Does anyone know if a wallpaper is available that allows you to apportion areas of the screen to launch an app, ie an office background, touching the clock opens the clock app, the desk opens your office app, etc? I assume it's possible with live wallpapers that interact with touch?
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I don't think you can do this with a wallpaper/live wallpaper, but you can do it by using Desktop Visualizer. (In the Market)
Once you've download the app, you can use the DVRSizeConfigTool (in the Market) and the Image-Crop tool to create a cool looking portioned out screen with different widgets. It's kind of hard to explain, but once you watch the video, you'll see what I'm talking about. The process is pretty confusing, but I was able to do it using a tutorial on YouTube. I hope this is what you were thinking of..
Edit: I don't have enough posts to be able to post links, but if you PM me, I will send you the link to the YouTube video tutorial. You can also search "How To Use DVR Image Crop - Desktop VisualizeR" in YouTube and the video is by 'biipub'.
Look at "Launcher Wall" in the market.
I haven't actually used it, but it can launch apps apparently.
Thanks guys, I think either one of these will suit, just gonna have to pick which one....
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Okay so I just found some cool new apps that work on Vegan GTAB5.1.1...
task manager
improved performing gallery3d
launcher2 with wallpapers fitting entire screen...not zoomed
app center ( for market )
screen shots below....
3D Home is another home launcher app but in 3d...
video player app is also different and now all videos fill the screen. HD video plays smooth now and is in sync. This only launches from the 3d home app
programs app is in 3d and only launches from the 3d home
Never got the 3d launcher you show in the picture. Launcher apk didn't have any kind of options to edit either. Looked cool in the pics, sticking with launcher pro for now.
Do we need to move the .apk's to system/app then change permissions for this to work?
Can't wait to try these out when I get off work.
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Never got the 3d launcher you show in the picture. Launcher apk didn't have any kind of options to edit either. Looked cool in the pics, sticking with launcher pro for now.
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I believe it was launcher2.apk for 3Dhome. It states that it is 3d home when you install it. Simply place these apk's on your sdcard and install with file explorer of your choice. The 3d home doesn't allow additional widgets just launches the better apps. The other home launcher allows for full widget support and full screen wallpaper. No forced zooming on your wallpaper after you select it.
This is a neet launcher. Thanks. You were right, I loaded the ilauncher.apk. I just converted my sealab 2021 DVD to flv so I could take some laughs on the road this week. So fare the video looks great and no weird sync issues. Very cool. Just wish now I could use the movie player outside this launcher, its snazzy but I always(after a few weeks) end up back with LP.
Thanks again
Can't get it working
Havin problems with the 3d programs and cant interact with home screen to get widgets to come up?
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Havin problems with the 3d programs and cant interact with home screen to get widgets to come up?
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You have to install all of the apks that are associated with the 3dhome.
programs.apk, shuttlevideoplayer.apk, gallery3d.apk. The only widgets that work on the 3dhome are the two that came with it. Weather and news.
What to search for in market?
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You have to install all of the apks that are associated with the 3dhome.
programs.apk, shuttlevideoplayer.apk, gallery3d.apk. The only widgets that work on the 3dhome are the two that came with it. Weather and news.
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I tried searching for it on my EVO since i have a better market on it, and cant find what I'm searching for.... I got the 3dhome to come up and the gallery, video, mail, internet and settings work but not the programs or music.... which one of the downloads in this post is for the programs and music?
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I tried searching for it on my EVO since i have a better market on it, and cant find what I'm searching for.... I got the 3dhome to come up and the gallery, video, mail, internet and settings work but not the programs or music.... which one of the downloads in this post is for the programs and music?
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the music doesn't launch and I have attached the programs.apk
Great app, I just wish they would build on it with more options for change...
Thanks, Tested all ok on vegan but uninstalled didn't like the rights they requested, I have only kept that market...
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I was able to get it installed but the only problem I have, is the music icon isn't associated with anything. So whenever depressed nothing happens. Do you have any idea what is wrong? Also this is by far one of the best docks that I've seen to date. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks
on 3d launcher cant get widgets on home screen
anyone figure it out??
I have tried the 3D launcher in the past, but due to complications, and not linking and customization available, it wasn't for me.......too bad though it was different!
So I've read up and tried out a bunch of different comic viewers on the Nook Color, but was wondering what everyone else is using on XDA.
I'm also curious how you read your comics. Do you keep it zoomed in and scroll across and down to read the panels, or do you fit to the page and read the tiny text? Anyone have any solutions to make reading comics easier?
