1. Fresh color
Flyme 5 adopts colors that are much more brighter and lighter than it used to. These colors, according to Flyme designers, are more appealing to young users.
2. Quicker notifications
On locked screen of Flyme 5, users can view directly the new messages or notifications, while in Flyme 5, users only see icons on the notification bar and have to unlock the screen to view the messages.
3. Smaller icons
As the screens of smart phones become bigger, the old layout of Flyme home screen seemed to be a waste of screen space. Therefore the designers adjusted the DPI of the app icons and now the screen can show more contents.
4. Easier icon moving
Do you feel annoyed when you have several icons to be rearranged but you can only drag them one by one? On Flyme 5, we introduced the new multi-selecting option that users can now move icons to another screen page in batch.
5. Better notification panel
We've made several adjustment on the notification panel to make users' operation more easily.
For example, we changed the position of the 'Clear all' toggle. Before it was on the top right corner of the screen and it is inconvenient when operate the phone single-handed. In Flyme 5, we moved it to the bottom of the panel so it can be reached easily.
6. Multi-tasking in card style
In Flyme 5, we adopted card style multi-tasking management. Now users can view the running apps in an elegant and clear way.
7. Simple Settings layout
Some users loved the design of Flyme 4 Settings layout because it took fully advantage of the big screen, however, the defect was quite obvious, too. Because the screen is divided into 2 sections, sometimes there is no sufficient space for longer options or descr iptions. In Flyme 5, we changed the layout to a simpler one.
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Are there any Theme Generators that will do landscape mode out there? I'd like to make some.
thanks,
Dino
Dino,
Have a look at this site:
http://www.ida.net/users/oe1k/programs/ThemeBuilder/
It'll show you a way to create landscape (& portrait) themes.
Regards,
Albondigas
try this
http://www.thememaker.biz/thememakerproplus.htm
Loaded with Imaging features no other Theme making program has:
Theme Making features that allow you to create great themes faster and easier!
A Multi Document Interface that allows you to have as many images as you need opened to create your theme.
Image editing capabilities including:
Cut
Copy
Paste
Paste to new image
Duplicate
Crop
Clear
Flip
Reverse
Rotate
Shear New
Resize
Canvas Resize
Remove Redeye New
Numerous ways to select image data and modify the selection including:
Select All
Rectangle
Rounded Rectangle
Ellipse
Freehand
Magic Wand
Invert Selection
Expand and Contract
Image Effects including:
Posterize...
Mosaic...
Blue...
Sharpen...
Add Noise...
Emboss...
Gradient Filter...
Edge Detect New
Oil Paint Effect
Stitch New
Picturize New
Color adjustments including:
Grayscale
Invert
Brightness..
Contrast...
Histogram Contrast...
Hue
Saturation
Gamma Correction
Remap New
Balance Colors New
Colored Gray New
Fundamental Paint functions including:
Brush
Pen
Eraser
Fill
Gradient Fill
Color Picker
Transfer themes to PocketThemes.com web site if you are a registered author.
The ability to show or hide the theme you are currently working on to allow more room for the images you are using.
NEW Ability to create themes for the new WM 2003 SE devices in both Portrait and Landscape orientation!
NEW Ability to create VGA size themes that will work in the VGA SE devices and modified VGA devices.
NEW Print function an Print Preview!
NEW Theme Browser allows you to browse your themes on the PC and see thumbnails of the main images. Click here to view this new feature!
Four primary ways of importing images into your theme gives you unparalleled versatility.
Load directly from file
Directly from an active image in the editor.
Directly from a selected area of an image.
From a unique pan-window function.
The ability to adjust Today Screen text for screen captures to post on web sites.
Transparency adjustments for menu and main image that allows you to set the color of the transparency! No other Theme program does this!
Ability to define your own default colors for your themes.
A Color Picker tool for the theme that allows you to accurately and easily set the colors of the Command Bar and Title bar to the colors in the Theme.
The ability to set colors in the Information Dialog box to the same colors as the main Title bar with one click!
A setting that makes the Information Dialog box Title bar the same colors as the main Title Bar automatically! Or in reverse of the main Title Bar!
With one click reverse the colors of the Title Bar!
Set colors of theme by either selecting the item form the menu or just clicking on the item in the theme.
The Auto Color feature automatically sets the colors for the Title bar, Title bar Text, Command bar, Today Screen Text and lines and the Menu Transparency to match the basic colors of the Main Image with the click of a button!
NEW Web Tuned image save where you can adjust the properties of the image for quality or size.
The ability to capture frames from video sources. AVI, MPG, WMV and MOV video files. Video capture devices.
NEW Predefined image resizing for rapid theme creation.
NEW SE image preview screen showing areas of image that is used for Portrait and Landscape modes to see the areas of the image that is used for each orientation.
NEW Stitching functions allow arranging of images on pages for printing and display.
NEW Screen capture function allows the capture of any portion of the screen you define with the mouse.
ThemeMakerPro also has numerous I/O features no other Theme Making program has:
Screen captures of Themes for web posting.
Saving the images of an opened Theme, both main and menu.
The ability to acquire an image from any TWAIN compliant device such as a scanner or digital camera!
The ability to transfer themes to and from a Pocket PC that is Synced with the computer that has ThemeMakerPro installed on. Requires ActiveSync to be installed first.
