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ilifinicus: Mar 7, 2004

Toanek posted:

and an app i made to put black behind widgets

I'll bite. Tell me more, I've wanted to use bright backgrounds with white txt inside black, half-transparent boxes for ages.

# ? Nov 12, 2010 12:40

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# ? May 20, 2013 16:05

landis: Jun 16, 2003; Until the end.

Mogomra posted:

Hey, I like that background, and the dock... And the dock icons. Mind sharing?

The background you can get here, a gallery I setup (edit: specifically I think it's this one). The icons are just inverted, you can get them here-ish although I used the LPi app to get them (it's advertised on the side on that page). The dock I made myself:

The apps icon is a part of the pre-packaged LauncherPro that comes with the ROM I'm running. I think someone reposted it somewhere, I'll see if I can find it.

WithoutTheFezOn posted:

Looks like Beautiful Widgets' Beautiful Weather 1x1 widget with the FlatWhite weather skin.

Exactly right.

edit: You can get the apps icon from the 'Original' dreamlyfe theme demo.

landis fucked around with this message at Nov 12, 2010 around 16:05

# ? Nov 12, 2010 15:54

DrBouvenstein: Feb 28, 2007; I think I'm a doctor, but that doesn't make me a doctor. This fancy avatar does.

Did some changing around, and a LOT of messing with the color of several widget's text (using the color picker in Paint.NET helped, but since the color selector in the widgets never gives exact RGB values, it was still a bit of a guessing game.)

Click here for the full 480x800 image.

Click here for the full 480x800 image.

(obviously I don't really have a big black box there.)

The icons, clock, calendar, and weather are all different colors, technically, so I think I did a decent job of matching them.

I'm going to try and make my own icons in the same style for the icons underneath the calendar (the set I downloaded has a lot of common ones, but no calculator or notes)...shouldn't be too hard, as long as I can find the font used (anyone have an idea?) Just modify one of the existing ones with different words, should be simple...right?

The only thing I don't care for is the wifi, silent, and vibrate widgets. They don't fit the rest of the theme. And if I could make battstat have two colors so it matched a little better, that'd be great, but not needed.

Anyone know of any vibrate/silent/wifi toggle widgets that are text only? Ideally, they would just be the word "silent" and "vibrate," and 'active' would be one color, and 'de-active' would be another...user changeable, of course.

I'm guessing that no such widget exists...

# ? Nov 12, 2010 16:50

heat: Sep 4, 2003; The Mad Monk

DrBouvenstein posted:

Ok...but all that swiping and/or clicking is just as much work as opening the app drawer. It's a lot easier for me to have my most used programs on one of my three desktops, At most, it's one swipe and one click. Not three swipes through my dock, then a swipe up, then a click, then do the hokey-pokey...but you didn't have to open the app drawer, so I guess you win!

I'm in the same boat - I keep 8 apps that I use all the time on my main homescreen plus a folder for games. That's the beauty of something so customizable: people who want apps quickly and people who want 8 square inches of a pretty picture or even a pattern of gray dots to look at both win

# ? Nov 12, 2010 16:51

GIMMEL: Jan 24, 2005

Changed it around a bit, the background is from the pattern wallpaper app (which is amazing) and makes things pretty weird.

# ? Nov 12, 2010 17:01

PREYING MANTITS: Mar 13, 2003; and that's how you get ants.

Dock and Launcher icons were grabbed out of some thread on XDA.
Random abstract wallpaper I turned black and white.
Extended Controls
Clockr Evolution

# ? Nov 12, 2010 17:04

Death of Rats: Oct 2, 2005; I am Joe's Raging Bile Duct

I've been working to get a design I actually like for a long while. I'm using the HTC Wildfire, and a number of the "normal" widgets anti-alias quite badly (such as desktop visualiser) when you really want pixel-sharp icons. Thus, here is my attempt at a usable and interesting interface.

I'm using the transparent LPP mod, some home-made icons, beautiful widgets weather (4x1), Cyanogen Mod 6.1 (status bar/menu), app organiser (not directly shown, but forms two folders I link to) and Agenda Widget.

Left/Middle/Right

Orange text is the swipe action for that icon.

Cyanogen Status Menu (I love this thing!!!)

Rather than a minimalist interface (which I might yet resort to), I'm trying to work on a first/second order of accessibility design. Thus the most important stuff should look at you as soon as you open the phone - calendar, weather (0 presses). Next is the 10 available shortcuts on the home screen (1 press/swipe - apart from items in the game folder, that's 2), and the friends widget and favourite contacts widget (1 swipe left/right). Everything else is two away (apart from items in the tools folder, which is three). Power control, other apps. It sounds really pretentious, but I've been unemployed for a week (post-University), and I'm already super bored.

