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Over in the Elf forum we love the htc cube. this is an application that has sides and a face. one side has general apps, one has multimedia apps, and one contacts and phone.
it is very useful but cannot be fully modified.
We all love the cube and want to reconfigure it but cannot quite get it right...transformation issues, and some icons that cannot change, etc.
I wonder if someone could do a similar app that was more configurable? if the animation was too hard what about movement like Tene's Contact Manager or a dissolve transformation ???
Sadly I am no longer a coder but would be happy to donate for such an app...
just thinking out load,
Sam.

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This is a small test of a work-in-progress.:
http://rapidshare.com/files/43755638/FlashBox.zip.html
the "oficial" site is actually a portuguese forum:
http://www.pocketpt.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=16424

i am really contemplating on the same ideas as well.. but having ideas without any knowledge in programming really sucks for me..
i stumbled this very nice transition animation thingies which are said written in dotNET framework 2..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOMrPz56OVo
link to the developer can be found here
the project is made only for smartphones but i think the transitions switches and its idea can be used in a revolutionary PPC launcher of some sort..
i quite don't like having a launcher that eats the whole screen (just like the touchflo cube), hiding the top and bottom bars, giving the user an illusion of having a "new" and "exciting" interface - but then after you select something, you'll be pulled back to the same windows mobile interface..
maybe it's better to just stick to what Windows mobile looks like, but yet, giving it something flashy and worth seeing instead.. just like cool transitions..
maybe the swipe gesture can be used to flip the contents of the screen instead (including the top and bottom bars) rather than rotating a full screen cube.. i think it'll definitely load and feel faster than summoning a full screen application and redrawing the default interface and the launched program afterwards..
just a thought though..

That is pretty cool...hopefully it can be applied to touch screens as well.

Some excellent additional thoughts and ideas. For me a fullscreen app works best as it allows the touch interface to look much better than wm6 and gives me more 'elbow' room when using my fingers to control the application.
The flash solution looks good but I would prefer to minimise memory demands by loading as little additional software as possible.
Mind you I am no longer a coder and if it works and avoids devouring all my memory I will be VERY happy indeed.
All the best,
Sam.

Orb Interface Concept
Hello
I thought of a new interface idea that would be finger friendly and everything. Read about it on my XDA post here:
I think it would be a great interface, but I need some programers to make it happen. Get the word out about this project, and maybe something will happen.
Thanks,
Andrew

Help me love Android more on my HD2

I want to, I really really want to but everytime I boot into it I keep thinking "meh".
It just looks clunky when I compare the Android Homescreen (build as per sig) to my WinMO homescreen - with stock ROM, CHT2 and the Glass appearance.
So as not to repost what I said elsewhere here are my beefs and likes:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10328739&postcount=30
Main issues for me:
-poor battery life
-homescreen dominated by huge clock and widgets take up too much room each (large fonts) so the Agenda widget can only display 1 entry whereas on Winmo I can display at least 2 - even with a row of quicklinks and the date/alarm
-no Android Sense equivalent of the Slider?

You seems to really dislike android... I am sure that is because you don't know this os much.
there are many ways to recreate this screen, start to look at pure calendar widget and launcher pro. My battery last more than 6h screen on, more than one hundred in standby. Nand builds are very battery friendly.

I guess it's just a matter of taste, but I like Android so much better the WinMo. I loved CHT 1.8.5 back on WinMo, but when I started to use Android (which soon replaced WinMo), CHT felt so 'limited' if you find out what else you can do on Android. I've learned many things from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=743301
Maybe a good idea to take a look there?
Sincerely,
Mac

where did I say I dislike it?
If anything I am saying I would like to like it more, is all.
As I did all the settings etc for my wife's Desire I have played around with it a fair bit over the past 6 months on her phone.
I am just saying apart from those few things above (esp Apps and multi-calendar) for me it does not seem to add much over WinMo and have listed a few negs vs WinMo in my experience.
It isn't a visceral preference - I am trying to keep an open a mind as I can!
I don't want to use a Nand build as there are a few things I need to drop into WinMo for (work related) and at this stage I don't see it as a superior choice yet anyway

Macelangelo77 said:
I guess it's just a matter of taste, but I like Android so much better the WinMo. I loved CHT 1.8.5 back on WinMo, but when I started to use Android (which soon replaced WinMo), CHT felt so 'limited' if you find out what else you can do on Android. I've learned many things from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=743301
Maybe a good idea to take a look there?
Sincerely,
Mac
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Many thanks Mac
I shall spend more time on that page - I have had a cursory look before and certainly some look great.
Here is my screenshot btw
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What kinds of things are you referring to that you can do in Android over WinMo please?
oh and Mac I hit the thanks button for you simply for your great Sig - I heartily agree!

