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[TRICK] Hidden App Launchers (Ninja Apps)

I might be late to the party but here we go anyway:
HTC Evo: Invisible App Launchers (Ninja Apps)
The Video Tutorial:
The Text / Image Tutorial:
What you will need:
- An HTC Evo (probably works on other phones, but I don't care about other phones)
- A Custom Launcher Program (Launcher Pro & ADW EX are what I have found this to work on)
- A Transparent Icon (You can download this one)
- A Wallpaper With App Images built into it (You can use this one)
The process:
Here we have our main screen...you guys are lucky I just switched to the cm7 RC1 and did a full wipe otherwise you might have had to wait for the apk release.
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Basics first, we need to switch to a wallpaper that has App images designed into it...the one I have is really nice but there are others out there. Look.
After that we will switch to the first screen we will be adding our hidden launchers too. On this screen you will long press to bring up the "Add To Home Screen" selector. Select the "Custom Shortcut" and then choose "Pick Your Activity." From the next screen you choose what kind of Activity you want, an Application, Music Playlist, etc...After making your selection. Choose ok and your launching icon will be added.
Repeat the above step until your icons cover the launching area of your desire. You can go into ADW or Launcher Pro settings and edit the number of columns and rows on the screen. This will help somewhat with making icons cover the icon area from the wallpaper. For mine I left it at 6 rows and 4 columns.
After all your icons in place it is now time to make them transparent...Long press over the icon and in ADW you will select "Edit." press the icon in the edit screen and choose the transparent icon you downloaded earlier in the tutorial. Repeat this process until all of your icons are transparent.
YOU'RE DONE...
Some tidbits and problems you may run into:
- They are kind of invisible but I still see the icon text... You need to go into the settings for your Launcher Program and select "Hide icon Labels."
- I can't get the icons to fit right over the images... This is not an exact process and will requires some trial and error, as well as, tinkering on your part. Some things you can adjust to help this: Adjust your wallpaper to different sizes and display areas, Adjust the amount of columns and rows displayed on your screens.
- Where can I find more wallpapers like this? My best advise is to look on the internet, it's how I cam across it. I do make custom wallpapers, but, they are not free ($1.99) donations.
If you have any more questions please post them and I will address them as timely as I can.

this is awesome thanx

Umm, there's nothing new about this. Lots of people have posted themes that use this method. I've been doing this since last summer. This might be useful as a tutorial on the basic setup of this method. Also, of course it will work on any phone. What is the apk file going to do? Maybe I'm missing something...

great
Wow! I hadn't heard of this before, but i love the idea and the tutorial. THANKS!!! I'm gonna have to scour for more wallpapers. Is there anyway to take the wallpaper you have in a layered version and remove a few of the images and swap in a few of my own?? ex. i would take out the facebook logo and put a cartoon pic of my wife/kids for my quick dial apks. etc... anyway, thanks for the heads up!!
adam
EDIT: btw, what widget are you using on the wallpaper that show the 4 day weather icons? (or what widget and theme or icon pack)...thanks in advance

I have been looking for other wallpapers with app images built in and no luck. Any suggestions?
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NyghtGT said:
- Where can I find more wallpapers like this? My best advise is to look on the internet, it's how I cam across it. I do make custom wallpapers, but, they are not free ($1.99) donations.
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Wouldn't the definition of a donation be giving to a public and/or charitable cause? You aren't offering the wallpapers for free to the community, then allowing people to donate to your cause. If that isn't the case, it sounds like you are charging for a service, not encouraging a donation? Unless you plan on offering the wallpapers to all once the initial request for a custom donation inspired wallpaper is received?
mmarks9156 said:
I have been looking for other wallpapers with app images built in and no luck. Any suggestions?
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I've been looking also for something like this for quite some time also, as I've been using the blank icons with wallpapers to some extent already, just not all over. Just along the edge like this:
The full setup is attached in the Scrolling 2.0 Theme in my sig which also has links on how to set it up from the original author. I also created some wallpapers other than the honeycomb one. PM me if if you would like to check them out.
Its hard to locate wallpapers with the icons pictures built in as I'm not sure what to search for exactly or what the "official" name of this type of wallpaper/setup is.
adeyo said:
EDIT: btw, what widget are you using on the wallpaper that show the 4 day weather icons? (or what widget and theme or icon pack)...thanks in advance
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I could be wrong about what he's using, but you can achieve the 4 day weather forecast like that with the Beautiful Widget's Beautiful Weather Widget. You just need to download that skin, and then disable todays current weather.
I achieved the same widget look using the Beautiful Weather Widget in the screenshot above. Just changing the skin (the skin you would be looking for to achieve that effect is called BrushedInk&Black), hiding the background, and hiding the current weather. Beautiful Widgets is a paid app, but its worth it for the couple bucks it costs, it looks great and is highly customizable.

