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Sense launcher

Anyone figure out a way to change the faves button on the right side of the launcher to something else? Contacts perhaps?
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Sadly, no. But if you want that, I do have a suggestion. Make everyone in your contact list a fave. Then in the faves gallery, change the layout to list view and boom, you have a slightly less functional contacts app tied to that button!
If you haven't tried it, go into the faves gallery, click menu and "change view". You can make it a lot better than that weird flying tiles view it defaults to.

I think I read somewhere that you can only add up to 20 contacts in Faves.

You can download Launcher Pro, and change it to 5 customizable buttons on the bottom.

Yes im aware of the custom launchers, but thats not what I was trying to accomplish. I am happy with the sense launcher other than that 1 button.

Don't think it can be changed? I've looked everywhere, and gave up. Which is why I did this...
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

WilliamStern said:
Don't think it can be changed? I've looked everywhere, and gave up. Which is why I did this...
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lol you just really wanted to post that screen shot... didnt ya?

pack said:
lol you just really wanted to post that screen shot... didnt ya?
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Damn right! lol
I'm just trying to get people motivated into changing their home screens on the MT4G.

WilliamStern said:
Don't think it can be changed? I've looked everywhere, and gave up. Which is why I did this...
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Care to elaborate as to what you've done and how?i like it
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The problem with custom launchers is that you lose the sense widgets. Which I would like to keep, mainly the calendar one.
I noticed adw was sluggish when browsing the app drawer. Is launcherpro similar?
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paradox4286 said:
Care to elaborate as to what you've done and how?i like it
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Sure!
For one you need LauncherPro Plus, or ADW.
The live wallpaper is already in your phone, so switch to that.
Clock is done by Fancy Widget. Do a google search for the apk file. I used v1.30
You'll need a transparent icon. Follow this link, and do what the last comment says to get the icon. http://www.launcherpro.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=4389
Below I've added the dock for you. Now get everything into your phone, and put them all together. It's really not that hard.
Oh, and I think you need LauncherPro "Plus" to make changes to the icons, but not 100% sure?
Enjoy, and good luck!

bubonik said:
The problem with custom launchers is that you lose the sense widgets. Which I would like to keep, mainly the calendar one.
I noticed adw was sluggish when browsing the app drawer. Is launcherpro similar?
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I find LP to run better than ADW, and you do keep your regular widgets plus you get some nice new ones if you pay for LauncherPro Plus.

Yea I just installed it and you lose access to sense widgets. Too bad launcherpro doesn't have an agenda based calendar widget.
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bubonik said:
Yea I just installed it and you lose access to sense widgets. Too bad launcherpro doesn't have an agenda based calendar widget.
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yes they do click the upper right icon of the calender widget i believe and it changes it too look like the agenda widget.

cdw9800 said:
yes they do click the upper right icon of the calender widget i believe and it changes it too look like the agenda widget.
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Yes but you loose the Sense news and weather widget if you use LP. That sucks. You have no access to the Stock android news and weather widget either. So I am back to Espresso for now.

bubonik said:
The problem with custom launchers is that you lose the sense widgets. Which I would like to keep, mainly the calendar one.
I noticed adw was sluggish when browsing the app drawer. Is launcherpro similar?
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i found that launcherpro was smoother than the stock mysense launcher

cdw9800 said:
yes they do click the upper right icon of the calender widget i believe and it changes it too look like the agenda widget.
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Well that's good to know, I obviously don't own launcherpro+. I might invest in it then. Anyone know of a recent YouTube review that shows all features or is someone willing to make such a video?
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If I had a extra camera I would but just use lp that's pretty much how it is lp+ just add the widgets
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Im sure u can pull then apks from cm6 nexus one rom
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Yes but you loose the Sense news and weather widget if you use LP. That sucks. You have no access to the Stock android news and weather widget either. So I am back to Espresso for now.
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bubonik said:
Anyone figure out a way to change the faves button on the right side of the launcher to something else? Contacts perhaps?
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Install the FREE launcher pro app and you can put anything you want there along with customizing almost everything on your phone! Did I mention its FREE?!?!?!

Power Control in notifications like in CM7?

Is this possible on the DX? For those who don't know what I'm talking about:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=836721
There's a screenshot of something similar.
Basically, toggles in your shade instead of the carrier name.

Yeah I use widgetsoid. You can find it on the market for free.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
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Awesome man, that's perfect. Now I just have to figure out how to get rid of the carrier label altogether . Any ideas? BTW, how'd you change your font?

