Phone Thread #154
Before asking for a wallpaper, reverse image search it. This function is built into 4chan now. Its not hard to do.
>Resources for Android, iPhone and Windows phone.
http://pastebin.com/JzWPVMGP - General Resources: fonts, wallpapers, color palettes
http://www.mediafire.com/view/bu0e8ordiw0il3y/banner_tutuorial.png - 'Quick and Dirty' Banner Tutorial
>Android Guides:
http://pastebin.com/G3Zde2ga - Basics and terminology to know for android.
http://pastebin.com/KHk9ZuLF - Read this after the basic/terms guide, and before your "first time post"
http://pastebin.com/86gCz85D - Starting place for a customized android notification bar. Outdated
http://pastebin.com/vuXnm1wi - WebMs made easy
>iPhone Guides:
http://pastebin.com/qGHi8GRr - Crude iPhone ricing guide
http://pastebin.com/Zzj7aGzc - Jailbreak/theming guide
http://www.mediafire.com/?xptygbsj9eqos56 - Aiko Nation Theme.
>Windows Guides:
http://pastebin.com/nE6F3zVp - thals's /w/ Guide for Ricing&Hacking Windows Phone 7 and 8
http://i.imgur.com/znGGUeT.jpg - Infograph style guide
>IRC channel
http://www.rizon.net/chat/#/w/alls
>Old thread
>>1913818
>>1913818
posting latest rice
posting first rice
posting random PS job I did for timma years ago
>>1926618
Wallpaper plox.
>>1926623
puu sh/piaTp/866b97b812.png
added the Suu panel and handled the movement animations with KLWP
>>1926618
what icon pack is that?
Any opinion or advice on this? I'm a newfag on customization.
>>1926681
wallpaper?
>>1926681
Can't really see the folders on the bottom very well desu. Maybe try icons that don't blend in so much?
>>1926693
Actually, that was the idea. I wanted icons to look natural and not out of place because I wanted the focus on the wallpaper.
>>1926691
Here it is.
For basic touchwiz roms is Wanam module recommended?
Just installed it now and I'm really confused of it's theme section. It gets kinda annoying when you have to restart to see your changes take effect.
>>1926707
To add. I'm using a 5.0.
Changed it a bit.
New phone so I decided to move to something different. Still a work in progress so any comments or recommendations would be appreciated.
Also, is there a way to make the icons in the Poweramp widget more compact or to just remove the fast forward icons?
Think I'm really happy with mine now.
>>1926728
I like how it looks.
>>1926661
mix of glyphs by tokem and runes
Could the guy who made this give me the klwp .zip file? I'd love to customize this, thanks. Love your themes.
>>1925611
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/g4xgnq34aaujtjk/AABect-uBZlb5mi8mzh2QVL9a?dl=0
Files collected from the various anons of /w/.
>>1926736
Her best feature is her ahoge
![2016_06_06_03_44_52[1].webm](https://i.imgur.com/qIUaHSq.jpg "2016_06_06_03_44_52[1].webm")
>>1926381
Does anyone ever upload watch faces or would that be more suited for a different thread?
>>1926900
Did you use wanam exposed to change the color of your quick settings?
Any suggestions?
>>1926900
Source?
Three same framework themes I made for different wallpaper colors. Tapping the time opens clock/alarm, Tapping song name skips to next, text above it and progress bar pauses. Invisible box in between time and current song that opens current media playing app.
>>1926978
No, I just installed a theme lmao.
>>1926846
Good taste in im@s girls, anon.
>>1927094
Do you mind sharing the theme?
>>1926900
Who is this scrote goat?
Haven't uploaded in a while. Still haven't changed my rice at all. Don't know if I should add anything or just leave it be.
>>1927098
sd-black. I have a galaxy s6 so I'm not sure how it works for other phones.
>>1927027
It's completely personal preference, and I may be alone in this, but I absolutely hate your font choice.
I made my first some months ago and this is my second. Any opinion or advice about it?
