Just got a TouchPad last week and loaded the latest nightly build of ICS
Came across threads from last year about creating "hubs" for Honeycome
A dedicated screen for each media.
I liked the idea, so I started playing around with it over the weekend....
Here is some screen shots on what I have so far...
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and my home page, which I just have quick link stack for now...
1st in MuliPicture Live Wallpaper.
I picked 5 wallpapers I wanted to use (resize to screen size of ur tablet)
Next pick a photo for each screen.
The 1st is far most left. I made this my video screen.
Next screen, I made my music screen
The 3rd one is for your main desktop
(I haven't played with Apexi docking draw yet so for now I just used ICS to put all my most frequently used apps.)
4th screen I used as my next most used apps
5th All Games
In MPLW I have 'used lock screen settings' checked.
Everything else unchecked
Transition type a few work, so test to see which you prefer.
I use 'none'
Apex setting I have the following
Number of screens 5
Default screen 3
Automatic grid size - Not checked
Portrait and Landscape I have at -6x8
Horizontal margins small
Vertical margins medium
Preview animation - scale in and out
Wallpaper
* From show Wallpaper on, check
Anyone need help, just post, and I'll try to assist
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That's pretty cool, do you think you can post a tutorial?
I'm wondering how you get the different wallpapers for each "hub". Is that one wallpaper stitched together of different images, or some sort of live wallpaper?
I used MultiPicture Live WallPaper & Apex
I'll try to do a write up on how I did it, when I'm home..
Just took sometime to get the settings right so that all 5 screens would scroll right and for them to look good in portfolio view..
snook789 said:
I used MultiPicture Live WallPaper & Apex
I'll try to do a write up on how I did it, when I'm home..
Just took sometime to get the settings right so that all 5 screens would scroll right and for them to look good in portfolio view..
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Cool, looking forward to it. Thanks!
That's pretty neat I would like to see a 'how to' write up.
snook789 said:
I used MultiPicture Live WallPaper & Apex
I'll try to do a write up on how I did it, when I'm home..
Just took sometime to get the settings right so that all 5 screens would scroll right and for them to look good in portfolio view..
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I love what you've done. Just a quick question: does the launcher you're on affect multipicture live wallpaper? I have tried it numerous times on Nova launcher, and despite changing settings, I can never get it to display different wallpapers (they're always the same on each screen). Looking forward to your 'how-to' to see if I missed anything- thanks
Thanks Everyone!
I just added a How To
Hopefully it will be enough to get you started.
Post if u need help
Enjoy
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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.
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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
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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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Hey Guys,
Something I made when I first got my nook (about 4 days ago!)
USed bits n pieces from here:
http://yankoa.deviantart.com/art/MetroDroid-200340391 (raw circle icons)
Some other dude gave me the idea wil post if i see him again,
Achieved using:
Folder organiser (for apps)
Desktop Visualiser
Download the Icons here:
http://s1235.photobucket.com/albums/ff438/androidatnight/
Icons so far:
Settings
Applications
Games
Books
Music
Spotify
Office (x3)
I might work on this to add more icons, but tbh if you want more icons you can add them using the afore mentioned icons from DA, and using an attached icon as a template, I may make some widget skins and lock screen skins to complement this if I have the time
For the set up I use one homescreen on ADW with desktop bounce set to 0.
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Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome.
Thanks for the contribution.
Hey, thats what I was gonna say! Thanks for sharing this.
awesome icons. the zip you provided is empty though
ooops thanks, uploaded them to photobucket instead, dropbox wouldn't play nice
Man, that looks clean! I really like it. So, do you suppose this could work with Zeam as well?
should do, as long as you can use desktop visualiser and re size widgets it shoud work
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should do, as long as you can use desktop visualiser and re size widgets it shoud work
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Awesome! In an attempt to minimize all clutter, I think this would go a long way.
How does it look like when you tap on an icon?
Have you assigned folders to the icons?, or are they just shortcuts to apps?
I liked to use your icons as folder icons. But I don't know how to do this in desktopvisualizer. also the standard folders aren't so pretty.
any ideas?
edit: got it to work with folder organizer.
could you make a office folder icon, that would be the only one I needed to complete my desktop. thanks.
Ill add some more icons when I have some free time
Updated my photobucket with 3 new office ones (same icon 3 diff colors hopefully one fits) and a spotify icon
Thanks very much for the icons, I actually needed the red icon to match the rainbow.
I took a office icon you made and changed the background color to red.
Looks very nice now.
Edit: Nevermind, figured it out.
Thanks for sharing. Seen this on youtube. Will try this on my Nookcolor.
Btw, how many desktop columns & rows did you set for ADW? I'm running CM7 with Tablet Tweaks (mad murdock) and can't get the spacing between item small enough. Thanks
I have this same problem. But I think it's because of tablet tweaks having the status bar at the bottom, as he was using the regular CM7 nightlys... Could be wrong though.
