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Uniform Look 'n Feel

We all find a lot of very interesting software in this forum which at the moment is far superior to what Microsoft or the vendors come up with.
The thing that bothers me (personally) a bit is the non-uniformity of all the applications offered. One application is doing nice pulldown menus with custom based settings while the other is doing the native windows thingy.. If we could work out a standard "framework", this way we spare ourselves the work of re-inventing the wheel over and over again and we can focus on the actual functionality.
Here some examples of what could be done:
- Default way of browsing files (kinetic scrolling list, like throttle launcher)
- Default listbox (see 1st)
- Semi Transparent keyboard (to see what you're typing through the KB)
- Transparent scrollbars (like the omnia viewer)
- Transparent menu's
- Look for active today screen and adapt wallpaper (Manilla, 2day, etc.)
- Sizeable custom title bars (for big screens or small screens)
- Resolution aware (no pixels but %'s)
- Tilt Sensor / Accelerometer abstraction
- Uniform but skinable (skin will be used for every app based on this famework)
- Etc.
Is there somewhere being worked on this kind of thing? I was thinking in making some open source re-usable classes in which we can put it all.. I don't say I can do this (alone) but if we make it a group effort it could be a very nice concept imho..

Any way to change font colour on Home Screen?

Are there any tweaks to change the colour of the font displaying Missed Calls/Calendar/Date/Alarm etc on the Home Screen (or even better, to have an opaque box behind the text)?
I have some nice photos I want to use as backgrounds, but they are mostly white so I cant see any text!
Cheers,
Doc

same for me... i wanna use a more lighter background picture. But with the white letters its not really useful.

Try this free UI Tweaker
- it is a collection of 4 utilities used to customise the outlook and color scheme of the Pocket PC. This collection includes a simple theme manager and utilities to change the system colors as well as the Today color scheme.

janp said:
Try this free UI Tweaker
- it is a collection of 4 utilities used to customise the outlook and color scheme of the Pocket PC. This collection includes a simple theme manager and utilities to change the system colors as well as the Today color scheme.
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thanks a lot, i'll give it a try!

Hey nickaat,
nickaat said:
thanks a lot, i'll give it a try!
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could you please tell me if this tool works for you and your HD? I want to change my home screen font color too but i still didn`t found a way...
Thanks,
Brad

I've look also for the exactly same thing and I've reached to the following conclusion: you can't do anything about it.
I've tried tons of programs, registry editing, hexa editing etc. Spend days on the issue. Nada, nothing. I even some some experienced users saying that it can be changed almost any colors on tabs, exept the ones above.
LE: I think the most closest possibility for us to obtain this effect is to manually edit the wallpaper and place some dark boxes where the text is written, but this means that the dark boxes will apear on every other tab also.

hello...I have tried this UItweaker on my touch hd...
I tried the one to change the today screen font color...
and spinning wheel of death occured...
so I killed the UITweaker but the font color indeed changed
I soft reseted and changed it back - again spinning wheel of death - and after having back to nromal I removed it because it seems like not the program I want to my mess my phone...since it seems the device does not like it....
and anyway..i think that after having this program my google mpas started to be stupid - I dont know if it really is because of this - but now the google maps show My Location as a venezuela...that is not true, I am in middle europe...WTF I want it work again normally...
this sucks
so if you want try it, it changes the color, but it is not working flawleslly and I hate that...

The UI Tweaker only messed up my other colors, but doesen't changed the color I wanted.
Take care using it.

I also had issues with UI Tweaker, I somehow changed the background of the buttons on the home page (Phone, Programs, x button etc) to pink and couldnt change it back!
I remember seeing a Russian Rom that had black text on the home screen, so I do think its possible.
My workaround for the moment is to edit the background pic and draw an opaque box where the info is displayed.
I think it looks quite cool! It does take a bit of messing around (trial and error) to get it in the right place, and I still have to add a few more (date/alarm)... work is quite busy atm so I dont really have the time!
If I do find another way, I will post it here.

As I said, the only problem for this workaround is that in all other tabs, the background will apear with the boxes from the HOME tab.
I wonder if it is a way of having different wallpapers for each tab.
Must search that.
LE: Found that: Change wallpapers. It gives a solution how to have a different background picture for the rest of the tabs.

so simple
go to settings > home screne > scroll to color scheme & select > scroll to : text: black" then select done

