拥有一部Android手机非常有趣。有一些应用程序可以帮助您处理日常生活中的一切，从处理财务、提高生产力，甚至控制您的智能家居。
不幸的是，所有这些功能都伴随着大量的应用程序，以及用于启动它们的许多图标。如果您不采取任何措施来组织Android上的应用程序，您最终会变得一团糟。当您的应用程序一团糟时，您需要更长的时间才能找到并使用它们。
在本文中，您将学习如何组织Android上的应用程序，以便更高效地使用您的Android设备。
首先卸载所有(All)未使用的应用程序(Apps)
在开始整理Android上的应用程序之前，您确实需要整理应用程序抽屉。只需(Just)从主屏幕向上滑动并开始向右滑动即可。查看每个页面上列出的应用程序，并确定您是否真的使用过该应用程序。
当您意识到您确实不需要应用程序时，长按图标，然后从弹出菜单中点击卸载。(Uninstall)
在每个应用程序抽屉页面上对每个未使用的应用程序继续此操作。完成后，您不仅会减少混乱，而且还可以摆脱可能会耗尽手机资源和电池电量(draining your phone’s resources and battery power)的应用程序。这是双赢的！
清理您的主屏幕
要重新设计更高效的Android体验，您需要重新开始。转到主(Home)屏幕并长按任何应用程序图标。从弹出菜单中点击选择。(Select)
您将在应用程序图标上看到一个蓝色复选标记。点击其他图标也将其选中，然后点击顶部菜单中的删除。(Delete)
您还可以通过长按图标并选择删除(Delete)来清除屏幕底部不使用的快速访问应用程序。
最后，长按主(Home)屏幕上的任何空白区域。您会看到屏幕缩小，周围有边框。向左滑动(Swipe)以转到您通过删除应用程序图标清除的空白屏幕。点击顶部的垃圾桶图标以删除每个空白页面。
注意(Note)：至少保留三个可用的空白页面。这些将包含您将在接下来的步骤中添加的所有小部件和应用程序。(all of the widgets)大多数人只需要三页，但您可能需要更多。您可以通过点击最右侧页面上的加号图标来添加它们。
自动组织您的应用程序抽屉(Your Apps Drawer)
下一步是摆脱应用程序抽屉中的所有空杂物，因为您已经卸载了所有不需要的应用程序。
为此，请点击屏幕右上角的三点图标，然后点击清理页面(Clean up pages)。这将清除整个应用程序抽屉页面中的所有空白空间。
接下来，再次点击三点图标，这次点击排序(Sort)，然后点击字母顺序(Alphabetical order)。
现在所有应用程序图标都将紧紧地打包在一起，并按字母顺序排序。这将使下一步在Android手机上组织应用程序变得更加容易。
将应用程序组织到文件夹中
仍然在应用程序抽屉中，选择一个应用程序并将其图标拖到类似类别的应用程序的图标上。例如，您可以将Twitter图标拖到Facebook图标上。
这将打开文件夹创建页面，两个图标都显示在底部框中。给文件夹起一个适当的名称，然后点击任何空白区域以返回应用程序抽屉。
继续使用其他应用程序重复此过程。并将适合任何文件夹的其他图标拖到应用程序抽屉中该文件夹的图标上。
当您浏览应用程序时，您会看到所有文件夹都列在第一个应用程序抽屉页面的顶部。完成后，您应该只有文件夹，没有更多的应用程序图标。
您还可以考虑更改文件夹的颜色以使其与其他文件夹不同。此外，从心理上来说，人们很快就会了解颜色的含义。一段时间后，您甚至不必阅读文件夹名称即可知道要点击哪个文件夹。
这仅节省了几秒钟，但当您希望提高效率时，每一秒都很重要。
重建您的主屏幕
有趣的来了。您现在可以重新设计有关主(Home)屏幕的所有内容。
首先，如果您有三星(Samsung)设备，请一直滑动到最左侧的屏幕并长按页面。将右上角的切换开关切换为关闭。这是一个“三星(Samsung)免费”区域。这是一个内容聚合器，它主要是一个烦恼。
您可以在第一个主(Home)屏幕上保留任何小部件，因为您将添加更多小部件来构建更有用和更高效的主屏幕。
将小部件添加到主屏幕(Add Widgets to Your Home Screen)
长按(Long-press)主(Home)屏幕上的空白区域，然后点击小部件(Widgets)。您的前一个或两个主屏幕应该专门用于您最常使用的那些应用程序。小部件可让您显示来自这些应用程序的信息，而无需打开它们，这可以节省大量时间。
滚动(Scroll)浏览可用的小部件并选择您经常打开的小部件。选择包含您在查看手机时想要查看的信息的小部件。
例如，您可以在 Google 搜索小部件下方添加(the Google Search widget)Google 日历(Google Calendar)每日小部件。
您可以调整小部件的大小，以便在页面上为您想要的其他小部件提供足够的空间。
如果您经常使用任何待办事项应用程序(use any to-do app frequently)，那么也可能有一个小部件。添加该小部件以在主屏幕上查看您的每日待办事项列表。
考虑一下您希望一目了然的其他内容，例如天气、新闻等。
转到下一个主(Home)屏幕页面，如果您愿意，可以继续添加其他小部件。
例如，在这种情况下，我们添加了：
- Spotify 的快速控制小部件
- 消息应用程序图标可快速打开与我经常发短信的人的直接消息
- 一个Evernote小部件，用于快速创建笔记、保存照片或进行录音