I use the liberty 1.5 rom, it has a bunch of options for fonts and lets you change the carrier name out to whatever you want. So far its been very stable for me and much quicker than stock.
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Yeah, I saw the font options, but I'm not sure what adding a font does.. for instance, what'd you do in the toolbox that sets the widget font?
And I'm not talking about changing the text, I'd like to find a way to remove that whole bar, 'cause it just takes up space. I think you can do it in stock.. it's called a "roaming banner" i think

Changing the font effects all the text, everything from Widgets to menus to even the text on most websites in the default browser. It even changed the font in my clock widget. As far as removing the carrier label on the notifications I'm not sure how to remove that waste of space. I never looked into it but now since you mentioned it it's bugging me too. Let me know if you do find a way to remove it.
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Zudovex said:
Yeah I use widgetsoid. You can find it on the market for free.
Can you please tell me how you did that using widgetsoid. Thank you
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You long press on the home screen and select add widget like you would when adding a widget to the home screen, select widgetsoid then select a switcher widget. Pick the options you want it to have then go to the advanced tab and select both notification and make invisable. Click apply and it should now show up in the notifications bar. If you want to edit it just open widgetsroid and it will be in the widget tab. Hope this helps.
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This is gonna be cool thank you.
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No prob, glad I could help.
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Zudovex said:
Let me know if you do find a way to remove it.
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http://www.droidforums.net/forum/li...roaming-banner-carrier-brand.html#post1310020
You can remove it with a metamorph, if you edit the xml in /layout/status_bar_expanded.xml I'm trying to put one together to do this. Right now I've managed to remove the grey area, only thing missing is moving the "clear" button some place else.
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Dude this was totally what I've been wanting/looking for for the past couple of months. Didn't want to root my phone to get it though. Thanks a lot!
Zudovex said:
Yeah I use widgetsoid. You can find it on the market for free.
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What does rooting your phone have to do with it? AFAIK there's no other way to do it anyway

There are custom ROMs that have this feature. This is the only app I know that will actually do this.

i don't think there are custom roms that do it for DX though

amontem said:
There are custom ROMs that have this feature. This is the only app I know that will actually do this.
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Power Control Plus works as well, and is a bit easier to set up. You open the app from the app drawer and the 'add to notification bar ' is right there for you.
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NegativeOne said:
i don't think there are custom roms that do it for DX though
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Cobalt and.possibly obsidian. The cobalt download has been taken.down as phoenix devs have taken.over work on this. Obsidian is from cvpcs and has some bugs that are still being worked out
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NegativeOne said:
Right now I've managed to remove the grey area, only thing missing is moving the "clear" button some place else.
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Have you been able to figure out a way to move or resize the clear button yet? I really wish I could move it to the bottom of the notification bar. Better yet, I wish there was an app/widget that automatically cleared all new notifications. Been looking for something like that for months without any luck...

Post your screen shots of Launcher 7

I recently tried this launcher and quickly enjoyed the simplicity wp7 offers but don't want to go to wp7 phone any time soon.
Most of my icons are from the metro ui packs but didn't go with metro ui because the tiles look smaller while launcher 7 tiles take up the right amount of room on my screen.
For the live weather tile I use fancy widget pro you have two options for the weather widget and works well for me.
Update- launcher 7 now has landscape support which is good and much better live contact tile image updates.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Here's my set up now let me see yours!

I know everyone likes different go set ups, but to me why would you want to have icons so big that take up a good 2/3 rds of your screen? Unless you don't like wallpapers?
"Ephesians 6:12"

selders59 said:
I know everyone likes different go set ups, but to me why would you want to have icons so big that take up a good 2/3 rds of your screen? Unless you don't like wallpapers?
"Ephesians 6:12"
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Hahaha, I don't emphasize on wall papers so I just made my 1x1 tiles clear and so far it works well for me since i made my important apps tiles huge and keep most at the very bottom of my list.

FROIS 2 icons and random pictures I edited to match the color tone.

Anyone know a good looking analog clock widget that fits well on the 1x1 tile?
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Negrito said:
Anyone know a good looking analog clock widget that fits well on the 1x1 tile?
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Like this one at the bottom.
Its the stock clock widget from cm7 just make sure you choose to cover whole tile with widget when choosing

Meh, that face is too plain. And the theme I'm running doesn't size the stock clock well. But thanks for the response.
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Negrito said:
Meh, that face is too plain. And the theme I'm running doesn't size the stock clock well. But thanks for the response.
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No problem, I would check out the market for lite version clocks and see what works as long as they are similar in size there shouldn't be a problem. the dev is working on a way to crop images and widgets for tiles, hopefully it will come out soon

Thanks to this thread I tried this launcher. And I must say. I love it. I love the animations and the look of windows phone 7...

