[Nexus 4 Themes and Apps] matt_stang:
Update July 22, 2014

So I've halted development on what is currently Sliding SMS on the Google Play store. You can still find the download link below and it is still a very good SMS app (for most devices, anyway).

I've spend the past few weeks redoing almost everything and trying to perfect the app. I think that I'm getting there so I'm going to start posting updates on the first post again. I am considering this a beta for the next few weeks until I have reimplemented every feature that the app had previously. Then I'll call it a 1.0 and get on to adding the features I've always wanted to add without having to worry about the crappy performance and unnecessary overhead I had before.

Several features are missing that are in the previous version so it is not quite as complete, but it's faster, looks better, and works better. I'll post a new changelog as I keep updating. You can find the new apk attached to this post, named "SlidingB#.apk."

Changelog

=== B26 AUG 13 ===

- Breathing notification icon option

=== B25 AUG 13 ===

- Choose conversation when sharing

- Added timestamp options

- Changed icon a bit

=== B24 AUG 12 ===

- Light themes

- Customize logo color

- Improved MMS image size/resolution

- Added Android L support. (Someone please let me know if this works)

- Some small fixes

=== B23 AUG 11 ===

- New navigation mode (Settings > UI Style)

- Fixed draft bug

=== B22 AUG 11 ===

- Fixed drafts

- Fixed forwarding MMS

=== B21.1 AUG 11 ===

- Hot fix for bug where swiping away from the bottom of the thread does nothing if emoji picker was previously visible and not on the first page

=== B21 AUG 11 ===

- Action bar and nav bar color options

- Translucent status and nav bar options

- Fixed some small bugs

=== B20 AUG 10 ===

- Dark and default themes now have holo/material versions. Basically difference is gray vs blue-gray

- Keyboard shows automatically when selecting quick reply from notification

- fixed a few bugs with quick reply

=== B19 AUG 10 ===

- Advanced MMS settings (APN override)

=== B18 AUG 10 ===

- Avatar overhaul

- Colorful 'letter tiles' by default. Change appearance in 'Settings > Contact avatars'

=== B17 AUG 9 ===

- Added black theme

=== B16 AUG 9 ===

- Custom vibrate pattern

- Added hex value editor to message color preferences

=== B15 AUG 8 ===

- Added enter key option

- Added enter to send option

- Added 'read' button to quick reply window

- Fixed force close quick reply with multiple threads

=== B14 July 27 ===

- Popup and wake/unlock for popup (notification settings)

=== B13 July 26 ===

- Emoji drawer and Android/Apple emoji options (bottom of settings)

- Changed some colors

- small bug fix

=== B10 July 24 ===

- Quick reply to multiple threads

=== B9 July 23 ===

- Quick reply from notification

- Fixed rare force close issue

=== B8 July 23 ===

- Fixed unicode stripping

=== B7 July 22 ===

- Themed settings

- Message background/text color options

- Read/Call options in notification

- Fixed some theming issues

Please note:

The app is now based on KitKat 4.4.4 Mms and currently will only work on KitKat ROMs. I will back-port it when I'm ready.

Download old ALPHA VERSION from play store here.