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Another approach is to replace your home button swipe up gesture with AppDialer. This way I can access any app or contact from any screen.

AppDialer

A small pop up window which lets you open apps on your phone very quick. You search for apps with T9 or a normal keyboard. It replaced the app drawer for me. I only have a short cut to AppDialer on my homescreen.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.pilgr.appdialer

I highly recommend you to try AppDialer.

I have Nova configured so that it pops up when I swipe up from the drawer icon. And because you can use ABC search instead of full a QWERTY keyboard, it's extremely fast to search for apps just using your thumb.

This doesn't use your universal Google search though, will only show apps + contacts.

Still way more practical IMO.

The only thing I liked about Windows Phone was the home screen look. The rest, I much prefer Android, so Windows Launchers on Android is perfect for me.

Instead of the terrible app drawer scrolling list, I just use AppDialer as a link on the home screen.

AppDialer. When you launch it, it pops up a 9-digit dialer that lets you search your apps using T9 typing and predictive search. On Nova Launcher, I set it to the swipe-up shortcut on the app drawer icon. I can launch any app on my phone with a swipe and a couple additional taps, saving me from scrolling down a lengthy app drawer.

One tip - unless you want to search contacts as well, be sure to disable that functionality to make the app search much cleaner.

edit: oh, and I think there's an annoying persistent notification you'll want to disable as well.

Cool, so create a gesture so that when you double tap, it launches this app Check out "App Dialer app/contact search"

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.pilgr.appdialer

Or, just the Google app and it'll be possibly dual purposed, but not as fast getting apps.

If you have > 100 apps. AppDialer helps you use your giant phone in one hand. It has simple T9 or regular keyboard as a widget for very fast app/contact search.

I'd recommend app dialer

I have it mapped to open if I hold down my home button. I can go from any app to any app in seconds with a few taps

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.pilgr.appdialer

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.pilgr.appdialer&hl=en

I use this one, configired to pop up after a double-tap on my homescreen. It supports T9 or Qwerty input, and is fast.

Lets me have a real minimal homescreen with no icons needed whatsoever.

LMT + AppDialer are the best combo. Even on P, you have to back to the homescreen, and if the app that you are looking for is not on it, you have to go to the app drawer, scroll or search for it. Still slow as fuck.

With LMT you can open AppDialer from anywhere.

My favorite feature of AppDialer is that if you install an app, and later you open AppDialer, the first app in the 'result section' will be the newly installed one.

I have quite a lot of apps and like to test different icon packs so I change them often. This makes it kinda hard to find the apps in the app drawer. Looked for an app to quickly launch apps and came across AppDialer T9. Very solid free version and works wonders for me.

Here's the link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.pilgr.appdialer

You could use something like this and just access it with a tap or swipe on your home screen, or access it from the Google Now gesture. That'd let you use a full featured launcher but still use the app search.

I think SQLite is the standard answer. I'm looking into https://github.com/pilgr/Paper which looks sweet and easy.

>Paper
>Paper is a fast NoSQL data storage for Android that lets you save/restore Java objects by using efficient Kryo serialization and handling data structure changes automatically. >Paper is based on the following assumptions: >
>Saved data on mobile are relatively small; >Random file access on flash storage is very fast. >So each data object is saved in separate file and write/read operations write/read whole file.
> > >Apps using Paper > >AppDialer – Paper initially has been developed to reduce start up time for AppDialer. Currently AppDialer has the best start up time in its class. And simple no-sql-pain data storage layer like a bonus.

Ahh yes, I have tried it.

Unfortunately it doesn't work with Telegram (even though Telegram implemented the normal 7.1 shortcuts long ago), and I normally don't use Nova's search function as I open my apps using AppDialer. So for me it's only really useful for WhatsApp, and it seems group chats need to be added manually anyway.

I do wish the normal Google Search could find Spotify playlists though... which it doesn't seem to do right now.

Guess I'll try the Oreo beta when it drops. Do you have any idea of how stable Samsung betas normally are? (this is my first Samsung since the Galaxy Nexus :) Are they normally usable as daily drivers, or can I expect it to have stability problems?

Go with app dialer. Having fast access to this app from any screen is amazing. It's one of those things that once you get used to, you have no idea how you lived without it

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.pilgr.appdialer

Install this app and set a gesture in Nova to launch it (I use slide up from the app drawer icon). The app just shows a floating pane so it doesn't break the flow of your homescreen.

