On Android devices it is possible, almost with every launcher and every smartphone model, to create application folders on the main screen, in order to group apps according to gender or based on other criteria. To do this, simply drag one app icon over another, release your finger and notice that they are grouped together and that you can also give the folder a name.
A special and really curious trick allows, instead, to have an app folder that automatically changes the applications contained according to certain events decided by us.
For example, you can decide to make the apps appear to listen to music when you insert the phone's headset or to see a folder of apps to use during a trip in the car when you connect the car bluetooth or to see a folder of apps selected only when the phone connects to a certain wifi network.
The app that makes this magic possible is called CAF which stands for Contesxtual App Folder, currently free and in beta.
This application allows you to add a folder on the main screen of the Android smartphone which is dynamic and which modifies its content based on personalized rules.
To add the CAF folder you only need to add its widget.
By opening the application you can configure the various automatisms and decide which applications the folder should contain depending on the situation.
By pressing the + button you can add these rules (the triggers), which are of 9 types:
- default, the app folder that appears if none of the other rules are respected.
- Headphones, i.e. if the earphones are connected.
- geolocation, therefore the folder that must appear if we are in a specific place.
- Wifi, when connected to a specific wifi network.
- Bluetooth, when connected to a bluetooth device
- If in charge.
- During a phone call.
- At a specific time.
- Based on the appearance of a particular notification.
For each of these conditions, you can then set a different application folder.
The CAF widget must be added to the home screen for the application to work.
By pressing the button with three dots in CAF you can configure some settings such as the appearance of the folder, the icons and the colors.
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