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[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] Rayman0625:
What I have so far. Screens are top, middle, left.

Any suggestions? I've been trying to think what I could do with the left/bottom and how to work on the right screen.

I've currently changed the borders so they are bigger and black. Not sure if I'll keep it though, I like the white. I've also managed to add the name of the docks on the top ones.

I'm also planning a completely different setup for when the phones in landscape mode.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Little sumpin I'm working on...

Still a bit of work to do. Making some new icons so the UI is clearer... :)

The clock is just an image! :( hence the 'fine print'
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] notxel21:
This is sweet!! Can't wait till you release this!!:D
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] bboy_201:
heya i cant wait either i like....

i was wondering does someone know how to correctlly use sweeter homw

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i wanted to have my contact pop up when i click the box that says contact. and thean i want my messages to pop up when i click that image. the problem i have is i want the contacts to be in its own box to click and the messages in it own. when i try to add both seperatley they end up in the same box. so i see the option to click contacts or my messages??!!!\
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] bboy_201:
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lol so u got lazy thats kool lol..

but if u get it done imma check it out
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] Rayman0625:
God I haven't used Sweeter Home in forever. After I had wiped my phone and lost my theme (even though it was saved), I gave up.

Has Sweeter Home been updated at all, or is it exactly the same as last time I messed with it?

And to answer that question on my notification bar, yes my phone is rooted. It was the Aero theme I believe.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] veda_sticks:
You should make a copy of your theme file, When you reinstall sweater home, it sometimes gets deleted when sweater reinstalls, it must delete the old directory on the sdcard and create a new one or something
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] wootroot:
make sure you name each tray and everything else you add its own name, if 2 trays share the same name you can end up with issues like that
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] bboy_201:
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heya thank you

i tried it and it worked

now i am gonna try to change the images of them .
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] kizer:
I'm running Cyanogens 3.2 which is based off the ADP 1.51 release and every theme I try it appears that no matter what I click on something opens up thats not correct in the spring boards. I haven't really dived deep into the spring boards, but there doesn't seem to be a way to reset which spring board goes to what.

I saw there is a YouTube video on the springboard site that I plan on looking at tonight since work doesn't allow viewing of YouTube videos.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] wootroot:
reset which spring board goes to what: in the tray where you places the spring board icon that opens up another tray, remove that icon, long press on tray where it was, click spring board, select which tray you want it linked with

make sure you name each tray and everything else you add onto your screen different names
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] wootroot:
yeah i noticed when i went to do spring boards a loong time ago that if i didnt rename each tray its own title and name it would goof up, just make sure your real specific on everything and youll be fine, my spring boards run great now, just took a hour to set everything up

well worth it

any one know when this is going to get another update? (i looked a few pages back, saw nothing, there are more pages than i would like to look through lol)
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Heard from the developer yesterday. Another project he was working on got a lot of attention at I/O so he's been distracted for a bit. Back onto Preview 2 now but it's still "weeks" away rather than days away! :)

So Preview 1 will receive an update to a "bridge" version, allowing you to save your Preview 1 themes into the upgraded Preview 2 format! Cool, we don't lose our themes.

There's some other cool stuff too which will surface soon. In the meantime myself and others are testing a closed beta of the bridging P1 version which is basically exactly the same as P1 but with the extra export option in the menu.

So YES, updates are coming!!! :D
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] thelamacmdr:
Aww was gonna start working on a theme for preview one but I guess I'll jsut make the images and wait for preview 2 =(
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Make it on Preview 1! Then when preview 2 is out you can save it in a preview 2 format. Easy...
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] thelamacmdr:
Hmm I guess I read your last post completely wrong I thought the themes in preview 1 wouldn't work with preview 2. Good to know I can start working on it though.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] veda_sticks:
Amazing!"!!! i was getting a bit worried that sweeter home had been dropped.

cant wait.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] sswalia:
Unique problem

So i've got a unique problem

I am currently running android cupcake on my HTC Kaiser. It runs sweeterhome beautifully, but my problem comes when trying to install any non "builtin" themes. The issue is that, with my particular setup-- all of androids file systems and everything is being run off of the sdcard. What this means is that i am unable to "unmount" my sdcard in order to follow through with the install procedures for your themes.

I have been following sweeterhome for about 3 months now, and i would love to try out asket (it looks bad ass).

Do you know any way of possibly manipulating the file system and placing the asket.sly file directly into the location where the "builtin" files are located?

