ADW Launcher EX now available on Xoom

ritalin · May 17, 2011

Besides some of the issues posted above, I have another complaint. As of 3.1 and ADW 1.3.3 there seems to be a bug with the wallpaper. It seems to add more wallpaper then the crop template does normally, IE it makes my wallpaper template show smaller in the crop tool then it should. That and the fact that wallpaper setup in the normal launcher gets pushed upwards when in ADW...

As if wallpaper was not a big enough pain in the ass to begin with on this device.

risq · May 17, 2011

Its broken the facez Facebook widget too.

Why one developer hasn't made a universal set of Widgets I don't know. I'm thinking of commissioning some as I'd like them all to line up properly and all look the same ( smoked to same aphla, same curved edges etc) its so annoying having slightly different alphas, slightly different dimensions (even at same column/row settings)

Grrrr

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bigrushdog · May 17, 2011

I'm running 1.3.3 and it is a 1000 times better. My only regret is the loss of screen real estate where the logo and menu button are. Regarding the logo, I'm gonna replace it with a transparent .png and resign the apk. Also Pure Calendar widget is still borked. But I think its the widget and not the launcher. Also the 4d drawer icon labels are fixed.

kev0153 · May 17, 2011

bigrushdog said:
I'm running 1.3.3 and it is a 1000 times better. My only regret is the loss of screen real estate where the logo and menu button are. Regarding the logo, I'm gonna replace it with a transparent .png and resign the apk. Also Pure Calendar widget is still borked. But I think its the widget and not the launcher. Also the 4d drawer icon labels are fixed.

BRD, thanks for the update, I like 1.3.3 on my phone and would like to use it on the xoom as it so much smoother than previous version. Same complaints with the loss of the real estate on the top. You also loose some on the sides if you enable the hidden dockbar.

I'd be interested in that transparent logo when you get it ready.

Thanks

risq · May 17, 2011

What would be even better is if you can have it so that the adw logo becomes the app drawer button. I want it like the stock launcher, but with the transitions different app drawer and resizeable Widgets. Is that possible?

I wanna know why there is branding on a paid product too. That shouldn't be there in my opinion as its ugly!!!

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djsaad1 · May 17, 2011

risq said:
What would be even better is if you can have it so that the adw logo becomes the app drawer button. I want it like the stock launcher, but with the transitions different app drawer and resizeable Widgets. Is that possible?

I wanna know why there is branding on a paid product too. That shouldn't be there in my opinion as its ugly!!!

Sent from my Xoom using XDA Premium App

Whats weird is that it's not there when I install it on my phone, the top bar seems to only be there on the xoom. I am yet to see any galaxy tab owners complaining about it.

forlorn110 · May 19, 2011

switching between launchers

is there a way to switch between adw and stock? for some reason i can't, even with home switcher...

shmigao · May 19, 2011

forlorn110 said:
is there a way to switch between adw and stock? for some reason i can't, even with home switcher...

Launcher switcher works for me (hc3.0)

forlorn110 · May 19, 2011

Sorry I had ADW uninstalled and re-installed it and I wasn't clear the first time. I want to play around with ADW, but want to keep the stock launcher as default. Anyway to do that?

shmigao · May 19, 2011

forlorn110 said:
Sorry I had ADW uninstalled and re-installed it and I wasn't clear the first time. I want to play around with ADW, but want to keep the stock launcher as default. Anyway to do that?

Download "Launcher Switcher" from the market

forlorn110 · May 19, 2011

I have Launcher Switcher installed. When I open it up, it says I have no default launcher and I'm not sure how to make stock launcher my default? Thanks for helping me out.

shmigao · May 19, 2011

forlorn110 said:
I have Launcher Switcher installed. When I open it up, it says I have no default launcher and I'm not sure how to make stock launcher my default? Thanks for helping me out.

yep, sorry, i just noticed that too... i thought it was working, but when i hit home button, i went back to ADW ex, although i wanted back to default home

so, no perfect solution for 2 home apps right now...

ritalin · May 19, 2011

shmigao said:
yep, sorry, i just noticed that too... i thought it was working, but when i hit home button, i went back to ADW ex, although i wanted back to default home

so, no perfect solution for 2 home apps right now...

