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[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] TexasRules777:
There are some good you tube videos discussing how to make hubs and some good articles here at xda as well. Basically I took adw ex (1.3.3.1 not the latest one..the latest one has a blue bar you can't get rid of in landscape..it's easy to "find" the older version on the web ;) ) I set it for 10 x 10 grid. Then I put an action icon to open and close the action bar and edited the icon (you can see it in the lower right corner on my screen, just long press on your screen to add these). Then I added an icon to open my app drawer ( top right). Now my icons on the bottom row are pop up icons for music,news,etc..and to make them I went into my app drawer and made a specific catalog for each one ( open your action bar,click the app drawer icon in the left top corner, hit the tool icon top right and when it says all hit add catalog, then add the programs you want on your pop up icon) also remember to hit all after your done or your app drawer will only open the catalog you just made. Now you long press on your screen and scroll down and you should see add catalog ( music,games,etc). Then you can long press on the icon and change it. In my case I used simple text icons I had made earlier but you can use any type of adw icon pack or pics or whatever you decide. Now the semi transparent bars you see over my icons is minimalistic text without the text. I created a 2x2 widget and stretched it over my icons and my Widgets on the left. This part is why I use adw and not apex ( which u can use as well but the Widgets won't sit on "top" of the minimalistic widget..it will be "underneath" and make your widget unusable). And speaking of Widgets I'm using recast weather ( search xda under general android themes and apps) set full transparency.. news and weather widget for ics ( fully transparent ..search xda again) and apw timeline widget also set to full transparency. The backgrounds are multi live wallpaper set to change every 5 mins. You can also do many screens with hubs but after doing that for awhile I settled on just one. I'll add pics for what I used to have in the bottom plus mine now and if you have any questions feel free to ask..just know this process takes some time at first but once you do it a few times it's really easy after that. Good luck.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] veeman:
OK, so could I just use Apex and just make the black semitransparent bar in Photoshop directly onto the wallpaper.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] collinsac24:
Every time you post your hubs everyone asks how to do it haha is it really that hard for you people to look through the thread first?
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] TexasRules777:
Of course.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] veeman:
:| I didn't know he had posted it before.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] TexasRules777:
Yes I had..but I don't expect everyone to go back through 500 some odd posts to find it :-) ..its no problem..we're all here to help each other.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] collinsac24:
Didn't know it was that far back my apologies to you sir :)

Here's my version of hubs a little plain but that's how I like it
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] TexasRules777:
NICE.. loving that recast weather widget too! Think the beta runs out this week but i'll definitely purchase it when it hits the store. You're using the latest ADW ex huh? I hate that blue bar that won't go away..i'll never update mine for that one reason. Nice work man.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] collinsac24:
Thanks, yea I'm sure I'll buy it as well its pretty nice with all the customization. Yea I believe its the latest but i only thought the line was there since I was on ics haha thanks again:)
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] gett:
This :
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] powerpoint45:
The upload picture didn't work on my xda app. Sorry for blank post.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] firered365:
My home screen with launcher 7. Took 5 hours of work (what doesn't look like but it is):D
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] beanboy89:
gedeROM 1.4.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] TommyGun$:
My kindle home screen

Apex launcher, beautiful Widgets, APW lucid theme.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] TexasRules777:
Wow! Love the windows metro look..bet that was a b#tch to put together.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] TexasRules777:
Very nice..what skin is that for beautiful Widgets?
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] TommyGun$:
Its the Roboto Holographic with the weather widget setting to the left.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] TommyGun$:
Whoops, I meant the right. :-)
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] TommyGun$:
BTW "TexasRules777" your home screens are amazing! Cheers to you and thanks for the detailed instructions!
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] firered365:
^^ He's right. Your home screens are amazing! Must have been a b*tch to put them, also!

Yupp. It was. A plus is that I can add Widgets! But I need to look for metro Widgets. Any ideas?
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] TexasRules777:
Hmmm...I know with simple text if you long press to make a widget you have the option to use an image file instead of text. I remember there being a thread on xda that had just metro tile PNG's and you could use those. I'll try to find the link in a bit (on my way to work). Those tiles can be assigned an action too when you make them.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] firered365:
I've used simple text before, but I didn't know you can make them images. I just used text.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] TexasRules777:
Yea..if you long press and make a widget with simple text you have the option to choose icon instead of text. Won't work if you just open the app use it, has to be the widget.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] veeman:
Here it is right now. Haven't had time to make the hubs yet.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] collinsac24:
That actually looks great right there very straight to the point and what clock widget is that
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] meturne2:
Why can't I download Launcher 7 on gedemrom masked as Galaxy Nexus? Play is telling me my device is not compatible.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] collinsac24:
Because its not compatible with the gnex. All you'd need to do is get the apk. Or change your build prop
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] Iced666:
Hubs eat my battery. So go back normal ui :$

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[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] firered365:
I got the apk from the internet. The icon packs are scattered around XDA, If you want icons in the launcher.