That's one thing I really enjoyed about my iPad....full screen comics with no small text. I would love to replicate that experience on my nook.
Thanks ahead of time, guys!
Perfect viewer, full page unless its a two page layout, then its zoomed by height
Do you have any issues reading the text when it's full page? Maybe I'm just getting old. hahah
i have used acv and perfect viewer. not sure which one i like more. i dont read comics that much.
I typically read em full screen with no issue, 7 inches seems huge after getting used to my 4 inch phone screen. If something is double screen I just rotate my nook and continue.
I use perfect viewer, It has quick page loads, smooth transitions (if you enable them) and around 11 hotspots on the screen that can be customized to make navigation quick and easy. I used to use ACV but when i rotated to landscape the app confined the image to a frame of 600 px wide. They may have fixed it now but it is too late.
The only thing that is not ideal is that the nook screen is widescreen, better for tv shows movies and other video, and comic pages are typically fatter than that so they require black bars at the top and bottom.
I've used ACV - it works very well for me.
For other apps, I'm not fond of the Ave!Comics viewer - but Comixology works pretty well and Graphic.ly isn't bad.
while i dont read comics, there's two apps i have installed that work great. Comics and Vintage Comics.
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Perfect viewer, full page unless its a two page layout, then its zoomed by height
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I 2nd perfect viewer app. I've had compatibility issues with acv and other comic readers reading cbr format, perfect viewer has worked best for me. the controls feel good and you can zoom in/out and fit page to screen etc.
Running Honeycomb off the SDcard and I had problems with ACV being slow and having Force-Closes.
I found Perfect viewer, and it's name is spot on! It is FAST and clear. I changed the default settings so two page layouts auto-split and I just toggle back and forth between the pages as needed. The zoned touch locations threw me off at first, but as with anything, once you learn the interface, it becomes second nature.
+1 for Perfect Viewer
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+1 for Perfect Viewer
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What he said!
I use manga watcher and am very satisfied. On a nook size screen I prefer landscape mode and just scroll down the page as I read the panels. Manga watcher does everything I need and has big free libraries that come with it. Of course you can side load comics off the SD also if you want to.
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Perfect Viewer +1
I've always used ACV, not too many problems anymore. It used to have the memory issues so I switched to Perfect Viewer, but I hate having to touch one point on the screen instead of flipping through like pages. (I dunno if this has changed.)
I would also recommend Manga Watcher, haven't tried comics on it, but for easily downloadable (free!) mangas, it's awesome.
I've installed Perfect Viewer on my rooted NC (cm7 on sd-card) but can't access the menu! What button should I hit to get to the menu?
Please help!)
and where do buy the comics from or where do you download them.>?
I love perfect viewer. Works well for me. I like the option to use the volume buttons to turn pages. The full screen view is perfectly fine for me. Text doesn't seem small to me.
I use ACV, but most of my cbr would crash and get error. jjcomics viewer seems to do better. The size is readable unless it is a two page, then I have to zoom in. I think jjcomics viewer you can set it to automatically cut it in half to only show one page each.
But the best thing to prevent the crashing and errors is just convert all of your files to cbz format. I use Jomic to batch convert on my mac. I don't know which program works best for PC but I know there are a lot of them
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and where do buy the comics from or where do you download them.>?
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i dont know where you would legally get comics in cbr/cbz format as I doubt any comics distribution would want to sell it in this format. CBR /CBZ are essentially just rar or zip files of pictures. They probably want some kind of protection on it or have some proprietary software to view them. But I know Marvel has an app on the iphone/ipad and chrome browser that you can use to buy comics and read them. Other than that, the usual suspects for cbr/cbz- torrents, rapidshare, megaupload, etc.
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I've installed Perfect Viewer on my rooted NC (cm7 on sd-card) but can't access the menu! What button should I hit to get to the menu?
Please help!)
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I don't have this app, but as with all apps on nook color - make sure softkey is running to be able to access the back and menu buttons. If you press the softkey circle (somewhere on your screen) the soft menu button should show up on the screen. This should bring up a menu if the app has one. If you are running CM7, you might not need to run softkey as it might be integrated already in there? If you dont have it, I think it's in the app store
I use perfect viewer also. But one problem I have is when I finish one comic and go to open another for some reason it just keeps returning to the one I just read. Anyone have any idea why it would do that?
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jj comic viewer works great for me, I zip all the pics together and it reads the zip
Is it possible to make the YouTube widget display videos of a playlist rather than recommended videos and front page crap? Am I the only one that wants something like this?