Still a WIP but I like it so far. Constructive criticism welcome. T opens text F opens FB G opens google. Circle on right is battery, clock rotates back and forth subtlety. The hexagons also rotate
>>1927494
Why not spell out FGT?
>>1927439
I kinda dislike the F. Do you have any suggestions for fonts?
>>1927496
>Why not spell out FGT?
That is amazing idea why didn't I think of it
I really need some good wallpapers for my new iPhone 6S can someone please dump a few pics for me? I would really love something berserk or evangelion related but anything will be fine!
>>1927528
Make a thread famalam, this isn't really for requests far as I can tell. But in good spirit here's one
>>1927037
What widget are you using for the media player?
>>1927494
Background plz
>>1927573
Here yah go
Comments are appreciated.
Any ideas? I kind of like it but something just feels off or like it could be better.
>>1926824
Sorry, haven't checked these threads in a while. Hope this works: https://u.pomf.is/zrqxdy.klwp
Thanks, I'm glad someone likes them!
>>1926618
Cute, bit off-center vertically in the second screen but really nicely done. It's hard to pull off such a starkly contrasting theme, so well done.
>>1926972
Not him but that smaller font looks pretty good.
What is it?
>>1926974
I've never seen anyone do so but there's not exactly a watch face thread, so I'm hard-pressed to say if there's a general you could go to in order to post that. You might as well try here, honestly.
>>1927439
You're not, it doesn't work too well in my opinion either.
>>1927500
Personally, I'd stay away from handwritten fonts at sizes that large. If you're going for it, go for a sans-serif, rounded font (like Product Sans or Quicksand or what have you, just google/check dafont/etc. for sans serif fonts. There's loads of good ones). I would stay away from Helvetica, any "default" sans-serif font (i.e. Arial), and the likes since they might be 2edgy (as in, their edges would be too sharp to suit the softness of the image, I think). In the end, font choice is personal preference/basic design guidelines, so I'd strongly recommend perusing some sites with fonts to see ones you like.
>>1927037
Pretty neat idea, but it seems odd to try to expand your text in a vertical direction when you're using a horizontal bar (if that makes sense?). The blue on the third screen for the icons on top is kinda meh, I'd pick a more desaturated, lighter color to contrast more heavily with the bar.
>>1927840
>>1927037
About that one, the blue one was an older screenshot I didn't care to rechange my entire theme to update. I have a stamped light blue icon pack for exactly what you were talking about, and the bottom bar is higher to match it. I don't get what you're saying about the vertical text on a horizontal bar, but to explain I have a set width (dynamic text size) for the song name playing, because inbetween the clock and song name is an invisible box that opens up the current media player.
>>1927840
>Not him but that smaller font looks pretty good.
> What is it?
One of the roboto fonts, for the time/date I used the thicker robota fonts and for the music I used the thinner ones
>>1927861
Roger that. I mean having text stacked on top of each other, it makes more sense to have text laid out more horizontally than vertically in a horizontal bar (at least in my opinion), feel free to ignore that though.
>>1927893
Really! That looks surprisingly good with the Japanese text. Thanks for the heads up!
>>1927439
>>1927840
Thanks for the feedback!
>>1927935
Could you please deliver the wallpaper?
>>1927935
That's what these threads are for! This looks a lot better, I'd reconsider the font size for the left popup bar thing/add more stuff so the font can be smaller but that font is pretty tight.
Hey guys, i want to rice using this wallpaper as a framework.
I'm having serious problems trying to come up with a color that fits well with it, for the banners, icons, etc. The red blue/white clash too much with everything.
Any suggestions?
>>1927977
Here you go.
>>1927982
Alright thanks. I'll see what I can do.
First time doing this, any advice?
The "100" is the battery charge.
What do you guys use for a lockscreen? I'm using default right now but it feels kind of boring.
Also thanks to the anon who made the Mugi_Red preset and shared it, really liked the idea!
>>1920528
If you're still here, what resources did you use to learn how to do all that? I've been looking to do some animation like that for awhile.
>>1927991
Hope to see it.
