How to Set Up Launcher on HUAWEI P50 Pocket | Custom Launcher

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Welcome, in front of me I have the Huawei P50 Pocket and today I'll show you how, well
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maybe not how, but what kind of launcher I use on a typical daily basis on my phone and
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basically how I set it up. Now this will be a little bit cut down just because this is the Huawei and I do use the
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same thing on my Huawei but mine is a little bit dated so it still has Play Services and
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does also Google, which for me includes things like obviously the launcher that I'll be using
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which I paid for a pro version of it giving me additional access to features and widgets
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I think it's like LS widgets or whatever it was called, where you basically can widget
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up to hell your device with adding some nice looking widgets along with downloading different
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ones specifically for the application giving you much more access to different kind of
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like looks to your phone. So I'll kind of skip this, I'll just give a general kind of setup of this that I use
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personally and just to kind of give you a look how that looks like if you like it
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That's how I have it set up right now. So basically if you swipe to the right I normally get a Google feed but you can just quickly
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fix that or not. Apparently it just does nothing. It bugs out on my phone sometimes since like an update but anyway if you swipe to the left
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you get all your apps. Then let's see swipe up, I don't want to show because that's where I have my contacts and
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then obviously I have swipe down for notifications. This device if you probably are aware or I think Huawei in general doesn't support swipe
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down for notifications. This is part of the widget which I really like
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So anyway let's get started. So right here I already did, I didn't download it from the store at least on this I just
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simply transferred it from my phone to this one. So we'll see how well that worked
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I do like I mentioned have a pro version of this which gives me some additional features
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which aren't in the free version. So there is a free version and it still works and I should probably mention that the free
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one does have ads when you go into your app tray. Oops not what I wanted
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So anyway let's find my smart launcher right here which is right over here
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There we go. Once you launch it it just kind of looks like this. Now I did kind of go through it a little bit
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So normally you would get a setup which I mean just go through it it's not complicated
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I also did transfer icon pack which I use Ycons for the home screen and for app tray
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I just use whatever. So probably using the default apps from Huawei
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So let's number one actually change the default launcher. Once you actually change it yourself it doesn't give you that pop up again I think
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Let's see. Maybe I can do it from here. No there it is. So when you hold this home screen it gives you the entire page right here of settings
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Again set right here smart launcher as default. And now when I go home it just takes me to the launcher itself
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So there we go. Now as you can see this is just the default look minus the wallpaper
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The wallpaper is changed. And let's see. It looks like it has a second page
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It has top stories. It has apps above. And then below we have the actual search
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Personally I don't like it because I just don't. It's not kind of how I like it
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So let's start off by switching it up. So to switch up the position or remove some of them if you don't want them we can navigate
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right here to either one of them and set it up. Each one of these categories or we can first start off by actually setting up the pages itself
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So I'm going to just kind of delete all of them. So right now we only have the home screen and nothing else
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So I'm going to start off right here and I'm going to make apps
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I believe that is what I want. Yep. Okay. So we go
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We got apps. Then on here. Hello. We. No, no, never mind
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I was about to be very surprised that I can have Google, Google as a news feed, but maybe
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Nope. That's a negative. So I just, I'm just going to keep it empty
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I can't have Google. I don't want the top stories. It just kind of never gives me anything that I'm interested in
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Then below I want search and above. Let's see
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How do I have it set on my phone? I don't have anything. Okay
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So basically that would be it. So we have our apps right here
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We have our search right here. This allows you to quickly search for applications as well, which is quite nice
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And additionally, obviously when you're using the device, it shows you a couple apps that you use frequently
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Additionally, it also shows you contacts. So that is a really handy thing to have, in my opinion
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It's a quick way to access basically a lot of things that are used on a daily basis
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Now we want also that dropdown. So I'm going to hold it again
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And from here we're going to go down somewhere. Where is it
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Oh, it's going to be right here. Gestures and hotkeys. Now, I'll mention this is accessible only the paid version
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So do keep that in mind. I don't think you can access the shortcuts on a free version
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So from here, if you bought it, you can follow this up. If you didn't, you can kind of skip this
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So we have enable swipe gestures. We want to do a single finger and we want to do swipe at Lown
