So basically all Androids come with stock Android built-in and then there is a layer of theme sitting on top of the original stock Android theme which is the manufactures theme or skin. I would like strip that layer off and put my own layer of design on. The reason is if I just put on another layer or launcher on top it will just take up extra RAM.
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The new google voice actions is really slick looking grey/ steel and functions beautifully
It would be awesome to see the sleek look of this app brought throughout the entire os, it actually brings me to wonder what gingerbread will look like if this is the newest thing from google... perhaps it will take a turn that way!
untill then... i hope someone with the time would take intrest in this ^_^
interesting obversation by the way!
Gingerbread is expected dates are mid- October (around 15 -16th).
So we really don't have long to wait.
Hmm like a Carbon steel theme? I like that Idea too!
Really, the new "voice actions" box looks exactly like the new widget theme Google introduced with Eclair. Nothing new or exciting here, other than that this is the biggest box we've seen with this theme (until now it's been smaller, like the music or news/weather widgets). Would be cool to see them continue to integrate it, though.
Personally, though, I think they should run with the new Froyo look. The semi-transparent background from the new Launcher2 dock, or the keys that appear on the Froyo stock keyboard when you swipe up? Overlay those on top of this widget background. Use that as the background for all the widgets, and the keys on the keyboard, really anything in the OS that is supposed to be dark.
I also wonder if Google will ever exchange the status bar for a dark one, since that's what every custom skin (Sense, Blur, TouchWiz) and almost every theme from XDA does. Seems obvious that's what most people want. (Not me; I prefer it light, but I'm just sayin')
Google just introduced 'Android Design' for helping developers create Ice Cream Sandwich like applications.
Its good news for the users because more applications will look more like ICS.
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Although ICS is a step in the right the direction and Android Design is an excellent way to help developpers the new dock icons are not. Here's why:
- too big on smaller devices
- spacing between icons is way too small on every device
- colors shading is uneven (white, different shades of blue, green)
A big step backwards for a part of the interface that is visible on every screen!
This is gonna be great but I have a feeling it will only really effect AOSP style roms as OEM roms will cover it up as they always do.
i'm pretty particular on the overall appearance of my phone and i'm not a fan of most user built themes out there. sometimes every now and then there will be a certain aspect of a theme that i like, but would rather do without the rest of the theme package changing the majority of my phone.
that being said, does anyway know of a way to just cherry pick the status icons out of the Jelly Bean Extreme theme for CM10, here's the link for reference.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bigdx.jbextreme.com&hl=en
i wouldn't mind paying the full price of the theme if i liked the rest of the package but i do not. i don't want everything on my phone in blue, i like multicolor.
if there isn't a way, has anyone seen something comparable to the blue glow surrounding the wi-fi, battery, and phone signal status icons?
i'll probably end up contacting the dev of the theme, but i figured i'd post here for a quicker response just in case.
hi i have hired a team to make a launcher for me i call SymetiumUI, anyway we have gotten in alot of arguements and it looks like the app is being killed because of it can't find help to finish it, allthough this blur question this wasn't an arguement i still would like to know, i was told by that team that selective wallpaper blur where a shape of the wallpaper is blurred isn't possible, only the layer that goes ontop the wallpaper would blur it which causes alot of performance issues limiting it to one or two blurred objects at a time on screen.
So i would simply like to know is it possible for an app to blur a round ball or box on a wallpaper or can it just blur the entire wallpaper and not sections of it.
The idea for my app is that a part of the wallpaper would be blurred then a colored layer would be placed ontop causing the frosted glass efffect or even ios effect if you set the layer to white and slightly transparent, another workaround i came up for this is that the launcher keeps the entire wallpaper blured but only shows sections of the wallpaper blurred, meaning a layer is free to move ontop like a dynamic blur.
I upgraded to the Pixel 2 from my LG G6, and the only thing I miss are the rounded corners. They make the OS feel much more inviting and modern in my opinion. I'm using one of the apps on the Play Store right now, and on the launcher and in most apps it works fine. However, it doesn't work on the lockscreen and notification shade (obviously), and when in landscape only the top 2 corners are rounded.
I was wondering, is there a way to get rounded corners on a system level, so that all elements are always rounded? Something like an Xposed module or a feature in a custom ROM? I've been searching for a while but haven't found anything, the only results are for apps but those are too inconsistent like I said above.
I use substratum and the Pitch Black theme. There you got an option to set the rounded corners...