I would get launcher pro if i was you. You can edit the size of the widgets and change how many rows and columns. I also changed the font size so is smaller and it fits more stuff on each screen. I would also say launcher pro has the closest thing to a slider like winmo. It let's you have three docks which you van slide through which gives you up to 15 different items in the dock.

[ZOOPER][WIDGET]Flat Calendar Widget (UPDATE 6/22: new colors, fixes)

Hello all,
After enjoying the great work of everyone else around here, I decided to "make" an app all my own. Both within the Play Store and among the Zooper skins, I've always had a hard time finding attractive calendar widgets. Eventually, I just decided to make my own! I decided to share because I figure that others might have had the same desire as me.
I was inspired by the design of skins like FlatSearch and Pure Flat Clock as well as my favorite icon pack Flatastico and really wanted a calendar widget to go with my flat theme. So...here we are!
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There are 3 4x2 layouts of both blue and green themes, plus a compact 4x1 version of each color scheme.
You can download from the Play Store; for now, I would like to keep all downloads there so the app can get some exposure through searches and the like. If that's a problem, send me a PM and I can send you the .apk.
I am now offering a PRO version for .99 USD to support all of my time spent working and tweaking. Benefits of PRO:
-NEW live weather configuration for each layout
-NEW pro exclusive black theme
-30 total layout options vs 12 in free version
-Ability to save layouts for future customization
Some screenshots:
Update 6/21: New Moonshine-inspired color scheme. Designed to coordinate with Moonshine Icons and associated wallpapers. Opaque background. See screenshot of those icons along with the new widget color scheme:
I owe a tremendous debt to the developers of Zooper widget - they have made the process of turning a user-made skin into a working app quite easy, considering how little coding knowledge I have. The aforementioned app developers whose gorgeous themes helped inspire me deserve my gratitude as well. XDA folks in general, thank you very much for making this place inviting for a person who has had to learn every single little thing about Android over the past year or two since I bought my first device. Any feedback is appreciated; this is my first app and I fully acknowledge that I could be making some sort of silly mistake or otherwise being a bad web/xda citizen.

Looks nice, but I think it would look better if you had the number dates and weekdays aligned with each other.

Thanks for your feedback!
Do you think this looks better?
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New updates pushed to the Play Store yesterday. New color scheme described in OP. Screenshots below.

Great widget man and one i've been looking for for awhile!!! My only question/suggestion is is there a way to make it so that the events for "today" are highlighted?

Can i add the S3 Alarm app? (o replace N4 stock)? as it's more functional & usable...

Can i add the S3 Alarm app? (o replace N4 stock)? as it's more functional & usable...
Hi, it's been over a month as i have replaced my S3 LTE with Note 4, and one thing i'm VERY unhappy with, is the changes they've made to the stock alarm app. Here are the changes i've noticed:
1) background is now white, which actually decreased visibility. i thought i would get used to it, but i can't.
2) fonts are now bigger and slimmer - also harder to focus.
3) alarms now DO NOT change background to let you know if it will be dark (or no) at that time (actually very useful feature)
4) stopwatch/timer - changed font, changed digits, i found the readability is worse now.
5) world time - no more flags, and i thought the readability was better in the previous version too.
6) next alarm is no longer shown in the lockscreen! this is a big problem (you don't see easily if it is set correctly or no).
another thing is that i really enjoyed the S3 app every moment i used it, and with the new version it's the opposite.
here are the screenshots to illustrate:
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my questions are:
is it possible to copy the S3 alarm app and use it as a primary one? (for stopwatch it's definitely more useful, and i use it frequently on bike trips)
is it possible to totally replace alarm with the previous version? (if i'm not mistaken, it also has a service running all the time, so just copying might not be enough)
any way to fix missing next alarm on the lock screen, without installing any 3rd party apps (which will decrease security)?
thanks!

