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(REQ) Impossible and insane and crazy, yet really cool request for a launcher/home

So I am using Launcher Pro Plus and really like having a scrollable dock.....So my question is, how impossible is it to scroll my home screen by row or column instead of by page. Sort of like a rubix cube.........does that make sense or not LOL

That does sound like a nice idea. Basically you want each row to scroll as the dock does. Getting both vertical and horizontal scrolling would make it much tougher. I think to build one where just the rows scroll would be easiest. You could just build an app/widget that scrolls and place it on your homescreen. Bc of the 'page' style of android, im betting it would have to circumvent that by just working off of one home page.
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That would be fun! Lol good idear.
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Can you imagine trying to remember where the app you are looking for is????????
With the Rubix Scrolling it would never be in the same place

mikeschevelle said:
Can you imagine trying to remember where the app you are looking for is????????
With the Rubix Scrolling it would never be in the same place
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Doesn't matter
Why you ask because it sounds fun
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agreed

If I'm not mistaken, the SweeterHome beta does this with springboards or something like that. I could be wrong but you can try their site and see (sorry I can't remember the url!). Hope I was able to help a bit lol.

I did this once (when on android 1.5) with either Openhome, ahome, Dxtop, or one of the other early launchers. I don't believe it was a feature.. more of an accident but ya, I feel like it is a great idea to have this built in to a launcher.
A widget like this: ScrollCut would kind of make it possible, but for some reason, only lets you scroll vertically (?).

Imagine having a a square number like 4 or 9 homescreens arranged in a square. Moving horizontaly and verticaly, you could move around the homescreens. So for example, you move right or left to any screen, and then you can move up and down as well to any other screen, and so on and so forth. The fun ensues lol
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What's the possibilty of someone making a 3D app drawer that looks like a DNA strand? If the columns worked independently of each other in that scenario that would be amazing.
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thomasskull666 said:
Imagine having a a square number like 4 or 9 homescreens arranged in a square. Moving horizontaly and verticaly, you could move around the homescreens. So for example, you move right or left to any screen, and then you can move up and down as well to any other screen, and so on and so forth. The fun ensues lol
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Now Imagine your cube scrollable by row and column, like a App Rubix Cube

Forum pool on when we get an official ICS update

I read the forum rules and online gambling isn't mentioned. Any good guesses on when we will be getting 4.0? I am betting $5.00 on 3/30/12.

I'll take the end of February for $0.00... They have to add all the unneeded bloatware.

Way too optimistic dates above me ^

Id say about a month after the sgs3 is released

as soon as bubby finishes cm7 they can do ics, lmao

$5 we won't see it until August

xSaint21 said:
Id say about a month after the sgs3 is released
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You beat me to it ISaint! That's what happened with official Gingerbread on the Epic. After I got this phone it got released after like 10 leaks
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What I really want to know is when if ever we will have a fully functional AOSP ICS ROM? I'm sure TW will make ICS look and feel like crap.

What about never. Lol. Who knows maybe Sammy will surprise us and drop it on us soon.
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SantinoInc said:
What I really want to know is when if ever we will have a fully functional AOSP ICS ROM? I'm sure TW will make ICS look and feel like crap.
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Besides Bubby, it Looks like Darchstar is working on an ICS build
https://github.com/darchstar
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I will take May 16.
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SantinoInc said:
What I really want to know is when if ever we will have a fully functional AOSP ICS ROM? I'm sure TW will make ICS look and feel like crap.
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Okay, then you just throw on the Trebuchet launcher from CM9, or even the vanilla ICS launcher, and your problems are solved.
Dang, you wouldn't even have to have Root for that. Just like when I bought this phone: Touchwiz 4.0 didn't even make it out of the Best Buy parking lot before I had ADWEX running. (and Touchwiz 4 actually had a slim chance of survival, because it's the best version they've made so far, to be sure.....)
However, ADW won out merely because of the sheer speed factor.
(And yes, I know that Touchwiz is still there, lurking underneath, but it's really almost transparent compared to HTC's Sense or Motorola's Blur thing....)
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EDIT: Oh, yeah, the pool for "official" release: February 21st.

