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[Rada-Dash] Launcher Design

Hey everyone. I'm working on a new launcher for my T-Mobile Dash (S620). Its in its infant stages. i have a few sketches, and 1 fleshed out concept. I'd like to get some feedback and see what y'all think. The pin-wheel above the clock would rotate to show day and night. It was inspired a bit by the layout of the xbox 360 dashboard... and every other according menu ever made (microsoft wasnt first)
codename: Rada-Dash
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There has been an update in progress.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2595022#post2595022

love your mock up. Imo, I would see what those tabs cascading from highest on left to lowest on the right might look like. then make every one a different color- user customizable even. I really dig what you got there othrwise great work.

I don't have a dash, but that looks pretty sweet. I would use it if I did and I do have a few friends with Dashes and I would definitely let them know about this.

kewl one waiting bro any expected date for release

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kewl one waiting bro any expected date for release
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I have a little bit of documentation reading to do before i get started on development. I'll try to keep this thread updated for y'all. I'd love to work along side someone who knows what their doing. i can write actionscript and parse xml all day long... What will hold me up this project, is my unfamiliarity with developing software for wm6.

looks great.. hope to try it soon..

Radakast,
Looks good. Hope to see the finished article soon.
WB

Looks like the blade style like the xbox360 uses. Nice! This would be an awsome launcher for my 8525. I must commend you on taking the launcher gui in a different direction. Most people are stuck in the Diamond/Iphone theme rut and its causing a lot of repetitive results. Enough of my babbling. I definitely will be keeping an eye on the development of this launcher.

Brilliant idea! Your design is way too dark however.
Seriously one of the best home screen concepts!

Forgive my ignorance but is your device a smartphone? What program will you use to develop your screen? Having just left a smartphone (Moto Q) I was under the impression that the homescreen customization is limited except for a few programs (i.e. SBSH Facade, phoneAlarm). If there is hope for homescreen customization, i'm all for it. I am just curious how it is possible.

Hey guys. I spent a few hours working on this this weekend. thanks for everyone's replys
@Vision77
Thank you. I'm a web interface designer, and im trying to bring alittle bit of that action to the smart phone platform.
@N1c0_ds
Yes it is way to dark. I designed it in my pitch black room at 2 in the morning and it looked plenty bright. I made a demo for my phone (linked below) and i was tryign to show it off to people yesterday and had to cup my hand over it... not good! my next revision will be much lighter.
@jerkules
You are forgiven. Its written in Flash Lite (Targeted Flash Player 7 written with Actionscript 2). I can blabber on and on about the technical abilities of flash player 7, but I'll spare you. pretty much its going to work like this:
dash.exe will be written in vb or c# and will work as the glue between the phone's api and flash. it will interpret the phone's commands (ie: display that you have missed a call) and my flash api (which will be open source when im done so you can all make custom phone aps in flash...) will update the flash movie with the new information. and then wm6.1 will be told to use dash.exe instead of regular home.exe.
And now for the update.
I'm really excited for this project. yall seem to enjoy it so ive added it to my stack of things to work on.. Here is the progress i've made
And because its made in Flash. i can post a real example, not just screenshots of it.
http://www.motionharvest.com/forums/xda/dash/radadash/examples/clock_and_sliding/
I've made a small movie too. this examplifies N1c0_ds analysis that its too dark. im also not going to win any cinematic awards for my camera work.
http://www.motionharvest.com/forums/xda/dash/radadash/examples/clock_and_sliding/dashexample.wmv
enjoy

reserved for possible update

Great Idea!!! i really like it, if i may just make a suggestion, maybe on the slider for texts, have some type of notification that there are unread texts. maybe something for missed calls as well? cant wait to see where this is going. Good luck!!

Great idea, love simplistic designs. If you need any help with the flash stuff I would suggest twolf, he's done really great work with flash for throttle launcher.

I've just seen this & I must say it looks really interesting. Has there been anymore progress on this recently?

