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Possible to hide apps in the app drawer?

Hey guys. I was just wondering if it is possible to "hide" apps in the app drawer. Mainly, I want to keep the critical apps that some apps depend on, but I don't want them to be seen in the app drawer... Some examples would be Voice Search, Voice Dialer, Call History, Clock, PDF Viewer, and Talk. I just like having an uncluttered app drawer, but the only way that I know of doing this is to delete apps.

mrinehart93 said:
Hey guys. I was just wondering if it is possible to "hide" apps in the app drawer. Mainly, I want to keep the critical apps that some apps depend on, but I don't want them to be seen in the app drawer... Some examples would be Voice Search, Voice Dialer, Call History, Clock, PDF Viewer, and Talk. I just like having an uncluttered app drawer, but the only way that I know of doing this is to delete apps.
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There is an app in the market, i think its like "App vault" or something like that.
I can't remember who makes it. But I think it does what you are looking for.

Kcarpenter said:
There is an app in the market, i think its like "App vault" or something like that.
I can't remember who makes it. But I think it does what you are looking for.
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Thanks, I'll take a look at it. If that doesn't work, is there anyway this could be ported to our phone: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=540880
Just found out that App Vault disabled the app rather than hiding it. Unfortunately that would break apps the depend on the disabled app. One search I did, I found people who were able to hide apps by renaming the .apk to .bak, but that disabled the app.

bump.
anyone have any info on how to hide apps in your app drawer with default home launcher?

If you're using Launcher Pro Plus, theres a hidden apps feature.
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ADW allows this as well. While the app drawer is open press the MENU button and then "Choose Group" > Create New Catalog and then set it up with the apps you want to be visible

mrinehart93 said:
Hey guys. I was just wondering if it is possible to "hide" apps in the app drawer. Mainly, I want to keep the critical apps that some apps depend on, but I don't want them to be seen in the app drawer... Some examples would be Voice Search, Voice Dialer, Call History, Clock, PDF Viewer, and Talk. I just like having an uncluttered app drawer, but the only way that I know of doing this is to delete apps.
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Or your porn surfer app?... its OK were adults here.
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ASimmons said:
Or your porn surfer app?... its OK were adults here.
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Man, I was thinking the same thing
Don't want the old lady to find your porn stash?
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Or your porn surfer app?... its OK were adults here.
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Man, I was thinking the same thing
Don't want the old lady to find your porn stash?
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Guess I'm the only one that watches with the old lady then.
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dean.d said:
Guess I'm the only one that watches with the old lady then.
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Doubtful... i was thinking kids or people looking over you're shoulder.
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Ads in notification bar

Hello,
I'm getting Ads in the notification bar. Do you know how can I know what is the app that is doing this?
Thanks

cabrerachaparro said:
Hello,
I'm getting Ads in the notification bar. Do you know how can I know what is the app that is doing this?
Thanks
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You can download the AdAway app in market, if you are rooted, or searching in google for every app you have installed recently.
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Cobmaster said:
You can download the AdAway app in market, if you are rooted, or searching in google for every app you have installed recently.
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Thanks I will try this.

Addons Detector or AirPush Detector will tell you which app/theme/etc. is responsible.

btw wrong section dude.
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Avilove.Cullen said:
btw wrong section dude.
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Sorry

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Sorry
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No issue.
Just report this thread
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I heard that google did something about that. It was carried by an app(s) that you downloaded. Apparently, they told the app devs to take them off in a certain timeframe, or else they'll be removed from the play store. And ad blocker apps, that I know of, can't block those ads either. At least, adfree doesn't.
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champdr0id said:
I heard that google did something about that. It was carried by an app(s) that you downloaded. Apparently, they told the app devs to take them off in a certain timeframe, or else they'll be removed from the play store. And ad blocker apps, that I know of, can't block those ads either. At least, adfree doesn't.
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It's true, but with adaway you can select the option "scan for adaware". It' simple, it can tell you the adware app or apps you have installed. The second solution is usin rom toolbox with the option autostart manager and find the app. Then you must long press the app, go to advanced and disable some receivers of the app. For example "Airmob". This isn't very simple, but with a few try you can stop these annoying ads in the statusbar. I did this with Mosquito killer and now it works. Usually it FC when it must send you an ad in the statusbar, but the app works fine.
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You can always go to applications > running and close them one by one to see which one it is
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[Idea] Need an idea to develop an app