I think you should make the launcher look more in favor of the new flavor. The people app is royally renovated and I am looking the look. Any idea if you can make the theme of the whole phone look like that?
1. Making the status bar transparent
2. Vertical scrolling of the apps menu. Scroll horizontally to go to widgets menu.
3. Changing the whole background to white (pearl white) with black roboto font, or at least an option to do so.
4.to make apps on the dock bar run continuously so that there a no lag when trying to open them.(everyone I try to open the people app, it takes sometime to load and it's irritating)
5 instead of grey background on every pop up menu, a blue white themed menu options would be great. I am new to xda, so if this is in a wrong forum, please feel free to post the same in the right forum.
I greatly appreciate the work your are doing. Good luck!
Dr. Droid
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Official ICS? I'm guessing April or May probably.
Unofficial? January is looking pretty likely so far.

raghucares said:
I think you should make the launcher look more in favor of the new flavor. The people app is royally renovated and I am looking the look. Any idea if you can make the theme of the whole phone look like that?
1. Making the status bar transparent
2. Vertical scrolling of the apps menu. Scroll horizontally to go to widgets menu.
3. Changing the whole background to white (pearl white) with black roboto font, or at least an option to do so.
4.to make apps on the dock bar run continuously so that there a no lag when trying to open them.(everyone I try to open the people app, it takes sometime to load and it's irritating)
5 instead of grey background on every pop up menu, a blue white themed menu options would be great. I am new to xda, so if this is in a wrong forum, please feel free to post the same in the right forum.
I greatly appreciate the work your are doing. Good luck!
Dr. Droid
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Your making a theme request in a ICS launcb date guessing game thread? Lol did i miss something....

I was told we will not have it until ....wait for it....sometime in April the latter part of the month. QUOTE me on this
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eao1991 said:
$5 we won't see it until August
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that's more like it! 6-9 months for me as well. gentleman's bet of course though.

My request was not exactly a theme. the status bar becoming transparent can be viewed as hiding the status bar. scrolling options is definitely launcher. and keeping the dock icons in homescreen running use definitely launcher again. and yeah dude you missed something. And as long as you don't do anything productive there's no need to lol. And this is me being polite.
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bluefire808 said:
Your making a theme request in a ICS launcb date guessing game thread? Lol did i miss something....
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My request was not exactly a theme. the status bar becoming transparent can be viewed as hiding the status bar. scrolling options is definitely launcher. and keeping the dock icons in homescreen running use definitely launcher again. and yeah dude you missed something. And as long as you don't do anything productive there's no need to lol. And this is me being polite.
Dr.Droid
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Launch date is no fun to talk about. If you are waiting for the update you are in the wrong website.
Dr.Droid
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Icon Size and Text removal AKA Bigify for Android?

Anyone came up with an app for this?
I am not a fan of launchers running on top of any ROM and I read a lot about issues with apps and playstore after using LCD Density.
I currently switched from iPhone to Galaxy S3 and while the phone is great, icons are just not adequate to the screen.
There is an app called Bigify for iOS, is there anything at least similar for Android devices?
The main 3 options I am looking for:
1. change icon size
2. change angle of the icons by xy degrees (it looks fantastic!)
3. remove icon text
Here is a SS:

This actually would be very nice as it bothers me when the apps name is cut off because it's too long.. So being able to remove the text would be great!
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Ls1ssz28 said:
This actually would be very nice as it bothers me when the apps name is cut off because it's too long.. So being able to remove the text would be great!
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Apex Launcher allows you to remove the app text or modify the title/icon. You cannot rotate it though.

Op running a different launcher has no actual problems
Say your using nova as default the phone won't have stock tw launched running in the background unless you open again
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I am sorry but how are these answers to my question? As far as I am reading it correct I need to have a launcher and I cannot get a any angle and no name icons at the same time
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It's what you asked for. They honestly helped you as much to their abilities.
That being said if you want angled apps look into making it yourself. I know that is not much of a answer you're looking but as of right now as far as I have seen there are no apps or mods to rotate apps.

eMi111 said:
I am sorry but how are these answers to my question? As far as I am reading it correct I need to have a launcher and I cannot get a any angle and no name icons at the same time
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There's one launcher that'll let you have the customization you want. It's rather expensive though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYzYQ6YtepU

Ascertion said:
There's one launcher that'll let you have the customization you want. It's rather expensive though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYzYQ6YtepU
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Thats truly an amazing launcher, no other one allows such customization, I gotta have it. Thanks for the tip

Very nice
It does look pretty amazing! I might give it a whirl this weekend when I get paid.....still worth getting.

evoer said:
Thats truly an amazing launcher, no other one allows such customization, I gotta have it. Thanks for the tip
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Price is a bit high but I took the plunge and I believe it can only get better love it so far.
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Well, thank you all. I guess there is no way for me to achieve what I want without running a launcher on top of my ROM. :thumbup:
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eMi111 said:
Anyone came up with an app for this?
I am not a fan of launchers running on top of any ROM and I read a lot about issues with apps and playstore after using LCD Density.
I currently switched from iPhone to Galaxy S3 and while the phone is great, icons are just not adequate to the screen.
There is an app called Bigify for iOS, is there anything at least similar for Android devices?
The main 3 options I am looking for:
1. change icon size
2. change angle of the icons by xy degrees (it looks fantastic!)
3. remove icon text
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Root your phone install a recovery and install paranoid android, google it, i think youll like it.