[Theme] Orbalist (WAD2) -Final 1

Hey guys, after gettings my hands on Wisbar Advance Desktop 2 and seeing how powerful it was in theming just the way I wanted, I thought I would make some themes.
I will put the themes I make up here in case anybody likes them so they can use them themselves (any donations would be appreciated).
Before I begin though, a note:
Most of my themes will be minimalist, I like to maximise functionality out of the minimal things on the screen, usually I prefer to see the wallpaper and my themes will focus on this.
The theme I am going to put here is a conceptual idea I had today where I thought that the signals I need can easily be displayed in a "different" way. It's not entirely new, but I have not seen it done like this for a phone theme before.
Anyway, here is my first version of this theme, a couple hours work, and is basic and simple, but i like it for that.
Each Orb or circle represents a signal, from largest to smallest:
Teal: Missed Calls
Yellow: New SMS
Maroon: New Email
Light Green: Wifi ON
Blue: Bluetooth ON
When the orbs/circles are empty, there is no missed call/sms/email and wifi/BT are off. When the colour is visible, there are.
Each can be clicked and will take you to the corresponding item:
Teal: Missed call list
Yellow: SMS list
Maroon: Email Inbox
Light Green: Toggle WIFI ON/OFF
Blue: Toggle Bluetooth ON/OFF
The top left blue circle shows the start menu
Top right blue circle has battery value, and will take you to the battery page (FIXED)
The wallpaper here is just a solid colour, but could be replaced with any colour or image you like.
The orbs/circles can be moved anywhere you like on the screen in any shape or pattern, simply and easily.
EDIT: FIXED: Battery Icon now takes you to battery power page.
EDIT2: OK, this will be the final version for now (until I receive requests). I have added transparency to the circles, I have added a clock, changed the colours for some nicer ones and have also made a landscape version. (Havn't shown screeners because it's practically the same thing). The wallpaper (that may be included) is just a generic general image from the phone, the idea of this theme is that you pick your own wallpaper, so you should change this, and not wonder why it has an aweful one included. Again, if you like, please feel free to donate.(Link in my sig)
NOTE: You may find that the mail icon doesn't link correctly on your phone. That is because on my phone it is linked to "Gmail". You should edit the script for the mail link (maroon one) and in its script you will find "\Windows\tmail.exe -service 'Gmail'". Change the bit in quotes to link your correct account (either what ever you named it, or "ActiveSync" if you're using the Hotmail/Outlook sync. If you use more than one, just remove everything after "\Windows\tmail.exe" and you will be taking to "Messaging"

Nice idea mate,
will check it out when it's done.

Very nice. It's good to see someone thinking away from the "We have to interact with some boxes inside of other boxes" mentality. Down with square buttons!

Thank you.
Thank you for the kind words, I have updated now after working on it all day, and made what will for now be a final version.
Let me know if you download and have any feedback. Bear in mind, as I said, I won't be adding _too much_ more to these because the whole idea was to be minimalist.

That looks really clever, although I think I'd keep getting distracted by the pretty lady!

Hmm very nice idea about circle but i have better idea to turn girl to front face and for first "bubi" assing sms and second "bubi" for new e-mail ) , and if message arrive all bubi start shaking. lol i need this for my today screen.

Hehe
Well, fortunately for those that might get distracted, the pretty lady doesn't come with my theme, I just saw her in the theming thread and thought I'd try it as my wallpaper. You can of course put any wallpaper you like, which is the idea of this theme. The "bubi" idea is a nice one, put it tempts me to make the kind of theme that one shouldn't see before the 9 o clock watershed, so I'll refrain.

I love the minimalist approach - clean and stylish, just the way I like it. Keep it up!

[Q] Progress Bar Stairs

Hey @all,
i'm just getting started with developing Android Apps. Therefore i have a question, for designing my GUI. Maybe there is a possible build-in widget, but i don't have the right wording to find it (English is not my native language).
I'm looking for something like the Rating Bar, where you can select a value between 1 and 5. Instead of the stars, i'd like to have some bars (the left one is the smallest, the right one the highest). Should look like the "Stairs" within a Signal strength notification. To make it a bit more challenging i'd like to have different colors for every bar (least value is green, highest value red). Therefore i don't think that the Rating Bar with different drawings will fit my needs, because afaik i could just change the star layout, not like the first star should become a 5dp bar, the second a 15dp and so on.
Is there any build in widget i could use?
I attached a picture to show my idea.
I hope you can help me
Additional Information: I like to develop for min API 17

fighterii said:
Hey @all,
i'm just getting started with developing Android Apps. Therefore i have a question, for designing my GUI. Maybe there is a possible build-in widget, but i don't have the right wording to find it (English is not my native language).
I'm looking for something like the Rating Bar, where you can select a value between 1 and 5. Instead of the stars, i'd like to have some bars (the left one is the smallest, the right one the highest). Should look like the "Stairs" within a Signal strength notification. To make it a bit more challenging i'd like to have different colors for every bar (least value is green, highest value red). Therefore i don't think that the Rating Bar with different drawings will fit my needs, because afaik i could just change the star layout, not like the first star should become a 5dp bar, the second a 15dp and so on.
Is there any build in widget i could use?
I attached a picture to show my idea.
I hope you can help me
Additional Information: I like to develop for min API 17
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I think your best bet would be to make pictures (drawables) to use inside of an ImageView widget. You would need to draw every possible outcome or picture that the user will have displayed to them. Then depending on what you want done, set the drawable to imageview.
Here's a very brief example (Sorry, typing from phone):
ImageView imgView = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.my_image_view);
If (outcome1) {
imgView.setImageDrawable(R.drawable.my_rating_bar_green1);
}
Something like that should work for you.
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updated to fire os version 7.3.2.6...what did they do?

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!