If you have a Galaxy and browse apps drawer, you’ll move laterally. However, if your tablet is a Nexus direction is up and down. In the event that you want to alter this order, you can follow the instructions below we give you. In addition, installing the application that we are going to talk about, we will have in our hand change effects when moving.
While in recent times there has been some controversy regarding the application drawer (and is that some major manufacturers have tried to get rid of it), is an element that, at least for the European public has a great pull, since it offers a way to simple and accessible to a review by all the applications you have installed and can organize your desk more to our liking. User in China, however, has another opinion (and you only have to take a look at the customizations of the manufacturers there), as well as many adherents of iOS.
Nova Launcher, once again, Salvation
To change the orientation of the drawer when browsing apps, we will need to install the application Nova. It’s a pitcher that I have already spoken on numerous occasions and is notable for being one of the best tools for customization (we dare to say that the best) few can find in Google Play.
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We have at our disposal a free version and another payment. With the first of them will suffice to carry out this guide, however, if we like to occasionally change the icons and appearance of our tablet or smartphone, it is an investment that is well worth making.
How to change the orientation of the drawer of applications
To begin we must mark Nova as default launcher. We can do this from the app itself or in settings > home. Once we have done this operation open the application called Nova configuration and we headed to the “Applications” section. In this section we will find with different configurations for the apps drawer.
In this section we find a section call “Style of the drawer“. Just go there and select horizontal or vertical (list is a third possibility, CyanogenMod-style). If we want, will also have the opportunity to change the effect to the move. To do this, we must go to ‘Transition animation’ and ‘Displacement effect’ and choose the combination that we like them.
The article how change the apps drawer sliding on Android (horizontal or vertical) was published in TabletZona.