|
Shroomie posted:Also freshly downloaded apps that are automatically added to the desktop always have the default icon. I was so annoyed when Nova added this as a default-on feature. It's already built into Android, why the hell would they add it? Once I found it I immediately disabled it as I have it disabled in the play store.
|
#
?
Jul 3, 2013 14:44
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 27, 2024 20:53 |
|
|
big mean giraffe posted:I was so annoyed when Nova added this as a default-on feature. It's already built into Android, why the hell would they add it? Once I found it I immediately disabled it as I have it disabled in the play store.
|
|
#
?
Jul 3, 2013 15:23
|
|
|
Does anyone actually like that feature? There's already a cluttered grid of apps, it's the app drawer. I don't need that on my phone desktop without any semblance of organization to boot.
|
|
#
?
Jul 3, 2013 16:50
|
|
|
Because what's the point of having an Android phone if you can't make it exactly like an iPhone? 
|
|
#
?
Jul 3, 2013 17:01
|
|
|
greatant posted:I increased icon size to 130% as well as replacing the single battery bar with two battery bars that meet in the middle and turn from a barely visible black to red when battery is low. How'd you do the battery bar? I've just started messing around with UCCW due to Buzz Launcher, and I'm not too sure what I'm doing.
|
|
#
?
Jul 5, 2013 00:12
|
|
|
Does anyone know what font Minimalistic Text uses by default? I want to use it in UCCW. edit: I think it's just the default, Roboto? actionjackson fucked around with this message at 03:45 on Jul 5, 2013 |
|
#
?
Jul 5, 2013 01:42
|
|
|
Is there any way to customise widgets? E.g. I have widget for AnkiDroid (flashcards) that shows me how many cards are due to be tested. However it looks pretty average so I was wondering is there anyway to theme the widget or skin it? Or is this something that must be allowed by the developer? I'm guessing that writing my own widget for another app isn't possible..? Edit: The more I think about it the less possible this seems. Xarb fucked around with this message at 07:15 on Jul 5, 2013 |
|
#
?
Jul 5, 2013 07:11
|
|
|
Correct. The widget/app maker needs to allow customization for you to be able to do it. And likewise, unless an app maker puts out the source code (or API?) for their app, you are unlikely yo just "make a widget" for it. V V V Ok, I guess I should have clarified for the average, "non-programmer" user. V V V DrBouvenstein fucked around with this message at 17:08 on Jul 5, 2013 |
|
#
?
Jul 5, 2013 14:39
|
|
|
DrBouvenstein posted:Correct. The widget/app maker needs to allow customization for you to be able to do it.
|
|
#
?
Jul 5, 2013 16:20
|
|
|
Actually thinking about it AnkiDroid is open source so I could do it myself. The rest I'll just have to deal with.
|
|
#
?
Jul 6, 2013 00:37
|
|
|
Finally told Touchwiz to take a hike and installed AOKP. The blue line at the top is my battery gauge. 
|
|
#
?
Jul 6, 2013 01:46
|
|
|
hooah posted:How'd you do the battery bar? I've just started messing around with UCCW due to Buzz Launcher, and I'm not too sure what I'm doing. I created a widget in UCCW that would be half my screen width and put in a battery bar. Then I created another widget the same size with a battery bar styled the same way, but I used the angle option on the battery bar to rotate it around 180 degrees. Then you place the widgets on your screen so that the bars are touching and it looks like a single line. It took a few goes to line them up properly but not too hard. 
|
|
#
?
Jul 6, 2013 11:16
|
|
|
greatant posted:I created a widget in UCCW that would be half my screen width and put in a battery bar. Then I created another widget the same size with a battery bar styled the same way, but I used the angle option on the battery bar to rotate it around 180 degrees. Then you place the widgets on your screen so that the bars are touching and it looks like a single line. Hmm. I had made a battery bar that was 1x4, but when I stretched it out (Buzz defaults to 12 wide), the bar didn't stretch nearly as much as the resize box did. Any idea why that might be? Also, I've noticed that while you declare a widget's dimensions when you first create it, when you place it, you can choose any size (X by Y), and all widgets are choosable, despite their declared size. Is this useful information, or just an oddity of UCCW?
|
|
#
?
