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[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] kamdroid:
Has anyone experienced problems with the latest version? I updated last night and the scrolling on ActionTray's is practically dead for me. Goes really slow, sometimes removes icons, and I'm getting force close errors almost every time I try to add a springboard or shortcut.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Is scrolling on an application grid OK though? I've raised that as a bug.

I'm not getting any force closes anymore though. You've restarted your phone etc?
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] wizern23:
yea action tray scrolling is dead for me. the contacts list works perfectly. i sent an email with all the new bugs i noticed like the action tray, removing icons, among some others that i cant remember.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] veda_sticks:
I had the same issue,, removing then reinstalling sweater home fixed the issue. If you have made your own theme be sure to save it, but make sure that you make a copy of the theme file on the sdcard, if you leave the theme file in the sweater home directory on your sd card installing will wipe it.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] diaztradeinc:
{THEME}-Transformation -WIP-

Hey all, I recently finished my theme Transformation for sweeter home. I ran into a problem so it will not be released tonight. Though i do have some screenshots for you all. First and foremost I would like to thank puny weakling for showing the way, and for letting me use an image of his. :D

Now the theme only has three screens, left, middle and right...sorry ran out of memory, though I hear the memory situation is being worked on..... Theme includes use of springboard, 3d like images which came from the inspiration of puny weakling's matrix theme. Well i'll shut up now just take a look at the screens and let me know what you think. Will try to release tommorow. :D

Left: Middle: Right:
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] JDMr2:
how do you activate the springboard? i dont see any springboard options/settings when i edit the layout.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] JDMr2:
nevermind. . . found the answer.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
FYI peeps, make sure you update to 0.21 - fixes the speed issue in action trays.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] diaztradeinc:
I lost sweeter home when i updated my os to htc magic build 4.9 :(
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Working on a redux of Dark Rising using springboards to maximise your desktop space. Theme to come... and a vid probly.

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[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] 71CH:
is it safe to set sweeter home as the default and does anybody think the calendar on sweeter home is a bit buggy?
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Yes, and yes! :P

My new theme is up here.

Video demo showing off springboards here.

Let me know if any probs... :)
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Try 0.23 (in the market now) and see if that fixes it :)
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] veda_sticks:
new update seems to have fixed it. pressing home does not clear the calander wiew now
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] veda_sticks:
You should try the matrix theme, its amazing, gonna modify it so has some springboards :-)

just need to find a notification bar skin that fits
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] 71CH:
the update fixed the calendar but now if i try to add an app to a tray it force closes lol
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] 71CH:
i really want to like sweeter home but the speed is a problem for me. if the lagginess is fixed i would gladly pay for it. i think i'll stick with default for now.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] ratdrsuperstar:
apk

im currently running another os of android is there any way i can get the apk to sweeter home so i can use it
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] diaztradeinc:
I've been asking for the apk for some time now and no one seems to care lol it sucks i guess we'll just have to wait.:(
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] kamdroid:
Got bored Sunday and created this with some Watchmen images. The buttons that you see launch the springboards that come up in the next screen. I also posted a video of it to youtube if anyone wants to see it in action.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] mightykc:
The Watchmen theme looks great. Can you post the layout so we can download it?
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] diaztradeinc:
I finally got sweeter home back thanks to a special friend. Seems to be working ok on Haykuro's build 4.9 but with some bugs. For example: forceclose on trying to change an image, trays, text and icons seem to refresh more then usual. So far thats all i found but other than that works quite well.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] kamdroid:
I tried uploading a zip of the layout and files I used but for some reason they won't go through even though they're under the limit.

The layout is attached and I've uploaded the images to a temporary link: http://tinyurl.com/sh-watch

I don't have any experience skinning for SH or another other app, so I'm open to suggestions or tips for how to make this better.

Also, here's the youtube video I spoke of earlier: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiD39R7h6GI&feature=player_embedded
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Check your vid man! Love the work around of hiding the icon behind your button images. Try this:

Edit the tray you springboard icon is sitting in. Then, iconStyle > scroll to the bottom and tap on selectionColor > set the alpha to fully transperent. Then you wont have the annoying selection color showing from behind your buttons :)
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Some great **** here from AnroidGuys too!
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] kamdroid:
Thanks for the tip. It makes a noticeable difference.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] dweller88:
great video you did there kamdroid
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] erickrios:
Does my phone need to be rooted for me to find Sweeter Home on the market or to install it? I've been looking for days and I can't find it. If not, can some one hook me up with the apk? Please.

***Edit: I searched it on my wive's G1 and it found it immediately, unfortunately it will not let me back it up since it is protected. I don't understand why it doesn't show on my phone :(
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] Ghost_1:
You shouldn't have to have a rooted phone. Mine isn't and I just did a search of "sweet" and sweeter home is the only thing that came up.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] dweller88:
The difficult thing with sharing themes is having to apply all the graphics to the themes in the right place.

