This is a custom Metamorph I created to change the look of Launcher2. I'm snowed in today so thought I'd share what I had done with my Nexus.
It is a little bloated right now as it has the full drawable folder in it, instead of the just the files to replace. Tested my zip of just the replacement files before posting and for some reason, MM would just stay at the "please wait: applying" screen, but when applying the full WIP zip, everything's good.
What I Morph'd: Apps button (normal & pressed), home arrows, homescreen application highlights/pressed, trashcan (color change only)
Let me know what you think, hope you like it!
where did you get your status bar from?
its called GSII-transparent-status, found it googling for a transparent bar
Been browsing around here and following the skyraider and all of ID's threads and there was something I felt was missing from both the sense and vanilla roms. I spent a bunch of time on the regular android theming threads, and this is what I have created so far.
It's in no way a fully polished, and easily flashed or MM'd theme (i don't like the idea of using MM)
See the pictures below for what I've gotten to.
What it consists of:
LauncherPro Plus
Apps Organizer
SwitchPro
TAJM
BattStatt
Pure Calendar
Desktop Visualizer
MinimalText icons
LauncherPro icons (from their website)
Zegoe Font
Sweet Chicago skyline background
I used LauncherPro to get a more customizable screen layout and remove the notification bar. I also love that it lets me change the icons for the dock (and the swipe gestures are nice)
Apps Organizer condenses a lot of my used apps, and Apps Organizer lets you pick custom icons as well
I used to use extended controls and SMODA widget but i didnt like SMODA's colors, so i switched to SwitchPro because of its working 3g on/off (a must since I need my battery to last a full day while I'm on campus). You cant clearly make the buttons out on the bottom, but they are nearly invisible until i touch them and they become white. Might not be everyone's liking but I dont need to see them.
Pure Calendar was used since I rely on my calendar and gtasks, and it was transparent which is what I really wanted.
Here's where I could use some help
I would like to be able to change all app icons to grayscale without using MM. I realize this might mean replacing files within apks for programs which wont be entirely possible
I wish the text size for TAJM was customizable, its too small and I would like BattStatt and TAJM to better use the home screen real estate
Package this into something more people can use/ customize without having to download all of the apps seperately or even use the apps (flashable?)
Still need a new lock screen. I liked the rotary one but I dont think that will look as nice since it uses a gray transparent bg. If it could be fully transparent, just leaving the two buttons, and the music controls either be light gray for off and white for on, that would be awesome.
I'm open to ideas and criticisms, just spent a few hours this weekend trying to gather all I needed but if someone knows a better way I'd love to know.
If there is any interest in this, I could package up the icons and fonts (sorry can't do the apks since most are paid apps). Just need to collect the info for the creators so credit can be given.
Okay, while there are plenty of custom Rosie threads out there, posting every single Rosie with and/or without a certain layout, it just makes sense, IMHO, to push out a MetaMorph that will change ANY rosie, regardless of maker, to support 4x5 layout and/or 5 icon wide app drawer.
I have resisted looking into this in the past, as it is not something I prefer, but the requests kept coming in, in order to apply to the rosie's I've modded, so I figured I'd take the time to look at it. It is such a simple change, in terms of the Rosie side of things, that I ended up posting the MM in my Rosie Remap thread.
So, as to make it available to anyone interested, I figure I'd break it out into a separate thread as well.
So, if you want to apply these easily, just download MetaMorph from the market (free), drop the attached zip file(s) in your /sdcard/AndroidThemes folder, open MetaMorph, select to apply. As mentioned, it's a simple / single XML file to replace in order to apply each change
Now, after applying, since you are modifying a running Rosie, your phone may freeze, and require either a reboot via adb, or a battery pull.
This only affects Rosie, so you will have to find a flash elsewhere for modifying your widgets to accommodate the new 4x5 layout, as stock widgets will become messed up as a result of this change. I know aamikam has spent a lot of time working on widget modding, so I'm sure you can find an applicable zip in one of his threads.
Update 1/29/11: Since all of the zips that I've found also contain a custom Rosie, I went ahead and pulled out the widgets only, so as to provide a flashable zip that, after applying the MetaMorph(s) provided, will then install modified widgets to support your new workspace dimensions. I take NO credit for the work done to these widgets. It is 100% aamikam's work, I am simply providing the widgets only portion of his work, as mentioned above.
