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didnt know where to post this...i figure anyone who is dead serious about developing for android has an evo
i used to have a hero/samsung moment, but switched over to iphone...ill come back when androids standard ui is a bit more polished off i never used sense (which is why i switched to the moment) and vanilla is OK, but doesnt feel as functional as sense (which was too clunky...WHERES THE MIDDLE GROUND?! jkjkjkjk) but when i used the moment i loved launcherpro. the 3d app drawer was sexier than jlo without a shirt (close, anyway) and i had an idea to build off that.
if anyone has seen the cbs app for the ipad, i think youll agree with me as to just how awesome it is. it shows the videos in a 3d sphere, which you spin 360 and select your video. i think it would be cool that when in launcherpro you press the infinity button, and a 3d sphere comes up with all your apps. you can spin it 360 and make your selection
waddyathink?!
you mean like in the droid commercials?
MrTheGeekGuy said:
you mean like in the droid commercials?
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chyeah i youtubed it and thats totally what im talking about
how fckin cool would that beeee
Hi everyone,
There are a few deal-breakers for me coming from WebOS. Is there anyway I can sync my exchange calendar and have email signature for exchange account?
Is there anyway I can make the icons larger? I love the screen real estate for browsing etc., but it just look ugly to have tiny little icons sprinkled sparsely in this beautiful large screen.
Edit: I should mention that I'm on O2's leaked beta 2.1 (on ATT), not the official one.
I've rooted my phone, but I don't know what I can do to fix these issues. Thanks for your help!
I came from webos as well, i just wanted someting with better multimedia and screen. I think the streak is great at least until palm launches something new. I like android but i will switch back for sure to webos for sure.
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For the icon size you could change the dpi but then you loose a lot of screen real estate, it would just look like a blown up screen of an evo.
You can change the dpi through build.prop in the system folder
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So i've been watching videos of both stock android (Nexus one, G2) and videos of the Desire HD rom with Sense on other devices. Something that's become quite apparent in the sense rom is that HTC decided to strip a lot of the nice animations that make stock android pleasing to the eye.
Examples include, when you open and app you get a zoom in effect, and when u close it u get a zoom out. Also when the keyboard pops up it sort of slides from the bottom. Another is when you open the app tray, the icons fly in.
But on sense there's no animations. Everything just appears instantly. That really is sort of putting me off Sense, and that's a big disappointment considering i like the look of HTC's widgets.
Has anybody else noticed this? What do you think of it?
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Must say, you are right, but aren't the guys from Cyanogen Mod going to do something about that?!
CyanogenModders only work with stock Android, so whatever magic dust they decide to sprinkle on the DHD, it will not have Sense in the mix
Next week is looming large... Im gonna take a day off work to show my new baby some love when it arrives)))
I had a nexus and the zoom's are really nothing to write home about
JD
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SupremeBeaver said:
So i've been watching videos of both stock android (Nexus one, G2) and videos of the Desire HD rom with Sense on other devices. Something that's become quite apparent in the sense rom is that HTC decided to strip a lot of the nice animations that make stock android pleasing to the eye.
Examples include, when you open and app you get a zoom in effect, and when u close it u get a zoom out. Also when the keyboard pops up it sort of slides from the bottom. Another is when you open the app tray, the icons fly in.
But on sense there's no animations. Everything just appears instantly. That really is sort of putting me off Sense, and that's a big disappointment considering i like the look of HTC's widgets.
Has anybody else noticed this? What do you think of it?
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Im sorry to say but you are wrong. If you go to the display settings and under animations set it to 'All' you will get keyboard sliding animations, screen transition animations, the only thing you dont get is a 3D effect with the app draw, but it does slid nicely into view from the bottom and is just more professional. However as mentioned previously its android, customise! Add all the animations you want!!
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Im sorry to say but you are wrong. If you go to the display settings and under animations set it to 'All' you will get keyboard sliding animations, screen transition animations, the only thing you dont get is a 3D effect with the app draw, but it does slid nicely into view from the bottom and is just more professional. However as mentioned previously its android, customise! Add all the animations you want!!
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seriously? well i've only been going by what i've seen from videos ( i dont own an android phone). Could u provide a link or video showing this?
In the setting there is a window transition option. I have mine on very slow, Looks Great
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In the setting there is a window transition option. I have mine on very slow, Looks Great
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could u tell me what all the options are? thanks
The Desire HD Sense has a fade in/out effect by default for both Sense tabs and applications unlike older Sense versions ... its actually very pleasing and runs smoothly on HD2 so definitely will be awesome on the actual HD
Animations are nice eyecandy, but everytime they play you have to wait till they are finished. After some time they'll only anoy me. I am happy with as few animations as possible, so I turned them off. Just my humble opinion.
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Hello everyone, I've looked for many months but I can't find anything that deals with this issue. There is no animation for rotating the screen in default 2.3.3..
Does anyone know how I could achieve this?
I'm looking for a sort of iPhone-Esq turn of the screen, or a fade out and then in type.
If anyone knows of this being done already or would try to do it that would be great!
