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Where are all of the Android Skins?

I figured someone would have created some by now.
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its kinda ugly in my opinion

I'd personally like to see one.

i dont think anyone cares.. I think its kinda ugly.. the phones ugly too..
the only cool thing is that you can move the icons anywhere you want.. other than that.. its meh..

why not judge the final product when it's done, not in the state it's currently in...

pff, already looks much better that any wm6 version i ever saw even with interfaces like mannilla 2d winterface pointui spb ms wad 3 ore anything like that!

Hey,
I would also like to see an Android Skin.
I like it, and its really nicer than WM, it looks like a fingerTouchOS.
Maybe we'll get a skin anytime.
greets doena

Cant be too hard to skin in Throttle Launcher, especially since the next version will support scrolling both vertically and horizontally and with support of panels and on screen object movement.
Goto http://www.throttlelauncher.com

jadephyre said:
why not judge the final product when it's done, not in the state it's currently in...
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It's finished! Final!
jdiperla said:
Cant be too hard to skin in Throttle Launcher, especially since the next version will support scrolling both vertically and horizontally and with support of panels and on screen object movement.
Goto http://www.throttlelauncher.com
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I don't think this will be easy in TL. Maybe HS++, probably WAD.

Ufufu said:
It's finished! Final!
I don't think this will be easy in TL. Maybe HS++, probably WAD.
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what i think was meant by the TL post is that the new version is going to have moveable widgets.
and honestly .. the way we do the skinning, application dev and hacking, and everything else is done around here..
we can do it.
the device thus far imo looks like a piece o chit!

the device is ugly and the skin itself is just a white topbar, a wallpaper and some icons, can be done with every app here.

Here is my skinned Android. Hope you like it!

egz whats the batt life on it?

I'd like to put here on snooze!

what i like to see now is some Android inspired apps.. i'm quite sick now of pseudo-iPhone apps (well, excluding A_Cs S2 lineup that is)..
how about an application such like the Android drop down notifications.. it's totally replace the bubble notification icon when you have more than 1 notification.. and it's easier to access than pressing that darn icon on the topbar..
it's pretty handy, if you ask me.. i hope someone develops something like that..
here's a video demo of what i am talking about..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy-YcGNyJds

I'm a big for on Android (I just ordered my G1 from T-Mobile), but I odn't think there's much to the user interface. The Standard interface can be completely customized so I'm sure we'll see quite a few variations once people actualy get their hands on it. Personally, I'd like to see a TouchFLO 3D type of interface on Andoid which will give access to a lot more information than simply having a desktop with a few widgets and icons on it.
If you're really interested in creating somehting like this, my suggestino would be to do it with Wisbar Advance Desktop. You can quite easily create the look, but it might feel a bit static since it's hard go get thing animated with it.

I believe this is a better Android Skin...!!!!

Better than to have just a simple skin of Android, would be to have the complete OS in our HTC devices!
That would be nice!hope someone is working on that
Cheers

Once they release the source to Android in October and more devices start coming out, I think Android is going to be hard to beat. I bet people will start skinning it right away. It has so much potential.

Almost all that android (the one in the first post ) does will be possible to do with next version of ThrottleLauncher:
- Scrolling footer.
- Widgets.
- Scrolling programs.
- Scrolling contacts.
I don't know if a miss something .
I plan to end a private beta during this week, and it the beta testing goes allright I plan to release it as "unstable build" publically so pleople can start messing with the new features .
I look forward an android skin too . When I'm ended developing this new release I'll gladly help anyone trying to develop a theme for throttle.

What would you do if you had an opportunity to show off the power of Android?

Like the title says, I'm interested in what you guys consider a feature worth showing off!

Flash (Adobe), Customization and on and on....

Holding the nexus in my left hand and making a call.
Sent from my Nexus One using XDA App

Voice to text and in the UI in general i.e. the ability to add widgets and customize the launcher. After showing my EVO to a new iPhone 4 owner last night, all she had to say was: "why would anyone want an iPhone when they could have one of those?" I said, "you know, that is a really good question." Priceless!
EVO on Tapatalk

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Google voice, show them real visual voicemail; widgets, show them important stuff without even opening an app; flash, show them the full web experience; live wallpaper, It's a battery hog for most things, but still really cool; replacements for all normal features, handcent, t9 dialer, different keyboard (like swipe).
There's loads of things you can showcase.

I would load some porn apps, since android is for porn right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IraQfhlMwi4

Use the Maps live wallpaper that comes with Cyanogen while listening to music and doing other things.
If I'm showing off to an iphoner, move icons around and change the battery.

Google Navigation

I can scan your body and know in which pocket is your iphone, using metal detector.
I can sync my flash led rhythm with the beats on a dance floor.