Thanks so much

Sim
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] wootroot:
i dont know much about kaisers, so this might be a poor reply, but is it possible to push it into the directory where the built in themes are located on the phones system space? much like how i would use adb to push a file? what i would do if i had that issue on my g1 is used adb and push the sly file to where the builtin themes are, just an idea, not sure if its a good one though lol
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] sswalia:
that sounds like an idea worth trying.

i used the filebrowser2.0 app to try to find the location where the builtin .sly files are located but i couldnt find them.

I have not used adb yet and i am wondering what command and where exactly should i push the file to?

Thank you so much for the quick response.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] phanaks:
I saw a similar theme to mine somewhere on the net for some other phone OS and recreated it using Sweeter Home's springboards in a little less than an hour.

I have a 5 screen home setup like a plus sign. Each word on my middle/right/left home screens opens a new springboard with the appropriate apps when clicked. The bottom of the cross is my apps tray which is custom built to resemble the default but with 5 apps across, the top of the cross (not shown) is my calendar and similar in style.

I kept a light blue area on the top and bottom of each page for continuity and to provide blank space to swipe across for changing screens. I also added a scrollable calendar to one of my home screens, and I have scrollable contacts, text messages and missed calls springboards. The built in springboard animation is pretty sweet.

Everything runs great on cyanogen3.4.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] bizz3d:
Hero theme with Sweeterhome + Matrix

Hey guys just wanted to say that i think i came up with a cool way of combining a few things to get Hero theme and sweeterhome. I flashed from SuperHero (speed was killing me) to Cyanogen ROM, then added the Hero Theme. I love hero but hated the huge lag. So i went back to Cyanogen ROM and after doing the Hero theme it still felt a bit plain. so i started to mess with Sweeterhome again. When i noticed the Matrix layout. I then took that layout and changed all the colors to faded black grids with white text. i applied the Hero Theme wallpaper and the end result was pretty cool. I still have the Matrix pics on there i havent had time to change those.

anyway i just wanted to thank those Dev's that made Cyanogen ROM, Hero Theme 2, Sweeterhome and the Matrix theme. No disrespect to the Matrix theme maker but it was a great starting point for the Hero feel.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] rac2030:
Sorry for posting this into the themes thread but I couldn't get any information (just other people with the same problem) using google...

Is there currently a way to download sweeterhome preview?

I checked Germna and US Market and I didn't find anything (except on cyrket) but as I see other protected / paid apps I don't think it's related to the copy protection on market.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Still WIP, shouldn't be long till I drop it.

Click for more...
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] johnnylicious:
great job in this looks legit!!
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Here it is for the non-root crowd running Sweeter Home:

Rosetta

In action (slideshow)
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] minogue:
ooo Wow! i must give this home replcament a try...
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
FYI - this is just a theme, it's not the Sense UI.

God I can't wait till Preview 2 :)
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Q&A with the dev of Sweeter Home which includes some exciting stuff for Preivew 2!
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Sweeter Home Preview 2 video! ;)
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] r3v3nant:
very nice... glad to see the project is a live.. getting bored of open home and want to try sweeter home 2 when it's available.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] ericseipel:
Hi there,

Just wanted to check in and see if things were still rolling for a Preview 2 release? Also any word if this might be ported over to Android 2.0 with th eventual release of the Verizon Droid?

Thanks for your time

Eric Seipel
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
The dev says it's targetted for before Christmas - but that's a rough guide.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] 2leaponover1:
And so ends the sweeter home saga. Rest in peace sweet sweeter home :(
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] lamaravish:
I tried looking for a place to ask this question, but couldn't find one....

I'm running the latest cyanogen rom and tried installing sweeter home preview 1 but I get an error saying something like "this app can't be installed on this phone" anyone knows why?
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Says you!!! lol.

Public Beta of Sweeter Home 2 will be available in the next several days!
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] Icebergxx:
They pulled the .apk from the market.

If you could send me it I'd <3 you.

Haha.

Maybe it's something on your partition for apps2sd assuming you have that going

Or just need to clear some things I'm not sure I wouldn't give up.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] shaneaus:
A main delay in SH being released is that it uses a lot of features not available in any other home replacement app. The implementation of many of these features have discovered a lot of bugs in the Android OS code that the dev has to find work-arounds for. This has been taking up a lot of time. However, the dev is still working on it and SweeterHome has some AWESOME capabilities.

The main thing the beta testers are worried about at this time is speed!

The dev is also polishing/finishing up some of the GUI.

PunkWeakling and I will try to keep all of you that are interested updated.

