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[4.0+][05/16] Tile Launcher Beta 1.31 | Sliding drawer | Total customization

Smooth, multidirectional, widget-compatible tile-based launcher for Android 4.0+.
Scroll Direction - Select horizontal (left to right) or vertical (top to bottom)
Tile Customization - Select your own title, icon, background colors or images
Scroll Settings - Configure your scrolling speed, direction, and overscroll effect
Sliding Drawer - Swipe horizontally or vertically from the home screen
Snap Effect - Perform an action, switch screens or open the drawer when overscrolling
Homescreen Dimensions - Select # of rows, columns, and margins, or increase your screen size
Toolbar - Choose font, colors, icon, even show a Jellybean-styled date widget - or hide it if you don't want it
Lock/Unlock Desktop - Lock your desktop to prevent accidental changes
Icon Packs - Icon pack support for most launchers (Work in progress)
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

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Downloading now , will let you know :thumbup:
Edit; nice launcher, has potential. An option to hide the launcher icon in top right and long press on screen to bring up list of apps to choose from. Hide status bar would be great to. Just some suggestions. Thanks for the launcher
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I really like to include this in my ROM. Is it, or is it ever going to be, open source?
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I'd suggest option for different layouts for portrait and landscape

fc when replacing app icon from gallery.
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Beautiful!
You should add some custom fonts.. or use the new Roboto slim.
Good job!
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add some bounce-back scroll effect option to homescreen..
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How about gesture controle for open app drawer, something like swype up. So we wont lost that many space for app drawer icon.
Add possibility to create folder tiles^^
Great work until now.
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merhans said:
How about gesture controle for open app drawer, something like swype up. So we wont lost that many space for app drawer icon.
Add possibility to create folder tiles^^
Great work until now.
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Also add stacking / folder feature in a tile shape. Overall looks amazing.. I'll be taking screenshots & maybe make a video when you release new updates. I'm here if you need help! Tester/Graphic Design, ect.

Oh god you are the same dev that used to make those really nice notification drawer additions plus AOKP toggles to cm.*instant downloads the app*

Hey guys, here's a much improved alpha 2: Play Store Link
I am currently on a trip so will reply to comments and update main post when I get a chance
Small easter egg in this version: long click drawer to change to a 2nd home screen for your enjoyment. More coming soon!
EDIT: updated first post and switched to Play store link

It looks like the play store link hasn't updated yet..if its not active by tonight I'll upload a version elsewhere.
edit: Link has been updated

henslo said:
Downloading now , will let you know :thumbup:
Edit; nice launcher, has potential. An option to hide the launcher icon in top right and long press on screen to bring up list of apps to choose from. Hide status bar would be great to. Just some suggestions. Thanks for the launcher
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Hiding the drawer icon is definitely something I'm considering However I have a few ideas to improve it as well, perhaps a sort of "quick launch bar" in a row where the icon is currently located.
SMillerNL said:
I really like to include this in my ROM. Is it, or is it ever going to be, open source?
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Feel free to include this in any ROM At this point it will not be open source.
imjustafq said:
fc when replacing app icon from gallery.
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Let me know if this is still happening with Alpha 2. Thanks!
Iloveyouandroid said:
Beautiful!
You should add some custom fonts.. or use the new Roboto slim.
Good job!
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Thanks for the suggestion!
imjustafq said:
add some bounce-back scroll effect option to homescreen..
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Scroll effects are definitely coming, however I'm focused on squishing some bugs at the moment Thanks for the suggestion!
merhans said:
How about gesture controle for open app drawer, something like swype up. So we wont lost that many space for app drawer icon.
Add possibility to create folder tiles^^
Great work until now.
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Folders are coming back, I already have some stuff planned but it's not yet ready. Stay tuned!
SystemErrorOne said:
Also add stacking / folder feature in a tile shape. Overall looks amazing.. I'll be taking screenshots & maybe make a video when you release new updates. I'm here if you need help! Tester/Graphic Design, ect.
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Thanks man! Saw your review on Play Store as well, appreciate it