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And then we're going to go LS shortcuts. And from here we can choose a bunch of other ones, a bunch of shortcuts
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But honestly, what I'm interested in is the, where is it, show notification panel
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There we go. So now you do swipe and you get notifications
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I'm going to also quickly check for additional option if there is a way
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So preferences show toggle panel. There we go. This might interest some other people a little bit more than the notifications
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Personally, I think I would stick with the toggle panel. So that's what I'm going to have
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So we got this set up. Now let's go into the icons on the home screen. Now since the update to smart launcher six, because this is a sixth version they changed
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So the applications are equally spaced out. They basically work the same way as any other phone and a grid
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I don't like this considering the previous versions of smart launcher didn't have that
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They did allow you to have something else. They had like an icon layout, which allowed you to have icons spaced out evenly in each row
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So meaning if I had four, they would be all spaced out evenly between each other and only
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this row. And if in a top row, I had six icons as an example, instead of four, again, they would
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be spaced out evenly between only each other. So they would overlap, for instance, over the grid lines as you normally couldn't be
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able to do this. Now with this kind of update, you lose this and it's only as a widget
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And let's see. So to add it, we'll go into widgets, we're going to then go to icon group
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And I believe it was this one. No, I think it was this one
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So as you can see, that's this, this thing. And from here, I can quickly check if this is the actual one, I just bunch of random apps
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Yep, that is one. So as you can see, we have five icons at the bottom, and then two at the top, and they
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are literally smack in the middle of the two below that. So that is kind of what I'm looking for to have them evenly spaced out
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I do have, as you will see right here, only, what is it, five, nine apps
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Now the reason why I only have nine is because there's another part of this launcher, which
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I adore. It allows you to have double apps. So as an example, let's see if I want to, what I want to open
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So let's go with my music player. So there's my music player in a corner, right
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I mean, it's obviously distinguishable with the headphones, you open it. And there we go
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It's my retro music, which I picked. That's what I use on a daily basis. But if I double press it, it opens up Spotify instead
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So there we go. And you can assign this to any kind of application
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For instance, I have browser and YouTube on a double press, so that's nice
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So anyway, let's go back to this. So I'm going to get rid of this just because it's not, nothing like super nice
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And to remove these icons, I do need to put a little bit of effort, unfortunately
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There we go. Now I have an almost fully clean look right here. The only thing left is this smart search, which I also don't like
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So wham, it's gone. Now we can start off by adding a widget
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That is for people that want to have the same kind of thing that I do with them spaced out
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evenly in each row. If you don't really care for this, which is totally understandable, you can just stick
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with the default one. But you do have options, which I will show right now
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If I actually can access it. There we go. So you have options on the home screen when you tap on it to go into icon appearances
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So we can change how the icons actually look like. And in here we have a grid. So you can change how many columns and rows you have on here
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So again, you can customize this however you want. As you can see, you can have it really freaking crammed in here
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If you want, you can obviously also change the size of them, although it looks like they
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already are. That's nice and small. Anyway, so as you can see, you can go crazy with this
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Now I'll be using this like I mentioned. So I'm going to add the typical things
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Browser, camera, what else? Contacts I'll skip because it's along with the phone
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Messages. Phone. And you know what
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I'm just going to keep it at this. I probably want to also add music
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Let's see if I can. Add icons. Can I search? Oh, that would be nice
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There we go. Music. Gallery. As you can see already, we have a couple more
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Now it looks like the actual icon layout and spacing is affecting the little widget right here
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I'm going to go back and change it because this is ludicrously small. There we go
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That looks a little bit better. Now for this, we can just move it down
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And as you can see, you have it right at the bottom. Right now it looks like they're located in the grid as you normally have it, but that
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is because at the top there is only one and it's smack in the middle
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So from here, what I'm going to do is, let's see, I'm going to add double apps right here
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So let's see. On the browser, like I said, I'm going to do this for one app because everybody's preference
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will be different. So this is strictly how I like to use it
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If you do like it, obviously follow it up, but you can set it up however you like
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So as you can see right here, we have browser. So what I can do is hold this, then I can go into settings and do double tap
