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

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On 7/18/2016 10:16 PM, Dave Doe wrote:
> In article <nmgvdt$165o$3@gioia.aioe.org>, aardvarks@a.b.c.com,
> Aardvarks says...
>> 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?
> OK, understood.  I'll have to have a play around and see what App
> Drawers are available for Google Now.  I assume any Launcher potentially
> has different App Drawers.
>
> BTW: how do I find App Drawers for Google Now?
>
>
Here's a good starting point: 
http://www.androidauthority.com/best-android-launcher-apps-222408/

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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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