Nothing too fancy yet...
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Wow launcher 7 has really stepped up. These look great. I'm going to go try it again, and post my screen!

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Here is my screen.... I really like this launcher.

pottyvick said:
Here is my screen.... I really like this launcher.
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Do you have chrome as your browser? And nice set up.

teh roxxorz said:
Do you have chrome as your browser? And nice set up.
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No I dont. Its the icon they have for it. I could change it to have the IE icon but i like this one better.

Where do u gt these diff tiles from
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mrlamar09 said:
Where do u gt these diff tiles from
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All you do is press the arrow to go to your app list, being there press and hold the app you want to be a tile, then you get to choose your tile size and picture. For pictures just look up metro ui icons in google/internet,ect and you set them and make the tile, hope it helps.

Changed it up a bit...
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Negrito said:
Changed it up a bit...
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Where did you get that bar?
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Here's mine as of 3/24/11 I'll be updating with new icons today. Thanks to all the XDA members that provided us with icons.
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[FIX] App-Drawer on MIUI Launcher

After flashing the brilliant MIUI rom, i decided to check out the stock launcher. It is one of the smoothest launchers i've used on my infuse other than Launcher Pro, however i was disappointed to be confronted with a I-Phone like home screen experience where all the apps were hanging around willy nilly! Hence i found a simple solution to the problem and it is only 2 steps .
Instructions:
1.Put all of your apps into a single folder except for the ones that you plan to keep on your home screens.
2.Download Alt Drawer and put it in your dock. This will now be your app drawer!
There you go its as simple as that! The experience is almost identical to other launchers.
However to add an app from the app-drawer, u must close the app drawer and grab it out of your folder where you stock-piled all the other apps.
Hope this helps someone...first thread on XDA hope i dont get yelled at
Here is an implementation of what i'm talking about:
My home screen with alt-drawer being the right most app on my drawer
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
And on this screen you can see alt-drawer when opened up.
Also i forgot to mention earlier, alt-drawer is very very customizble.
You can change lots of settings
(i.e Background transparency, icon size, font size, font color, side-side scrolling/vertical scrolling, hide/show notification, orientation etc)

Glad to see people helping out. nice job bro
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JordanElliott said:
Glad to see people helping out. nice job bro
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no problem

This a handy way to get an app drawer. Ive been running MIUI on my Sony X10 for quite a while now. I typically had put all the apps in the tools folder, but the AltDrawer0.7.1 apk works great.

Does the app have a setting so it could scroll side to side like in Touchwiz?

Garen21 said:
Does the app have a setting so it could scroll side to side like in Touchwiz?
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YES
take a look at the screenshot those are all the options. The style option for me is grid...there is another option called page-page which is horizontal. just get app lol its free anyway

Looks like a nice addition. I was just throwing all my apps in one folder and sticking it on the dock. Works basically the same way, but not as customizable.

Nice, thank you I may just try Miui now because of it my friend lol.

thanks for this man. really helpful. I saw another mod, but not as flexible as this. I hope they implement that app drawer concept that's getting big cred on the miui.us site, but this will due until then if that ever gets implemented

What clock is that ?
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Aussti said:
What clock is that ?
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It looks like it is the clock from fancy widget

Lag
I notice that sometimes when I open up the App Drawer, a blank screen comes up before the list of programs appear. It can be up to 6-7 secs.
I tried the suggestion of using Titanium to make AppDrawer a system app. Tried to find the app and move it to the other location, but couldn't find it. Will try again.
Any other suggestions?

THE festivedonkey said:
It looks like it is the clock from fancy widget
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Its fron the app on the market called "wpf&clock Widget". Its free
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"I notice that sometimes when I open up the App Drawer, a blank screen comes up before the list of programs appear. It can be up to 6-7 secs.
I tried the suggestion of using Titanium to make AppDrawer a system app. Tried to find the app and move it to the other location, but couldn't find it. Will try again.
Any other suggestions?"
Answer
Make sure it's on internal memory not sd card. Use Root Explorer and move from
/data/apps to /system/apps.
Works fine after that.
Hope that helps. Kevin
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vwauditech said:
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"I notice that sometimes when I open up the App Drawer, a blank screen comes up before the list of programs appear. It can be up to 6-7 secs.
I tried the suggestion of using Titanium to make AppDrawer a system app. Tried to find the app and move it to the other location, but couldn't find it. Will try again.
Any other suggestions?"
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Make sure it's on internal memory not sd card. Use Root Explorer and move from
/data/apps to /system/apps.
Works fine after that.
Hope that helps. Kevin
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You sir are correctamundo

Thanks for the recommendation!,,
Just one question, is the folder with the apps lying somewhere on another screen not shown in your screen shots?