To the OP - are you able to update us on progress please?
Thanks
WB

White Widow 4.4 ~Clean~ 7/2/10

White Widow 4.4 ~Clean~
Its been an ongoing piece of work. By this time even you guys on XDA cant take offense to it.
This rom...
-Is built from source
-Uses the kernel that I compiled
-Contains NO paid apps
-Contains no other objectionable material
Features
-CyanogenMod 5.0.8 base
-5MP Camera (Darchstar)
-Working Softkey Lights (Conap)
-360 Rotation
-ADW Launcher with backup and restore settings
-100% AOSP
-Metamorph Capable
-Rotary Lockscreen
-Overclock to 864Mhz
-ADW and Spareparts in the Settings Menu
-NO JIT-if you want it, enable it yourself, its really easy
-Ivans-APN baked in
-Working MMS with Handcent
-Working GPS
-Wifi Tether
-Battery Life fixes
Bugs
If your touchscreen doesnt work after flashing this rom, grab the tsupdate3.zip in the next post and flash that.
Screenshots
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If you would like to, you can donate here. Any amount is appreciated

Other Downloads
Jit Patch (Jcase)
Google Apps
You HAVE to flash this for tings like market, gmail etc to work.
tsupdate3.zip
Flash from recovery if your touchscreen is unresponsive.
Vanilla NON-Transparent Lockscreen-Slide left or right.
Flash from recovery
LWP Patch (Darchstar)
Flash from recovery
This will cause pictures in your 3D Gallery to go transparent. Use a different Gallery app.

Screenies?

So does it come stock with transparent lockscreen? What type is the std lockscreen? What exactly does battery fix mean?
BTW, kudos to not rolling over and putting in the effort. I will give it a go round.

EXCELENT!
This is what I'm talking about. White Widow, now time for me to finish up my work on Gods Gft'd "CE build". This guy knows what I'm talking about.... Good work bro, hit me up on gtalk. Message!

n2imagination said:
So does it come stock with transparent lockscreen? What type is the std lockscreen? What exactly does battery fix mean?
BTW, kudos to not rolling over and putting in the effort. I will give it a go round.
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std ls is non transparent rotary ls

fKngFtd said:
This is what I'm talking about. White Widow, now time for me to finish up my work on Gods Gft'd "CE build". This guy knows what I'm talking about.... Good work bro, hit me up on gtalk. Message!
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whats your gmail?

that looks beautiful

whats the metamorph on the bottom screenies?

n2imagination said:
whats the metamorph on the bottom screenies?
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thats my personal setup
Dr.Cloverfields Magic Elixer

Flashing in 5 min.
Thank you bro.

apps2sd?
Is apps2sd working? Also, does maps fix = navi fix?

You may want to remove the screenshot that has a picture of someone holding up weed to the camera.
I mean, seriously.

suppliesidejesus said:
You may want to remove the screenshot that has a picture of someone holding up weed to the camera.
I mean, seriously.
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thats my setup. if you dont like it dont use it, thats medically prescribed marijuana, nothing illegal about it.
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Is apps2sd working? Also, does maps fix = navi fix?
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apps2sd is enabled under settings>applications
navigation and maps works outta the box

I love the bud put its no white widow!!!!!

Flashing right now.

suppliesidejesus said:
You may want to remove the screenshot that has a picture of someone holding up weed to the camera.
I mean, seriously.
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Why does a personal picture have to effect a demonstration of a ROM?
... seriously.... Haven't we harassed him enough already???

glad to see your back here too.
been running this rom for a couple weeks now. works flawlessly. great job.

