I was able to do this in the Galaxy S4, but now it's gone. Since I did a restore of my previous phone's backup, all apps installed in a random order - and that's how my app list is now sorted.
How can I sort that alphabetically? I can live with manual sort (I've seen people speaking of the "A-Z" button in the app drawer, but I don't have it), automatic would be better.
I think that some carriers didn't implement this feature.
I would recommend that you play around with alternative launchers that offer sorting as an option. I've come to love Nova Launcher on this phone. You can organize in so many more ways than just sorting alphabetically.
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Probably not the first thread on the subject but nevertheless: Which home screen replacement are you using and what do you like about it?
I developed a home screen replacement called "Simple Home" and it is all about simplicity. Feel free to try it out (search for "Simple Home" on Android market). I'm interested to hear what features people really want to have in their launcher!?
I use launcher pro. my favorite feature is having the scrollable dockbar.
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At least you were somewhat up front about spam, if misleading in the title.
I am genuinely interested due to fact that I've developed an app in a certain way, not out of any commercial reasons! If it was an unsolicited post then I would a) not answer you b) not ask questions or c) not promote a free app. My post is meant as a basis for a discussions. Yours on the other hand is not!
regarding the scrollable dockbar in launcher pro: hmm yes, it is very nice feature to have some kind of menu bar with pinned apps. Strange though that it disappears when you go to the app drawer. On the other hand there needs to be some kind of icon for the return button some how.
something to try could be developing a way to organize the app drawer using sections, folders, etc. if I knew anything about app creation that's what I would be working on haha.
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You can enable/disable the return home button in preferences. I particularly like the extended froyo theme dock for pinned apps. Keeps my desktop clean. I don't care for multiple dock rows as I just use 4 icons, but I like the options. I recently paid for the paid program of launcher pro.
The best part is you can make it simple or complex in options. Theme support is also nice... and its speed is wonderful.
I think launched pro has it figured out. If you are building a launcher perhaps try to think out side the box instead of trying to compete with such an already complete launcher.
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ADW all the way on my X10
infernox51 said:
something to try could be developing a way to organize the app drawer using sections, folders, etc. if I knew anything about app creation that's what I would be working on haha.
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Funny thing you mentioned it, because this is exactly what I've done for my app and of course using frecency sorting (frequency + recency). This is exactly what I want to have for my app drawer plus filtering to narrow down the list (which is also in there).
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You can enable/disable the return home button in preferences. I particularly like the extended froyo theme dock for pinned apps. Keeps my desktop clean. I don't care for multiple dock rows as I just use 4 icons, but I like the options. I recently paid for the paid program of launcher pro.
The best part is you can make it simple or complex in options. Theme support is also nice... and its speed is wonderful.
I think launched pro has it figured out. If you are building a launcher perhaps try to think out side the box instead of trying to compete with such an already complete launcher.
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I am, I think the ones that are out there really do the Android style launchers to perfection. My approach is simplicity and speed. I personally don't believe in arrangeable desktops. It works fine when you have a few apps but when you have a fair amount installed it becomes tedious to do rearrangements..
ADW. But I like eye candy. If your going for simple you could have a niche to yourself.
One feature I'd like, played with a few programs last night as was not happy with any, is a task SWITCHER.
Double tap home and bring up a nice screen, if it can use a wall then even better.
No killing just switching.
Yes, I agree! Ubuntu- or mac-style task switcher would be truly great. I don't think that exposé will work as good on a mobile phone as on a PC
My approach was to add an indicator on top of app icons in my app drawer for apps that are running (according to the ActivityManager) together with the ability to sort the list on running apps. I find that simple and very useful..
I tried ADW, Helix, LauncherPro, Simple Home, and PandaHome. I like Panda's side docks & app hiding, and ADW's hidden dockbar & screen swipes to launch apps (though it still FCs on my Droid 2.1R) . I'd prefer something simple. I don't need more than 3 screens and usually go to 2. I don't need a task switcher because long-pressing Home shows my last six apps. I don't need flash, I just want it to work. ADW works for me now because I have four quick action buttons (so it replaced Helix) and six more in the dockbar, though I can scroll for more. Just my .02
I have used Stock sense, ADW, and LuncherPro in the last 3 days and I like LuncherPro by far the best. I like having the 4 icons on the bottom to clear icon clutter on the screen and the menu system is nice.
Hi i am going to buy an Omnia 7 and all in all the phone is very nice i just have one question. When you swipe from the main-tiles-page to the right site you see all your apps in a list.My question now is ,if there is a possibility of changing this drawer like other phones that you have different pages of all your apps like iPhone or Android because this is the only feature i miss because i like to arrange my apps how i want. thanks for the anwsers.
As of now, there is no way to organize the list of apps. There may be some people creating a app that could organize your apps, kinda like a 3rd party app list. But other than that, I doubt it will change.
