Develop Bugs

how can i hide my apps from the drawer?

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

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.
Sent from my myTouch 3G Slide using XDA App

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
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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.

AppWidgetPicker 1.2.3 (Confirmed) Works on ICS

I have confirmed that AppWidgetPicker work on ICS on Galaxy Nexus. If you are using a third party launcher. You should use AppWidgetPicker to better organize your widgets.
APK Link below.
That is all...
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13331116
Push APK to your /System/App directory. Give all R/W permissions.

Someone should modify this for stock launcher. I can buy a coffee/beer for anybody who does
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk

jkoljo said:
Someone should modify this for stock launcher. I can buy a coffee/beer for anybody who does
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
+1
Will definitely donate if someone gets this working on the stock launcher

Android's permission system means that apps cannot normally bind widgets themselves. (This is part of the reason you sometimes see missing widgets when you restore a launcher or WidgetLocker from Titanium Backup or similar). Instead the method third-party-apps use is to call another app (AppWidgetPicker, or a replacement for it like this one) which DOES have the permission because it's a system app (hence the unusual install process for this replacement).
The stock launcher is also a system app, and does have the needed permission to bind widgets itself. It's built to ONLY bind itself, rather than use a third party app. This means that the AppWidgetPicker replacement cannot be modified to make it work, however the launcher itself could be.
Curious, what don't you guys like about the widgets-in-drawer? The grid view versus the list, the lack of grouping-by-app compared with boombuler's mod? Both?

[email protected] said:
Curious, what don't you guys like about the widgets-in-drawer? The grid view versus the list, the lack of grouping-by-app compared with boombuler's mod? Both?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah the lack of grouping by app is the worst thing, because certain apps have dozens of widgets and it takes ages to find the one you want. The iPhone style page-by-page side scrolling doesn't help either. I actually like how we can see previews of the widgets but the navigation is a bit of a nightmare right now.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA App

[email protected] said:
Curious, what don't you guys like about the widgets-in-drawer? The grid view versus the list, the lack of grouping-by-app compared with boombuler's mod? Both?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Oh dear, there's a long list of reasons:
1. I now have 5 pages of widgets!!
2. It's visually shocking because everything is a difference size
3. You don't consistently get a view of what widgets will look like
4. It takes longer to get to and then find a widget
Add and app with 20 widgets built in and you'll see. It sucks in my opinion. We need a list based picker for sure, ideally one with a preview mode.
Since you're here... any chance WL can have an option to hide the soft keys on the Nexus so it runs full screen? Also the 'recent apps' button isn't deactivated by WL so it still pops up...

Thanks, works great with the new Nova launcher
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk

Hi,
if you post my apps, please take at least the latest version...
Original thread + new version is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=780828

Widget picker works with Jelly Bean 4.1 too as I've just tried it on my GNEX. Same procedure as the first post mentions.

Changing dock icons on TouchWiz

Well I would really like to change the icons on my tablet but whenever I go edit to move the icons around there is no option to change the docked ones. I have been using apex/nova launcher but find this slows the device down slightly. Anybody know how to change them without a launcher???
Cheers guys
Sent from my GT-N5110 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

C3PBRO said:
Well I would really like to change the icons on my tablet but whenever I go edit to move the icons around there is no option to change the docked ones. I have been using apex/nova launcher but find this slows the device down slightly. Anybody know how to change them without a launcher???
Cheers guys
Sent from my GT-N5110 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Are you talking about editing the icon images or just actual apps listed in the dock?

CCallahan said:
Are you talking about editing the icon images or just actual apps listed in the dock?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I am talking about change the icons and the actual applications

C3PBRO said:
I am talking about change the icons and the actual applications
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If you want to just change the apps that are in the dock all you have to do is hold and drag them to the desktop or trash bin. To add apps to the dock just add shortcut to any screen then hold and drag it to the dock. Changing icons is more complicated because of the lack of built in icon theme support in TW. Not sure you can at this time without being able to use xposed + icon packager or something similar and/or doing manually which is time consuming.

CCallahan said:
If you want to just change the apps that are in the dock all you have to do is hold and drag them to the desktop or trash bin. To add apps to the dock just add shortcut to any screen then hold and drag it to the dock. Changing icons is more complicated because of the lack of built in icon theme support in TW. Not sure you can at this time without being able to use xposed + icon packager or something similar and/or doing manually which is time consuming.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This doesn't work. Holding the icons do not do anything. I can only tap on it to open the app.
And the approach use on galaxy note ii etc by changing to customisable grid in app drawer doesn't work either as dock disappears in app drawer.

cyrusz said:
This doesn't work. Holding the icons do not do anything. I can only tap on it to open the app.
And the approach use on galaxy note ii etc by changing to customisable grid in app drawer doesn't work either as dock disappears in app drawer.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Samsung has disabled the ability to change the dock icons for some countries, e.g. stock Australian ROMs. This may have been a result of local legal challenges by Apple. Options are to use another launcher, like Nova Prime, or root the tablet and edit a file to restore the ability to edit dock icons.
Sent from my GT-N5120 using Tapatalk 4

C3PBRO said:
I am talking about change the icons and the actual applications
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm using Nova Prime and it works fine.
Galaxy Note 8.0 Xposed Build N5120XXCMH2 / Baseband N5120XXBMD9 / Kernel CivZ-SpherEngine-Rev on Telstra LTE

morkli said:
Samsung has disabled the ability to change the dock icons for some countries, e.g. stock Australian ROMs. This may have been a result of local legal challenges by Apple. Options are to use another launcher, like Nova Prime, or root the tablet and edit a file to restore the ability to edit dock icons.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Does anyone know which file to edit, and what to change in that file for those who have rooted tablets?

sefrcoko said:
Does anyone know which file to edit, and what to change in that file for those who have rooted tablets?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sure, it's /system/csc/others.xml. Find the line <CscFeature_Launcher_ReplaceHotseatAreaInEditMode> and change the value from TRUE to FALSE. Then save and reboot. After that, you can edit your dock.