# ? Nov 12, 2010 20:12

Doctor Butts: May 21, 2002; AFC NORTH PITY FUCK

I'm probably the last person on earth to figure this out, but in LauncherPro you can change the swipe action to launch a specific FolderOrganizer folder. And have FolderOrganizer folders set up with labels so it opens up those folders on swipe up. And, you can add the LP activities to launch specific poo poo inside of apps when inside an FO folder.

One screen to rule them all (except for two screens to work as widget screens)(work in progress)

Example 1.
Here's my main screen.

Example 2.
Swiping up on the apps drawer icon, I've changed the action to open a FolderOrganizer link to a folder with these other FO folders that are labeled in the link:

Example 3.
Here's what happens when I click on the "multimedia" folder

Example 4.
Here's what happens when you can create a folderorganizer folder and choosing LauncherPro activities (which are basically shortcuts to an applications activity). In this example, swiping up on the phone icon opens two Activies options- I can either go straight to call log, or straight to phone dial (both activities within the 'contacts' app). Regular press on the phone icon takes me to contacts.

LP would be even sweeter if they integrated some sort of radial menu poo poo, or had something that did this natively.

edit2: cool, folderorganizer also lets you make the folder backgrounds transparent

Doctor Butts fucked around with this message at Nov 12, 2010 around 21:03

# ? Nov 12, 2010 20:30

Stormageddon: Jan 16, 2008; I am actually just a sentient program made to shitpost, and am still getting my human speed calibration down.

Toanek posted:

Ok I think I'm happy with this now

left: pure calendar
center: desktop visualizer and some photoshop
right(homescreen): typo clock, beautiful widgets (weather), battstatt, and an app i made to put black behind widgets

dock is launcher pro plus

background

The Squirrel Facebook makes it.

# ? Nov 12, 2010 21:32

IOwnCalculus: Apr 2, 2003; IndieCar 2013: You Probably Haven't Heard Of It

Death of Rats posted:

Wow, I really like your combo-icon idea on the dock buttons. That might make swipe-actions useful as hell for me.

# ? Nov 12, 2010 21:48

PreacherNutshot: Dec 8, 2005; I love children, but I can't eat a whole one.

Just using the standards:
screen stretched to 5 columns
launchPro
Beautiful Widgets weather (4x1)
typoClock
Beautiful Widgets toggles (4x1)
TallMinOrange icons for dock
wall paper downloaded using Backgrounds app from Market

# ? Nov 12, 2010 21:50

Toanek: Feb 21, 2008; It's a fiesta of personal triumph!

PreacherNutshot posted:

wall paper downloaded using Backgrounds app from Market

been looking for a huge wallpaper repository, awesome!

ilifin posted:

I'll bite. Tell me more, I've wanted to use bright backgrounds with white txt inside black, half-transparent boxes for ages.

Its just a coloured rectangle widget that you resize over other things with launcher pro plus, so its pretty situational

if you wanna try it though, by all means
http://toanek.ca/android/bg_widget.apk

# ? Nov 12, 2010 22:39

P-niiice: May 20, 2001; I have you now.

# ? Nov 12, 2010 23:50

DrBouvenstein: Feb 28, 2007; I think I'm a doctor, but that doesn't make me a doctor. This fancy avatar does.

P-niiice posted:

What's up TallMin icon buddy!

Incidentally, what's that clock widget? I have clockr, but I miss having the date...and I love the wording of that clock (fourteen minutes to seven? Awesome.)

# ? Nov 13, 2010 00:14

ilifinicus: Mar 7, 2004

Toanek posted:

been looking for a huge wallpaper repository, awesome!

Its just a coloured rectangle widget that you resize over other things with launcher pro plus, so its pretty situational

if you wanna try it though, by all means
http://toanek.ca/android/bg_widget.apk

I see. I've yet to figure how to do that resize thing properly and I tried to make a blank rectangle using DVR and random sized pictures, but never got quite there. How many rows/columns are you using?

# ? Nov 13, 2010 00:41

Toanek: Feb 21, 2008; It's a fiesta of personal triumph!

ilifin posted:

I see. I've yet to figure how to do that resize thing properly and I tried to make a blank rectangle using DVR and random sized pictures, but never got quite there. How many rows/columns are you using?

For resizing all you should need to do is pick up a widget and drop it in the same spot, again with launcher pro plus. then just make the boundaries go over what you want a background for

homescreen im using is 5x5

# ? Nov 13, 2010 02:03

landis: Jun 16, 2003; Until the end.

Death of Rats posted:

a number of the "normal" widgets anti-alias quite badly (such as desktop visualiser) when you really want pixel-sharp icons.

Get LauncherPro Plus, make the widget in Desktop Visualizer bigger than you need, and then resize it down.

landis posted:

You gotta make it bigger than you need and then resize it to the size you want.

