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[Android Apps and Games] jesssiii:
Maybe someone could PM him and let him know how many people there are now who appreciate his work, and many of us didn't even know about it until it was long abandoned. If that were really his reason, then reading this thread might change his mind.

~Do you REALLY care what radio or kernel I'm using?~
[Android Apps and Games] vordhosbn:
if development is going to be stopped, can the source code at least be released? :(
[Android Apps and Games] aqw955:
Zeam is great, I always love a memory friendly launcher!!
[Android Apps and Games] boardtc:
Fantastic! The missing piece of the jigsaw.thanks for taking the time to let me know.

I need no more features for me. Please open source author and leave a legacy!
[Android Apps and Games] jesssiii:
Welcome.

~Do you REALLY care what radio or kernel I'm using?~
[Android Apps and Games] brucemcl:
"... for a while"

Here is the Zeam Launcher Twitter feed:

http://twitter.com/zeamlauncher

Here is what the Twitter feed says: "I will be stopping active dev on Zeam to focus on real life etc for a while."

That was posted a month ago. To me that says he's taking a break. It does not say that he is permanently stopping development on Zeam.
[Android Apps and Games] davidc23:
i will try to get him to come back, im a personal friend of his :)
[Android Apps and Games] frskies:
Please do, tell him that real life is overrated!
[Android Apps and Games] t22b:
When I try to move icon to the left screen - it's very hard to perform, screen moves only 1 time at 10. When I move to the left - everything is OK. Also OK on other launchers.
[Android Apps and Games] Oligoy:
I just discovered this application and I think she is great

Thank you for the development
[Android Apps and Games] mediaeffects:
Nice work. Was switching back and forth between Zeam, Go Launcher EX, and Launcher Pro Plus. Zeam is my favorite, but hesitant to move over to Zeam completely. Will wait to see if an option to backup configuration is added before using it 100% of the time. Clearly my favorite overall
[Android Apps and Games] running_the_dream:
Zeam is far and away the best launcher for me. Very simple. Nice dock options. Leaves most of the screen available to use apps and widgets. Have some other things that work for me as well. Too bad it's no longer being developed but it's great in it's current iteration.
[Android Apps and Games] shortskoolbus:
Its' been asked but i couldnt find an answer in this thread, but anyway to save the settings?
[Android Apps and Games] jesssiii:
If you run CM7, it's doable in the cm settings. Otherwise, no.
[Android Apps and Games] tenkainen:
Or if you have root rights, Titanium backup. Doesn't restore widgets, though, obviously.
[Android Apps and Games] loopin:
LOL! :D :D
[Android Apps and Games] shortskoolbus:
Where? I'm running CM7.
[Android Apps and Games] shortskoolbus:
Didn't even think of that.
[Android Apps and Games] jesssiii:
Settings / CyanogenMod Settings / Performance

Same place you go to use the built in governor settings but below that choice there's a checkbox for always keep homescreen ... in memory? Sorry, not using CM7 at the moment but I did it and worked great using Zeam. I had been getting tired of re-adding all my apps to the scrollbar. Even helped keep Widgets to a point.

Sent from my ADR6300
[Android Apps and Games] atticus.:
That doesn't make much sense. Keeping Launcher in memory avoids (at least attempts to) the system from killing the process. reduces redraws and what not.
[Android Apps and Games] jesssiii:
I know not why it worked, it was recommended on the CM7 thread and solved the one issue keeping me from staying with Zeam. Now Zeam is all I use.
[Android Apps and Games] pibach:
Yes, I agree. After trying all the others, Zeam seems to be the best.

Only some minor gripes: cannot move/rearrange workspaces, no notification counts over icons. But if there is no development behind - then it might die sooner or later. Bummer.
[Android Apps and Games] erickwill:
So far, it's the best launcher that I had use. It's fast, stable, smooth.. Thanks a lot!
[Android Apps and Games] 3tybagig:
I know Dev is closed on this awesome launcher, but if you ever come back to it i would love to see 2 things.

Ability to hide apps in app drawer. Like PDF reader. I need the app but I'm never going to click on it so hiding it would be great.

Sorting app drawer apps by frequency.

Ty
[Android Apps and Games] v941726:
i think this nice app is history. too bad. the only thing close to it is go launcher. maybe the dev went with them. lol.
[Android Apps and Games] Uttermarcus:
Thanks goes to cloakt for his wirk, I love seam launcher I user it on Ideos u8150 with rom "nero di seppia" the best launcher for a small device, fast no lag. Hip Hip Hurra, sorry that U stop dev zeam, btw thank U again.

