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Just came across this new launcher in the market, it is a free app. Definitely worth trying out, was using helix before this one and don't get me wrong I still love helix, but I have to say scrolling from screen to screen and up and down app drawer just have no lag at all, definitely worth trying out launcherpro beta made by Federico Carnales
I see no diffence really
I like this more than helix launcher
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just tried it graphically I like it better but no landscape kind of kills it
I just switched to this and I like it alot. Only thing is I wish I could have it open up handcent instead of the stock htc sms app. At least the new version of the htc sms sizes down photos for mms now so I can deal with it for now.
adamboyd83 said:
I just switched to this and I like it alot. Only thing is I wish I could have it open up handcent instead of the stock htc sms app. At least the new version of the htc sms sizes down photos for mms now so I can deal with it for now.
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mine opened handcent..? first time i clicked the messaging icon on the quick launch (bottom row) it asked me which application i want it to open by default
jeremysterling said:
first time i clicked the messaging icon on the quick launch (bottom row) it asked me which application i want it to open by default
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That's what it did for me as well.
jeremysterling said:
mine opened handcent..? first time i clicked the messaging icon on the quick launch (bottom row) it asked me which application i want it to open by default
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What the hell? I go no option window
Wow. I wasn't going to try this cause I was happy with sense. But this thing kicks the crap out of every launcher out there (except sense, I just love me some sense). Nice find, OP.
EDIT: I just noticed something sick! It actually does the helicopter view with multitouch as well as the home key! This will be an awesome home replacement once they add more options like rearranging the bottom row of icons
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Wow. I wasn't going to try this cause I was happy with sense. But this thing kicks the crap out of every launcher out there (except sense, I just love me some sense). Nice find, OP.
EDIT: I just noticed something sick! It actually does the helicopter view with multitouch as well as the home key! This will be an awesome home replacement once they add more options like rearranging the bottom row of icons
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I agree with the pure speed of this thing once they add changing bottom icons and maybe screen indicator it would be on top of every launcher in my book.
Adding pages.
One thing to keep in mind if you add more pages. It loads default with 3 pages, 2 being the "main" widget page. If you add more pages like 5 or 7, page 2 is still the main widget page, it doesn't add pages equally on both ends, just on the right side, so your having to rearrange stuff.
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One thing to keep in mind if you add more pages. It loads default with 3 pages, 2 being the "main" widget page. If you add more pages like 5 or 7, page 2 is still the main widget page, it doesn't add pages equally on both ends, just on the right side, so your having to rearrange stuff.
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Can't you just change the default page, so if you switch from 3 to 5, you can switch the default page from 2 to 3? That's one of the options in the Preferences page.
Yes you can. But you will have swip to the right 5 times to get to the last page.
FireHawkMadLibs said:
Can't you just change the default page, so if you switch from 3 to 5, you can switch the default page from 2 to 3? That's one of the options in the Preferences page.
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just tried it graphically I like it better but no landscape kind of kills it
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New version released today. It has landscape.
I am with the group of people that were not given the option to use handcent as default. I even cleared all defaults and tried again. Oh well, it is pretty nice and I'm sure will continue to be developed.
ccapasso said:
New version released today. It has landscape.
I am with the group of people that were not given the option to use handcent as default. I even cleared all defaults and tried again. Oh well, it is pretty nice and I'm sure will continue to be developed.
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When I was using the stock HTC Messaging app, it made me use that as the default. However, when I pushed the the AOSP Mms.apk (which just seems like the right thing to do to me... it works so much better) it asked me what program I would prefer to use. So, here's my suggestion:
rm the current Mms.apk, and then push whichever you prefer and see if it works.
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just tried it graphically I like it better but no landscape kind of kills it
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New: Option to auto-rotate the launcher to landscape mode when the device is rotated.
My new favorite launcher. Fastest I've used by a large margin, not a single FC so far.
Needs two things to be perfect, to me:
1. shortcut customization
2. transition customization (ie, don't zoom in the app drawer, just redraw the screen...no transition needed)
If any of you haven't tried this one, give it a shot, the difference in speed and responsiveness gives me hope that other lag issues can be solved purely in software.
Still suing this even though it still wont open up Handcent instead of the stock app. I like that he added the home button within the app drawer. I'm sure the customization of the bottom apps is coming. looking at the site a lot of the comments are asking for it.
