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Re: What Android App Drawer app do you use most?

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On Mon, 18 Jul 2016 02:05:35 +1200, Dave Doe wrote:

> Isn't the proper Android terminology, Launcher, rather than App Drawer.
> 
> I quite like Arrow Launcher, but went back to a Launcher that lets me 
> put stuff where I like.  However, if you like a learning Launcher, it's 
> pretty cool.
> 
> I nnow use the ol' Google Now Launcher.

You have a great point in that, in order to communicate effectively on
Usenet, we need to understand the words used.

Without looking them up, to me, a *launcher* is something like "TouchWiz"
(which came with my S3) or "Google Now" which came with my MotoG, or "Nova
Free" which I put on my S3, etc.

Each launcher changes a *tremendous* amount of "things" in the desktop GUI,
from how you delete icons from the desktop to what shape those icons are,
and whether or not you can create empty folders, and what the grid looks
like and what the tab style is and the scroll effect and the menu action
items, and the default app grid and the dock capabilities, and the
ok-google search position, and the backup and import features and the
default home and the gestures and buttons and the unread count pins and the
desktop shape and look and feel, and, oh, yes, and what the default App
Drawer look and feel will be.

Point is, the launcher is a *lot* of things, only one of which might be the
look and feel of the *default* app drawer app.

In addition to the launcher, as you can see in my original screenshots, you
can add any app drawer app you want, which gives you *further* options in
the look and feel of the app drawer app.

Now, nospam will say there is only *one* app drawer, and that is the
*default* app drawer, but that will be confusing to most intelligent people
because each launcher comes with a different app drawer app (e.g., the
default app drawer in TouchWiz has a totally different look and feel to the
default app drawer in Nova).

Plus, as you can see from my screenshots, I have more than half a dozen app
drawer apps on my S3.

In summary, nobody would mistake a launcher for an app drawer, so we can
lay that one to rest. And, it may be semantics to claim that there is only
one app drawer. If there is, then that changes nothing since the rest of
the "whatever you call them" app drawers do the same thing.

So, whether or not there is one and only one "app drawer" is only something
the Apple people will argue about (because they don't have or understand
the concept of an App Drawer).

All I'm asking here is what App Drawer app do you use most and why?

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What Android App Drawer app do you use most? Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-17 08:11 +0000
  Re: What Android App Drawer app do you use most? Dave Doe <hard@work.ok> - 2016-07-18 02:05 +1200
    Re: What Android App Drawer app do you use most? David Oseas <doseas{nospam}@usa.net> - 2016-07-17 10:41 -0700
      Re: What Android App Drawer app do you use most? Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-17 22:04 +0000
    Re: What Android App Drawer app do you use most? Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-17 22:04 +0000
      Re: What Android App Drawer app do you use most? Dave Doe <hard@work.ok> - 2016-07-19 14:16 +1200
        Re: What Android App Drawer app do you use most? Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-19 05:08 +0000
        Re: What Android App Drawer app do you use most? PAS <abc@doremi.net> - 2016-07-19 08:57 -0400
  Re: What Android App Drawer app do you use most? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-07-17 14:06 -0400
    Re: What Android App Drawer app do you use most? Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-17 22:04 +0000
      Re: What Android App Drawer app do you use most? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-07-18 09:38 -0400
        Re: What Android App Drawer app do you use most? Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-18 16:20 +0000
          Re: What Android App Drawer app do you use most? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-07-18 12:50 -0400
            Re: What Android App Drawer app do you use most? Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-18 23:47 +0000
              Re: What Android App Drawer app do you use most? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-07-18 21:21 -0400
                Re: What Android App Drawer app do you use most? Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-19 01:43 +0000
                Re: What Android App Drawer app do you use most? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-07-18 21:49 -0400
                Re: What Android App Drawer app do you use most? Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-19 05:37 +0000

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