OK guys, I Just did about two hours of searching and I haven't found an answer.
I'm hoping to make my EVO look like honeycomb as much as possible.
What I'm aiming for is something like these
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=12151321#post12151321
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Anyone?
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I think you're best bet is to start here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=992402
That should get you the wallpaper and the analog clock.
The digital clock you can get with fancy widget pro (it's one of the skins, if you need help setting it up, let me know).
The icons seem like they would be very easy to build in photoshop if no one has built them already. If you are using ADW EX or Launcher Pro, you can create custom docks and icons and use them.
I also think you can get something similar to that battery percentage with battstatt pro.
It would take some work, but I think making your homescreen look very close to that is doable. If you need help with the icons, I might be able to do it for a donation, but it wouldn't be for a bit. I may be able to do it over the weekend, but I'm going to be out of town for business and not sure what my schedule is going to be like.
Edit: I saw the icons were available in that thread, that's good, hardest part if they didn't exist. I started reading that thread, seems like you should be able to do it with CM7, that theme, the icons he posted, Built in ADW or EX/LP, some of the widgets I mentioned and the Honeycomb boot animation.
He's right, and then search themes and apps [or google] for honeycomb icons, then you can use launcher pro, ect to change the icons to make them honeycomb icons.
jstalford said:
I think you're best bet is to start here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=992402
That should get you the wallpaper and the analog clock.
The digital clock you can get with fancy widget pro (it's one of the skins, if you need help setting it up, let me know).
The icons seem like they would be very easy to build in photoshop if no one has built them already. If you are using ADW EX or Launcher Pro, you can create custom docks and icons and use them.
I also think you can get something similar to that battery percentage with battstatt pro.
It would take some work, but I think making your homescreen look very close to that is doable. If you need help with the icons, I might be able to do it for a donation, but it wouldn't be for a bit. I may be able to do it over the weekend, but I'm going to be out of town for business and not sure what my schedule is going to be like.
Edit: I saw the icons were available in that thread, that's good, hardest part if they didn't exist. I started reading that thread, seems like you should be able to do it with CM7, that theme, the icons he posted, Built in ADW or EX/LP, some of the widgets I mentioned and the Honeycomb boot animation.
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I don't see the icons in that thread
From the post above the one you linked:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12151203&postcount=24
Hmmm, those are diff icons than the ones you posted, but I think they are the actual HC icons. The ones in the screenshot would be much easier to make.
Well, The only thing I got sorta right was the dock... But I'd like to find that small HC Digital Clock
Fancy widget pro. You have to get the pay version to be able to change skins. Download Honeycomb skin.
Fancy widgets gives you a bunch of diff widget options. Just choose clock widget and under appearance settings, hide the background and hide date.
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I know launcher pro, and other docks, don't have an option with 4 shortcuts on the dock like this. At least not with big icons. Sort of like an iPhone. I love everything about my Evo, but I REALLY wish there was something like this. As far as I know, this isn't a screenshot. It's just shopped.
But does anyone know of ANY way this could be done?
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Anyone at all?
Gotta love this forum! Always willing to help out!
LP can do that with the real icons. Mine has five though.
How would you go to the app drawer?
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LP can do that with the real icons. Mine has five though.
How would you go to the app drawer?
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No. Launcher Pro is a very tiny confined dock. It also has 5 icons, which makes the dock even tinier. I'm looking for a big dock, which supports 4 icons, just like the picture I posted.
Does anyone know of such a thing?
And you would just make a shortcut to the app drawer.... How else? lol
Touchwiz launcher from the galaxy s phones. Tons of roms include it (you can unzip and grab the apk out) and I've seen it around here a bit.
If you can't find it pm me and I can send it when I'm at my computer. (couple of days, I'm on holiday)
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Dammit, I've been trying to remember where I've seen it on an EVO all day. Nice one laydros!
Sent from my blah blah blah blah
Evo-Nonsense Rom has the TouchWiz launcher built in, and it is a very nice rom.
