Here is my first attempt at a Theme. Hope you like it. The speedometer has been converted into a clock with the date. In addition to the obvious hotspots for contacts, calendar, games, and shopping, the Ferrari horn is a hotspot for your Music, and the Start button is a hotspot for the Favorites category. The current weather and temperature icons are shown as well as forecast condition with high/low temp. The dials reflect the memory and cpu usage, with a battery guage underneath. Let me know if you see any areas for improvement. Thanks.
Credits
The dashboard speedometer/clock was based on a design by Whyred at DeviantArt. Unfortunately most of it was covered up due to size limitations on a phone screen. The dashboard and background were portions of photos by (uncredited) at imagesandwallpapers.com and by lumpic at 7themes.com, respectively.
How to apply this theme Ferrari.zip??
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I've been organizing my layout and going with a minimal approach and I started using minimalistic text for the battery but I had a thought of something even simpler.
I'm looking for something that just displays a thin horizontal line (no text and preferably a user defined color) that will shrink as the battery drains (for my layout, centered aligned and both sides shrink).
The only 'minimal' battery widgets I've come across are circle or battery shaped 1x1 widgets. I'm looking to extend this one across a 5x1 area.
Has anyone come across such a widget?
Thank you in advanced.
IN PROGRESS
HOW TO CREATE BEAUTIFUL UCCW SKINS
0. Contents
Introduction
About UCCW
Basic UCCW Usage
How to build skins
Designing
1. Introduction
I am aware that there are in fact many other UCCW guides out there. I won't be focusing much on how to do this or that... What I want to teach you is how to create beautiful and functional skins. As such the sections of this tutorial focusing on the actual widget building will be short, and may not cover everything that UCCW offers, but the design section will have a lot more content
2. About UCCW
UCCW or Ultimate Custom Clock Widget is a software developed by our own vineetksirohi.
XDA link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1386987
Play store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.vineetsirohi.customwidget
vineetksirohi said:
Make your own widgets easily in a WYSIWYG (What-you-see-is-what-you-get) editor. Use custom layout, fonts, images, shapes, interesting objects like series clocks, weather information with icons,
unread sms and gmail counts, battery information with bars and pie graphs, analog clocks, TASKER VARIABLES and more. Use hotspots to assign actions to widget.
Does not require programming, editing xml files or rooting your phone. Share your creations easily either through uzip files or make apks and post on Google play.
Or keep your unique widgets to yourself and tease others.
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3. Basic usage
UCCW has two parts. One is the widget that is added to the homescreen, the other is the app in the launcher that can be used to:
1. Import skins
2. Edit skins
3. Export skins
The editor has several features
1. The menu bar above
Add/remove button - add or remove various widget components such as date and time etc.
Component selector - select which component you are currently editing
The sort button - choose which components appear above the others
3. The preview area - allows you to move the currently selected component ( don't use this, it's better to move the components more precisely)
4. The editing area - has several panes which can be navigated by sliding to the left and right.
5. The menu. - the most important things here are the save button and the option to turn hotspot mode on and off. When hotspot mode is off you can edit widgets by clicking them on the homescreen, when it is on you can use the shortcuts defined in the skin.
As far as the features of UCCW that I generally use:
0. General - background, hotspots that can be assigned to different actions
1. Clock - as time or by separate parts (hours, minutes)
2. Date
3. Battery - circle, bar, status, level
4. Calendar - next event time, next event text
5. Notifications - missed calls, text messages, unread gmail, next alarm time
4. How to build skins
Please refer to the following videos by mycolorscreen on youtube
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5X0ZCI5Kg0
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5c2Sa9UGG0
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz2zf_AJRFc
At the end of this you should have a basic idea of how to deal with the different components. Now time for me to add my part
Advice:
1. Always move components so they align with each other, pixel for pixel.
2. Always start your widget with a nice good size like 400 x 100 for a 4x1 widget. This is to make it easier for you to create background images
3. Be consistent with your use of colors and font size, unless variety is part of your design
4. Try to size components appropriately so that they stay within the bounds of the widget.
5. Designing
IMPORTANT: a UCCW skin without a proper background or forethought design will always look ugly/disappoint you. You must first spend a good amount of time looking for inspiration and sketching initial designs before you execute and make the skin.
i. Inspiration
Look for user interfaces in movies (like Iron Man) and websites such as Google images, deviantart, or look at desktop customization software such as Rainmeter. Don't attempt to copy someone elses work. Instead, choose elements of other works you like, and combine them with your imagination.
ii. Initial design
Whip out your pencil and paper, or if you're good enough, a tool like Photoshop or Fireworks. I totally recommend pencil and paper as it is the fastest. Sketch a design. Don't attempt to make UI elements too small (in the name of readability). Don't make it too fancy unless you know it's gonna work out for you. Don't feel bad if your first designs look lackluster. It's a learning process and your first skins might not look as you want, but you will reach there eventually.
iii. More advice
Start with basic widgets such as date/time/battery. The first thing to do is to set your wallpaper to a contrasting color, and then being positioning the text and other components. Next, create a background image. I recommend Paint.NET to create it.( http://www.getpaint.net/ ). Ideally, the background should provide bordering for the various components of the widget, and it should be designed in a way that it does not lose quality if used on a higher quality screen (simply: avoid curved edges and stick to rectangular/straight designs). The most part of the background image should also be slightly transparent as this looks the best.
iv. Yet more advice
You will need time to play around with your widget and experience it to see if it looks good and it it handles different content nicely (i.e. different lengths of text in a component). Try to use it for at least a couple days before you release.
