Modifying app menu - Nexus One Themes and Apps

would it be possible to edit launcher.apk to make it so the scrolling in the app menu is smooth instead of it catching on a row?

+1. I really hate that springy behavior. It's pretty 'n' all but it makes it soooo much slower to get down to the bottom of the list.

+1 trillion
the only thing I reaally cant get used to on the Nexus.

+1, it is bad design, so bad that i changed to launcher+ from market.

+1. I didnt quite notice the 'jump' as yall put it.
It's not annoying to me, but i would LIKE to have it smoother too.
@DocRambone: thanks for the Launcher+ recommend

Its a pity that that the stock launcher is so bloated. I like the idea but for now its useless. One idea would be to skip the animations. Any developer that can give a hint about disable animations?

DocRambone said:
Its a pity that that the stock launcher is so bloated. I like the idea but for now its useless. One idea would be to skip the animations. Any developer that can give a hint about disable animations?
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Settings > Sounds & Display > Animations.
That's for window animations, i turned them off since day one. So I'm not sure if that's what you're looking for.

muncheese said:
Settings > Sounds & Display > Animations.
That's for window animations, i turned them off since day one. So I'm not sure if that's what you're looking for.
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This only disable window animations, not the app drawer animation

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Froyo with Dock, new features (launcher, bluetooth changes)

I don't know about you guys but I hated it when I used the dock and my launcher wasn't horizontal. Well not any more!
Thats right, when you put your n1 in the dock, froyo will turn the launcher horizontal!!
Also with my bluetooth, when i press its button voice command comes up on the phone now!! (finally) :-D
Aside from the new car app, haven't noticed anything else new, anyone??
Better keyboard, new messaging layout, new launcher drawer 3D effects (annoying), tweaked Gmail ui, full-screen app switcher (fade to black) ... there's loads
bcpk said:
Better keyboard, new messaging layout, new launcher drawer 3D effects (annoying), tweaked Gmail ui, full-screen app switcher (fade to black) ... there's loads
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New 3D launcher effect!? where??
johnnie93 said:
New 3D launcher effect!? where??
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Well, it does the scrolling fade-in thing at both the top and bottom now, at least I think that's new. It's stupid anyway.
bcpk said:
Well, it does the scrolling fade-in thing at both the top and bottom now, at least I think that's new. It's stupid anyway.
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That's always been there on the N1.
I think the UI of car home has taken a step backwards, it looked much nicer before.
seancneal said:
That's always been there on the N1.
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I must have forgotten about it since I've been using HelixLauncher so long
johnnie93 said:
New 3D launcher effect!? where??
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There is a change in the 3D Launcher... the effect is the same style but more dramatic.. it's steeper.
That's just cosmetics, but the most important thing is how much smoother it is to scroll through apps with new 3D Launcher. A++++
Don't forget the new "features" of the audio lowering and sounding like garbage when being plugged in to the car dock, the phone not being able to hear you with voice commands and the auto brightness not working...

