Hey,
Preview of my new sms smiley skin (hopefully to be included officially with sms smiley - the owner says if he likes it then he will do .
Trust me this first skin looks okay and what not, but my next skin for it is going to blow you away (special effects, and no I won't tell you how to do it yet ) and such like the text bubbles are going to "puff" in and such.
Keep checking:
See here!
Let me know with suggestions and such, don't forget this is isn't totally finished I still need to align it properly and such.
I'm digging it so far. How will the sms notification bubbles look like? That's what I really want to see.
Hey guys, after gettings my hands on Wisbar Advance Desktop 2 and seeing how powerful it was in theming just the way I wanted, I thought I would make some themes.
I will put the themes I make up here in case anybody likes them so they can use them themselves (any donations would be appreciated).
Before I begin though, a note:
Most of my themes will be minimalist, I like to maximise functionality out of the minimal things on the screen, usually I prefer to see the wallpaper and my themes will focus on this.
The theme I am going to put here is a conceptual idea I had today where I thought that the signals I need can easily be displayed in a "different" way. It's not entirely new, but I have not seen it done like this for a phone theme before.
Anyway, here is my first version of this theme, a couple hours work, and is basic and simple, but i like it for that.
Each Orb or circle represents a signal, from largest to smallest:
Teal: Missed Calls
Yellow: New SMS
Maroon: New Email
Light Green: Wifi ON
Blue: Bluetooth ON
When the orbs/circles are empty, there is no missed call/sms/email and wifi/BT are off. When the colour is visible, there are.
Each can be clicked and will take you to the corresponding item:
Teal: Missed call list
Yellow: SMS list
Maroon: Email Inbox
Light Green: Toggle WIFI ON/OFF
Blue: Toggle Bluetooth ON/OFF
The top left blue circle shows the start menu
Top right blue circle has battery value, and will take you to the battery page (FIXED)
The wallpaper here is just a solid colour, but could be replaced with any colour or image you like.
The orbs/circles can be moved anywhere you like on the screen in any shape or pattern, simply and easily.
EDIT: FIXED: Battery Icon now takes you to battery power page.
EDIT2: OK, this will be the final version for now (until I receive requests). I have added transparency to the circles, I have added a clock, changed the colours for some nicer ones and have also made a landscape version. (Havn't shown screeners because it's practically the same thing). The wallpaper (that may be included) is just a generic general image from the phone, the idea of this theme is that you pick your own wallpaper, so you should change this, and not wonder why it has an aweful one included. Again, if you like, please feel free to donate.(Link in my sig)
NOTE: You may find that the mail icon doesn't link correctly on your phone. That is because on my phone it is linked to "Gmail". You should edit the script for the mail link (maroon one) and in its script you will find "\Windows\tmail.exe -service 'Gmail'". Change the bit in quotes to link your correct account (either what ever you named it, or "ActiveSync" if you're using the Hotmail/Outlook sync. If you use more than one, just remove everything after "\Windows\tmail.exe" and you will be taking to "Messaging"
Nice idea mate,
will check it out when it's done.
Very nice. It's good to see someone thinking away from the "We have to interact with some boxes inside of other boxes" mentality. Down with square buttons!
Thank you.
Thank you for the kind words, I have updated now after working on it all day, and made what will for now be a final version.
Let me know if you download and have any feedback. Bear in mind, as I said, I won't be adding _too much_ more to these because the whole idea was to be minimalist.
That looks really clever, although I think I'd keep getting distracted by the pretty lady!
Hmm very nice idea about circle but i have better idea to turn girl to front face and for first "bubi" assing sms and second "bubi" for new e-mail ) , and if message arrive all bubi start shaking. lol i need this for my today screen.
Hehe
Well, fortunately for those that might get distracted, the pretty lady doesn't come with my theme, I just saw her in the theming thread and thought I'd try it as my wallpaper. You can of course put any wallpaper you like, which is the idea of this theme. The "bubi" idea is a nice one, put it tempts me to make the kind of theme that one shouldn't see before the 9 o clock watershed, so I'll refrain.
I love the minimalist approach - clean and stylish, just the way I like it. Keep it up!
Hello. I really want to make my apps their own icons, but the only way to do that is to edit their coding. I'm no coder.
So, I come to XDA asking a simple question.
Are there any apps that allow me to import icons, or take existing ones, and swap them around to different apps? Or that let me assign an icon to an app?
This would make my phone look complete.
Please help!
If not, would anyone be interested in making one possible?
Many would donate, including me, and I could help with the graphics.
You can use reshacker to change any icons you want. Search for it.
will do thanks
I downloaded Reshacker, but appearently it doesnt work with icon exchanging, even though its an option. You get errors every time you use your own icon.
Anyone else have another option? I made some icons. Here's an example of a Ginvaders icon.
New:
Stars hand drawn
Planet Ring hand drawn,
space ship and bullets hand drawn
I wanted to put this as the Ginvaders icon, but as you can see, I cant get res to work.
Please, anyone have another solution? Thanks.
I was wondering if anyone can make me a custom slider for my wallpaper I made a Decepticons wallpaper and now I want a custom slider I've been looking for icons but I can't find any.
Or maybe even a slider for a South Park wallpaper I'm trying to make a South Park wallpaper since I have some ringtones.
And one last question how can I choose a custom message tone for my text I already created found some I just need to know where to put the file so I can use it. Or how to choose the file from my sd card if possible.
See my webpage here and let me know if you would be interested in me making one.
Just an FYI.. Dark / Black sliders and icons do not come out well at all.
I wanted to do something like maybe different character faces for different icons if possible. if you could do something like that with your design that would be good.
I'm using HDWall would your slider work with it?
I don't see why it wouldn't, but I won't do different pictures for each icon. Sorry, just too time consuming.
Does anyone have the files for the notification icons? (message) (email) (missed calls) (voicemail)
Ive come across some CLEAN icons that i would like to put in place of the standard icons that are used.
OR if someone is willing to mock it up for me, i will just send you the icons i have and you can have the pleasure taking credit for converting them...