Sunday 3 March 2013

Managing Apps on Android Phone

Hi Guys I am back with my experiments again.

You might already know this but I got to know only today so sharing with you in case you are as ignorant as I am.

This time it was about managing apps. Those who use Android would know that the number of Home screens is rather limited and generally 16 apps (1 x 1) can be put up on one screen. Now my Canvas 2, running on Android ICS, has 5 Home Screens which gives me a maximum of 80 apps (1x1 size) to be loaded. But since certain widgets take up a lot of space (like weather widget takes up an entire Screen) hence I was and my wit's end to figure out which app to keep and which to dump. And then I stumbled upon the solution.

Coincidentally we need not install any more app. It is an inbuilt function of Android which I saw when in desperation I placed one app on the top of another app and they both got stuck at one place. On gently tapping the fused tap the door to the holy grail got opened. Look what I did in the following pictures.

As can be seen the two apps can be seen on the two sides of the screen. Now the next pic will be of one app on the top of the other.
So now the two apps have fused. This can be done by placing one app on the other. Now when you want to choose the apps just tap the fused stuff and you get something like the one given below.
So you have ended up creating a folder in which you can not only load N number of apps but also name it.

Now my entire app world is right there on the front screen.



Now if you guys have not done it yet, then do it and be on with it. Trust me this simplifies your life to a great extent.