Posts Tagged ‘LauncherPro’
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Since getting my replacement phone I have been absorbed with — maybe a better phrase would be fixated on — revamping the UI using some uber-customizable apps I hadn’t tried before, namely Tasker and Minimalistic Text.
Tasker allows an unprecedented amount of control over your phone, allowing you to specify responses to specific conditions. It’s very much like coding and I can’t get over how incredibly powerful and robust it is. I put off using it for a long time because I was intimidated by its scope, but the level of awesome stuff my phone does now is totally worth the confusion and hours of scrambling things together from the Wiki. I’m planning on doing a post, or a series of posts, on my Tasker set up and how to do various things. I hope it will be helpful because I wasn’t able to find all of the information I needed easily and had to cobble some of it together with trial and error.
Minimalistic Text is a widget creator which allows you to format and populate widgets with information like the time, date, weather, and battery status. It also supports Tasker variables, so you can display pretty much any info you can grab using Tasker (which is pretty much limitless!); in my setup, I only use this capability in two widgets, but there’s a lot more you can do with it than what I felt I needed. Basically, I use Minimalistic text in most of my widgets in order to present a unified theme, as well as to fulfill my anal-retentive tendencies. It’s seriously nuts; give it a try!
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HTC Droid Incredible Android UI
Posted on: May 12, 2011
Since my HTC Droid Incredible has recently taken to locking itself over and over again during certain times, preventing me from ending, say, embarrassingly business-related calls, I will be replacing it with a refurb provided by my one-year manufacturer’s warranty. (6 days before expiration, yessss!) Unfortunately, backing up app data on Android phones is seeming pretty tricky. I’ll probably be trying it using ASTRO, the file managing app I hope everyone has on their Android. I’ll see how Google’s app-backup from the cloud goes before trying to deal with it on my own, though.
One of the consequences of this is that I’m most likely going to lose my beloved Android UI, which I have labored over for more hours than I’d really care to admit. I’m really not exaggerating when I say I’ve probably spent more time tweaking apps on my phone than actually calling people with it. In the hopes of maybe recreating it, here is a dissection of the best UI/homescreen setup I’ve arrived at so far.
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The Vengeful Polyglot 