This is a pretty good home replacement. I always kinda missed the pinch zoom on home screen with launcher2, now i get the best of both
Very clean and smooth, but wont use until shortcuts can be changed. Just what they open (messaging for me) not necessarily the apps themselves.
I found this on the AppBrain:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.h9kdroid.multicon
MultIcon it's called.
Very cool concept where you can place four icons in the space of one widget. Each is completely functional. pretty much to me meant a cleaner interface and 4x as many icons/widgets to place in 1/4 the space.
Just figured I'd put it out there for anyone else who might be interested.
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I found this on the AppBrain:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.h9kdroid.multicon
MultIcon it's called.
Very cool concept where you can place four icons in the space of one widget. Each is completely functional. pretty much to me meant a cleaner interface and 4x as many icons/widgets to place in 1/4 the space.
Just figured I'd put it out there for anyone else who might be interested.
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yep been using it a few days pretty cool..i only use 1 ( 4 mini icons in 1) I dont wanna have millions of icons bunched up either lol..but 1 multi widget helped give me those extra couple of apps i needed on my screen
been using it for a couple of days also, been working great. I wish it would support widgets, but i am not going to complain. I recommend it
rampage537 said:
been using it for a couple of days also, been working great. I wish it would support widgets, but i am not going to complain. I recommend it
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Whatcha' talkin' about willis? it supports widgets, three of the 8 in the left hand-side multicon I use are widgets.
You try to assign any?
i have almost all my apps in multicon form lol
Nice, I'll have to try this out.
nice, thanks for the tip.
There is no icon for 4G or GPS. I hope they fix this soon.
I've used this before, sometimes I ask this myself if it would be using just a teensy bit of the battery because its a widget? Sorry if it sounds like a noob question, but that's something I want to know.
More Icons Widget has been out for a very long time and does the same thing, its a great little app. Haven't tried this one out though. Hopefully its as good.
Great app. Been using it since it came out and did 4 icons only. Now you can do 3x4 (12 icons) in a 1x1 space. Only thing I would like added is a way to save your configuration. Pain to setup all my icons again after a wipe and new rom.
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Great app. Been using it since it came out and did 4 icons only. Now you can do 3x4 (12 icons) in a 1x1 space. Only thing I would like added is a way to save your configuration. Pain to setup all my icons again after a wipe and new rom.
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If you use TI Backup to backup your programs including MultiICon, it will restore fine on any new ROM. I just did it.
I've been pairing this one with QuickDesk.
Now I double tap the Home button, a drawer slides out, and every txt and voice number I call on a regular basis are all in one spot. Something like 25+ icons all in one place, without cluttering my home screens. Saves a ton of time instead of digging through the phone book over and over.
Yep, it's a fantastic app, keep spreading the word!
Similar app!
I had an app widget that would go across the hole screen and it would fit a lot of apps but i forget what it was called. Maybe it's this app in fact.. not sure until i try this out
bboy_201 said:
I had an app widget that would go across the hole screen and it would fit a lot of apps but i forget what it was called. Maybe it's this app in fact.. not sure until i try this out
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Was it Launch-X? With Launch-X, you can squeeze 2 rows of icons @ 7 icons per row where normally you have 4 icons wide. You can backup all your different rows too.
Launch-X Pro - free version available too
I use a combination of Launch-X Pro and MultIcon.
looks similar and better maybe the one i use to have was an older version thank you for the info im downloading it now!
Has anyone stumbled across a similar app that does the same thing only horizontally? This works great for my home screen (1 HTC flip clock + 12 icons) but would like to be able to do 5 across on other screens. The 4x(any number) is generally either too big, too small, or oddly spaced...
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If you use TI Backup to backup your programs including MultiICon, it will restore fine on any new ROM. I just did it.
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Can you elaborate? Whenever I restore from Titanium, my homescreen shows dead icons in place of all my multicons & I have to delete these placeholders & create new multicon widgets. When I create a new MI widget, it randomly restores some of my previously configured widgets but never all of them. Sometimes it will restore a very old widget that I haven't used in some time. Either way, I have no control over it & always have to reconfigure some from scratch.