Please some developer/modder help me out here. Thanks
yes please that would be awesome! I have been thinking that for a while now and such a cool widget would get used if you had a way to sync your subscriptions instead of the crap that is there.
I'll be releasing a free and paid version of this as soon as the SDK is finalized. The paid version will feature a higher limit on the amount of photos you can cast, customizable timing between photos, more image transitions, and perhaps control over the slideshow itself.
Cool! I will definitely be picking up a picture app as soon as the SDK allows. And I'm sure I am not the only one looking forward to casting their photos to their TV.
Will you be able to pause, skip, back up, zoom etc?
Also, any plans to allow multiple users to create a shared queue from separate phones ... like the YouTube app allows?
Working on controlling the slideshow now. Then I'll be working on adding photos to the slideshow from the same device. I'll look into a shared queue, that's a good idea. Thanks!
Definitely keep us informed on your progress. I like the ability to flick through pictures on the phone and mirroring it on the TV. Is this a function that your app will have exclusive or is it an ability the stock gallery has as well?
Good news and bad news Scott:
The bad news is that flicking through the photos at the end had no effect on which image was shown, they were just in the same order because I set that album to cast. I apologize for making that unclear in the video. However, in the final version, slideshow control will be in the notification dropdown (4.1+ required), or from a controller app.
The good news is that the app you see in the video is the stock gallery. The app I wrote simply adds the Chromecast as a "share to" option at the top. That means that you will have the ability to cast any image system-wide, as long as it has a share button with it.
Why not just use tabcasting with Google+? It's free and you can create whatever album you want.
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Why not just use tabcasting with Google+? It's free and you can create whatever album you want.
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Tabcasting doesn't work from android.
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This is great stuff but I hate being force to select the pictures before chromecasting. I would want this to work just like the native gallery app but with Chromecasting in that I bring up the gallery and select to cast. Then I can flip through pictures and if I stop on one for more then 1 sec (configurable) then it will cast that photo. This was I can flip through pictures casting them on the fly...
I'm looking forward to seeing this app released. Being able to cast the gallery is something I definitely have been looking forward to.
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Then I can flip through pictures and if I stop on one for more then 1 sec (configurable) then it will cast that photo.
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This would require a rewritten "Gallery" app, adding swipe listeners and whatnot. I'm just trying to keep it simple. My app doesn't show up in the app drawer, it's treated more like an extension of Android. I do appreciate your feedback though, it's a great idea. Maybe someone will pick it up.
Wouldn't it be prudent to expect that most, if not all, gallery and slide show apps to have a Chromecast button in the future?
HELLO GUYS,
i installed the nexus 7 2013 in my Mercedes E-class.
i wanted a good looking interface. searched a lot but didnt find something cool so started to work on it.
combination of some apps and widgets came up with this interface.please share any ideas to make it better.
Beautiful interface. What apps are you using?
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Beautiful interface. What apps are you using?
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thanks..
i am using
music visualizer..live wallpaper
nova launcher
buzz widgets for custom widgets
car widget
digihud
digital car
drivers widgets
musixmatch player
navier hud
nice simple photo widget
sygic maps
talk and drive
ulysse speedometer
torque pro
uccw and
xwidget
Nice work, do the tire pressures actually show on the screen like that? I noticed they are all currently zero? However, for me personally I would try to go with a less is more approach to make it easier to use while driving. I attached a copy of the launcher that I use in my car, hopefully you can see what I mean by looking at them. One is a slightly older version before I changed the labels to be more generic, but shows the music player, temperature etc.
These were made using an image I found via Google of the Audi MMI screen, I cleared off the icons and then re-created labels of my own using Photoshop. Each of these then has a hotspot widget using UCCW to open the app.
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Nice work, do the tire pressures actually show on the screen like that? I noticed they are all currently zero? However, for me personally I would try to go with a less is more approach to make it easier to use while driving. I attached a copy of the launcher that I use in my car, hopefully you can see what I mean by looking at them. One is a slightly older version before I changed the labels to be more generic, but shows the music player, temperature etc.
These were made using an image I found via Google of the Audi MMI screen, I cleared off the icons and then re-created labels of my own using Photoshop. Each of these then has a hotspot widget using UCCW to open the app.
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the tyre presure is just a n image....main functions on first screen is music controls,time and speedo display..i liked yous clean interface..
I suspected it might be just an image, would be nice to have the pressure monitored there. It's a shame that the tire pressure is not monitored via OBD otherwise I am sure Torque could pick it up and you could then set it as a widget.
Obd 2 adapter I am using is the cheap eBay one it's not picking all information from car ecu
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