UtterMarcus.
[Android Apps and Games] dkelley:
maybe the OP will open his source code to us so other devs can continue the amazing zeam launcher into 2011?

I'll help dev it if the source is available....

Don
[Android Apps and Games] jesssiii:
I've decided it is perfect as-is. Anything more would bloat it and defeat the purpose. There's already plenty of feature rich launchers out there. This has perfect balance!
[Android Apps and Games] dkelley:
it will need maintenance over time as android progresses and can no doubt be modified slightly to utilize tablet real estate even better than it does now.

I'd like to work on that.

honeycomb feature compatibility also will be worth updating the code for.

most launchers are built off the android source code, not developed as typical standalone apps, although they are finally built and released as standalone apps. so updating it with the honeycomb api could be very rewarding...
[Android Apps and Games] jesssiii:
Ah, yes. Good points. :)
[Android Apps and Games] atapia984:
Too bad it is no longer under maintenance. Best Launcher I have used so far.
[Android Apps and Games] anton_kg:
Please make it opensource

I agree, it's a best launcher so far and it would be a nice to let other people help with development.
[Android Apps and Games] Jeffu:
Just figured I'd mention also that I'd like to see Zeam picked up again. I tried a few other launchers (LP, ADW, Go, etc.) and find myself going back to Zeam every time. I don't need a lot of fluff and Zeam is super snappy so I'm happy with it as is.
[Android Apps and Games] joshthewaster:
Damn. Sad to see that this has been dropped. It's my favorite but as of a release or so ago my dock icons won't stay in the order I put them in (VERY FRUSTRATING) and if it's not going to get fixed I'm going to have to switch. :(

I really don't like ADW or Launcher pro much. I just tried Go launcher, which seemed well done and functioned well, but it's doesn't really suit me.

I hope this get's picked back up or handed off to other Devs. Or someone else tries to fill the light, simple launcher category.

Edit: any other launchers to try?
[Android Apps and Games] jesssiii:
Totally agree. Zeam is my daily driver now for awhile. Once in a while I try LP+ or ADWex again but within a day I'm back to Zeam.

I started using it because it uses less battery and is lean &clean. But I fell in love with the gestures. ADW has them but it feels overdone, cluncky. Zeam's a sports car!

Sent from my ADR6300
[Android Apps and Games] GGSunny12:
What must do to see my dock in app drawer?
[Android Apps and Games] aswath_10:
BEst Launcher

I have tried all launchers lik LP, adw ,open home, pandahome, gde e.t.c i feel zeam is way far ahead of all launchers..... Hope he comes and develop it again to keep zeam launcher in untouchable height than other launcher...
[Android Apps and Games] IPB_Refugee:
Sad that there will be no more development

Hello cloakt,

I'm sad that you've abandoned Zeam launcher. In my opinion Zeam is a really great launcher: simple, small, very fast, does everything I want from a launcher.

Thanks a lot for your work and best regards

Wolfgang
[Android Apps and Games] ironlood:
Thank you cloakt for an exceptional and simple launcher. Hopefully you will release the code so that others may continue your work. But in the end you created an amazing launcher that deserves more recognition then it got
[Android Apps and Games] Snufkin1337:
Hello

I'm new here, just found this thread.

I was using Zeam for about 2 weeks now and i must say i really like it!

I saw this: "NO LONGER UNDER DEVELOPMENT" so i want to ask, does this mean that there won't be any updates? This launcher would be sooooo awesome with some changes.

e.g. Dock locking. it's very easy to accidentally remove something, especially when you use swipepad or something like that.

I also miss transition effects between homescreens. I know Zeams target is to be minimalistic, I'm just bragging what i would like it to be :)

On the plus side I must say i Love the double tap gesture! I havent seen it in any other launcher (i was trying only the free ones).

Sorry for my english, not my native language :)
[Android Apps and Games] rfunderburk39:
This is my favorite launcher. Recently I built a custom ROM & shared it for the Cliq XT, this lets the ROM fly. I truly hope you reconsider the development of this ROM or open source it so we could continue on.

I must say thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] cyansmoker:
I contacted cloakt, offering to take over/shared development, either in close or open source, but he never got back to me.

