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eSporks: Jun 10, 2011

leidend posted:

This is like babby's first customization experimentation but this is what I have on my Note 3 (Touchwiz/Nova/4.3)

More function than style on the home screen obviously. If your function is to browse social media all day.

The background is really sweet.

# ¿ Jan 12, 2014 19:08

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 11:32

eSporks: Jun 10, 2011

Working on a homescreen.

Its kinda based off of [url=http://lifehacker.com/the-target-home-screen-1246759904]this[/url and highly inspired by the game Blooddragon which is where the background comes from. It needs a bit of cleaning up, a higher res background, and to add a few more things, but I am hitting a bit of a wall.

-I'm not too keen on those icons, but its the best I have been able to find.
-I really don't know how I want the pop up widget in the middle to look. I can't really think of a good direction to go with it. I'm thinking I would like to mimic the style of 80's boxart with sort of screen printed image there, but I'm not too sure.

Any suggestions?

# ¿ Feb 1, 2014 07:44

eSporks: Jun 10, 2011

If I am understanding what you mean by a bar behind the icons, Zooper can do this easily. The answer is almost always Zooper.

# ¿ Feb 25, 2014 06:00

eSporks: Jun 10, 2011

RVProfootballer posted:

Sick, how'd you get your carrier as a persistent notification? I'd love to be reminded of my love for T-Mob every time I look at my phone.

Also my home screen is about the same, but you're supposed to have Gmail/Chrome on the right and Phone/Hangouts on the left. Otherwise, you about reached perfection.

Are you for real?

# ¿ Aug 12, 2014 18:38

eSporks: Jun 10, 2011

RVProfootballer posted:

I like yours too! But I'm more of a fan of simplicity, ease of use, and aesthetic consistency, so RZA Encryption would get my vote for "top android home screen" award.

Maybe I should have bolded the part I was talking about.

RVProfootballer posted:

Sick, how'd you get your carrier as a persistent notification? I'd love to be reminded of my love for T-Mob every time I look at my phone.

I also changed my desktop and now I'm just using this theme for Lightning Launcher. Working on tweaking it a bit to better suit my needs, but LLX is really cool, like the tasker of launchers.

eSporks fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Aug 12, 2014

# ¿ Aug 12, 2014 23:22

eSporks: Jun 10, 2011

I use windows similarly, with a clean desktop and toolbar access to commonly used items. The one thing I do differently though is that I use the desktop as a work space and temporary storage. If there is a project I am working on I will put the resources such as pictures, text files, programs downloaded for niche use on the desktop and then delete them after the project is done.
If its a longer term project I file things away in a folder, but its nice to have that workspace for those things.

On my phone I love widgets and organized folders with apps. I want quick access to as much information as I can.

# ¿ Aug 13, 2014 14:29

eSporks: Jun 10, 2011

noirstronaut posted:

To be fair, if you like having a clean homescreen, you should've chosen a better wallpaper than a logo. And alternatively, you could've just gotten some transparent icons but to each his own.

My home screen is just an off black wallpaper filled with invisible icons. I just have to memorize the location of each app I want to launch.

# ¿ Aug 13, 2014 20:35

eSporks: Jun 10, 2011

porktree posted:

Anyone else using Zooper? I bought it, but I'm running into an issue with the clock not updating - using it in conjunction with Action Launcher 3, which after the latest update seems to crash about once a day.

Zooper does not update in realtime, it refreshes the scripts every minute or so, and also when certain actions take place, then it crates and displays a static .bmp.
If thats not what you are talking about the script might be broken.

Zooper is anything but user friendly, but it works really well and I haven't heard of many problems with it.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2015 23:38

eSporks: Jun 10, 2011

There are also 6 different shades of blue. I don't know what widgets you are using and how customize able they are, but if you could trim that down at all it would clash less.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2015 22:48

eSporks: Jun 10, 2011

If you ditched the screen, you could probably fit a smartphone into an earbud form factor.

# ¿ Apr 29, 2015 02:50

eSporks: Jun 10, 2011

Wouldn't e-ink not work at all for a smartphone? If I understand it correctly it uses next to 0 power to display a static image, but a lot of power to change the pixels. Perfect for a book, but horrible for web browsing or anything with lots of screen changes and animations.

# ¿ Apr 29, 2015 14:50

eSporks: Jun 10, 2011

I think its just an odd way of attaching the shoulder strap.

# ¿ Aug 23, 2015 23:59

eSporks: Jun 10, 2011

Congratulations on copying the worst UI man has ever seen.

I kinda want to do something with those icons and background though, but just use a whole different layout to fallout.

# ¿ Aug 25, 2015 00:33

eSporks: Jun 10, 2011

ijii posted:

One of the houses nearby me also has FBISurveillance. I'm going to need to come up with something more original than my nickname.

It seems like everyone I talk to has an FBI Surveillance Van router near them, myself included. Either the FBI has millions of vans or its a completely unoriginal joke.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2016 06:04

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 11:32

eSporks: Jun 10, 2011

I like both of the last 2 a lot. What Icon packs? and whats that widget slider thing?

# ¿ Jan 14, 2018 17:12

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