i know about sslauncher and lighting launcher but is there any other launchers that allow you to free move icons and resize widgets to any scale...?
any help would be really appreciated
apex launcher ,if you have ics
xxxo said:
apex launcher ,if you have ics
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im on JB, ics doesnt have an option to turn off the grid sizes
CallumMarks77 said:
im on JB, ics doesnt have an option to turn off the grid sizes
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What he said is: Apex Launcher does that.
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What he said is: Apex Launcher does that.
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okay then i must be blind as a bat as i seriously cant see the option to select this!!!!! now i feel very dumb...
ummm could you possibly provide me with a screen shot of that options or guide me to where it is located... sorry i know im asking for alot but i really cannot find it!!!! :L:angel::angel::angel:
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okay then i must be blind as a bat as i seriously cant see the option to select this!!!!! now i feel very dumb...
ummm could you possibly provide me with a screen shot of that options or guide me to where it is located... sorry i know im asking for alot but i really cannot find it!!!! :L:angel::angel::angel:
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Did you try long pressing the widget and selecting resize? I haven't used Apex, but that's how it usually works.
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Did you try long pressing the widget and selecting resize? I haven't used Apex, but that's how it usually works.
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I think you misinterpreted him. He meant a launcher where icons weren't locked to grid. Being able to "freely" resize widgets only resizes them to a grid...
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ssojyeti2 said:
I think you misinterpreted him. He meant a launcher where icons weren't locked to grid. Being able to "freely" resize widgets only resizes them to a grid...
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yes thats exactly what i mean, i dont when them to be a grid size i want it to be any size i want it to be and any position i want it to be
Oh. SPB or TSF shell does that. Not sure which one I tried. Uninstalled it because of that, actually, as it didn't allow me to lock icons to a grid.
Both cost a fortune tho, but since you didn't specify you wanted free apps (or cheap ones) I thought I should mention them.
I repeat: one of them does that. I don't know if both do it. Just check which before spending your money.
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Oh. SPB or TSF shell does that. Not sure which one I tried. Uninstalled it because of that, actually, as it didn't allow me to lock icons to a grid.
Both cost a fortune tho, but since you didn't specify you wanted free apps (or cheap ones) I thought I should mention them.
I repeat: one of them does that. I don't know if both do it. Just check which before spending your money.
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i has spb before so its already purchased so i will have a look if it does it
but knowing my luck it a be tsf shell only and that is very expensive for an app especially when i change my launcher weekly :L:L
thanks anyways
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I created this thread so not to clutter the ROM thread with verbiage of add-ons. Thank you so much Darchstar for a great ROM !!
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=684202 ( ROM LINK )
Now that we have a great (AOSP ) ROM for our Hero’s, we can start sharing themes, launchers and many other add-ons that work and have been tested on the Darchdroid v2 ROMS. Hopefully this thread will grow.
Being the first I would like to share that LauncherPro Beta ( can be downloaded from the market ) . This launcher is great and very fast .. almost 100% customizable and can be set to have up to 7 screens …
screen shots of launchpro beta at work..
Agreed on launcherpro.. I was using helixlauncher at first but launcherpro seems faster.
Anyone find any themes that play nice? I have tried 2 so far and got boot loops on both.
As for launchers I'm partial to ADW Launcher for Darch's rom. It's quick and very customizable which is the best part. Has the froyo taskbar look with 2 customizable main shortcuts and an app drawer for additional apps. Also gives the nifty swipe left to right for the main app drawer ala iphone, and the SenseUI style jump out screen preview.
My favorite feature by far though is the ability to hide the notification bar. Gives a really nice way to show off your wallpaper, especially since you can set it so the home button shows and hides it again so you can still check it.
http://jbthemes.com/anderweb/category/adwlauncher/
EDIT : Also a question for everyone else.. is it possible to get the rotary lock on darchdroid? When the update comes out I'm probably gonna see if the metamorph for it will do it but I doubt it :/
Anyone check out Beautiful Live Wallpaper. Runs great on Darchdroid.
My setup....
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Anyone check out Beautiful Live Wallpaper. Runs great on Darchdroid.
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i have it to and it does work great..onlything i noticed is that wen u launch the weather its kinda laggy for a second or so but i can live with that ..
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My setup....
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were to get that battery widget?
rgildoss said:
were to get that battery widget?
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Its called batteryLife.
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My setup....
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They have a weather skin called none to clear out the images on the widget so you dont always have 2 suns or 2 moons...I dont know if you really care but it irritated me having the repeating image.
How would a user go about using MetaMorph and this rom?
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They have a weather skin called none to clear out the images on the widget so you dont always have 2 suns or 2 moons...I dont know if you really care but it irritated me having the repeating image.
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hmmm i tried this but still have a sun there ?
EDIT: never mind i got ..thats for the tip ..looks great !
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i have it to and it does work great..onlything i noticed is that wen u launch the weather its kinda laggy for a second or so but i can live with that ..
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Does cpu hog really hog up a lot of the battery? I'm using it and I want to know if I should uncheck that box.
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Does cpu hog really hog up a lot of the battery? I'm using it and I want to know if I should uncheck that box.
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well since the battery fix , im trying out other launchers to see what one works best ... im getting some really bad lag and i dont know if its beutifull live wall pappers or the launcherpro ...
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what launcher and skin is that please
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what launcher and skin is that please
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Thats the ADW launcher with the Beautiful Weather live wallpaper.
any idea where i can get these icons ?
http://jbthemes.com/anderweb/category/adwlauncher/
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Thats the ADW launcher with the Beautiful Weather live wallpaper.
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so i installed ADW and i like it ..runs very nice ..thank you for that ..
however ever since the battery update the Beautiful weather live wallpaper sucks ..very very laggy ...