Here is a new screenshot of my keyboard. Goes really well with launcher7:
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] Shellton:
what wedget R you using for the time ?
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] veeman:
Sorry about the late reply. The clock widget I'm using is called "Typo Clock Free Widget"

Here is a link if you want it.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] meturne2:
I finally dl on my phone and copied the Launcher 7 apk over. I seems kinda sluggish but I was bored and needed something new.

I will post screenshot later
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] collinsac24:
Yea that's what makes me keep going back, I spend sso much time to make them nice then almost an hour after posting here I'll change them back to normal haha
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] firered365:
It's not sluggish for me. What version are you using.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] AustinFire:
Here's mine.

Widgets:

Clockr

Icons:

That Icon Ultimate: semi-transparent

Launcher:

Apex
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] tgamble160:
sent from my kindle fire running gedeROM
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] meturne2:
Here's my screenshot. I'm running version 1.1.13.2.free. I just upgraded GedeROM to 1.5 so it seems a little better. Its very simple and I usually use just one screen anyway so its kinda nice. Missing a few key tile icons but I guess I will keep looking.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] firered365:
Mind if you share the Google Play Icon?
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] meturne2:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=978615

Launcher 7 icons
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] firered365:
Thank You!
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] TommyGun$:
Running Hellfire v1.3, Nova Launcher, Beautiful Widgets, Holo Orange theme.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] NabhanKhan100:
Can you plz tell me how you get an aneroid on your lockscreen. With details plz. Thx
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] Evo_Shift:
Mind sharing the wallpaper? Thanks
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] beanboy89:
Sure thing. http://i.imgur.com/XUaTN.jpg

The wallpaper is watermarked with where I had originally gotten it from, but it would take a lot of digging on their site to find it again.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] collinsac24:
Who is this directed to and can you explain your question a little more
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] pichettet1:
MoDaCo ROM

Go Launcher Ex

SiMi Clock

Simple Calendar

Edit: I guess I have to get my post count up before I can share. :(
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] veeman:
Is there a way I can get like 2 different settings for portrait mode and landscape mode for Apex launcher?

I have everything the way I want it in portrait mode but when I turn it to the side, none of the settings in Apex makes it the way I want it. I have to rearrange everything. But then when I turn it to portrait everything is messed up.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] pichettet1:
A work-around might be to set up a separate page for landscape. For example, create a new page and turn your KF to landscape. Then, place all the icons, etc. as you want. That way when you flip to landscape you can swipe to a separate page that is arranged for landscape and back to the original when in portrait mode.

I'm not aware of a way to automatically switch within the launcher.

Hope this helps.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] veeman:
Thanks but I don't think that's the solution for me. I'm going to try a different launcher and see if there's anything different.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] powerpoint45:
Here is mine... I'm using that one wallpaper above me
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] veeman:
I changed it a little bit.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] Jessical:
Boom. 4.5" iPhone, 7" iPad. :rolleyes:
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] cjams:
After looking through this forum for the first time...all I can say is wow!..the users here have taken the kf to a whole new level of customization..I posted what my kf looks like now...let me read here a bit...I'd like to look into some of the hub designs that many of you are using...the great experiment begins...
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] cjams:
I'm taking a quick guess here...to make the hubs like others here...I think I'm going to have to do away with my beloved go launcher HD...is that true?
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] TexasRules777:
I've only used adw to make hubs so I'm not sure. The key to hubs though is widget overlapping and the ability to set up a different screen for each catalogue (music,game,etc). If a launcher can do that you're golden. Apex kinda works but I can't seem to get Widgets to overlap properly. Nova on the other hand came out with an update that allows you to overlap two Widgets and move one of them to the front or back..pretty sweet. I'm only using one screen at the moment instead of multiple ( flash too many roms lately :-) ) but here is nova launcher prime.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] cjams:
Wow...those look fantastic..I'm using the energy ics ROM Erich came with nova launcher and go launcher HD...I use the go launcher...but I'll switch if I can get my unit to look like that! Good work...
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] veeman:
Your search bar annoys me. Lol.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] Guardsix:
I haven't found a launcher that will let you take advantage of app groups like Adw Launcher. Or maybe I don't know how to use them properly!
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] TexasRules777:
Me either..best I could do was make folders on my desktop and edit the icon with simple text.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] powerpoint45:
And my lock screen
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] Badgerino:
Very nice. You mind posting those wallpapers?
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] TexasRules777:
Of course but I'm just getting into work so it will have to be later. I use them with multi live wallpaper.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] King_Stannis:
Here are my revised ones. I started messing around with the hubs look and I really dig it. A way to utilize screens I never would have before. It took a long time but was worth it.

