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Home screen ခပ္လန္းလန္းေလး
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Written by Thet Naung
How to make a cool Home Screen for Your Android
Credit to :
(1) JR Raphel ( blog )
(2) Greg Wright
(My current Home Screen)
While I was attempting to personalize the home screen of my Samsung
Galaxy Note 2, I found a blog post of JR Raphel and one of the home screen called
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The Explorer home screen catch my eye. Although the post doesn’t show the
detailed creation of the post, it states what kind of apps and widgets to be used.
In an attempt to recreate and personalize, I have to do a lot iteration to get the
button well placed on home screen and work as you required.
The first cool thing about this screen is that it works away from
Traditional icons to launch your apps and work on tapping the words or marks
on the maps. The paper scroll at the bottom left is showing the dynamic battery
level. Tapping the left lion will launch “Viber”, the right lion will launch
“Whatapps”, compass will launch “Web Browser” and so on. You can customize
as you like. Required Apps can be downloaded free form play store.
(1) Nova Launcher (Nova Launcher Prime [“$5”] will give you more
features although it is not required here yet)
(2) Ultimate Custom Widgets (UCCW)
(3) Wall paper from Wallbase.cc
Now we are ready to go and start busy arranging the home screen. Go to Nova
Settings\Select Default home\choose Nova Launcher as Always. In order to put
tapping hot spot on the map the appropriate grid ratio for this map will be 8:4.
To set that go to Nova Settings\Desktop\Desktop Grid\ Select Rows=8 and
Columns=4.
After setting grid ratio, we will create personalize widgets with UCCW and
place on the desktop map. To perform these properly, enable the followings at
the Desktop screen “Resize all widgets”, “Widget Overlap” and “Overlap when
placing”.
“Apps Drawer” and “Nova Settings” icons can be dragged to secondary
home screen to make the home screen icons free. Hide notification bar and dock
at the Nova settings. The dock will be replaced by customized text icons.
Creating First Widget with Word Icon for Phone
Launch UCCM apps to create first button called "Phone". It will always
start with Background as active element. Press New to start and key in home
screen grid size 8 and 4 as we have set in Nova. Widget size will be 1:1 since we
are creating one hot spot at a time on home screen which will give you better
control on placing. Tap the Background button to bring up “Select Object Menu”
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and select Hotspot. Full up your
widget with hotspot by setting
width and height to 165. Position
can be set to x=0 and y=0.
Now we will define which
apps to launch from this hot spot
by tapping "Hotspot" button
below the design windows. It will
bring up selection menu, select
Apps and choose "Phone" for this
case. Now it is time to put text to
your hot spot button.
Tap on “+ -“button to
bring up “Add items to widget”
Menu and choose Static Text 1.
Text Object will appear on the
Design Window. To select it, tap
on the Center Hotspots buttons choose Static Text object. Scroll to the right to
bring up Controls #4 where press on Text button to change the Text to “Phone”.
You can change the color, size and position from other Controls too. The pictures
at the following page will show transformation of above steps.
You need to select the “Background” object back to set the transparency
of it. We will set this is fully transparent as we only need the wallpaper as the
background. At the Background object, tap on “Alpha” button and set the value to
zero.
Now all the necessary features are in at the design screen. Save the widget
and we will place it on the home screen.
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Placing Your Widget on the Home Screen
Press and hold at the home screen to bring up “Add to Home screen”
menu and select “Widgets” , choose UCCW widget at choose widget menu and
select 1x1 UCCW. Then drag the widget to the required place and test tapping on
the widget to observe the required application is launched. You may create the
rest of the items that you required.
For creation of Date, Day, Time and Battery, you may not require to add
text. You may require to change the angle of the display.
Happy designing and Busy Thinking !!
NOTE: Nova launcher has other great features. You can scroll the apps screens
like rolling the dice. Since this is the free version, you may not have unread
message and mail counts. When you press and hold the home button to kill the
apps, it may cause Nova to stop working, but you can get back your setting by
tapping Nova Launcher. You can backup your design at Nova settings.
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