![]() There's little difference between EMUI 12 and HarmonyOS 2.0, at least as far as our limited experience with Huawei's tablets running the said software. For now, HarmonyOS remains exclusive to the Chinese versions of Huawei's handsets, whereas EMUI 12 is being distributed to the global versions. Looking through the menus, you won't find the word Android, but we can confirm that it's actually Android 11. You can also change the order in which they are available in the app drawer.It's evident that the Huawei-US relationship is still haunting the company, and perhaps that's why you won't find much info about what runs under the EMUI 12, which powers the nova 9. Here, you can add different tabs by tapping the plus icon on the top right. Then, scroll down below and tap on “ Drawer groups“. Once done, you can also change the tab style, menu action icons and isolate tabs. For instance, you can create tabs for different categories of apps like Social, Games, Work etc.įirst, you’ll have to enable the “Tab bar” in Nova Settings->App & widget drawers. If you are someone who installs a ton of apps on your Android device, I’ll recommend you to create tabs in the app drawer for a more cleaner look. Create Tabs in App Drawer (Prime version) If you want more ways to hide apps, you can check out our article on different ways to hide apps on Android.ħ. You can access these hidden apps by doing a search. Then, you can just select the apps you want to hide and that’s it, the apps will be hidden from the home screen and the app drawer. To hide apps, you can head to Nova Settings->App & widget drawers, scroll down and tap on “ Hide apps“. Like many launchers out there, Nova Launcher too lets you hide apps, which is a very essential feature, if you don’t want people prying on your private apps or if you just want to hide bloatware. Since we are talking about privacy features, let’s move on to hiding apps. This should come in handy when you don’t want people to see the folder and the apps in it. You can choose to leave the tap action as “First item in the folder” or choose from various actions. In the Edit Folder box, just enable “Swipe to open folder”. To do this, press hold on a folder in the home screen and tap on “ Edit“. Through this feature, you can make a folder of shortcuts show up as a single app and when you tap on the app icon, the first app in the folder opens up or you can choose a custom shortcut and when you swipe on the app, the folder opens up. This way you can choose to customize every app icon the way you want, plus you can even use this to create a transparent or invisible app icon.Īnother feature in Nova Launcher that I love is the ability to create hidden folders. Once you have selected the icon you want, just tap done. Here, you can just tap on the icon of the app and then, select from various built-in icons, icons from the different icon packs you’ve installed or choose your very own custom image from the Gallery. Well, you can do so by press holding an app and tapping on the “ Edit” button. ![]() Then, the app shortcut window should open up. If you are using Android 7.1, you might have to tap “Icon options” and then, “Edit” because you are first presented with the app shortcuts. To enable swipe actions on any app icon, press hold on an app icon in the home screen and tap on “ Edit“. For instance, I have set the Contacts app to launch the Phone app when swiped. This can come in really handy when it comes to similar apps. That’s right, you can choose the app icons to launch an app, shortcut or even an activity, on a swipe. Just opening apps from the app icons is so old school, Nova Launcher lets you enable swipe actions for app icons. Swipe Actions on App Icons (Prime version) Once done, you will see the temperature right on the Google search bar. You can just enable it and choose the temperature unit you want. ![]() Then, head to Nova Settings->Desktop->Search bar style and scroll down to the end, where you will find an option “ Weather“. Nova Launcher lets you make the Google search bar persistent and change its style but did you know that you can get the weather information on the Google search bar? Well, to do this, you will first have to head to Nova Settings->Labs Menu and enable the option that says “ Allow weather in search bar“. ![]()
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