4x5 custom widgets <--- Flash via recovery
Also, any current widgets will likely need to be re-added after applying MetaMorph, since modifying Rosie live usually causes widgets to get deleted. It may be a moot point since you need to apply new modified widgets anyway, if you haven't already.
To reiterate: The attached (with the exception of the widgets file above) are NOT flashable zips. They are MetaMorph files to be applied using the free MetaMorph application in the market
Note: It should be mentioned that I do not take credit for the "idea" of this, as it is not something I came up with from an "idea" perspective. However, finding and modding the correct items was done in-house
EDIT: Undo MetaMorphs have been added to the attachments list, containing "stock" in the applicable name.
Nice, I have been wanting the 5 column app drawer with fresh for some time now, and generally my only options were the 4x5 workspace posted in another thread. This worked perfectly.
Can you post a MM file so that we can revert to 4x4 wide just in case?
Ph33zy said:
Can you post a MM file so that we can revert to 4x4 wide just in case?
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I second that request though if anything, we can just reflash the rom we're using... but thanks for this!!
MetaMorphs have been added to the OP to return to stock for either option.
FYI, the OP has been updated to also include a standalone zip file for the widgets. All the zips files I've found also included a custom Rosie, which defeats the purpose of this MetaMorph, so I grabbed the downloads I found and extracted the widgets only into a separate standalone flashable zip file. As mentioned in the OP, all credit to aamikam for the modified widgets. I did 0 work other than to make a standalone zip for everyone's convenience using the MetaMorphs provided.
Work with Mik 4.5
JS will this 5 drawer app work with MikFroyo 4.5 ROM. I have applied the 4X5 widget mod found in this thread by Chingy, is yours the same or do I need to flash this one instead and then do the metamorph zips?
TIA
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JS will this 5 drawer app work with MikFroyo 4.5 ROM. I have applied the 4X5 widget mod found in this thread by Chingy, is yours the same or do I need to flash this one instead and then do the metamorph zips?
TIA
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This was designed with the intent to work with any rom, given it is a MetaMorph, w/o interfering with any other settings / customizations you already have.
JsChiSurf said:
This was designed with the intent to work with any rom, given it is a MetaMorph, w/o interfering with any other settings / customizations you already have.
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Awesome thanks man. I just went on ahead and gave it a shot. So far so good, waiting for last reboot after morphing the 5 app drawer.
Nice work.
EDIT: Well the I just used the existing 4X5 layout I had instead of flashing the one you have in this thread and it didn't seem to work, at least it didn't make my Rosie have the 5 app drawer. I will restore and then flash your 4X5 widget and then the morph files.
JsChiSurf said:
This was designed with the intent to work with any rom, given it is a MetaMorph, w/o interfering with any other settings / customizations you already have.
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Ok well I'm a DA. I was thinking that this gave me 5 apps along my launcher at the bottom, so I could link to more than just phone, all apps, and whatever else I choose. DUH! I now see what it does.
Sorry to waste your time.
This is great! I cant tell you how many devs I've talked to about creating 4x5 sense layout version of their roms. This is just awesome! Great work! I love metamorph! Thank you
Jeff
Mr. Surf -- (or anyone else) --
The HtcClockWidget.apk, included in the bundle of appropriately sized widgets you posted in this thread, is a flip clock. Eeewww.
Do you know where I might find an appropriately sized non-flip clock?
Extensive searching in amongst the clock widget threads hasn't yielded much for the 4 x 5 layout.
moseso said:
Mr. Surf -- (or anyone else) --
The HtcClockWidget.apk, included in the bundle of appropriately sized widgets you posted in this thread, is a flip clock. Eeewww.
Do you know where I might find an appropriately sized non-flip clock?
Extensive searching in amongst the clock widget threads hasn't yielded much for the 4 x 5 layout.
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After you install the modified / animated flip clock, you can pull the apk, and replace the classes.dex in your current HtcClockWidget.apk with the classes.dex file I provided in this thread (classes.dex.4x5.zip), which will disable the animation (making it a standard clock widget).
