Yes I'm a Droid Noob, so please forgive my ignorance. But there is no way to install/use themes on a stock phone. I thought this was an open source UI?
yep, it is an open source UI, you are more than welcome to add Launcherpro, or adwlauncher or other apps to change your android experience. However, changing UI colors and fonts requires access to the framework of the software. HTC cant just let developers have access to the framework, that would create a security hole in the software...so by rooting your phone, you are trusting the developers here with the tricks and nacks they've developed in roms and themes.
OnceAMatrixMan said:
Yes I'm a Droid Noob, so please forgive my ignorance. But there is no way to install/use themes on a stock phone. I thought this was an open source UI?
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Technically, this is not an open source UI. Android which is the base operating system is open source, but the entire Sense UI is closed source (i.e. proprietary).
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Hi Forum Members,
I am trying to access the clock application that comes on the Samsung captivate. I noticed that its different than the stock clock application in the Android 2.1 source. The widget used to to type in numbers looks like its custom and not the phone widget used in the stock application. I downloaded and extracted the source but I don't see any of the custom samsung app implementations?? I also tried opening the captivate source using eclipse but there is no project file. Could someone point me in the right direction in getting a project created in eclipse using samsung source and accessing the samsung application. I am new to development on the captivate. Thanks.
The Samsung apps have not been open sourced. The things they've made open are the kernel (only the parts they had to, so even some custom stuff is not present) and the mods to the stock eclair tree that are required to build stock eclair. Look at the readme files for instructions on how to build that - there is no Eclipse project because there are no apps in the source and the method for building the kernel and stock eclair is all command line make based.
If you want to build a clock app, this isn't the level you should be working at. If you want to modify the Samsung clock itself, then you're out of luck because that is not open-sourced.
Thanks for the reply - you're right after doing some digging (and finding the README.txt) I realized that I wasn't going to find what I was looking for. Now I am currently building a stock samsung eclair build....
thanks again.
Hello, I am requesting the open-source portion of the froyo launcher compiled into an 2.1-compatible apk, simply because some (like me) just want a stock android look and feel but like Froyo's Launcher better than eclair's launcher. Thank You!
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I don't know a whole lot about how android phones work so this is probably a stupid question.
If the android operation system code is open source and available for anyone to download what's stopping people from putting pure AOSP goodness on any given phone? Is it the kernel or bootloader or what?
Fe_Man said:
I don't know a whole lot about how android phones work so this is probably a stupid question.
If the android operation system code is open source and available for anyone to download what's stopping people from putting pure AOSP goodness on any given phone? Is it the kernel or bootloader or what?
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from my understanding it has to be completely recoded or whatever to run on the hardware of a new phone, I think Cyanogen and crew just supply the base and framework to build on... but yes its out there for anyone to try and port, typically takes a team of devs with different specialties
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Kernel, RIL, and potentially a number of other things.
Just like drivers has to be ported for Linux on any PC (if the company didn't already code one for it), drivers has to be ported to a pure AOSP ROM from a TouchWiz source (which is still Android-based).
Most company-applied UIs to Android are deep in the system, therefore, you can't just take some files and put it into an AOSP ROM and have it magically work (known as kanging from another ROM), but you have to write in some stuff and build it specially for AOSP before it works.
Hello everyone,
After developing some applications for Android I decided to get the source code for Android 4. I want to change my "Home" application. Actually I don't want to change it at all, but change it a little. I download the source code using repo from the branch Android4.0.3_r1 (I don't remember exactly). Under the folder "/packages/apps/" I get the "Launcher2" folder and import it at the Eclipse. Then a miracle confused happened! There are undeclared variables, undefined methods, etc! I cannot understand a thing!
I want a little help for:
- Making this source code run
OR
- Downloading the right source code.
Could you help me how to find and run the original source from Google?
no one has had (as far as i know) any success porting the ICS launcher to 2.X
you may want to look into a custom ROM, or a themed launcher.
mtmerrick said:
no one has had (as far as i know) any success porting the ICS launcher to 2.X
you may want to look into a custom ROM, or a themed launcher.
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Hi again,
Actually I am not trying to port an ICS application to Android 2. Launcher2 is the name of the application for Android 4. Launcher2 works as "Home" application, as I understand.
The problem is that from the source code provided by Google there are errors. Undefined methods, etc. Is there any way to compile and build the Launcher2 application and disappear these errors? And, if there is no way to do it do you know any similar open-source application?
Dear Sir,
Lets say I want to start a company which sells android phones. For which I need to choose a chipset and then integrate the necessary hardware which suits the chipset. I also understand that some of the following software needs to be developed for the device and some the software is already available. I want to assemble a device on my own and build a custom ROM based on android. I want to know what is provided by the hardware manufacturer's and how can I assemble them to create my own rom. How do I edit the software provided by the hardware manufacturer to fine tune the device according to my needs.
vijay.canvas2plus said:
Dear Sir,
Lets say I want to start a company which sells android phones. For which I need to choose a chipset and then integrate the necessary hardware which suits the chipset. I also understand that some of the following software needs to be developed for the device and some the software is already available. I want to assemble a device on my own and build a custom ROM based on android. I want to know what is provided by the hardware manufacturer's and how can I assemble them to create my own rom. How do I edit the software provided by the hardware manufacturer to fine tune the device according to my needs.
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First,
download the AOSP source.
Then, create a device tree.
After that, make your vendor, with blobs and drivers.
Then compile.
I could go really in depth here but this says it all perfectly: http://source.android.com/devices/index.html
I want to learn android
Sir, I want to learn.
Will you be able to teach me.
I can setup the environment and download the source from Google.
I would like learn what are hardware specific things needed and where to put them and what changes have to be made.
I would also like to know how we can change Icons, replace default apps and root level integration of apps like launcher & keyboard.
How to compile, debug and create image files like the stock rom.
Sir can you please share your knowledge and help me learn android.
vijay.canvas2plus said:
Sir, I want to learn.
Will you be able to teach me.
I can setup the environment and download the source from Google.
I would like learn what are hardware specific things needed and where to put them and what changes have to be made.
I would also like to know how we can change Icons, replace default apps and root level integration of apps like launcher & keyboard.
How to compile, debug and create image files like the stock rom.
Sir can you please share your knowledge and help me learn android.
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I would but I have almost no time :s just pm me if you have questions.
It would be very difficult...
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