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[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
Thanks for all the nice responses!

@Zoide_

I had the exact same thing while i was trying to buy it myself to check if it was working... Later on i could download it somehow... Will look into adding it to other markets as well.

As for all the people with feature request:

Thanks for your input... this is what will make GDE a better home replacement

I will edit the first page to add a "coming features", so you can all know what to expect.

The reason that even though it is a first release 0.1, but yet stable is that is has been tested by a man with 203 apps and a dozen of widgets ( big thanks @overground )... I couldnt have done all that testing myself! Of course there will be some bugs/issues ( i hope as less as possible ), but atleast I can say we have been testing/troubleshooting for lots of hours.

If anyone has an issue or found a bug please let me know, because i will be right on it.

yes, yes and yes :)
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
Edited the first page and added a section "Features on the to-do list"
[G1 Apps and Games] dying4004:
so wheres the download link?

:confused:
[G1 Apps and Games] AbsoluteDesignz:
I am extremely impressed by this app...wow...very sexy UI...very unique. Does this thing have its own widget api or whatever so devs can develop widgets for it that aren't extremely limited like androids stock OS?
[G1 Apps and Games] Mau003:
It looks really amazing.. unfortunately I can't download it on my Vodafone Magic - italian market!

Any chance to fix it?
[G1 Apps and Games] dpgc213:
WOW!! Damn this is good, cant wait to theme it.
[G1 Apps and Games] senab:
Really liking this and well worth the ~£2 I paid! Great quality for a 0.1 aswell. Some things I'd like to see addressed (and I realise some of them will already have been said):

Wallpaper image seems to only scroll over two desktops. If you have more that one, the wallpaper seems to just repeat. Would it like to be similar to the standard launcher.

Imo, pressing the Menu button should bring up the GDE menu and the arrow on screen should bring up apps list.

General speed of scrolling in 'Applications' could do with a boost

Other than that I do not see much else that I don't like! :D
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
Thanks for the input

As for the menu button... the actual hard-menu button will be configurable in the near future.

The wallpaper drawing is done by the actual choosen transition... as you can imagine with a cube its impossible to have a background that scroll slower then its content ( using an offset ). I am thinking about making some settings, but the most important part is that you will never end up with blanks on a cube ( white because there is no more background to be shown ).

You can see this when you select the normal transition... it draws the background the same as the original launcher does.
[G1 Apps and Games] Meltus:
haha sorry but, read the first post. You can't expect to receive everything for free :p

It's a market app and costs €2.25, well worth the money imo.

excellent work dev, can't wait for updates! :D
[G1 Apps and Games] senab:
Yes, the physical menu button is what I meant. Sounds good!

That makes sense and thanks for the clarification. I agree, but the cube is the only transition where I can see this works; fade and stretch aren't circular like cube (i.e. you can't keep scrolling past the last desktop to go back to the first) therefore the background shouldn't need to repeat. Just my £0.02.
[G1 Apps and Games] Bavilo:
Been testing this and I really like it. I'd love to see a new feature though. When bringing up the applications menu, swiping across the screen could change to a different app menu. I.e. Apps, Games, Etc...
[G1 Apps and Games] rutger1413:
Its GDE itself. There are a lot of issues with programs having problems with the screen size of the Droid. Also 2.0 i believe is causing some issues as well.

But in short its not the themes fault.
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
Indeed... Its basically a problem with the way how wallpapers etc are handled in 1.6.

I am trying to fix this using the emulator, but it will have to stretch the wallpapers for the time being.
[G1 Apps and Games] kron2:
rogro82 have you tried to do a wipe with your app as default. two times i did a wipe with your app as default and both times i had a black screen and on ddms it was looking for gde as the home . i have cyanogen v4.2.3.1
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
Haven't tried it yet, but i will to see what happens... thnx for letting me know.

Android should normally see the app is unavailable and should show the default home or at least an option to choose, just like when you uninstall.
[G1 Apps and Games] Pinesal:
Atrackdog says there is an update for this app. Is there one coming soon?
[G1 Apps and Games] overground:
The thing about Atrackdog is it somehow polls devices and not the market for app versions. That's why it gets so many false positives. Usually a dev or beta tester (in this case, probably me) gave an updated file version. We're working on it. Not quite releasable yet. Optimizing and streamlining. Tons of factors to take into consideration when a cutting edge home replacement is forced to share the same memory space as all the resource thieving widgets out there. Guess which one the end-user sees as the force close?
[G1 Apps and Games] Wysie:
GDE will FC :P. Lol. Thanks overground/rogro82.
[G1 Apps and Games] Pinesal:
I understand. So how is it coming along?
[G1 Apps and Games] closeshave2:
Frosted Glass Theme

Anybody interested in this theme (see screenshots)?