What if you make a dock in photoshop with 4 big icons and then assign invisible shortcuts to them?
evoooo said:
I know launcher pro, and other docks, don't have an option with 4 shortcuts on the dock like this. At least not with big icons. Sort of like an iPhone. I love everything about my Evo, but I REALLY wish there was something like this. As far as I know, this isn't a screenshot. It's just shopped.
But does anyone know of ANY way this could be done?
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what i don't understand is you spent SOOO much time insulting someone else about how they did something and then talk about how they photoshopped the screenshot.. if you don't know how to do something and that particular person doesn't respond to you, use your brain and start figuring things out...
launcher pro allows you to create your own custom dock... just like the member before me stated.. use photoshop or gimp or whateva editting program you like, and start with a transparent background... then create WHATEVER you want on it.. when your done, save as png and then send to ur phone.. go into launcher pro preferences > appearance settings > Dock background > custom.. and then select the dock you created...
after you've done all that, use transparent icons over the ones you made on your custom dock, and there you have it... all that height limit **** you was talkin goes right out the window..
if you look at my dock, the word "Phone" and "Apps" are a lot larger then most people who use word icons.. thats because mine aren't icons.. its a dock i made and added transparent icons over the word phone and the word apps..
i hope now you understand, and you don't have to continue your BS investigation on how he got 4 icons on there and how they are the size they are...
(oh.. and please don't say anything about me being a hero user and not an evo user, cause launcher pro is still launcher pro no matter which phone u use)
try the miui port. the launcher in that rom is really comparable to an iphone. I don't have a link on me but its in the development section.
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Title says it all. Just got into myn's TwoPointTwo and the Sense he's themed along with Manup have made me go back to Sense. I know other home replacements allow ways to remove labels, but I was looking for an app/theme to fix the labels.
I've tried BetterCut, but it seems to still have a mini-label if I use a space as the title for the icon. (Won't let you have a blank label for an icon.)
Any help is welcome!
bumping to the top.
Has no one seen a way to do this?
Sent from my Evo.
Desktop Visualizer should do this, its free in the marketplace.
Thanks for the suggestion, but this still leaves app labels in sense, albeit smaller ones. Anyone else have a suggestion?
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Until someone figures out how to edit Sense to hide the icons I think FolderOrganizer is the best bet. I've used BetterCut but found it to be painfully slow. And, I do not think it will hide the labels anyway, only change icons)
The other thing I have grown to love about Folder Organizer is that it shrinks the icons a little bit which I prefer. When using Launcher Pro I could hide the labels at the icon's regular size but after going back and forth between Cyanogen and Sense ROMs I have come to prefer the look of smaller ones.
Here are some screenshots of my homescreen. I am currently running Matted Blues Sense ROM with custom icons:
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Only suggestion I have is try multicon...if u do a 1x1 widget and set it to one app, it'll remove the label...however, it will enlarge the icon...a lot. If u set it to 1x2 and do 3 icons, it looks pretty good, so long as the icons are high quality.
Aside from that, I haven't seen any widget type apps that will allow removal of text...
Let us know if u do find anything.
Via EVO on XDA app...
Via EVO on XDA app...
I’ve been looking for something to remove labels from the icons on the home screen since I first got my HTC Incredible 9 months ago and finally found the solution this week. I use Multicon to put 2 apps in a 1x1 square at opposite corners without labels for most apps which looks nice, but occasionally wanted an app to be easy to push on the fly so just wanted the one large app icon, but hate the labels underneath. There are two options for this.
Option 1: You can use Multicon with a 1x1 widget and reduce it to 1 column 1 row. This will produce an icon with no label, but the icon will be larger than it would normally be which some people may not like. Depending on the resolution of the icon itself it may appear slightly blurry.
Option 2: Finally, I found an app that will let you have an icon almost exactly the same as adding the app to the homescreen normally, just without the label underneath. All you need is the free/lite version of Folder Organizer.
Here is the link: Not allowed - just search for Folder Organizer Lite
Longpress home screen. Add > Widget > Folder Organizer Item > Apps > Unclick “Show Text under Icon” at top > Scroll down and select your app > Done.