Just wondering what people were wanting the developers to work on for the new metro interface. Personally I would love to be able to use custom photos for launcher tiles. I'm inspired by some of the great screen shots I've seen for Launcher7 for android devices. Something like this Browsing Customization on deviantART over the tiles?
I've been using the CP only for a few days but I already missed the fature to set the tile Images manually. Some non-Metro apps look terrible with their tiny Icons compared to the tiles. Another thing I don't like is that you can't drag the Metro screens. You either have to use the scrollbar or the mouseweel. Oh and I think the Color selection is too limited. It would be able to tie the Interface Color with the automatic aero color, so that the Background has the same Color as the highlights.
So I've looked around for some time for a reasonable method to install Galaxy Labs on my rooted 8+ Galaxy S7 SM-G930, now a '955F' after the 8+ rom install. This rom works very smoothly so far.
Not finding a simple method, I hope someone comes up with one though (?), I went with a simple invisible icon method I've been using for some years for other phones.
The process is pretty simple:
1. Download IconChanger - free on Google Play store.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jy.iconchanger.ad&hl=en
2. Make a 1 pixel x 1 pixel, 72 dpi, transparent gif, and label it something like 'blank.gif' and get it into your phone downloads (SD card) directory.
3. Open up Icon Changer, tap the center of the screen and it will take you to the Applications screen of apps you have installed on your phone.
4. Select the app you wish to make a new icon. The screen will update to the apps icon at the top of the page. Select "Change" and navigate to where you stored the blank.gif. Select that .gif
5. The screen will update, any on my phone it is a white screen. You will not see your transparent gif. Select 'Crop' at the top right of the screen. The page will update back to the initial Icon/Title screen, and you will notice that the icon is transparent, looking like a white and gray checker board. See photo 1 below.
6. Select the title, and if you wish to have a visible title for the Icon, type in what you wish. If you wish no visible title, delete out the text. Press OK at the top right and the icon will take a few seconds to be created and placed on your home screen.
The third image has the transparent icons, in the same place as the original screen shot.
Tip: It will help if you have your home screen and it's next over screen generally filled up with icons at the beginning of this process, leaving several blank rows at the top of one of those screens, the new icon will likely be placed at the top left corner of that, or one of those pages. You can select and place it as you wish. If your home screen and other pages are largely empty, it make take you a bit to hunt and peck to find your icon.
Additionally, a 1 x 1, 72 dpi pixel size icon is very small. Unless you really expand it in a photo editor, you will not 'see' it.
i worked on an os design back in 2014 so i wanted android on a pc for several years now, phoenix has impressed me quite a lot, here are some minor gripes and issues i ran into
1.i can\t change language input to my keyboard region
2.using a higher dpi makes everything appear jagged and pixelated, not enough to make it terrible but enough to notice setting wallpapers also make most extremely blurry
3.a lot of live wallpapers doesn\t work when i apply them they work then i exit out of the app and it goes back to the default wallpaper i did get one live wallpaper to work though edit i fixed this by letting the apps run in the background i would add some kind of help text on this as i don\t think everyone would figure this oue
4.all the baidu things and chinese apps preloaded i\d personally like if they werent but not a big deal
5.text marking doesn\t work properly like you\d expect all it does is drag the pointer to select text you have to hold on it and then drag the two pointer like on a phone
6.i want an option to disable the keyboard and search and storage devices button and just keep the clock I've disabled everything else i love the addition of a thin home button like on windows
7.i\d like to customize the taskbar and recent apps menu various colors and transparency etc
8.the weird light effect on selected icons could be a line to make it more flat but thats a personal thing
9.i would like to be able to change the start button to any icon from an icon pack
10.i would like to add or remove tiles as well as hiding the brightness and volume slider so an optiont to disable these would be nice
11.i would like various sizes for the startmenu i think it\s too wide i also would like to be able to disable the startmenu sidebar as i don\t need it
12.widget support would be nice
13.colors are very washed out making it appear as if i connected a very old tablet to my monitor they don\t appear crisp as they do on windows
14.resizing windows is extremely laggy
15.the trash icon for clearing notifications would be better as 3 lines stacked ontop of each other minor detail
ok, thread title says it all..what'd they do to Fire Os this time?
side note...really really REALLY wish patch notes were available...
More stability I guess.
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there are tons of changes here, im still investigating for more
i'll seperate it by location in seperate messages.
--the homescreen--
-the home tab-
"recent apps" has been changed to "continue", and "recommended" has changed to "discover", some people got this update early.
there is also shadows on text in the former recommended widget
the tab selector now slides in when scrolling down and slides out when scrolling up
the search bar has become rounded and now says "search web and more"
the managed device message icon has changed from light grey to black and is no longer transparent
the x at the top right of the search bar when in a search has changed from dark grey to black and is also no longer transparent
the shadow effect under the tab selector when searching has been removed
on some devices, folders have a small dot on the bottom right when an app thats in it has a notification, similar to stock android
the color of maximized folders has become very, VERY, *VERY* slightly darker
-the library tab-
a new kindle tab has been added, it shows recent and unread documents
the apps and games tabs now have two rows, "downloaded" and "in the cloud" it functions the same as the downloaded tab at the top
-the for you tab-
the recently taken section has been removed
-the notification tray-
the show mode toggle has been removed
more to come soon!