rob43 said:
Thanks man! Saw your review on Play Store as well, appreciate it
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No problem buddy! Im trying to find more bugs and ways to make it better...Last night when I downloaded the APK and tried to install it my phone wouldn't let me cuz it said "App not installed. An existing package by the same name with a conflicting signature is already installed." The way I tried to install it was using Root Explorer and just over writing the app by installing the new APK but i guess something is going wrong with the signature cuz ive never seen this happen...so I just went to the playstore and uninstalled it from there and re-installed the new copy from there....But i still have one more issue. Whenever you install a new launcher from the play store and immediately after you click the home button the OS prompts you which launcher do you want to use..i have 3 launchers installed (Nova, Chameleon, & Tile) But the OS never prompts me which launcher do I wanna use...
UPDATE: Alright so I got it working now. Android now prompts for the launcher >>> https://docs.google.com/open?id=0Byxlw5J4qbOvZDNKY21yV282TGM
But one more bug I found is that whenver you go to the widgets in the app drawer and you drag for example Airdroid 4x1 Widget Tile Launcher crashes.

This is extremely promising... Keep this up, if you play you're cards right, you may just have the most "innovative" launcher out there

SystemErrorOne said:
No problem buddy! Im trying to find more bugs and ways to make it better...Last night when I downloaded the APK and tried to install it my phone wouldn't let me cuz it said "App not installed. An existing package by the same name with a conflicting signature is already installed." The way I tried to install it was using Root Explorer and just over writing the app by installing the new APK but i guess something is going wrong with the signature cuz ive never seen this happen...so I just went to the playstore and uninstalled it from there and re-installed the new copy from there....But i still have one more issue. Whenever you install a new launcher from the play store and immediately after you click the home button the OS prompts you which launcher do you want to use..i have 3 launchers installed (Nova, Chameleon, & Tile) But the OS never prompts me which launcher do I wanna use...
UPDATE: Alright so I got it working now. Android now prompts for the launcher >>> https://docs.google.com/open?id=0Byxlw5J4qbOvZDNKY21yV282TGM
But one more bug I found is that whenver you go to the widgets in the app drawer and you drag for example Airdroid 4x1 Widget Tile Launcher crashes.
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Hmm ok. Are you on ICS? Dropping widgets is still being worked on, added it to the known issues list now.
As for prompting for the launcher, it should prompt you every time you install a new launcher, strange if it didn't. It's possible to go to Apps -> Your current home launcher -> Clear defaults to make it prompt if that happens again.
I'll be returning home this weekend, hope to get a new build out soon Cheers

rob43 said:
Hmm ok. Are you on ICS? Dropping widgets is still being worked on, added it to the known issues list now.
As for prompting for the launcher, it should prompt you every time you install a new launcher, strange if it didn't. It's possible to go to Apps -> Your current home launcher -> Clear defaults to make it prompt if that happens again.
I'll be returning home this weekend, hope to get a new build out soon Cheers
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Well im on PA 4.1.2 Based Rom.. (2.54) & Thanks thats good too know ill do that next time it doesnt prompt me.
& Be safe on your trip..I know how it feels too be away from home and not have all of your equipment on hand. Good luck and well Ill be here to help ya! Looking forward to this launcher

New Icon Concept
I got bored so I was playing around and came up with this. Didn't take me much time but if you like it let me know and ill put more details into it
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0Byxlw5J4qbOveEFNdElEWjEwdWM

i love this launcher!!
here some ideas:
- make it more flexible (the user no more needs to sets numbers of colums and rows)
then:
- option to choose min tile size (width and height)
- option to choose from horizontal scrolling or vertical scrolling in home
- option to choose paginated scrolling (regardless scrolling orientation) in home
- drawer categories
- option to enable google search bar near the app drawer button
- option to replace the launcher menu in app drawer with google play shortcut (or another app)
- fix custom color (can't set a custom hex color on nexus s cm10)
add these features even in a paid version and i'll buy it
keep it on!!

REQ: Homescreen notifications like DashClock but w/o the clock?

Hey guys,
I love the DashClock widget and use it on my lockscreen as well as my homescreen. However, I feel that having the big clock on the homescreen is redundant and unnecessary. At the current moment DashClock does not have an option to disable the actual clock (that I am aware of). So I am looking for something that is essentially the same as DashClock but with just the notifications and no clock.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Any help/input would be greatly appreciated.

sn0warmy said:
Hey guys,
I love the DashClock widget and use it on my lockscreen as well as my homescreen. However, I feel that having the big clock on the homescreen is redundant and unnecessary. At the current moment DashClock does not have an option to disable the actual clock (that I am aware of). So I am looking for something that is essentially the same as DashClock but with just the notifications and no clock.
Any help/input would be greatly appreciated.
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Is this you requesting it?
http://code.google.com/p/dashclock/... Component Summary Stars Status TargetRelease

Dash Widget
I actually made a relatively trivial hack to DashClock Widget to do just this for my own use:
Lockscreen:
Homescreen:
When I get home, if interested, I can upload the tweaked apk.