[Live Wallpaper] Terminal Live Wallpaper

Hi All, i made a terminal emulator which acts as a live wallpaper. Check below for more details:
Fully customizable terminal live wallpaper.
Terminal Live Wallpaper allows you to show useful information with style. It acts as a command line tool ( terminal ) and can execute and display almost any command supported by Android.
Number of commands is not limited, terminal live wallpaper will circle through all of them and display their results. Also it will simulate manual human command input. Use settings screen to change commands, text font, color, size, background color, background image and many more. All options can be combined in a infinite way.
Unleash your inner geek!
- Demo commands for both rooted and not rooted devices
- Switch between commands with screen tap
- Change text font, color and size
- 12 cool fonts
- World Wrap
- Set background color with transparency
- 8 included image backgrounds
- Option to set any image from device as background
- Set top offset
- Light weight and battery saver
- Supports all screen sizes and orientations
I encourage you to investigate it and try different combinations and parameters. :good:
NOTES:
- When selecting a color, click on circle to confirm
- Use transparency with background color to set color filters on image backgrounds
- Please be careful with commands, specially if you have root access. I am not responsible for damage which could be caused by inappropriate use.
Download it from Google Play. Just type "Terminal Live Wallpaper [Sorry cant post links yet, because im a boon]
or use this link: play_google_com/store/apps/details?id=com.atridhr.terminalwallpaper [replace _ with . ]
Let me know what you think of it.
Here are some screenshots:
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I really like this live wallpaper, thanks for sharing.
When I doing some changes in the settings, the app sometime FC.
If you make resizable custom background image it will be perfect, because actually when the custom image not exactly fit on the screen I got black line in the top and bottom.
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l3s said:
I really like this live wallpaper, thanks for sharing.
When I doing some changes in the settings, the app sometime FC.
If you make resizable custom background image it will be perfect, because actually when the custom image not exactly fit on the screen I got black line in the top and bottom.
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Hi l3s,
thx for your reply and report.
Wallpaper is made to center all custom images, but im not sure what happened in your case. Nexus 7 is a special case because its high dpi (not many device have 320dpi), anyway i will try to fix this with new update.
Until then, you can try using bigger image, or try to crop that one to 1280x800 resolution.

Hi, i will periodically share some new ideas and screens about different ways to use this live wallpaper, so here's one:
CLOCK MODE
Set font to Android Nation
Set font size to 100 (adjust to screen resolution)
Set Input command "date" (only this command)
Set Word Wrap to true
Set font color, custom image and color filter (optional)
See attachment to check what i got

As i have said before, ill keep posting some "interesting" ways how i use Terminal Live Wallpaper, so heres an update:
Alien mode
1. Set odd looking font, like Alpha Sentury
2. Font size ~140 (more or less)
3. Word wrap true
4. Custom background
5. Set background color filter to black with small transparency (this makes a darker image background)
6. Set font color to gray
7. Put many input commands
Check attachment to see what i got.

Awesome

[APP][4.0+] HexaTime

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Description
HexaTime is a live wallpaper which displays the current time and simultaneously sets your wallpaper to the corresponding hexadecimal color. In other words, the clock is shown as a hex triplet code, while your background color is gradually adjusted as time passes. This keeps your homescreen feeling fresh with an assortment of unique hues being displayed throughout the 24 hours of the day.
Features
• Change font style of clock
• Adjust clock size
• Move clock to different positions (change alignment)
• Large color range option (includes day of year in calculation, resulting in more possible colors)
• Switch between 12 and 24 hour clock
• Hide clock but keep colored wallpaper
• Pick from different styled separators
• Move clock freely
• Add pattern overlays ontop of colored background
• Feel free to request features that you want to see
Open Source
- HexaTime has been developed in a fully open source nature
- The code for the app can be found on GitHub
- Feel free to contribute to the project by submitting pull requests

