This is a small tutorial to show people the easiest way to customize (very basically) the "Pure music widget" background. It requires a basic knowledge (very basic) of Photoshop.
You need:
Pure music widget.
ADW launcher or Launcher Pro (I did it with ADW).
Widget Locker.
Multipicture live wallpaper
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For Lock screen:
Download the LS-Master resource.psd file from http://www.mediafire.com/?fyc4vcoug16cqeo and the Wallies.psd from http://www.mediafire.com/?7sysr37o7bs1gbc
Both are PSD files, that means you can modify the Music Widget BG, both files have an example of one Album art, keep the example, it work like a guide for your custom backgrounds. af course you can change the wallpaper too.
Edit the files until you meet your expectations and save it as PNG or JPG, put those files in your SD Card.
For the lock screen:
In the Widget locker preferences chose a 12x12 grid and hide the Status bar, choose your image for the background. add a 2x2 widget Pure Music Widget and match it with the background
For the desktop:
On the ADW settings (or Launcher pro) choose the 10x10 grid and hide the dock (extend desktop).
Using Multipicture live wallpaper choose your background file for one of your screens and setup the other ones (you can choose a different background for each screen, this is an awesome option isn't?). Add a 4x2 Pure Music Widget and match it with your brand new background.
That was easy, Right?
Sorry for my english.
How do you hide the controls?
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How do you hide the controls?
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Well, i forgot to tell you guys to edit the "Transparent Skin" in the Pure Music Widget Skins, using any image editor just make an empty file and rename it as all files in the transparent skin folder.
The skin folder is in your SD card ".org.koxx.Pure_music"
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Okay, so I got inspired to do this:
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...after looking around in this thread here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=761517
I especially liked the cleaner looking themes, but wanted something even more streamlined. So I started by doing the following:
I thought that the samurai wallpaper was awesome, so I found it via Google here:
http://www.outlawdesignblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/samurai_me_by_patleeart.jpg
..and hit it with the sepia filter in Photoid. That darkened it up enough for me.
The dock I found on Deviant Art here:
http://kimboprice.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2ydmvn
...and ran it through GIMP. The only part that remained was the app drawer icon. I made the borders on the app drawer icon bolder, erased the rest and made new text icons and the simple white upper border.
For clock I used the DigiTrans clock skin for Weather & Toggle Widget that is available for free on the Market, and modified the widget background (simple white border and clock underline with a 25% transparency), AM icon and PM icon in GIMP.
To use any of it, just put the clock skin ZIP on your SD card in the appropriate folder and select it through the widget skin wizard in your Weather & Toggle Widget settings menu; the wallpaper is a no brainer; for the dock, using LauncherPro select preferences>appearance>dock background>custom image and choose it from the gallery, then use the included blank icon for the app drawer, phone and task manager apps.
There are two docks in the ZIP, a black one for lighter wallpapers and a white one for darker wallpapers.
Mods, please feel free to close this thread or remove any of my attachments if anything is not in line or if I've left out any credits. Everything I used was found on the web or in the market for free, except Weather & Toggle Widget which folks will have to download from the market on their own.
Hope some of your guys will like this theme.
Ok, so few people asked me how I placed a Banner like Icon in-place of my dock. I wanted to answer directly but thought why not share it with everyone else. So here a tutorial on how to do it.
First, this is how it looks like
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And a demo Vid
If you think its cool, then read on.
It's fairly easy, but quite tricky. Here we go.
What you need:
Launcher Pro
Banner/Icon (Template links later)
Desktop Visualizer
1. Set your home-screen row to 7 (for a 6 row home-screen setup). (This seems to be the most efficient value for me)
2. Now add a desktop visualizer 4x1 widget
3. With desktop visualizer, select your desired banner/template as your image and set the action as none (as seen on the video below)
4. Place the new widget on the bottom most part of your home-screen.
5. Now back to LPP preferences, set your home-screen row back to 6.
6. Might take long to load but there you have it, a scrolling banner on your dock.
Notes:
I believe you can use any number of homescreen rows from 4 up to 9 but I havent tested it yet and I only have a template for a 6 row homescreen.
In the video, I used a 5 column x 6 row setup opposed to the 4 x 6 setup on the tutorial to lessen the changes from stock layout.
forgot to mention, for best results, use transparent dock ang dock-shortcut icons.
Banner templates:
4x1 (right click and "save as")
5x1 (right click and "save as")
The Grey part is what the dock covers, blank part should always stay transparent. Just paste your banner over the gray part and make sure that nothing overlaps then delete the grey part entirely.
Cant seem to make youtube link to work, just click here and here to watch the vids
Thanks for the tut. You gave me an Idea on a cool homescreen. Mind sharing the text icons used on the vid?
Here is your video:
Recently the "Metro UI" Launcher in the market has vastly improved save the fact of disappointing amounts of icons, and real proportion in relation to the actual Metro UI.
