[MOD][HOWTO] TweakWiz! - A "Tweaked" TouchWiz Launcher [UPDATED 8/30/12]

bedi.gursimran said:

Is this going to work on a galaxy s2 running 4.2.1(SuperNexus 2). Because I already flashed it and I couldn't find the launcher anywhere. A reply would be greatly appreciated

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mythtrandyr said:

Decompile SecLauncher2.apk and go to res/values/integers.xml

Find:

Code:

<integer name="config_screenOrientation">[B][COLOR="Red"]5[/COLOR][/B]</integer>

Change to:

Code:

<integer name="config_screenOrientation">[B][COLOR="Red"]3[/COLOR][/B]</integer>

Compile SecLauncher2.apk

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tw39515 said:

just wanted to say thanks now i have landscape launcher on my tmo sgs3, would anyone know how to remove the page notification dots.

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mythtrandyr said:

Decompile SecLauncher2.apk and go to res/values/integers.xml

Find:

Code:

<integer name="config_screenOrientation">[B][COLOR="Red"]5[/COLOR][/B]</integer>

Change to:

Code:

<integer name="config_screenOrientation">[B][COLOR="Red"]3[/COLOR][/B]</integer>

Compile SecLauncher2.apk

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or1m said:

Touchwiz 4.1.2 moded 4x5 (XXEMA2 in this case):
This is not working properly: Homescreen rotation is enabled,
but landscape mode is crippled down.

steps are:
4x5 ok, nice and correct
then ladscape - wth? (see landscape 4x5 bad.jpg)
then back - wth again (see portrait 4x5 bad.jpg)

So the questions are - is it wrong at all or it just does not work with moded TW or the magic number is not 3 ?

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magn2o said:

TweakWiz!
A "Tweaked" TouchWiz Launcher​

What is it?
TweakWiz is my attempt at bringing some of custom launcher aesthetics to the default TouchWiz launcher. Sure, I could use a custom launcher -- and I have. I've tried dozens, but none of them can offer the same fluidity and speed that TouchWiz does. As I dig deeper within the TouchWiz code, more features will be added/unlocked!

Features

• (NEW) Rotation support! (Adheres to system rotation setting)
• (NEW) App drawer icon centered!
• Labels removed from docked icons.
• Drop shadow removed from dock icons.
• Margins optimized to maximize space (where possible)
• 4x5 homescreen layout
• Page indicators removed, space reclaimed.
• Scrolling wallpapers.
• Page looping disabled (scrolling wallpapers looked like crap with this enabled).

Installation

1. Download/copy appropriate version to internal storage.
2. Boot into recovery.
3. Make a backup!
4. Flash/Reboot

ROM Developers/Cooks
I have no problem if you wish to include this in your custom ROMs, I only ask that you provide a link back to this thread so users can keep up on any updates. For those looking to perform manual edits, see here.

Changelog

• 1.0
  • Initial release
• 1.1
  • Reduced app drawer margin slightly due to text cropping.
  • Added 5th row to home.
• 1.2
  • Adjusted launcher to eliminate overlapping of launcher icon "hot areas" and 5th row widgets. [sinichi21]
  • Adjusted launcher width to reduce "squished" appearance [eortizr]
    Minimally Increased bottom padding on launcher to match positioning of icons (if any) on lockscreen
• 1.3
  • "Fixed" docked Messaging icon text re-appearing after a notification in portrait mode (still exists in Landscape)
  • Rotation support, and it respects your global rotation setting.
  • App drawer centered!
  • Re-adjusted margins a bit.
  • 4x6 App Drawer in portrait and 7x3 in landscape.
  • 80% app drawer translucency removed. (I'm not happy with how it appears on the screen, I'm working out a better method).
• 1.3.1
  • Fixed initial center app icon bug where app icon could sometimes be covered by another app icon when running TweakWiz for the first time.
  • Added optional NO_LANDSCAPE version (no rotation)
  • Added option NO_SCROLL version (no scrolling wallpaper, re-enabled page looping)

Known Bugs

• 
  Icon text re-appears below docked "Messaging" app after receiving notification in landscape only!

