[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] SpamHammer:
HD2 Sense UI on Android 2.1??

Well, I'm getting the Evo, but the Sense UI looks really... sparse on Android.

Take a look at this picture: yfrog(dot)com/5uhd2senseweatherj (sorry, new poster, won't let me post URLs)

See how the weather moves behind the home screen widgets? That is fricking amazing!

Being completely honest, all of the cool weather animations, home screen widgets, and cool picture, text, and email widgets were what got me interested in the HD2 before even the mention of the 4.3" screen or Snapdragon processor.

I would love that functionality on the Evo. Maybe someone could find a way to integrate that weather animation functionality using the Live Wallpapers feature of Android 2.1?

Additionally, the TouchFlo 3D bar on the bottom is a very, very nice feature, as someone else pointed out, for quickly getting to app-specific pages. Even the iPhone and Palm Pre have a Dock at the bottom of the screen. Why doesn't Android??

The Calendar widget right below the weather widget is also very nice. Having used WinMo for 5 years, I really liked having those notifications on the front screen.

The 3 widgets below that are nice. Honestly, I don't need pages upon pages of apps. I use roughly 3 main apps right now constantly throughout the day on my iPhone- the task manager, Opera Mobile, and Text.

So, having those 3 quick links on the home page would be very useful, and the rest can go into the main Apps page- the full menu, that is. In fact, I really, really dislike flipping through pages of Apps on the iPhone, so the full apps menu of Android is nice, because it's much quicker (much like WinMo) than flipping through pages of apps.

I think the biggest thing here is that, with Windows Mobile, HTC really poured a lot of time and effort into Sense UI. They completely overhauled the Text, Email, Photos, Music, and Calendar. On top of that, they tweaked the browser, and even hacked in multi-touch support (!!!) which isn't native to Windows Mobile.

All of this makes the HD2 what it is, much more so than the 4.3" screen, the 5mp camera, or the 1Ghz Snapdragon processor. Those are just the things that power the eye candy.

On Android, it seems like they tweaked the Calendar a little bit, copy+pasted the Weather/Clock widget, and called it a day. They didn't implement the background Weather animations, the custom Photo browser, the TouchFlo bar (which is actually really nice to use), nor did they add the larger, 3 widget section below the Weather/Calendar area.

At the end of the day, Windows Mobile, as it currently stands, is a much more "get it done", "business" device, even now in its old age, than Android even at 2.1. I really feel like HTC has kind of screwed over those of us who were hooked and stunned by the HD2, but have warmed to Android in the time since it was announced to the time that it became available on a US carrier.

Why have they not put as much thought into Android, since Android is obviously a much larger market, and they are putting it on more of their devices? After all, there is only one HD2 with Sense UI, but there is the Hero, Incredible, Desire, Legend, Wildfire, Evo, Eris, etc. that all run on Android and support their gimped version of Sense. They should replicate the amazing animations and widgets of the WinMo UI on Android, and then they'd really stun people.

Anyways, those are the specific functions I'm looking to replicate. If someone can hack this together, I will definitely leave a nice donation, and you will have my undying gratitude.