Just FYI. Creating a theme or set of home screens in SH is much more involved than in any other Home screen app. So, if you are looking for a one touch install for something new - SH will NOT be for you. However, if you like tinkering with your Home screen to get the look/features you want - then there will be no substitute!
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Of course, you can install Sweeter Home and just use it as a standard home replacement by applying other people's themes too! :)
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
OK - if you have #android 1.5 and WANT Sweeter Home on YOUR phone please reply @sweeterskins with your wish!!! Need volume of requests!!!
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] Icebergxx:
Hey guys I made my first theme! Lol It's called firstattempt and it's by Icebergxx

I made it for the G1, doesn't load well on my buddies droid, go give it a shot and let me know how well it works for you all!
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] expertping:
Have a look , thanks for share.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] mousiope:
i need some help please !

i´m editing a theme thrilho hd and i only need 3 screens how do i delete the others ????

also the sms app shortcut i want to change it to launch handcent, but if i make edit theme all the other screens appear in front of the shortcut making it extremely difficult to modify it without messing up something is there an easyer way that i´m not aware? the shorcut is locked if anyone could help i´d apprecciate it !
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Hey man. To edit the SMS (app) part, do this:

Enter edit mode.

Long press over where the SMS app text is.

From the list choose the SMS app custom tray.

Edit that tray.

Unlock it (set locked to no).

Exit edit mode.

Then in the home screen long press SMS app and you can drag the stock messaging app out of that tray.

Long press again, add application and choose your own one.

If you get stuck hit me on twitter - @sweeterskins
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] mousiope:
thanks man |
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] rehuxley:
How do you get the other widgets? Are they themed per sh themes?
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] dumitrudan608:
Is there a touch flow 3d like theme wih 5-6 buttons on the bottom, one for each screen?
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Hey there. MAN this is an old thread.

Best thing to do is grab the BETA (http://www.sweeterhome.com/) then load up the theme list and have a look yourself. Best place to start looking is the top rated themes. :)
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] mindseed:
PNG DPI size

Hey All! Discovered SweeterHome Last night and am really impressed with the customisation options. I'm wanting to spend the time today customising a design I have in mind...

My question is... what DPI is the standard for Mobile - Galaxy S in particular. Do I design at 72dpi or 96dpi?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
http://sweeterskins.net/using-custom-images-in-sweeter-home/
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Pretty nice man. I like that bottom dock, nice gradient, looks good with the white border.

I was mucking round with a Matrix idea with no real intent of doing anything with it but now it's really taking shape. learned a few more tricks too: Use PNG images with transparencies and build them in as part of your theme. They sit ABOVE the wallpaper and MOVE above the wallpaper like icons when you scroll - looks really hot. I'll have it ready to go in a few hours.

Here's a taste...
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Just found a replacement image for the the left screen that is going to take me forever to photoshop so might be tomorrow before I can drop this. It'll be worth it though... :D
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] shaneaus:
@ PunyWeaklink - Awesome job! That is SWEET.

On another thread some of the theme enthusiasts were saying they didn't like home screens because they liked their theme integration. I don't know of any way you could get more integrated than by using SweeterHome!

Rayman 0625 - If you are looking for some suggestions:

1) I would put the "Application Grid" on the bottom screen. That allows you to access apps you don't use all of the time. And, if you are used to the original home screen it puts the Grid at the same location as using the pull tab on the original home screen.

2) You aren't using your calendar tray - If that would be useful to you.

3) The real estate for your messaging is kind of small (IMHO) and would be a little hard to read if you had multiple messages. You might consider moving your call log to the left screen and add your calendar tray there. Then you could make your messaging tray larger.

But, nice job! I think it is interesting how white borders look so good Rayman's background and no borders/gradient looks so great with Punkweakling's.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Probably won't use it but here's a pretty good proof of concept using layers. Yes, the apps scroll behind the gunman in the foreground... The mission is keep the image sizes down otherwise memory goes bye bye I've suddenly discovered... which means tinkering with the PNG size, and getting creative with the layers. The image below is just arms over the background image with the arms set to layer 10 and the apps set to layer 9...

Was someone talking about integration?
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] shaneaus:
SweeterHone is working on the memory usage.

But, the I spoke with one of their devs via email about this today. Here is what he said:

"About getting the photo from SD, I'd suggest trying to resize the photo down to 640x480 or so first. There have indeed been problems opening large photos. Android currently requires the entire photo to be loaded before it can be resized down to the android screen size, which simply fails if the memory isn't available for it.

In a future release we hope to reduce the memory demands to allow accessing larger photos, but for now, images much larger than 640x480 just won't load."