Visual Task Switcher

It feels like a WebOS multi-tasking.solution for android. What do you guys think if it (in the market)?
Im using it with CM6, it launches from longpress of the homekey for me and I really like it a lot
Update: helpful for non CM6 users, longpress for search can now launch VTS.
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blakerboy777 said:
It feels like a WebOS multi-tasking.solution for android. What do you guys think if it (in the market)?
Im using it with CM6, it launches from longpress of the homekey for me and I really like it a lot
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Regardless of the feeling that this is an astroturfed post, I'll try it since there are three things about WebOS that I wanted to make love to after leaving my Palm device. This covers one such concern.
After approximately fourteen seconds with this app, I can say that if it holds up on resource usage, it will never, ever leave my phone.
Single click brings up my "open" apps.
Double click takes me back to home.
Triple click replicates a unicorn out of my camera lens that burps rainbows and farts lasers.
Its as close to app cards as we will get on Android. Kudos to whoever is behind this.
Checked it out, all is good... only if we can map this to home button LONG press action, to replace the current task switcher.
Good look with finding this app and telling us!!! I think its pretty sweet and works well, the only gripe I have with it, is that on my EVO is kills leap when I hit the home button
Desperately needs the option to set launch button.
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If you use cm6 you can change visual task switcher to replace the default home long press in the settings
Settings > cyanogen mod settings > input settings
Amazing now...
I'm using this with power stripper..amazing
I'm using cm6.
Liking this. Thanks for the tip. Id like a free memory read out on the screen since that is about the only reason I use a task killer. But is pretty sweet for switching between tasks.
hdad2 said:
Liking this. Thanks for the tip. Id like a free memory read out on the screen since that is about the only reason I use a task killer. But is pretty sweet for switching between tasks.
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Task Killers bad.
mrono said:
Desperately needs the option to set launch button.
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If you use cm6 you can change visual task switcher to replace the default home long press in the settings
Settings > cyanogen mod settings > input settings
Amazing now...
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hmm, this app isn't showing up in the list of applications available to set for custom long-press-home..
looks pretty sweet so far though
How do you switch the home screen it forwards to? It seems to default to sense and I can't get it to go to ADW.
gthing said:
How do you switch the home screen it forwards to? It seems to default to sense and I can't get it to go to ADW.
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You can't use it with a custom launcher, try deleting any other launcher then it might forward correctly. Or if your on a sense rom just ban/remove sense
~edit~ I just did that and it works fine. You have to have only VTS and the launcher you want to use active.
Sent from my god phone.
mrono said:
You can't use it with a custom launcher, try deleting any other launcher then it might forward correctly. Or if your on a sense rom just ban/remove sense
~edit~ I just did that and it works fine. You have to have only VTS and the launcher you want to use active.
Sent from my god phone.
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Woah ... not cool. I'll be watching for a future update that let's me set a preference for a home, but can't say I'll be using it as is.
Such a good find! Loving it
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This app really has potential to become great.
Please don't give out incorrect information...
You can change custom launchers. Once in the app press menu, settings, default home screen.
soxozor said:
Please don't give out incorrect information...
You can change custom launchers. Once in the app press menu, settings, default home screen.
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Hitting the home button twice reverts home to ADW, I use LP.. I think the information is correct.
I really like the app but needs to mature a little more before I could use it to replace long-press-home, which I use all the time
Did you even try what I suggested?
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Did you even try what I suggested?
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I tried that before you suggested it. VTS needs more development, it just doesn't integrate with a custom setup very well yet.
I love this app so far. I even tried to swipe it off the screen (Used to have a pre)