Custom
Like AOSP/ICS? Check out mrvirginia's custom version of TweakWiz! [link]


Thank you! A moment of your time, please..
As with all of my contributions (here and elsewhere), I do this for fun and expect nothing in return. However, I have received a couple donations in support of my work recently, and while much appreciated, they are unnecessary. In lieu of donations to myself, should you feel inclined, I would much prefer any monies be donated to the CNCF Hope (The Children's Neuroblastoma Cancer Foundation) instead. This is a cause very close to my heart and this organization would benefit much more from your donation than I ever would.

Again, no obligation or expectations -- a simple "Thanks!" would more than suffice.

Legend
NO_LANDSCAPE: Launcher rotation disabled, portrait only.
NO_SCROLL: No scolling wallpaper, page looping/infinite scroll is enabled.

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magn2o said:

TweakWiz!
A "Tweaked" TouchWiz Launcher​

What is it?
TweakWiz is my attempt at bringing some of custom launcher aesthetics to the default TouchWiz launcher. Sure, I could use a custom launcher -- and I have. I've tried dozens, but none of them can offer the same fluidity and speed that TouchWiz does. As I dig deeper within the TouchWiz code, more features will be added/unlocked!

Features

• (NEW) Rotation support! (Adheres to system rotation setting)
• (NEW) App drawer icon centered!
• Labels removed from docked icons.
• Drop shadow removed from dock icons.
• Margins optimized to maximize space (where possible)
• 4x5 homescreen layout
• Page indicators removed, space reclaimed.
• Scrolling wallpapers.
• Page looping disabled (scrolling wallpapers looked like crap with this enabled).

Installation

1. Download/copy appropriate version to internal storage.
2. Boot into recovery.
3. Make a backup!
4. Flash/Reboot

ROM Developers/Cooks
I have no problem if you wish to include this in your custom ROMs, I only ask that you provide a link back to this thread so users can keep up on any updates. For those looking to perform manual edits, see here.

Changelog

• 1.0
  • Initial release
• 1.1
  • Reduced app drawer margin slightly due to text cropping.
  • Added 5th row to home.
• 1.2
  • Adjusted launcher to eliminate overlapping of launcher icon "hot areas" and 5th row widgets. [sinichi21]
  • Adjusted launcher width to reduce "squished" appearance [eortizr]
    Minimally Increased bottom padding on launcher to match positioning of icons (if any) on lockscreen
• 1.3
  • "Fixed" docked Messaging icon text re-appearing after a notification in portrait mode (still exists in Landscape)
  • Rotation support, and it respects your global rotation setting.
  • App drawer centered!
  • Re-adjusted margins a bit.
  • 4x6 App Drawer in portrait and 7x3 in landscape.
  • 80% app drawer translucency removed. (I'm not happy with how it appears on the screen, I'm working out a better method).
• 1.3.1
  • Fixed initial center app icon bug where app icon could sometimes be covered by another app icon when running TweakWiz for the first time.
  • Added optional NO_LANDSCAPE version (no rotation)
  • Added option NO_SCROLL version (no scrolling wallpaper, re-enabled page looping)

Known Bugs

• 
  Icon text re-appears below docked "Messaging" app after receiving notification in landscape only!

Custom
Like AOSP/ICS? Check out mrvirginia's custom version of TweakWiz! [link]


Thank you! A moment of your time, please..
As with all of my contributions (here and elsewhere), I do this for fun and expect nothing in return. However, I have received a couple donations in support of my work recently, and while much appreciated, they are unnecessary. In lieu of donations to myself, should you feel inclined, I would much prefer any monies be donated to the CNCF Hope (The Children's Neuroblastoma Cancer Foundation) instead. This is a cause very close to my heart and this organization would benefit much more from your donation than I ever would.

Again, no obligation or expectations -- a simple "Thanks!" would more than suffice.

Legend
NO_LANDSCAPE: Launcher rotation disabled, portrait only.
NO_SCROLL: No scolling wallpaper, page looping/infinite scroll is enabled.

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josephpatrick said:

does any one know what value to change to remove label from dock icons for touchwiz. thanks in advance

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carlos67 said:

I have had a look at my hotseat.smali file and it looks a little different to your modded one (in addition to your mods for centered app drawer icon). So, to be on the safe side, I have attached my SecLauncher2.apk file for you to tweak for centered app drawer only.

Remember, this is from GT-I9300 international version so that may explain why hotseat.smali looks a little different.

Thanks again. I love guys like you who push the boundaries and smash off those Samsung shackles.