I guess he wants his product to remain the way it is; there is something to be said for balance and Zeam seems pretty well balanced.
[Android Apps and Games] ntnlzr:
i'm so sry for this death project, zeam launcher is amazing i've found only 1 bug, a lot of time i've found duplicate icons on menu

nice apk
[Android Apps and Games] McKebapp:
Simply go to the Zeam Preferences --> Restart now.

Then Zeam will re-read the Programs and voila: Everything will be fine again.
[Android Apps and Games] ntnlzr:
yes i know it but this is a workaround not a solution :p
[Android Apps and Games] spudcz:
Missing Zeam Settings???

Hi,

I've just installed Oxygen ROM 2.0 Final with preinstalled Zeam Launcher and I can't find any way how to change preferences of launcher.

I found video on youtube, where the guy press menu > settings from home screen and it opens launcher preferences but in my phone the system settings are opened. :-(. Can you give me advice, what should I do?

Thanks, Spud

HTC Desire, S-Off, Android 2.3.3, Radio 32.54.00.32U_5.14.05.17, Oxygen-2.0
[Android Apps and Games] mikep99:
Oxygen 2 final doesn't come with Zeam.

Download it from the market :)
[Android Apps and Games] spudcz:
Well, that might be the reason :-). Thanks I dont know where I came to that information about preinstalled launcher.
[Android Apps and Games] Nowonmai:
Hey cloakt. For some odd reason, the tablet I purchase had fixed to landscape launch screen. So, I tried other launchers to replace the one that came installed on my tablet. Yours was easiest to set up, and used less system memory than any of others I had tried.

Sorry to read that it's no longer being developed.
[Android Apps and Games] Yannn:
add costum app to launch in action bindings ?

Is there a way to had costum app launch in action bindings ???
[Android Apps and Games] trinity1:
since zeam is not anymore supported the answer is no :(
[Android Apps and Games] AzureusPT:
Quick question about setting it the default launcher...

If I flash a new ROM and apply a patch to that ROM that removes it's launcher apk and copies Zeam one, would it work as default when I restart the phone or should I touch any ROM config if I want to make it the only launcher in it?
[Android Apps and Games] mikep99:
Yes, Zeam would then be the only (and default) launcher on the phone.

I regularly do this when flashing a new rom.
[Android Apps and Games] irishrally:
I been using Zeam for a few weeks now and I love it. One fairly minor issue I'm having that I can't figure out is when I hit an icon in the dock, contacts for example, it pops up and asks if I want to use phone or contacts. I hit contacts and also hit the check box that says use as default action but the default never stick. I have to make that selection every time. Same thing happens with the music icon, with the choices being music or video.

Any ideas?
[Android Apps and Games] threeeye:
Hi,

Love Zeam, great job !!!

Is there a way to make a custom shortcut to pick an activity, like in ADW (I want the Alarm, but not the Clock) ?
[Android Apps and Games] myki406:
Cool app!

Scrollable widget rulez, fast and nice!
[Android Apps and Games] ntnlzr:
for my personal opionion i prefer take default launcher and other launcher too and choose the new one after first start in custom rom but btw you can take only zeam :P
[Android Apps and Games] v941726:
it's amazing this launcher(thread) still gets this much attention and it's just sitting there while no one(dev) is listening. shame. just a shame
[Android Apps and Games] R^7Z:
+1

I agree! You know, I was just saying the same thing the other day...

Soo much talent/potential being kept to oneself is never a good thing! ;) :D
[Android Apps and Games] Enhdojo:
+1

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[Android Apps and Games] v941726:
in it's current state, go launcher is the next best thing. only, they keep updating it, but not the important things. the folders are a great idea for example. but they're practically useless cuz it's a pita to use them the way they are now. in both apps that is
[Android Apps and Games] Ceeefax:
Just wanted to say this is by far my favourite launcher. Used launcherPro for ages then one of the old oxygen builds had this, so thought id give it a go....

So lightweight and fast, has all the features I want and none I don't. Pity it's not developed any more but then I don't have any problems with it to be fixed!
[Android Apps and Games] :
Really a great launcher! But just curious, what is the max. for # of dock icons?