JsChiSurf said:
I actually made a relatively trivial hack to DashClock Widget to do just this for my own use:
Lockscreen:
Homescreen:
When I get home, if interested, I can upload the tweaked apk.
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Perfection! This is exactly what I'm looking for. Will it still have the transparent background on the homescreen though?
Thank you!

kpjimmy said:
Is this you requesting it?
http://code.google.com/p/dashclock/... Component Summary Stars Status TargetRelease
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Thanks. Looks like it might become an added feature in time. I just added a star as well.

sn0warmy said:
Perfection! This is exactly what I'm looking for. Will it still have the transparent background on the homescreen though?
Thank you!
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No problem. Transparency for the homescreen widget (I don't actually use there, just put it there for the screen cap), I believe is controlled / set via the 'Advanced' option in the widget setup.

JsChiSurf said:
No problem. Transparency for the homescreen widget (I don't actually use there, just put it there for the screen cap), I believe is controlled / set via the 'Advanced' option in the widget setup.
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Will this still allow me to keep the clock on the lockscreen version of the widget while removing the clock from the homescreen widget?

JsChiSurf said:
No problem. Transparency for the homescreen widget (I don't actually use there, just put it there for the screen cap), I believe is controlled / set via the 'Advanced' option in the widget setup.
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loved your mods on the evo !!!

sn0warmy said:
Will this still allow me to keep the clock on the lockscreen version of the widget while removing the clock from the homescreen widget?
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Right now it's removed wholesale, as it was a quick and dirty hack. Let me take a look and see if there is a way to discern where the widget is being displayed and programatically hide the clock instead.
CheesyNutz said:
loved your mods on the evo !!!
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Cheesy! Good to see a familiar face. This is my first non-HTC phone. Loving it so far.

How do you guys make the weather work? Mine doesn't do anything
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Settings>Location access>Access my location [ON], check one of the location sources - I use the Wi-Fi & mobile netowrk location
Neefy said:
How do you guys make the weather work? Mine doesn't do anything
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knapz said:
Settings>Location access>Access my location [ON], check one of the location sources - I use the Wi-Fi & mobile netowrk location
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My god, thank you!
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Neefy said:
How do you guys make the weather work? Mine doesn't do anything
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Do you have location services disabled?
The widget queries for your location, in order to translate that location (latitude / longitude), into a woeid, that it then passes to yahoo weather to retrieve the weather data.
You can view your logcat to see the widget working to obtain your location etc, to know if it is working. For example, here is essentially the URL call being made on my phone:
http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=24700990
Are you able to access this URL from your phone? If so, there shouldn't be any reason weather can't be retrieved based on your location / woeid, unless yahoo simply can't find a valid location based on the data passed in.
EDIT: Well hell, I starting replying to this, got sidetracked, came back to finish, hit submit, and see it was essentially already answered

sn0warmy said:
Will this still allow me to keep the clock on the lockscreen version of the widget while removing the clock from the homescreen widget?
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Okay, played around with the decompiled .smali code some more (rather than working from source), and I was able to "conditionally" control / set whether the clock & date appears based on whether the widget is displayed on the lockscreen versus home screen.
Lockscreen (with clock / date):
Home Screen (w/o clock / date):
This should pretty much be what you are looking for. As mentioned, I don't use this on the home screen, but for those that do, until / if this is supported in the actual app, it should hold those over looking for the widgets w/o the clock, etc, when displaying on the homescreen.
It's certainly possible I broke something in the process, hacking this in, so let me know if you see any issues.
Be sure to first uninstall your official version, and after installing the modded apk below (click to download / install from phone, or use adb to sideload), don't forget to hide the 'settings' icon in the Advanced drop down of dash clock widget as well.

