How to enable Transition Effects on G1!!!!!

[afbcamaro]

If you guys want your phone to be able to use transition effects (very fast and nice) like google had when they were demoing how flash will work, just follow these steps. You will also gain a lot of cool little features like cpu load viewer etc.

First go to the market and download Apps Installer. Then download the files I just uploaded.(unzip)

Copy the files you just downloaded to your root sdcard
Run App installer and Look for Dev tools. Install that. It might as you to allow untrusted applications to run. Click on allow then finish install

Then run the program dev tools
Click on Development Settings
and Change
Windows animation scale to 1x
Transition animation scare to 1x
and light hinting

Exit and play with your phone HAHA!! It beautiful.

You have a couple of extra options as well as Cpu load metter, process display, maximum thread open allow limit etc.

Anyways have fun!

PS. Also added API Demos. :-)


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The transition effect does not use up any extra juice to run. This app was used by google in order to test speed of builds and also as a quick way to stress when developing.

I would suggest limiting processes to a minimum of 4 or living it on no app process limit.

If you go below three what happens is that when you start certain built in features the phone spawns several process at the same time, and since it is limited it will force close the app you called. for testing purposes 3 or below is fine but not for daily usage.

Immediately destroy applications has an effect of eventually slowing down your phone since the app has to be reloaded at every use instead of "caching" it in memory. We have more than enough memory for android on this phone. Again to keep things lean and fast I would only use 4 for processes as a minimum. (This is personal choice, remember some apps that you might like run in the background and this may shut them down in order to comply with your policy of limiting the apps.

*These apps where extracted from the android SDK and is used by developers and google for testing. Google went the safe route and disabled features :-)

DroidSans has implemented this find into his application, so you can now get this at the Market

[enritt]

how about a little video to show the claimed beauty?

[afbcamaro]

It will take 10 minutes to enable yourself. I would do a video but my coworker has a G1 LOL no video recording!! :-)

[Biohazard827]

Both apps work great. The option to see the graph for the g sensors is fun to play with, and the transitions look pretty sweet.

[Koush]

Originally Posted by afbcamaro If you guys want your phone to be able to use transition effects (very fast and nice) like google had when they were demoing how flash will work, just follow these steps. You will also gain a lot of cool little features like cpu load viewer etc. First go to the market and download Apps Installer. Then download the files I just uploaded.(unzip) Copy the files you just downloaded to your root sdcard Run App installer and Look for Dev tools. Install that. It might as you to allow untrusted applications to run. Click on allow then finish install Then run the program dev tools Click on Development Settings and Change Windows animation scale to 1x Transition animation scare to 1x and light hinting Exit and play with your phone HAHA!! It beautiful. You have a couple of extra options as well as Cpu load metter, process display, maximum thread open allow limit etc. Anyways have fun! PS. Also added API Demos. :-)

Both of those apps are part of the SDK and can be extracted from the emulator. I was briefly looking at the code to gauge the difficulty of adding custom effects:
Ie, i wanted windows to zoom in and out when switching between applications, and to slide when switching between windows within the same application. More natural that way. I think thats what the iPhone does too. Looks pretty easy to do though.

[afbcamaro]

Precisely, I was playing with the sdk and remembered the dev tool so I adb pulled and it worked beutifull. I am looking at the code too see what can happen

[dwang]

Does this actually improve the performance of the system? Meaning does it making browsing faster or is it just eye candy?

Originally Posted by afbcamaro If you guys want your phone to be able to use transition effects (very fast and nice) like google had when they were demoing how flash will work, just follow these steps. You will also gain a lot of cool little features like cpu load viewer etc. First go to the market and download Apps Installer. Then download the files I just uploaded.(unzip) Copy the files you just downloaded to your root sdcard Run App installer and Look for Dev tools. Install that. It might as you to allow untrusted applications to run. Click on allow then finish install Then run the program dev tools Click on Development Settings and Change Windows animation scale to 1x Transition animation scare to 1x and light hinting Exit and play with your phone HAHA!! It beautiful. You have a couple of extra options as well as Cpu load metter, process display, maximum thread open allow limit etc. Anyways have fun! PS. Also added API Demos. :-)

[Datruesurfer]

That's really cool... thanks for the tip

[tigershouse]

It works great, thanks for the tutorial.

[hanumantmk]

Installing via the web browser or apps installer fails for me (for the Development.apk)

Message isn't terribly helpful (application install unsuccessful), anyone know of a good place to look in logs to catch what's happening here?