Is there a folder app which allows you to change folder icons and rename them ex. GAMES?
ddgarcia05 said:
Is there a folder app which allows you to change folder icons and rename them ex. GAMES?
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I'm not sure if there's an app for that, or a way to change the icons, but you can rename them. Just open the folder you created and hold down on the title bar that says "Folder". Now just type in your new folder name.
seancneal said:
there's an app for that,
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Those are forbidden words in the android community. This is NOT an iphone.
@OP: search the market for any cut or better cut. They allow creation/renaming of shortcuts to anything, as well as using custom icons... for folders as well.
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AdhvanIt said:
Those are forbidden words in the android community. This is NOT an iphone.
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I shoulda put a /s after that.
AdhvanIt said:
Those are forbidden words in the android community. This is NOT an iphone.
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I shoulda put a /s after that.
You don't need any app to just change the folder name though.
I found Apps Organizer to work the best. You make a shortcut, name it, then scroll a list of your installed apps and check off which to add to it. After your done you can change the icon to a custom icon downloaded from a any free or paid icon pack. Best of all it's free!
How do you change the folder icon with any/bettercut? I haven't ever been able to figure that out. I thought I actually read once that it wasn't possible
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i like desktop visualizer for changing icons/names (or in my case having no names)
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I have been using 7zip to replace icons for my docked apps. The only one that has eluded me so far is the phone icon. I found the stock green phone icon in res\drawable and replaced it but it did not change on the app or dock. Usually the icon for others was in res\drawable-hdpi. Soooo my question is where the heck is the one I need to change. Thanks.
I believe its in dialertabactivity.apk
Thats where it takes the icon from
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gtuansdiamm said:
I believe its in dialertabactivity.apk
Thats where it takes the icon from
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That was it! Thanks.
No problem
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Now, any idea where that default apps icon is stored? The white 16 square rectangle that Zeam, launcher and LP use? Is it in Framework-res? I can't find it in Zeam so think it is in the system somewhere. Thanks.
kennyglass123 said:
Now, any idea where that default apps icon is stored? The white 16 square rectangle that Zeam, launcher and LP use? Is it in Framework-res? I can't find it in Zeam so think it is in the system somewhere. Thanks.
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What launcher are you using? It is in the laucher. I use adwex, one of its features is the ability to change the icons....I change them all the time.
shiftr182 said:
What launcher are you using? It is in the laucher. I use adwex, one of its features is the ability to change the icons....I change them all the time.
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Zeam. It's not in the drawable-hdpi where I found all my other icons for apps.
The way I do it sometimes it just open the apk with 7zip, the take the res folder and drag it to the desktop, or whatever, open it in windows, and change the view to large icons, then you can look at all the images in the apk and find what you want.
shiftr182 said:
The way I do it sometimes it just open the apk with 7zip, the take the res folder and drag it to the desktop, or whatever, open it in windows, and change the view to large icons, then you can look at all the images in the apk and find what you want.
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Yeah, that is what I have been doing, but Zeam has so many drawables... I guess I have no choice but to look at them all. Really though the apps icon was a system default a lot of launchers used.
Got it! Had a wierd name action_apps_grid or something like that. Thanks for the help. I have made my phone my own now...
How do you change the app drawer background?
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I believe you need a launcher such as ADW or launcher pro to be able to change it. It would then be under Launcher settings.
I believe you'd have to find the basic apk for the app drawer in the system files, then edit the /res folder, find the png, then change it.
teh roxxorz said:
I believe you'd have to find the basic apk for the app drawer in the system files, then edit the /res folder, find the png, then change it.
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Awesome. Thanks for the tip.
sivarticus85 said:
Awesome. Thanks for the tip.
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You're welcome; and it should be in the /system folder, I believe.
Is there any max limit of items can be put into the folder?
Is it scrollable?
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gogol said:
Is there any max limit of items can be put into the folder?
Is it scrollable?
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Yes for the first. You can only have 16 items in the folder.
No for the second. You can't scroll your folders.
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juniorbattle said:
Yes for the first. You can only have 16 items in the folder.
No for the second. You can't scroll your folders.
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Why are they modeling after iOS in this respect?
onthecouchagain said:
Why are they modeling after iOS in this respect?
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To get back at Apple for modeling after Androids pull down menu?
Unpantented ideas are fair game, at the same time, it's probably to give the ui a cleaner look, nobody really knows besides Google.
