I am attempting to accomplish a theme much like what the Dell Streak guys are doing here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=899879).
While our screens are not 5", like the Streaks, we can get roughly the same viewing size with the "LCD Density Changer" app. The app just shrinks everything, so it isn't to bad with a younger set of eyes.
If this theme was set up on our phones, then the wallpaper and Icon placement would be distorted as it were cycled through orientations.
So my question/request for an app is something to lock your home screen orientation into landscape. ADW launcher is capable of this!! However, I purchased Launcher Pro Plus, and I prefer this launcher.
All the apps out currently only lock portrait (by turning off auto-rotation). And the only Google searches I can find are a few pointing to an app that fools the phone into thinking the slide out keyboard is open. That app only works on a device that has a physical pull out keyboard.
Thanks in advance
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Running a non-rooted G2.
Anyone else notice sluggish screen rotation when going from landscape to portrait or vice versa? It seems like it takes over 1s to switch, closer to 1.5s I would say just trying to count out loud.
The only running apps I have besides the stock ones are Tasker, LauncherPro Plus, Beautiful Widgets (1 large widget on homescreen), BattStat, and SwiftKey.
Any way to adjust the speed at which the screen switches orientation?
Thanks
LP+ does have its moments where it slows down. Original launcher is nicee enough no need to replace it
I've noticed a couple glitches related to this now that I've rooted. It's slow, then it shows the icons and even on screen keyboard in smashed or stretched pixels before it changes orientation. Just for a split second but it's annoying and never did it before.
Yeah, I don't know why the automatic screen rotation is so slow with LauncherPro.
My solution for now was to disable the auto rotate under LauncherPro's Behavior Settings.
The G2 switches instantly to landscape mode for you once you slide out the physical keyboard. No lag this way, but you don't get it to change orientation unless you slide out the keyboard.
I've noticed this too! I thought I was the only one. The funny thing is that when you're in a program that needs the accelerometer there is no lag, but on homescreen there is that slight delay when rotating from portrait to landscape.
I've had this issue with SF, corrected by setting desktop scrolling speed to 0 on ADW launcher setting.
Not sure if this will work on your device.
I mean, I understand why the background auto-rotate when we tilt the phone. When accelerometer detect the phone tilt, the screen tilt and the background tilt w/ it. And that's kinda make sense. But, the problem is when you have a tight crop person as a background, and set the background to be non-scrolling. Then I think it's obvious that the background want to be set static in a certain way. Currently I have not found a way to lock the background wallpaper. I mean as I rotate the screen I want everything else to rotate and get landscape/portrait UI as necessary, but the background remain the same whether portrait or landscape. Well, I have yet to found a way. The only thing I came across is to disable accelerometer, but that's not very a solution. Anyone know how to do this?
Thank you,
The only thing I can think of is to find an app on the market that will manage your wallpapers for you. I know they have apps that will set a seperate wallpaper for each homescreen, so maybe there's one that allows seperate wallpapers for both portrait and landscape.
As far as finding a checkbox in Android to do this, there isn't one.
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I was wondering if there is a launcher that preserves the size and aspect ratio of icons and widgets when you go from portrait to landscape.
I used to love how my Nokia N900 could do this. Basically you would arrange where your apps/widgets were on the screen separately in
portrait and next in landscape. Then instead of your typical rotating transition from portrait to landscape, where often the widgets become
distorted, the screen image would flip about an axis so it appeared as if the apps/widgets for landscape and portrait were on opposite sides of a plane that made
up the screen. Not sure who originally came up with this idea but developers for maemo os Incorporated
this for N900 after Nokia dropped support for the device...
Hi, I'm trying to create a multi-screen wallpaper setup like in this build (http://mycolorscreen.com/2014/07/29/iren/) but how does one shrink their desired wallpaper to fill just half the screen? I tried bitmap but the scaling makes it difficult and blurry.
Thank you in advance.
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I just noticed that the on-screen home buttons are gone but it doesn't appear to be the auto-hide key app cause that would leave a red line. I'm using a LG G3 and would love to mask it somehow.
Hi all, I was just wondering how Nova Launcher runs and looks on the S4?
I use it on my S9+ to get 7 x 7 rows of icons etc, as everytime I see the S4 I keep thinking there is so much wasted space on the big screen. So is it possible anyone out there is using it and can post a picture of their home screen with more icons etc on it?
It may not be what you looking for as I like to keep it clean but here are my screenshots
And app drawer
Looks fine, but I cannot get the dock at the bottom of the screen in landscape mode.
Answer Nova :" Hello,
That's all determined by your screen resolution and screen DPI. That's not something a launcher can control at all"
And just having more docking pages was what I like about Nova.
Dock on the right is unhandy. You easily touch it by accident.
I use the S4 mostly in landscape. Only apps that @#!%*##! force me portrait, let me no choice.
s2 and s3 never gave me problems.
Huib
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Too51oll said:
It may not be what you looking for as I like to keep it clean but here are my screenshots
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So you have the docking at the bottom in landscape ?
Wrong settings in my case?
I actually like that the dock shows on the side in portrait mode. It means there is more vertical space so I set my grid size to 7x7. Ive just started setting up my home screen but I like the feel with Nova so far
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Thanks everyone for the replies, its good to see that lots of that otherwise wasted space with the massive Touchwiz UI can be put to better use when using Nova Launcher
herpi said:
So you have the docking at the bottom in landscape ?
Wrong settings in my case?
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You need to change screen zoom in display settings for that. Mine is set to smallest available.
Yesss, that did it.
The smallest zoom it will be!
I love NOVA again!
Thanks.
Huib
P.s. now many more applications work correct, like the Dutch Telegraaf. It used to start in portrait first.. so zoom to minimize it should be.
I just got rid of the dock and but Row of icons along the bottom. Making the dpi smaller does work but it also messes with the play store
how?
found out thatt with minim zoom my dutch newspaper nicely opens in ladscape, before it was portrait
Too51oll said:
You need to change screen zoom in display settings for that. Mine is set to smallest available.
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Hi, what is screen zoom? Is it screen resolution?
It's kind of like Windows scaling, nothing to do with resolution.