[App] Tweaked Xperia S Home Launcher (Dock and/or Corners) for MDPI - v7.0, 10/06/12

Here is my Xperia Home SEVENTH version for Xperia HVGA (MDPI) devices. It was ripped from Xperia S.

The original version is: com.sonyericsson.home - 2.2.A.0.14, see img:




This mod since v6.0 was officialy baptized as MOAL: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=26003975&postcount=467

I have made some tweaks like:

v7.0 (10/06/12):
- Preference to choose between 9 dock background styles/colors (system default, cosmic silk, cosmic turquoise, cosmic emerald, cosmic sapphire, cosmic gold, cosmic ruby, cosmic amethyst, transparent)
- Preference to choose between 6 corners opacity percentages
- New dock glow animation (when closing app drawer)
- No more need to restart after toggle some preference, just once when closing preference main screen
- Fixed ICS restart problem (no preference changed)
- Versions with default stock desktop row height (all stock widgets compatible)
- Versions with less desktop row height (some GB stock widgets won´t fit properly) and free screen indicators space
- Ukrainian screen preferences translations (thanks Kobzar666)
- Fixed some layout issues
- New attachments
- New screenshots

v6.0 (25/05/12):
- New and improved preference screen with icons and separeted categories
- 4x4 desktop layout for all versions
- 4x3 (v5.1 layout with icon/folder titles) desktop layout for dock and dock with top corners
- Choose between 8 app drawer background styles (light gradient, dark gradient, transparent, 25% opaque, 50% opaque, 75% opaque, opaque, transparent plate)
- Choose desktop screen indicators style
- Preference to direct access Xperia Home and Xperia Home Preferences in android settings
- Fixed some layout issues
- New attachments
- New screenshots

v5.1 (01/05/12):
- 3 desktop rows layout for Dock and Dock_TopCorners versions
- Home restarts now will be for each preference (if needed)
- Enable/disable desktop screen indicators
- Dock icons with labels (single line)
- Fixed widgets layout sizes in landscape
- ICS Square folder
- Fixed desktop icons labels alignment
- Hungarian screen preferences translations (thanks gyeben)
- Vietnamese screen preferences translations (thanks kulroyal)
- Fixed some Russian screen preferences translations (thanks himasura)
- New attachments
- New screenshots

v5 (27/04/12):
- New Xperia Home preferences screen (a very special thanks to ra3al for helping me)
- New dialog "Xperia Home" item to start preferences screen
- New menu "Xperia Home" item to start preferences screen
- Select between 1 to 11 home screens (panes)
- Enable/disable wallpaper scrolling
- Select home button action: Go to Default Home Screen or Open/Close App Drawer
- Enable/disable automatic screen orientation
- Enable/disable going to first pane when opening the app drawer
- Fixed fourth "Dock with Top Corners" row to receive icons/widgets in all cells
- Russian screen preferences translations (thanks himasura)
- Indonesian screen preferences translations (thanks Black_jackss)
- German screen preferences translations (thanks switcher)
- Greek screen preferences translations (thanks T3sla)
- Serbian screen preferences translations (thanks Theonewithideas)
- Spanish screen preferences translations (thanks Svartehjerte)
- Portuguese brazilian and English screen preferences translations (thanks me)
- New attachments
- New screenshots

v4.1 (23/03/12):
- 18 new dock / corner / portrait (static) / sensor (auto-rotation) combination versions
- Fixed all reported issues from v4 and more
- New attachments
- New screenshots

v4 (17/03/12):
- New Xperia S based Home ported from scratch to MPDI (480x320)
- Round ICS style folder
- Black expanded folder background
- Multiline icons labels on desktop and folders
- Blurry or transparent dock
- 3 (3H), 5 (5H) or 7 (7H) home screens
- New attachments
- New screenshots

v3 rev. 1 (17/01/12):
- New flashable install option (CWM)
- New attachments

v3 (17/01/12):
- Versions with 5 (5H) and 3 (3H) Home Screens
- New App Drawer with Fading Dividers (Portrait and Landscape)
- New Black Transparent Gradient App Drawer Background )Top Alpha 0 to Bottom Alpha 175)
- Original (Stock) Desktop/App Drawer Animations
- New White Transparent Icon Highlight

v2 (18/12/11):
- New Square and Transparent Folder Style (Like Square ICS Folder)
- Full Alpha 150 Background for App Drawer
- Full Alpha 100 Background for Expanded Corners and Folders
- New App Drawer/Desktop Zoom Animations

v1 (04/12/11):
- Transparent 4x4 App Drawer (Portrait and Landscape)
- Semi Transparent Corners (Alpha 100)
- Transparent Background for Expanded Corners
- Transparent Background for Opened Folders
- Multiline Icons Labels on Desktop (Portrait) and Folders


Stock 4 Rows Height Screenshots:








Less 4 Rows Height Screenshots:






Application Drawer Screenshots:






Preferences Screenshots:




Instructions for manual installation on Xperia MDPI devices:

Before you install it, you must check for two system dependencies, see imgs:

and

If you are running the GB 2.3.4 firmware or ICS you should have these files.

