I wanted to put my App Drawer on the Shortcut Clock, but it wasn't available to add in the Gear Manager clock configurator.
I found a free drawer app on Play Store that works perfectly. The icon it provides for the TW shortcut dock is a perfect match to the Gear's icon style, too. I can't post links yet, but the app is "AppDrawer (MIUI App Drawer)" by JakedUp.
You will need to install something that allows you to access the app menu with a gesture, in order to configure it. But the default drawer style is a single-column icon list with titles, which will probably work for most people.
I set mine to have: 2 rows, 2 columns, horizontal scrolling, 15 point type, icon size 100, icon spacing 6. That makes it look like the Gear's default app drawer, but with icon titles.
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Has anyone tried to decrease the size of the app drawer by about half? The reason I ask is because with advanced launcher I only have 2 rows of icons and don't really need the black space. Optimally I would like it to end just above the first 2 rows of icons, mainly because a lot of people use the flip clock widget which would make it still visible with the app drawer up.
No one knows how if this is even possible.
The slider row on the bottom of the home screen usually contains three icons for Phone, Apps, and Browser. For some reason, the Apps icon on my slider got replaced with the Google Talk icon, so now I can't access my apps from the slider. I think what happened is last night I removed the Talk icon from my home screen and instead of dragging it up to the trash I dragged it down towards the slider.
Does anyone know how to recover the apps icon and put it back on the slider?
Running ADW Launcher?
Go to its settings, change the assignment.
If your using launcher pro, just longpress on the icon that is where your app drawer should be and a box will pop up and it should say change shortcut.
Hope that fixes your problem.
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OP is using ADW for sure. Had the same "problem" yesterday.
Longpress the Homescreen and choose "Open App Drawer Shortcut" or something like that.
Now move the icon down to the dock
It's under custom shortcut...
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Fixed. Thanks all!
So, I've got a desktop full of images that I use as icons through the use of Desktop Visualizer. My whole screen (apart from dock) is filled with these images and I kind of wanted to get rid of the dock and replace it with one of these icons.
I found a solution to making the dock disappear through the use of ADW Launcher which allows you to hide the dock. It's not ideal since I would've preferred to use Nova Launcher (I'm on CM9 and I love Nova Launcher) but it has no option to hide/disable the dock (in fact, ADW Launcher is the only launcher that I've found with this option).
Anyway, now that the dock is gone, I can use it for widgets (which is basically how Desktop Visualizer works) however Desktop Visualizer does not allow you map "App Drawer" as an action. So basically all this effort has been for nothing unless I can find a way to map the icon to App Drawer.
Another thing I considered was a launcher/dock that allowed you to use custom sized icons for actions (most launchers only allow you select a certain sized icon to replace the default) but I couldn't find anything.
I've tried to search both XDA and Google but couldn't find anything useful.
TL;DR - Need Desktop Visualizer alternative or a way to map one of the widgets to act as app drawer icon.
Thanks in advance.
I need help with this too. Any ideas?
The only way I managed to do this in the past was to use a normal icon and the widget, and overlap them. (In ADW settings there is the option to allow overlapping.)
First insert the app drawer icon (Press hold > launcher actions > Open/Close app Drawer)
Insert your Desktop Visualizer widget, select the icon image, and set the action to none. Then press and hold on it, and using the re-size arrows drag it under the app drawer icon.
Finally press and hold on the app drawer icon, and change the icon to a transparent (empty) image.
You have to insert the app drawer icon first, as that makes it on top.
Its a pretty crude way of doing it, but I don't think there is another way, although I would happily be corrected if there is!
Or you could possibly just put the icon on your wallpaper then use a transparent icon.
In that way, you could have many possibilities in theming your desktop.
First one suggestion-It would be nice to add transparent option for BlinkFeed,and now a question: I set transparent app drawer at 80% and it works ,but when I enter to apps menu from blinkfeed my drawer is 100%,so the point is that I think that drawer is inconsistent ,or maybe I have that problem only
legadema said:
First one suggestion-It would be nice to add transparent option for BlinkFeed,and now a question: I set transparent app drawer at 80% and it works ,but when I enter to apps menu from blinkfeed my drawer is 100%,so the point is that I think that drawer is inconsistent ,or maybe I have that problem only
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You have luck, that I actually saw your post
Transparent BF is on the list already. And for the app drawer: That's how it worky by HTC. They remove the BF from the layout stack when the app drawer gets shown. That way it has a solid black background. So basically it is consistent as 80% drawer on black background results in a black background
Hello
Since a few days, my calendar and clock icon does not stay up to date/hour anymore on my home screen.
I'm using Nova Launcher.
When I switch to default Samsung launcher, the icons show the current date or clock.
Any suggestions why they don't update any more?
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Hello
Since a few days, my calendar and clock icon does not stay up to date/hour anymore on my home screen.
I'm using Nova Launcher.
When I switch to default Samsung launcher, the icons show the current date or clock.
Any suggestions why they don't update any more?
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I don't understand what icon you are writing about in Nova Launcher.
Show a screenshot.
The clock and calender icon.
Open the list of applications, hold the icon of an application for a while and drag it to that desktop you want.
Sorry, maybe I was not clear enough.
The calendar icon always showed the actual date in its icon.
Also the clock icon always showed the actual time in the icon. Now both are stuck/do not update any more.
The nova launcher had an update a long time ago. Look for recent Samsung app updates, delete their data and uninstall the updates (probably clock and calendar).
I deleted data and cache, even reinstalled Nova Launcher. The clock and calendar icons still do not dynamically update. I ended up deleting Nova Launcher and using Samsung default Launcher.
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Open the list of applications, hold the icon of an application for a while and drag it to that desktop you want.
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I only noticed this myself a few days ago but the clock app icon shows the correct time in the app draw... kinda cool but also a pointless waste of resources.
I'm having the same issue with Nova Launcher on an S23+. The clock and calendar icons are no longer dynamic.