chronotopia app can be found here.(scroll down page a bit ) remember its beta still so has a few bugs but fully functional. big up knoxcoder for this amazing multifuctional clock/notification widget maker.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1001203
basic guide can be found here. from ECadro
http://ecadro.deviantart.com/journal/Chronotopia-101-261338112#comments
im not very good at explaining things but will try my best below.i have spent a lot of time with this app and i am still not fully experienced with it but i manage to get by. its all about trial and error with this beauty but once you get the basics its amazing what you could do.
first i will say the need to calibrate your screen and will most likely be needed, i would do this before starting to make your theme by creating a fake theme just to calibrate,
if your widgets are not showing correct once made then this is why.
this is adw method i dont know about other launchers sorry.
each widget size you will use needs its own calibration.
my tip is to use a 4x4 then it can be reduced once on screen. you may encouter horizontal misfits too. like i said its all trial and error ( and headache lol)
long press screen >add chronotopia widget to screen> choose your widgets size> calibrate> now choose the size it will be on screen> you will get a blacked out box the size of your widget with +/- top bottom left and right now this is where i get my headache lol. you need to get the outline to match the box edges. by pressing the + and - but the + adjusts far greater than the - so be careful because you can alter too much without really realizing due to the outline returning. now all i did is hit the bottom - and right - until it lined up with the box and confirm with centre tick.
ECadro talks about pressing menu for properties and elements but its changed now and swiping changes menus. also when in menus of elements ie. colors/layout etc etc to close the drop down menu press the greyed out title again.
when adding notification elements dont choose the image options you will get f/c you can add images from the miscellaneous child elements by long pressing screen in canvas mode.
choosing misc > image then whilst this is highlighted swipe and choose image again in next menu and its the same as adding fonts from ECadros tutorial.
for alternative advanced editing, the calibration settings etc etc are found in local/data/data/com.marooned.chronotopia/shared_prefs (for me anyway)
p.s you can add your own weather images too which is cooooooool.
lastly please dont bombard me with how to's and stuff, just keep trying and youll get there eventually. (if i can do it !!!!!!!)
thanks and have fun, regards slymobi.
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Can I have that wallpaper sly?
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I have looked and looked and search turns up nothing.
I'm trying to remove the time from the top bar, how do I go about it?
P.S. complete novice.
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(the"01:08" part on the top bar)
Cheers
It's easy,
Download and install HTCustom from here:
http://shadowmite.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=2231&p=7890#p7890
In the "UI" tab you can select in Clock Display one of these options:
Time, Date, Both, Nothing or Battery
Select the one you like, save and soft reset.
Cheers,
Works a treat, only thing is it now hides the volume and half the signal status icons.
If i tap in the empty space it does bring up the volume slider, The icon is just invisble.
when i open a program its is still shown like above.
If i slide open then close again (refreshing the screen) it looks fine. but once back to the today screen it it goes back to like the image above.
On another tanget, the battery status bar (Lordsmiff's) at the top doesnt always work.
I have to stop and restart the app to get an accurate reading, that or view the power status in the settings tab, then go back to the today screen.
Anyone able to shed some light on either of these matters?
Cheers
addfoster said:
Cheers,
On another tanget, the battery status bar (Lordsmiff's) at the top doesnt always work.
I have to stop and restart the app to get an accurate reading, that or view the power status in the settings tab, then go back to the today screen.
Anyone able to shed some light on either of these matters?
Cheers
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You might want to check out Batti.
addfoster said:
On another tanget, the battery status bar (Lordsmiff's) at the top doesnt always work.
I have to stop and restart the app to get an accurate reading, that or view the power status in the settings tab, then go back to the today screen.
Anyone able to shed some light on either of these matters?
Cheers
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You might also try this. It comes in different flavors. I just installed it tho so i dont know if it will have the same problem.
There is now a paid version of LauncherPro:
http://launcherpro.com/
I have installed it but when I hit the "Home" button I don't get the option to switch to LauncherPro. I didn't have a previous version installed so I thought it would pick it up (I had tried a previous version and deleted it). What do I need to do to get the option to switch to it??
