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.
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I love how cookie ht 1.8.5 allows us to simply place a wallpaper on the home tab in high quality, and the ability to put one wallpaper for all other sense tabs, and the mini lock screen. I'd like to push this ability one more step!!!
I would like someone to give me the ability to make a custom wallpaper just for the calendar tab.. or just behind the music tab
one for the music tab.... i have set the landscape, but it's the same as other landscape screens. i'd totally love custom for each screen
I noticed DrSrF BUUFfet custom look has made a weather tab with other wallpapers in the other tabs (Rawrscary/Degake) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=683771 using a robot wallpaper. I so want this ability on my hd2!!! Some one please help me with this task?!!
I can't be the only person wanting to rectify this feature for the HD2. I use CHT 1.8.5 simply for the fact of three custom wallpapers, but i totally could see even customizing a few other tabs. one wallpaper across 11 tabs look terrible in my opinion.
with the research i've done in the past few days, I have found a link with xperia x1 user that has configured 13 wallpapers in sense 2.5! I tried to install, but there was a lack in directions to how i may customize these features on tabs.
here is the link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=508799&page=12
Please speak up, just support the idea, and maybe a few devs will look into making this possible!!!
Good idea! support it!
aoakes said:
I can't be the only person wanting to rectify this feature for the HD2. I use CHT 1.8.5 simply for the fact of three custom wallpapers, but i totally could see even customizing a few other tabs. one wallpaper across 11 tabs look terrible in my opinion.
with the research i've done in the past few days, I have found a link with xperia x1 user that has configured 13 wallpapers in sense 2.5! I tried to install, but there was a lack in directions to how i may customize these features on tabs.
here is the link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=508799&page=12
Please speak up, just support the idea, and maybe a few devs will look into making this possible!!!
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Well, In that thread it's just a CAB that they have for that theme. Not really sure exactly if there is some other way to get it changed. If there is, I do not know. Maybe drop a line in the Cookie thread and see if he can build something into the next version of his CHT mod... that would be awesome
As far as HOW - THEY - did it... no clue. I want to know myself. If you find out, PM me please
Is their such an app that allows for a single, wide, wallpaper that scrolls with tabs? I came across HDWall but i am skeptical about using it, plus all i want is what i described above and nothing more.
such features are called panoramic wallpaper, one of android's eye candy IMHO
as far as i know, the only app that able to bring you that panoramic thingy is the HDWall, and judging by the huge number of users, it should be good and safe enough to use.
..or try searching for MaxManila around the forum, it also has the ability to enable panoramic wallpaper, but it'll also put in a lot of other features you might not really need.
otherwise, buy an android phone instead
Moved as not software release.
Finally got my hands on my G Tablet today. I must have the newer one that Rushless mentioned...mine appeared to be a finished product right out of the box. Even the TNT UI seemed to work pretty well. I think it's got a little ways to go to be "great", but it was pretty good already.
Anyway, I installed TNT light after about an hour. I wanted the Android Market and wanted to see YouTube working. Rooting and installing the new ROM was easy, but it leaves me wanting a hybrid of the two interfaces. Most ROMS (maybe all ROMS?) are put together with the idea of running on a smartphone. The TNT UI from Viewsonic seemed to be pretty well thought out for use on a Tablet.
So, my question is this: Are there any Market apps that would mimic the homescreen layout of a tablet? I can't see staying with the TNT Lite UI because it's just like having a giant cell phone. Reminds me of those giant calculators you buy as a gag-gift for old people!
I like the flexibility of TNT Lite. Choose my own background, no restrictions for apps, Flash works, etc. But the layout isn't really "tablet-like".
What do you guys suggest for apps? Or, is there a way to recreate the panels that TNT has?
Thanks!
i think it may be nice to just find really nice widgets. you'll be able to build it all how you want and still have a fast and responsive ui
Agreed. But so far I haven't found any Widgets that are the right size for the G Tab. Anyone have any suggestions?
Maybe I should ask this another way (to hopefully get more responses ).
Is there a way to customize the stock TapNTap ROM that comes standard on the G Tab? It would be nice to have their panelled layout AND customize the background images, colors, etc.
I wonder how hard it would be for someone to develop a Froyo based ROM that is specifically made for a 10" tablet. I've done a little development in my past, but only Windows based stuff.
Have you tried Beautiful Widgets?
If you want a "tablet-like" UI. You can try one of those HC roms~
a HC rom is the way to go for the tablet-like UI, but search for keywords like "tablet" when in the android market for tablet supported apps
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Have you tried Beautiful Widgets?
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you really ressurected an 8 month old thread to give a guy advice on the UI? Countless roms and launchers have been developed since then, I sincerely doubt that he's still having issues 8 months later.
So I made my Homescreen too look like WP7 but I was wondering is there a way to have animated gif widgets?
Have a look at http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/appwidgets/index.html if you have no experience making widgets. It's possible to make one that's animated by breaking the gif apart and making the widget one big ImageView that's constantly being updated with the new frames, but it might have adverse effects on your battery. I don't think it'll animate on it's own if you simply supply a gif as the drawable for the imageview.
aww man I think making widgets is way beyond my scope I would definitely try it maybe I just got into the whole rooting and flashing roms like a week ago =P but thank you for the reply
No problem, dude. Check out a book called 'Professional Android 2 Application Development' by Rito Meier if you want to take a crack at developing android apps. It's a pretty good book and goes over most of the "fun" stuff (includes widgets, live wallpapers), as well as the basics. You should probably read some Java tutorials beforehand if you've never done any sort of programming, since the book kind of assumes you know that. Good luck!
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).