Show off your smartphone homescreen

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VEA said:

Downloaded, thank you!

I've started fiddling with mine now, not spent long on it but here's what I have so far (need to find some more widgets).

Home screen

Looks nice, what widget is the one that gives you the sunrise? Nice touch!

Could do with a square-icon theme, like this one though:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=squa...

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TameRacingDriver said:

I've just discovered the site "mycolorscreen". That site will see to it that I lose hours of my life.

I'm working on a new one at present on the Nexus 4, which I'll post up here when finished. I've gone back to a "single screen" setup.

I'm a "power user" myself, but trying to mimic some of the cooler ones on "mycolorscreen" would probably take me hours .
Also, the site should have tutorials as well, instead of only screens. Some of them use neat tricks you just can't figure out right away (like a different background for each screen).
Armando Ferreira did a couple of tutorials though, still some are a lot of work:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOah6dXYzIY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQKjt1LGGT4

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JAGS said:

On my Galaxy S3 LTE

It drives me up the wall that there's no app icon next to whatsapp.

FIX IT PLEASE.

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rallyeS2 said:

Think I may be getting the hang of Novalauncher and UCCW!! Steep learning curve but both very intuitive to use. Think my modifying brain part has just shut down after years of iPhone use!

Looks amazing! Very modern and sleek.
Is that a note btw?

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escargot said:

Some of these are amazing... Particularly that last one with the pic of your son. How would I recreate that on a galaxy s3 thing?

Fairly easy, get a photo widget that has a similar frame, maybe this one? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org....

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escargot said:

Ahh great - thanks.

Is it possible to change the images for the buttons too?

You mean the icons for the apps? Loads of icon packs around, just have a look in this thread.

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CommanderJameson said:

You get my lockscreen, as my homescreen would disclose things.

WP8 on the 920?

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Benno87 said:

Running Nova Launcher Prime with a circle based theme for the icons. A clock widget called 'bob clock' and a battery indicator called 'battery widget reborn'.
The sharp eye'd lot of you will notice no notification bar any more..which I love! Makes it so much cleaner to look at. But the notification bar is there if you swipe down anywhere on the screen, it's just hidden..nice touch from Nova.
Only problem now is I can't stop fiddling with it as I find new stuff!!

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TameRacingDriver said:

Yep, I went through a phase like that on my 'droid, but just like WP8 it absolutely did my head in after a while.... although probably not as critical on WP8 as it doesn't have a notifications drawer to start with. Crappy little toy OS that it is [/troll]

Swipe up: App drawer
Down: notification

Two finger: camera

Still use the gestures, but also put the app drawer button/notification bar back in place .
Seems like BBOS is going to depend on these quite heavily though, not as intuitive as seeing them there.

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parapaul said:

Not sure if this will work... My new Xperia Z:

Nice! As per this thread, what's the icon theme?

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SGS2 on stock 4.1

3 of my favourite widgets:

• beautiful widgets for the HTC-style clock
• simple calendar widget for the calendar with Holo skin
• Minimalistic text, displaying the date, name of the connected wifi network and battery charge

Icon pack is dc iconz

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LordGrover said:

Mine is still as it left the factory, a week ago. Really enjoying the change from my iPhone though. A change is as good as a rest and all that.

Nexus 4? Looks ok, but when you get tired of the "grid of icons" look you can get some inspiration here:

http://mycolorscreen.com/

Also, the nexus 4 has a lot of guides and following in that aspect, some video tutorials to get you started (first one is the easiest):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOah6dXYzIY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQKjt1LGGT4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUwpoDmvUe8

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LordGrover said:

Thanks. Before I start on that, can you tell me whether I'd lose Google Now and if so is there a viable alternative?
I ask because when I disable the inelegant Google Search I also lose Google Now, which I like and find useful.

I think you're confusing this with custom roms.

This (esp the first vid) is nothing like it, it's just adding a few nice widgets (like a pretty clock), changing the wallpaper.

The next step is a new "launcher", which is basically an app that replaces the default homescreen. "launchers" allow for some more customisation, like say, you want 6 icons in the dock or a 5x5 grid on the homepage instead of 4x4. They also allow changing some fade animations, amongst other cool stuff.

I'd consider myself a "power user", and my screens look far from the default Samsung provided, but I never felt the need to "root" (comparable to jail breaking) my phone.

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Egg Chaser said:

I've disabled the search bar and can still swipe upwards to access it. It might be beause I'm using Apex Launcher.

A launcher could do this.
I found Nova Launcher to be flexible and easy to configure.

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LordGrover said:

Not mine, but an example of how very flexible android is:


From here: click

Too bad about the botom icons, they should be on the screen. Though making them black and putting them on the screen is child's play, as would be making the A/B/Select/Start functional.

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Dave^ said:

Ha, that's brilliant... might have to steal that!!

Beat you to it,

Fully functional

Hmm should assign A to app drawer



This could take hours

Edit: all nova launcher: hide notification bar (swipe down brings it up), hide dock, grid 8x8, some icons here:
http://lixr.deviantart.com/art/8-Bit-Icons-for-And...

And you're good to go.

Edited by ZesPak on Friday 8th March 13:05

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I like that wallpaper, though I feel like the widgets would look better on it with a serif font.

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Loving that, what phone is it? Isn't the space between the tiles supposed to be black?

Edit: meant black, obviously

Edited by ZesPak on Thursday 21st March 15:11

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Silver940 said:

and Zooper widgets

Just looked into that, there goes another one of my evenings .

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TameRacingDriver said:

Silver940 said:

I would be it's SMSunread widget not the app icon. Bugged me to start with, seem to have got over it now.

What launcher you using, Nova lets you use normal app icons with number overlays for the unread messages.

But if you're cool with it then cool (it would bug the life out of me, mind).

Already posted this but seems relevant here:



DCicon for gmail, with number overlay by Nova Launcher

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