In fact adding pictures to sweeter home is a bit of a ***** as it just goes to the picture viewer which is slow if you have a lot of photos in there, would be better in a file browser. Any way I should be writing this to the sweeter home devs, not in this thread. apologies and when I get round to it I'll post you my SH theme, laters,..
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] iTekk:
Arrange app icons

Is there a better way to arrange my apps. Currently i'm grabbing one and it gets tossed to the end.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] erickrios:
yeah, my wive's phone isn't rooted, I'm just so confused that it does not show up on mine, it's so frustrating. When I search for "sweet" it finds "I Donated" and an aHome theme. Totally weird man.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] kamdroid:
Thanks for the compliments on the video.

As far as not being able to see it, this is something I've seen people complaining about the same problems for different apps. nobody knows why.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] chrisharang:
I am seeing the exact same thing on my phone. I searched on "sweet", "sweeter", "sweeterhome", "sweeter home", and none of them will give me a hit. I found it by searching on cyrket.com (with the g1), but clicking on the market:// link gives me:

There are no matches in Android Market for the search: pname:com.sweeterhome.preview1

Totally weird. This is on a rooted, non-dev g1 running haykuro's latest (as of 4/6) 4.5 Magic port. Is there any way to get the .apk through a different means, or is that a potential piracy issue?

- Chris

EDIT: Actually, after reading some other threads, it's my understanding that this is being caused (in my case, anyway) by the "4.5" port of the HTC Magic build that I'm running, which causes the Market to treat my phone as a dev phone, even though it is not strictly an ADP. This, combined with the copy protection enabled on the app, causes the Market to hide it from me. Hopefully the HTC ports will eventually not cause this "dev phone" behavior, as I understand that disabling the copy protection on the app is not currently an option, as it introduces some kind of db compatibility issue.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] diaztradeinc:
i have copy of the apk and i'm currently using it on magic build 4.5, but not sure if im allowed to upload it.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] erickrios:
I have a non-rooted phone on rc33 and for some reason protected apps aren't showing up, I just tried to search for "Game Time" and it's not showing up, not even on the list of apps and this one just came out. I wonder if t-mobile can help.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] erickrios:
How did you get the apk if it is protected? I can download the apps on my wife's phone but can't copy to sd card.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] diaztradeinc:
I went back to jf rom, copied the apk and went back to magic build and installed.:D
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
I think the dev is thinking about releasing an ADP version. IF he gets time.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Use URL image man. Like in my Matrix theme. :)
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Updated Dark Rising with Clocks tray. Landscape coming soon, then on to new things!
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
For the sake of building more themes and using more graphics in them, if you had to choose, what are the top 8 apps you would want one-touch access to from your centre homescreen?
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] mightykc:
For me they would be:

1. Dialer

2. Maps

3. Contacts

4. Browser

5. Android Market

6. PhoneFusion

7. Chomp SMS

8. Gmail
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Quick preview of a tidy up of an old idea. Just testing some more coz it seems a bit glitchy..
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] diaztradeinc:
Looks great man, i would take this one for a ride.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Any feedback from this? Yes, shamlessly "inspired" by a winmo screen I saw somewhere. Springboards in action below too. Any input on what best to include in the menu list? I was going to put "mute" in there for an app like Squelch maybe... looking through the homescreen topic looks like switchers and file manager are popular on homescreens too, although I have those in my tools popup.

I'll also include the PSD in a dev kit for people that want to build their own menus etc... :)
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] poe11371:
I love the idea of this one. Giving us your ideal layout and then letting us tweak it to our liking is great. Like what, I'm sure, a few of us have done already with your Dark Rising theme. It really helped me learn how to make my own themes.

I'd really love to see if anyone can make a "Hitchhiker's Guide" theme. If no one remembers it, or have never seen it, go grab the DVD as it is all over the menu and extras. That would be great with the springboards. If only there was a way to open a springboard link on one screen but then it slides over to another screen opening that link. Like a transition effect. Open spring board -> slide over. Close spring board -> slide back. Perhaps I should post this to Sweeter Home's site's forum. Just a thought.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] diaztradeinc:
Sweet job man sweeter home just keeps getting sweeter! :D
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] mightykc:
Looks great!
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] jawash22:
Springboards

Very nice!! How did you make the Springboards Text and not the normal image?:confused:
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
The text is a single graphic (PNG with transperancies) and the springboards and apps are single action trays with icon set to text only, the text set to full transparency, and the Height/Width set big enough to fill the action tray.