Bottom was resized down.

Kinda tricky once you start filling up the screen though.

edit: It looks like you can resize it all the way down to 1x1 and then back up to whatever you need as long as you start bigger. That way you can make room for more widgets and then resize them again when you've got what you want on the screen.

# ? Nov 13, 2010 06:10

Death of Rats: Oct 2, 2005; I am Joe's Raging Bile Duct

landis posted:

Get LauncherPro Plus, make the widget in Desktop Visualizer bigger than you need, and then resize it down.

Cheers for that. I'd completely forgotten I'd read that post.

IOwnCalculus posted:

Wow, I really like your combo-icon idea on the dock buttons. That might make swipe-actions useful as hell for me.

If you're using a "normal" (not qvga) sized phone, you could get away with more letters/different fonts quite easily. If not, the maximum icon size is 30x30, so I used a pixel font - Supernatural. I went through a bunch, but that one seems best for the job.

# ? Nov 13, 2010 07:31

ilifinicus: Mar 7, 2004

Toanek posted:

For resizing all you should need to do is pick up a widget and drop it in the same spot, again with launcher pro plus. then just make the boundaries go over what you want a background for

homescreen im using is 5x5

Can't get that widget to display properly. Curse you, Beautiful Weather and TypoClock, for not having backgrounds!

# ? Nov 13, 2010 11:39

ZShakespeare: Jul 20, 2003; The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired.

After looking at the setups over at color me android I came up with this:

It's Launcher Pro, Simi clock, Agenda Widget, and beatiful widgets.

you can't see them, but the icons next to the app drawer are still there, just invisible. I can't be assed to launch everything from the app drawer/search menu.

e: Wallpaper:

it's also on appbrain if you look at the 'latest' category for wallpapers

ZShakespeare fucked around with this message at Nov 14, 2010 around 00:28

# ? Nov 13, 2010 22:28

EVGA Longoria: Dec 25, 2005; Let's go exploring!

200th Poster posted:

After looking at the setups over at color me android I came up with this:

It's Launcher Pro, Simi clock, Agenda Widget, and beatiful widgets.

you can't see them, but the icons next to the app drawer are still there, just invisible. I can't be assed to launch everything from the app drawer/search menu.

This owns.

# ? Nov 13, 2010 22:42

big mean giraffe: Dec 13, 2003; Eat Shit and Die

Casao posted:

This owns.

Yeah, that would fit right in with some of his poo poo on that site. Love the background too, care to post it?

Oh and how'd you get Pure Agenda not to show the date at the top of the widget?

big mean giraffe fucked around with this message at Nov 13, 2010 around 23:49

# ? Nov 13, 2010 23:13

ZShakespeare: Jul 20, 2003; The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired.

It's not pure agenda. It's agenda widget, and it has a veritable labyrinth of configuration option. It's free too.

# ? Nov 14, 2010 00:22

God Exists.: Sep 26, 2010; by Ozma

The way you disable the date in Android Agenda is to "disable top toolbar." Not very intuitive but there it is.

# ? Nov 14, 2010 00:43

big mean giraffe: Dec 13, 2003; Eat Shit and Die

200th Poster posted:

It's not pure agenda. It's agenda widget, and it has a veritable labyrinth of configuration option. It's free too.

How'd you get it to not show the little blue line next to events with the date row setting on? This thing has way too many options.

# ? Nov 14, 2010 00:44

ZShakespeare: Jul 20, 2003; The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired.

big mean giraffe posted:

How'd you get it to not show the little blue line next to events with the date row setting on? This thing has way too many options.

In the Calendars submenu, uncheck "show calendar colors". It only works with some row styles. Check under appearance and row settings.

# ? Nov 14, 2010 03:08

Plague Skillet: Nov 10, 2003; No night is complete without the antics of an unwilling magic panda.

Doctor Butts posted:

Example 2.
Swiping up on the apps drawer icon, I've changed the action to open a FolderOrganizer link to a folder with these other FO folders that are labeled in the link:

What is the Hulu app you have in this one?

# ? Nov 14, 2010 11:10

Technogeek: Sep 9, 2002; The literati sent out their
minions to do their bidding.

Here's how my home screen looks at the moment:

LauncherPro for the dock, Fancy Widget for time/weather, CalWidget for the calendar display, and the built-in News and Weather widget set to display only news at the bottom.

The wallpaper is the black wood grain that can be found here.

EDIT: Actually, that's now out of date -- I swapped the positions of the Messaging and GMail icons.

Technogeek fucked around with this message at Nov 14, 2010 around 21:02

# ? Nov 14, 2010 20:59

Echophonic: Sep 16, 2005; Kirby Gear Solid 3:
Snake Eater

DrBouvenstein posted:

What's up TallMin icon buddy!

