I'm wondering if you can change the theme of WP7 to the theme of like Android OS or iOS. Was looking around Youtube and found that if OS like Android can change their theme to WP7, why can't WP7 do the same too ?
From what I understand the homescreen is locked down, so this isn't possible. I remember seeing some gimick app that could fool others into thinking your WP7 device is an android but it didn't replace the homescreen.
Easiest solution is to buy a cheap android device.
blindpet is correct.
It just isn't possible to change the homescreen theme like that. It's all do with image branding on Microsoft's part (to make all devices recognisable) and also quality control (they know that the phone will behave itself in the current configuration but it may react differently if others, i.e. OEMs or users, start skinning it).
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Apologies if this already been brought up before
Is there an app similar to battlinesvc
http://www.xda-developers.com/forum/showthread.php?p=5756511
Available for android that shows a battery bar a few pixels wide across the top of the screen. Its probably the only thing i miss from wm.
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Rob
I used to use this on WM as well, and I loved it! However, I don't think the android system is going to allow it, unless you go to a third part launcher that has it built in. LauncherPro feature idea?
Right now what android lacks is consistency is not so hard to fiz i dont know what's taken google so long , i think they should:
1.Force developers to build widgets that MATCH android's color scheme , the facebook/twitter widgets for example look HORRIBLE , winamp's widget doesnt look so bad but it would be nice if it'd match the black on the notification bar
2.Stick with ONE way to copy/paste and text edition , why the hell would they make one way in sms, another in the browser and another one on the gmail app?
3.Force manufacturers to stop using skins ala windows phone 7 , let them add widgets, music apps, twitter/facebook apps but stick with the stock ui, notification bar, and icons , gingerbread made android decent looking so there's no excuse
I know android is supossed to be open but samsung and motorola should be arrested for the hideous skins , my god touchwiz is atrocious
Yes, lets lock it down. Then you can have windows phone 7's ugly sister -_-
The more i think about it the more annoyed i am about the fragmentation issue with Android. I agree with the OP that there needs to be more consistency across the platform.
Hello.
I read about custom widgets, themes, layouts etc. for SPB 3.0.1 and I think it's not too hard to actually make them. I'd very much love to make personal themes, rather than using somebody else's, no matter how eye candy those are. I think you feel me.
Please can anyone spare a minute to direct me to what I need to get started? The problem is I have a Nokia 5230, so it's symbian and I'm aware that the forum is about Windows but I noticed that people know precisely what they're doing and I hope the OS doesn't matter if it's about SPB.
What exactly I want to do is make custom widgets like clock, battery, carrier etc. (more like changing their icons -- shapes, colors -- rather than their functionality/code) I would then collect them into a theme.
Now I saw you had to edit the registry, qa_layouts.dat and some xml files. But as when I say "registry" I say "Windows", I'm starting to loose my hope, plus I don't know a dim about where to start researching.
I read jgjackson's How to add a custom widget but I don't know where to get the dat and what to do with it in the first place.
It all came to me from the fact that I didn't like the default blue SPB theme and my aesthetic demon keeps yelling into my ears: "black and white", "black and white", "greys at least", "transparent widgets", - shut up!! - "B&W" lol
If android is open source and able to be modified, can it be made to look any way I want it? All android roms look basically the same. Except for colors and themes, they all have the same basic properties. The same look phone to phone. I want something that looks completely different. I don't mean themes or something like that, I mean something that is completely different. I'm sorry (personal opinions seem to offend around here) but I am tired of the same basic look rom to rom. Anybody know anything? Thanks.
You can make your own launcher which will allow your home screen to look different than the rest but involves a lot of programming.
Also http://mycolorscreen.com has a bunch of people posting up their homescreens and what apps they used to achieve that.
Hello. I just wanted to discuss a little bit about the animations in the android operating system, or rather lack there of. I'm not a developer or coder, so maybe someone in the community can enlighten me a little bit on this topic and maybe perhaps let the rest of us know the direction and future of things to come. maybe there are projects that are currently being worked on that most of us don't know about or haven't heard of yet.
What i was wondering was how come there is so little animation going on in the Android UI itself. I've seen Launchers or shells such as Next Launcher or TSF Laucher which have beautiful animations and transistions, but how come some of these elements haven't been carried over to the android OS itself? One of the major things i've been wanting to see (something that i don't even think 3rd party launchers can do yet) is animated icons. Why is it that on older generation phones (if you recall old nokia monochrome phones and old motorola razor type phones) the little icons used to animate when you used to scroll over them, but on these newer generation phones with quadcore and even octocore processors we still do not have animated icons??? Or how about animated widgets. I have done many extensive searches to find animated widgets, and at best you get like 2 results. Why aren't there more animated widgets such as cool clock widgets that animate?
Thanks for reading my post. I just wanted to open a discussion on this and see if anyone else has any views or input on this.