I am having an issue with app icons not showing up in the app drawer after installation.
I am having an issue with app icons not showing up in the app drawer after installation. Could someone be kind enough to advise please? I am using a Samsung S9 with the latest as android build. Thank you!
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3 dots refresh
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Pierre did say there’s a partial fix for this in the latest version (last week), but I’m still seeing the issue too, so I don’t know which part is fixed.
https://plus.google.com/112252356715774925798/posts/3zJ8g9xnRjk
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Pierre Hébert ?
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While the launcher is active (the app is running) it now should refresh automatically. But if the launcher is not running, it is not and a manual refresh is required as before.
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Define “active” TrianguloY
It’s my default launcher, and I can’t think of anything much more “active” than opening a folder and choosing Add App, which is when I’m seeing the issue.
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“Active” means “Running”. While you are using an app, it is running. While not, it could or could not be running. Android decides this, and for launchers unfortunately this happens too.
When you press the home button, is the launcher shown immediately? Then it was active (or you have a very fast phone). If however it takes a few seconds (and maybe an orange status bar with the name is shown), then it wasn’t active.
In this second case, any installation uninstallation of an app doesn’t update the app drawer. The app drawer is like a cache of the list of installed apps in the past. It can be up to date, or not.
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TrianguloY So being “active” at what point is relevant? When a new app gets installed, or when you try to access it?
And does a reboot refresh all the apps in LL’s cache?
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When you open the app drawer in lightning launcher, you are NOT seeing the installed apps on your phone. Please make sure you understand this. The app drawer is not the list of installed apps.
[now is when everyone here starts complaining]
Let me explain: The app drawer is just a list of apps. It can or can not be the same list as the list of installed ones.
However, as someone should expect, it tries to be the same. And how? Well, there are two ways:
1) Pressing the refresh button. This makes lightning taking the installed apps and updating the app drawer with the changes.
2) Asking Android to notify when an app is installed. Before Oreo you could do this any time, so when you installed an app Android itself notified the launcher ‘hey! There is a new app’, and so the app drawer was immediately updated. However on Oreo they removed this (yes, they did, blame Google) and so it isn’t possible anymore. There isn’t an easy fix, as I explained in a previous post, and the one Pierre choose makes Android notify the launcher too, but only when it is running. If not, the app drawer is not updated.
I…I hope this horrible explanation made you understand the situation. And before you ask: the app drawer was made this way probably due to the customization it can provide (the my drawer). And maybe also due to efficiency (this is debatable).
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And no, a reboot doesn’t refresh the drawer either. You need to press refresh.
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