This was a little project I set for myself.
To make something resembling Touchflo
Its not too amazing, but its still an achievement for me
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I ended up learning a lot through it and it was quite fun to make.
Hope some of you folk enjoy it
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Hi, I am very interested in possibly enabling sliding sounds like.....like......um, Im just gonna say it.......Windows Mobile (bracing for the tomatoes being thrown). I just thoguht the sliding sounds option was a nice touch of personalization to the individual & their device. Could it be possible for such a program to be developed & tied into something such as the device's screen rotation when screen is slid up to activate such sound? Im not trying to bash the Android OS or trying to get G1 users upset & reply with "Well go back to WM if you like it so much", as I myself have really enjoyed the new OS. As a matter of fact, I was the first person in line to get one of these b!t¢h£$. Thanks for your input, bros' ( & brahs').
don't feel bad
I like kool sounds too, maybe those trekkies that make those LCARS themes for just about any skinnable device/app ever will bless the g1, there is an lcars for maemo (n800)
the clock selections make me wonder how much maemo and 'droid are alike?
bhang
This would be awesome, I love the sliding noises on my Helio devices, and I already have them all recorded onto my computer.
LCARS
don't feel bad
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I like kool sounds too, maybe those trekkies that make those LCARS themes for just about any skinnable device/app ever will bless the g1, there is an lcars for maemo (n800)
the clock selections make me wonder how much maemo and 'droid are alike?
bhang
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LOL, I never even knew that was out, but Google is my friend, and because of that, I was able to find out exactly what you were talking about.
I actually kinda like this idea. I used to have a Sidekick LX, and the opening/closing sounds were actually something I got used to and liked.
With the screen being spring loaded, I think it makes a nice snap
After going through a bunch of 6.5 ROMS I found one that was based off of 6.1 and holy crap, it is sooo much better.
Now I have a useful Start Menu which does not take up the whole screen, gives me a handy list of recently used apps, and while in the Programs folder, a nice neat arrangement of icons that does not look like it just went through a hurricane.
Then I have simple and beautiful "non-finger-friendly" menus with no wasted space dedicated to curves, drop shadows, superfluous spacing, or obnoxious up/down arrows.
And there's more! A notification system that isn't dog slow, and allows me to get to where I want to go by simply tapping the appropriate icon on the taskbar.
Dialog tabs that do not look like they were skinned by someone who just picked up a new copy of Photoshop for Dummies.
And of course the icing on this already delicious downgrade cake; everything is way faster and snappier than it was on 6.5
But then I got to thinking, if 6.1 is so much better than 6.5, what else could I downgrade to make my life better. XP was pretty sweet. But I could run SkiFree and AfterDark in Windows 3.1. And messing with autoexe.bat and config.sys in DOS was almost as much fun as constantly flashing new roms on WinMo.
Maybe if I revert to punch cards my life will finally be complete.
Man I'm so backwards...
well, there is multiple dosbox (dos emulator) to winmo, although the last one i tried was on wm2003
Very true! I forgot about that.
Maybe I can use dosbox to run Windows 3.1 on my phone. Sounds pretty glorious.
MooGoo said:
Very true! I forgot about that.
Maybe I can use dosbox to run Windows 3.1 on my phone. Sounds pretty glorious.
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I've done that before, and it's actually pretty cool. If the cursor-touchscreen calibration problems were fixed, and you could run most programs, I would honestly prefer Windows 3.x to WM. If you have a WVGA device, you can use this package to run virtualized Windows 3.x.
...........and I like vanilla pudding, vanilla ice cream, unflavored gelatin, my favorite color is white, I drive a Yugo, I have three children named Moo 1, Moo 2 and Moo 3..............................
Awesome! I'm just coding a dialer and SMS application in GW Basic right now! so you still got a fully functional phone!
MooGoo said:
After going through a bunch of 6.5 ROMS I found one that was based off of 6.1 and holy crap, it is sooo much better.
Now I have a useful Start Menu which does not take up the whole screen, gives me a handy list of recently used apps, and while in the Programs folder, a nice neat arrangement of icons that does not look like it just went through a hurricane.
Then I have simple and beautiful "non-finger-friendly" menus with no wasted space dedicated to curves, drop shadows, superfluous spacing, or obnoxious up/down arrows.