Thanks
Green
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As far as I know the animation on the iPhone is just a screenshot rotating with the real rotation happening in the background.
So as it was not possible to take screenshots on pre Android 2.3 without root/ADB.. I guess it wasn't really possible?
Dunno though. But I think it's possible in some ways with 2.3 and the api to capture the screen now. Just need some dev to give it a try. But I believe best bet would be the team around MIUI.. as they kinda try to imitate the whole iOS..
I've added some kind of rotation animation in my app... search for sgstools on google code and look into AnimatedActivity class.
It's not perfect... it would be better to handle the orientation change on your own.
When I played bejewelled 2 for the first time I was very impressed by the screen rotation animation.. if you haven't played it, try it out .. the rotation animation is very fast and smooth.. this shows that it can be done
Tapatalkin' it from my Epic 3g
@Fr4gg0r
Will your app work on the original Motorolla Droid? I'm rooted and running CM7. Thanks.
The Xoom has this rotation animation. I wonder if anyone could port over what's necessary.
Honestly I can't believe that a dev hasn't tried to create a rotation animation for their custom rom. I would think that people would really be drawn to it, kind of like the gingerbread screen off animation.
Yeah. This is one thing I envy about Iphone and WP7, turning to landscape looks cool instead of just... like appearing.
Its present in honeycomb, so most likely will be present in the next android release? Maybe someone can port it to gingerbread.
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I'm also surprised that it can't be found in any of the custom launchers. I've used almost all of them, currently using launcher pro, and I haven't noticed it in any of them.
I think it was in one browser I tried, Netfront Life Browser (I think it was pretty good as well).
adobe reader does the rotation animation too, so it is possibly but it seems nobody cares abou that :S
Great point. I also just noticed that launcher 7, which is a windows phone like home replacement, has a nice "tile animation" when the phone is rotated. So we know from these two examples that it is possible. Also, as many people have mentioned, the animation is included in Honeycomb. It's probably just a matter of time, but I'd like it sooner than later.
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Just a quick update, the snes9x ex app, which is super nintendo emulator, has a great rotation animation. Think it could somehow be used for other purposes?
Look at the Samsung Galaxy S 2. It has a animation in the stock browser.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqxKHGO9HhM
Look at 1:11...
I have a feeling thus sort of thing will make the AOSP in the future. It would be great to contact the dev that created snes9x ex and ask if he knew how to integrate this into framework. I would think this task would nit take too much time, but then again adding a whole new transition animation, writing how this animation is initiated etc.. Could be more time consuming than I would assume.
The first iterations of Stock Android had rotate animations. The first one I remember was the screen zooming out, shaking left and right, then zooming in. In a later release it did this whole fade out/fade in thing, with some pulsing. The delays between rotating phone and screen completing rotation was big.
I don't know why the rotate animations were removed, but I guess that shows who's an Old school android user, as peeps now don't even know about it
we have screen off/ on crt animations TAKE THAT GAYOS! xD
back on topic: @pctechnerd wasn't this on rc22 of android? It might have been left out in later releases because of instability.
Animation on Droid X
The 2.3.3 leak of gingerbread for the Droid X has a very nice rotate animation built in.
Cool! Any idea how to get it to work on the moto droid (D1)?
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Hi Fellas,
I'm wondering.. the G2 provides with 3 power-off animations to choose from. If you notice for those who are having lock screens, the retro TV off isn't very smooth. There is some graphical glitches at times.
Overall, I'm wondering does anyone know a hack to turn off the animations completely? That will definitely speed up the screen off lag.
I would love this too. None of the choices are attractive or smooth.
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I noticed that when you preview them they're not the same as real world use. They're a ton smoother when they're applied than when you preview it. The fade one is the same as stock Android is it not?
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I find retro TV to be the best. It's smooth for me and I think the "graphical glitches" you mentioned is part of the animation.
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I noticed that when you preview them they're not the same as real world use. They're a ton smoother when they're applied than when you preview it. The fade one is the same as stock Android is it not?
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You are absolutely correct.
However, even with real world usage, the glitch does appear intermittently. And I'm pretty sure if I have my lock screen turned off, this glitch is not to be seen.
You can consider it as part of the animation, but I find it ugly The while light of the retro TV animation is supposed to be too fast to be seen as a whole chunk, but with the glitch on, you will see the "chunk" of light with some other colors in it. Not sure if ya guys get what I mean
I've recorded a clip of my retro TV power off animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRgkL5bO7Ak&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Is this the same effect as what you're getting on your side? I know the preview version if it looks horrendous but the actual animation is snappy and I like the look if it.
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I've got the sprint ls980 variant and while I have the menu options to change my screen-off animation, none of them make a difference. The preview work, but the actual animation is unaffected. Also, the old CRT animation that was released with gingerbread looked infinitely better than the retro TV animation on here. LG made so many odd decisions with this phone. Though to be fair, the only other LG phone I've owned was the G2x, and it was vanilla-ish android, so I'm not very familiar with their UI, whatever calling it. Looks a lot like touchwiz to me.
EDIT: I just realized how old this thread is. Sorry for beating this dead horse, everybodies.