>>1928112
I currently use Zui Locker, but there's a plethora of lockscreen apps (of varying decency) that have options that you might find more or less relevant to what you're trying to get. Do you think you could up that preset? I'd love to take a look at it, I didn't download it when it was still up.
>>1928145
If you've used klwp before, all of that can be achieved using the animate on bg scroll function just with different limits, speeds, and initial x axis placement of the panels.
>>1928207
I'm not the one who asked, but thanks for the info. Definitely seems like something fun to mess around with.
>>1926607
Here you go /w/, gf drew this for my bday and I know you all would appreciate
>>1928225
isnt this site for 18+?
>>1928226
>implying I'm underage
I just thought someone'd appreciate the effort. I guess not
>>1928225
Nice photo, but it's not even a rice.
>>1928112
That's so someone is using my theme! I like the color palette you've chosen, its very comfy.
My current setup could stand a change, but beach Mugi fits the season very well!
>>1928247
Neat, that's so neat...
>>1928197
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/76ycu0f3cicla01/AADYV-75F7e2vByi5KaDwCrOa?dl=0
That's most of the presets that have been posted by anons
Mugi_Red is the default of the one I'm currently using and thanks for the tips!
This is hard, I don't have a clue where to start. All I know is I want my phone to look pretty...
Either want the general theme to be something light and airy, and sky-like. Or pretty much the opposite, something dark, mostly black.
Kinda leaning towards the latter since it'd also have the added bonus of saving a ton of battery compared to the former.
Is there a booru of wallpapers or themes?
>>1928419
Well I'd recommend starting by downloading a launcher then KLWP and playing around with it for awhile
>One last lazy OP
>Timma leaving?????
RIP. Came by to say i'm finally making the ios to android jump this weekend but no fun without the OG's around ;-(
>>1929013
timma isn't leaving, just not making OP's.
>>1926607
Partly inspired by the third theme, on the right.
Now, time for ratings.
>>1927998
Not bad, but I would make those top numbers and icons smaller, consistent in size and posititon.
>>1928112
Damn, this is nice. A bit bright for my tastes though. I use the stock lockscreen, but with Lockscreen Widgets Xposed module to put my custom clock widget in.
>>1928145
It's just a lockscreen, and an iPhone one at that. Not bad drawing though, but it doesn't exactly make for the best wallpaper.
>>1928228
A nice rice, I always like a dark theme. I would fix the spacing on the clock text, you should move it up just slightly.
>>1928247
This would be almost perfect if the wallpaper was of higher resolution, and maybe blurred as well.
>>1929206
Here's a WEBM.
Download link for my KLWP setup: u.pomf.is/oqylug.klwp
Did this few weeks ago, sadly ideas got off and I couldn't continue it. Dumping before deleting.
Tried to do a NERV rice. Any advice?
>>1926860
link is broken
Tell me how shit it is
someone please post the original to this, can't find it anywhere
>>1929418
it was posted last thread
>>1929394
It's not that bad, just needs the text to be fixed. Might be tricky with that wallpaper.
>>1929423
was it archived?
>>1929438
Will this work?
>>1929442
Still is a bit hard to read.
>>1929458
Thanks, I'll work something out and try again.
>>1929458
I tried to go as simple as possible.
>>1927374
Do you mind sharing the theme? widgets, background, etc.
>>1926900
How the fuck did you get her to float? Spoonfeed me everything.
>>1929652
Probably using loop with return and scaling in on klwp.
>>1929681
I don't know how to use it.
>>1929210
What did you use for your player. Fucking nice.
>>1929630
Everything is misaligned.
anyone knows the icon pack in pic related?
>>1929206
could you post your papes pls senpai?
>>1929693
I use Phonograph as a music player.
>>1929779
Sure, here's the Lockscreen one first.
>>1929790
Homescreen #1
>>1929662
Thanks man. The lockscreen purple text is supposed to match the background.
>>1929792
Homescreen #2
Thoughts?I'm not really the best at this kinda thing...