Awesome, just what I was looking for.
Thanks! :good:

[APP][2.2+]TasKarou Launcher 2.0

TasKarou is a multitasking/task switcher with a touch of WebOs.
it overlays your home launcher, and make it easy, and fast to switch between apps through a WebOs like, or a grid based UI.
Launch TasKarou by clicking on the home button.
To access the home launcher, double click the home button from any apps, or single click the home button from TasKarou.
TO REMOVE THE ADDS, TasKarou Launcher Key is also available on the android market.
Features
Particularly useful for tablets, 'Quick controls' feature allows apps switching by swiping from the left or right edge of the screen.
Quick controls feature can be enabled without using TasKarou as a home launcher.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Version 2.0
added drag and drop functionality: you can now drag app icon to kill a running app, add it to your favorites in the bottom tray, uninstall it, or look for information about it in the market, or on the web.
made bottom tray scrollable. You can drag and drop as many favorite apps as you want in the bottom tray.
added ICS style tabs.
app optimization
Version 1.8
Added support for android 2.2 (froyo)
Version 1.7
Has two available layouts to display the running/recent tasks
Removable top tray shortcut to quickly toggle between the different layouts, and the type of apps (running/recent/both) they display
Accessed by clicking on the Home button.
Can be configured to launch either after a SINGLE CLICK, or after a DOUBLE CLICK; with the overlaid home launcher launching on the alternate action.
Display running apps with a blue background, and recent not running apps with a grey background.
Available from Android market, or attached to this thread.

Trying it out.

Can you make this for 2.2.1 as 25% of andriods are froyo still :/
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very nice! glad to see something a little different i left a quick review on the Market

spryte said:
Very nice, a good feature would be killing an app on long-press
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I had that feature in the prior versions. I decided to take it out because it was a bit inconsistent, since the android API post 2.2 (froyo) doesn't garentee the app you're trying to kill will be immediately terminated at your request.
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xtrem88 said:
Can you make this for 2.2.1 as 25% of andriods are froyo still :/
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I will look into it. I initially decided to target 2.3.3+ as these are the only versions I have devices for I could test on.
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Bloodflame said:
very nice! glad to see something a little different i left a quick review on the Market
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Thanks for the feedback. My primary focus has been on feature completeness, and usability.
For the future updates, I plan to focus on polishing the app, both at the runtime/memory, and at the UI level.
Windows previews is a big one in my todo list. However it's pretty complex, and I'm still trying to get it to work. It's definitely possible though given the amount of screenshot apps in the android market.
Any hints/help regarding how to implement screenshot like functionality is definitely appreciated.
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xtrem88 said:
Can you make this for 2.2.1 as 25% of andriods are froyo still :/
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I just updated the app, and included support for android 2.2 devices.

This is one of the most awesome launcher ever installed on my cell.
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Just in love with this launcher.
If any day their is a paid version then i am surely paying
Thanks mate for such a nice launcher

DJoptimus-One said:
Just in love with this launcher.
If any day their is a paid version then i am surely paying
Thanks mate for such a nice launcher
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There is a paid key that gets rid of the ads. Look for 'taskarou launcher key' on the market.
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If there is a award for launchers.....I would give it for this launcher!!!This is the best!!!!

Any chance to support ldpi? Thanks
Swyped from my crappy Galaxy Mini

Hey man. Great stuff.
Is it possible to add a 'favourites' pane? That would be top of the iceberg. Really love it being overlay of current app
Thanks man.

Wow, that's quite amazing. Fantastic job.

Great job, can you make it so that you can close the open apps by swiping them off the screen just like in web os.

Nagelzz said:
Hey man. Great stuff.
Is it possible to add a 'favourites' pane? That would be top of the iceberg. Really love it being overlay of current app
Thanks man.
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the bottom tray can already be used to set shortcuts to up to 4 favourite apps. do you have another idea in mind?
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I like it but, but it always dissapears and i have no way to bring it back
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negrobembon said:
I like it but, but it always dissapears and i have no way to bring it back
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What do you mean it always disappear?
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ne0fhyk said:
What do you mean it always disappear?
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Im using it, then when i press back button it switches back to stock SE home and when i try to go back to taskarou either by pressing home(set as default) or selecting the desktop icon it never appears, only the options
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