I was going to publish to the market, but I found out that it costs $25! :eek:
[G1 Apps and Games] bkmo:
I updated to the new Cyanogen 4.2.4 and GDE has become real laggy. Especially scrolling the app drawer. The stock launcher is very smooth.
[G1 Apps and Games] goldenarmZ:
That's pretty nice.. :cool:

Wysie published mine for me since I shat a brick at the $25 too.. I'm sure he'll do you the same favour if you ask nicely.
[G1 Apps and Games] Zoide_:
It's probably because CM 4.2.4 now defaults to *not* keeping the home in RAM. Try going to "Spare Parts" and enabling "Home app in memory" (at the very bottom of the list).
[G1 Apps and Games] bkmo:
I shut that off on 4.2.3.1. and GDE was still fairly smooth for me. Like I say the stock launcher is fine. I am going to try turning it back on, but Cyanogen shut it off by default for a reason.

Edit: Turned it back on...I think it might be even worse. This has become horribly laggy, everything actually hops instead of slides. I may go back to the default launcher until the new release. It is only GDE that is laggy. Browser, notification pulldown, menus etc. all scroll real smooth.
[G1 Apps and Games] pcm2a:
How are things coming on a port to Android 2.0 including high res screens line the Droid. There are currently some "issues" on that handset. :)
[G1 Apps and Games] kron2:
i am running gde on dwang with nav and it works just as good as default home.i made a theme for gde you can see what it is inspired by and if some one would like to post it to the market you are welcome to and thx in advance.apk. is in the zip file
[G1 Apps and Games] kron2:
one more theme with some custom icons i made.the apk is in the zip
[G1 Apps and Games] Wysie:
kron2, closeshave2: I will publish your apps onto the market, check the market in a while (just search for GDE). :)

Update: Please PM me your email/contact info so I can put it on the Market. closeshave2, I need the file :P. Also, in future please size your screenshots at 320x480 :). Thanks!
[G1 Apps and Games] closeshave2:
I'll resize the screenshots in the future. Here's the file: View attachment FrostedGlass.zip
[G1 Apps and Games] Zoide_:
kron2: looks nice!
[G1 Apps and Games] closeshave2:
Ah, hells bells...

Here's a new APK with a 25 year validity:
[G1 Apps and Games] closeshave2:
And now with the attached file!

:rolleyes:

View attachment FrostedGlass.zip
[G1 Apps and Games] overground:
I like it....thanks!

Here is the signed .apk

EDIT: zipaligned now
[G1 Apps and Games] Zoide_:
rogro82: Have you seen the Samsung TouchWiz inverted cube transition? Check it out in the video here (http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/samsung-behold-ii-hits-t-mobile-on-november-18th/) at 1:48. Pretty cool!
[G1 Apps and Games] Wysie:
closeshave2: I've published it to the market :).
[G1 Apps and Games] ShelW:
Here's another voice, hoping this gets ported (fixed?) for OS 2.0, for the droid.

Also, when I tried to launch it, seemed that the screens image didn't go to the bottom of the screen. Droid has a larger screen then other Android phones out so far (but more phones with 3.5+ in. screens supposed to hit the market soon)

Thanks!
[G1 Apps and Games] rutger1413:
This is known. All home replacements have issues with this right now. Even ones that say they are fixed for 2.0, they still have bugs
[G1 Apps and Games] Gramon:
I have been using GDE for about a week now and have to say that I love it as a home replacement.

I've used a couple others and uninstalled them after a couple days because of various issues. However, I think Rogro82 has truly done a beautiful job on this application.

I have a couple issues that I wanted to address. The first has been mentioned a few times early on in the thread but I am still having issues with severe delays at specific points.

Whenever I try to bring up the dialer or contact list. This is the biggest delay and can pause for up to 10 seconds

Whenever I exit another app. It doesn't matter if I am closing a game, Docs2Go, or some other app I get a 3-5 second delay and often get a FC/Wait alert. I always click WAIT and GDE pops right up

I am using a stock G1, non-rooted and this may be the main cause. I try to keep all the caches clean which gives me about 18MB Internal Memory but can run as low as 11.