This has worked on my SGS5
morkli said:
Sure, it's /system/csc/others.xml. Find the line <CscFeature_Launcher_ReplaceHotseatAreaInEditMode> and change the value from TRUE to FALSE. Then save and reboot. After that, you can edit your dock.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You are a ****ing Legend.
I just got the SGS5 and I don't have any complain about the touchwiz except not be able to move the icons from the doc.
I should add though, if someone is not familiar on how to edit the .xml file please follow below link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2437447

[Q] Can You Hide Apps?

Can you do this with LG's skin or is it just something that I'd have to live without? Having a folder full of apps I don't need to see (wallpaper, adobe air, etc) listed in the drawer is annoying. I can't figure out why this feature was taken out.

flaring afro said:
Can you do this with LG's skin or is it just something that I'd have to live without? Having a folder full of apps I don't need to see (wallpaper, adobe air, etc) listed in the drawer is annoying. I can't figure out why this feature was taken out.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This is probably common knowledge, but I'm a semi-noob and I'm a but tipsy... but if you root, you can hide Apps with various apps.

FligMupple said:
This is probably common knowledge, but I'm a semi-noob and I'm a but tipsy... but if you root, you can hide Apps with various apps.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks, I'll look into that. I haven't been on the scene since my Incredible because I never felt a reason to root my Note 2. I would have thought you'd need to reflash the phone to add something like that.

You can hide apps in the stock launcher, open the app draw and press the three dot menu and go hide apps.
Sent from my LG G3

App Drawer List Mode?

I just got my Note 4 and one of the biggest things that is bugging me (besides the delayed menu button) is not being able to have my installed apps display in an alphabetical list. Is there anything that can fix this?
I found an app calle 'App Drawer' but I am now unable to remove the default 3x4 grid icon on the bottom right which makes having 2 icons for different app drawers incredibly annoying!

Dreyzzyn said:
I just got my Note 4 and one of the biggest things that is bugging me (besides the delayed menu button) is not being able to have my installed apps display in an alphabetical list. Is there anything that can fix this?
I found an app calle 'App Drawer' but I am now unable to remove the default 3x4 grid icon on the bottom right which makes having 2 icons for different app drawers incredibly annoying!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
click on "apps", click three small squares on top, sort, alphabetical.

doesn't give me that. I only have Custom and Alphabetical Order

Same problem
Dreyzzyn said:
doesn't give me that. I only have Custom and Alphabetical Order
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hey Dreyzzyn,
Did you ever find a solution for this problem? I just upgraded from the Galaxy S3 to Note 4 and very much miss my apps in "alphabetical list" mode. So much easier hitting the starting letter of the app you want and BAMN...a listing of apps with that letter pop up. But this Note 4 is confusingly not allowing me to do it.
Thanks in advance. Thought this phone was supposed to be so powerful...yet I find I'm missing my S3.
Rudedog123

Get a launcher!
Note 4 stock does not allow listing of apps, to do this you must install a launcher. I use Apex but there are many out there. Just install it and pick set your apps to list view. As far as lag, to get rid of it just set Window, Transition and Animator scale to "off" under Developer options and you should be good to go. I've done that since the S3 days no problem and phone gets waay faster.

fozzir said:
Note 4 stock does not allow listing of apps, to do this you must install a launcher. I use Apex but there are many out there. Just install it and pick set your apps to list view. As far as lag, to get rid of it just set Window, Transition and Animator scale to "off" under Developer options and you should be good to go. I've done that since the S3 days no problem and phone gets waay faster.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes it dose with the stock launcher. As texasez said "click on "apps", click three small squares on top, sort, alphabetical". The screen shots are with the stock touchwiz launcher.
View attachment 3163001 View attachment 3163002

I think you misread the original post as he's looking for an "alphabetical list'. This is not possible on the Note 4 as it was on Note 3 and Note 2. If you think it's available please post of screenshot of that instead of just showing that you can sort apps alphabetically which every version of android can do. Two, totally different things. I've posted what an "alphabetical list" looks like in Apex since you can't do it in touch wiz. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31104043/screenshot.JPG

fozzir said:
I think you misread the original post as he's looking for an "alphabetical list'. This is not possible on the Note 4 as it was on Note 3 and Note 2. If you think it's available please post of screenshot of that instead of just showing that you can sort apps alphabetically which every version of android can do. Two, totally different things. I've posted what an "alphabetical list" looks like in Apex since you can't do it in touch wiz. https://www.dropbox.com/s/03mpfsx5wha27xk/screenshot.JPG?dl=0
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ahh I see said the blind man. I wasn't aware of the difference from list view and order.

Yes get a third party launcher.. I use Nova.. but like the fozzir said theres Apex and many others that are great.