JsChiSurf said:
Okay, played around with the decompiled .smali code some more (rather than working from source), and I was able to "conditionally" control / set whether the clock & date appears based on whether the widget is displayed on the lockscreen versus home screen.
This should pretty much be what you are looking for. As mentioned, I don't use this on the home screen, but for those that do, until / if this is supported in the actual app, it should hold those over looking for the widgets w/o the clock, etc, when displaying on the homescreen.
It's certainly possible I broke something in the process, hacking this in, so let me know if you see any issues.
Be sure to first uninstall your official version, and after installing the modded apk below (click to download / install from phone, or use adb to sideload), don't forget to hide the 'settings' icon in the Advanced drop down of dash clock widget as well.
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Thank you so much. I am uninstalling the official one and giving this one a try right now. I will report back after doing some testing.
EDIT: I just went through the process of uninstalling the official widget, clearing cache/dalvik and then rebooting and installing your tweaked version. It looks to be working perfectly as advertised. I have the clock on the lock screen but not on the homescreen. I have tested notifications for email, missed call, and text messages. All are working just as they should.
Thanks a lot!

sn0warmy said:
Thank you so much. I am uninstalling the official one and giving this one a try right now. I will report back after doing some testing.
EDIT: I just went through the process of uninstalling the official widget, clearing cache/dalvik and then rebooting and installing your tweaked version. It looks to be working perfectly as advertised. I have the clock on the lock screen but not on the homescreen. I have tested notifications for email, missed call, and text messages. All are working just as they should.
Thanks a lot!
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Great. Thanks for the confirmation. Glad it did the trick. And thanks to whomever else got me over the "666" thanks mark

:laugh: It may have been me.

sn0warmy said:
:laugh: It may have been me.
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Just thanked you then
If you want, go ahead an link to my post from the OP, so that anyone else who may be interested can easily find it. I'm too lazy to create a separate thread and hate maintaining them!

Give notification widget a try

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Action Memo widget with ADW EX?

I've been an ADW EX user for a long time, and although I was going to give Touch wiz a chance, I just hate how you cannot customize the rows and columns of icons on the home screen. I didn't think air command would work with a 3rd party launcher, but to my delight, it does.
However, I can't use the Action Memo widgets with ADW, which is a bummer, because I really like being able to add quick notes and reminders to my home screen.
Anybody know of an alternative app that works in the same way, or know how to get Action Memo widgets to work on other launchers?
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I'm using nova prime and action memo etc. all work fine for me..

The widget, or the app? The app still works. I just can't seem to add the widget to my home screen.
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Bump. Anybody know how to get Action Memo widgets on other launchers? Or know of any apps that offer the exact same functionality?

I would like to know a work around for this too. I use Nova launcher since note 2 and not having touchwiz widgets didn't really bother me then. Now it does. Only thing I don't like about touchwiz is not being able to have a custom grid. I might have to suck it up though.

Same problem

There used to be an S Notes "Page" widget as well, worked fine on other launchers - allowed you to create a resizable widget out of a single page of any s notes folder - which was great. Action Notes don't give you full drawing tools, S Notes do. So you could create a solid black background note that would blend in with your homescreen.
I may install old S Notes from my last Note 2 backup. Might be worth it over the cleanliness of the new one just to get those widgets back.

With S Note you can long-press the note's folder, change the name if you so desire, then long-press again and "add shortcut to home" and you will have an icon on your home screen for that note. Works well
With Action Memo you press the small icon at the top of the memo that is a box with small square in the upper right corner. That creates a small icon. Hit the home button and the Action Memo will close and you will have the small icon on the screen that can be moved and reopened at any time. Unfortunately there is no way to name the icon, but it does open directly to the memo. If you want to keep the icon you have to press the box again at the top of the memo while it is open or the icon will be gone once you close the memo.

Temp fix
Hi guy's.
Found a way around it sort of. I use Nova launcher prime, and also do not have the 4x3 widget. So what worked for me is to create the 1x1 shortcut widget and just re-size it to 4x3, click on it and start your memo.
I do not have any idea if ADW EX works the same but hope for your part it does.:good:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

Please explain it step by step. I'm not able to resize the app icon and there is no "1x1 shortcut" widget?!
By the way... I'm using Google Keep instead of Action Memo. I'm using the App "Sketch for Keep" to write memos with the s-pen:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=lv.piip.sketchforkeep
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOJoCzHiBcs
The Google Keep Widget is nice, but overall I'm not able to write Memos without unlocking the phone anymore (s-pen double click action is not changeable). But I can access/edit all my memos through the PC/Browser and I'm able to buy an other Android later or the Phone can be damaged without fearing to loose my memos.