I've compiled the best white on blue icons for my use, along with full color tiles (WP7 isn't ALL blue tiles with white icons) using the "use image as background" option in the Metro UI selection interface.
To make use of these icons:
Step 1) Extract folder to Internal/External SD card on Android handset
Step 2) When Adding corresponding tile check "Image as background"
Step 3) For "Select Icon" choose "custom" then click select Icon
Step 4) Use file manager of choice to go to directory where icons where extracted
Step 5) Choose and enjoy!
http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/10275021/1/Metro UI?h=45404e
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10275021/Metro UI.rar
Now I present my current Interface
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Attached are the mentioned icons
Enjoy!
The tiles for Phone, texts, and gmail are set as icon and not image
they look nice, testing them out now. would it not be easier to make them transparent pngs so the user can still use their own colour? or doesn't metro ui liek png's?
I would, save the fact that metro ui automatically resizes icons to a smaller size not proportional, and big like the actual WP7 Metro UI
this thread is very similar in nature with this one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=913747
With different icons though
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
Would you guys like the transparent icons?
Launcher 7 works very well also
ThtOthrPrsn said:
Launcher 7 works very well also
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I think Metro UI is smoother (like slide for app drawer, the app listing looks better) and it's just more "professional"
hey guys wanted to say this looks really good. im using metro ui pro and i was wondering if someone could make a dungeon wonders icon for a 1x1 tile with whole image as the background.
thanks in advance.
Anyone know a way to set wallpapers correctly?
I've tried WallpaperWizardrii which used to work well for me before I hid my notification bar (Apex Launcher). Ever since I hide my notification bar, it seems like WallpaperWizardrii doesn't realize that I hide the notification bar so it doesn't cover that part of the screen with my wallpaper leaving a black bar at the top where the notification would be if it were not hidden.
I've also tried PicSpeed which does correctly cover the whole screen but the problem is that PicSpeed seems to have some problem with gradients in wallpapers. For example:
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This wallpaper's (and many others) gradient looks fine on WallpaperWizardrii (but doesn't cover notification bar) but looks like crap on PicSpeed.
Right now my temporary solution is to use this app called Zedge which is a wallpaper stash app kinda thing. However, there is no option to set a wallpaper using Zedge so what I have to do is download a bunch of wallpapers in the Zedge app and then connect my phone to my computer and go to the folder where Zedge keeps it's downloaded wallpapers and replacing those wallpapers with my own by renaming my own wallpapers with the names of the downloaded Zedge wallpapers. That obviously is a hassle and the wallpaper thumbnails and previews in the Zedge app are still those of the old wallpaper's so that makes it hard to keep track of which wallpaper is which.
Is it really this hard to set a wallpaper right?
Once you download wallpapers from Zedge (or anywhere else I imagine, including transferring files via USB) they should show up in the Gallary app. Go there and find what you want to use. Using the expand button there should be a "Set picture as" option that lets you use it as a Wallpaper or a Contact's picture.
Try "quickpic" from playstore. I had the same problem and quickpic worked for me.
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Try "quickpic" from playstore. I had the same problem and quickpic worked for me.
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Quickpic seems to work for now. Thanks
It's unfathomable that Android itself doesn't yet have live icons for the Calendar and Clock, like TouchWiz does, or another operating system I can't recall the name of.
Sure, Today Calendar (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.underwood.calendar_beta) is a great app with a live icon but what if you want to launch the stock Google Calendar?
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Here's my simple How To:
1. LAUNCHER
- This requires a Launcher that allows overlapping widgets/icons. I recommend Nova Launcher: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teslacoilsw.launcher
- In Nova turn on Settings > Desktop > Widget overlap, and Overlap when placing
2. INSTALL
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.underwood.calendar_beta
And
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.devmil.minimaltext
3. PLACEMENT
- Remove Google Calendar icon from your homescreen
- Place Today Calendar icon in its place
- Edit the icon to rename it "Calendar"
- Add a 1x1 Minimalistic Text widget to the homescreen and place it over the Calendar icon
4. SHORTCUT
- In Minimalistic Text setup, first turn off Show background
- Delete the text rows from the widget so Layout tab is empty
- In Tap Behavior check Start another activity
- In Select an activity, choose the Google Calendar app
- Hit the Save icon above it and return home
Hey presto, a live date icon that launches Google Calendar. When you hit the Calendar icon you're actually launching the transparent widget activity.
If this helped you feel free to click Thanks. Thanks!
Also, the icon pack GLIM has a live icon for the calendar in the app drawer as well, on the free version as well.
Plenty of icon packs have this but if you've set Nova to use the stock Android icons, changing the Calendar icon to one from such an icon pack will not result in it updating every day. My solution above is the only way if you use stock icons.
Cheers!