yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] btdownloads7:
Ahh, I misunderstood -- I already did this, but no luck. I'm going to wipe data anyway, just to see if the problem gets fixed.

And I was looking in this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=529124

It's talking about a totally different ROM, but I figured that the same principles would apply. And it looks like the people there didn't find an adequate solution. It sounded like the signature in the launches has to match the signature in framework-res.apk, but I'm pretty much a noob at this, so I couldn't figure out how to make that work.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ruqqq:
wait dont! lol.

edit /data/system/packages.xml

remove any traces of com.helixproject.launcher
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] DocRambone:
Quick theme for this launcher:)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gardobus:
OMG yes. I got so depressed when I found your Launcher2 mod and I couldn't get it to work on my Droid. This is PERFECT! I had tried Home++ before and loved the shortcuts on the bottom but H++ was buggy/unstable and I wished that I could drag my own icons down there. You took care of that and this thing seems fast and stable so far.

I hope to eventually get your Launcher2 but this will definitely keep me happy until someone with more Droid knowledge makes it work!

Thanks!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gardobus:
Btw, how difficult is it to change the tab on this launcher? I'd like to customize mine to match the smoked glass theme that I am using. Can I open the apk, modify the pngs, and then reinstall it?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] btdownloads7:
LOL. Did that already as well. I should have mentioned all this in the op. There were no traces, and I made a Nandroid backup before wiping, so it's no big deal.

Still got the error message after full wipe and new ROM re-fash. Could you possibly modify the theme if I send you the PNG files? I'm trying to make it look like the Smoked Glass theme that I use in my stock launcher:

I don't know how good it'll look, but I modified the images to match the smaller app drawer handle, so I wanna give it a shot.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] htcmagic:
logcat after adb install HelixLauncher_1.0.apk

03-12 20:35:38.278: ERROR/PackageManager(74): Package com.helixproject.launcher has no signatures that match those in shared user android.uid.shared; ignoring!

03-12 20:35:38.358: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(4336): ERROR: thread attach failed
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ruqqq:
@DocRambone

COOL! nice work man! i love your simplistic taste! :D

maybe i should use your menu icon instead of droid's.

@gardobus

Ask DocRambone ;)

EDIT:

@htcmagic

have you allowed install on non-market apps? (settings->applications) if you have and it still doesn't work, i'm sorry, i guess unrooted phones needs to have valid signatures which can only be obtained through market.

@btdownloads7

hmm.. i think you encountering a similar problem with htcmagic. ask DocRambone how he did it. I have zero knowledge on theming. Heh.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] musashiken:
Eh, just to confirm, this works with a non-rooted nexus one right??
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Richie97:
Pretty sure it does. Should on anything with 2.1 I believe.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] jucytec:
The pixelation only occurs on non standard size icons/iconpacks. hdpi icons are 72x72. other icon packages may have smaller sizes IE. 48x48... Once these icons are dropped into the launcher bar it becomes pixelated.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] oldblue:
I'm digging this one for the Nexus crowd. Almost makes me want one ;)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] oldblue:
Here are a couple OS based ones I made, and one request fill:
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] superbalde:
INCREDIBLE work. I've been looking for something like this FOREVER. I'll donate right after I get paid and settle bills. Works perfectly on bugless beast 0.8 w/ AdamZ's 900 mhz overclock and the smoked glass theme on a Droid.

On a side note, for anyone looking to change the number of screens:

1) Press your menu button

2) Select CONFIGURE

3) Select Screen Size

4) Press back button to close warning window

5) Increase or decrease # of screens

6) Restart Helix Launcher
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] level5music:
I would absolutely pee myself (and donate, for that matter) if this had the table-cloth style app scrolling of the stock launcher. Any chance we can get it?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] deolran:
CyanogenMod 5.0.4.2

I am using the newly released CyanogenMod 5.0.4.2 which includes the launcher2 0.5. Is this the latest build from the developer should I go to Helixlauncher 2.0?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] R1lover:
Thanks for the work, I just donated to your cause.... how do i get to the repo for the latest version now?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Chief Wahoo:
I also donated and look forward to getting the latest release/version - been following this all day and really think that this will be a final tweak to my Droid.