Is this what causes the delays? There are a few apps that I can remove but I would love it I could get GDE performing as well as standard home without having to remove other apps. I'm still tinkering with settings if anyone has suggestions.
[G1 Apps and Games] g1ghost27:
cant find in this in the market man? i have cm 4.2.4..
[G1 Apps and Games] pcm2a:
Open Home has been updated for 2.0/Droid if your looking for one to use in the interrim until GDE is updated. Hopefully that is sooner than later!
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
It should be there... I have no problems finding it... its in tools

@reversed cube.. will add it when i have some more time... seems to be pretty easy...

@droid support... still working on it... screen is now filled but the calculations of the wallpaper offset are of so i have to recalculate some stuff.

@the rest. still working at some issues together with overground, but i have added some drawables ( grid item, list item ) and the colors for the menu items including the title.
[G1 Apps and Games] rutger1413:
@rogro82 Thanks a bunch for your continued efforts and your updates. I look here often to catch some updates.
[G1 Apps and Games] eddieonofre:
Any Idea when they will update it , so it could work on the Droid 2.0 ???? or should I just ask fro refund and wait?????
[G1 Apps and Games] Pinesal:
Dxtop lets you put 1x1 and 1x2 widget into their dock. Any change we can put 1x1 and/or 1x2 widget into the dock widget in GDE?
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
The new update which will be released very soon ( this weekend depends on the test results ) has android 2.0 support.

Wallpaper now draws correctly.
[G1 Apps and Games] bkmo:
Have you got an updated theme template yet, or are you still finalizing that part?
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
I am finalizing the wallpaper chooser.

I will release a new theme template before i release it to the market... old themes will continue to work so you can change the menu images/colors when you want to.

The wallpapers will be loaded by adding a new intent and an array of available wallpapers to your template. This way GDE can handle both themes with wallpapers, but also just wallpaper packages.

Eventually the icon packages will behave the same. So you can either create a complete theme... a wallpaper package or an icon package.
[G1 Apps and Games] g1ghost27:
i cnt find this o the market why?
[G1 Apps and Games] :
what did you type in?
[G1 Apps and Games] g1ghost27:
i typed in GDE 0.1 n gde as well nothing man? i want to use this but cant find it? can i download from u n pay u thr paypal.? but i want the new update as well..? i have cm 4.2.4?
[G1 Apps and Games] bkmo:
I can find it fine by searching just "gde". Can you see any paid apps? Are you on a network that can access paid apps? I am in Costa Rica and need to use Market enabler to see paid apps.
[G1 Apps and Games] Zoide_:
Me too! I hadn't met other Costa Ricans in the Android section until now. Market Enabler has worked great for me by the way. I think sometimes the settings get set back to our local operator so I just run ME again.
[G1 Apps and Games] unsungboxer:
I have a Moto Droid. I purchased and installed, but as mentioned before the wallpaper wasn't drawing properly for my resolution.

When I hit the "home" button, I set it to the default android home screen. Now I can't figure out how to turn it back on!

Please Help
[G1 Apps and Games] bkmo:
settings>applications>manage applications. Click on "Home" and then click on "Clear Defaults" The next time you press the home key you will get a choice for GDE or Home again. There is also a cool market application called "Home Switcher" that will let you change home apps whenever you want.
[G1 Apps and Games] unsungboxer:
Thank you!

Incase anyone else is in this situation, I needed to go to Manage Apps, Menu, Filter, Show All. Then I was able to find "Home" > Clear defaults.

Thanks again.
[G1 Apps and Games] g1ghost27:
i cant find find it? how do i access the paid appps? i live in guam?i want to use this but cant find it=(
[G1 Apps and Games] bkmo:
You need the Market Enabler app. I have it attached here. Just install it and run it. You have to long press one of the networks in the list in order to fake that provider. You also need a rooted phone.
[G1 Apps and Games] unsungboxer:
when will this be compatible w/ droid? i downloaded it, the desktop resolution is wrong and it is all screwy at the bottom :/
[G1 Apps and Games] djosiah:
This question has been asked many times and it has been answered. Rogro is working on it amd it should be fixed in the next update, whenever that may be. Just wait patiently like everyone else
[G1 Apps and Games] g1ghost27:
how do i install it? its zip?
[G1 Apps and Games] bkmo:
I zipped it because you cannot upload an .apk file here. Just unzip it, place it on the root of your sdcard, and use something like apps installer, or astro to install it.
[G1 Apps and Games] g1ghost27:
just installed? what do i do now?
[G1 Apps and Games] g1ghost27:
installed it? now what do i do?
[G1 Apps and Games] skarboy:
1 time is enough ;)

press home button, choose GDE
[G1 Apps and Games] Wysie:
skarboy: I think g1ghost27 was referring to MarketEnabler...