Jul 6, 2013 19:58
|
|
|
hooah posted:Hmm. I had made a battery bar that was 1x4, but when I stretched it out (Buzz defaults to 12 wide), the bar didn't stretch nearly as much as the resize box did. Any idea why that might be? Also, I've noticed that while you declare a widget's dimensions when you first create it, when you place it, you can choose any size (X by Y), and all widgets are choosable, despite their declared size. Is this useful information, or just an oddity of UCCW? 1x4 = 1 width x 4 height. You picked the wrong dimensions. I'm not really sure how/when the size chosen affects the widget but it only occasionally seems to matter.
|
|
#
?
Jul 6, 2013 23:42
|
|
|
greatant posted:1x4 = 1 width x 4 height. You picked the wrong dimensions. I'm not really sure how/when the size chosen affects the widget but it only occasionally seems to matter. Eh, I always get those backwards; the widget was created longer than it is high.
|
|
#
?
Jul 6, 2013 23:46
|
|
|
Perhaps the appropriate desktop grid size wasn't chosen when first created. In the end you just have to experiment.
|
|
#
?
Jul 6, 2013 23:58
|
|
|
I'm also trying this battery bar thing, but I can't get get rid of the background color for the battery bar. Changing the "Alpha" makes the whole thing transparent.
|
|
#
?
Jul 7, 2013 00:42
|
|
|
I'm putting all my wallpapers on Dropbox now to share with my husband. Thought I'd post the link here in case anyone wants a new wallpaper: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7qwmnmcho61rrmi/zNNrAv-OO9 It's a mixed bag and I'm not sure that anyone here will want them but I thought I'd share anyway. They're all pretty high res.
|
|
#
?
Jul 7, 2013 01:25
|
|
|
DrBouvenstein posted:I'm also trying this battery bar thing, but I can't get get rid of the background color for the battery bar. Changing the "Alpha" makes the whole thing transparent. I just futzed with the height and vertical position of the background and the meter until they were the same, then made the background transparent.
|
|
#
?
Jul 7, 2013 03:26
|
|
|
DrBouvenstein posted:I'm also trying this battery bar thing, but I can't get get rid of the background color for the battery bar. Changing the "Alpha" makes the whole thing transparent. Should go away if you set the height in control 4 to 0
|
|
#
?
Jul 7, 2013 12:37
|
|
|
Two questions: -Is there a way to customize my lock screen using Apex? The icons there aren't changed and I can only use the default themed clock. -Are there ways to customize the Alarm and Light widgets? I use those pretty often but they never match my themes. e: Solved one of the three. buglord fucked around with this message at 01:11 on Jul 8, 2013 |
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2013 00:49
|
|
|
Avocados posted:Two questions: I don't believe Apex (or any other launcher replacement) touches the lockscreen. You'd have to use a different ROM or something like WidgetLocker.
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2013 01:39
|
|
|
 Blatantly stole a wallpaper from this thread... 3 Home screens. I'm also running sidebar for my most commonly-used apps. I think I can stop fiddling with it for now.
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2013 10:50
|
|
|
Pyroxene Stigma posted:Finally told Touchwiz to take a hike and installed AOKP. The blue line at the top is my battery gauge. I want your battery bar at the top. Did you make that yourself or is it something sharable?
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2013 16:51
|
|
|
couldcareless posted:I want your battery bar at the top. Did you make that yourself or is it something sharable?