mgutt said:
Please explain it step by step. I'm not able to resize the app icon and there is no "1x1 shortcut" widget?!
By the way... I'm using Google Keep instead of Action Memo. I'm using the App "Sketch for Keep" to write memos with the s-pen:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=lv.piip.sketchforkeep
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOJoCzHiBcs
The Google Keep Widget is nice, but overall I'm not able to write Memos without unlocking the phone anymore (s-pen double click action is not changeable). But I can access/edit all my memos through the PC/Browser and I'm able to buy an other Android later or the Phone can be damaged without fearing to loose my memos.
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Do you want to use the widget in the lockscreen? Or just normal use, and what type of launcher are you using at this moment?
Maybe there is a way, and i can help you.

I'm using Nova, too.
I don't mean a widget on the lockscreen. I mean the double-click shortcut with the s-pen. You are able to press the s-pen button and tap two times on the screen in every situation (lockscreen, apps, etc.).

mgutt said:
I'm using Nova, too.
I don't mean a widget on the lockscreen. I mean the double-click shortcut with the s-pen. You are able to press the s-pen button and tap two times on the screen in every situation (lockscreen, apps, etc.).
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Ok, so I took a look and mine seems to work in all ods, meaning double tapping the s-pen does open my action memo.
Is your nove launcher prime or free, and are you on stock TW rom or custom?
If on stock TW, I will post a video and show that it works and how to use it.

Sorry, my English is not the best. I didn't want to ask how to use the double-click action. This works as expected. I only wanted to say that it does not work with other Apps like Google Keep as Samsung does not allow to change the shortcut.
The only question I had was how did you solve to resize the app/widget. I've tried several ways (long press the app to copy it to the home screen, look through the widget menu, but there is no action memo widget, etc.). So what did you do to be able to resize the action memo icon?!

mgutt said:
Sorry, my English is not the best. I didn't want to ask how to use the double-click action. This works as expected. I only wanted to say that it does not work with other Apps like Google Keep as Samsung does not allow to change the shortcut.
The only question I had was how did you solve to resize the app/widget. I've tried several ways (long press the app to copy it to the home screen, look through the widget menu, but there is no action memo widget, etc.). So what did you do to be able to resize the action memo icon?!
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My mistake, sorry for that misunderstanding. So by using Nova Launcher prime 2.3, you basically just add a normal widget and at the top of the list is action memo. And then it will automatically show you the grid in witch you are able to re-size see attachment.
If this helped please say thanx.:good:

Ok, this explains why I was not able to follow your explanation. Look:

mgutt said:
Ok, this explains why I was not able to follow your explanation. Look:
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Ok so that's a bummer. What version of android do you have? 4.3?
Ok see if this works, go to your basic TW launcher and create then the action memo widget, go back to nova en in setting say import and choose basic TW launcher. that's how i got the widget.

Yes. 4.3.
Import? But this will overwrite my actual homescreen

Problem solving.
mgutt said:
Yes. 4.3.
Import? But this will overwrite my actual homescreen
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Uhm morning, ok then just for info see if your application manager list looks like mine.
At the top i have 4 action memo apps. This would be in the "all" list.
See attachment.

Same issue
FdeKlerk said:
Uhm morning, ok then just for info see if your application manager list looks like mine.
At the top i have 4 action memo apps. This would be in the "all" list.
See attachment.
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My application manager does have all four Acton memo apps listed like yours. But like the other guy, action memo widget is not a choice when importing TW screen and restoring widgets. Nor is it a choice when creating new widgets. Any ideas?