EDIT: Fixed using method in the next post.
From the home screen
Menu -> settings -> applications -> manage applications
From Manage Applications
menu -> filter > All
Scroll to either
LauncherPro or twlauncher which ever is yoru default home screen and select "Clear Defaults" Then press the Home button and you should give you the option of which home screen to use.
That did it.
I had gone to the Applications Manager but didn't select "All" to see the default launcher. Thanks for the help!
home switcher...i use home switcher to switch launchers on the fly free and useful
how do you like it? what's different about it other than that it has new widgets? i use adw and i preferred adw over it because it's way more customizable...just wondering if the new launcherpro plus is customizable.
I haven't used a bunch of different launchers but LauncherPro seems to be very customizable. I have changed all of the default icons and it looks really slick.
As soon as I get the drivers installed on my computer (which might end up being the subject of a whole other thread... grrr!) I will post some screenshots.
Pneumatic said:
I haven't used a bunch of different launchers but LauncherPro seems to be very customizable. I have changed all of the default icons and it looks really slick.
As soon as I get the drivers installed on my computer (which might end up being the subject of a whole other thread... grrr!) I will post some screenshots.
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download shootme from the market. it's an app that takes a shot of your homescreen...works like a charm
tq745 said:
download shootme from the market. it's an app that takes a shot of your homescreen...works like a charm
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+1 I gave up on the drivers and just used Shootme. You need to be rooted, but that takes literally one minute so it's no big deal.
Nah I got the driver thing sorted out. Here is the screenshot (I shrunk it down a little and changed it to a .jpg to save some bandwidth). Don't judge the artistic value of the setup. I just plugged it up and took a screenshot to show what I did with the launcher in a few minutes of playing around.
The background is animated (those little images are flying slowly toward you like a star field kind of deal). I played around with the icons at the bottom just to see if I could change them from the default LauncherPro icons and that's as far as I got today. I don't know what's possible with other launchers but I like this one just fine.
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I have issues with some applications getting cut off at the bottom of the screen when using roms such as the AT(HoneyComb)RIX 3.4 EXT4 or the Alien one. I can still scroll to the bottom of the application using the rest of the screen but there will still be part of the screen gone the whole time. Off the top of my head it does this with my SSF4AE guide app, on every single page. Also using handcent I have a similar problem; the background is not appearing fully when I go to my list of text messages
Ive been using Alien for weeks and dont have this problem on any on my 700+ apps, including Handcent which is prob the one I use more than any other.
I had the SSF4AE app problem on both but the handcent problem was only on AT(HoneyComb)RIX 3.4 EXT4
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I just thought about this, my photobucket app has appeared to be shrunk ever since Gingerbread, you can see it doesn't quite take up my screen.. But it sounds like you are having the opposite problem, the app is too big to be displayed on the screen right?
Edit: i think its not showing correctly because of my photobucket privacy settings.. But it is just slightly smaller than the screen, it has a black border all the way around. Also I dont know what SSF4AE is.
Its just a guide for a fighting game that I use frequently.
It's supposed to look like this http://i.imgur.com/NaI1e.jpg
but it looks like this http://i.imgur.com/oDByS.jpg
I didn't notice until now that you mentioned your photobucket app being smaller that the sides are cut off a little too as well in this. I just took a picture from the web and edited it btw.
This thread says to download "spare parts" and toggle compatibility mode, Im gonna try that now and let you know.
Edit: Yup that worked for me! that should fix the problem for you too. Thank you for asking the question because it motivated me to find this simple fix. Im gonna hit your thanks button for that, if it works for you feel free to do the same lol. Also, strangly enough Spare Parts was also one of those apps that had a scaling prob haha, but its fixed now in that app as well. I cant say for sure yet if unchecking the "compatibility mode" causes any negative effects on other apps but it for sure fixed the scaling issue in photobucket and spare parts. Additionally, the "fancy input animation" is pretty cool it makes the keyboard slide up instead of just appear. Enjoy.