I wish the folders were scrollable, it's really annoying that I can't have all my games in one folder.
Are you kidding me? I HATE this about iOS. I'm thinking of switching from my iPhone. Great to see some lame things will still be with me
Yumunum said:
Are you kidding me? I HATE this about iOS. I'm thinking of switching from my iPhone. Great to see some lame things will still be with me
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Luckily, unlike the iPhone, you can just get a new launcher
GO Launcher Ex supports scrollable folders for example.
Tung_meister said:
I wish the folders were scrollable, it's really annoying that I can't have all my games in one folder.
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Same here. All we can do is categorize our apps
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ADW Launcher EX is getting an update soon, and will have no limit folders with scrollability! Proof
Well we all know what feature needs to come in an ICS custom ROM now. No limit ICS Folders with custom icon support for folders and Apps' alike. I think everything else (besides better customisation with lock screen music control) is already being implemented.
And you can install apps like Folder Organizer to organize your apps.
simplistian said:
And you can install apps like Folder Organizer to organize your apps.
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I'm actually using that right now ? Coincidence lol. Yeah those apps are nice too. I like the ICS folder feel better though... If only you could fit some more apps in those damned folders (and icon changing cough cough ROM makers)
Working on my homescreen and looking to open up an app folder using a hotspot. Is this possible?
BongoBong said:
Working on my homescreen and looking to open up an app folder using a hotspot. Is this possible?
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Absolutely... when editing your uccw widget tap the menu to enable hot spots. Do a search for uccw and you'll find some really cool pre made stuff with a ton of instructions. I'll find my favorite thread for you....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1880050
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j3.cole said:
Absolutely... when editing your uccw widget tap the menu to enable hot spots. Do a search for uccw and you'll find some really cool pre made stuff with a ton of instructions. I'll find my favorite thread for you....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1880050
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Hi. This appears to be an answer to something I have been trying to figure out. I've read the thread you posted, and have played pretty extensively with the Tasker app. I think I have done a lot of reading trying to solve this, but maybe am just not searching accurately. Could you point me somewhere that will explain how to set up a home screen folder?
My problem is an aesthetic one. I want my UCCW icons to look like icons for specific apps. For example, I have Keep on my home screen as an app, and a folder with FaceBook and BaconReader in it. I would love to have these use UCCW to define the folder, if possible.
I have Simi Folder, and I can sort of do what I want with it, but that app is not an ideal solution due to its lack of support.
Thanks.
What it is:
Here are some icons i put together from various sources, which i credit in the file. I plan to add more sooner or later(probably later).
How to install:
Extract files and pick what icons you want to use (I prefer ubudao) then put them in "/sdcard/SpeedSoftware/icons" then in the menu select custom.
Where to download:
https://app.box.com/s/9pbxdsoq3aznfr72pann
Here are some previews:
First one is ubudao
Second one is faenza
Third one is hydroxygen
Fourth one is faience
Linux!!
The faience icons are nice too
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CNexus said:
Linux!!
The faience icons are nice too
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Yes they are, I'll add them to the next "release".
Edit: I added it.
xanaxdroid said:
Yes they are, I'll add them to the next "release".
Edit: I added it.
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Huh? I don't have an icon folder in my speed software folder. And no custom option in root explorer.
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Thebear j koss said:
Huh? I don't have an icon folder in my speed software folder. And no custom option in root explorer.
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What version are you using?
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Thebear j koss said:
Huh? I don't have an icon folder in my speed software folder. And no custom option in root explorer.
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I didn't have the icon folder either for some reason (version 3.01). Had to make my own. Looks great though, thanks OP!
Your welcome. Thought I'd share because I think it makes it look better.
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I like ubudao best as well , thx for the set. Two and a half years after the last post, this thread is still the 1st search result for "icon set for root explorer". Btw, if you don't have the SpeedSoftware folder you probably deleted it at some point as it's automatically created by the app upon installation, going back to the earliest versions. But other than for icon sets, the folder is only used by the app for .zip (or .tar) archive creation/extraction. Look at your preferences under "Archive Preferences" and see if you redirected the path elsewhere; if so, you likely then deleted the SpeedSoftware folder, or did so at some later point. If the archive paths still include "SpeedSoftware" you just haven't used the app for archiving purposes, as the paths specified in Archive Preferences will be recreated on the fly if they're absent at the time the app's archiving function is invoked.