This results in a nice app icon in 1x1 space with no label underneath and no black spot where the label would be – very nice and clean looking!
FYI - this is using the HTC Sense UI
It would be great for people to share their home screen setups, I'm interested to see what is possible with ICS
Unfortunately I can't attach my screenshot as I can't post external links yet.
You can take a screenshot within ICS by pressing the volume down button and power button at the same time.
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These screenshots are huge!
Haven't really taken advantage of all the nifty stuff ICS has to offer. I like my homescreen minimalistic. XP
Ported from my desire, looks cool
Very basic - just starting to mess around and see what apps work, etc.
Clock is Beautiful Widgets - Ice Cream Sandwich superclock skin
Mini Info Pro
gTasks
Hahaha, had to look twice, same folders i have but my productivity is on another screen along with utilities, news & Cool
Icons have a very nice 3D look to them.
Stretlow said:
Ported from my desire, looks cool
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I like this simplified layout, what Clock and weather widgets are you using?
masterpfa said:
I like this simplified layout, what Clock and weather widgets are you using?
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Clock is Minimalistic Text (easily the best app for customising your screen) the weather is fancy widgets, i found some skins online for it im still trying to settle on one.
I am going to root at some point and I hope to god someone figures away remove that google search bar, what a pain in the arse that is....
Stret
Stretlow said:
Clock is Minimalistic Text (easily the best app for customising your screen) the weather is fancy widgets, i found some skins online for it im still trying to settle on one.
I am going to root at some point and I hope to god someone figures away remove that google search bar, what a pain in the arse that is....
Stret
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Cheers
I'm still not decided about the Google search bar, so far I can ignore it but it does mean if you are going for a minimalist look , you can't
Here's Mine
haven't really done too much yet.
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Tung_meister said:
Here's Mine
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Have to ask... What widgets are those? Looks pretty awesome.
+1
Also, Timmac, can you upload your wallpaper somewhere?
kvlt said:
Have to ask... What widgets are those? Looks pretty awesome.
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It's not actually a widget it's a live wallpaper called "wp clock" that has the ability to have a custom background added.
Mine's pretty simple:
here is mine hope you like
Friscoooo Baby
Im not sure if this should be in Q&A or Themes &Apps..
Ive been trying to use launcher 7, I really like it actually.
The problem is it seems very buggy and laggy on my phone. I don't use that many tiles and about four widgets. Usually after a few minutes the widgets move all over the screen and out of the tiles.
I haven't seen any complaints in the comments in the market, only praises on how well and stable it is. I've used it both on a TW and cm7 ROM, locked home in memory trying to get it to function correctly.
Has anybody else have the same experience or is it just me and my phone? Am I doing something wrong or is this launcher still a WIP?
Have you ever considered using an app called Desktop Visualizer to create your own Windows 7 launcher? I mean it's not exactly the same but it does allow you to use your own images:
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Thanks Im definitely going to check that out.
One word of caution though. When I attempted doing this several years ago, the only launcher that would allow you to place the icons so that they touch each other without leaving a gap was LauncherPro. Every other launcher I tried to use left a gap & didn't make it look so seamless.
You should also be able to find pre-made icon packs & tuts here on XDA.
Here's one to get you started:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=783946
Update: Man what a pain. Using the included icon pack, I'm having trouble getting them to align correctly. Not only that in order to resize the home screen icons using Launcher Pro, you need Launcher Pro Plus which is a paid app. So I tried using ADW Launcher...still can't get them to align correctly.
I guess the icon packs were created for a specific sized screen (hence the problem with alignment). I'll continue to give it a go to see if I can get it to work.
Okay got it finally.
First you need to set your launcher to 5 rows & 4 columns.
Then when creating your icons (.png) from whatever image you find they need to be at the following resolutions/pixels:
1x1 = 110x122px
1x2 = 115x264px
2x1 = 230x124px
3x1 = 355x124px
4x1 = 475x124px
You may also be able to find icons packs/sets on the net but they have to be made specifically for screen resolutions of 800x480 in order to align correctly on our screens.