Zerox8610 said:
Why does a personal picture have to effect a demonstration of a ROM?
... seriously.... Haven't we harassed him enough already???
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Andrizoid said:
thats medically prescribed marijuana, nothing illegal about it.
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I'm not trying to harass anyone. I never joined in before, and I'm not trying to stir up a flame-war. I'm more concerned about the forum getting in trouble:
9. Don't get us in trouble.
Don't post copyrighted materials or do other things that will obviously lead to legal trouble. If you wouldn't do it on your own homepage, you probably don't want to do it here either. This does not mean we agree with everything the software piracy lobby try to impose on us, it simply means you cannot break any laws here, since we'll end up dealing with legal hassle caused by you. Please use common sense: respect the forum, its users, and those that write great code.
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Marijuana is not legal everywhere, and just because what is pictured is legally obtained medical marijuana does not mean that the forum couldn't be liable for having that image posted.
Again, not trying to start a flame-war, not trying to stir up trouble - just a little concerned, is all.

It's fine, move on.

Why is it so hard to hack the samsung devices?

Im curious to know, samsung devices always take longer in developing roms, htc devices are super fast and get the roms within weeks, im seriously considering buying a galaxy s 2 but im sure samsung will put their HORRIBLE iphone wannabe ui touchwiz in it , and i wanna get rid of it ASAP ,why do rom development takes longer? is it because not that many developers have samsung devices or because they are just harder to hack?

There is no cracking, perhaps we can say hacking...
And HTC devices were the ones choose by google to run a dev rom (on nexus 1), now it's samsung...
Just wait..
And, touchwiz is far far from iphone ui, and on any device you can choose another launcher, in the market, without any "cracking".
And, that thread is a question... so it should be in...? In....? Questions !!!! Yeeees ! First learn how to search, read, only after that you can "crack"..
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App

This should be in Q&A.
Samsung ROMs are much harder to developer for because Samsung took Android and changed everything they could get away with. All the internals of the Android system has been changed in some way. This is why the guys porting CyanogenMod have run into a spot of trouble. Also HTC phones have been on the market much longer then the Galaxy S so there all fairly similar which speeds up the development process.

WiwiPouPou said:
There is no cracking, perhaps we can say hacking...
And HTC devices were the ones choose by google to run a dev rom (on nexus 1), now it's samsung...
Just wait..
And, touchwiz is far far from iphone ui, and on any device you can choose another launcher, in the market, without any "cracking".
And, that thread is a question... so it should be in...? In....? Questions !!!! Yeeees ! First learn how to search, read, only after that you can "crack"..
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far from iphone ui? its basically a ripoff! the menus scroll horizontally , the icons , the camera interface i could go on...
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Iphone
Galaxy S
Sorry, you're right this should be moved to q&a

Chad_Petree said:
far from iphone ui? its basically a ripoff! the menus scroll horizontally , the icons , the camera interface i could go on...
Iphone
Galaxy S
Sorry, you're right this should be moved to q&a
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Im sorry... but i dont think its that similar to the iphone UI
I know the application menu is similar....but there is only so much you can do with that set up...Plus you can change the way you view your apps in the galaxy s...
Also the camera..... seriously apple did not create that design....i had a LG touchscreen phone before the iphone came out ( im pretty sure about that lol) that had a similar camera interface to that....saying samsung stole that from apple is ridiculous.
Some aspects are similar but the interface is hardly a rip-off

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Plus you can change the way you view your apps in the galaxy s...
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Yeah I'm all about the list view, it's at least alphabetic unlike that messy grid. It takes a bit to whip from top to bottom, but all I really do in there is get at things I hardly ever use or fetch something to put on a home screen.

Chad_Petree said:
far from iphone ui? its basically a ripoff! the menus scroll horizontally , the icons , the camera interface i could go on...
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So using your logic the iPhone ripped off the UI from Blackberry, right? Apps on the home screen, notification bar on the top...