And there's more! A notification system that isn't dog slow, and allows me to get to where I want to go by simply tapping the appropriate icon on the taskbar.
Dialog tabs that do not look like they were skinned by someone who just picked up a new copy of Photoshop for Dummies.
And of course the icing on this already delicious downgrade cake; everything is way faster and snappier than it was on 6.5
But then I got to thinking, if 6.1 is so much better than 6.5, what else could I downgrade to make my life better. XP was pretty sweet. But I could run SkiFree and AfterDark in Windows 3.1. And messing with autoexe.bat and config.sys in DOS was almost as much fun as constantly flashing new roms on WinMo.
Maybe if I revert to punch cards my life will finally be complete.
Man I'm so backwards...
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read my dedicated article - it answers all your questions: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=308406
latest update to dosbox: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=511406
DaveTheTytnIIGuy said:
I've done that before, and it's actually pretty cool. If the cursor-touchscreen calibration problems were fixed, and you could run most programs, I would honestly prefer Windows 3.x to WM. If you have a WVGA device, you can use this package to run virtualized Windows 3.x.
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Sweet. Considering everyone seems to complain that WinMo's GUI is stuck in some kind of "Windows 3.1 hell", running the real thing should fit in just fine.
Though I don't think getting tcp/ip working on Win3 is a trivial task, much less a modern web browser.
Still, the idea of having Program Manager as your home screen shell, and Flying Toasters as your lock screen...pretty tempting.
Menneisyys said:
read my dedicated article - it answers all your questions: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=308406
latest update to dosbox: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=511406
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Excellent. And I thought I was just a rambling lunatic.
So I made my Homescreen too look like WP7 but I was wondering is there a way to have animated gif widgets?
Have a look at http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/appwidgets/index.html if you have no experience making widgets. It's possible to make one that's animated by breaking the gif apart and making the widget one big ImageView that's constantly being updated with the new frames, but it might have adverse effects on your battery. I don't think it'll animate on it's own if you simply supply a gif as the drawable for the imageview.
aww man I think making widgets is way beyond my scope I would definitely try it maybe I just got into the whole rooting and flashing roms like a week ago =P but thank you for the reply
No problem, dude. Check out a book called 'Professional Android 2 Application Development' by Rito Meier if you want to take a crack at developing android apps. It's a pretty good book and goes over most of the "fun" stuff (includes widgets, live wallpapers), as well as the basics. You should probably read some Java tutorials beforehand if you've never done any sort of programming, since the book kind of assumes you know that. Good luck!
So i just cracked my cs5 back open and started studying up on theming, I'm looking to get into doing full android design but figure let's start small..
Anyhow, any devs looking for designs for logos, signatures, boot animations, graphic elements for UI, etc. shoot me a PM, and any users with ideas, requests, etc, feel free to request on this thread, though I am looking to try and fall in with the devs, i will be open to suggestions if they become common requests, especially boot animations, i am looking to put something out there for people to use instead of bland Asus logos, they get so boring.
Requests are on first come first serve basis, and all work will be voluntary unless otherwise agreed upon.
Thanks!
anything similiar to this...but with a black background http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMgbpL1MiIM&feature=related
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anything similiar to this...but with a black background http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMgbpL1MiIM&feature=related
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If I had the original I could modify the images, right now I'm not using any 3d rendering software so I can't make that kind of animation from scratch without downloading a few more applications..i guess I'll get on top of that, but until then I can really only produce 2d animations with proficiency.
Thanks for the link though!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1250730
link to xda thread with the boot animation
cool, I'll look into it- trying to get CS5 running on ubuntu on mt TF now, that would be perfect lol
Just an idea for some of the more creative people out there, I know this wont get a lot of people interested but its an easy enough project (i think) as most of the work is already done.
http://www.effectgames.com/effect/
used to do alot of cool stuff with retro styled games and ideas, but have since decided to close up and open source it all.
https://github.com/jhuckaby/Effect-Games
My idea was something like a live wallpaper using the canvas cycle demo. i.e.
http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/
Could be as simple as choosing a specific scene, or even something more clever like choose a base scene and it changes depending the time of day and the weather.
Im an engineer and programming in java isn't exactly my forte, just giving an idea out to the awesome creative minds here on xda.
Thanks.