Can someone help me with this?
All I need are banners and maybe a new wallpaper
>>1929682
Then learn how. It's easy.
how do i change icon spacing with nova
Go to settings
>>1929883
padding is changing anything
and nothing else is
Writing on this.
>>1929790
So the audio frequency bars were a widget?
>>1929931
those are from an xposed module
>>1927695
>Comments are appreciated.
Do u use KLWP? How u added this font?
>>1929975
Do u play osu? This app is broken
>>1926728
Original?
>>1926607
>>>1926607
>>>>1926728
>>1929999
How do you choose working maps? For me a lot of maps crashing game.
Pic after added first map
>>1926607
>>>1929999
Map downloaded and copied there
>>1926607
>>>1926607
>>>>1929999
Then I open osu and install itself
>>1928247
just curious
whats that heart icon for
>>1929945
>those are from an xposed module
Ah what a shame. I like xposed module but so many applications block it. Which just makes this phone a decorative item.
>>1930067
It opens clover. Wasn't sure what other icon in the material set in KLWP worked.
>>1929790
So I tried Phonograph, pretty good. Looks slick but its still far from being fully functional as something like poweramp. I really hope the dev pushes better with the development. I wanna ditch this god damn tacky poweramp. I don't mind if he makes a pro version. Wouldn't mind shelling a few changes.
Does anyone know if there is a launcher that works similar to z-launcher but doesn't have the clock on the home screen? Or if anyone knows how to get rid of the clock on the home screen that'd be neat too.
Threw this one together earlier today. My phone was lacking in Rory so I decided to change that.
Didn't know there was a Kustom Widget. Anyone tried it? Hows the interaction with KLWP?
>>1930162
I use it a bit. It works well with KLWP since you can copy things you made in KLWP and paste them directly into KWGT. The main downside is that KWGT doesn't support animations so I only use it for more simple things like my lockscreen widget. Other than animations, I think all the other features are the same
>>1930134
I assume you're using klwp, can you post your rice or config?
>>1930136
What do you use Poweramp for? The equalizer?
If you have root, you could just use Viper4Android to get system-level equalizer on all your music apps and such.
Got to a state where I don't totally hate it.
>>1927374
wallpaper, please?
>>1926736
picture, cant seem to find it on search
Does anybody know what icon theme they used
>>1930192
https://u.pomf.is/sfubbs.klwp this is the kwlp file
>>1927374
Mind sharing the klwp .zip?
>>1926900
Link to the kwlp file?
>>1929372
Looks ebin!
New to KLWP and I'm trying to make 3 pages.
If an image goes above the 720 mark is there a way for it to just show what fits within the 720 mark without extending onto the other pages?
I have two of them that no matter what I do in PS they end up not showing quite right within KLWP unless I adjust, so right now they're at 748.
Fixed it up myself.
Feedback would be appreciated.
Thanks ^.^
>>1930791
Crop it or make it scroll
>>1930824
Yeah, I've tried cropping in PS, but when placed in KLWP the way it scales effectively negates the crop. And I have Animate - Bg Scroll => Scroll.
Okay, lads, what color should the clock and my Shuttle+ widget be?
>>1930825
Try increasing the speed in the animation, for whatever reason that seems to move it more and effectively makes it so you don't see the edges. I usually find 200 is a good speed but you might need more
>>1930871
It's personal taste, but I think cyan contrasts well with most colors
>>1930878
Wow. Wtf? Had to bump it a bit over 200, but that did it perfectly. Thanks so much, mate.
>>1927561
Not using a widget, just KLWP
>>1930281
heres the original
First time ricing phone, un-rooted
>>1931065
hide the navbar
>>1931066
Thanks, looks better
There's a red ghostly notification bar whenever my device is full screen (including on my home screen when I hide the top bar). It doesn't show up in screenshots however (which is why I didn't include one). Is this a known problem with android 6.0? I'm sorry if this isn't the right thread, but I'm posting here because it's ruining my rice.
