I have a concept homescreen replacer where there are no "pages", instead there is one single horizontal scrolling strip, much like a film strip. Think Windows Phone 7, but with widgets, icons, folders etc and horizontal.
Look at the attachment if you dont understand. I would put the image in the post but I cant post outside links yet.
Yes, it is possible to see half a widget, but I thought about it and decided it will be to the user to scroll so it is displayed right.
I have no experience in coding but I am pretty good in graphics like my picture
Tell me what you think
I've been thinking about and attempting to create (with limited success so far.) something similar to your home replacement but Vertical Scroll rather than horizontal. To give you an idea it would look similar to The Zune Launcher or the but also be able to take widgets. Again no snap to screen (cant figure that bit out).
Good luck with this, it would be interesting to see what experiences you gain and what problems you run into. Similar to you I am fantastic with graphics but not too good at coding (not done any since C++)
When I "jailbroke" my ipod ages ago, there was a tweak that was called "smooth scrolling" and it did the exact same thing described here. I think it would be awesome to have a free-scrolling home screen. I am working on a home replacement myself and it features a vertically scrolling home screen where the icons and widgets can be placed anywhere (not snap to a grid). If you would like to help, click on the logo in my signature to be taken to my site to see what I am working on. I could use a hand in graphics, myself. PM me if you're interested
I would prefer something that is like infiniboard for iOS
This would technically allow widgets to stretch past the 1 page limit in LauncherPro, as in, you could have widgets large enough that they cut off, allowing for some GREAT theming and future uses.
hmmm....interested but why vertical? feels a little to Windows Phone to me and i think widgets would work better scrolling horizontally. I looked up smooth scrolling for iOS and yep thats what i want with widgets and gridless.
I just want to subscribe to this and give my two cents:
I think any seamless homescreen app should still have the option at least of enabling a grid for apps and widgets. The idea of this as a functioning homescreen replacement could certainly get me to switch over from ADW, but only if it could satisfy my OCD needs for everything to be lined up juuuust so.
I think this would be a great thing to have, but I also would like to have an option for the widgets & apps to line up on a grid. while it is great to have the seamless scrolling (preferably horizontal & not vertical...maybe there could be an option for that as well) I like things to line up too.
I could definitely make that an option for my home-replacement. I just want to know what people would want out of a home replacement so that I can model mine around the general consensus of what everybody wants. Oh, and why does everybody want vertical scrolling? Because its different. Sure Windows phone 7 has it. But it does it in its own way. Android is know for its open-ness and widgets. The wonder of Android is that anyone can do anything with Android, and its free.
At first I want to say that the idea of a seamless lauchner is brilliant.
I had that idea by myself but I have no experience in programming.
I think I would prefer somewalls original concept with icons that fit into a grid and horizontal scrolling. To me it seems to be more useful on portrait format screens compared to vertical scrolling.
But anyway, I hope the best for you guys.
I think vertically scrolling widgets will work buggy this way. Unless there would be some kind of listener that stops the horizontal scrolling when interacting with a vertically scrolling widget.
Else both ways of scrolling will interfere.
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I like the idea, it's something that I would love to have on my phone! Just one suggestion.. I would like to see both horizontal and vertical scrolling, if it could be developed. As in, the user decides what kind of scrolling he wants, either vertical, horizontal.. or may be both? I don't if it's possible or not, I have no "serious" coding experience, as you may call it since am just in school!
Hi guys..is it possible to get animation rotation on our android like the iphone rotation animation?
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If I am not mistaken, the browser on the Galaxy Tab does this.
possible i guess, its all about the script. which script i dont know im not real developer hahaha..
but i have seen someone in this forum just make a 'tweak' that can make fly and fold animation, maybe we can ask him to make one for rotation animation. hehe...
oh i mean here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=852279
all the system animations are located in in /system/framework/framework-res.apk inside /res/anim/ folder in this file. There is no animation called screen_rotation.xml or something near You can edit those animations after decompiling the framework-res.apk, and (syntax help : http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/animation-resource.html )
Oh now this would be the last piece to add to my Galaxy S, finally not having any reason to be jealous of the iPhone... PLEASE say this is possible, I've no idea how this would be done though, or I'd try myself.
Actually, Android had a similar animation in 1.5/6, but it was cut out because of some changes in Eclair. I'm sure that it's possible to change this animation to make it look more iphone-like.
header2k said:
Actually, Android had a similar animation in 1.5/6, but it was cut out because of some changes in Eclair. I'm sure that it's possible to change this animation to make it look more iphone-like.
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Surely if it was previously there then some of the devs would be able to work on bringing it back in 2.2+?
I am running MCCM's froyo/Sense SD build. When switching between home screens I get this slight bounce effect (left to right). I wanted to know if it is possible to get rid of this. I have tried to turn off all animation and use 3rd party apps like spareparts but nothing seems to work.
I really just want a fast smooth transition, I don't care for animations. Thanks for any help!
Anyone have any thoughts? I have tried searching but cannot come up with anything
i'm looking for a fix too.
what i found is that it's possible to change the transition effect : http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-x-hacks/100725-how-mod-custom-transition-animations.html
but what we need to do is to find the stock android transition effect, the fade and slide one.
Hi everyone, was watching some youtube videos about launcher 7 and found this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNDOeMJN-u0&feature=player_embedded
Im looking to get the transition animation effect this guy has when he goes back to the home screen, I donated to get the full version but still dont seem to get the option to get that.
also does anyone know how to get the animated contacts tile ?
thanks a lot !!
As far as I know, it's the only transition animation of Launcher7. What you can do in the settings is to lower the speed of the animation. I guess the SGS2 is just too fast for it
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As far as I know, it's the only transition animation of Launcher7. What you can do in the settings is to lower the speed of the animation. I guess the SGS2 is just too fast for it
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no , no , its totally different. Even on my launcher seven when changing from app list to home screen it wont have any animation, on this video he has animation when going into the app list and back.
Pretty sure its a different animation
Hi, so try as I may, I can't find a way to add widgets to the S5 lock screen. I was wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same issue or if i'm just incompetent?
I'm a little new to android but is this something that might change over time? or is the inability to add widgets to the lock screen something that will never be added? I really valued that element of my old phone and I hate how I can't do that with the galaxy s5.