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And from here, I will scroll all the way down to YouTube Vents
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Now if you're wondering what the heck is YouTube Vents, it's just a YouTube and it can be installed
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on this device without any problem. And you don't need any Google services for it to run
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So that actually solves a lot of problems for, I would expect probably a lot of people
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that only like to use YouTube, but don't really care that much for Google services
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So anyway, as you can see, now I tap once and I have my browser
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I double tap it and it opens up YouTube. Fantastic. Just the way I like it
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Now it should actually load. I checked it before and it did run or work
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So come on. Maybe I'm having problems with internet
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That's weird. Okay, yeah, I don't have internet. Something happened
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So yeah, there we go. That's primarily what I do. Obviously, like I mentioned before, you can use custom widgets right here, you can remove
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this one if you don't like it, it's just a time you can substitute it for something else
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which might be a little bit more pleasing to you. What I'll probably recommend doing is using the custom like widget application that does
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cost money. I don't exactly remember how it was called. Let me quickly check
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Hopefully, I can find it quickly. But it looks like I can't because now that I need it, I can't remember it and neither
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can I find it. Okay, there we go, found it. So it's right here
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And that's what I have or what I use for this sometimes
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And it gives you a great deal of customization. So the KWGT custom widget maker
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Now this is just it's not really a widget pack. It's a application that allows you to basically make widgets and it has a insane amount of
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customization to it. So obviously with this, this is needed. And then you can download any kind of KWGT widgets itself
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So KWGT, let's just search for that. And you will see there is a bunch of them, should be a bunch of them, minimal KWGT
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You can see there is one. So find ones that appeal to you in terms of looks, what are you going for
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And from there, once you apply them, you have just a general application where you can just
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add them to your home screen. And then you can set it up
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So as an example, when you tap on a specific portion of it, it will open up some kind of application
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As an example, if you have time right here, the default one, I believe, nevermind, it doesn't open up time
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But normally, you can set it up to open up time, which is how I have it, as you can see
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So right here, if I tap on it, it opens up time. Now I do use a fairly basic looking one
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So that's just my preference. I like to have it clean and simple. And obviously, you can choose whichever one
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And from there, you can set up the additional actions for the press of the widget
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There's a lot of customizations. When it comes down to actually dealing with the KWGT, I do recommend watching some other
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video, how to set it up, because it is overwhelming at the first glance
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I'm pretty sure you can figure out how to add a widget. But then when it comes to customization, changing the sizes of text and icons and just any kind
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of order that is added to that will be a little bit more advanced
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Additionally, adding these actions to tapping on that widget will be somewhere a little
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bit more buried in there. So I do recommend checking out some other video on setting up strictly the KWGT widget itself
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But anyway, this would kind of conclude the customization and custom launcher that I guess
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I recommend. It works really well on Huawei's. That's something that I want to stress
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Something that doesn't really happen with this launcher, that's what I use on all the devices
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As an example, Samsung does have a problem with this from time to time
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And it works flawlessly on Huawei. So I highly recommend checking it out if you like how it looks like and how it performs
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Personally, what I do, why I use it, something that I want to justify why this is my go-to
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launcher, is strictly because of this. As you can see, this is what you'd consider an opt tray, though it's not really an opt tray
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It's more like an opt shelf categorized into each application has in its own category
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It's like a library basically. So as an example, if you tap on settings, you have all the things that it considers
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as settings. Then we have some kind of utilities, media, games, services, and contacts
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So as you can see, everything is neatly categorized. They get sorted automatically, though the sorting isn't always the best
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Keep that in mind. But for that, what you can do is just kind of grab it, drag it over to a different category
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And as you can see, there it is. It's now switched. So like I said, it gives you a nice, easy way to access your application, have them
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easily find foundable in each category, which is sorted automatically. And additionally, if you have apps that are used quite often, you'll just simply find
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them by swiping up. Though, like I mentioned, there is nothing showing up here for some reason at the moment
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So yeah. Anyway, this will conclude the video. And if you found it helpful, if you like this kind of launcher, you can support me by just
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hitting that like button and subscribing. Or you can support the creator of the launcher by just buying his product
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So anyway, thanks for watching and see you in the next video

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