>>1931090
What device? Sounds like colour burn
>>1931090
Sounds like color burn. Is it present in all apps that are full screen? Is it only on one side of the screen?
>>1931070
Can you share the klwp config file?
>Where's your config?
>Give me your config.
>Post your config.
>Why haven't you posted your config yet? And where's my money, that you should give me, for the privilege of knowing I'm using what you worked on and will be taking credit for making it?
Summer is back again.
>>1931344
please share config...please...please...please...share...please...please
What do you guys use for your twitter feeds and RSS feeds?
>>1931377
feedly for rss
>>1931495
>>>/wg/
>>1931498
not really a fan of /wg/ but alright
>>1929013
>>1929189
I'm still debating on if I'm full on leaving or not. I'm done with the OP stuff now though for sure. I've been making them for at least 130 of these threads and here lately my activity has been damn near nothing. Whoever is making the OP images should be someone active and who's keeping up the with trends in the threads. This shift to using KLWP and making webms showcasing animations and various popup's has really changed the feel in here and after, like, what, 5 years now my heart just isn't in it. All that coupled with this kind of attitude >>1931365 (both the summer fag shit and all the config requesting) and I'm ready to find a new hobby. Might pick up gunpla or something. idk. I'll try to get a couple rice related images up before the thread dies, but no promises.
>>1931556
RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP. Ima miss you tho lmao ;-( I've definitely noticed a change in atmosphere in these threads but since i'm never around due to work destorying me lately I don't see it as much. Gunpla is cool, i'm getting into figure collecting (or more so figures I always wanted but had no money to get lmao). Oh well i'll come up with a cool design for my phone before you decide to call it quits so I can say I have reached max Android life.
>>1931587
Can you share your configs? Pls...pls..I can't make any..pls
>>1929348
If you could share that gif you used it'd be pretty neat of you senpai.
i dont know what im doing help
>>1931699
Original ?
>>1931710
yeah
haven't really done this stuff ever i just messed with klwp and nova
So surprisingly there are no good Nerv phone wallpapers. All I am looking for is the nice red logo centered in the screen. None. Would be for my S6.
Original? Please ^^
>>1931761
SHARE CONFIGS WIT ME TOO
>>1928227
>drawn on notebook paper
>i'm not underage guys i promise!!
Made this for my friend a couple of weeks ago, thoughts?
>>1931556
I feel like webms aren't bad as long as there is some sort of reason for them. I think it's pretty cool to be able to see how the whole setup works cohesively, rather than just seeing static images. I will say though that I've noticed - and I've only been here for a little over a year now - that people are just lazy af and the general quality of these threads has definitely dropped off even in the short time I've been here lol. Idk what it is; I feel like there are just more kids or something (which would explain the shitty rices and constant asking for help/spoon-feeding). I guess that's the struggle of enjoying a medium primarily aimed at kids/teens lol
>>1931892
The webms aren't bad most of the time, and I will agree it's cool to see some of the things worked out. But it's what comes after one cool webm is posted, or in some cases a thread full of them. The "first world problem" is making an op when all images posted are lackluster and all the webm posts take to much effort to get into an op. The larger one is the how all discussions have just died. Feedback and suggestions used to be a big part here. Even kids could be pointed the right direction to crank out some good shit. Now it's just demands for klwp presets. Which in itself I disagree with because it's a little different than asking for uccw uzips.
>>1931607
Don't. The scene has changed and I'm old and set in my ways.
>>1929945
which one?
>>1931699
From the thumbnail I somehow thought that was the Seele logo as icons
This needs to be made
>>1931713
Not that guy and I can't tell if you're trolling, but he's asking for the wallpaper not the config.
>>1931761
>^^
>>1931560
>;-(
>lmao
>>1931762
>>1930004
osu!droid is really bad, try https://github.com/fluddokt/opsu
>>1931928
I get the point of getting somewhat pissed about sharing configs since it does encourage lazy shit to not exert any effort at all but webms?
Webms are great and provide good inspiration for those who really want to rice their phones.
