The FX app manager allows you to manage installed applications on your phone or tablet. To access this feature, tap the "Apps" catalog on the home screen.

From the home screen of the "Apps" catalog, you can view user-installed apps, system apps, or all apps at the same time. You can also view apps categorized by the permissions that they require.

Managing Apps

When you open an App catalog, FX will display a listing of installed applications.

Tapping an individual app will take you to an "App Details" screen, showing information about the app including its package name, version, installation/update dates, permissions, and required features. From this "App Details" screen you can uninstall the app, visit the Android OS control panel for the app, or view its listing on the Play Store. The more technically inclined or curious can also browse the contents of its APK (Application Package) file or view its raw manifest data.

Root-Specific Features

If you have root access on your device, and you have the FX Root Add-On installed, the app manager provides additional features:

• Usage View: When viewing a list of apps, tap the "View" menu and select "Usage View". FX will calculate the entire footprint of an application, i.e., how much storage space it is using on the /data partition. If you are looking to free space on your data partition, turn on "Usage View" and then sort applications by size.
• Enable/disable Apps: From within the "App Details" screen, you can enable or disable any application. (You can also do this via the Android Control Panel for most system applications, without root access). It can be dangerous to arbitrarily disable system applications: many are critical in order for the Android OS to boot to the point where it can be operated by the user.
• Browse Data: From the "App Details" screen, a "browse data" option is enabled in the menu to take you directly to the app's folder in the /data/data directory.

Viewing Apps by Permission

FX provides the ability to view apps by permission. This provides a practical way to audit which applications can use which capabilities of your device.

When you open the "Apps by Permission" catalog, you will be presented with a list of all permissions used by applications on the device, with the permissions categorized into various groups, e.g. "Network Communication", "Your Location", and "Your Messages". You can then either tap on individual permissions to see which apps make use of them, or tap the group heading to see all apps in the group.

The "Shield" icons next to each permission indicate the "severity" of the permission. A green bar indicates a relatively safe permission, while a red bar indicates a more dangerous one. These severity levels were defined by Android, and the green "safer" indicator does not mean that a permission can't be used maliciously.

Apps-by-Permission displays only user apps by default. You can use the "View" menu to change which types of apps are shown.