[Guide] Setup Your Phone with Style

In Pakistan people have this weird habit to see your phone and I love to customize my phone as much as possible so when people see my phone and by see I mean thoroughly check my phone they usually say “this feature is cool how can I get this on my android” or “how can I make my android look as awesome as yours” okay I’m exaggerating but still they usually say something similar. So I thought lets put the entire setup of my android here. Before we start you need to have your android rooted and bootloader unlocked otherwise some of the things can even break your device. Most of the things will work on any android by any manufacture though some of the things I’m going to include require stock android or near stock android operating system. If you are using a nexus device or Moto X, G or E or some other device running stock or near stock android then you don’t have to worry about anything. So lets start:
Lockscreen
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
I like to customize every element I can of my android phone. Changings start from the lockscreen. Here on the lockscreen I’m using an Ultimate Custom Clock Widget called Peek instead of normal android clock. Doing this is possible even without root. You just need a device running android 4.2+. However if you have an android below that version you can use Widget Locker and get the same look.
You can use any clock widget I usually use the widgets made by different developers for UCCW and Zooper.
Ultimate Custom Clock Widget: http://bit.ly/13zxcgY
Peek UCCW: http://bit.ly/WKTIaE
Wallpaper: Reddit.
You can also use an app called “Android L Lock Screen” It gives notifications on the lockscreen though I don’t use it because it doesn’t allow changing the clock widget but still it’s a pretty good app.
Navigation Bar
The reason why I like onscreen buttons more than capacitive buttons is because you can mess around with onscreen buttons. The main icons of the navbar have been changed. You can use SoftkeyZ though I’m not using softkeyZ here these icons were inside a theme pack called Flux. If you swipe the navbar to the right you can access toggles and the music player on the left this is done by an xposed module called Xtended Nav Bar this is so handy I hardly ever have to access the quick toggle page in the notification panel.
Xtended Nav Bar: http://bit.ly/WKV0Ch
Flux Theme: http://bit.ly/WKV1Gn
Home Screen
I like to keep the home screen as simple as possible. Just a few icons, a clock and the rest of the space empty to enjoy the wallpaper. The clock widget is another UCCW widget called “Bebas Clock”. Notice how the navigation and status bar are not visible? That’s because immersive mode is on. Immersive mode or Expanded Desktop hides the status bar and the navbar so the apps can take the center stage. The status bar is not entirely gone you can still swipe down to open it and with Paranoid’s Hover and Halo you don’t really need to use the status bar at all. Hover gives you heads up notifications and halo can store the notifications. To get hover and halo you will need to flash a custom rom, which has those features. Or instead of hover you can use Android’s own heads up notification system. Android 4.4 had heads up notifications officially but at the last second they removed it out, although they kept the code alive in the framework. Cyanogen Team actually found this and well the developers turned it on. You don’t really need cyanogen rom to get heads up notifications you just need android 4.4x. Just install the Xposed Module “Heads up notifications” to get it working.
This is actually Google Now Launcher the default one which comes on all stock android phones. The annoying thing about Google Now Launcher is that you can’t remove the search bar and you don’t have much control over the settings. The solution comes by some very amazing developers. There’s an Xposed Module called Xposed Gel Settings and that allows you to change almost everything in Google Now Launcher including icons, removing the searchbar, hiding apps in the app drawing and even controlling the grid size of the app drawer and homescreen without losing Google Now screen.
Bebas Clock: http://bit.ly/1zp29WH
Heads up notifications: http://bit.ly/1zp2mZZ
Xposed Gel Settings: http://bit.ly/1zp2xo1
Icon Pack: http://bit.ly/1zp2R6m
Wallpaper: Reddit.
Notification Panel
You might have noticed the different Icons of Toggles they are from the theme “Flux” and doesn’t that blurred notification bar look awesome? That is done by an xposed module called “Serajr Blurred System UI” and I used another xposed module called “Xblast Tools” to get the notification header translucent.
Serajr Blurred System UI: http://bit.ly/1zp4TDw
Xblast Tools: http://bit.ly/1zp5pkZ
Multitasking
It was sort of annoying to me that every time I wanted to open an app I would have to minimize the app I’m using, go in to the app drawer and then open the other app that’s such a long process. The app sidebar you can see in the screenshot is available everywhere in the system. Whenever I want to open a new app I just quickly swipe from the left choose the app and done. I’m actually using here an app called Glovebox though if you are using a custom rom then see in settings a similar system called “App Bar” will be there. You can use an xposed module “Xblast Tools” to get the app bar aswell.
On the other screenshot there’s android L multitasking or recents panel. That’s actually not the same one from Android L this one is built by Paranoid Android its available on Paranoid Android 4.5. If Paranoid Android team officially supports your device then if not already your device will get Paranoid Android 4.5 with Android L recents in a few weeks.
Glovebox: http://bit.ly/1zp7FJ0
Xblast Tools: http://bit.ly/1zp5pkZ
Paranoid Android: http://bit.ly/1zp8664
Acdisplay
Acdisplay is one of my favorite apps of all time. When you get a new notification it shows them on a beautiful minimalistic screen its like notification peek from Paranoid and Active display from Moto X. The good thing about this is that its completely free and I haven’t faced a bug yet. Its completely awesome you have to try it.
Acdisplay: http://bit.ly/1zpa2eT
That pretty much sums up my whole phone. Some of my favorite apps are Pocket, Reddit Now, Sound Cloud, Link Bubble and Google Keep. If you have any questions or want to suggest an app please comment down below.
I usually post things like this on my blog here: http://geekmyday.wordpress.com/
And i post things I'm testing on my facebook you can follow me here: https://www.facebook.com/talhaambidextrous

