App Launcher+ organizes your Android apps into Google Play categories
If you have a couple of pages worth of apps installed on your Android device you know that it can become quite the hassle to find a particular app you are interested in. This gets worse if you start to uninstall apps as the position of apps may change as a consequence, so that they suddenly appear in a different position in the apps listing.
While you can get around this, for instance by using an application launcher or pinning apps that you use often to the front of your phone, it may still require manual tweaking before everything is configure din the right order.
App Launcher+ is not your usual application launcher as it is not replacing your current application launcher.
Once you have installed the application on your Android device and started it for the first time, you will receive a notification that it has started to sort all installed apps into categories and that you should check back in a couple of minutes. This does not need to take this long depending on how many apps you have installed on your phone or tablet.
It starts to display categories and the number of apps that it has sorted into them right away so that you can in theory watch the sorting progress. App Launcher+ uses Google Play categories to sort apps by default, but gives you options to move apps into different categories if you believe they are not sorted in correctly.
To move an app, simply hold down on it on the screen and wait until the context menu appears on it. Select the move to option from it and pick a new category from the listing. Other options that you find here are to uninstall the app, to open its Google Play page or to create a shortcut for it.
While that is pretty useful for individual apps, you get similar options when you do so on a category. You can uninstall all apps sorted into a category at once, or create a shortcut pointing to that category instead.
The application features a search that you can use to find apps in case you cannot locate them, and lets you create custom groups for games, apps, recent or frequent applications.
Verdict
The one thing that you may not like is the ad that is displayed at the bottom of the screen. If you really like App Launcher+ you can purchase the paid version to get rid of the ad and benefit from a couple of additional features such as quick launching or the creation of folder view shortcuts on the home screen.
It will still take some time to get used to the app before you can use it effectively as you will have to orientate yourself first to find out where apps have been sorted into.
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Uhh, this has already been possible – I am not sure how but remember my brother telling me about it. I’m not a whatsapp user so not sure of the specifics, but something about sending the image as a file and somehow bypassing the default compression settings that are applied to inbound photos.
He has also used this to share movies to whatsapp groups, and files 1Gb+.
Like I said, I never used whatsapp, but I know 100% this isn’t a “brand new feature”, my brother literally showed me him doing it, like… 5 months ago?
Martin, what happened to those: 12 Comments (https://www.ghacks.net/chatgpt-gets-schooled-by-princeton-university/#comments). Is there a specific justifiable reason why they were deleted?
Hmm, it looks like the gHacks website database is faulty, and not populating threads with their relevant cosponsoring posts.
The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk that it’s about to be deleted from my ‘daily reads’.
It’s really like “Press Release as re-written by some d*ck for clicks…poorly.” And the subjects are laughable. Can’t wait for “How to search for files on Windows”.
> The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk…
Sadly, I have to agree.
Only Martin and Ashwin are worth subscribing to.
Especially Emre Çitak and Shaun are the worst ones.
If ghacks.net intended “Clickbait”, it would mark the end of Ghacks Technology News.
Ghacks doesn’t need crappy clickbaits. Clearly separate articles from newer authors (perhaps AIs and external sales person or external advertising man) as just “Advertisements”!
We, the subscribers of Ghacks, urge Martin to make a decision.
because nevermore wants to “monetize” on every aspect of human life…
“Threads” is like the Walmart of Social Media.
How hard can it be to clone a twitter version of that as well? They’re slow.
Yes, why not mention how large the HD files can be?
Why, not mention what version of WhatsApp is needed?
These omissions make the article feel so bare. If not complete.
Sorry posted on the wrong page.
such a long article for such a simple matter. Worthless article ! waste of time
I already do this by attaching them via the ‘Document’ option.
I don’t know what’s going on here at Ghacks but it’s obvious that something is broken, comments are being mixed whatever the article, I am unable to find some of my later posts neither. :S
Quoting the article,
“As users gain popularity, the value of their tokens may increase, allowing investors to reap rewards.”
Besides, beyond the thrill and privacy risks or not, the point is to know how you gain popularity, be it on social sites as everywhere in life. Is it by being authentic, by remaining faithful to ourselves or is it to have this particular skill which is to understand what a majority likes, just like politicians, those who’d deny to the maximum extent compatible with their ideological partnership, in order to grab as many of the voters they can?
I see the very concept of this Friend.tech as unhealthy, propagating what is already an increasing flaw : the quest for fame. I won’t be the only one to count himself out, definitely.
@John G. is right : my comment was posted on [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/23/what-is-friend-tech/] and it appears there but as well here at [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/07/08/how-to-follow-everyone-on-threads/]
This has been lasting for several days. Fix it or at least provide some explanations if you don’t mind.
> Google Chrome is following in Safari’s footsteps by introducing a new feature that allows users to move the Chrome address bar to the bottom of the screen, enhancing user accessibility and interaction.
Firefox did this long before Safari.
Basically they’ll do anything except fair royalties.