Easily learn how to add app icons to your Android home screen. Enhance your smartphone experience with simple steps.

On the pro-app drawer side, we know it as one of the defining features of Android. It helps keep your home screens tidy and affords a lot of the customization potential that Android is known for. By ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...

One of the key and functional things that sets Android apart from iOS is the app drawer. With the evolution of Android over the years, the app drawer has also seen change, and different brands have ...

Android 12L renewed Google’s focus on big screen devices, seemingly just in time, and Android 13 is only expanding on that. In the latest Android 13 preview, we’re seeing a new app drawer on the ...

Navigation in mobile devices is an important consideration. If a user isn't able to navigate an app, he might quickly abandon it. Learn the navigation principles of Android to keep this from happening ...

Mobile applications have a number of screens (Activities and Fragments) associated with them. Navigating through these is an important mechanism. There are a number of ways to provide standardized ...

All of the very best third-party Android launchers offer something unique, be that customization or even a minimal aesthetic. Here are the best to install on your Android phone in 2023 – and beyond.

Samsung has always offered a horizontal layout for the app drawer on its devices. The company has inherently avoided a vertical app drawer since the early TouchWiz days. However, this is going to ...