Will a password be sent to the email address where the donation was posted?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Chief Wahoo:
Old Blue, am very interested in learning how (or getting help and paying for. . yes, I said it :D ) to get a custom drawer logo/pic. For example, say that you knew a guy that was a HUGE Cleveland Indians fan and would like the drawer tab to have a picture of the Indians mascot on it. . .

Could you assist with that? Could you direct a noob to do it? Let me know as the screen pix you provided are very good. Any help is appreciated.

Thx
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] oldblue:
Here ya go man and good luck this season.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] oldblue:
Chief here is your launcher

standard install procedure
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ruqqq:
updated first post. updated market. ;)

and guys, it would help if you leave comments and ratings on the Market app.. let's see if it can gain fame. ;)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] PhantomRampage:
Rated it 5 stars :D Will leave a comment later
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] jlevy73:
Nice job on this. Still a little choppy when scrolling through apps but much improved over the previous versions. Thanks again
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] jpsiemer:
Great app so far! Thanks for integrating AnyCut and abcOrganizer support.

Found one bug when using these programs' custom shortcuts with HelixLauncher... The icons do not scale correctly when put on the bottom dock! As you can see from my image below, I have the normal app shortcut next to a shortcut from AnyCut -- the AnyCut one gets distorted.

jakesiemer.com/CAP201003150322.jpg

(Normal on the right, and AnyCut on the left)

Any ideas?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] btdownloads7:
How do I use custom incons in /data/data/com.helixproject.launcher/icons? What's the folder and file strurcure?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ruqqq:
@jpsimer:

it's a known bug.. it won't pixelate if you use 72x72 icons. that's what people are reporting.

@btdownloads7:

try 1.png, 2.png, 3.png, 4.png
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] matzego:
What to do if FC?

Hey guys I'm on a stuck moto milestone 2.0.1 and this launcher really works fine. One question: Even though the author said "remove all your icons before resizing the screen" I tried without and got a FC. No problem because I could open the default launcher by tappingmy home button. I'd like to setup helixlauncher as default - what do I have to do if (sure, I don't know why it should happen) helixlauncher crashes? :confused:

How to open the menu or setup then?

Thanks

matzego
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] btdownloads7:
Thanks, that worked.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] jpsiemer:
Hmm, just did some more experimenting and I am definitely using 72x72 PNG icons. Even tried putting 1.png 2.png 3.png 4.png in /data/data/com.helixproject.launcher/icon with various different icons and every single one came out distorted.

I'm on a Droid by the way...

P.S. - The app icons sitting in the dock need to come down 3 or 4 pixels in order to be center-aligned with the app drawer icon.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] lewisleung:
Great!!

Perfect working on Milestone 2.0.1 of version 1.2a!!! :p
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ruqqq:
@jpsiemer

hmmm.. investigating the issue either way..

also, what widgets are on your desktop? looks sweet. :D
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] htcmagic:
Logcat of errors for ver 2
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] musashiken:
Any way to close the app drawer besides pressing the back button?

The stock nexus launcher has a superimposed home button at the bottom to exit the app drawer. Other home replacements allow you to just slide the app drawer back down.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] javikid:
live wallpapers

Works great but how and where do we ge the live wallpapers and do they work on a droid with 2.0.1 not rooted?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ruqqq:
i will reimplement the drawer to have handle for closure.

lwp only works on phones that supports it. ;)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] DocRambone:
+1 for close appdrawer handle and transparency in app drawer background. :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] bL33d:
How do change settings? I downloaded spare parts from market bo no settings to change anything.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] lewisleung:
I have got a problem. Sometime, the ringtone cannot be play(no sound) while incoming call. Can you fix it?

