I keep seeing people mention the app drawer in ICS. What is this?
Is it just where the apps are stored when you hit the central button at the bottom of the home screen?
yep that's right. coming from iphone I assume?
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Come from Sense lol..
I've seen on some launchers, that if you swipe up from the bottom, theres a little "drawer" which contains a few favourited apps. Then you have your main application bit.
Hence why I thought the application drawer might be something different. Never had a pure Android rom before
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Come from Sense lol..
I've seen on some launchers, that if you swipe up from the bottom, theres a little "drawer" which contains a few favourited apps. Then you have your main application bit.
Hence why I thought the application drawer might be something different. Never had a pure Android rom before
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Android 2.0 and older had an actual drawer that slid out, upward from the bottom of the screen. Name just stuck around.
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Android 2.0 and older had an actual drawer that slid out, upward from the bottom of the screen. Name just stuck around.
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Ah, that'll be what i'm thinking of!
I actually prefer the old draw-out drawer. Still hoping a custom launcher will implement it but no one appears to share my enthusiasm for it.
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I believe the last phone with pure Android and an actual "app drawer" was the original Verizon Droid. Take a look at this video at 1:15 you see why many still refer to the "all apps" tray as the apps drawer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDviTGDCvGM&t=1m14s
Edit: to slow searching for a video of the droid...
Does anyone know what is the name of the process of App Drawer? I want to create widget with Minimalistic and don't know which activity to assign to it.
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Does anyone know what is the name of the process of App Drawer? I want to create widget with Minimalistic and don't know which activity to assign to it.
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Process? Not sure, but the app is Launcher2.apk
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Has anyone made, or know of a galaxy-s like ROM for our Dinc's? Its kind of like iPhone with the 4 main apps at the bottom of home screen. The app draw is dope to. apps scrolling left and right, IMO, far better than the up and down way.
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Has anyone made, or know of a galaxy-s like ROM for our Dinc's? Its kind of like iPhone with the 4 main apps at the bottom of home screen. The app draw is dope to. apps scrolling left and right, IMO, far better than the up and down way.
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If ur looking for a side scrolling app drawer try adw launcher. There's a setting allowing u to have side scrolling. As for a rom, I couldn't tell u, I'm sure someone could port it. Damnit where's jdk when we need him lol
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Hey guys, I just got my desire z, love the.phone but i want to make some adjustments.
First, how can i change the application list to scroll side to side, like the galaxy s or the iphone?
Secondly, how can i remove pages off the main screen? I only want one page.
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Bellkingsway said:
Hey guys, I just got my desire z, love the.phone but i want to make some adjustments.
First, how can i change the application list to scroll side to side, like the galaxy s or the iphone?
Secondly, how can i remove pages off the main screen? I only want one page.
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You could install Touch Wiz. But you'd get no Sense widgets.
How do I go about doing this?
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I am also interested if anyone knows of any Sense mods or homescreen replacements that have app drawers like TouchWiz. I hate the vertical scrolling. The paged horizontal scrolling seems much more friendly and quicker.
Search for touchwiz3.apk in desire or nexus forums, it is around somewhere.
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I tried out touchwiz.. I like some parts of it but hate others. Thanks though.
ADW Launcher has an option for horizontal scrolling rather than vertical scrolling of the app list. It also allows you to customise the number of homescreens - check that out from the Market. You will, however, be unable to use any of the HTC Sense widgets while you are using ADW.
I'll check it out. I've used it in Cyanogenmod.. I didn't like it then (at all). It seems 'rough'. Maybe it's better since I tried it.
Yeah, adw.launcher does about everything you asked. I used it for a day or two, but I personally prefer LauncherPro, it doesn't offer Horizontal scrolling though.