Changelog
Code:
1.1 (July 12/14)
- Initial release
1.2 (August 5/14)
- Added option for larger color range which includes the day of the year in the hexcode calculation
- Added option to hide clock
- Added 12 hour time format
- Added more fonts, and the names are now shown in their respective typeface
- Added option to display separators in between hour, minute and second
- Added 5 separator styles to choose from
- Fixed settings crash on some devices
- Stopped Google Play Billing Service from constantly running in the background
- Slight rearrangement of the settings
1.3 (August 18/14)
- Implemented advanced positioning controls (user now has full control over placement of clock)
- Implemented pattern overlay feature with options for pattern style, opacity and scale
- Redesigned the settings with a material look & feel
- Added option to dim the background color
- Added option to hide clock on lockscreen only
- Lots of behind the scenes code cleanup, refactoring and improvements
- Fixed crash that some users were experiencing
1.4 (August 19/14)
- Fixed horizontal clock alignment getting messed up after rebooting
- Fixed 12 o'clock showing up as 0 o'clock when 12 hour time format was selected
- Fixed seconds skipping bug
- Fixed issue that caused a delay of displaying the clock when the visibility was set to lockscreen only
- Added option to set custom background color (mainly for testing purposes)
1.5 (August 25/14)
- Added option to fix lag on some devices
(Settings > Reduce wallpaper updates)

A few questions: Are we able to hide the clock? That way we can keep the clock we have and still use this? The color changes throughout the day, but does it reset at midnight so we see the same colors as the day before? Thanks for taking the time to answer!

@Chromium - I love you.

Really nice mate. Got rid of the clock widget and just have weather showing now. Thank you very much it's very unique and looks amazing.
Drew

settings crash (forced closed) on nexus 7 2012 android 4.4

Well done Sir. Have a cookie, happily donated. Stock, rooted LG G3.
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SO AWESOME! Awesome work man, will donate!

Great looking live wallpaper.
Would really like the option to manually set the background colour or alternative image packs.

Finally wallpaper that suits to my own minimal style.. Thank you man!
Thing that I've noticed:
-Number 8 with light font seems to be a bit cropped
Maybe a feature for changing font style with not only two choices , example to Arial, etc
Keep up in good work!

Looks great:
I would like to see smooth transitions between colors.

This isn't as innovative as XDA suggests
Has no one ever seen Colour Clock?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.thereceptacle.wallpapers.hexclock&hl=en
http://thecolourclock.co.uk/
Been around as a PC screensaver for years.

looking good
unfortunately hexa has stopped
plz solve android 4.2 rooted custom rom

Could you add option to hide a clock? (because I'm using a cLock widget and I'd like to have a wallpaper which would change color depend on the time)

This is fantastic idea! I don't know if it's possible but it would be great to see a gradient option. Take for instance, the current color, the previous color, and the upcoming color then make that a gradient that slowly changed from top-to-bottom.

Great app, I will be keeping this ready for a few more options in settings. Hiding the clock would be good, choosing sets of colours e.g. different shades of red/blue etc of multiples of both. Lots of potential on this!

Going to settings crashed the app

macieek1235 said:
Could you add option to hide a clock? (because I'm using a cLock widget and I'd like to have a wallpaper which would change color depend on the time)
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+1 for this

Off-topic: what font is the Chromium text in your signatute?

I'm gonna write a huge petition to make this epic thing a daydream app too. and if i either win or fail, I'm gonna go there and personally hug you for the best live wallpaper I've ever seen.
hopefully this will become a daydream to... daydream while staring at it all day long
Sent from my Nexus 4

[APP][4.4+]Kolorette - Color adopting widgets and plugin for Zooper, Kustom, Tasker.