Been using this forever man, I love it! I usually use 3 rows by 2 columns. I like ease and accesibility, and this widget app puts so much more at my fingertips.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who hates the iphoney icons...I tried a couple things, but even using bettercut, the launcher still boxes in the icons, which is a pain for apps with long titles.
I'm in bed now(wife's orders), so I'm going to look in the morning, but has anyone else tried looking?
I posted a MOD in this forum that is the stock Android 2.2 Launcher. It works great in my opinion.
ADW Launcher , on another note, I think the bubble around the icons are built into the code for the app. I don't know how HTC did it so it's very likely that I'm wrong.
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I posted a MOD in this forum that is the stock Android 2.2 Launcher. It works great in my opinion.
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luncher 2? and we should be able to get that to stick now
i just want the bubbles around the icons gone, everything else im fine with. Is there any way to access the myfavs thing? I probably would just switch to launcher pro if i could do that
Either ADW or LP will let you set the buttons to the left and right of the app drawer button to whatever you want. Just set one of them to the "Faves" app and the other to "Phone" and you'll have the same functionality again.
I personally don't mind the boxes around the icons as much but I hate the espresso rectangular launcher, it's so plain and ugly. I want the traditional launcher and no myfaves crap.
I dont mind the icons, but I had that the lower right key is for Favs. I dont use Favs. If I could change that I would be golden. I use and love all the Sense widgets so I dont want an alternative launcher.
I have to get a few things done for work, but as soon as I finish I'm going to pull the launcher (rosie.apk?) and poke around. It's not just a graphic file because it cuts off text if it's too long. This is probably going to take a while, but I'm sure it'll be worth it in the end.
I paid for launcher pro because I used it on my nexus and g2, but the htc widgets are very well made, and I'd like to use them. It's just painful looking at these icons.
PolishDude said:
i just want the bubbles around the icons gone, everything else im fine with. Is there any way to access the myfavs thing? I probably would just switch to launcher pro if i could do that
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I'd be able to make a metamorph in about a minute to change that for you. All you need to do is substitute a transparent PNG for that icon background.
floepie said:
I'd be able to make a metamorph in about a minute to change that for you. All you need to do is substitute a transparent PNG for that icon background.
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Yes and no, in the stock launcher, icon text wraps to the next line. In rosie, this is not true. It just gets cut off. You can make the png transparent, but there's a very good chance it's going to get cut off still. I found some xml files in rosie.apk but didn't have enough time to look at them. I'll explore a little more once my kids go to bed.
athakur999 said:
Either ADW or LP will let you set the buttons to the left and right of the app drawer button to whatever you want. Just set one of them to the "Faves" app and the other to "Phone" and you'll have the same functionality again.
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I love ADW on my G1, but after putting it on the MT4G, I've noticed that it doesn't run all the widgets... is that because they are sense widgets?
cal3thousand said:
I love ADW on my G1, but after putting it on the MT4G, I've noticed that it doesn't run all the widgets... is that because they are sense widgets?
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That's correct. HTC widgets require the htc framework.
Is there a way to change what the myfavs button to the right does?
timbo1083 said:
Is there a way to change what the myfavs button to the right does?
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Most likely, yes. Root was JUST achieved though, so it's going to be a little bit before this stuff starts happening. Next week will be a busy week in these forums for sure....
InGeNeTiCs said:
Most likely, yes. Root was JUST achieved though, so it's going to be a little bit before this stuff starts happening. Next week will be a busy week in these forums for sure....
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Check out the hero section they have a mod to change the far right button so maybe following that example something can be done to this!
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So I found some files of interest while rooting around this morning. In rosie.apk, there are 6 files of interest, the icon borders at rest, selected, and pressed, icon background at rest and selected, and the icon backgrounds at rest, selected, and pressed.
common_inputfield_press.9.png
common_inputfield_rest.9.png
common_inputfield_selected.9.png
common_panel_navbar_button_press.9.png
common_panel_navbar_button_rest.9.png
common_panel_navbar_button_selected.9.png
I made them transparent and used the sdk to change them back to .9 files, but for some reason I don't have r/w access to /system/app/. I'll have to look that up.
Hi !
I was looking for a way to add more pages to android home, I use the sense interface and it has some many widget that I think that it's a shame to use just 7 ..
