Improving upon the concept of "intelligent spacers" within folders on the Android home screen

[Ragnusen Ultred]

This is a question aimed at further improving upon the concept of "intelligent spacers" within folders on the Android home screen.

I generally keep a few hundred apps well organized on my single home screen for left-handed single-handed access, where I separate the apps by what I call "intelligent spacers" such as those shown below in my maps folder:

What I mean by intelligent spacers is that these spacers act both to separate classes of apps within a folder, and when I tap on the spacer icon, up pops a description of the apps in each category.

The system I use is by no means perfect, so I'm just asking here if technically competent Android users have ideas to improve upon this concept of intelligent spacers to better organize apps within folders.

TIA

[Joe Beanfish]

If it were me, since it's my phone and I don't care to document my clustering for others, I'd just drop the "intelligent" and leave those spots actually blank to provide a better visual break.

[Ragnusen Ultred]

Am Thu, 29 Mar 2018 13:11:19 -0000 (UTC), schrieb Joe Beanfish:

That's a good idea I had not thought of previously, which is to create blank non-intelligent spacers on Android inside of folders.

I appreciate that advice to drop the "intelligent" part of the spacers by not making them a link to a file (or folder or web page), but then the question becomes how to make a "blank" spacer on Android inside of folders.

It's easy to have blanks on Android *outside* of folders, which I already have as shown here:

But how do you add blank spacers *inside* a folder on Android?

On iOS, like on Android, I learned how to create blank spacers on the home screen, starting with this:

And ending up with this:

But that trick only worked because my background, for power reasons, is pitch black and non transparent:

But that trick doesn't work for folders, which are a transparent gray:

The transparency is different depending on the location of the spacer:

Where the results aren't all that seamless:

But, at least on iOS, I was able to do what you suggest, which is create non-intelligent blank spacers *inside* of folders:

*But how do you create blank spacers inside of folders on Android?*