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S2 Homescreen & Screenshots
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The~Skater~187
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t.burninator
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Does anybody else use Sweeter Home as their launcher? It has a highly programmable theming environment built-in - very snazzy when you know what you're doing, have a nice overall concept, and put enough effort into it. I'm pretty sure the developer stopped working on Sweeter Home but the beta that gets rereleased every month works pretty well. You have to get it from the website because Google dropped S.H. from their app market a long time ago.
Anyhow, the theme I've been perfecting over the last few months drops tomorrow. It's called "TroggermanJB" and it'll be available on the "Most Recent" category of the theme download list in Sweeter Home. Please let me know if you're interested in screenshots or a copy of the theme file linked here directly. Otherwise, again, the theme will be available for download through the program itself if anyone feels like checking it out.
Anyhow, the theme I've been perfecting over the last few months drops tomorrow. It's called "TroggermanJB" and it'll be available on the "Most Recent" category of the theme download list in Sweeter Home. Please let me know if you're interested in screenshots or a copy of the theme file linked here directly. Otherwise, again, the theme will be available for download through the program itself if anyone feels like checking it out.
t.burninator
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Well, I decided not to wait till tomorrow to release the TroggermanJB custom launcher theme on Sweeter Home. So if you're interested in checking it out, it's available from the SH theme list, or I can post screenshots here upon request if anybody's interested.
LEVERage
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t.burninator
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Pooost!
Cool, I'll do that as soon as I have enough time to get some screenshots, upload them, and write some commentary.
How did you put a picture onto your all applications button? I haven't used a stock-ish launcher since gingerbread so I wouldn't know...
t.burninator
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Welcome to TroggermanJB build A23!
(Build A22 is available on Sweeter Home 2's theme downloader system under "Most Recent".)
LEFT: This is the base home screen. The metal tweed background is actually a very small tiled image. Delete the metal tweed image block to use your own background wallpaper instead. Pressing the telephone icon launches intent URI "tel:" to launch the dialer.
RIGHT: This is the CTRL block. At the top is an external widget, in the middle are Sweeter Home internal widgets for time and date - which use your android custom font (this font is android's Choco Cooky). Build A22 available through the Sweeter Home theme list uses 12 hour time, however I prefer 24 hour time so that is what is shown here in build A23 - with seconds included! There is an invisible block over the time that launches an intent URI to open the (Samsung!) alarm clock, the CAM button launches an intent URI to open the camera, and the LED button launches an intent URI to open LED Flashlight Genius, if you have it installed. That way you can launch the program without using up resources by running its external widget. I recently rebuilt TroggermanJB to be as lightweight as possible.
LEFT: The APP springboard pops in springboards for I/O (multimedia), COM (communication i.e. network-related), and SYS (tools) tag-trays, as well as LIB which opens an All Applications tray. You'll notice that the fixed-width font is android stock and is NOT the same as your android custom font.
RIGHT: The USR springboard pops in springboards for SCHED (external widget for a calendar), MAIL (external widget for an email app), MSG (displays recent SMS), and CALL (gives you two interactive lists - a list of recent calls and a list of contacts in the same block).
LEFT: All three blue tagged trays present selected applications in a large-icon, no-title side-scrolling format.
RIGHT: The purple LIB tray shows all installed applications, in a large-icon, side-scrolling format with titles.
LEFT: TroggermanJB ver. A is set to display only text messages that are received or pending, and none of those that you have sent since you probably already know what they say. There is a bug where on my android jelly bean the sender is displayed as a phone number, whereas on ICS the contact name was always shown.
RIGHT: Sorry about the pixelation. All of the spaces between the dividers are buttons, to dial the recent number or to open the contact. In Sweeter Home 2, you control every visual aspect of your theme from within edit mode. You can set the colors, opacities, border thickness and corners, font details, spacing/padding, divider color and style, etc. It is a nicely robust programming environment.
LEFT: Welcome to Sweeter Home 2's theme edit mode. All of your blocks exist on layers number 1-10, the higher the number the more visible the block is on this screen where blocks are translucent. You can resize and drag blocks, and long-pressing on a block lets you edit, copy, delete, or paste-merge a similar copied block into your selected block. It also lets you select any other block that exists in the same space. This selected block is the invisible alarm-clock button, which launches the following intent URI:
RIGHT: This is the intent URI to open the alarm clock on a Samsung Galaxy series phone. Android 4.1.2's digital clock widget does not appear to be able to launch the alarm clock, whereas the ICS version did.