Also I was looking to a way to change background to the all app menu ( I know that probably isn't possible but I really can't understand the thing of the black background...)
any help ?!
Try a different launcher - most of the third party replacement launchers let you configure the number of home screens, backgrounds, etc.
Just open up the Market and search for "launcher" - Launcher Pro, Go Launcher, Zeam Launcher and ADW Launcher are popular ones - have a play with them until you find one you like!
emh actually I forgot to mention that I would like to do this with htc sense....so I think that those app can't help me !
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emh actually I forgot to mention that I would like to do this with htc sense....so I think that those app can't help me !
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You might consider sending a pm to CookieMonster. He did things with HTC Sense on Windows Mobile that nobody including HTC could do.
He doesn't seem to be around much anymore but here is his thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=792303 Maybe someone from his team may have some thoughts.
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You might consider sending a pm to CookieMonster. He did things with HTC Sense on Windows Mobile that nobody including HTC could do.
He doesn't seem to be around much anymore but here is his thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=792303 Maybe someone from his team may have some thoughts.
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i know but I doubt that he would like to work on this considering that hasn't been active for a while. anyway I'll give it a try.
and yes manila was much more better in my opinion...android is to close and some of its properties are bad...it's not possible to have a menu app with forced black background...also the stories of only 7 pages is stupid...
No customization at all !!
I use adw launcher and its great. You can change the icons on the bottom row along with a main button. You can change the amount of icons that are horizonal and vertical. Change scrooling all kinds of cool stuff.
Here is the .apk. Not sure if any other files need to go with it as I havent installed it in awhile.
Numerous different ones. I actually might try something different.
https://market.android.com/develope...GwsbnVsbCxudWxsLDEsIm9yZy5hZHcubGF1bmNoZXIiXQ..
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I use adw launcher and its great. You can change the icons on the bottom row along with a main button. You can change the amount of icons that are horizonal and vertical. Change scrooling all kinds of cool stuff.
Here is the .apk. Not sure if any other files need to go with it as I havent installed it in awhile.
Numerous different ones. I actually might try something different.
https://market.android.com/develope...GwsbnVsbCxudWxsLDEsIm9yZy5hZHcubGF1bmNoZXIiXQ..
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does it work in combination with sense ?
sadly I'm still without solution
I'm no programmer so I don't have the first clue about how to do this but I had an idea.
My current launcher has 5 panels and I have to swipe side to side to get to each meaning sometimes I have to double swipe to get to where I want. Would it not be easier to swipe up, down, left, and right to go to the different panels?
It would be nice to keep the holo theme but just that one tweak.
You could call it a 4-way launcher. Simple yet functional.
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I'm no programmer so I don't have the first clue about how to do this but I had an idea.
My current launcher has 5 panels and I have to swipe side to side to get to each meaning sometimes I have to double swipe to get to where I want. Would it not be easier to swipe up, down, left, and right to go to the different panels?
It would be nice to keep the holo theme but just that one tweak.
You could call it a 4-way launcher. Simple yet functional.
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So basically you would swipe in four different directions to scroll to a different home screen instead of just left or right? I'm no programmer either, but that sounds very interesting! I'm sure there's a way we could just modify a holo themed launcher (stock from Nexus devices anybody?). I feel as if I've heard your idea before, but maybe my mind is just creating fake memories based on something I believe to be true. That is what the mind does, after all.
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So basically you would swipe in four different directions to scroll to a different home screen instead of just left or right? I'm no programmer either, but that sounds very interesting! I'm sure there's a way we could just modify a holo themed launcher (stock from Nexus devices anybody?). I feel as if I've heard your idea before, but maybe my mind is just creating fake memories based on something I believe to be true. That is what the mind does, after all.
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I'm pretty sure you can do that in Apex or Nova by assigning gestures that lead to respective screens...
I tested the idea. It is possible to do this in Apex. Good idea.
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I'm no programmer so I don't have the first clue about how to do this but I had an idea.
My current launcher has 5 panels and I have to swipe side to side to get to each meaning sometimes I have to double swipe to get to where I want. Would it not be easier to swipe up, down, left, and right to go to the different panels?
It would be nice to keep the holo theme but just that one tweak.
You could call it a 4-way launcher. Simple yet functional.
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Like this idea.