g1ghost27: Launch MarketEnabler, under Settings list, long-press on T-Mobile, and select "fake this provider now". I'm assuming your phone is rooted. Once done, you can try going to Market and searching for GDE again. Also, it's off-topic, and you should search... There's a lot of info on Market Enabler! ;)
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
New theme template will be online in an hour or so... ;)
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
New Theme template added to first post.

You can now change colors in the colors.xml file.

Add wallpapers to the wallpapers.xml file ( There is one wallpaper added as a sample but you can include multiple. Make sure to add both a [wallpaper_name].jpg and a [wallpapername]_small.jpg for each entry )

Change the default theme wallpaper in the strings.xml ( theme_wallpaper )

Added drawables for menu_grid states and menu_row states

The wallpapers depend on an added intent in the android manifest

com.rogro.GDE.WALLPAPERS.1

If you dont want to include wallpapers just comment out or remove the intent.

When adding wallpapers also make sure the "Theme wallpapers"-chooser is working properly. If not let me know ;)
[G1 Apps and Games] bkmo:
I don't understand what the menu_grid states do? Where are they displayed?

Also what is the theme wallpapers chooser? i don't see one anywhere. :)
[G1 Apps and Games] djosiah:
i think menu_grid is for the applications list whe it is in grid style...not 100% sure though. looks like im going to be able to put out my white hero sooner than i thought :).
[G1 Apps and Games] bkmo:
Why would there be a pressed and selected state for it though?

Kinda counterproductive releasing a theme template when you have nothing to try it with.
[G1 Apps and Games] djosiah:
erm I don't know lol. Maybe because u can use the track ball to select applications like on the homescreen.
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
Indeed... an update will arrive in the market real soon which should show all the new drawables, but i decided to give you guys a head start ;)

the drawables selected etc are indeed used when selecting a row using the trackball.
[G1 Apps and Games] kron2:
i am surprised you didn't make menu_grid and row 9.pngs. so i don't know if i have this right. i get the wallpaper you add to the drawable folder you need a full size and small.now do i need to add it to the string.xml or just the default wallpapers name so it is applied to the theme on start up.in the android manifest do i just change the number from 1 to 3 if i have three wallpapers in the drawable folder so it would look like com.rogro.GDE.wallpapers.3
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
@Kron2

You can make it .9.pngs my graphic skills arent that great so i just left them this way for now.

No you dont have to change the intent number... thats just internal versioning. if you will change that your package will not be found.

To change the default theme wallpaper you will have to edit strings.xml or just leave it wallpaper ( if you named your wallpaper wallpaper.jpg )

In the wallpapers.xml you can add wallpapers that will show up in an added "Theme wallpaper"-chooser. For this you will need to supply both the small and large wallpaper and add an item in the wallpaper array.
[G1 Apps and Games] g1ghost27:
how do i pay for the apps? i got paYPAL?
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
The market only accepts creditcards.

Version 0.1.7.4 is now available in the market and first post is updated.
[G1 Apps and Games] bkmo:
Nice job on the landscape switch performance. Rotates almost instantly now.

Do you have a theme ready with wallpapers to try the chooser? Or are you waiting on us? :)
[G1 Apps and Games] overground:
Waiting on you guys....glad it's working better for you. :)
[G1 Apps and Games] kron2:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<!--

Please make sure to include both the normal wallpaper and the wallpaper_small

in your drawables for every entry made below.