Hard to explain, but I'll be putting up a how-to blog post on my site this weekend... :)
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] inebriat3d:
seriously puny this update is the sickest to date.. it definately borrows from the zune/winmo 6.5 but its -exactly- what this phone needs.. i cant wait for you to upload! ill have to make a donation to your site too once its up!
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Thanks bro. Having some problems with 0.24 not holding springboards so when I get it released I'll need to include a decent help file.

Site's up, I guess I need to set up a donate button. Does anyone know, can I do this through Paypal?
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Oh and "Contacts" and "Clocks" are just a sweeterhome text box and the layer above holds a transperant action tray with icons set as above.

Here's an example where I set iconStyle > selectionColor to orange and roll my finger off the press to leave the selection colour, so you can see where the invisible Icon sits.

Select the action tray that sits OVER the text tray:

Change the selectionColor to Orange:

If you lightly press the icon and then roll your finger off it it leaves the icon active... you can see here where it sits. The icon size is set to bigger than the tray and the tray padding is al set to "0" so the icon press area fits the whole size of the action tray... It's obviously normally set to full tranperancy so the press is invisible.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
And another cool effect - if the tray is 'dark' and the selection color is set to be quite transperant it shows 'through' the tray to reveal the background :D
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] inebriat3d:
yeah you should be able to and the'll give you a "button" to put there.. take your time though this is a really clean looking setup which is perfect.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] poe11371:
punkweakling, can you please post that background you have running in your latest posts. Love it!

That is great, thanks. I have been having enough trouble going though all the fourms trying to figure out all the different builds and how to move this and that and set up it all that I haven't had a chance yet to get to the fun stuff. I'd love to use this one with your current project.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
I actually got it from somewhere in the home screen or wallpapers topics...
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Dropped here!!! :)

Be Cubed 1.0
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
OK, so I think this theme is mostly finished. It uses 30+ objects though so until Sweeter implements his plan for merging layers for better memory performance it might be a bit laggy from time to time. Works ok for me though and I like the look of it. Files will be uploaded later tonight when I work on proper instructions and get the PSD files together for everyone. I think I'm going to call it THRILLHO :D although it obviously works with other BG's as well!
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] inebriat3d:
jw if you were still planning on releasing soon? no rush. just curious based on previous msg
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Tonight time permitting (between work and going to see Dylan Moran).

Otherwise tomorrow night DEFINITELY. I just have to package the files and write a help AND I also want to do a video showing how to set it up. It's a bit tricky coz there's a bug in 0.24 which drops the springboard icons sometimes, so I'd like to include a video setup guide for this one. :)
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] sino8r:
Wow! Those look great! Really makes me want to go back to dev build.

Not to be too childish but the woman in the wallpaper looks like she is stuck in the end of a condom, lol... Any support for RC or cupcake builds in the future?
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] veda_sticks:
not riive got sweeter home installed in the magic/saphire port works great. Ive got video!! and virtual keyboad.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Didn't get time to put the files together but threw a new video up walking through the theme here:

http://sweeterhomeskins.blogspot.com/2009/04/theme-thrillho-video.html
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] mightykc:
Dude this looks great! Cant wait to download!
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Thrillho by Puny Weakling

Now ready for download!!! :D

Be sure to check the setup video in that post too. Because 0.24 drops springboards sometimes I'm leaving it up to you to set them up. It's pretty easy so just follow along with the vid.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
(PS - the developer is working pretty hard on Preview 2, so it shouldn't be too far away. I think he's getting Sweeter ready for Android 1.5 too... widgets anyone??)
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] mightykc:
I just downloaded it and love it but for some reason my phone is having memory problems and won't display everything properly.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Tried the old *restart* man? Also, I do keep my phone pretty clean. I have only maybe 1 or 2 apps still installed that I don't use at least weekly...
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] mightykc:
Yeah I've restarted a few times. i guess its time for a little spring cleaning on the phone.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] jawash22:
force close

I'm on Magic/sapphire port and keep getting force close when trying to ad apps to tools tray....I have 5 or 6 apps there now, but it won't let me ad anymore. I'm guessing it's a memory issue?:confused:
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
I've been getting crashes using long-press > application.

Try creating an app grid somewhere on the screen, and then drag from the app grid into your action tray.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Hey crew. If you're building themes and adding images in, and need to know where **** sits in the Sweeter Home grid (16x16 block by the way)... I chucked some template images up here to help align image content with other content on the grid.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Quick preview of something I'm workin on...
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Another idea... the icon strip top left scrolls up and down for quick access to apps.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] mjksoft:
skins and theme

How to install skins or theme ?