Hello. I'm finishing learning javascripting and android programing lessons, and i would like to develop an app. I would like to try something original, so i want to ask you guys an idea of what to develop . What do you think would be usefull and missing for you? Thanks

Hello, for me i wish you could create an "twitter app" with ICS design
I can help you with futures & the bugs

frooss said:
Hello, for me i wish you could create an "twitter app" with ICS design
I can help you with futures & the bugs
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TweetLine and Boid aren't good enough? Think about something original...
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Someone is looking for a Yahoo Fantasty Football app....with better UI

Okay how about an app that uses your phone's GPS to find all grocery stores in your area. From there you can type in the name of an item and it would cross reference the prices of all the surrounding stores and give you a list of all the prices. With the economy being in the crapper and money getting tight, it seems like it could be a killer app.
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swimdude1120 said:
Okay how about an app that uses your phone's GPS to find all grocery stores in your area. From there you can type in the name of an item and it would cross reference the prices of all the surrounding stores and give you a list of all the prices. With the economy being in the crapper and money getting tight, it seems like it could be a killer app.
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Google Maps + Google Shopper already do this to the best knowledge they can as stores do not show all food costs online.

since you say u r new, i suggest you to go for an idea which has already been made and put your flavor on it, once you get your hands on it, u can make something original. I like a fully functional app that uaes the proximity sensor to operate differnt functions, there is already an app, but it has flaws
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Thanks you for some of the suggestions. I m going to start soon and share here some of he work.
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Sport speaker an app that send you a push notification of your team scores, it with holo style.
For example you mark an sport, an league or one team (in the different competitions) what would you like and the app sent you a push notification with the score at the end of the match
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I had a idea.. but its very special.. a weather app for Germany with radar, satellite picture's and so on.
Phil
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Make a good porn app.

An animated nyan cat widget (with a mute toggle) would be nice...

Haha I was thinking in some app what make raffles. For example: many people get together at an raffle, then each person gives their numbers to participate, then your Android randomly chooses a number and sends a SMS to the winner.
You can read the numbers from a file.

Clock in notification panel
Hi, I would like to see a clock developed which would sit in the notification panel. There would be an optional icon displayed in the status bar.
I like to keep my wallpaper clean and it would be useful to drop the notification panel down and see a customizeable digital clock. It should open the alarm or calendar When tapped.
Good luck with any project undertaken.

Need a nice bouncing boobs live wallpaper that works on SlimBean :-o
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sailzfast said:
Need a nice bouncing boobs live wallpaper that works on SlimBean :-o
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Seems a nice idea. Hehe. I like the grocery idea. Any Other suggestions?
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I was just thinking of an app that help me make a reminder for bill, and it must support taking OCR of the bill details.
I know there is one in the market, but doesn't work like what I want.
It should work like the business card reader, where it knows which part is a person's name, which part is the company, which part is the address, the phone, the email, so on and so forth.
This bill app should let me "scan" the bottom part of my bill with the camera, where the payment details are (account number, amount, due date) and set a reminder for me on my google calendar.

How about an app Like the iPod Shuffles VoiceOver thing which tells you what song is playing?

AzNTypeR said:
How about an app Like the iPod Shuffles VoiceOver thing which tells you what song is playing?
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i dont think is a hard thing to do but i think is always dependent to the app you use to play music, but is something i can see also.
The main idea of this post is to get ideas base on the needs of nowadays. Like when we are on the street, and we need that app for knowing the nearest grocery or something else wich could make our life easier. If anyone has time to think a little on what they need most, and think is missing, or an app wich they dont think is easy enought, thats mostly what i want to start building. I really liked some ideas here already stated, just 1 more week and i'm ready for building apps.
About porn apps , maybe after the serious stuff for fun lool

What about an app that shows any combination of chosen apps in tabs?
For example, you can put your favorite calendar app and your favorite task planner app in a single tabbed layout.
Or your music player and last.fm scrobbler.
Or Whatsapp, K9 Mail, and your SMS app all in a single three-tabbed meta messaging app.
Or Skype and Viber.
Etc.
It wouldn't take a lot of coding. You just need some code to frame other apps in yours, a settings screen to choose which apps you want to see, and a way to send a shortcut to your home-made app combo to your homescreen. If it's your first app it's a good idea to keep it simple.

SMS app like Chat Heads??