Metro UI

This is just a thread for my application: Metro UI. Please post any suggestions. I would post a link...but it won't let me. My Application is called Metro UI (BETA).
Was checking this out the other day! I didn't understand how to get the tiles going. Any help?
This. Is. Awesome.
How do you remove tiles though? it added 2x SMS tiles for some reason, and I can't find a way to remove one of them.
*edit*
NVM worked it out, just long hold the app in the app list.
Great app i like this interface a lot especially after last update
this is my suggestions for improvements so far...
-I would like to see the option to hide applications in the "appdrawer"
- Needs folders ( in the squares, it would look nice if the folder looked like the home screen so that you push the folder square and get to an page whith more squares). sorry for my bad English, hope you understand what i mean...
- would be nice to be able to resize and rearrange the squares
- also more custom icons
later on I would like to see an lockscreen in the same theme and perhaps the ability to place widgets in the squares but thats not important at the moment
but as i said in the beginning , great app i will follow this closely
Verry nice, great work!
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- Needs folders ( in the squares, it would look nice if the folder looked like the home screen so that you push the folder square and get to an page whith more squares).
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I agree.
clemsaklumpen said:
- would be nice to be able to resize and rearrange the squares
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I agree.
- maybe a little more documentation how to configure
- use widgets
Agreed, being able to use this interface with the millions of Android WM7 icons out there would be brilliant. Give us the option for 3x1 etc panels and an image chooser and you are on to a winner.
Screenshots? Details? ETC...
quake101 said:
Screenshots? Details? ETC...
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Google helps ;-) :
androidzoom.com/de/android_anwendungen/effizienz_tools/metro-ui-beta_qglu.html
cool i like it, quite fluent as well
edit/ destroys the battery, 10% usage after being installed 20 minutes on a battery unplugged for an hour wtf?
uninstalled.
The app is awesome... icons in the squares are a bit small. Havent had any problems with battery life on my samsung fascinate.
Would like to see the actual wp7 animations though. The cubed music app uses it in the" boring" layout, so it can be done.
Want to say thanks and keep up the good work. Sms tile updated with go sms, so that's pretty cool.
Well done sir.
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Really nice app. Quite smooth, although on some moments it is choppy, but hope it gets fixed in final version. Even when it is in beta it is the best Metro like Launcher.
Def considering buying the full/final version. Also think about Metro like lockscreen.
This is very good!
Miss custom images and colors, and a sort option. And how about transparancy? Also if I use the back button, it exits the app..
But a very good start!
JimmyBanks said:
destroys the battery, 10% usage after being installed 20 minutes on a battery unplugged for an hour wtf?
uninstalled.
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No problem with battery drain here, been using it for a day with no significant drain on the battery compared to other launchers.
ododoo said:
Also if I use the back button, it exits the app..
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I can confirm this too. If are installed more than one Launcher, with the back button it opens an other Launcher.
Metro-UI taskbar needs other icons e.g. BT, GPS, etc then only battery and singnal.
Great app. I was wondering if any possible way to get counts for tweeter and regular email? That would be awesome, otherwise very smooth on my phone.
Hey its the nicest metro ui till date, and the best part is its so light. And its super fast on my desire.
Well done sir, hope to see more customization soon, and it is currently my UI choice.
Thankyou
just thought of a suggestion. Could you give the option in the metro ui settings to turn off the highlight when you press a tile?
tiles dont show up on my mt3g
On my Droid X after I installed nothing shows up. I get the top area with battery, 36, signal, clock, and arrow but no tiles or anything, just black below that.
Any help?
Deadly Cyclone said:
On my Droid X after I installed nothing shows up. I get the top area with battery, 36, signal, clock, and arrow but no tiles or anything, just black below that.
Any help?
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You need to add tiles. You can do that by opening the app drawer and long pressing the apps you want.
FYI - You can later remove those apps by long pressing them in the app drawer again.