I've been using this setup for years now... it's flawless.

If I may provide some constructive feedback:

I'm a big fan of search-based setups, mainly because after all these years, I've realised the traditional icon/folder based homescreens just don't work for many people (like me). My set of "frequent" apps is just too big, and changes too often to keep a fixed design for more than a month or two.

However, searching often requires 2 hands to type on your keyboard, which is a lot more cumbersome and just plain slower than tapping an icon.

For that reason, I quickly fell in love with an app called AppDialer when I discovered it a couple of years ago. For me, its killer feature is that you can configure it to use a T9 keyboard instead of a QWERTY one, which means you can find any of your apps with just 2-3 taps of your thumb, all one-handed.

Ironically, the way I use it today is very similar to how Evie launcher works: I swipe up from the app drawer icon (Nova Launcher) to open App Dialer as a pop up.

I know from past coversations in reddit and other places that there are more and more people leaning to this T9-search approach to launch apps and stuff. So... could I suggest that you add an option to use a T9 keyboard instead?

I really think it would be a great addition.

Start using App Dialer or App Swap and change the way you launch apps.

Scrolling though pages of apps is frustrating in general, not just when things move.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.pilgr.appdialer

For a year now, i don't even have an app drawer icon on my home screen.

I open AppDialer with LMT launcher, which means i can open any app from everywhere. Really cool feature is, that the newly installed app is always the first icon in the app.

AppDialer, personally launching it with a swipe up gesture Nova Launcher from the drawer icon.

It's been amazing for me, and it led me to remove all icons (except the for the dock) and thus reduce it to just 2 good looking homescreens populated with some useful widgets.

The nova gesture I use most often: I assign a pinch gesture to open the app 'T9 app dialer'.

It comes up looking like this: http://imgur.com/hEpj8Xw.jpg

I can bring up any app I want without wading through the app drawer for it. I use it a bunch of times a day. I use the T9 keyboard but there is a qwerty as well.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.pilgr.appdialer

Nova also supports gestures which are nice. Overall, Nova's customization abilities run pretty deep.

If you're looking for a way to never have to use the app drawer (but if you still want access to the apps you don't use on a regular basis, check out App Dialer. What I've done is set up a Nova gesture so that when I swipe down on my homescreen, it pulls up App Dialer.

Makes things pretty easy.

App Dialer has both a free and paid version.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.pilgr.appdialer

App Dialer is a sweet T9 /qwerty app , you can use it to search contacts / apps ultra fast . I highly recommend it.

This is a pretty sweet app, could replace AppDialer, not like it needed to be replaced.

If you want people to check out an app, LINK TO IT! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.pilgr.appdialer&hl=en

I just use AppDialer for everything. Love it.

I use appdialer for this. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.pilgr.appdialer&hl=en

Using T9 dialer feels more convenient.

Using Nova Launcher and KLWP

My wallpaper is map of my whereabouts, it's pulled from google maps and updates every 30 minutes.

I don't use icons on my homescreen as I don't use it much. I'm using Resurrection Remix on Motorola X Play (Lux) which allows gestures from the navbar. A swipe up from the right side of the navbar opens AppDialer, a swipe up on the left side opens up a google search. A horizontal swipe in either direction acts as a home button. Otherwise it works as usual. A doubletap on the wallpaper locks my screen with greenify and a swipe up opens my app drawer.

I've been trying to make a very minimal but still usable/useful setup, but it ends up being kind of boring to look at. It honestly looks better with an AppDialer widget.

Edit: Thisis what my homescreen actually looks like

Edit2: the line under the navbar is a battery indicator.

I just use t9 appdialer instead of drawer on main screen https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.pilgr.appdialer&hl=en

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.pilgr.appdialer

This?

Why's it the fastest?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.pilgr.appdialer

AppDialer is another option https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.pilgr.appdialer

You guys need to start using App Dialer.

If you like this, check out App Dialer. I really like it. You can use a T9 or QWERTY keyboard to search through your installed applications. Saves me tons of time. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.pilgr.appdialer

How cares, there is a better alternative: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.pilgr.appdialer

1. it's faster
2. with LMT launcher i can access it from everywhere.