So, keep in tune for future updates to address that issue and just resize them for current use. Gimp is free!
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Yeah I'm tryng to get the images as small as poss. Anything above 50kb is pushing it by the time you load 3 or 4 of them... Double checked and my wallpaper was like 300kb. Got that down to 100kb and that makes a difference. There's some bug with the URL image loading... weird caching and crap. I've asked the dev what the go is on his site.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] 71CH:
This app is really nice man. I ran across an issue though. I deleted a couple of the action trays from the first screen and I have one left. Now whenever I try to add another action tray it will copy the one original tray I have. If I try to modify the new tray in any way, the old tray will mimic the changes. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug? Thanks.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Hey man, I had the same problem at first. All you have to do is edit the tray and change the name in the trayName field to something unique. Do this BEFORE you start adding content to the tray ;)

The reason it's mirroring is it thinks you're trying to duplicate the tray called "default".
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] exile20:
When you are editing and object you need to name the title and trayname different from each one.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] 71CH:
Hey thanks :D
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] dweller88:
nicely done punkweakling, thanks for this.

It came with stock apps in place, but easy to replace with my choices, cheers.

I hope to see more shared layouts here.

I noticed that sweeterhome has kept the icons from the xda theme I had installed when I first

installed it and not my latest xa theme.

I hope that if I uninstall and reinstall sweeterhome it will pick up on my newer icons..
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
That's interesting man. See what happens then log an issue at http://www.sweeterhome.com/projects/sweethome
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] Rayman0625:
I noticed that too. I currently have the Aero theme installed but the icons that come up in Sweeter Home, is the icons from Glass Minimalism which I had installed 2 themes ago.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] Rayman0625:
Okay it seems a quick uninstall/reinstall works to change the icons. Hopefully the dev will fix this problem. Make sure to backup your theme on your internal or SD card though.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Did you log it?
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] shaneaus:
Yes, please go to their page and log the error. They do review the posts and address the issues.

They are a little behind right now in updating post on their site because they are working hard on getting the new update out.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] afroken3130:
Sorry for the noob question, but what prog are you using to make your themes? and where are you getting your source code?
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] afroken3130:
nevermind...i got it...im a dummy
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Hi. The app is called Sweeter Home. It's a home alternative like dxTop or aHome etc. You install the app and press HOME. Choose Sweeter Home from the list.

There's no code. All the theming is done with a GUI in the application. You enter "Edit Layout" and make all the changes you want to any/every element. The UI is still a bit corky but as you can see from the screen shots with a little imagination you can do pretty much anything.

The Dev is responsive and takes feedback on board really well - upcoming features and big fixes include better image handling and memory management, springloaded trays, a help system, and there's a bunch more features in discussion...

Give it a shot ad post here if you work on some nice skins :D
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] afroken3130:
got a bit of a problem...if i place an app dock and make a color box behind it that is the same size how to I grab the lower layer to modify it? or do i need to move the higher layer to grab the lower layer?
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Yep, correct.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] dweller88:
thanks, I just logged the issue,

a reinstall solved the problem for now.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
[Sweeter Home Skin]: Be Square

Skin:

Be Square 1.X.zip

Kept the same simple layout as before. Added help on the home screen (to be removed once you drag your fav apps to the tray). Skinned landscape view too.

Preview:

Have some really good ideas but need to wait for later builds with better image support etc...
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] afroken3130:
Hey guys, just finished my first theme. It's called midnight and the wallpaper is in the .rar archive. Hope you like it. My phone isn't rooted but if someone with root wants to apply and post screenshots that would be awesome...feedback is appreciated. Enjoy!

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[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] afroken3130:
Accidently posted the html, here is the link...

http://www.filedropper.com/midnight
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Just grabbed it man, will apply it and upload screens soon.

If anyone's interested I made a vid here to show what sweeter will be capable of once some bugs are fixed...
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] afroken3130:
Thanks man, question...you ever had any problems with image boxes no longer displaying images? I made a pretty sweet mario theme and now the image boxes are just checkered, I've power cycled and formatted sd card and still broken.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] shaneaus:
PunkWeakling - cool vid - good job.

afroken3130 - The image issue is something that SweeterHome is working on. The problem stems from Android not having much memory. When the pics are pulled by Android the are pulled full size and then resized down. This takes up a lot of memory.

The way PunkWeakling got around this was by using a photo altering program to change the size of the pics to as small as he could get them before putting them on the phone to use in SweeterHome.

This is something that SweeterHome is working on.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] bahnburner:
I'm loving sweeterhome. I'm running a modded version of Dark Rising using all white and gray text w/ my Leopard status bar and icons.

I'm hoping the image fix for sweeterhome with help with the response time, because it gets laggy switching back to SH after running a graphics intensive app, even with apps and cache on sd.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Can you post a screenie?
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Some of you might have seen the vid of that Matrix demo I made. I uploaded the theme for anyone to try here.

Also springboards are live in the new build. What you got?