- Gmail小部件，可让我扫描最近的电子邮件
如果您愿意，您仍然可以通过简单地点击小部件本身来打开这些应用程序。
将应用程序文件夹添加到主屏幕(Add App Folders to the Home Screen)
最后，在最后一个主(Home)屏幕页面上，您将放置新的应用程序图标文件夹。为此，请长按应用程序抽屉中的文件夹图标，然后点击添加到主页(Add to Home)。
这将在您的主(Home)屏幕页面上为该文件夹 创建一个图标。
为您最常使用的应用程序的每个文件夹继续此过程。您不必全部添加它们，因为您可以随时返回应用程序抽屉打开那些您不常使用的应用程序。
在主(Home)屏幕上放置更少的文件夹图标，可以为更多有用的小部件留出更多空间。
同样，在这里为文件夹着色只需要长按图标并选择背景颜色。
到目前为止，您会注意到您可能已经显着减少了应用程序抽屉页面和主(Home)屏幕页面的数量。
这意味着更少的滑动来查找常用的应用程序。通过使用小部件，您甚至可能根本无需滑动即可查看您想要的信息。
您会惊讶于拥有一部有条理的Android(Android)手机可以节省多少时间。通过减少玩手机的时间，您可以有更多时间专注于生活中更重要的事情。
How to Organize Apps on Android So You’re More Productive
Owning аn Android phone is a lot of fun. There are apps to help you with everything in your daily lifе, from hаndling finances, improving yoυr productivity, and even controlling your smart home.
Unfortunately, with all of those features come a whole lot of apps, and the many icons you use to launch them. If you do nothing to organize apps on your Android, you will end up with a complete mess. And when your apps are a mess, it’ll take you longer to find them and use them.
In this article, you’ll learn how to organize the apps on your Android so you can be more efficient with everything you use your Android for.
Start By Uninstalling All Unused Apps
Before you start organizing the apps on your Android, you really need to declutter the apps drawer. Just swipe up from the home screen and start swiping to the right. Review the apps listed on each page and decide whether you really ever use that app.
When you realize that you really don’t need an app, long-press the icon and then tap Uninstall from the pop-up menu.
Continue this with every unused app, on every app drawer page. When you’re done, you’ll not only have less clutter, but you could also get rid of apps that might be draining your phone’s resources and battery power. It’s a win-win!
Clean Away Your Home Screens
To redesign your more efficient Android experience, you need to start fresh. Go to your Home screen and long-press any app icon. Tap Select from the pop-up menu.
You will see a blue checkmark on the app icon. Tap the other icons to select those as well, and then tap Delete in the menu at the top.
You can also clean out the Quick-Access apps that you don’t use at the bottom of the screen by long-pressing the icon and selecting Delete.