I am running hellfire's ICS ROM, the hubs were accomplished using minimalistic text, multilive wallpaper and simple text widgets while running the ADW EX launcher. The apps themselves are in the circle launcher widget, which you can see in some of the screenshots. The wallpaper was found on the Wallbase app.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] tgamble160:
sent from my badass kindle fire on ics
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] collinsac24:
Did you seriously pay for that overpriced launcher!?
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] RazorChrist:
Figured I'd share my screen. I'm running Go Launcher EX on my Kindle Fire, with most of the Glow Legacy theme, including the Rotating LWP.

FYI...no custom roms installed yet, haven't gotten around to doing that yet.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] tgamble160:
I love it I have it on my amaze too. It is exspensive though.

sent from my badass kindle fire on ics
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] collinsac24:
Yea for the few minutes I used it was pretty nice but in my opinion not worth the price.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] iesvs:
Blacker than the blackest black times infinity

I put this together because I needed something really dark and Giger's work is perfect for it. I used a theme labelled "redICS" (sorry I can't remember where I got it) and Sonny Sekhon's Red Glow icon pack from Google Play, plus I added a few custom icons he didn't have to complete the look. To make the icons I just used Photoshop and made a 92x92 dual-layer image. The bottom layer I filled in black just to test the transparency. On the top layer I used a black Color Overlay and a slightly-darkened red (~165) Outer Glow with 10% Spread, 5-pixel size. You may want to tweak those last two values just a hair to get the intended effect. After I set this up all I had to do was find a crisp minimalist logo and Paste In Place on the top layer, resizing to fit inside the frame. Metal as hell \m/

Edit: Correction: Don't darken the red Outer Glow to 165. Leave it at 255 and it'll match the Red Glow iconset.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] smgulsby:
What launcher is it?
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] ratchetandclankf:
The most unorganized home screen ever.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] dgm1960:
Wrong place.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] gg27094:
Yes, it works.

I installed titanium backup on both my phone and kindle fire, and then I backup whatsapp from the phone and restore it onto the kindle fire.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] khoaviet:
so if I dont use android phone,I cant install whatsapp,right?:(
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] gg27094:
You may try using the android emulator.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] Xdpker06:
Here's mine..A little plain
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] buhind:
cool thank u guys for sharing i just have one question .. Im using go launcher and when i increase the icon size it hides half of the label
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] gg27094:
Home→Menu→Preferences→Screen Settings→Auto-fit Items :)
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] stiffmast3r:
Wanna share the wall? :)
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] zonbal33:
few questions...

how did you get just the weather widget on your screen? i downloaded fancy widgets but I cant find the forecast widget like you have under the clock.

how do i install wallpapers i've downloaded. i tried setting wallpapers using go launcher, it does set but goes right back to the amazon wallpaper and changes every time.

one last thing, what is the fire icon at the bottom?
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] stiffmast3r:
Wallpaper change

try beautiful widgets!
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] krelvinaz:
Background currently is just Live Grass wallpaper... This is ADW.

I use Folder Organizer to have folders on the main page for toos, multimedia, email, data and others.

When clicked, like below (tools) a submenu pops up.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] xShadoWxDrifTx:
How are some of you getting the circular orange battery percentage on instead of the one kindle fire comes with?

Thanks!
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] gg27094:
Here you go.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1365712
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] Veritass:
CM7 is the ****.but I don't have permission to post attachments here.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] MrBrady:
My current setup. Still getting it dialed-in.

CM7 with ICS theme on Kindle Fire. ADW EX with ICS theme.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] shamanstears:
Kindle Fire Home Screen

Latest home screen for my Kindle Fire. Using ADW EX launcher (DarkEdge.Blue theme), HD Widgets, and Minimalistic Text.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] zonbal33:
so i install whatsapp on my phone, sign up with my cell number, follow all directions. then backup the whatsapp apk with TB, then restore it on my KF using TB. is this correct? and this works?
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] rprice07:
What widgets are u using? I really like your layout

Sent from my Kindle Fire
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] atoz350:
Since sound and video are working, decided to change up to CM7. So glad I did.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] collinsac24:
Its called TSF Shell
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] tgamble160:
Tsf shell. It takes a little bit to get used to compared to other launcher but once you do it's a great launcher very fast and smooth

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[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] Volumes:
What Rom is it that toy all are using to make notification icons blue?
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] atoz350:
I'm going to need for you to arrange your icons or something man.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] veeman:
Where are the settings in TSF Shell? lol, so not user friendly. I gave up after 10 minutes. The only thing I could figure out how to do was add widgets, add homescreen and change wallpaper.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] collinsac24:
Ooh I see how you guys are, no thanks to me? Haha
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] AZKJS:
I'm just loving mine. I had a Acer a500 but the screen got broke so I bought this kf with the full intent of rooting it and running cm7 or çm9. Right now if got the vanilla cm9 and I love it. It ran much faster on gingerbread, but there aren't any finished ports of it that address the lack of hard buttons and volume control for the kf :fingers-crossed:
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] veeman:
Nothing new except for that I got Apex to look decent in landscape also :)

