Usable screen area

[henly1234]

Can someone tell me how to extend the usable area of the screen right to the edges. my screen displays apps 8 wide and 7 high there is a gap on either side of at least one app wide.is this normal?

[Thommo]

Is that in Portrait or Landscape orientation

[Hampus]

Hi,

You cannot extend/add more apps to the home screen than this. There is a bit of empty space since you can tilt the Tablet to landscape mode and thereby, the apps need to fit for this mode too. Perhaps you can download a third party launcher from Google Play that may change your UI.

[henly1234]

Thats in landscape mode, strange if that is a fact because when I go to portrait mode (which I rarely do) it scrunches up the 8 apps wide into a narrower width and im still left with a space at the top and the bottom with 7 apps down.. also when you open an app it compresses the content to use all of the screen.

[Hampus]

Unfortunately, this is how the UI is designed. I think you would do best by checking for another launcher to see if they can find something that fits your requirements. Perhaps you can take a look at Nova Launcher which you can find via Google Play.