Samsung has a phone that is actually easy to hack. No signed firmware, no trick needed to load anything.
But it seems the HTC devices have a larger community. Not strange, because the first Android phone was a HTC, and the original users and hackers have probably moved on to another HTC.
I do not know the mood in other forums, but I feel that plays a part too. Developing is something to do together, not something that a person does because others are demanding it or anything. Also something to be rewarded for (thanks, updates, extensions, people writing documentation and translations, etc).
I think with a better community we could figure out the possibilities of the command line of the SBL and maybe even boot images from external SD. Like done on the Kathrein satellite receiver where a third boot loader is used in place of a normal kernel, and that can load from external storage. And a better community will protect against shouters that say 'you killed my phone'.
However it is like it is. Not because it is impossible, but because of some other reason. Probably mostly consumers, and not hackers, are buying this phone. Because there is not a strong community, it doesn't have the mind share.

[Boot_Animation] [HVGA] [Resized] Android vs. Apple (Vaudeville Android)

Note: I didn't create this, I "just" repacked, converted, scaled and corrected the settings. You can check the original author's thread here.
I repacked two versions of the boot animation.
The first one is a direct resize of the orginal. It is in fullscreen, but as a result of the resizement it will be a bit unscaled. Nothing major, but noticeable nonetheless.
The second one is a scaled resizement of the original. It is also in fullscreen, but completely scaled with the right proportions and framed.
I personally use and recommend this version as it is more beautiful, proportional and the visual experience isn't affected at all.
But anyway, they both work so it's up to you.
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Download links:
Version 2 <-- You will probably want this version.
Version 1
How to install:
1. Rename the downloaded .zip ("ava_vx_bootanimation") to "bootanimation" (without the quotes).
1. Transfer it to the SD card.
2. Using a root explorer copy that file to "/data/local/" (set R/W permissions).
3. Reboot and enjoy!
How to unninstall:
1. Simply delete the file and the boot animation will revert to the original one.
2. Reboot and enjoy!
It is almost impossible to mess up with this but anyway, I am not responsible for whatever you do while using (or not) the instructions and files provided in this thread.
Press the thanks button if you liked! (And think that Android rulez!) ​

That actually made me laugh
Nice bootscreen tbh.

Awesome bro nice one...!!
I juz made my stock 2.3.3 beautiful!!

Hahaha genial man! Just installed it on my phone

innovative boot screen ! cheers

Heh, really funny. If this was Facebook, you'd get a like. So you'll just get a thanks.

So this will work for any custom rom
From: SmartAss City Runs:MiK_CM7

BlackRose 22 said:
So this will work for any custom rom
From: SmartAss City Runs:MiK_CM7
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Yeah, it definitely should work. If by some reason it doesn't, just delete the file and everything will be as before.

When you say r/w you mean click that right .. which is at the top with r/o
stormpack said:
Yeah, it definitely should work. If by some reason it doesn't, just delete the file and everything will be as before.
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From: SmartAss City Runs:MiK_CM7

It works great but I don't like the animation. .. do you have a link to others .. thanks
From: SmartAss City Runs:MiK_CM7

cool animation, but i don't know if i feel THAT much hostility towards mac

good working!
i really hate the arrogancy from iphone user that continue to insult we as android user! they think their device are perfect and exclusive!
like the news recently, they really hate we having the instagram application and they don't wanna to make a friend with androiders..
they just a suckers!
you can read the news here: http://inet.detik.com/read/2012/04/...una-ios-cibir-instagram-di-android?i991104com

tentrahedrite said:
good working!
i really hate the arrogancy from iphone user that continue to insult we as android user! they think their device are perfect and exclusive!
like the news recently, they really hate we having the instagram application and they don't wanna to make a friend with androiders..
they just a suckers!
you can read the news here: http://inet.detik.com/read/2012/04/...una-ios-cibir-instagram-di-android?i991104com
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Sometimes I feel sorry for those brainwashed elitists... They can be so self-centered and narrow-minded that actually forget about how things should be. They like to think that the products they own are unique and exclusive but deep inside they know millions also own them. That must get them frustrated. They keep only showing the world the basic principle of unfounded segregation. Anyway, in the end its their loss.
BTW, I updated the links in the first post.

