The customization of an Oppo A8 has no real limit, and that's good, indeed, using all the customization possibilities available, you can have an original smartphone and your image. This is one of the big advantages over Apple, which remains intuitive, however, leaving little room for the creativity of its users.
In this article, we are going to learn how to change the home screen of your Oppo A8? To do this, first of all, we will see how to add a new page to your home screen, then, how to add or remove app shortcuts on the home screen of your Oppo A8 and, finally, how to use Widgets.
How to add a page to the home screen of your Oppo A8?
So we start our article on personalization of the home screen of an Oppo A8 with the addition of a page. You've probably already noticed that you can have multiple pages on your smartphone's home page that you can navigate by swiping your screen to one side or the other. These pages are really interesting in the sense that they will give you the possibility of organizing and sorting the different information that you want to integrate on your screen. Using the home screen on Android makes your life easier, avoids wasting time, and, in one click, opens your favorite app. You will have the possibility to position on a first page only your social networks and the time, on a second, all your games, on a third a calendar widget so as not to miss your next meetings. Creating a new homepage on an Oppo A8 is actually very easy :
- Unlock your Oppo A8
- Once on the home screen, pinch your fingers as if trying to zoom out
- You will see the different home screen pages available
- From now on, thanks to the small "+" Add a new page
- In the event that you want to delete a page from the home screen of your Oppo A8 you will need to click on the logo in the shape of a trash can
How to change the application icons on the home screen of its Oppo A8?
We now go to the application icon part. This is the home screen personalization feature on Oppo A8 the most used. Indeed, we spend on average more than 2 hours a day in front of our screen and we mainly use this time only on 2 or 3 applications like Facebook, Instagram or YouTube. It is therefore important to be able to access these apps quickly and not have to search for them each time in the list. In the event that you want add the time on your Oppo A8 home screen, you can browse our guide.
How to add app shortcuts to the home screen of an Oppo A8
- Unlock your Oppo A8
- Access the list of applications on your Oppo A8 by swiping the screen upwards
- Identify the app you want to add as a shortcut to the home screen of your Oppo A8
- Hold down the latter's icon and click » Add to Home Screen ", This term may vary depending on the Android version installed on your device
How to move app shortcuts to the Home screen
Once you have added all the applications you want on the home screen of your Oppo A8, it will now be time to move them to position them on the right page and in the right place. The handling is particularly easy and you have already done the hard part:
- Leave the icon of the app you want to move
- Drag it to the location on the screen where you want to position it if you don't want to change the page
- Otherwise, drag and hold it towards the side edge of the screen (as far to the left or right as possible depending on the location of the page you want to drop it on) and wait to change page until you reach the one where you want to put it
How to add Widgets on the home screen of your Oppo A8?
Last possibility, and not the least, you will be able to customize the home screen of your Oppo A8 by adding Widgets. Widgets are interactive blocks which will display the data of a specific application, such as the calendar, your emails, the time, the date… They are very practical for information that you need to consult frequently without having to open the app concerned. Apply the following technique to display the list of Widgets available on your Oppo A8 and add them to your Home screens:
- Unlock the screen of your Oppo A8
- Two possibilities, either you pinch the screen as if you wanted to zoom out, either you leave pressed in an empty place where you want to add a Widgets
- Now click on » Widgets »And you will see the list of available Widgets appear, you will have a preview of their rendering, select the one you want and move it like any application shortcut
- Be aware, however, that they are more or less large, and that depending on the application it is sometimes possible to choose among different formats to match your needs.
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