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Kolorette brings a new context to widgets by implementing contextual color concept established in Google's Material Design!
What is Kolorette??
Kolorette attempts to bring material design's contextual color concept to widget space. It extracts prominent colors from an image and applies it to the widgets. So the widget naturally blends with the image. The image can be wallpaper, album art of song, muzei artwork or hey! any image on your storage!
Top Feature highlights
Clock widget and search widgets that adapt to wallpaper's prominent color - also auto updates when you change wallpaper.
Uses Google's palette library to extract colors. Also get true prominent color of the image.
Also extract from Muzei artwork, any image on storage, and Music Cover.
Use extracted colors in Zooper, Kustom and Tasker (Samples included)
Share an image via Android share menu to quickly extract colors.
Formula to use colors in other apps like kustom easily copy-able.
Copy hex code of extracted colors.
Material design love.
Available for 4.4+ - FREE No ads
POSTERS
KUSTOM EXAMPLE
QUICK EXTRACT FEATURE
I/O MUSIC PLAYER HOMESCREEN
https://r2---sn-cg07luee.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id=44bf67f08e904cba&itag=37&source=picasa&begin=0&requiressl=yes&pl=19&lmt=1440113056342243&mime=video/mp4&ip=194.66.32.1&ipbits=8&expire=1446170666&sparams=expire,id,ip,ipbits,itag,lmt,mime,mm,mn,ms,mv,nh,pl,requiressl,source&signature=49487FA252768CB4D77D3F15CED2F8DF87AE8018.5FD60EE6DD0A004CBE8FD4D799ADB71B634D22F4&key=cms1&cpn=coku7m3vXM-3y0ka&c=WEB&cver=html5&redirect_counter=1&req_id=b3542a2d293ca3ee&cms_redirect=yes&mm=26&mn=sn-cg07luee&ms=tsu&mt=1446141820&mv=m
How do I use it out-of-the-box?
After installing kolorette, go to homescreen, add widgets and choose kolorette widgets. There are two widgets provided, clock and search. Once you add, a configuration window opens where you can choose the type of color you want. When you are done, the widget is added to the homescreen. Once added, this widgets adapts to wallpaper beneath it.
Okay, that's cool, but how do I use to create my own widgets that blend in?
Here's where Kolorette's plugin feature comes into play. When it extracts colors it broadcasts the colors to extremely popular apps Zooper, Kustom live wallpaper and Tasker . So you can design your widgets in Zooper or Kustom and color them using the variables Kolorette provides.
Okay what are the variables and how do I use it?
There are several variables for each category. Basically the variable looks like #(W,A,M,I) _ (Swatch name) _ (Body,text). The first WAMI represents wallpaper, albumart, muzei, and image that you choose. The swatch name is explained below. Body or text is an interesting thing, the body color is the color that was extracted, and text color is the color that you can use to display a text over the body color. Kolorette takes care of black or white so you dont have to worry about it!
For example, text color for a yellow color will be blackish so it is visible.
Explain the swatches?
Prominent - true prominent color of the image.
Vibrant - A brighter color picked from the image.
Vibrant Dark - A darker variant of the above color.
Vibrant Light - A lighter variant.
Muted - A dull color to be precise. Usually found on darker images.
Muted Light and Dark - Darker and lighter variants.
Can I do crazy automation stuff using Tasker?
Kolorette plays along with Tasker as well. Tasker is an extremely popular automation app for android. Kolorette exposes itself as two plugins for tasker.
1. Event Plugin:
Kolorette lets tasker know that it has performed an extraction. In addition, it shares the color it extracted with tasker. Then it is upto you to decide what to do with the color!
2. Action Plugin
Action plugin works the opposite way. It is the one in which you ask kolorette to do an extraction for you at will.
Example:
Randomly set a wallpaper and then do a wallpaper extraction.
Download an image from net and do an extraction on that image.
Where can I find samples?
Kolorette provides you with samples for both zooper and kustom. You can see Kolorette listed as a theme pack in both packs. If you open them, you can find sample widgets.
DOWNLOADS
Play Store
Support Development
Google+ Community
Beta testing link
Important - Lot of exciting features and still this is free with no ads. Please show your support by leaving a rating or donation. Thank you, enjoy themeing

[APP][4.0+] Beautiful Best Live wallpapers to make your screen alive !!

