I am confused about WP8 and tiles. Can individual tiles be colored by user or is there one setting for all apps? Reviews I have seen seem to have them all same color except for 3rd party apps.
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BaronInkjet said:
I am confused about WP8 and tiles. Can individual tiles be colored by user or is there one setting for all apps? Reviews I have seen seem to have them all same color except for 3rd party apps.
Thanks!
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Without a side-loaded application, you won't be able to color individual tiles.
BaronInkjet said:
Can individual tiles be colored by user or is there one setting for all apps?
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Developers design tiles as transparent PNG images; those images are laid over squares that are the accent color. Thus the transparent areas show as the accent color. If the developer doesn't use any transparent areas, the user sees the colors that the developer picked for the tile.
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Any idea how to change the icons/Tiles of apps? There are some apps which don't adapt the design color for their icons, so i'm searching for a solution for this "problem".
unfortunately i dont think you can dude!!!
There is no solution to this problem. Part of it is that especially if the App has a live tile it constantly creates new Image files that are set as the foreground of the tile. Some Apps use a transparent Icon background which lets the tile color shine through but others don't. With full unlocked WP7 devices it was possible to overwrite the default icon but quite often that also broke the live functionality.
So all in all the previous answer is accurate and there are reasons why that is not going to change anytime soon.
wp7 themes
wp 7 themes is the app ur looking for. its just a beginning, however in circa 1 month will be some huge update, pro version will be released and i dont think it cost us much
Benz-Driver said:
There are some apps which don't adapt the design color for their icons, so i'm searching for a solution for this "problem".
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author of app make tiles icon in that way and you cant change it...
also you can look for Skinery Tiles Pro app in Store
http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=0c413983-24b5-42cb-8408-56f5b1422eed
Skinery Tiles Pro
Skinery Tiles Pro
I get that the developers/designers are only doing themes for specific screen resolutions right now, but why is the core tools for creating custom Themer widgets restricted by large grid settings?
Confused as to what I mean? Please let me explain.
I can create a custom widget, which starts with the background box. But, in order to line the background box up with my home page background, I have to set the color of the background widget to a solid color and then resize it since it doesn't visualize the snap-to grid element (which it does).
So, as I said above, why is this limitation there in the first place? On my Note 2 I can't create a widget that goes to the top of my screen because it is out of bounds of my screen and when I go to add elements to the widget, they don't line up correctly unless I resize the widget background box to snap to below the top of my screen (by a good amount).
So, is it at least possible to have the default grid snap distance greatly reduced or give us an option to set it ourselves in regards to setting the widget itself?
I've encountered zero issue with moving elements within a widget box other than the inability to lock items individually once placed (that would truly help in them designing).
Sorry for any confusion, I'm not aware of the standard labels for the various design elements of a widget or the like.
cgoodno said:
I get that the developers/designers are only doing themes for specific screen resolutions right now, but why is the core tools for creating custom Themer widgets restricted by large grid settings?
Confused as to what I mean? Please let me explain.
I can create a custom widget, which starts with the background box. But, in order to line the background box up with my home page background, I have to set the color of the background widget to a solid color and then resize it since it doesn't visualize the snap-to grid element (which it does).
So, as I said above, why is this limitation there in the first place? On my Note 2 I can't create a widget that goes to the top of my screen because it is out of bounds of my screen and when I go to add elements to the widget, they don't line up correctly unless I resize the widget background box to snap to below the top of my screen (by a good amount).
So, is it at least possible to have the default grid snap distance greatly reduced or give us an option to set it ourselves in regards to setting the widget itself?
I've encountered zero issue with moving elements within a widget box other than the inability to lock items individually once placed (that would truly help in them designing).
Sorry for any confusion, I'm not aware of the standard labels for the various design elements of a widget or the like.
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Hows it going? Im Bill from MCS.
Im a still a bit confused as to what you are asking and what tools it is that you are using in Themer that are giving you the issue.
Im sure you have already made sure that padding is turned OFF in the settings, but I have to say just to be safe.
IF you are getting spaced on the sides or top or your widget, you might want to check to see if you are using odd numbers for the Grid (rows and columns). Because of the way custom build widgets from WYSIWYG editors like Zooper and Everything widget render on the screen you might be a 1px gap if you are using odd numbered Rows or Columns in your grid.
This is the first thing I would check. I have seen an issue where for some reason I get a 2 or 4px padding on the top and bottom of the widgets. It only happens to me now and again. I can usually delete the widget and re-add it to get rid of the issue.
I was adding a widget to one of the themes and noted how out of place it looked because it had no transparency.
How difficult would it be to add along with the resize option an opacity slider? Would be great to help your 3rd party widgets fit in a bit with the rest of your chosen theme.
Just change the bgcolor of the widget
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groaner said:
I was adding a widget to one of the themes and noted how out of place it looked because it had no transparency.
How difficult would it be to add along with the resize option an opacity slider? Would be great to help your 3rd party widgets fit in a bit with the rest of your chosen theme.
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Hi,
Unfortunately this would mean having full control over the 3rd party widget. For now we'll stick with the widgets that we currently have
I practically need a magnifying glass to read the notifications in the Notification panel. Changing the display settings font size does nothing. Any ideas?
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try to change the design maybe it helps
Its has nothing to do with Design, I installed Nova Launcher and still the Notification fonts are really Tiny and Subject line of Gmail Notification in black fonts is unredable
onlinejobwork said:
Its has nothing to do with Design, I installed Nova Launcher and still the Notification fonts are really Tiny and Subject line of Gmail Notification in black fonts is unredable
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I saw a video where someone had white notifications. I think it's on one of the downloable themes (you got to agree to allow access to imei), you can apply that, then customize the theme too add whichever icon pack you want etc
Edit - here it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRa4CC62aw0&t=0m8s
The theme is called 'beauty for emui'
None of the Home Screen Launchers will change the Notification Bar and the font size - however the EMUI themes will change the text colours, so try going to Themes, and change to Beauty for EMUI, you will be able to see the Gmail subject line because the background on the notification panel is now white - but then a new problem arises, lol, the banner notifications that come on the top of the screen are all black!!
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Unfortunately even Beauty theme has its shortcomings. Gmail notification buttons DELETE and REPLY are now invisible because of the white on white contrast. Anyone hasa better theme solution for this problem?
Why does Instagram and Facebook apps on Pixel devices have dark navigation bar whereas other Android devices have light navigation bar on their Instagram and Facebook apps ?
Yup, i also noticed that, might be nice getting option to change to dark...
Phant0m3rr0r said:
Yup, i also noticed that, might be nice getting option to change to dark...
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Just use the app "Navbar apps", you can set any app's navbar to any colour
Mackay53 said:
Just use the app "Navbar apps", you can set any app's navbar to any colour
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As i see it cannot turn keys to be black if navbar color is white.