My platform is Milestone + 2.0.1

Thanks!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ruqqq:
@lewisleung: the launcher shouldnt have interferred with your ringtone. :/

@DocRambone: the textures are back on. you can replace it with transparent bg. read change log ya? :p
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] cvhovey:
1+ on the appdrawer handle....
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] bigfattim:
I can't find this on the market and the early version won't install on my Dwang G1.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] chowlala:
The Apps Menu button on touchscreen is not very responsive. Sometimes I have to press it a few times in order to get it to pull up the Apps screen. Please fix. Have currently uninstalled due to this prob. :(

Other than that, excellent work! =)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] oldblue:
I haven't heard any problems like this, and I my self haven't had this problem.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] btdownloads7:
I'm assuming that you are referring to the counter badges.That's the SMS Unread Count from here:

http://android.kanokgems.com/sms-unread-count

And that brings me to a feature request, but I'm not sure that's even possible -- right now, only app shortcuts can go on the app aluncher bar. Is it possible to allow widgets there (like the call counter that launches the phone app, etc.)?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Mi|enko:
I like the ability to add my icons to the bottom (something I do with home++ on my own). I find myself still using home++ for one reason and one reason alone. . . the ability to hide the task bar. Give me that on Helix and I'll never go back.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] btdownloads7:
And I though of one more request, if possible -- instead of having the app drawer handle in the middle, make it a 5th launcher icon. And you can make it so that something like swiping up on that icon (or any other ones on the launcher bar) opens the app drawer.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] DocRambone:
Sorry, did not see that the vesrion1.2A had a update :)

Anyway, the transparency is nice :)

Attached the pattern_carbon_fiber_dark.png i use if anyone else wanna change.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Humpa:
What is this "transparency" we are talking about? My app drawer is still black - I can change that somehow? I don't see an option.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] DocRambone:
Have a look at the screen shot i posted, the appdrawer is semitransparent.

To change u have to insert the attached png to \res\drawable-hdpi

Or use a morph
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Humpa:
Just that 176x176 grey png image?

What name should I give it?

Is there some documentation or an FAQ that mentions this?

EDIT: I have no /res/drawable-hdpi folder ... or I assume maybe I do but "res" isn't in the root of my Droid.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Mi|enko:
You have to pull the apk, extract it (like a regular zip file), replace the image, then rezip/sign it and install.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Humpa:
Ah, thanks. Probably won't bother then, seeing as I try not to use the app drawer anyway.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] stearic:
I'm going to guess we need to have rooted our phones so we can pull the apk file to change the app drawer from black to transparent?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] blue_rocket:
anyone willing to mod this launcher to look like sense UI?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pcm2a:
The copy on the market has a Nexus looking app drawer (middle icon at the bottom) but the screen shots on here have the Droid looking icon. I'd much rather have the droid look (on my Droid). Is there any way to change that over?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] KZIWarrior:
Any way of getting a launcher with the Android logo (or something Android related) as the button (instead of the squares). Saw you did some requests earlier. Alternatively can you point us to the necessary images so that we can have a go? Thanks for the time. Loving the launcher on Pete's BB 2.1 ROM.

Left 5 star review with good comment on market. Thanks for the work.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] djmcnz:
I can confirm that 72x72 icons do appear to lose some fidelity. Side by side the icons used by Launcher2 are lower quality than those embedded in the apk files...
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] oldblue:
Here ya go
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ruqqq:
For issue regarding BetterCut, see my post on the other thread. ;)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] KZIWarrior:
SWEET!!! Thanks, you rule! So does the launcher!!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Humpa:
Is there info on using BetterCut with your launcher somewhere? Is it in this "other thread" you mention? Is that here at xda dev?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] jpsiemer:
Thanks, would be awesome if this could get fixed!

The widgets are from a program called SMS Unread Count
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pcm2a:
Wow that's awesome. How did you go about replacing the middle icon (app drawer) with something else?

Edit: That apk wouldn't install on Pete 2.1 Bugless Beast .8 for me.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] oldblue:
I don't install this launcher. I push it to my phone with adb.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] musashiken:
Hi, I donated and went into the depository to download 1.2. But is it me or the apk is still 1.1b? Better Cut FCs with the 1.2 I got from the depository...
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] firepower12:
pcm2a

wehn i try to instal it says install faild, :(

how to use?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] llowrey:
Force Close on start

I switched from 5 screens to 3 and now I get a force close at the end of rendering the screen. I only had content on the middle three screens. I am running a stock 2.0.1 droid.