So, JS. I'm using the HtcClockWidget that you provided with your Vanilla Locks mod that will open the AOSP Desk Clock for the alarms when you tap the time. How would I go about getting that to work in the modified 4x5 HtcClockWidget?
Edit: Nevermind! Found what I needed in another thread. Saw that you had done this already for the HtcClockWidget. Awesome.
would this also work on the desire...?or ist it only for evo???
Widget resize
I applied both the 4x5 and 5-wide. Both work great thanks.
The only widget that isn't displaying correctly for me is the HTC flip clock with the weather on it.
If I apply the 4x5 widgets and decide I don't like it is there a way back? Is the 4x5 widgets adding to my existing or replacing?
I loaded the 4x5 and widgets on SR 4.0 and all was well. I made a backup, then fooled around with a few more things and needed to Nandroid back to my good version (4.0 with 4x5 and widgets) Now my homescreen Clock/ weather wont show up, nor will my People widget (with favorites I use for work) and neither are available in add widgets. I still see the .apk in /system/ app but cant get it to do anything. What can I do now?
Hi All,
I have done a ton of searching the last few days and still have not come up with a specific answer. I am looking to link my lock screen font to a new font, and not just change or replace the font.
I am running a Moto DroidX with 2.3.3 (605) and using Go Launcher EX... just incase any of it matters.
My clock is not pulling from Clockopia.ttf, instead its pulling from the same font the rest of the system is (such as notifiers and such), and that is DroidSans-Bold. To test and make sure I was correct, I replaced the DroidSans with some wacky font, and it turned every peiece of system based font into the wacky one, clock and notifications included.
Because of this I am unable to easily change just the clock font. I wanted to replace the clock font with an invisible one so I could have a simple and easy way for my lock screen to look directly at my home screen with no clutter. I have read a few apps let you replace the lock screen, but don't really want to run anything new as a constant process just to hide a font. I'm also satisfied with the basic structure and functionality of the default lock screen minus the time and verizon banner. Does anyone know the specific config file and location where I can specify which font the lock screen pulls from?
Are there any apps, free or paid, that will help me accomplish this exact task? What I most liked about the invisible font was that it's easily reversible and all I had to do was backup the original font file. I've already bought several good utilities and am not affraid to pay for one more as long as it does what I want in a simple and reversible way... and Ideally will not run anything full time backround services.
Thanks.
Booo! No takers with some info on this one?
Hi there,
So recently I got Nexus 5 after 4 years of HTC Desire. Quite a huge leap performace wise I might add, and this phone is absolutely a sweetheart. The first thing I did was rooting the phone :laugh:
Anyways, I am thinking to change the color of all icons (including icons of applications) to black and white. I get it that I would need to extract the icons first, and then change the color using some icon or icon editing program or simply a photo editing program etc.
Now what I would need to know is that how can I repack the icons back to the application? or would I need to place it in some directory and fiddle with some xml file?
Cheers!
oombongo said:
Hi there,
So recently I got Nexus 5 after 4 years of HTC Desire. Quite a huge leap performace wise I might add, and this phone is absolutely a sweetheart. The first thing I did was rooting the phone :laugh:
Anyways, I am thinking to change the color of all icons (including icons of applications) to black and white. I get it that I would need to extract the icons first, and then change the color using some icon or icon editing program or simply a photo editing program etc.
Now what I would need to know is that how can I repack the icons back to the application? or would I need to place it in some directory and fiddle with some xml file?
Cheers!
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Why don't you just use a Launcher that allow you to use custom icons? with Nova and Apex you can do it
oombongo said:
Now what I would need to know is that how can I repack the icons back to the application? or would I need to place it in some directory and fiddle with some xml file?
Cheers!
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Icons are icons. The colour of icons does not need xml files. Its all controlled by images.
You can actually repack quit easily, but also takes a lot of effort. You need to look at the villain rom theme engine. It is a flashable zip that unpacks each apk and replaces whatever you have in the zip in the apk. Essentially you would have /system/app_name/res/icon.png (pretending that this is the location of the icon in the apk, each will be different I expect)... but you have to do this for every app.