Great work, thanks for sharing!

Wow this is so funny! I'm getting this straight away!

Haha this is bad ass I can't wait to show my friends that have iPhones x)
Sent from...wait gotta remember

Congrats!
Fun, clean and light. Very good!

Custom bootanimation.zip - Make your TF epic! [8th*][3/8]

Custom bootanimation.zip
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I use AE(After Effect) to create custom bootanimation.zip by tutorial of VideoCoPilot.
Here is my work. I don't know why the gif looks quite slow. Also, all the bootanimation.zip have already tested.
The bootanimation.zip has been already packed. You just need to place it in the right place. See here for info.
No.1
Android
If you like it, download here.
ASUS
If you like it, download here.
No.2
If you like it, download here.
No.3
If you like it, download here.
No.4
If you like it, download here. (coming)
No.5
If you like it, download here.
No.6
If you like it, download here.
No.7
ASUS
If you like it, download here.
ASUS Transformer (alternative title)
If you like it, download here.
I plan to make more template, so that you guys can tell me to make one for you.
If you want anyone, you can PM me for info.
Special Thanks to stuntdouble
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Actually, I'm from HK and I have to apologize for my poor English.
If any problem, just PM me.

That's pretty sweet. Just having that effect and it saying ASUS would be a nice bootup. Are their other effects? Or could you make an image of a honeycomb android explode like that?

ASUS or ANDROID would be cool and universal.

just update two bootanimation

Very nice work s6261,can you do particles creating the words "Primordial Transformer"in blue,then decentegrating like your #2.

Diablo67 said:
Very nice work s6261,can you do particles creating the words "Primordial Transformer"in blue,then decentegrating like your #2.
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that's a good idea. I would try.
more works are coming!

Well done- Keep up the good work.

s6261 said:
that's a good idea. I would try.
more works are coming!
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That would be sweet,i cant wait to see it.
Are you gonna post zip files for your work?I would definitely like to use a few of these.They would probably move this to themes forum.I would also like to post these on my site.

this'll be awesome!
a template that allows us to write custom word (such us our name) would be cool
that will make my friends go frenzy if i pull it on them (have to compete with friends who owns ipad n galaxy tab here )

just updated two download links.
philsuf said:
this'll be awesome!
a template that allows us to write custom word (such us our name) would be cool
that will make my friends go frenzy if i pull it on them (have to compete with friends who owns ipad n galaxy tab here )
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Ha! that's great idea to let them down!

I wouldn't mind seeing an SGU (Stargate Universe)-style ANDROID boot animation...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmjHvrgLeJU
Anyone?

update a new bootanimation which looks like a blueprint and print out "android"!

Could you make the No.2 animation just with ASUS?

husher said:
Could you make the No.2 animation just with ASUS?
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I have already made it. Have a look!

Wow!!! Good Job!!!
With style No. 2, can you put the word "Asus" and after the flip "Transfomer" under the android bee?

Aweseom. Love the animations. Thanks.

Great work sir! Thanks very much!

Good work! Thank you.
The more content like this people produce the better for everyone.
for anyone that is interested I've found that with no art skill you can still make these if you rip videos from you tube into image frames and follow stunt doubles instructions to make the animation.zip. I know it's cheating but it's simple and easy and let's even a goof like me make his own animation.

These look super nice, but unfortunately I find them too laggy to use. It takes ages to render the animation the first time around.
So I'm going back to Honeybee for now, being under 1MB it's pretty smooth.

Shawn_230 said:
These look super nice, but unfortunately I find them too laggy to use. It takes ages to render the animation the first time around.
So I'm going back to Honeybee for now, being under 1MB it's pretty smooth.
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I admit that the first of render the boot animation is pretty laggy. However, it would not appear after the first time.
I made the boot animation is about 640*400. I have already lowered the resolution and I just want to keep the basic view.