Samsung Galaxy Apps Folders

gt568

The wife has a samsung galaxy S or something.... she wants to put groups of apps into folders in the app menu but it doesn't seem possible....

Can it only be done on the home page or is there a way of doing it in the app menu?

Thanks...

keggies

Hm! I have a Galaxy S2 and use the GO launcher Ex app instead which replaces the normal standard Samsung launcher screens.

At the bottom you have the 'dock bar' (normal Samsung dock bar includes Phone, Contacts, Messaging & Applications) where you can change to whatever you wish including folders with whatever apps you want in it & swipe it to include more then the standard 4.

Hope this kinda helps?

gt568

keggies wrote: »

Hm! I have a Galaxy S2 and use the GO launcher Ex app instead which replaces the normal standard Samsung launcher screens.

At the bottom you have the 'dock bar' (normal Samsung dock bar includes Phone, Contacts, Messaging & Applications) where you can change to whatever you wish including folders with whatever apps you want in it & swipe it to include more then the standard 4.

Hope this kinda helps?

Not really, she wants them in iphone like folders in the apps menu....

Thanks tho...

Yolina

No idea if it can be done with the standard launcher, but it's certainly possible with 3rd party ones - I use Go Launcher EX too (it's great and it's free) and do have all my apps sorted in folders in the apps drawer.

gt568

Yolina wrote: »

No idea if it can be done with the standard launcher, but it's certainly possible with 3rd party ones - I use Go Launcher EX too (it's great and it's free) and do have all my apps sorted in folders in the apps drawer.

Seems a bit of a failing IMHO that you have to download a 3rd party app to organise your apps...:wall:

Shame.

bigdave196

gt568 wrote: »

Seems a bit of a failing IMHO that you have to download a 3rd party app to organise your apps...:wall:

Shame.

Not really, that's the point of Android, it's supposed to be customisable with third party apps.

With iPhone it's "we do it like this and tough tits if you don't like it" but with Android it's "we do it like this but if you don't like it, feel free to change it"

gt568

As a light smartphone user it would have been far easier for my wife to just drop and drag her apps into folders in the app menu rather than having to download another app to do that. She's pretty thick when it comes to tech...

Thats all, not having an andriod/iphone slagging session...

bigdave196

gt568 wrote: »

As a light smartphone user it would have been far easier for my wife to just drop and drag her apps into folders in the app menu rather than having to download another app to do that. She's pretty thick when it comes to tech...

Thats all, not having an andriod/iphone slagging session...

She could emulate the iPhone way of doing it by creating some folders on a home screen (long press on an empty space -> folders -> Add new folder) and then she can drag and drop the apps she wants in each folder out of the app drawer and into the folder (they'll still be in the app drawer though). As far as I know, that's the closest you'll get without a 3rd party app

gt568

bigdave196 wrote: »

She could emulate the iPhone way of doing it by creating some folders on a home screen (long press on an empty space -> folders -> Add new folder) and then she can drag and drop the apps she wants in each folder out of the app drawer and into the folder (they'll still be in the app drawer though). As far as I know, that's the closest you'll get without a 3rd party app

Yeah thats more or less the route I've sent her.