So the new Facebook messenger comes with chat heads and I really like the idea of it. I was wondering if anyone knew of a strictly SMS texting app that is similar in that it allows me to reply AND VIEW my messages on top of any other app? pop up reply is cool from certain apps but I like that I can view my messages with chat heads. thanks!

NINJA SMS https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ninja.sms
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Turn on sms in the Facebook messenger app. It works great
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nick7893 said:
Turn on sms in the Facebook messenger app. It works great
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Agreed. I didn't even know it worked that way until my girlfriend texted me lol.
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nick7893 said:
Turn on sms in the Facebook messenger app. It works great
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Thanks for the tip! Does it use a lot of data if i just use it for SMS? And i'm looking into Ninja sms now

So ninja SMS is cool but I like chatheads in that I can actually view a convo whenever I want (not just when I receive the message). like I want a tab or something to always be visible

coltonwood said:
So ninja SMS is cool but I like chatheads in that I can actually view a convo whenever I want (not just when I receive the message). like I want a tab or something to always be visible
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Ya I saw that to! I emailed the developer about that, and a few other glitches I found in the 5 minutes I had it running. I can see it going far in the app world, but there are some items that need to be addressed.
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that "Turn on sms in the Facebook messenger app" is not there in my case , where to find it, i believe it is in notifications section only ,but in my case it is not there...is it available only with FB home app or in messenger also

tovivekmishra said:
that "Turn on sms in the Facebook messenger app" is not there in my case , where to find it, i believe it is in notifications section only ,but in my case it is not there...is it available only with FB home app or in messenger also
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It's in the SMS/MMS tab under settings within the Facebook Messenger Application.

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Casper34 said:
Ya I saw that to! I emailed the developer about that, and a few other glitches I found in the 5 minutes I had it running. I can see it going far in the app world, but there are some items that need to be addressed.
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let me (us) know if the developer emails you back, I would like to know!

i got it working now, uninstalled FB main app then FB messenger app, there is FB modded app in the forum , after uninstalling and rebooting i installed the modded FB and then modded FB messenger, now everything is working sms as well as FB messenger with chat heads yay
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well in my case this option was not there, i had installed the official version from the market -FB messenger, i have it working now , thanx anyway

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.scoompa.chatheads
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coltonwood said:
let me (us) know if the developer emails you back, I would like to know!
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Nothing yet....
It appears that there has been an update since my first install. I had it disabled and it didn't update. Just updated but gonna disable again, looks like none of my finds were fixed according to the change log in the playstore.
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Ninja sms is pretty smooth with the major update today
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Addiso said:
Ninja sms is pretty smooth with the major update today
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I love the idea but I'm still wanting a tab or something to ALWAYS be showing in any app, ya know? so I can view (or create) messages anywhere without leaving my current app

I would love to have only the popout function (like on FB-messenger) but on my stock SMS-app.
I really like the stock-feeling and honestly, Facebook really succeded with their popout. Sleek, good looking, smooth and functional.
Wish there were some kind of extension

Wish it would work with whatsapp too

Addiso said:
Ninja sms is pretty smooth with the major update today
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I just bought this. I like the idea but wish there were more Themes, the current color/combo is just plain ugly.

There's an app called bubble notification haven't tried it but it looks similar...
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Apps pop ups

Hi everyone ,
This is my first time here so hopefully I can get some help.
Every time I turn on my tab I get app pop ups on my home screen and also automatically apps are saving to my pages, I've gone through my settings and checked to see if I have anything turned on that shouldn't be, if someone could point me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated as it's really starting to annoy me.
Cheers Headman
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It's a rogue app the causes that. It contains adware and spyware by changing your homepage (monitor what you search), constantly adds search icon on homescreen and comes up with annoying ads in both the notification bar and by pop ups.
Run this app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brosmike.airpushdetector&hl=en
And remove those apps.

MrAndroid12 said:
It's a rogue app the causes that. It contains adware and spyware by changing your homepage (monitor what you search), constantly adds search icon on homescreen and comes up with annoying ads in both the notification bar and by pop ups.
Run this app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brosmike.airpushdetector&hl=en
And remove those apps.
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Agreed, my fiance had one in her phone and it would push notifications, pop-ups, all sorts of invasive stuff. I wanna say she used an app "installer" ( like the ones found in 4shared), which was what installed the "rouge" app.
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