Yup that fixed my problem with the SSF4AE guide app. Thanks a lot . The handcent issue is still there but it might just be a problem with the theme..
Found on the market:
https://market.android.com/details?...ure=search_result&rdid=com.ss.launcher&rdot=1
"ssLauncher Turn Your Mobile Screen into A Fashion Magazine – appeggs.com"
This application is a launcher supporting a variety of styles for shortcuts so that you can create a great mobile screen like a magazine cover page. For more wonderful screen, you can add some fancy font files(.ttf) and apply it to shortcut texts. Save your nice work to a file and share it with your friends!
* Features
- Decorate screen with a variety of styles for shortcuts and widgets.
- Easy and quick access to pages for contacts, bookmarks, application drawer, application group.
- Many useful features of application drawer: showing/hiding app, marking star for favorites apps, changing application icon and name, uninstalling app and so on
- Create application group and manage list by drag and drop.
- Save and load your theme, page layouts and settings.
- Convert the saved theme file to apk. (contact us by e-mail for more informations)
- Hide status bar, open status bar by swiping down.
- You can implement nice screen without launcher 7, dvr, minimalistic text, wp clock, clockr etc.
* We will make more optimized application through continuous updates.
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I've played now a little while with it. This is more a construction kit for a launcher than a launcher itself. Very nice idea. I will give the payed versoin a chance.
I installed it a couple of days ago.
I really like the way it handles widgets. I haven't seen any other launcher like it.
Also I like the fact that there is no dock in the main screen.
And it's also very easy to change icons, dock backgrounds or other images (I have just set some of them to transparent).
Very nice feature is also that you can make two differnt homescreen views. One for vertikal mode and one for the horizontal mode. There is also an option to publish the themes you've made by your own. Here you can find a small introduction.
http://chyk-ss.blogspot.com/p/making-theme-apk.html
Below you can see some pictures of my first try with ssLauncher. The first two of them are showing the homescreen in portrait and landscape mode. I will give a little work on it and try to make a theme.apk out of it.
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exactly what i need
works like charm
wow very nice looking
So with the drawer locked (little button) it's not see through but with it unlocked but on screen you can see through. Why can't I see through on locked mode like on Google phone.
https://imgur.com/gallery/Hrnc5
EDIT: SORRY, re-reading for like the sixth time I see I did misunderstand your question. You are only asking about ONE on screen button that is opaque vs translucent -- and the conditions WHY -- not about the entire navigation bar (which LG calls Home Touch buttons) being translucent or even visible. Anyway, hope my answer below this helps someone else!
To answer YOUR question... maybe LG feels that one button being opaque is an easy visual indicator it is locked. Then, unlocked it's translucent. Whereas Google doesn't have such styling concerns.
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So with the drawer locked (little button) it's not see through but with it unlocked but on screen you can see through. Why can't I see through on locked mode like on Google phone.
https://imgur.com/gallery/Hrnc5
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If I'm understanding the question correctly, and I admit I may not...
It had to do with whether you are in full screen mode or not. Sometimes called immersive mode. When NOT in that mode, you will always have the navigation buttons at the bottom. LG calls them "Home Touch buttons".
When in that mode, navigation buttons are translucent or even missing (invisible). When missing you can swipe up from the bottom to make them appear. They will then appear and be translucent. You might want immersive mode for videos or such.
There's a Settings menu to decide which apps you always want to be in immersive mode. Or you can manually do it by clicking on that very left small arrow button on the by navigation bar (unless you've rearranged the icons). I think you referred to it as "locking the drawer" which confused me.
I really only want video to be immersive. With this V30 tall screen, I don't mind visible navigation buttons at the bottom.
I found this issue because my corporte email app, called Nine, didn't have arrows at the bottom for me to go back easily. I could swipe up and force the navigation bar to appear, but other apps were not that way. Sort of irritating. So,I found the Settings menu with all my apps listed, where Nine had this "feature" enabled. I disabled it for that app.
This may not be exactly what you're asking about, and if so then I apologize.
See attached screenshots...
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