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2013 17:17
|
|
|
couldcareless posted:I want your battery bar at the top. Did you make that yourself or is it something sharable? You can also try https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tombarrasso.android.batterybar
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2013 17:17
|
|
|
the kawaiiest posted:You can also try https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tombarrasso.android.batterybar This is the app that was actually pretty neat until without warning the devs put in tons of push notification adds, claimed they weren't going to do further updates, and released a paid version of the app that made it act like it was before without the ads for  . As far as I can tell from reviews this still hasn't been changed in the 7 months it's been since then (holy poo poo that was seven months ago  ), but even if it had been I'd still recommend people avoid that app/developer on principle because that's kind of a lovely thing to do.
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2013 17:43
|
|
|
Wrist Watch posted:This is the app that was actually pretty neat until without warning the devs put in tons of push notification adds, claimed they weren't going to do further updates, and released a paid version of the app that made it act like it was before without the ads for No, that was this one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pvy.batterybar&feature=search_result e: wait, I've got it backwards  THIS is the good app, the one I linked to earlier is the bad one. Ooops. 
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2013 17:45
|
|
|
Yeah do that. No seriously I wish I could share but it came in the settings for AOKP.
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2013 18:37
|
|
|
The curse of not being able to settle onto just one theme is in full effect. I knew this was going to happen.   I still feel like these are "off". I really want to like the green wallpaper but I feel it blends in too much with the icons. Im also debating the amount of icons on-screen. buglord fucked around with this message at 20:36 on Jul 8, 2013 |
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2013 20:34
|
|
|
It's probably because you are using not-Comic Sans.
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2013 20:39
|
|
|
Endless Mike posted:It's probably because you are using not-Comic Sans. About that, are there any cool font packs that have actually readable fonts? I downloaded a few but they all gave me ad notifications about nonsense.
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2013 20:41
|
|
|
Avocados posted:About that, are there any cool font packs that have actually readable fonts? I downloaded a few but they all gave me ad notifications about nonsense. What's wrong with Roboto?
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2013 20:47
|
|
|
Is there any reason to use My Data Manager over the stock data usage app that's under settings? I guess the former gives you a widget, but it's pretty ugly.
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2013 21:16
|
|
|
Avocados posted:The curse of not being able to settle onto just one theme is in full effect. I knew this was going to happen. I really like this one, if you could get rid of the blue line it would be perfect in my eyes.
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2013 21:47
|
|
|
Avocados posted:About that, are there any cool font packs that have actually readable fonts? I downloaded a few but they all gave me ad notifications about nonsense. I've never liked any font packs, but I recently flashed the 4.3 system font and I really like the changes they've made to Roboto.
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2013 00:46
|
|
|
What're the most comprehensive icon packs out there? I know of MIUIv4 and DCiconZ, both of which have about 2000ish... Also, ugh, I changed the name of a bunch of apps in Nova and now they won't recognise for changing icons. Any way around this? MikeJF fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Jul 9, 2013 |
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2013 01:11
|
|
|
Putting my home screen on mycolorscreen seemed like a good idea as I spent way too much time screwing with it to not show it off. e: vvv - I looked in shortcuts before and couldn't find anything. But apparently I didn't look through apps well enough, because I just found everything under that. Whoops. linall fucked around with this message at 16:04 on Jul 9, 2013 |
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2013 15:36
|
|
|
Uhhh...yeah, phone/dialer, contacts, and messages should be right there in the app drawer. Unless you have some weird phone/ROM I'm not familair with that doesn't have simple shortcuts to those. Have you tried just long-pressing on the homescreen, selecting "shortcuts" and scrolling down until you see one that looks like it could be phone/contacts/messages?
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2013 15:55
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 27, 2024 20:53 |
|
|
I'm trying to put together this screen from MyColorScreen on my Nexus 4, but I'm having some trouble setting the wallpaper correctly. If I include the whole image, the divider for the "dock" is too close to the soft keys. I can enable CM's expanded desktop, but I'd rather not. Next, I tried to shrink the crop window some, but keep it all the way to the bottom, so I'd have the right amount of space. No dice. How do I get the wallpaper picker to cooperate?
|
|
#
?
Jul 9, 2013 21:31
|
|