Ok so here is the best method for dual or more home desktops.

Lets say you want the normal 3.1 launcher as your default desktop. Go ahead and set it as default. Now you will need Launcher Pro to accomplish this, so go ahead and side load it.
Now long press your desktop and then choose more.
Under more choose Activities.
Under activities choose ADW Launcher EX, then choose org.adwfreak.launcher.Launcher

This will create a shortcut that is a direct link to the launcher itself on your desktop. I know your thinking, why no just use a regular shortcut to ADW? Well the answer is that this method has no stutter at all.

You can accomplish the same thing in ADW if you prefer that as your default by choosing custom shortcut, and then activities.

kev0153 · Jun 6, 2011

So I modified the logos in the upper left hand corner to transparent versions. Looks much better. I was going to post the apk but since this is a paid app I won't. I do have the logos if anybody wants to replace them.

Botero · Jun 6, 2011

That looks great. Can you give a quick write up of how to do it?

kev0153 · Jun 6, 2011

In a nutshell. Find the apk on your xoom in data/apps and get it onto your computer with whatever method you like. You can use adb pull or I just uploaded it to my dropbox account using root explorer.

I used apk manager to unpack the file. Replace the two icons in drawable hdpi and drawable mdpi (probably only need hdpi but I did both) with the attached icons. Rename to ic_launcher_home.png before moving. I zipped up the file and resigned using apk manager and sideload to the xoom using dropbox. Uninstall the current ADW and reinstall the new package.

In hindsight I probably could have just opened the apk in winrar and just replaced the icons but I went the apk manager route.

Botero · Jun 7, 2011

kev0153 said:
In a nutshell. Find the apk on your xoom in data/apps and get it onto your computer with whatever method you like. You can use adb pull or I just uploaded it to my dropbox account using root explorer.

I used apk manager to unpack the file. Replace the two icons in drawable hdpi and drawable mdpi (probably only need hdpi but I did both) with the attached icons. Rename to ic_launcher_home.png before moving. I zipped up the file and resigned using apk manager and sideload to the xoom using dropbox. Uninstall the current ADW and reinstall the new package.

In hindsight I probably could have just opened the apk in winrar and just replaced the icons but I went the apk manager route.

Thanks. I'm going to try it this morning.

Sent from my Xoom that Tiamat made good...

kev0153 · Jun 7, 2011

Botero said:
Thanks. I'm going to try it this morning.

Sent from my Xoom that Tiamat made good...

I just saw that my attached transparent images are a little hard to see.

Here are dropbox links

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6542496/ic_launcher_home_hdpi.png

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6542496/ic_launcher_home_mdpi.png

Mr Bland · Jun 7, 2011

kev0153 said:
In a nutshell. Find the apk on your xoom in data/apps and get it onto your computer with whatever method you like. You can use adb pull or I just uploaded it to my dropbox account using root explorer.

I used apk manager to unpack the file. Replace the two icons in drawable hdpi and drawable mdpi (probably only need hdpi but I did both) with the attached icons. Rename to ic_launcher_home.png before moving. I zipped up the file and resigned using apk manager and sideload to the xoom using dropbox. Uninstall the current ADW and reinstall the new package.

In hindsight I probably could have just opened the apk in winrar and just replaced the icons but I went the apk manager route.

Thank-you very much. Just as a fyi you can do this same process on your xoom using NinjaMorph pro. It cost a couple of bucks to get the app but it makes it easier by eliminating the need to transfer to a computer.

bpick · Jun 9, 2011

This maybe a tad off topic but.... I have this issue with ADW EX where when I have the stock Email, Gmail or Calendar widgets it will switch to whichever home screen the widget is on when I rotate. Has anyone else had this happen.

Searching doesnt yield very many results and no resolution. Just curious and this is an ADW thread so I thought, why not ask.

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