I did see an update to it in the market today and did update ..wonder if the update is the lag?
anyhow i removed it for now ..
anyone been able to find a message and calander widget aside form the PURE products ? ( im not very found of PURE )
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anyone been able to find a message and calander widget aside form the PURE products ? ( im not very found of PURE )
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I dont know about a message widget but I'm fond of the pop up for hand cent.
Also I want a good calendar too and maybe a better alarm clock.
When I had my adp1 we had advanced launcher which gave me the ability to hide certain apps so they wouldn't show up in the drawer. I hate having font packs and the like appear in my app drawer. I also hate having redundant apps (desktop shortcut plus being in the app drawer)
Is there anything like advanced launcher out there for sense?
I remove the apk's from /system/apps. That will completely remove the app from your phone (so don't do it to apps you want to keep on your home screen) but seems to work well for sprint/htc's crapware.
You can hide them in LauncherPro.
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You can hide them in LauncherPro.
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Ill probably get flamed for this, but I'm partial to the sense launcher. I don't much care for the aftermarket launchers. In afraid though, that I'm bit going to have a choice
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You can hide them in LauncherPro.
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...are you sure about this?
If so, how do you do this? I've used lp and bought pro a couple weekday ago, I'm not aware of this feature...
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...are you sure about this?
If so, how do you do this? I've used lp and bought pro a couple weekday ago, I'm not aware of this feature...
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Menu, Preferences, General Settings, Hidden Apps
Thats how I do it on LauncherPro Plus.
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Menu, Preferences, General Settings, Hidden Apps
Thats how I do it on LauncherPro Plus.
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AWESOME! Thank you!
I swear they update LauncherPro faster than I can keep up with it..
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AWESOME! Thank you!
I swear they update LauncherPro faster than I can keep up with it..
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This is a start, but I would still like to see this integrated into the sense launcher.
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This is a start, but I would still like to see this integrated into the sense launcher.
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Sorry for the diversion
What software were you running on your adp?
I wonder if there's anything in the engineering pc36img.zip that would help..
Advanced Launcher was Sense?
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Sorry for the diversion
What software were you running on your adp?
I wonder if there's anything in the engineering pc36img.zip that would help..
Advanced Launcher was Sense?
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On my adp1 it was typically an add on that required you to flash it over your rom or theme.
Just wondering, but why do you like Rosie more than LaucherPro? Please don't say "widgets" because there are equivalent widgets in LauncherPro Plus that are idential to those by HTC, and there are a ton in the Market with identical functionality.
I honestly like the way sense looks.
Hi,
been searching a couple of hours now and can only find apps like 'Photo Frame Deluxe' (ie. paid apps from the US Market). I don't live in the US and have Android on my HD2 so it's not native, therefore I cannot get this app (I don't get how to install market enabler). Anyone know a good widget (prefferably simple) that simply fills out my 800x480px screen in one of the home screens with one image?
I have this awesome background, though I want an image on one of the homescreens alone, and that's not possible of course, without it being a widget.
Going mad here. Is it perhaps simple to create an app like that? Can it be semi-transparent? Can it be without a background, so that the image decides the images transparency? Hmm..
If anyone makes an app like this maybe I'll even be willing to make a donation for it (after next wednesday when my paycheck appears, and the app will not have to be made until that, of course)
Not sure if this is what you are looking for but have a look at Big Photo Frame Widget v1.0
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I have this awesome background, though I want an image on one of the homescreens alone, and that's not possible of course, without it being a widget.
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I'm pretty sure this is impossible.
Beards said:
Not sure if this is what you are looking for but have a look at Big Photo Frame Widget v1.0
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Cool, works for now (even though I can't rezise it as I use launcher pro, and it has a frame)
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Cool, works for now (even though I can't rezise it as I use launcher pro, and it has a frame)
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No problem..... It's a start anyway until you find something more appropriate.
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Cool, works for now (even though I can't rezise it as I use launcher pro, and it has a frame)
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You can resize it with LauncherPro. I just started using it (cool app, thanks) and re-sized it to only 3 rows, rather than 4.
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You can resize it with LauncherPro. I just started using it (cool app, thanks) and re-sized it to only 3 rows, rather than 4.
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Pleased you found it useful too.
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 just figured out I can make folders on my gsll phone in the app menu. (Not the home screens) I can put all the carrier BS and other app icons I don't want to see in there. It brought my app screens to 3 swipes from 5. Is that a standard Android feature or something Samsung added in with touchwiz? I would be interested in doing the same on my tablet.
That sounds like a Samsung Touchwiz feature. As far as I know, stock app drawer does not support folders/dedicated pages.
However, you can simply get a non-stock launcher such as Apex or Nova and they support app drawer folders, plus a multitude of extra features lacking in the stock launcher
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I just figured out I can make folders on my gsll phone in the app menu. (Not the home screens) I can put all the carrier BS and other app icons I don't want to see in there. It brought my app screens to 3 swipes from 5. Is that a standard Android feature or something Samsung added in with touchwiz? I would be interested in doing the same on my tablet.
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That is possible, just use a third party launcher. I think nova has is
OK cool. I will check out those programs. I figured one of those would do the trick but wasn't sure if I was missing something. Thanks!
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OK cool. I will check out those programs. I figured one of those would do the trick but wasn't sure if I was missing something. Thanks!
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*if* it works using nova, would you please not forget to click the thanks button?
I am a very 'thanks'centric person, so I'd like to get that bar a bit more to the right lol
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OK cool. I will check out those programs. I figured one of those would do the trick but wasn't sure if I was missing something. Thanks!
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Thanks for the thanks
I guess Nova has it?
I've never used third party launchers myself, since I think that the stock launcher on the Infinity is rather cool