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Install Best live wallpapers app. All Live wallpapers are animated and relaxing awesome
backgrounds that provide premium wallpapers to keep your phone dynamic.
List of mood relaxing wallpapers :
Ocean wave live wallpaper
snowfall live wallpaper
lake live wallpaper
summer live wallppaers
fireplace live wallpaper
forests wallpapers
mountains live wallpaper
seasons live wallpaper
beautiful snowflakes
snow live wallpaper
raindrops live wallpaper
rainbows live wallpaper
beach shore live wallpaper
nature wallpapers hd
scenic live wallpapers
waterfall live wallpaper
autumn live wallpaper
flowers live wallpaper
Live wallpapers have been known to be gimmicks and battery hogs in the past but things have changed for the better now. The new crop of Best live wallpapers are easy on the battery and along with good looks, they bring tons of improvements, so that your homescreen looks gorgeous every time you power on the screen.
There’s also an assumption that only paid live wallpapers are good. Well, that’s untrue but choosing the best free live wallpapers can be tricky because the Play Store is filled with mediocre apps. That’s why we took matters into our hands and chose the best free live wallpapers for you.
If you like Best Live Wallpapers don't forget rate 5 star ★★★★★ or review.
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Keywords: Best live wallpapers, snowfall live wallpapers, nature live wallpaper, rainbow live wallpaper, animated live wallpaper, beautiful live wallpapers, forest live wallpaper
Download Link:
XDA Download Link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/devdb/project/?id=19981
Google Play store
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bhanu.bestlivewallpapers
Please Rate this app on google play store.
Suggestions and feedback are welcome ! : [email protected]
Use App "Send Suggestion" option to directly email me (Developer)
Thank you.
App Demo Video:
More Screenshots:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/devdb/project/?id=19981#screenshots
Permission required :
1. Photos/Media/Files - Storage permission:
app have option to download the wallpaper, this animated gif wallpaper gets saved in your sd card and hence its require this permission
2. Internet
To download the wallpapers from internet.
3. Billing
To unlock the app to remove advertisements.
4. Run at Startup
To start the animation of the wallpaper when phone restarted.
5. Set Wallpaper
To set the selected wallpaper as animated wallpaper to device.
6. Prevent device from sleeping.
This permission is not require as app do not require it and app dont do such things.
This permission is added by android library, i will try to find out a way to remove it.
7. Modify System Settings.
Permission require to set the live wallpaper
XDA:DevDB Information
[APP][4.0+] Best Live Wallpapers, App for all devices (see above for details)
Contributors
yogi.306
Source Code: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bhanu.bestlivewallpapers
Version Information
Status: Stable
Current Stable Version: 1.0
Stable Release Date: 2017-03-27
Created 2017-03-27
Last Updated 2017-03-27

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Hi,thanks for ur work,question,are u planning,if posibble,to add option to make own ( from my photos) live wall,thanks?

I downloaded the wallpaper on the net, I do not like to use software because it slows my android

Too many worrisome permissions for what this app is supposed to do. Doesn't make sense...

CLARO can do
Hello,
Thank you for your feedback.
its not planned, but good idea, i will check how i can provide such option.
for now you can use my another app called CLARO for random wallpaper changes from your photos.
here is the link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bhanu.claro
Boskoel03 said:
Hi,thanks for ur work,question,are u planning,if posibble,to add option to make own ( from my photos) live wall,thanks?
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All permission are explained here
yeoldeusrename said:
Too many worrisome permissions for what this app is supposed to do. Doesn't make sense...
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Permission required :
1. Photos/Media/Files - Storage permission:
app have option to download the wallpaper, this animated gif wallpaper gets saved in your sd card and hence its require this permission
2. Internet
To download the wallpapers from internet.
3. Billing
To unlock the app to remove advertisements.
4. Run at Startup
To start the animation of the wallpaper when phone restarted.
5. Set Wallpaper
To set the selected wallpaper as animated wallpaper to device.
6. Prevent device from sleeping.
This permission is not require as app do not require it and app dont do such things.
This permission is added by android library, i will try to find out a way to remove it.
7. Modify System Settings.
Permission require to set the live wallpaper
also added to OP

Some more good options coming
New options for future updates.:
1. Option to select your own gif images for live wallpaper
and
2. Option to make gif out of your gallary images and then setting them to live wallpaper.

Thanks for 500+ downloads
Thank you XDA users for 1st 500 downloads.