Incidentally, what's that clock widget? I have clockr, but I miss having the date...and I love the wording of that clock (fourteen minutes to seven? Awesome.)

That's Tajm.

I'd post a picture of mine, but I need to get the SDK set up since I can't get any of the screenshot apps to play nice with my phone. ShootMe does nothing, drocap2 gives me some error I don't remember offhand and PicMe corrupts the bottom quarter of me image.

# ? Nov 15, 2010 14:05

ilifinicus: Mar 7, 2004

A work in progress. With this setup I can use any background, dark or bright. Still trying to get all the boxes to align out properly, and also make the buttons look crispier than they do now, even with the very little text on them.

# ? Nov 15, 2010 14:19

Require More Fire: Feb 18, 2010; "Think of the deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser."

200th Poster posted:

After looking at the setups over at color me android I came up with this:

It's Launcher Pro, Simi clock, Agenda Widget, and beatiful widgets.

you can't see them, but the icons next to the app drawer are still there, just invisible. I can't be assed to launch everything from the app drawer/search menu.

e: Wallpaper:

it's also on appbrain if you look at the 'latest' category for wallpapers

Okay, how do you get the widgets to overlap like that? I saw another layout that did something similar.

# ? Nov 15, 2010 15:16

Doctor Butts: May 21, 2002; AFC NORTH PITY FUCK

Plague Skillet posted:

What is the Hulu app you have in this one?

I don't know. It's an old hack from somewhere on xda or market. I'm suprised it still works with the flash version i have installed.

# ? Nov 15, 2010 15:19

traslin: Feb 19, 2004; Hooked On Phoenix

Doctor Butts posted:

I don't know. It's an old hack from somewhere on xda or market. I'm suprised it still works with the flash version i have installed.

I believe it can be found in the third post of this thread on xda, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=720682 . Not sure if it still works or not though.

# ? Nov 15, 2010 15:26

WithoutTheFezOn: Aug 28, 2005; Oh no

Living Vicariously posted:

Okay, how do you get the widgets to overlap like that? I saw another layout that did something similar.

Place the Simi clock widget in a small area, then add and position the other widgets, and at the end resize the Simi widget to cover the others.

# ? Nov 15, 2010 15:40

Require More Fire: Feb 18, 2010; "Think of the deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser."

WithoutTheFezOn posted:

Place the Simi clock widget in a small area, then add and position the other widgets, and at the end resize the Simi widget to cover the others.

Wow. I tried everything except that. That's what I get for over-complicating things. Thanks a million.

# ? Nov 15, 2010 16:22

God Exists.: Sep 26, 2010; by Ozma

I'm using the LiberationSans font (a Helvetica knockoff) and loving it. Readability and general quality of the typeface is hugely improved in my opinion compared to DroidSans.

edit- and the Serif font looks pretty sweet as Palatino

Click here for the full 480x800 image.

God Exists. fucked around with this message at Nov 15, 2010 around 20:07

# ? Nov 15, 2010 16:47

TangyRaptor: Apr 10, 2006; Seasoning not included.

WithoutTheFezOn posted:

Place the Simi clock widget in a small area, then add and position the other widgets, and at the end resize the Simi widget to cover the others.

I'm trying to achieve this but I can't quite get it right. Once I drag the Simi Clock down, the background greatly dulls the Beautiful Weather widget. Is there someway to keep the weather widget on top?

# ? Nov 15, 2010 21:32

P-niiice: May 20, 2001; I have you now.

DrBouvenstein posted:

What's up TallMin icon buddy!

Incidentally, what's that clock widget? I have clockr, but I miss having the date...and I love the wording of that clock (fourteen minutes to seven? Awesome.)

I forget the name, I'll look it up.

# ? Nov 15, 2010 22:48

big mean giraffe: Dec 13, 2003; Eat Shit and Die

TangyRaptor posted:

I'm trying to achieve this but I can't quite get it right. Once I drag the Simi Clock down, the background greatly dulls the Beautiful Weather widget. Is there someway to keep the weather widget on top?

Add Simi to the desktop last.

# ? Nov 15, 2010 23:03

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# ? May 20, 2013 16:05

dissss: Nov 10, 2007

God Exists. posted:

I'm using the LiberationSans font (a Helvetica knockoff) and loving it. Readability and general quality of the typeface is hugely improved in my opinion compared to DroidSans.

This inspired me to change my font:

LPP with three home screens
This weather widget
Segoe UI font. This is the standard Windows 7 one, have changed my XP laptop to it too for consistency. Makes a huge difference on the phone even if it doesn't look dramatic is screen shots.
CM6 status bar changed to black

# ? Nov 16, 2010 02:04

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