I thought it was 7 but I already have 9 in right now.. Or is there no max?
[Android Apps and Games] R^7Z:
I'm almost positive you'll tell us... :) I have yet to find the "max" but then again, I had no reason to. "Perfect" as is on my RAPH110 running XDAndroid :D
[Android Apps and Games] crankybot:
This is way better than ADW Launcherte
[Android Apps and Games] row1:
Yeah a huge shame. There are a few "small" settings I wish it had. If only it was open source so I could add them myself :(
[Android Apps and Games] hazenvnn:
REQUEST

Kindly please add Iphone like flip app drawer. It is much more better than scrolling :D
[Android Apps and Games] schiznik:
And people wonder why cloakt stopped the development of this launcher? Its either lightweight or packed with every feature under the sun, you can't have both!
[Android Apps and Games] jesssiii:
Curious to know if you find out. Everything I want, fits.
[Android Apps and Games] OldDogEyes:
How? See running apps

I've gotten used to long pressing the home button on my Evo to see the last 6 apps that I ran and task switching. How do I replicate the same function with Zeam?

I am running 2.1 on a Nook Color. Zeam v2.87...

Thanks....

Loving Zeam...
[Android Apps and Games] gokartracer5:
I reinstalled zeam and now it won't save what ever settings i change. It wants to restart each time and it reverts bcak to defaults. Any ideas how to fix it?
[Android Apps and Games] gokartracer5:
Found a workaround:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=879856
[Android Apps and Games] irishrally:
I'm willing to donate to keep support going for this. Although honestly there really isn't much if anything I would change. I'm just worried down the road there might be compatibility issues.
[Android Apps and Games] irishrally:
Where is the dbdata folder in 2.3.3?
[Android Apps and Games] gparent:
But it can't, though. At some point it will stop working, and no one will use it. It's a shame that such a great launcher will most likely end up dieing.
[Android Apps and Games] teerasai:
great:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p
[Android Apps and Games] stijepo15:
This app is the best home replacement ever, i enjoy in it, but i would like if it is possible to enable bigger screen resolution when enabling more home screens, bcs if i enable 9 screens my wallpaper is very bad, but for example in advanced launcer for 5 screens i can put wallpaper with resolution 1600x480, with wallpaper plus, or wallpaper set & save. In Zeam I can use only 640x480 resolution for wallpaper.

Sorry for bad english.
[Android Apps and Games] Szadzik:
Just wondering if maybe we could change the 2 bottom buttons right and left so that we could define the shortcuts on them on our own? That would be great!

Very nice home replacement!
[Android Apps and Games] simoneser:
Great launcher!

The very bad thing of this launcher is that all icons and widgets (like Facebook) are very low-resoluted, and also there is no support for live wallpaper.

I'd love to see these 2 enhancements on next versions :)
[Android Apps and Games] CreazioN:
Could be nice with a application menu, so its possible to have the favourites.
[Android Apps and Games] xarxiusxiii:
I would love to see the zoom animations from 2.x implemented into Zeam, and also (possibly) live wallpaper support. Other than that, this is the best home replacement app I've ever tried.
[Android Apps and Games] dancer_69:
Any plans for multilanguage support? I can do greek translation.
[Android Apps and Games] rage151:
Looks good. After reading some of the suggestions, it looks like some may like this alternative - adwlauncher. I would post the link...not able to yet. I've been using it for a day with no FC's.
[Android Apps and Games] fnaax:
this launcher is awesome, and probably the best available right now, but is it possible to backup the screens' settings and widgets positions, so that we don't have to put everything back after each update?

also, is there a way to hide the bottom bar and the title that says "All Applications" when the app drawer is used?
[Android Apps and Games] pi3c3:
Hi...

This is one of the best home I've found on the internet, but there is a bug I found.

When you create a folder, you can open it, you can change it's name, so it's working fine. But after you put a shortcut into it, (bookmark for example) the whole home screen crashes, and than restarts.

I'm using Samsung galaxy spica with cupcake android 1.5. You may find a solution for this bug. I don't want to use this stuff until it's fixed, It's very annoying.

Anyway it's very good and very very fast! Keep it up! :)
[Android Apps and Games] :
1.3.0 release

fixed

the issue with the widgets losing their color depth has been resolved. the icons are low-res because of keeping it backward compatible to cupcake. live wallpaper is on the cards for a future release

done

fixed

fixed
[Android Apps and Games] Irishpride:
First off I want to say thank you!! I've been waiting for an Espresso style launcher that I could put on my Incredible and Droid for a while now. It runs extremely smooth, much more fluid and better looking than Helix. Very nice, keep up the good work!
[Android Apps and Games] wfriend:
Copy icons from original home

Great replacement!!

Is there an easy/quick way to copy the apps from the original home?

I'm on Nexus One, not rooted.