TRY IT AT YOUR OWN RISK !!

Clearing predefined system settings xml´s folder for Home.apk:

- Check for this path in your /system: /system/etc/customization/settings/com/sonyericsson/home
- If the /home folder is there, just delete it (only /home) !!!

Now install:

1 - Download choosen attached apk (v7_???_Home.apk) and put it on your sdcard.
2 - Rename it to Home.apk
3 - Download attached v7_HomePreferences.apk and put it on your sdcard.
4 - Rename it to HomePreferences.apk
5 - Using Root Explorer copy both files to /system/ (mount /system as R/W)
6 - Change both files permissions to rw-r--r-- like img:



7 - Long press on Home.apk and select Move
8 - Paste Home.apk on /system/app/ and replace original apk
9 - Long press on HomePreferences.apk and select Move
10 - Paste HomePreferences.apk on /system/app/
11 - Reboot you phone

Important (after reboot)

12 - Go to "Config >> Applications >> Manage Applications >> All", tap on "Xperia Home" and select "Clear Data" (you need to rearrange your widgets)

VERY IMPORTANT

Home.apk and HomePreferences.apk work together and they should be in the /system folder!!

Or simple create a flashable .zip with choosen apk version and flash it on recovery with CWM !

To create your own flashable .zip:

1 - Download attached v7_(Place_Home.apk_Here_Before_Flash)_Update.zip
2 - Download choosen attached apk (v7_???_Home.apk) and put it on your computer
2 - Rename it to Home.apk
3 - Open v7_(Place_Home.apk_Here_Before_Flash)_Update.zip with WinRAR and go to \system\app\ folder
4 - Drag Home.apk from your computer and drop it on \system\app\ WinRAR folder
5 - Close v7_(Place_Home.apk_Here_Before_Flash)_Update.zip file
6 - Ok (rename it if you want)


To do:
- Vietnamese translations
- Hungarian translations
- Chineese translations
- HDPI versions


If you like, press thanks...

Hi everybody, here´s some v8 news:

- ICS Xperia S based Home.apk (thanks Till-Kruspe)
- ICS themed HomePreferences.apk
- Screen indicators free space (to prevent overlaps)
- Dock icons/folders reflections
- 95.0dip desktop rows height
- Xperia Home menu shortcut
- Settings menu shortcut
- 4 rows app drawer (landscape without labels)
- Multiline icons/folders labels (two lines limited)

THIS IS JUST FOR ICS 4.0.4 FW .431

If you wanna test it, get three attached apk´s and push them to /system with proper permissions (see how on first post)
This test Home.apk is auto-rotate by default, and preferences are not working (read-only).

Rename them before push to /system to:

Home.apk
HomeAdd.apk
HomePreferences.apk

Please, report me if any issue is found! Suggestions are wellcome.
Thanks...

Thanks everyone here supporting this thread, you´re amazing!

Well, v8 is about to be released with great news, and major one is new ics xperia s home (thanks Till-Kruspe). Not all preferences from gb will be in this release, but in future revisions I will put all of them. So, just wait a day!

See you soon...

v1 news:

- A new thread (versions 1) will be released this weekend with ICS Xperia S Home based launcher
- All working preferences from v7
- Fixed all layout issues (portrait and landscape)
- 100dip stock default row height (no more widgets size issues)
- Landscape app drawer icons with labels in the right (icon + label)
- Dock icons/folders with same 48dip size as desktop and app drawer icons (no more distortions)

I´d like to thank everyone here supporting this mod. Well, I hope you like. See you very soon on new thread !!!

First sorry for delay... Thanks for everyone here supporting me, you´re cool!

Well, v7 news:

- Home will not restart anymore after changing a preference (yes, I remembered you )
- Dock Background Color preference rethought to the match the exact colors of the Cosmic Flow live wallpaper (I´ve decompiled it to get color codes), default grey blur and transparent

I´m just finishing to compile all versions and soon v7 will be released, so, wait just a few days.

See some new screenshots, I hope you like them... see you soon my friends !!