Nice! Thanks for the tips.

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Elrom said:
Nice! Thanks for the tips.
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can u pls post the wallpaper from the first pic?

Nice post man. Your setup is minimal and clean.

Very nice

lifetimes said:
Very nice
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thanks but please unquote

Elrom said:
Nice! Thanks for the tips.
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your welcome

Saphire007 said:
can u pls post the wallpaper from the first pic?
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sure here you go https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/97664160/B2OwCLp.jpg

nirmalbalaji said:
Nice post man. Your setup is minimal and clean.
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hahahha thanks

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.net.grumpyweather
You will also like this app i think.
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Beautiful.

Thank you so much for this thread! Really helped me find the right xposed modules for the customization I need. Also can you tell us where exactly on reddit you get your wallpapers from? Or if you can post your wallpaper collection? We seems to have similar visual preferences.

Link for the wallpaper ?

hottu_doggu said:
Thank you so much for this thread! Really helped me find the right xposed modules for the customization I need. Also can you tell us where exactly on reddit you get your wallpapers from? Or if you can post your wallpaper collection? We seems to have similar visual preferences.
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thankyou so much i didn't really expect that so many people would like it i usually use wallpaper section of reddit to find wallpapers but i can give you the link to these ones too
lockscreen: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/97664160/B2OwCLp.jpg
homescreen: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/97664160/zDM1fiR.jpg

ThunderZeus said:
Link for the wallpaper ?
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here you go
lockscreen: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...60/B2OwCLp.jpg
homescreen: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...60/zDM1fiR.jpg

Lockscreen Wallpaper Changer

Does anyone know if its possible to change the wallpaper on the lockscreen? I installed Nova Launcher and the only thing I cant seem to change is the lockscreen wallpaper. Anyone know how? I have looked online, but nothing specific to the Fire HD 8.

Danny1976 said:
Does anyone know if its possible to change the wallpaper on the lockscreen? I installed Nova Launcher and the only thing I cant seem to change is the lockscreen wallpaper. Anyone know how? I have looked online, but nothing specific to the Fire HD 8.
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Thanks for posting this, I can't find anything anywhere either. If there was a custom ROM, life would be so much easier!!

been looking as well and no luck for me...

There isn't anything built-in for the lock screen wallpaper specifically, but as long as you don't have the Amazon "Special Offers" lock screen then whatever you set as your home screen wall will be your lock screen wall.

Fiasco said:
There isn't anything built-in for the lock screen wallpaper specifically, but as long as you don't have the Amazon "Special Offers" lock screen then whatever you set as your home screen wall will be your lock screen wall.
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I have the "adfree" version and what you said isn't true. When I apply a new wallpaper it changes only in homescreen, not lockscreen
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amag3308 said:
I have the "adfree" version and what you said isn't true. When I apply a new wallpaper it changes only in homescreen, not lockscreen
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What do you see on your lockscreen?

Fiasco said:
What do you see on your lockscreen?
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4 or maybe 5 different wallpapers changing every time I lock the screen
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amag3308 said:
4 or maybe 5 different wallpapers changing every time I lock the screen
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On mine, I had about 5 random stock wallpapers after paying to remove the ads. That went away when I changed the home screen again wallpaper after removing the ads and now my lock screen wall is whatever I set as home screen wall.

Fiasco said:
On mine, I had about 5 random stock wallpapers after paying to remove the ads. That went away when I changed the home screen again wallpaper after removing the ads and now my lock screen wall is whatever I set as home screen wall.
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Which app do you use to change wallpaper? Because for me never happened what you describe
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I'm using ADW ex launcher, (on an ad-free version of the Fire) and once I figured out where to stash my screen/wallpaper .jpg, it now works on the lock screen too. (It also does a great job of shrinking icons to 50% and increasing the grid size)

Okay, so where do you stash your jpeg?