When growing and shrinking the number of screens are they only added to and removed from the right side? My expectation was that they would be added to and removed from both left and right sides of a middle, primary, screen.

I uninstalled it and re-installed it and now it is working ok again.

Unrelated, the ordering of the shortcuts in landscape mode is counter intuitive to me. My expectation was that the left shortcut would be on the bottom and the right shortcut on the top. The actual ordering is the opposite. Perhaps this could be a config option?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pcm2a:
Fails for me too. Only the market versions works for me but the nexus drawer icon is toooo ugly.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ruqqq:
the market has the latest version of 1.2. bettercut doesnt FC for me. i can't do anything to help you without a logcat.

@llowrey: yes, thats why i popped a dialog asking to reset the widgets and icons. you people just love to ignore :P
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] llowrey:
Oh kay. Well, I read that notice as "delete your icons from the screens that are going to be deleted", not delete everything everywhere. Seems a shame to have to delete all 7 screens of icons and repopulate 6 when just reducing by one. Besides, why can't Helix do that for me?

Some better language for us literacy challenged types would be nice. Aside from that one glitch, Helix is the best home replacement app I've used to date.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] chowlala:
There is. Just try tapping the Apps Menu button in the centre very lightly. You'll see the 9 squares light up with an orange hue, but it won't bring up the menu with all your apps on the phone...
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Bear in NM:
Doc,

I am sorry to continue belaboring this point, but I changed the carbon fiber bg in my drawable res folder with this one you posted, copied, and overwrote, but when I installed the app it came up black again (I did completely remove Helix 2.1 before reinstalling my modded app). I looked at a couple of these carbon fiber bg's in other roms that are transparent and they "look" different in adobe photoshop. Yours comes up black, while the others look like a grey "checkerboarded" pattern.

I am trying this on the market app, but have access to the repository older apps. I am not sure if I am doing something wrong with trying to edit the market version, or whether the copying and pasting of yours is not working. I love what you did with your transparancy, and am just trying to duplicate.

Thanks,

Craig
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] DocRambone:
Hi, i attach the launcher i use, as update.zip. Remove any other copy before using the update.

Or extract the png from the apk.

Hope its ok with Arctu ;)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] reflo:
Hello,

how can i add livewallpaer in HelixLauncher? In the Market description live wallpaper are mentioned.

I use a Motorola Milestone 2.0.1 without Root.

Regards
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pcm2a:
You'll need a rooted 2.1 rom before live wallpapers will show up.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] DocRambone:
Any news about continuous scrolling aka GDE?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] btdownloads7:
Theming problem

I've noticed a slight layout inconsistency, but I'm not sure if it's something that I can fix, or if it's a genuine bug. I've modified the app drawer handle to be a bit more consistent with the Smoked Glass theme, but if I left the all_apps_button_normal.png at the original 140x80 px size, there was a 1 or 2 pixel gap between the bottom of the drawer handle and the edge of the screen. I was able to oversome that by increasing the size to 140x83 px. However, when I tried to mod the trashcan icons, the gap got bigger, and resizing the inage didn't do anything at all. Please check out the screenshots to see what I mean. All the images I used are exactly the same size (140x83 px), with the perfectly aligned app drawer handle, so it just seems that the trash images are set up to be displayhed higher. Can that pleae be changed?

Also, landscape doesn't work -- the drawer handle still shows as if it's in portrait. It looks like the drawable-land-hdpi folder isn't being used at all. Are there any plans to correct that in the future?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] skola28:
Found a bug... or ... at least a bug in my understanding.

It seems the Shortcut to Person Widget doesn't quite work correctly with certain contacts when you select Quick Contact as the type. Some contacts work ok (the quick contact selections show up at the top of the screen) but some are off the top of the screen completely.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] htcmagic:
This launcher works great on Nexus stock. No fcs at all.

