The app drawer.
The app drawer. As awesome as all the features for the home screen are, the app drawer is like the ugly duckling. It’s almost like it’s only there to drag apps to the home screens and nothing more. Organizing the app drawer is a bit of a nightmare and extremely time consuming.
I realize it would be perfectly viable to ignore the app drawer completely and work only with home screens and folders, but for that there would have to be a much simpler way to group apps or select multiple apps to move them to those screens IMO.
Or am I doing something wrong? Is the only way to group apps into folders really to drag them there one at a time? If so, a “select apps for folder/panel” would be an incredible enhancement for what I’d like to do with it.
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Long tap on items in “all apps” and add to launcher.
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Propably you use only LL with simply app drawer. Try LLX with normal app drawer. 😉
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This ^ and repeat
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Thanks yeah, that’s fast enough to get them there, but from there you need to drag to the screen or the folder, hover, release, repeat. If you’re organizing 100+ apps, there goes your morning. Same if you want to organize the app drawer with folders. It takes all day. 😉
What I’d envision is a way to add several apps at once from the place you want them (folder etc.) instead of one at a time and/or by shuffling them around. E.g. Create folder – >add apps to folder… – > select multiple apps to add
I guess if I’m not wrong about adding apps to folders this should go in ‘feature suggestions’ .
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Your feeling that the app drawer is just here to add apps to the home screen perfectly matches what I am thinking the app drawer should be.
My personal opinion is that even if you have several hundreds of apps, you mostly use one or two dozen of them regularly (maybe a bit more but not much). IMHO there is no real use in organizing the app drawer. I see the home screen like a place where you can find your favorite stuff easily and quickly. All the apps you often use are here. From time to time you want to launch a app that is not on the home screen of course, and it may be a bit slower to find it in the app drawer, but in the end this happens rarely.
Also the benefit of not using the app drawer to launch apps is that you don’t have to load it: this saves time and resources, since you don’t have to load your hundreds of apps. Only the stuff on the home screen (hence the stuff that really matters) is loaded at startup.
Yes, you guessed it, I don’t really like the app drawer (except the search feature) , and if I could, I would remove it completely.
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David Zogg but you can add directly into the folder multiple times.
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Thanks for your reply, Pierre! I very much agree with your view, which is why I’d like a quicker way to sort my most used apps out of the app drawer. 😉
It’s not just the app drawer, it’s the overall UX of grouping apps and moving a number of apps. The app drawer is just the point of origin for that.
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Agreed, LL has no good way to do stuff on multiple items, it needs to be improved.
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