Great guys! Keep 'em coming

Whats your favorite restaraunt ?
Hold search button...
say ""Navigate to mickeys steakhouse""
Show them navigation pop up automatically.
Wipe there drool and sweep away there broken iphone particles.

fubaya said:
Use the Maps live wallpaper that comes with Cyanogen while listening to music and doing other things.
If I'm showing off to an iphoner, move icons around and change the battery.
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Pretty sure maps live wallpaper is stock since eclair. And what makes you think you can't move icons around on an iPhone?
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pwig said:
Pretty sure maps live wallpaper is stock since eclair. And what makes you think you can't move icons around on an iPhone?
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They couldn't on iOs 3... can they on the new one?

eyegor said:
They couldn't on iOs 3... can they on the new one?
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Yes they could. It's always a grid from top left (except the dock), but you can rearrange them or move them to a different screen. It's been that way since iOS 1

cbaltzer said:
Yes they could. It's always a grid from top left (except the dock), but you can rearrange them or move them to a different screen. It's been that way since iOS 1
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big deal

chowdarygm said:
big deal
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Oh, I know it's weak compared to Android, I just don't like people hating on iOS when they're not even informed about it.
Disclaimer: I own an N1 and an iPhone 3GS (and prefer the N1 )

xManMythLegend said:
Whats your favorite restaraunt ?
Hold search button...
say ""Navigate to mickeys steakhouse""
Show them navigation pop up automatically.
Wipe there drool and sweep away there broken iphone particles.
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more like:
Whats your favorite restaraunt ?
Hold search button...
say ""Navigate to mickeys steakhouse""....say it again.....say it again.....say it again.
look around you, friend is already at the steakhouse eating something while you tried to get the search recognize the right words.

Depends on how bad your speech is for recognition. For some reason I can dictate diaries into the phone, while my friend had to take 5 tries to make it understand a sentence.

Showing the resident iPhone lover the trackball alert function. I ask him, how does he know he has an email/voicemaile etc?

What would you change? (My Setup)

Just curious what you guys would suggest for changes. I realize everyone is different, but hearing some suggestions would be nice.
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The icons I found from this post from XDA. (thank you XDA user mikebeecham)
The background is from AndroidCentral. I typically roll black... always come back to this.
The ROM is Onyx 2.1 via Team Whiskey (leaked 2.2).
The 1x1 weather widget is Beautiful Widgets (I really do not like the 4x2 style).
I only have ONE screen... LP lets you have 15 icons at the bottom, that have swype gestures so there are really 30 apps I can open with nothing on my desktop and not opening the app drawer.

I find myself chocked full of lameness, in the sense that I rarely deviate from stock. About the only areas where I bother to customize is wallpapers and ringtones, though I have a massive collection of both courtesy of Ringdroid and Google image search.
And even there it seems that I tend to think a bit narrowly. Most all of my wallpapers are either artwork of Audrey Kawasaki or Sumi Keiichi.
Currently running TW's Obsidian v2...Heck, even my screen layout and icon positions have become a matter of course. I've kept my screen layout pretty much identical since July regardless of firmware.
I r the suk

If you got some good artwork/backgrounds, post em man!

s15274n said:
If you got some good artwork/backgrounds, post em man!
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I would...but it's actually REALLY A LOT LOL.
Furthermore it's stuff that is too easy to find if you understand how to use Google's Image search. Though wallpapers in our screen's native format are harder to come by (960x800), the aspect ratio of 1280x1024 traditional desktop wallpapers is nearly identical (1.2, compared to 1.25). An app like Wallpaper Set And Save will fit these with no discernible distortion.
In other words, I'm so lazy that I do not break out Irfanview and Gimp to custom resize, I just use backgrounds optimized for the 1280x1024 desktop resolution. Making that one change though opens up a world of millions of wallpapers to those like me who would rather look for new and interesting stuff than spend all day in image editing software resizing things....
Lazy I be.

Makes a lot of sense actually, thanks. Never really understood the point of those apps.

It reminded me of what your rockin
Still flashing

haha, that's awesome. Did you find that on androidcentral?
This background is hysterical to me.
And here are a few more that I found recently from either Google Images, XDA or Team Whiskeys site:

s15274n said:
haha, that's awesome. Did you find that on androidcentral?
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Zedge wallpapers ,they've got some really good ones
Still flashing

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It reminded me of what your rockinhttp://tapa.tk/mu/4ccaf030-bba8-fa7b.jpg[/IMG
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Neat!
Don't blame me, blame my keyboard's autocorrection algorithm.
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Also go to devientart.com they have wallpapers that are cool as hell
Still flashing

Check out the little icon im rockin as my launcher I love it I'm also pimpin the clear pull down bar and shiny plastic swype keYboard
Still flashing

I like it... I am more stock Guy.. not sure why so many people hate the TouchWiz UI, I love the features and have not found it to cause me any issues.
I am waiting the segmented Battery to get posted over to FROYO and a nice shade bar to come along but here is my setup.
Pretty simple but I don't feel I am lacking anything.
Sent from my Vibrant Galaxy S

Xperia Arc Home (Runs great, no force closes!)