Thanks for all of your work!
[Android Apps and Games] Broken:
Great Home replacement. Great work.

Now that there is landscape support, any way to get auto screen rotate option?

Also, like many others, I would love it if there were more options for the left and right button. Maybe even an option for long press. My Milestone has voice dial app and would be awesome to have the capability to long press the phone button and get the voice dial app.
[Android Apps and Games] snopkowsky:
Re: Zeam 1.3.0 released (now in Android Market)

after update no smooth in app drawer and between screens. no landscape on my samsung spica.

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[Android Apps and Games] MillyMoo106:
Now it has Landscape it is my every day Home! A good addition would be the ability to hide things from the app drawer.
[Android Apps and Games] Ownatik:
this is my new launcher. I would suggest smoother change between screens. by the way, how to use the landscape mode...?
[Android Apps and Games] snopkowsky:
Now i know what's exactly wrong - app drawer and screen changing is much much slower, when there's a lot of icons on screen. Please fix this!

I still can't turn on landscape mode...
[Android Apps and Games] kamy33:
Problems in Spica

+1

In the Spica the landscape mode doesnt turn on and there isnt animation between the screens.

:( I loved this theme! Please fix it!
[Android Apps and Games] fattymcdirty:
jup.. i can confirm that.. it's WAY slower on my phone (samsung spica) after the upgrade to 1.3.0 :( plz fix that! :(
[Android Apps and Games] gocegoce:
It's slower on the T-mobile Pulse too. And no landscape mode :( .
[Android Apps and Games] R^7Z:
We need a time traveler to go back in time and pick his brains and then come back to present day so we can get something back started on this... :D

I honestly think that if we want something similar, we'll require another developer to create something else. I know it like re-inventing the wheel but when has THAT ever stopped a good dev?! ;)
[Android Apps and Games] mejobloggs:
I've just had a quick try of Zeam and love how fast it is

I'm finding the dock icons too small though. I really like minimalist text style but the words end up too small for my liking

Any way to make dock icons larger?
[Android Apps and Games] genekh:
Found a workaround for rearranging dock icons. Once zeam stops saving your changes to the dock icon configuration make note of the correct configuration of the icons and screen shortcuts and widgets, then with root explorer go to /data/data/org.zeam/databases and delete launcher.db .

Then restart zeam - the screen will be completely blank. Put your icons and shortcuts back where they were and restart zeam again - now it's saving configuration again properly. I think it's some kind of database corruption problem. On my htc desire with redux 1.0.2 it's working perfectly now.

By the way, the rest of your configuration is preserved anyway, like gestures etc. as the rest is stored in the XML files. :-)
[Android Apps and Games] ADude:
Is there some other app that will allow the hardware Home button to be mapped to a specific application (and will co-exist with Zeam) ?

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] jesssiii:
CyanogenMod7 does it. Not sure when it started, but the latest nightly #23 is very stable.

Droid Incredible
[Android Apps and Games] ADude:
Thanks ! Your reply prompted me to try all the possibilities and I found it in the "Input" menu.

( I had forgotten one of the Laws of Software, which is that no software has a logical settings/preferences/tools setup. :D )
[Android Apps and Games] Jayziac:
You mean I have to re-setup ALL the screen icons, or JUST the dock icons? I have a 5 x 6 home screen and to re-setup everything seems a bit of work. I have been able to just keep rearranging the dock icons when it's not saving and after a few reboots & repeats it saves and locks that setting in. Then I don't have to change it again.
[Android Apps and Games] 34Ford:
So does it take zeam forever to d/l live wallpaper like the grass?

Or should it display rapidly like the spectrum, waveform, and vu meter.

Nexus, grass, galaxy and water just want display for me.
[Android Apps and Games] bunnybash:
I gotta say that the death of Zeam is one of the saddest developments in Android... does anyone know why it happened, was there someone we could pay or anything??? Seriously this launcher is perfect and bad ass all in one!
[Android Apps and Games] GizmoDroid:
I believe zeam was an earlier fork of adw launcher, which I have always thought was underrated. If configured properly, I've found it to have around the same performance as the lightweight zeam, with a much larger feature set.

I think why most people overlook it is because the stock settings seem more geared towards showing eye-candy capabilities (that tend to be resource hogging in any launcher).

If you change the settings to be more like zeam, then it uses cpu/memory like zeam. The only difference to me is that adw is still an active project, and you have the option of using the newer features if you want them.