Finally, long-press any empty space on the Home screen. You’ll see the screen shrink with borders around it. Swipe to the left to go to the empty screens you’ve cleaned out by removing app icons. Tap the trash bin icon at the top to remove each empty page.
Note: Keep at least three empty pages available. These will hold all of the widgets and apps that you’re going to add in the next steps. Most people will only need three pages, but you may need more. You can add those by tapping the plus icon on the furthest page to the right.
Automatically Organize Your Apps Drawer
The next step is to get rid of all of the empty clutter in your apps drawer, now that you’ve uninstalled all of the apps you don’t need.
To do this, tap the three-dot icon at the upper-right of the screen and tap Clean up pages. This will wipe out all empty space throughout your apps drawer pages.
Next, tap the three-dot icon again and this time tap Sort, and then tap Alphabetical order.
Now all app icons will be packed tightly together, and sorted alphabetically. This will make the next step of organizing apps on your Android phone much easier.
Organize Apps Into Folders
Still in the apps drawer, select one app and drag its icon over an icon for an app that’s in a similar category. For example, you may drag the Twitter icon over the Facebook icon.
This will open the folder creation page, with both icons displayed in the bottom box. Give the folder an appropriate name and then tap any blank space to return to the apps drawer.
Keep repeating this process with other apps. And drag additional icons that fit into any folder over the icon for that folder in the apps drawer.
As you work through the apps, you’ll see the folders all listed at the top of the first apps drawer page. When you’re finished, you should only have folders and no more app icons.
You might also consider changing the color of the folder to make it distinct from others. Also, psychologically people learn what colors mean quickly. After a while, you won’t even have to read the folder name to know which folder you want to tap.
This saves just a couple of seconds, but when you’re looking to gain efficiency, every second counts.
Rebuild Your Home Screens
Now comes the fun part. You now get to redesign everything about the Home screens.
First, if you have a Samsung device, swipe all the way to the leftmost screen and long-press the page. Switch the toggle at the upper right to off. This is a “Samsung Free” area. This is a content aggregator and it’s mostly an annoyance.
You can leave any widgets on your first Home screen, since you’ll be adding more to build your more useful and efficient home screen.
Add Widgets to Your Home Screen
Long-press an empty space on the Home screen and tap Widgets. Your first one or two home screens should be dedicated to those apps that you use the most frequently. Widgets let you display information from those apps without having to open them, which can save a lot of time.
Scroll through your available widgets and choose the ones you open often. Select the widget that contains the information you’d like to glance at whenever you look at your phone.
For example, you may add the Google Calendar daily widget underneath the Google Search widget.
You can resize the widget so that there’s enough space for the other widgets you want on the page.
If you use any to-do app frequently, there’s likely a widget for that too. Add that widget to see your daily to-do list right on the home screen.
Consider other things you’d like to see at a glance like weather, news and more.
Move on to the next Home screen page and keep adding additional widgets if you wish.
For example, in this case, we’ve added:
- A quick-control widget for Spotify
- Message app icons to quickly open direct messages with people I text frequently
- An Evernote widget to quickly create notes, save photos, or make voice recordings
- Gmail widget that lets me scan my most recent emails
You can still open these apps if you wish by simply tapping the widget itself.
Add App Folders to the Home Screen
Finally, on the last Home screen pages is where you’ll place your new app icon folders. To do this, long-press the folder icon in the apps drawer and tap Add to Home.
This will create an icon on your Home screen page for that folder.
Continue this process for each of the folders with apps that you use most frequently. You don’t have to add them all since you can always go back to the apps drawer to open those apps you use less frequently.
Placing fewer folder icons on your Home screen leaves you more room for more useful widgets.
Again, colorizing folders here just requires a long-press on the icon and choosing a background color.
By now, you’ll notice that you’ve likely reduced the number of apps drawer pages and Home screen pages significantly.
That means less swiping to find frequently used apps. And by using widgets, you may not even have to swipe at all to see the information you want.
You will be surprised how much time having an organized Android phone can save. And by spending less time messing around with your phone, you get more time to focus on more important things in your life.