It looks nice by me.
I've got 6 columns and 10 rows with launcherpro.
desktopvisualizer icons offcourse are set to 4•1 and I have to drag them bigger so they fit.
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nguyen2011 said:
Thanks for sharing. Seen this on youtube. Will try this on my Nookcolor.
Btw, how many desktop columns & rows did you set for ADW? I'm running CM7 with Tablet Tweaks (mad murdock) and can't get the spacing between item small enough. Thanks
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10x10
hope that helps
Links are down.
edit: nvm
Mine caps out at 8x8 so i can only fit four at a time. How did you get it to allow 10x10?
use adw and disable the dock and make it 8x8 but then fits 2 more so looks like 10x10
Fix For Cropping: Here is the best solution for that problem. Download Wallpaper Wizardrii and install it. Open the app and choose the menu button at the bottom. Select "No Scroll" and exit to your home screen. Now you will be able to crop most of the picture so Batman and Mario's heads are cut off for example. The only downside is that panning will be disabled. This is all we can do until Google comes out with a better solution.
Today I spent a long time trying to make my wallpapers not look like **** on this tablet and got pretty frustrated. After doing some Googling, I discovered you can crop pictures to 1920x1408 for the best possible look in both landscape AND portrait. I'd like to share some of my cropped wallpapers I picked up from Wallbase.net now. I'll continue to add more, too. These work very nicely with the default wallpaper setter. Download from the link. Not the pics! Enjoy!
I've added a second optimized wallpaper pack.
Click Me
And here's a third optimized wallpaper pack. Majority of these use a 1920x1600 resolution so you can decide how much of the top or bottom you want in your background.
Click Me
Links:
MediaFire
FileServe
FileSonic
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These are great, thanks! Finding wallpaper that fits properly on this tab has been difficult and i have no desire to use an app draining resources to set a wallpaper. Looking forward to more!
Awesome man! I've been having some real trouble finding wallpapers to look nice on this stupid thing too. Thanks for putting these up dude! These will show just how amazing the screen on this thing is. Great job man!
Nicceee
Nice wallpapers! Is there anyway I can use the full size of the picture? When i select one of these it asks me to crop it.
Wallpaper Pack 2:
MediaFire
FileServe
FileSonic
I really appreciate you posting these. I thought I was the only one frustrated by the **** wallpaper quality as a result of honeycomb cropping.
Thanks for the wallpapers-
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thank you!!
Dude u are the man for posting these. Great taste, hope u keep adding!
Excellent work on these. I do have a question though as I am still learning how the wallpaper settings work:
When you select the wallpaper do you still have to resize the box to fix the whole picture or how does the selection process work?
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Excellent work on these. I do have a question though as I am still learning how the wallpaper settings work:
When you select the wallpaper do you still have to resize the box to fix the whole picture or how does the selection process work?
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I still get the option to crop :/ - I thought I could use the entire pic.
Unfortunately, the only way that would work is if you were okay with Portrait looking all jacked up.
EDIT: I found a quick solution that works with all these wallpapers. I'll add the fix to the OP.
yay for mario!
Third Wallpaper Pack. I tried going with 1920x1600 instead and it looks like it works out better because you now have the option to choose more of the top of the picture or bottom. Hope you like them.
MediaFile
FileServe
FileSonic
nevermind . . .
I'm not sure how to view the picture in the file I downloaded? I downloaded the wa
Llpaper wizardii but I can't seem to view them :'(
Damn, I forgot Photobucket had a bandwidth cap. Forced to go Pro.
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I'm not sure how to view the picture in the file I downloaded? I downloaded the wa
Llpaper wizardii but I can't seem to view them :'(
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All you have to do is place them on your tab, hold down on the the home screen and choose Wallpapers. Then choose Galley. Now pick the wallpaper you'd like to set.
thanks man. my galaxy tab just got prettier...hehe
I seem to have a hard time finding good qhd wallpapers so I figure other Mopher's out there might have some. Share away!
I keep bouncing between these:
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if you go to Zedge.com you'll find a bunch of qHD walls..
I find Zedge doesnt give alot of wallpapers for the Photon then they do for other phones. On my buddies Galaxy S 2 it comes up with thousands of wallpapers in there. But on my photon, it only comes back with under 2,000. Alot less then his phone.
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I find Zedge doesnt give alot of wallpapers for the Photon then they do for other phones. On my buddies Galaxy S 2 it comes up with thousands of wallpapers in there. But on my photon, it only comes back with under 2,000. Alot less then his phone.
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Yeah, Zedge is good but I was kinda hoping to start a wallpaper thread but that ended rather quickly.
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Try wallbase, I checked it out a couple of weeks ago and its got some cool ones
I've been addicted to the "Nexus Revamped" live wallpaper, free in the Market (Play Store), but I keep a nice collection of wallpapers on hand, and I add to it every now and then.