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magn2o said:

I can't promise anything, but I'll poke around in here to see if I can uncover anything.

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carlos67 said:

Brilliant! Thank you so much for this. I am not a coder but I am going to try this........

1. Decompile my SecLauncher2.apk
2. As I only want a centred app drawer icon, swap the hotseat.smali file as this seems easier to do than editing an existing smali file.
3. Recompile apk and push back to /system/app
4. Enjoy.

Any reason this won't work? and thanks again for the time you have put into this.

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magn2o said:

HOWTO: Tweakwiz Manual Edits​

So more than a few people have been asking me how to do some of these modifications themselves, so I put together a quick list of the mods requiring smali edits. They are presented in GNU diff form and should be pretty self explanatory to anyone capable of modifying smali code.

Since these are original modifications (and they may seem simple), many hours went into experimenting and tweaking in order to find the right changes in order to achieve the desired result. Should you use any of these, I humbly request that you provide a link back to the OP as the originating source. Or, if you feel so inclined, perhaps a donation to CNCF Hope (The Children's Neuroblastoma Cancer Foundation)?

So, without further ado:

1. Center "All Apps" Icon
   
   
   

   • SecLauncher2.apk://smali.com/android/launcher2/Hotseat.smali
     
     Code:

     @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
      # static fields
      .field private static final TAG:Ljava/lang/String; = "Hotseat"
      
     -.field private static final sAllAppsButtonRank:I = 0x4
     +.field private static final sAllAppsButtonRank:I = 0x2
      
      
      # instance fields
     @@ -306,7 +306,7 @@
      
          .prologue
          .line 116
     -    const/4 v0, 0x4
     +    const/4 v0, 0x2
      
          if-ne p0, v0, :cond_0
      
     @@ -1915,7 +1915,7 @@
          .prologue
          const v12, 0x7f0e002a
      
     -    const/4 v11, 0x4
     +    const/4 v11, 0x2
      
          const/4 v3, 0x0
2. Enable launcher rotation (ie. landscape)
   
   
   

   • SecLauncher2.apk://smali.com/android/launcher2/Launcher.smali
     
     Code:

     @@ -7722,21 +7722,11 @@
      
          .line 338
          :cond_4
     -    invoke-virtual {p0}, Lcom/android/launcher2/Launcher;->getResources()Landroid/content/res/Resources;
     -
     -    move-result-object v8
     -
     -    invoke-virtual {v8}, Landroid/content/res/Resources;->getConfiguration()Landroid/content/res/Configuration;
     -
     -    move-result-object v8
     -
     -    iget v8, v8, Landroid/content/res/Configuration;->smallestScreenWidthDp:I
     -
     -    const/16 v9, 0x258
     +    :cond_8
     +    const/4 v8, -0x1
      
     -    if-ge v8, v9, :cond_8
     +    invoke-virtual {p0, v8}, Lcom/android/launcher2/Launcher;->setRequestedOrientation(I)V
      
     -    .line 341
          :goto_3
          return-void
      
     @@ -7829,12 +7819,6 @@
          .line 340
          .restart local v2       #filter:Landroid/content/IntentFilter;
          .restart local v3       #intent:Landroid/content/Intent;
     -    :cond_8
     -    const/4 v8, -0x1
     -
     -    invoke-virtual {p0, v8}, Lcom/android/launcher2/Launcher;->setRequestedOrientation(I)V
     -
     -    goto :goto_3
      .end method
      
      .method public onCreateOptionsMenu(Landroid/view/Menu;)Z
3. Disable page looping
   
   
   

   • SecLauncher2.apk://smali.com/android/launcher2/PagedView.smali
     
     Code:

     @@ -5240,7 +5240,7 @@
          .locals 2
      
          .prologue
     -    const/4 v0, 0x1
     +    const/4 v0, 0x0
      
          .line 531
          invoke-direct {p0}, Lcom/android/launcher2/PagedView;->isLoopingEnabledInCSC()Z
4. Remove icon shadows
   
   
   

   • SecLauncher2.apk://smali.com/android/launcher2/AppIconView.smali
     
     Code:

     @@ -1983,7 +1983,7 @@
          .locals 2
      
          .prologue
     -    const/4 v0, 0x1
     +    const/4 v0, 0x0
      
          .line 181
          iget v1, p0, Lcom/android/launcher2/AppIconView;->mIconDestination:I

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