I got TFS Launcher and it runs great. I do have one question though.... Isn't there always a Launcher running over a rom? Otherwise you wouldn't be able to run any apps.
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Nexus 7 Wallpaper

While waiting on hold for Google support a few weeks back, I decided to slap together a wallpaper for my Nexus 7 (and its coming replacement)... and I rather liked what I came up with, so I figured I'd share it (them) here. The size is ever so slightly off, but it's close enough that the scaling isn't noticeable.
Lossless PNG versions can be nabbed below (sorry they're not hotlinks; I'm too new to the forum):
dl.dropbox.com/u/30744812/N7_SmokeSpec_8b.png
dl.dropbox.com/u/30744812/SmokeSpecCL_8b.png
If you dig it, feel free to use and share. Hope y'all enjoy!

Love it, thank you
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Great wallpaper! Thanks.
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Thanks for the kind words!
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Thanks man, this one blends well. I love it.
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Protean said:
Thanks man, this one blends well. I love it.
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I like the pic but can't really figure out how to use it well.
If I go to gallery and choose set as wallpaper it gives me a crazy sliding box system that can never cover the whole pic. Is that what u guys are using?
Edit:it looks pretty small in gallery btw.maybe 1/4 screen

Great one.
Thanks.
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jarayn said:
I like the pic but can't really figure out how to use it well.
If I go to gallery and choose set as wallpaper it gives me a crazy sliding box system that can never cover the whole pic. Is that what u guys are using?
Edit:it looks pretty small in gallery btw.maybe 1/4 screen
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You can resize the crazy sliding box. Just grab one of the blue dots on the side and drag outwards to make it bigger.
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cool pic, thx

Not bad! Have you considered makng anything for the pattrn app???
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Run L1ke H3LL said:
Not bad! Have you considered makng anything for the pattrn app???
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Hadn't heard of it until you mentioned it, actually. I'll have to take a look.

Sexy. Thanks. I'm using that as my wallpaper on stock launcher
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Wow very nice........ Thanks for great share....
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veeman said:
You can resize the crazy sliding box. Just grab one of the blue dots on the side and drag outwards to make it bigger.
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This is driving me slowly insane.
I cant do it. The box wont get big enough to cover the entire picture so I end up with a stretched image.
This has been the only thing so far on android that seems ridiculously complex. Why cant I just choose the picture I want?

jarayn said:
This is driving me slowly insane.
I cant do it. The box wont get big enough to cover the entire picture so I end up with a stretched image.
This has been the only thing so far on android that seems ridiculously complex. Why cant I just choose the picture I want?
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It's really not that complex. The OP stated the size is slightly off, so it will looked a little stretched.

Andrew025 said:
It's really not that complex. The OP stated the size is slightly off, so it will looked a little stretched.
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You can use mulitipicture live wallpaper or wallpaper wizardrii to set the wallpaper without cropping it. If you use mulitipicture live, you open the app by long pressing the screen, choosing live wallpaper, and then choosing multi picture live wallpaper.
You can then set a still wallpaper for each home screen or for all home screens, have it scrolling or not scrolling, have it stay put or rotate with the homescreen, etc...
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Nice wallpaper
Nice wallpaper

picture great Thank

I just resized to 1600x1280 and when you long press to apply WP from gallery (or Quickpic), the box covers the whole picture. Resized here.

tcat007 said:
I just resized to 1600x1280 and when you long press to apply WP from gallery (or Quickpic), the box covers the whole picture. Resized here.
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So is 1600x1280 the correct size scrolling wallpapers need to be n order to fit 100% properly? I've been trying to figure this out for the longest lol.
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Buzz launcher!!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.buzzpia.aqua.launcher
Didn't see anything in our forum about this launcher. Check it out. In my opinion blows every launcher out the water, theme wise, and it's only in beta stage
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Great Find!!

Thanks sick launcher
Sg3 4.2.2 protected by UAG case .....

Thanks for the heads up man. Very cool launcher. Anyone figure out how to add additional screens though? Most themes only come with 1 or 2 screens and I like more than that for my widgets.

I just found this launcher today. Still figuring it out. But I think it is using quite a bit if memory. Pretty cool easy theming though without relying on uccw. I did add screens but it was by accident so I do know it is possible.
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Diggin on it
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Very good launcher I would say it beats all launchers out there but it eats 144 of ram on my note 2! So I can't imagine what it would do to devices with less than 2 gigs of ram! Anybody having same issues????
Still is very powerful and living it so far!
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droid75 said:
Thanks for the heads up man. Very cool launcher. Anyone figure out how to add additional screens though? Most themes only come with 1 or 2 screens and I like more than that for my widgets.
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If you bring up the launcher settings, click on upload. That will bring up a "normal" home screen manager" that also lets you upload your homescreen