Good tutorial!
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how to export widgets or skins i make
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.
Dear all,
First of all I have been an avid Android user for 3 years but my potato Sony phone isn't working anymore so I have to use my iPad for media consumption.
I have some great tweaks on my iPad 4 running iOS 8.4 and it's a great and very easy device to use, very happy with it. I have one question though - I want these on my next phone. I will buy the next nexus phone (Marlin) and it has Android N on it, which will be even better. I don't care if the xposed tweaks are compatible or not I just need the names!
Here is a list of my tweaks!
TWEAKS
Activator - both volume press is videopane, triple click is unassigned but set to accessibility shortcut invert colours in offical apple settings apple swipe left on status bar is lower dim tweak brightness and right is vice versa and short home button press is dim toggle, hold of right area of status bar is lastapp
Adblocker 2
Alkaline
allColor Battery for Alkaline
Almpoum
AppList
BigBoss Icon set
Bloard
BytaFont 2 - Gallette
BytaFont Tweak Mode
CircleIcons
CurtainsForYou
Cydia Installer
Cydia Substrate
Cydia Translations
Cylinder - Horizontal Ants
Dim - Swipe Left status bar and swipe right status bar for lowering and increasing brightness respectively, triple click for switch (unbind zoom in settings > accessibility first)
dpkg Check
Eclipse 2 - Night theme and orange status bar, accent, tint, whitelist all apps including ios notes app, itunes store, do not whitelist other ios built in apps
theme springboard statusbar orange, custom text colour orange
FastLoading
f.lux
FolderEnhancer - Allow Nested Folders, Close folder on tap, close all folders on app launch, background corner radius and opacity is 0.0%, 5 columns and 6 rows, reverse in landscape
Galette Font
Guest Mode - Guest button on left, Safari, all news apps, subway surf, traffic panic, touch hockey, no button, OSX login style dark blur
HomeScreen settings
HotDog - space for slide to unlock and enter passcode, Delete is backspace, time is “HH:mm” and date is “eeee d MMMM y” all without quotes
HudDismiss
iCleaner
insanelyi setup
Instagram++ - Disable custom explore area, click on heart in instagram settings > Instagram++ settings to send a tweet to remove ads for free for 1.5 weeks
KillBackground8, auto close switcher, 5x5px button
LastApp
LongCCB
Mikoto disable all qualities and background playback for youtube, disable lockscree. (LS) blur - gives a new effect when combined with GuestMode, which automatically removes blur maybe
Mobius
MultiIconMover
NoGrabber
NoPageDots7
NoSlowAnimations - 0.60x
Nitrious
Patych
PM, really?
PhotoInfo
Polus - top is airplane mode, wifi, Ringer, vpn, safari, youtube, instagram, tubeX (icon protube) , 9gag, no shape, non paged. Bottom is no shape, non pages, camera, google keep f.lux (icon torch), cydia, documents 5 for youtube downloads icon is vlc, icleaner
PowerPlus
RecordPause
RoundedSwitcherCards - 20 corner radius
StatusVol X
Substrate Safe Mode
TransparentDock
TaiG Untether
YouTubed
perfect idea!I am sarching about 2 years to find a stealth module for facebook..on iphone there is the perfect stealth mode called silentmessenger..I mainly want to hide this stupid timestamp (active now,active before X minutes etc).
You can forget most of those. Cydia tried to release something for android but it failed badly.
Homescreen settings, notification bar brightness, animation speed.
You will be hard pressed to find anyone willing to port most iPhone things to android
why she failed dude?my biggest inquiry is why android programmers just care about stupid graphs,colours and battery life.and NO for our privacy!I know that there are some like LBE security master,xprivacy etc...but in our days facebook and messenger is the No 1 privacy undertaker!and there are more iphone mods..like bluepill,facebook++ and some others!My inquiry isevs don't care for such facebook privacy mods?Or such facebook mods can't be created on android OS platform???
Because everything apple will fail on Android. People just are not interested. Also we already have things like xposed.
Also most android devs use Google plus and not Facebook. It is widely known as the social network for old people, kids and drama Queens.
The things I listed already come pre-built into 99% of roms. There is almost no need for things like these mods when you can change the source code for the os
Ok catch you.at least i hope one day IF someone dev will be willy to make such a facebook module,to be able to make it through xposed..
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There are a few wallpaper apps out there that change the see based on the current weather (adds rain or snow, sun position, changes sky from clear blue to cloudy, etc.) But so far they all changed based on the CURRENT weather. Heck, I can look out the window and see the current weather. So really it's just a gimmick and not really useful.
What would be useful is if the wallpaper changed based on the short-term forecast as to what the weather will be in 1 or 2 hours from now. Then if I'm planning on going outside shortly, I quick glance while using my phone give me a general indication if the weather is about to change.