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[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] RazorChrist:
Just an update to my homescreen. Finally took the time to install a custom rom...so here's a screenshot and list of what I'm running on my Kindle Fire:

Glazed ICS CM9 Custom Rom

ADW Launcher EX

Glow Legacy Red Theme

Glow Legacy Rotation Wallpaper (red, duh)

HD Widgets
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] veeman:
I think a blue theme would look better. That way it goes with the blue of the ICS.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] collinsac24:
Looks nice but blue would tie in better (as stated) but that text now icon is really throwing things, i'm anal about that kinda stuff could not leave it that way
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] powerpoint45:
Here is another screenshot
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] pantana:
Vanilla ICS (gede's ROM v1.55). Acer's content folders and Weather widget.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] RazorChrist:
Yeah i know. I actually have the glow legacy blue theme, but its too light of a blue color and the icon package is closer to white than blue, and they're hard on the eyes. Regarding the text icon, i'm anal bout that stuff too, just havent found a good enough replacement in the icon package yet.

Sent from Kindle Fire using Tapatalk Pro

Glazed ICS
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] firered365:
Mind if you share your walllpaper?
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] RazorChrist:
Okay, so I figured a way to fix the parts of my theme that didn't match the color scheme. Added a few custom icons. To fix the wifi/battery icons, as well as the blue ICS system menu...I found a random standard ICS theme, which actually did not affect any of my ADW Launcher theme. So how does it look now?
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] collinsac24:
Just make or find some soft keys and it would all fit perfectly
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] RazorChrist:
Yeah still working on a keyboard. Currently using Swiftkey3, but no red theme for it yet. Gonna try to change its blue neon to a red. We'll see.

Glazed ICS 6-26
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] veeman:
Thumb keyboard has a pretty nice red theme.

Sent from a thingymajig that sends things.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] AustinFire:
Here's my latest.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] duncakes:
Me? Its from an app called best wallpapers HD.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] tgamble160:
Just tap menu button from your home screen then hit tsf. Soory took so long I haven't been on the kindle forum for a lil while

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[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] tobiascuypers:
Easy to use, and looks nice
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] veeman:
:D

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[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] collinsac24:
I like how simple your screens always are, but why not just use the home button as drawer opener instead of the one lonely icon?
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] veeman:
Didn't know you could do that. I'll try it now.

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[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] collinsac24:
Well depends on the launcher but most can it's very useful in my opinion
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] powerpoint45:
What the...did u port jellybean or something
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] veeman:
Lol, no. I wish. I just changed the LCD density to 213 in the build.prop

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[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] powerpoint45:
Whenever I do that my status bar disappears
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] veeman:
Go into settings and there should be an option to turn on combined status bar somewhere under system.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] powerpoint45:
I'm using linear build so maybe mine doesn't because I can't find the setting
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] firered365:
You can also use button savior.

Sent from my Glazed Kindle Fire. ;)
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] Jessical:
I had to set my DPI to 170 before I could get the navigation option to show.

And oh yeah... Keeping it real... Fake. :laugh: Gotta love shortcuts.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] veeman:
But that top bar is taking up a lot of space.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] Jessical:
Yeah, I know. I kinda like it though. The new YouTube app looks awesome on it, so I can deal with it.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] Jessical:
It's probably something that'll be fixed in Jelly Bean, lol.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] veeman:
Lol, thanks xD

Yeah, I switched back to the tablet interface though. It should probably be fixed in JB. Did you try setting LCD density to 213?
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] Jessical:
I did, but then the navigation disappears and I can't set it back.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] veeman:
Also are those books on your homescreen?
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] Jessical:
Well, not Kindle ones. The Kindle app doesn't have the book shortcut feature like Play Books has. So those are books in my Google Play library. Still had to do it manually, but whatever.

There's an app that can do the Kindle ones, but it has microscopic thumbnails. I should write to the developer about that.
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] digitalcupcake:
@Veeman, love the clock widget! Mind sharing what it is? :) :good: Thanks!

Edit: Dug through the thread and found it ;) Woot
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] psychotech_la:
Sent from my Kindle Fire

XDA app

Glazed ICS
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] psychotech_la:
worked great on mine :good: thanks for the tip the only thing im wondering now is how to change the color to red like the rest of my holo red theme :confused: i tryed reloading the theme but it didnt work is there any way to manually change the back home and recent button's colors?
[Kindle Fire Themes and Apps] psychotech_la:
ok nevermind i fixed it now when i figure out how to turn my menu on my power button back on ill get a screen shot to post