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Which app do you use to change wallpaper? Because for me never happened what you describe
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You can easily change the wallpaper for home screen but until you pay for the ad free lockscreen the lockscreen will not change...
I used Wallchanger in Google Store after following the four steps (see link below) to install Google Account Manager, Google Framework and Google Play Services then the Google Store APKs.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/general/how-to-install-google-play-store-fire-t3486603
After installing WallChanger, I was able to select groups of pictures to activate as the wallpaper for my Fire HD 8
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cheyennemtnman said:
You can easily change the wallpaper for home screen but until you pay for the ad free lockscreen the lockscreen will not change...
I used Wallchanger in Google Store after following the four steps (see link below) to install Google Account Manager, Google Framework and Google Play Services then the Google Store APKs.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/general/how-to-install-google-play-store-fire-t3486603
After installing WallChanger, I was able to select groups of pictures to activate as the wallpaper for my Fire HD 8
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Does it change the lock screen wallpaper? As far as I know, but please correct me if wrong, you can only change the lock screen wallpapers using Amazon Photos. If you get rid of (uninstall/disable) Amazon Photos, you can no longer change the lock screen wallpaper. Does this do that without Amazon Photos installed?

simple solution
after having amazon uninstall 'amazon offers" i simply had to reset or reapply the lockscreen wallpaper, restart the device and voila.......rotating lockscreen wallpapers disappeared and only 1 image (the one i chose) remained on the locks screen as well as my background pic.......hope it works for you too

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Does it change the lock screen wallpaper? As far as I know, but please correct me if wrong, you can only change the lock screen wallpapers using Amazon Photos. If you get rid of (uninstall/disable) Amazon Photos, you can no longer change the lock screen wallpaper. Does this do that without Amazon Photos installed?
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As always, you are right once again, DragonFire1024. You can use other Wallpaper apps to change the background of your home screen, but the Amazon Photos app is the only one that seems to affect the lock screen (at least from my limited experience)

Does anyone know how (without using an app like Wallchanger) to get a Fire HD to return to randomly shuffling the stock set of lockscreen images? I can easily change my lockscreen to any one image at any time, but I'd like it to go back to shuffling images like it used to (again, without a 3rd party app). Thanks.

teamost said:
Does anyone know how (without using an app like Wallchanger) to get a Fire HD to return to randomly shuffling the stock set of lockscreen images? I can easily change my lockscreen to any one image at any time, but I'd like it to go back to shuffling images like it used to (again, without a 3rd party app). Thanks.
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Use Amazon photos. That's the only way to change the lockscreen wallpapers without root.
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DragonFire1024 said:
Use Amazon photos. That's the only way to change the lockscreen wallpapers without root.
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Not so. You can just go to Settings --> Display --> Wallpaper, then choose & set an image, and it becomes the wallpaper AND the lockscreen, as long as you're not on "special offers." I'm just wondering how to get it so the lockscreen and/or wallpapers would shuffle or change on their own, like it used to, and without a 3rd party app.

teamost said:
Not so. You can just go to Settings --> Display --> Wallpaper, then choose & set an image, and it becomes the wallpaper AND the lockscreen, as long as you're not on "special offers." I'm just wondering how to get it so the lockscreen and/or wallpapers would shuffle or change on their own, like it used to, and without a 3rd party app.
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Yes you can change the lock screen wallpaper because you still have Amazon photos. My HD 8 has not had special offers but if you uninstall or disable Amazon photos, you won't be able to change the lock screen wallpapers without modding the systemUI https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=76071092&postcount=2
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Danny1976 said:
Does anyone know if its possible to change the wallpaper on the lockscreen? I installed Nova Launcher and the only thing I cant seem to change is the lockscreen wallpaper. Anyone know how? I have looked online, but nothing specific to the Fire HD 8.
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I've done it on my Fire HD8 7th gen.
It's easy. You need to install Nova Launcher.
Go to settings > display > wallpaper, and set one wallpaper there.
Next: Set a wallpaper with Nova Launcher. That will be your home screen wallpaper for Nova Launcher and Home Pages.
And there you've done it! In settings you set the lockscreen wallpaper. In Nova Launcher it somehow sets homecreen wallpaper even for home pages.