One suggestion though. Could we have larger preview screens when double tap. They are very small when using 7 screens preview.

Maybe like senseui, or 4 top 3 bottom.

Thanks
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gardobus:
Just wanted to say I'm loving HL 1.2a so far. Thanks for the hard work. I skinned mine a little to match Smoked Glass.

I was going to post an image but I'm not allowed to!

img.photobucket.com/albums/v486/gardobus/PhoneDump/snap20100315_204758.png
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ruqqq:
okay guys, how many of you would actually prefer a smoked glass handle than nexus launcher2 icon in the default installation? quick reply and decide! ;)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Talderon:
Love it the way it is! Want to keep it as stock as possible. :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] DocRambone:
Agree, its so easy to theme by morph too. Scrolling is no 1 for me :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] rahul.pillai:
Love it; donation sent.. very fast...
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Bear in NM:
Doc,

Thank you very much for the complete file. I will go back and get it. I am not new to basic programming and functioning, but I am betting I am not clear on exactly which files need replacing. I will compare your file to Arctu's to get my head right without wasting any more of your time.

Arctu, I guess I am one of the glass theme folks. But, as Doc pointed out, for those of you that know what you are doing, leaving it stock, and placing your efforts on enhancements seems like a better approach. This and the fact that if you allow the folks who are putting out "roms" to have at it, there are gonna be glass/smoked versions in short order.

Craig
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] htcmagic:
Whats the digital clock widget name on the screenshot?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] acetylyne:
Awesome

I finally got around to installing a 2.1 rom on to my moto droid and tried this launcher out and it is exactly what I've been looking for! I had one FC on landscape, but after that I've flipped it a dozen times with no problem.

One thing I would love to see would be circular home screens, just wanted to throw my two cents out there, thanks for a great product!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pcm2a:
Do you have any instructions on how you changed that icon. I would like to change it as well to something besides the Nexus icon. Is it as simple as replacing the 3 image files in the market apk? I would assume that this would break some signing and it wouldn't install.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] djmcnz:
Your correct but you can just resign the apk making sure you uninstall any previous version first... instructions to download keys and scripts are around here... in fact if you search my posts I posted a link a few days ago.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Cutefox:
is there a way to get rid of the bottom tray icon? i want it that no one knows that is a tray below as in hidden(transparent).. that way no one can jus go into it and run any apps they want.. so they are restricted to the app/widgets that is on the 7 screens.. my phone sumtimes fall victim to the naughty hands..
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] zonbal33:
whats the difference between 1.2 & 1.2a thats in the market?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] btdownloads7:
I agree with DocRambone -- it's simple enough to do manually, so you shouldn;t have to bother with it. I would, however appreciate it if you made the layout consistent so that we can easily swap the drawer handle and trash images for whatever we want.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Redflea:
That's what the pattern lock function is for...why don't you put on a simple lock pattern?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] cvhovey:
I agree ... keep it simple and let others customize.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Cutefox:
well i dun really want them to be fully locked out anyway... people like senseless girls asks you wats ur lock password.. so i dun bother putting them in.. if they cant get in to the app they cant look.. so i will jus show apps that i want them to see on the 7 screens only.. all the others safely tucked in the invisible tray..
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] TheTomas:
all icons on pages disappear

Occasionally all the icons and widgets on the pages will disappear, leaving only the app drawer and the quick launch bar at the bottom. opening stock launcher and coming back to helix doesn't help, but after a reboot, the icons are back.

It seems like it's a memory issue. I've seen it in other launcher apps and it has always been frustrating. Is there any way to run helix at a higher priority or could the problem be something else?

I tried to search this post for this problem but found nothing. If there's a better place to post this, please let me know.

edit: forgot to try it before, but restarting helix launcher from the configure menu restores the icons as well.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ruqqq:
Dropped new beta 1.3 on donator's repo. Changes on 2nd post of this thread. ;)

LOTS OF CHANGES. :D