Thanks to an XDA user named Lef.teris here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=970643&page=1, the system dump for the Sony Xperia Arc has been posted. Another user named Paolo599 ripped the home launcher (called Sony Ericsson Home)... this can be found:
http://www.multiupload.com/2YETWLF218
I've been using it for the last 20 minutes with no force closes. Sony decoupled it's launcher with it's Time and Mediascape apps, so I'm guessing this is why it's relatively pain free to use.
Try it out, it's very cool. You can drag and drop apps into the dockbar and it has a folder management system FOR the dockbar. 5 screens. Very clean looking. It's app drawer also has "pages" as well. Only thing I see wrong is that it's made for slightly bigger phones because the dock text is cut off.
Lemme know how you like it. I don't know if the demand is there, but I'm sure if the home works this good- all we need to grab is the walls and the sounds and we can transform the look of our Vibrant's pretty fast.
Screenshots: (Credit robertd0619)
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Font in screenshots will not be the font on your device, obviously.

Nice, got any screenshots?

Of it in action on my phone? No. But this is what it generally looks like minus the widgets and the dock text (it's made for higher res phones) http://topnews.net.nz/images/sony-ericsson-xperia-arc-01.jpg

That's pretty clean.. I like the silver battery mod.

Pretty cool, always nice to have new options. It does look a little cut off at the bottom though.

Well, according to the Arc section- Sony has made everything in the launcher open source to distribute and mod so maybe someone can mess with the resolution?
Maybe a full on port?

In the short time you've been using it did you notice any selling points of the launcher beyond the look of it?

regP said:
In the short time you've been using it did you notice any selling points of the launcher beyond the look of it?
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Folders, the app drawer looks nice, at least unique with custom ordering. Btw, its free, small, and you can switch off at any time, why do you need to be sold?

I dont need to be sold. Every launcher has its own set of features.. Was wondering what this launcher had.

regP said:
In the short time you've been using it did you notice any selling points of the launcher beyond the look of it?
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Love the dock/folder integration.

The bottom dock icon doesn't line up. Maybe just mine. Posted some screenshots of the launcher.
3rd screenshot the icons shake to rearrange like the iphone.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App

The bottom doesn't line up because the Arc has a higher resolution than our phones. A dev is going to have to mess with it if they want it to be perfect.
I'm gonna add a screenshot or two of yours to the main post and give you credit.

richiehd said:
The bottom doesn't line up because the Arc has a higher resolution than our phones. A dev is going to have to mess with it if they want it to be perfect.
I'm gonna add a screenshot or two of yours to the main post and give you credit.
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no problem sir. i hope one of our themers here can give this a edit to make the icon docks line up.

Flashed it earlier.. I like how the app drawer and how the dock lets you have folders. If the dock were black and wasnt so tall id rock this over adw

Same here. I love how we can do this with android.
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[APP] FlipFeeds: Flipboard 'esq reader for all Android Devices. Complete it?

Hi all,
I have been working on an HTML5 based reader similar to Flipboard that would work in Android, iPad, Windows 8, etc. However, with news that Flipboard will be releasing to Android this year, I'm debating on if it's worth my time to finish. A few things of note:
It's powered by google reader
It actually has a better image grabbing engine that FB for image detection
Around 32 page layouts thus far
Scales areas and fonts dynamically to fit any resolution tablet/screen
Grabs the first few pages, then keeps going in the background for quick start
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I think if u can manage to create and page transition effect that makes flipping through them as exciting as it is on Flipboard then ur App will sell itself....i don't see that on your video.... it's laying out new nicely though.
try to focus on visuals and gestures.

typongtv said:
I think if u can manage to create and page transition effect that makes flipping through them as exciting as it is on Flipboard then ur App will sell itself....i don't see that on your video.... it's laying out new nicely though.
try to focus on visuals and gestures.
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Yea, it's complete alpha stages right now. I don't even have the code in for viewing an article. I won't be taking the exact FB effect, but was planning on making a swipe effect of some kind, but don't want to spend the million hours finishing this out if everyone says "Why bother, we'll use FlipBoard."
Thanks,
B.

Put in mind that Flipboard announced that the company will release the app only for chosen devices ....so if your app suits older less powered devices and have some cool features that are optimized for smooth browsing and doesn't consume battery ...then i think u should work on it and don't give up .
second of all you should know by now people lke to try out new apps every now and then ...we get bored fast my friend
good luck developing ..but if u loose interest then it's also ok .....maybe u will come up with something even better

typongtv said:
Put in mind that Flipboard announced that the company will release the app only for chosen devices ....so if your app suits older less powered devices and have some cool features that are optimized for smooth browsing and doesn't consume battery ...then i think u should work on it and don't give up .
second of all you should know by now people lke to try out new apps every now and then ...we get bored fast my friend
good luck developing ..but if u loose interest then it's also ok .....maybe u will come up with something even better
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Yea, now that the APK is out I'm seeing that Flipboard is working fine on older devices, I think I'll hold off. While I'm happy to continue building this, I don't see much point unless Flipboard doesn't come out tablet optimized. Happy to give people another option, but I only have a limited amount of time, and could never compete with the feature list that FB provides.
Thanks,
B.