So I am using Launcher Pro Plus and really like having a scrollable dock.....So my question is, how impossible is it to scroll my home screen by row or column instead of by page. Sort of like a rubix cube.........does that make sense or not LOL
That does sound like a nice idea. Basically you want each row to scroll as the dock does. Getting both vertical and horizontal scrolling would make it much tougher. I think to build one where just the rows scroll would be easiest. You could just build an app/widget that scrolls and place it on your homescreen. Bc of the 'page' style of android, im betting it would have to circumvent that by just working off of one home page.
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That would be fun! Lol good idear.
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Can you imagine trying to remember where the app you are looking for is????????
With the Rubix Scrolling it would never be in the same place
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Can you imagine trying to remember where the app you are looking for is????????
With the Rubix Scrolling it would never be in the same place
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Doesn't matter
Why you ask because it sounds fun
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If I'm not mistaken, the SweeterHome beta does this with springboards or something like that. I could be wrong but you can try their site and see (sorry I can't remember the url!). Hope I was able to help a bit lol.
I did this once (when on android 1.5) with either Openhome, ahome, Dxtop, or one of the other early launchers. I don't believe it was a feature.. more of an accident but ya, I feel like it is a great idea to have this built in to a launcher.
A widget like this: ScrollCut would kind of make it possible, but for some reason, only lets you scroll vertically (?).
Imagine having a a square number like 4 or 9 homescreens arranged in a square. Moving horizontaly and verticaly, you could move around the homescreens. So for example, you move right or left to any screen, and then you can move up and down as well to any other screen, and so on and so forth. The fun ensues lol
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What's the possibilty of someone making a 3D app drawer that looks like a DNA strand? If the columns worked independently of each other in that scenario that would be amazing.
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Imagine having a a square number like 4 or 9 homescreens arranged in a square. Moving horizontaly and verticaly, you could move around the homescreens. So for example, you move right or left to any screen, and then you can move up and down as well to any other screen, and so on and so forth. The fun ensues lol
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Now Imagine your cube scrollable by row and column, like a App Rubix Cube
Anyone came up with an app for this?
I am not a fan of launchers running on top of any ROM and I read a lot about issues with apps and playstore after using LCD Density.
I currently switched from iPhone to Galaxy S3 and while the phone is great, icons are just not adequate to the screen.
There is an app called Bigify for iOS, is there anything at least similar for Android devices?
The main 3 options I am looking for:
1. change icon size
2. change angle of the icons by xy degrees (it looks fantastic!)
3. remove icon text
Here is a SS:
This actually would be very nice as it bothers me when the apps name is cut off because it's too long.. So being able to remove the text would be great!
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Ls1ssz28 said:
This actually would be very nice as it bothers me when the apps name is cut off because it's too long.. So being able to remove the text would be great!
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Apex Launcher allows you to remove the app text or modify the title/icon. You cannot rotate it though.
Op running a different launcher has no actual problems
Say your using nova as default the phone won't have stock tw launched running in the background unless you open again
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I am sorry but how are these answers to my question? As far as I am reading it correct I need to have a launcher and I cannot get a any angle and no name icons at the same time
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It's what you asked for. They honestly helped you as much to their abilities.
That being said if you want angled apps look into making it yourself. I know that is not much of a answer you're looking but as of right now as far as I have seen there are no apps or mods to rotate apps.
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I am sorry but how are these answers to my question? As far as I am reading it correct I need to have a launcher and I cannot get a any angle and no name icons at the same time
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There's one launcher that'll let you have the customization you want. It's rather expensive though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYzYQ6YtepU
Ascertion said:
There's one launcher that'll let you have the customization you want. It's rather expensive though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYzYQ6YtepU
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Thats truly an amazing launcher, no other one allows such customization, I gotta have it. Thanks for the tip
Very nice
It does look pretty amazing! I might give it a whirl this weekend when I get paid.....still worth getting.
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Thats truly an amazing launcher, no other one allows such customization, I gotta have it. Thanks for the tip
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Price is a bit high but I took the plunge and I believe it can only get better love it so far.
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Well, thank you all. I guess there is no way for me to achieve what I want without running a launcher on top of my ROM. :thumbup:
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eMi111 said:
Anyone came up with an app for this?