I have M2dc installed on HTC P3300
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
http://sweeterhomeskins.blogspot.com/2009/04/installing-theme-in-sweeter-home.html
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] rsfaze:
nice work punk, been following your skins, can't wait for the new ones to drop
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] diaztradeinc:
Let me know when you release this, looks great!
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Couple of small design changes required, but it's my birthday today!!! so I won't get on to this till probably Saturday... :P
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] nolageek:
Sweeterhome is, no pun intended, pretty sweet. I love the concept of the springboards, but I really hate that there's no way to say, create a tray of contacts that are assigned the, 'friends', label. Having to manually add my 200+ contacts to trays is a dealbreaker for this.. Yes, I know I can create a Contacts springboard, but I may as well just open the full contacts app. It's a great start though, I can't wait to see it get better.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] diaztradeinc:
Wasn't preview 2 supposed to come out today, I was crushed when I didn't see it in the market. :(
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] mawad1of9:
To: diaztradeinc

Does sweeter home still work for you now that you are using Haykuro's ADP 1.5Hr3 Multi Touch A2SD. I want to get Haykuro's 1.5 build but I thought i would have to give up sweeter home. Thanks in advance.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] shaneaus:
The SweeterHome developer is working on tailoring his updates for the Cupcake release. The release dates that are on their website are more goals for their dev team than real dates for a new release.

It'll probably be another couple of weeks before the next update. But, we should be able to expect better memory handling which will (hopefully) result in less force closes. The current force closes both with the JF builds and the cupcake builds have to do with running out of memory.

Can't wait for next update myself. I love the program and there are some really nice suggestions that will make it into the program eventually that will make it over the top!
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
I think there will be some layer changes which should mean way better memory handling. Maybe some UI changes too... long press to select object in the edit mode is becoming essential for me.

Anyway... next theme, Asket, should be out for download tomorrow. And I'll build some dock packs from it for people to use too. :)
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] diaztradeinc:
Actually when i made the switch to haykuro's adp 1.5 sweeter home started working flawlessly haven't had any force close issues yet. Its weird because when i was on the htc build it was all outta whack but now all i can say is wow.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] diaztradeinc:
Hey Lemon, I just made a pretty amazing theme but have no way to take any screen shots. How do you get yours? Through your phone or do you have a camera? I would really like to share this one.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] veda_sticks:
Im runnning haykuros latest H build, with little issues in sweeter home. ive had a few performance problems now and then but it doesnt force close hardly anytime.

Cant wait for the new release.

will be awesome.

theres a screenshot app on the market that will take screenshots. You need root access to use it. screenshots get saved to the SD card, i recomend using the delay mode, i could never get the camera button to work for taking screenshots.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] diaztradeinc:
idk about anyone else but after upgrading to 1.5 screen shot app doesn't work for me.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Like Veda said, there's a screen shot app in the market IF you have root, which it sounds like you do.

GREAT to here Sweeter is working better in 1.5. I read in the overclocking thread that 1.5 manages the processor speed better by default so that might help us a lot!

Diaztradeinc - hit us up!!!!
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Wahh! OK, I'm running a Mac, so i DL'd the SDK and installed. Can't remember if I grabbed Eclipse or not. Anyway, once installed you're looking for a program called DDMS. Run this, select on your HTC in the left panel, and hit CTRL+S to open the screen shot pane. There's a handful of how-to's on setting it up around the web. mine was tricky since I'd never done it before but now works fine.

Worst-case man, just take a picture!
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Here's some PNG dock images I used for the theme I've been working on (not very hard...) :P
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
OK, theme is out: Asket. (Name taken from this random book I saw at a friends place years ago called Asket's Beamship about an alien abductee! LOL).

Because springboards are still a bit buggy in 0.24 with saved themes there's a tiny bit of setup required. In this one I left docks/trays empty on the top left and right screens for you use as you see fit. Also included the PSD file for the menu so you can change as you like.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] johnnylicious:
very nice puny :]]
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Thanks bro. I've got heaps of ideas but it's tough dropping everything when development on Preview 1 has stopped. Can't wait for preview2. All reports are that Sweeter is a lot more stable on Android 1.5 too so trying to be patient. Also trying to get my boys into throwing some graphic design my way so get ready for some wacky **** :D
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] diaztradeinc:
My WIP theme for Sweeter Home.

Ok the screen shot dev finally decided to upgrade his app, so here it is currently unnamed wip, just wanted some feedback to see whether or not anyone wanted me to share it.
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] punkweakling:
Looks great man. I'd like to see the "log" "contacts" etc as part of each folder graphic rather than icon names sitting on top. And maybe lose the white outline around the dock the folders sit in? Just my personal preference.... :)

Either way looks great!
[G1 Themes and Wallpapers] diaztradeinc:
Thanks man and I agree with you 100% just trying to figure out how to sit everything together, having memory issues so its a little tough.