[HTC Desire C] Phenziox:
Hi all,

yesterday, I posted my new homescreens and you reacted nicely to it and asked for a tutorial! So here it is!

I will first describe the method to theme your launcher (I used Nova Prime) the more easy way... once I get more skilled I will upload more advanced guides!

Here is a list of the widgets you'll need:

Bobclockd3

minimalistic text

circle battery widget

plug in music widget

beautiful widgets

power toggles

1. Clean your current home screens. I recommend you make a backup via nova settings in case you dislike the new look or something!

2. I used the default HoneyComb wallpaper, just google it and set it as your wallpaper if you like it!

3. Now for the first widget to be added, were gonna place the main clock!

BobClockD3 is a nice clock widget, add it on the top right of your homescreen.

You will get a screen like this:

First, select the color of the hours. We'll just use white now, with zero transparency.

Then, you want to choose about this color for the minutes:

And don't forget to make it a bit transparent, that will look nice!

You can confirm that now, it'll look like this:

4. The next widget is going to be the Circle Battery Widget. You wanna choose the 2x2 one. Place it in the top left, next to the clock.

You can configure the colors you want the circle to be at certain battery levels by tapping the widget > colors. I made the normal color white, the warning color more transparent white, the critical color almost invisible white, and the charging color normal white. Other flashy colors can disturb the nice minimalistic look you want! After this, the homescreen will look like this:

5. Now for the last widget on the main screen you need Beautiful Widgets. It unfortunately is a paid app (Arr).

Add the "BW Weather 4x1" widget to your homescreen. A configuration menu will pop up.

Scroll on to the Appearance tab and tap the weather theme. You'll want to download a theme callled "Vos-Flat White", and set it.

You don't need to mess with the background theme for now. Go on to the Background and Colors tab, and enable "Hide Background"

Hit the checkmark in the right top to finish. The widget will be 4x1, however, it looks better if you resize it to 4x2 using the nova thingy.

Your homescreen should now look like this:

6. We are now going to set up all the icons, as the rest of the widgets sort of depend on them.

WARNING: This can be very time consuming. If you do not wish to spend more than an hour theming, stop right here.

First, just put the icons where you wish:

Now, the fun bit is going to start:cowboy:

You will need to download an app called MetroStation Icon Pack.

This app contains (you guessed right) loads of nice icons.

It looks like this:

For example, if you want your Facebook app to have one of these nice icons, you long press the facebook icon in the launcher, tap edit and this will come up:

Tap the icon, and choose "Icon Pack", then "MetroStation"

Now find the icon you like in the database, then choose the color you want. To keep the blue/white theme I have, you want to choose white. You can add a little transparency if you want. Do this with every icon and your screens will look like this:

As you can see I made the App Drawer icon blue. You can choose to do so if you like, I think it looks nice! You might also have noticed that the "Games" folder isn't a preview of the contents, but just one icon. You can do this the same way you chose the icons of seperate apps.

7. Now for the music widget. The widget is called "Plug In Music Widget" and is free to download from the Play Store. Add the 4x2 version where you want it to be. It does not look very nice now, but to change the looks, open plug in music widget from the app drawer, scroll to settings, and first tap "Select Music Player" it will show you a list of supported players, but I can tell the stock HTC music app works well, just like Apollo and Play Music. Next, scroll down to "Set widget Background" and choose "None".

It will now look something like this:

8. We are now going to add the power toggles. You can of course use the stock one, but I found that the free market app "Power Toggles" can be themed so that it fits our theme. Add the power toggles widget and you will be greeted by a menu which explains you the way it works when you open it for the first time. As a style, choose "Indicator". Then, choose the "Tint" background fill, and set white as the color. Scroll up again and give it the amount of transparency you like. Tap done when finished. Your screen should look like this:

9. Next thing is to 'label' the grouped apps. We are going to use the app "Minimalistic Text" for that. Add the widget of the desired size on the desired place and you will be greeted by this menu:

First of all, uncheck "Show Background". You can leave the orientation the way it is, and scroll on to "layout".

Delete the current row, and click the "+" button in the bottom left. Scroll to "Misc" and check "Static Text". Tap OK.

Tap the "Static Text" box, and enter your label, for example "Social". Choose the style "Normal".

Now scroll to the next tab "Text Style", and tap "Normal" The size of the font should be around 40, and set the color to HEX code: FF33B5E5. Tap ok and then new color. Tap the save button top right.

And that's it! You have now succesfully themed your phone like a boss!

I recommend you set up a gesture in nova settings with which you can toggle the status bar, as the homescreens look better without.

This guide was based on Armando Fereirra's YouTube video "How To Theme You Android Phone Like A Boss".

Please hit the thanks button if this helped you get an awesome homescreen or made you understand theming better!

Kudos,

Phenziox