out! I hope I understood your question properly! (Next launcher also let's you change the icon look, the screen transition animation, and many other things. It looks great and is compatible with all themes made for Go launcher. Furthermore, it restores touch wiz's lost wallpaper scrolling function! But like all launchers, it does nothing for the look of the edge bar unfortunately, since the edge bar is basically an unsupported hack on the O.S. which has to be programmed for specifically...)
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Ehhh... Is there a way to just have a "system" friendly shortcut icon to launch the app drawer? In other words, I already use a nice launcher app and I like its look and want to just open my app drawer to be the same as when I open it using the android app dock, not having this whole miui layer...
Isn't there a way to simply make a shortcut icon and put it in my edge bar.????????
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I agree. I would love nothing more to have a shortcut to my 360 Launcher app drawer on the "Edge". The app drawer app the OP provided is fine in a pinch, but nothing beats the app drawer transitions on 360 Launcher.
I have found a not ideal work around, which is to use the gesture shortcuts in Next Launcher so that whatever homescreen I'm on, I just swipe up to open my app drawer. However my ultimate goal is to be able to open the apps from the edge bar.. Why is this so important?
Because, the whole killer app feature of the edge bar, which I keep stressing to people who ask what the point of it is, is that I can open or switch to other apps from whatever app I'm in without exiting to the home screen first or scrolling through the recent apps.
My workaround still doesn't allow this.. But it DOES allow me to completely hide the dock bar at the bottom and have a FULL screen of widgets on my home screen. Which is pretty
I now have all my most used apps on the edge bar so I no longer need the android app dock on the bottom. It's really pretty and ergonomic.