[App] Claystone Launcher 2.4

UPDATE (9/21/2012): We've posted a new version of Claystone - v2.4 - to Google Play @ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.claystoneinc !
We've taken a lot of the feedback discovered here in this thread to improve the app, including re-introducing theme support, weather panels, and more.
Check it out and let us know what you think. Thanks!
Claystone Team
http://www.claystoneinc.com
Great launcher
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This launcher rocks!!!!! Thanks
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yeah so I've used just about every launcher out there, and this launcher made me jizz myself.
only issue is the built in browser doesn't support java?
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Fuuuck me this is a...confusing beauty.... still a beauty. Will give this a go! Foooooooooooooooo sure
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I love the update and hope they keep coming. Here's a few things I tried to do but couldn't and some I'd like to see:
Ability to add, change, and customize the dock,
Multiselect apps to add to a pane
Change the transition effect from fade
Pinch and zoom to activate expose'
Swipe up and down actions
Would love a running apps dock
LANDSCAPE SUPPORT!
Ability to change themes or customize them more....especially icons
That's all for now,
Cheers!
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adzidek said:
yeah so I've used just about every launcher out there, and this launcher made me jizz myself.
only issue is the built in browser doesn't support java?
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Haha - hilarious.
Re: web + java. No, not right now. I know it's an oversight, but definitely something we want to tie in sooner rather than later.
D_one said:
I love the update and hope they keep coming. Here's a few things I tried to do but couldn't and some I'd like to see:
Ability to add, change, and customize the dock,
Multiselect apps to add to a pane
Change the transition effect from fade
Pinch and zoom to activate expose'
Swipe up and down actions
Would love a running apps dock
LANDSCAPE SUPPORT!
Ability to change themes or customize them more....especially icons
That's all for now,
Cheers!
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Great, great feedback. Thank you!
Some of these are already on our plate - working on getting dock customization in ASAP - but those that aren't are going straight from your keyboard to the developer's ears. Thanks, again!
My phone's being repaired right now, so I can't try this. Are scrolling widgets supported?
Awesome work !! Really a good launcher. Makes my iFriends go green
Will post any features needed/ bugs
willing to try this and have great faith in the project. I love seeing a launcher with a difference and will download in the morning to my vibrant running cyanogen mod. finally if you are in need of a beta tester please let me know and I will do anything to help.
I like it.
Down points-
Slow to scroll from screen to screen
Confused on how to resize widgets.
I didn't see how to change what screen goes in what order. Example-I could never get my homescreen to be the middle screen instead of the 1st screen.
I think I'd like a swipe up gesture that allows quick screens glance rather than the middle dock button being the quick screen glance.
I give you props on this. It's turning out nicely and will continue to do so!
Nitro_123 said:
Awesome work !! Really a good launcher. Makes my iFriends go green
Will post any features needed/ bugs
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Haha - glad to hear. Thanks!
Vulpix said:
My phone's being repaired right now, so I can't try this. Are scrolling widgets supported?
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I'd like to say yes, but unfortunately they're not in this latest release. That said, let me see what I can do to sneak them into an upcoming build.
Hope your phone comes back better than ever.
Bean can said:
willing to try this and have great faith in the project. I love seeing a launcher with a difference and will download in the morning to my vibrant running cyanogen mod. finally if you are in need of a beta tester please let me know and I will do anything to help.
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Great, glad to hear. It's always a challenge trying to do something different, but totally worthwhile.
Any feedback you could offer would be much appreciated!
kiltedthrower said:
I like it.
Down points-
Slow to scroll from screen to screen
Confused on how to resize widgets.
I didn't see how to change what screen goes in what order. Example-I could never get my homescreen to be the middle screen instead of the 1st screen.
I think I'd like a swipe up gesture that allows quick screens glance rather than the middle dock button being the quick screen glance.
I give you props on this. It's turning out nicely and will continue to do so!
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Gotcha.
In terms of the widget resizing, if you long hold on a widget and tap 'Resize' you'll notice the bounding box + arrows pop up. From there, you should be able to resize by tapping and dragging on the arrows to get the dimensions needed (if you're not seeing the arrows or that functionality's not working, definitely let me know).
Re: setting the order of screens - we don't have that included now, but it's already in the works for a release in the very short-term.
Lastly, hadn't considered the upward swipe gesture idea. Let me stew on it for a bit and see if there's something we can do there.
Thanks for taking the time to drop the feedback - love it!
I am trying the Launcher (although I prefer plain vanilla LauncherPro). It's tricky trying to get use to using this. I am so use to using an almost empty, plain desktop.
I wanted to try this because of the news feeds as it seems easier than opening the browser and going to the news sites.
really good, but on my sensation (960x540 px resolution) the themes doesnt resize properly, there are blurry icons and backgrounds. only the widgets are looking ok. i hope youll make it compatible with qHD (960x540) resolution.
glad to see that you are working on the screen order feature
a setting to change the transition effect and a running apps panel (task manager) would be very nice!
i dont like the photos panel, i cant scroll through the photos when i select one from the list, i must first go in fullscreen mode... it should be more like gallery 3D ^^
waiting for the next update
Falen said:
I am trying the Launcher (although I prefer plain vanilla LauncherPro). It's tricky trying to get use to using this. I am so use to using an almost empty, plain desktop.
I wanted to try this because of the news feeds as it seems easier than opening the browser and going to the news sites.
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Totally understand - it's a bit of a departure from layouts featured in ADW, LauncherPro, etc.
In fact, one area in which we need to improve in is explaining the basics of Claystone. Once you play around with it it starts to come together, but we've got to do a better job in bridging that gap.
Thankfully, I've got a Word doc in front of me ready to be dumped into an HTML layout with the aim of having that ready within the week!
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really good, but on my sensation (960x540 px resolution) the themes doesnt resize properly, there are blurry icons and backgrounds. only the widgets are looking ok. i hope youll make it compatible with qHD (960x540) resolution.
glad to see that you are working on the screen order feature
a setting to change the transition effect and a running apps panel (task manager) would be very nice!
i dont like the photos panel, i cant scroll through the photos when i select one from the list, i must first go in fullscreen mode... it should be more like gallery 3D ^^
waiting for the next update
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Of those, I can tell you that a 'Running Tasks' panel is ridiculously close to being included (as in: we've had it in there, but haven't quite finalized it yet in deference to other features).
In terms of qHD compatibility and revised photo functionality, I can't promise that they'll be featured in the next build or two, but can say I'll bring them to the team and see where we can slide them in on a priority scale amidst other feature development.
Really appreciate you helping out - thanks!