Hope that helps
EL TEJANO said:
Okay got it finally.
First you need to set your launcher to 5 rows & 4 columns.
Then when creating your icons (.png) from whatever image you find they need to be at the following resolutions/pixels:
1x1 = 110x122px
1x2 = 115x264px
2x1 = 230x124px
3x1 = 355x124px
4x1 = 475x124px
You may also be able to find icons packs/sets on the net but they have to be made specifically for screen resolutions of 800x480 in order to align correctly on our screens.
Hope that helps
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I don't use desktop visualizer but had to say thanks anyway. This is exactly the kind of helpful post that deserves thanks. Damn nice of you to share this info with us!
As requested, I'm posting my icons that I made by hand (using a mishmash of powerpoint and paint.net =) ) as well as a rough map of a handful of files in case anyone wants to swap out other PNG's. Feel free to pick and choose whatever icons you might like from the attached zips, and you can follow the guide I posted in swapping PNG's, or ninjamorph or whatever means you like to swap PNGs.
So this is what it looks like on my phone:
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And here's a guide for the location of a handful of PNGs and where they apply (I only included notification bar icons in the zips):
Notification icons (right) *stencil theme attached*:
SystemUI.apk/res/drawable-xhdpi
status icons
signal type icons
signal icons
wifi
framework-res.apk/res/drawable-xhdpi
additional status icons
battery icons - *if using 99% mod for the battery, then icons are in drawable-hdpi. If using stock battery, in drawable-xhdpi
Notification icons (left) *stencil theme attached*:
framework-res.apk/res/drawable-xhdpi
additional icons
Lockscreen divider (just for reference):
framework-res.apk/res/drawable-xhdpi
divider_horizontal_dark.9.png
Lockscreen dots (just for reference):
framework-res.apk/res/drawable-xhdpi
btn_code_lock_default.png
btn_code_lock_touched.png
indicator_code_lock_point_area_default.png
indicator_code_lock_point_area_green.png
indicator_code_lock_point_area_red.png
Pull-down bar (just for reference):
SystemUI.apk/res/drawable-xhdpi
statusbar_background.9.png (notification bar)
status_bar_item_background_normal.9.png (status bar item background)
status_bar_close_on.9.png (status bar close)
shade_bg.png* (In drawable-hdpi. Can only change if using transparency tweaks I posted or have changed XML in another way to direct to this file)
RES_cappuccino.apk/res/drawable-xhdpi
indi_noti_bg.9.png (quick setting background)
status_bar_header_background.9.png (header background)
indi_noti_bar.9 (indicator notification bar)
nice work!
These are amazing. I love the clean, minimalist look!
Thanks a lot! Took me a while, but I think it was worth it =)
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Thanks a lot! Took me a while, but I think it was worth it =)
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Definitely! It's nice to see something different for once (and it helps that it's really good!)
Can I use these in a theming tool I'm working on? With proper credit, of course.
Oh, yeah, of course. Do whatever you want with them. Honestly, I just made them cause I wanted them for myself. Sharing it was just an after thought in case anyone else might like the theme too =)
If you ever move over to CyanogenMod or AOKP, you should really make a theme from this
I would love to move to cm9, but I actually use the video camera quite a bit, and I hear it still has focusing and stuttering issues, so unfortunately I have to wait. I'd also love to try the ics leak, but I think I need CWM, so again I have to wait =) but whenever I switch, you can bet I'll bring over my icons n stuff. I can't stand the stock ones. Blech! But again, if anyone wants to package them or use them in their own theme or whatever, go to town!
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Oh, yeah, of course. Do whatever you want with them. Honestly, I just made them cause I wanted them for myself. Sharing it was just an after thought in case anyone else might like the theme too =)
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Thanks...I will!
I guess there is no CM9-Theme looking like this? I'm not sure, if i really should work on the framework-res.apk by myself.
Stencil battery on my s3 mini