Best way to find wallpaper, I've found, is go to Google Images and plug in our phone's resolution -- 540x960 -- into the custom size prompt, and re-run the search. Just put in what you want in your wallpaper. Use broad terms, like forest, ocean, fantasy, etc. Or just search wallpaper. If you have a color in mind you can refine by that, as well.
Or, as somebody said above, Wallbase (or a similar wallpaper site). You can use something like XnView (on the PC) to crop a desktop wallpaper down. Either set the crop aspect ratio to 16:9 (I think!) and crop what you want, then resize, or cut out a 540x960 piece from the wallpaper -- the latter option is less than desirable in most cases, though. If you guys are interested, I can upload a bunch later, make an Imgur album or something. (Is there a preferred image host that doesn't downsample images that is also free?)
//edit: Here it is, if anybody wants it. Now, I didn't make any of these, just collected them from wherever. The 2nd and 3rd ones are from a wallpaper, I cropped them out. [Link]
When I first started theming my hubs I used several different backgrounds and that worked great for a while. But then I started getting tired of scrolling through different images every screen, it started to hurt my eyes in spite of having nice backgrounds. So I had the idea to make a panoramic homescreen like this.
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All you need is a launcher that allows you to add/remove homescreens like adwlauncher ex, and multipicture live wallpaper to set a different background for each homescreen.
You'll also need to set your transition effect to normal on ADW, and to 'slide' on multipicture live wallpaper.
Here are a few I split to display nicely on the transformer prime.
I don't have any for more than 3 homescreens, so if you need a homescreen for everything you may need to search for multiple display wallpapers to suit your usage. I'll try to add more of these later.
Balloons
Mediafire(3): http://www.mediafire.com/?9xrl8m7ldeu95j7
Bionic
Mediafire(3): http://www.mediafire.com/?oh2k2xuc2jz62xc
Ruins of New York
Mediafire(3): http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?l0x72uc9g694sy4
Stock Asus Inspired
Mediafire(2): http://www.mediafire.com/?tbozbcrxxwlanmp
Mediafire(3): http://www.mediafire.com/?12thz22udewl4kh
Ice Cream Sandwich Circuits
Mediafire(2): http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?cw0q3chjm2a66pj
Mediafire(3): http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?0hh12v172esyyl6
Combat
Mediafire(2): http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?dgsaaqo9ifgofcf
Bioshock
Mediafire(2): http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?z6nx56pf2vc03jv
Robotic Future
Mediafire(2): http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?2wc6k4tfjjs8dz2
Spectral Clouds
Mediafire(2): http://www.mediafire.com/?i99jr55c3yq2odi
Forest
Mediafire(2): http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?9h5xqcwbfai6up5
Mountains
Mediafire(2): http://www.mediafire.com/?bbitg76bfta6pj5
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I use an Iconia A500 but still check out the other tablet forums and I must say this looks quite awesome I'll try and make my own wallpapers if i do go this route though. What I'm using right now is a single folder with about 70 wallpapers. The folder is set to rotate through them on Windows 7 and the folder is synced to my tab using Sugarsync (dropbox will also work). Then on the tab, i set up adw not to allow wallpaper scrolling and set the entire folder as a source in Multipicture. So now I have one wallpaper on all 5 homescreens and a doubletap anywhere will rotate it though the list! It's actually really fun to just sit down and cycle through them for a while. Great suggestion though!
MFW when I saw this.
chaosking121 said:
I use an Iconia A500 but still check out the other tablet forums and I must say this looks quite awesome I'll try and make my own wallpapers if i do go this route though. What I'm using right now is a single folder with about 70 wallpapers. The folder is set to rotate through them on Windows 7 and the folder is synced to my tab using Sugarsync (dropbox will also work). Then on the tab, i set up adw not to allow wallpaper scrolling and set the entire folder as a source in Multipicture. So now I have one wallpaper on all 5 homescreens and a doubletap anywhere will rotate it though the list! It's actually really fun to just sit down and cycle through them for a while. Great suggestion though!
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My previous setup was similar. I think you can have multiple panoramic backgrounds without them conflicting with each other (like an odd image that doesn't belong) if you put all of screen 1's images in a folder, all of screen 2's images in a folder, and so on. Name them in order - like screen 1 would be A1 in screen 1's folder, screen 2 would be A2 in screen 2's folder - then just change the letter for each different panoramic background you use (b1, b2, c1, c2, etc).
Then go to picture selection in multipicture live wallpaper - and select ascending/descending by name. should work for all the homescreens.
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That's really cool!! Hope you add more wallpapers
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Just added some more - much more for 3 screens than there were before!
If anyone has something they want broken down into a panoramic to use for their prime I am more then willing to help. I built my own custom 7 screen layout in photoshop. Just send me a PM and we can hash out what you want done. I run a hub on mine but you should be able to get away with using the multilive wallpaper app from the market for free without needing a separate launcher.
-Lostsorrow