[APP] Lazy Launcher (Futuristic floating launcher!)

Lazy Launcher v0.1.1
-5 shortcuts
-Customizable
-Opacity settings
-Moveable everywhere in screen
-Expand-Collapse.
and a little more...
Get it from Google play..
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=lazy.launcher
Nice job. Really like the smoothness and animation. When u can add some kind of a gesture to fade in and an option to change the icon-links it would be perfect. I don't like the ring left on the screen when faded out. Also I think the Icons are a bit too responsive I make it spin offen instead of pressing the icon.
Making the icon-links change-able could be very important cos I and I think most of the users have camera, Browser and so on the homescreen or linked to gestures which takes also just 2 interactions to Start. Like the fading in and clicking the button, so no improvement. Yes yours look better I know.
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Nice job. Really like the smoothness and animation. When u can add some kind of a gesture to fade in and an option to change the icon-links it would be perfect. I don't like the ring left on the screen when faded out. Also I think the Icons are a bit too responsive I make it spin offen instead of pressing the icon.
Making the icon-links change-able could be very important cos I and I think most of the users have camera, Browser and so on the homescreen or linked to gestures which takes also just 2 interactions to Start. Like the fading in and clicking the button, so no improvement. Yes yours look better I know.
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Thanks Cozmos.
I will add an option to replace/change apps with what you want, but I am not an android expert and it will take a little time.
You are right, with normal launcher it takes 2 interactions to start an app, in Lazy Launcher too. But this way is more fancy and I guess at least x2 faster
Thanks for your great suggestions.
It's a good concept.
Just needs to be more customizable.
Thanks tntnt! I will make it more customizable ASAP.
Updated:
+App chooser added.
+A little more customizable now.
-Now it's not support android 3.0 below.
-Removed fancy icons
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=lazy.launcher
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@BekirARSLAN thanks.
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I like this app. i just installed it. May I suggest that once you click on an application you should have the option in settings for the circle to remain fully open with with your added apps or it to collapse back to the circle.you could probably put a time out feature. I find when I launch an app I have to hit the circle again to close it because the apps block what i'm looking at. I also noticed that I have to hit an app a couple of times to launch it because the apps spin around. Hopefully that can be fixed.
Great work
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I like this app. i just installed it. May I suggest that once you click on an application you should have the option in settings for the circle to remain fully open with with your added apps or it to collapse back to the circle.you could probably put a time out feature. I find when I launch an app I have to hit the circle again to close it because the apps block what i'm looking at. I also noticed that I have to hit an app a couple of times to launch it because the apps spin around. Hopefully that can be fixed.
Great work
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Thanks for your suggestions.
When you click an icon to launch app, circle spins to right(East) and you can click again to launch it. I will make it customizable.
I think people didn't like Lazy Launcher
I will do a major update in a month.. It will be Lazy "Toucher".

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