(Build A22 is available on Sweeter Home 2's theme downloader system under "Most Recent".)
LEFT: This is the base home screen. The metal tweed background is actually a very small tiled image. Delete the metal tweed image block to use your own background wallpaper instead. Pressing the telephone icon launches intent URI "tel:" to launch the dialer.
RIGHT: This is the CTRL block. At the top is an external widget, in the middle are Sweeter Home internal widgets for time and date - which use your android custom font (this font is android's Choco Cooky). Build A22 available through the Sweeter Home theme list uses 12 hour time, however I prefer 24 hour time so that is what is shown here in build A23 - with seconds included! There is an invisible block over the time that launches an intent URI to open the (Samsung!) alarm clock, the CAM button launches an intent URI to open the camera, and the LED button launches an intent URI to open LED Flashlight Genius, if you have it installed. That way you can launch the program without using up resources by running its external widget. I recently rebuilt TroggermanJB to be as lightweight as possible.
LEFT: The APP springboard pops in springboards for I/O (multimedia), COM (communication i.e. network-related), and SYS (tools) tag-trays, as well as LIB which opens an All Applications tray. You'll notice that the fixed-width font is android stock and is NOT the same as your android custom font.
RIGHT: The USR springboard pops in springboards for SCHED (external widget for a calendar), MAIL (external widget for an email app), MSG (displays recent SMS), and CALL (gives you two interactive lists - a list of recent calls and a list of contacts in the same block).
LEFT: All three blue tagged trays present selected applications in a large-icon, no-title side-scrolling format.
RIGHT: The purple LIB tray shows all installed applications, in a large-icon, side-scrolling format with titles.
LEFT: TroggermanJB ver. A is set to display only text messages that are received or pending, and none of those that you have sent since you probably already know what they say. There is a bug where on my android jelly bean the sender is displayed as a phone number, whereas on ICS the contact name was always shown.
RIGHT: Sorry about the pixelation. All of the spaces between the dividers are buttons, to dial the recent number or to open the contact. In Sweeter Home 2, you control every visual aspect of your theme from within edit mode. You can set the colors, opacities, border thickness and corners, font details, spacing/padding, divider color and style, etc. It is a nicely robust programming environment.
LEFT: Welcome to Sweeter Home 2's theme edit mode. All of your blocks exist on layers number 1-10, the higher the number the more visible the block is on this screen where blocks are translucent. You can resize and drag blocks, and long-pressing on a block lets you edit, copy, delete, or paste-merge a similar copied block into your selected block. It also lets you select any other block that exists in the same space. This selected block is the invisible alarm-clock button, which launches the following intent URI:
RIGHT: This is the intent URI to open the alarm clock on a Samsung Galaxy series phone. Android 4.1.2's digital clock widget does not appear to be able to launch the alarm clock, whereas the ICS version did.
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HiredxGunz
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The~Skater~187
Android Expert
Here is my setup
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I love your color scheme for your LMT launcher. Looks sick.
oamilcar
Android Enthusiast
redneckrebel
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Keeping it clean and simple with Smart Launcher
The~Skater~187
Android Expert
Looking pretty sweet Skater
I hate being the bearer of bad news guys, but I smoked my S2, so I will not be able to complete the project I was working on. If someone would like to take over the project and try to finish it, feel free to contact me and I will send you the files I have. Sorry for getting your hopes up guys.
Doc
Android Expert
The~Skater~187
Android Expert
Something told me to buy the insurance when I got it, but I didn't have the cash. Plus I figured since I've never broken any of my phones that I wouldn't need it anyways. But low and behold, I found that the S2 can not withstand the weight of a 96 Impreza, lol.
oamilcar
Android Enthusiast
sry to hear that. But I had to lmfao.
greg schmeg
Guest
Dang. When I bought the phone I didn't have to pay extra right then and there for insurance. It simply costs me an extra 5$ a month through Assurion. I guess u pay $55?