[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] speeee:
After recently having a play around with this cool new launcher i thought it may be worth sharing with everyone on here.

PLEASE NOTE: this program is still in BETA and has not yet got a market release

Sweeter home is an alternative Launcher that delivers:

- Highly customisable Docks and App Draws (text, colour, borders, ect)

- Support for all android Widgets

- 5 screens (left, right, up, down) - not yet editable

- "springboard" buttons easily show & hide Custom trays and even widgets (by far the coolest feature)

- Ability to save upload and download themes quickly from a built in market

- Ability to save themes to SD

APK is available from

http://www.sweeterhome.com/

Some screens of My x10 Running sweeter home - My theme can be downloaded under Spee_Simple

Framework - X10 res mod v1.5

Widgets used - Switchpro size 3 - Beautiful weather 1x1 - Beautiful weather 4x1 - Mixzing media player Large

--- How it works ---

Sweeter home is a new take on a launcher that offers high levels of customisation

the launcher will seem a little overwhelming at first but stick with it and post any questions you may have in this thread

Basically, The themes are made up of trays, these contain text and apps, these trays can be controlled to turn on/off by items called springboards,

see my above screens,

I have written down a few things ive learnt so far i hope they may be of help to you

--- A Quick Guide to making your own theme ---

1 - To create a new theme from scratch press your options key and click edit theme,

Pressing options again and clicking more will enable you to start a new theme from scratch

Now you have 5 blank screens (up, down, left, right) to add things to

2 - Either long press or click options and select "New" to see a list of objects which can be added to your screen

All Applications - a drawer of all of your applications

Calendar - Sweeterhome built in calendar that displays events

Contact list - a Scrollable box containing contacts

Current date - a Box containing the date

Current time - a Box containing the time

Custom Tray - A scrollable app draw that can hold selected apps (music, tools, games, ect)

Live Map - A live scrollable google map (that for some reason centers over chicago for me)

Picture - Select an image

Plain colour - an empty box that cannot contain apps or shortcuts, (use this as a background for buttons

Recent calls - Scrollable Recent call list

Recent SMS - Scrollable Recent SMS list (doesnt display phone numbers)

Search box - Sweeterhomes personalised search box

Springboard - A Key item on sweeter home, (see below)

System widget - Click to place a standard widget

Tagged tray - Useful trays that are controlled online via your sweeterhome account ( personally i dont use these)

Text - A Box of text

After you have selected an item E.G a text box Long press and click EDIT

In the edit screen you can change just about all the aesthetics of boxes

colour, frame, text, scroll directions ect

MAKE SURE YOU CHANGE THE TITLE and TRAY I.D to something relevant if you intend to use a springboard to control when it appears

---Using springboards---

A springboard is a button that once pressed will show / hide other trays and widgets

this is why its necessary to change the names of the boxes and widgets you create

E.G

1- create a system widget and name it (winamp)

2- exit the edit screen and place the Winamp widget on the screen by clicking the red box

3- go back to edit and create a springboard, Call this (Music)

4- long press the springboard and select the (systemwidget:winamp) to be controlled

5- Exit the edit screen

Now hopefully whenever you press your springboard box/button labeled music your winamp widget will appear/dissapear

This can be done with most of the items, note how in my screens menus and docks can appear/dissapear with the touch of a springboard

-- Layers --

As you Photoshop users will know "Layers are important"

in sweeter home this also applies

in the "EDIT" screen there will be an option "layer level", the default for this is 10

some tips:

- always keep springboards on layer 10 as then they will always be at the top and not become covered by any text/images you place over them