On my old Samsung Vibrant, the TouchWiz app drawer had an option to list the icons in an alphabetical grid, but I don't seem to have that option on the Charge. I can get an alphabetical list or I can get a grid that lists all the system apps first, then the apps I've installed.
Is there any way to get the alphabetical grid back? I really don't want to have to wipe the Home app's data every time I want to alphabetize the app list...
https://market.android.com/details?id=net.demidoes.appzorter.lite&feature=search_result
I have not used this one before but his other app requires root and is being deleted from the market soon. This one does not require root and it should work.
I just tried it out and it works well.
Kind of silly that it doens't do this automatically like the Vibrant does, but this app works. Thanks!
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Kind of silly that it doens't do this automatically like the Vibrant does, but this app works. Thanks!
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+1. I felt the same way after coming from my Vibrant!
I was wondering if there was a way to get all widgets to be availible on an non-stock launcher. I am using the Nova Prime launcher, and widgets for Samsung's S-Planner are not showing up in the list of available widgets. Anybody know a way to get full access to all my widgets, on this launcher (I don't have any plans to switch to another launcher)?
(The device is unrooted, if that's relevant.)
If you figure anything out please feel free to share, I've been trying to get my ****ing swidgets to work with now for a long time
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I believe they only work on the touchwiz launcher, even if you have touchwiz installed.
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I guess our best bet, is for all of us to keep messaging Samsung, until they recognize that enough people want this capability, that they should work at getting it to happen. Another, that comes to mind, is to seek out a ROM, that could allow that compatibility.
For immediate purposes, I imagine that some app developer(s) have discovered this royal pain of incompatibility, and was smart enough to realize that:
A) Very few people actually keep the launcher on their devices as stock
B) Samsung is undisputed as the current most popular Android-device manufacturer, with the highest number of users & sales,
So they released what would pretty much be a clone of these Samsung apps, but with more universal compatibility to other apps. I will browse the market when I have the time. I will, and ask that other users do as well, post the best/most similar/user-friendly/useful/blah of these finding.
otherwise, we may have to set the stupid touchwiz as our default (if we prefer and wish to regularly utilize Samsung's S-planner & other launcher-picky S-widgets) and have the touchwiz default homepages remain relatively uncluttered, except for these widgets, obviously. Then put in an app icon to switch to the launcher you actually prefer most.
OR
I just did a search in the google app market for "launcher switcher". There seems to be a semi-decent number of apps to help make it easy to toggle between the use of 2+ different launchers. Again, no time for me to test them out at the moment. Will also try to report back with anything promising... this is getting to be an annoying obstacle. lol.
If, like me, you mostly just want to be able to be able to keep on top of your S-planner to-do's, & don't have a great need for that apps menu that pops out of the side when you take out your S-pen, then change the s-pen settings, so that S-planner appears whenever the pen is detached.
I just remembered I could change it. for me this is GREAT because I never used that pen-apps popup. Also, I have really bad A.D.D., alongside O.C.D. . The result is that I constantly do ocd things, like put a lot of time into making detailed lists of things to do for the day, and set a stopwatch counter to track how long a task takes me to finish, but then I Always get distracted to the point, that All the time i put into countless overboard ocd attempts to keep on top of things, become completely worthless, because I have great difficulty keeping up any platform consistently. I feel like Sisyphus, rolling the giant bolder up the hill, and having it always roll back down. Anyways, on my Note tablet, I use the S-Pen more often than I use my finger, so for me, This works well.
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I guess we all are to some extent or we wouldn't be on this forum reading things like this...
Hey guys. Trying to stock with one ui instead of nova this time around.
The home page folders are giving me fits though.
Not only does it not look like they can auto arrange alphabetically, but they also don't leave manual arrangement alone.
Example:
I make my first 4 app icons:
Facebook, messenger messages,email.
There are other apps in the folder as well.
I turn on the next day, open the folder, and the first 4 all icons are Facebook, Reddit, Newsbreak, and Twitter!
(And none of those new apps were used, and all are in deep sleep state.)
Does anyone know if this rearrange mechanic can be disabled, or if there is a one ui home add on to add alphabetical sorting to honescreen folders??
Yeah! I'm still seeing this odd sort behavior after the March update.
I'm sure those companies pay Samsung good money to arrange their apps first! I've tried to like OneUI and have patiently tried to work with it but I always end up going back to Nova.
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I'm sure those companies pay Samsung good money to arrange their apps first! I've tried to like OneUI and have patiently tried to work with it but I always end up going back to Nova.
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Yeah, I've been rocking nova for years now. I'll try to stick the misbehaving apps in their own folder and let them duke it out.
Nova Launcher is my personal favorite as Samsung's launcher is clunky and slow. If you really want to customize Samsung's launcher download Good Lock and Home Up module from the Galaxy Store.
Yup, already have good lock and home up....but they don't address the folder sorting issue.
I'm finding one ui smoother on the s22 ultra, which why I switched back to it from nova once I set it up.