Hello, I also chanced from S3 to Note 4, and I have replaced many of the samsung apps with stock android apps like: Clock. Calender, messages, calculator, keyboard etc......
Clock:
http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/clock/clock-3-0-0-2-apk/
Other stock androdi apps:
http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/

invisiblesushi said:
Hello, I also chanced from S3 to Note 4, and I have replaced many of the samsung apps with stock android apps like: Clock. Calender, messages, calculator, keyboard etc......
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thanks! but this particular app, i thought it was a samsung one!
or is it android general?

lisbon2004 said:
thanks! but this particular app, i thought it was a samsung one!
or is it android general?
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Its stock android, Not samsung.
If you must have the one from S3, download stock S3 rom, inside app folder there is an app called clock.apk or something similar. You can try to install it on note 4, if it fails samsung must have put some copyright stuff on it.

invisiblesushi said:
Its stock android, Not samsung.
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great then!
the only question i have left is that alarms on Note 4 are not displayed on the lockscreen.
is there an easy way to fix that?

lisbon2004 said:
great then!
the only question i have left is that alarms on Note 4 are not displayed on the lockscreen.
is there an easy way to fix that?
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Sorry dont know.
Maybe someone else in the forum can answer??

Screen off gestures

Hi guys!
I know there are some old threads about tap2wake feature and so on. But I want to point your attention to a different perspective: gestures. Wouldn' it be useful to launch some apps (camera, google translate,whatsapp, qr code scanner etc) from a simple gesture on your screen when it is off? I think it would be. I'm not a dev, just an android enthusiast. I have no idea how much the implementation of these features can be difficult. But I l'd like to have some opinions by someone who know more than me about the principal difficulties to realize it. If I'm not wrong Nexus 5 has these features(at least tap2wake) thanks to elementalX kernel, it has snapdragon 800 as note 3, so i think it would be possible to implement. Just curious, I'm not saying "please do this, my life depends on it", I'm feeling really good with my note 3 as it is, but I think it would be useful and cool[emoji13] [emoji13].

I asked this a while ago but got no response So i don't know if it even possible to do so, I think the devs knew that the digitzer couldn't be turned out with out the display being on. saying that it's an amoled display so displaying black on it, makes it turned off. But i'm no Kernel Developer so i don't know much about the Kernel

Maybe you're right about amoled. But I tried Knockr app, that puts your screen black and you can use gesture with "screen off" or blacked screen. So I think digitizer is on and screen is off, but as app is in memory and active it keeps wakelocks keeping CPU at high frequencies. So it will drain the battery, and it is not such a good thing. Surely a kernel solution would be more battery friendly, avoiding cpu wakelocks or at least putting cpu at lowest frequencies.

Yep

As already stated, it would require kernel-level support, and even then, would likely be an increased drain on the battery. There's no reason it couldn't be done, though.
Personally, I'm not a fan of the idea. I'd rather use lock screen shortcuts. It only takes a fraction if a second to press a button and bring up the lock screen, and there's no worrying about accidentally inputting any 'gesture' while the phone's in your pocket. But that's just my opinion...

About gestures in your pocket I think it will be quite difficult since we had a capacitive touchscreen, at least I never had such problem. But you're right if you can customize your lockscreen shortcut launch an app won't take too long. But you need to have the possibility to customize your lockscreen shortcuts like in cm-based ROMs. For example I really like TW lockscreen, I don't want any third part app to replace it. By the way, thanks to say your opinion, have different points of view is a good thing.[emoji6]
So I'm asking to myself why nobody implement this feature, if it is possibile, maybe development will take too much time for a feature few people wants.

You're probably right about not having to worry about activating gestures in your pocket. Like I said, I've never tried such a thing. That was just the first thought that came to mind lol.
TW does actually have native lock screen shortcuts that are somewhat customizable, but it takes a bit of work to make it functional (at least on my device).
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A little OT. Where is this option, or better, on which ROM have you got it? [emoji13]

cruor.am said:
A little OT. Where is this option, or better, on which ROM have you got it? [emoji13]
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I haven't seen it enabled in any ROMs by default, but it may be on some other devices. I've been playing around with it on my Note 3 running Alliance, but I don't have it quite 100% functional yet.