I am not a fan of launchers running on top of any ROM and I read a lot about issues with apps and playstore after using LCD Density.
I currently switched from iPhone to Galaxy S3 and while the phone is great, icons are just not adequate to the screen.
There is an app called Bigify for iOS, is there anything at least similar for Android devices?
The main 3 options I am looking for:
1. change icon size
2. change angle of the icons by xy degrees (it looks fantastic!)
3. remove icon text
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Root your phone install a recovery and install paranoid android, google it, i think youll like it.
I got TFS Launcher and it runs great. I do have one question though.... Isn't there always a Launcher running over a rom? Otherwise you wouldn't be able to run any apps.
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I just came across this on twiiter about android 4.2 kind of seem real to be honest
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/1...ick-settings-the-second-pulldown-panel-video/
What do you all think?
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Seems awkward.
Especially for one handed usage.
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Seems awkward.
Especially for one handed usage.
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Yeah I have a feeling that will get reworked.
Double pull down sounds like cluttering to me, I hope not.
Seems ok. I would think of an alternative method to access those controls though. They are kind of hidden away to be fair. Maybe implement tabs such as in Sense or Miui.
cool i like it
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I just came across this on twiiter about android 4.2 kind of seem real to be honest
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/1...ick-settings-the-second-pulldown-panel-video/
What do you all think?
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Double pull-down for settings make total sense to me. One thing I don't like about the SIII and TouchWiz is with the quick settings and everything at the top there is less room for notifications (as the article points out). It also looks cluttered and it seems like there is way too much going on on the pull down menu. Plus I don't change my settings that often but when I do it's somewhat awkward to pull down the notification bar and then click the little settings icon. It would be easier to swipe down once for notifications and then swipe down a second time for settings. Or, what they could do is have two finger swipe down go directly to quick settings.
This is from a sense 1.0 rom. Obviously custom but works similar to the 4.2 2 panel set up.
Super convenient.
Interesting how much stuff the devs on xda have created that is merging into official android.
Naters
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No let's hope it's exactly like that... It's awesome! It the opposite of cluttered..
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This is from a sense 1.0 rom. Obviously custom but works similar to the 4.2 2 panel set up.
Super convenient.
Interesting how much stuff the devs on xda have created that is merging into official android.
Naters
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Sense 2.1, actually.
Interesting to say the least.
-Brought to you by Marino's Galaxy Nexus-
I like it! Can't wait for 4.2!
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Sense 2.1, actually.
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I was gonna say...yeah that's not a Sense 1.0 ROM.
It is. It was put together by tommy tomato for the evo 4G. It is called classic 1.0.
Quite possible it originated on 2.1. I was just showing people that have only used aosp stuff that is works really well with the double panel pull down.
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It is. It was put together by tommy tomato for the evo 4G. It is called classic 1.0.
Quite possible it originated on 2.1. I was just showing people that have only used aosp stuff that is works really well with the double panel pull down.
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This was a feature taken from newer releases of Sense that were brought to older releases. My first Android phone was an HTC with Sense 1.0...the toggles were never seen until Sense 2.1 got released, then devs got to porting them to older releases.
Not really a "classic" rom if it has a bunch of Sense 2.1 features...
Hey I didn't name it. I just used it.
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I don't know about anybody else but I'm sold on the double notification bar. Seems like the best middle ground between notification widgets and the settings menu without obstructing the notification panel.
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Double pull-down for settings make total sense to me. One thing I don't like about the SIII and TouchWiz is with the quick settings and everything at the top there is less room for notifications (as the article points out). It also looks cluttered and it seems like there is way too much going on on the pull down menu. Plus I don't change my settings that often but when I do it's somewhat awkward to pull down the notification bar and then click the little settings icon. It would be easier to swipe down once for notifications and then swipe down a second time for settings. Or, what they could do is have two finger swipe down go directly to quick settings.
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Ditto :good:
Great article. I liked how he asked you to try out the double swipe. Not awkward at all.
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