-->

<resources>

<string-array name="wallpapers">

<item>wallpaper</item><item>wallpaper1</item><item>wallpaper2</item>

</string-array>

</resources>

so is this how i would add wallpaper to the string
[G1 Apps and Games] bkmo:
OK, so that's the way it's gonna be huh? Well here is one with some walls for you to try then. ;) The apk gets a bit bigger when adding walls, but I had to try it.
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
yes and if you want to set a default wallpaper which gets set when your theme is choosen you will have to edit strings.xml and set the desired theme.
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
@bkmo

Didnt had time to finish a theme or create any wallpapers, because i have been working on GDE all weekend... still have to do a lot of stuff but well get there :)
[G1 Apps and Games] bkmo:
I did it this way in wallpapers.xml in the one I just posted:

<resources>

<string-array name="wallpapers">

<item>wallpaper</item>

<item>wallpaper1</item>

<item>wallpaper2</item>

</string-array>

</resources>
[G1 Apps and Games] bkmo:
Hey.....relax, I just posted one with wallpapers for ya to try. :D
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
And i already tried it :D

Is working great! thanks man!

Both the theme wallpaper and the wallpapers in the wallpaper chooser are working.... finally i see it working in real life :)
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
@bkmo

I heared you had some issues scrolling the app list... how is speed for you now?

Ill also add a cleaner "Wallpaper package sample" so you can add wallpapers to your device without having to add a complete theme...

Basically you will just have to remove the theme intent from the manifest and remove all the unneeded drawables.
[G1 Apps and Games] bkmo:
This works fine too. I just set a wallpaper from the wallpaper gallery, and when I selected my theme it changed automagically to the default wall set in strings.xml. Nice job.
[G1 Apps and Games] kron2:
bkmo thx for the post i have it the same way you do but i coped it from note pad to the post and it posted like that
[G1 Apps and Games] rutger1413:
I noticed a bug with the Droid(not sure if it is on any other device), nothing too bad.

While setting up all my home screens i got to a point where when i was switching desktops with the cube animation, the cube animation would dissapear and i would just get a black screen and then the screen i was going to would show up.
[G1 Apps and Games] bkmo:
The app drawer scrolling seems to be about equal to 1.7.3 right now. I only had issues with the Cyanogen 4.2.4 rom. I went back to 4.2.3.1 and the scrolling was ok again. I'll let you know how things are "if" Cyanogen releases a stable one.
[G1 Apps and Games] rutger1413:
Here is a video of the current bug i am experiencing. If i restart GDE it goes away.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx7owFEYnT0
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
Rutger do you have any widgets on your original homescreen?

Seems you are running out of memory and android isnt able to create drawingcache for the screens..
[G1 Apps and Games] rutger1413:
I do, do i need to clear my original home screen then?
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
Its worth a shot if you are willing to try... The transitions are build from normal drawing cache.. if you are out of memory android will not create it.

Its hard for me to try as i dont have an android 2.0 device yet, but running it on the emulator gave no problems, but thats the best I have been able to test for now.

It can actually be anything that needs a lot of memory... widgets, services etc... just try to start adding things to your screens and see when it starts to happen.

Do you have 5 screens setup and how many widgets and wich are you using at the moment?
[G1 Apps and Games] rutger1413:
ok just removed all widgets from my home screen and after about 17 flicks i still have the issue.

Can anyone else with 2.0 reproduce this?

Great work BTW. I have been patiently waiting for this to get updated. Well worth it!
[G1 Apps and Games] rogro82:
Seems like the drawingcache isnt cleared properly... transitions are drawn on one backbuffer which is already created but the drawingcache is created when its needed. If you are able to fling for a few times it means the backbuffer isnt the issue, but the drawing cache somehow is.

On my device it gets cleared nicely... ill see what i can come up with.
[G1 Apps and Games] Wysie:
rogro82: Things seem snappier in general (from .3 to .5), but there's a slight noticeable lag when flicking across home screens, especially in "Normal" transition. It's like I flick, wait for about 0.5seconds, then it changes. Surprisingly cube transition feels faster. Thanks!
[G1 Apps and Games] bkmo:
double walls in chooser

I am seeing my wallpapers repeated twice in the wallpaper chooser. I don't know if this is intentional or not. It seems to have happened when I installed a second theme with the same 3 wallpapers.
[G1 Apps and Games] kron2:
here is a theme i put together like eclair. i call it cream puff added wallpaper,wysie can you add it to the market.i added images 320x480 to the zip.
[G1 Apps and Games] rutger1413:
I am finally getting to use GDE on my Moto Droid and I am loving it!

One of my biggest pet peaves about my phone was not having any hard buttons for the phone and that was one of the reasons i wanted GDE to work so bad with 2.0.

The added screen realestate is awesome as well.