>>1932067
He's not pissed about webms, they are just an inconvenience. If you read what he's saying they are cool, he not saying he's pissed. The dynamic of the thread has changed and he's just not following that trend.
I didn't do a lot of changes, since I'm still trying to learn how to do a lot of things on klwp. Suggestions are welcome.
>>1932025
Was wondering where all this was coming from, totally forgot. Two more months of this to go, then...
my new lock screen thanks based nips
>>1929372
pls tell how did
>>1931556
Aww, I just got an android phone again and Timma's leaving. :( Stay well, Timma.
What >>192>>1926628
What icons did you use for the dock icons
>>1930884
No problem, I had some trouble with it till I started messing around with settings seeing what stuff does
Pretty happy with it so far, any ideas?
>>1932409
Suggestions?
>>1929206
How do I get my phone looking like yours?
New to this whole ricing thing.
>>1932452
Not him, but start off with a launcher like Nova, and KLWP.
>>1932457
Try things until you like how its looking
>>1932464
but how did he get it to slide up and down? with different wallpapers?
>>1932486
But my point and what I wanted was something like his.
>>1932276
It's really easy to make in KLWP. Just play around with text options.
What is happening to this thread?
>>1932566
More and more people demanding to be spoonfed and in reaction more and more people are getting pissed.
>>1932579
Yeah I started doing this a few weeks ago, but never once did I askfor help or how it was done or anything. People should just learn to use google and play around with KWLP before they post. Obviously questions are okay but the amount of spoonfeeding these people need is insane
>>1932592
Hate to shit on you summerfags but KLWP encourages the lazy ricing and spoofeeding, it's a great tool, but boy does it bring you guys in.
>>1932597
What makes you think I'm a summerfag?
And I was agreeing that the amount of spoonfeeding people need is ridiculous
>>1931928
Before you leave do you have any tips for ricing 5.0 touch wiz stock roms? I was tempted to switch to AOSP roms but I'll lose S Pen capabilities on my Note 3. Thinking of manually messing with xmls since wanam is an unfinished mess. Also xposed is not an option for me as many of the applications block me from using them when its installed. Really stuck with the choices I have right now. Only thing I'm using right now is KLWP. Still have to work on lockscreen as well.
>>1932566
I really dig the layout and colors. What font are you using btw?
>>1931782
Why does drawing on notebook paper automatically count as underage?
>>1926734
>Joey bada$$
My nigga
>>1931560
I'lll lurk around a bit for it ;^)
>>1931587
>Gtfo
I just might
>>1931607
to elaborate on what I had here, >>1931928, I've shared plenty of UCCW widgets, and some tasker stuff in the past. I've even help create some for people in the threads. The way they are shared and used it what changes things. Simple examples to build upon go further than "here is a full blown cut and paste ready to go theme". So long as one person at least learned from that shared theme then some good was done.
>>1932067
Pretty much what >>1932091 said. What part outside of the "muh OP is hard to do". Seeing what is possible is a great source of inspiration. Rather than in text "If I tap here this will open, and this element bounces" you can visually see it much better. Thats why I made that easy webm guide. My gripe is discussion and feedback has died down a lot. General composition critiques are a minority now, where as "post the config" is a majority of the posts.
>>1932597
Its not much lazier than requesting a psd file and a couple uccw/zooper widgets.
>>1932635
I don't I haven't been on TouchWiz since android 4.2 on the GS3. All my rice ever involved was a wallpaper and widgets. As far as themes or skins for the overall UI, I generally avoided them. Even when using aosp. A custom launcher with the notification bar hidden and some clever widgets goes a long way. If I posted a gallery of all the rices I've used telling me which was TW and which was AOSP would be hard to do.
At most I'd recommend rooting and getting xposed running. A couple root privileges goes a long way.
What's wrong with spoonfeeding? Why can't you guys help each other out? Everyone is new at some point. If you help them out the first time they get some basis on how to do things, instead of going blind and having no clue what to do.
>>1932866
People tend to take these layouts, alter the wallpaper or colours a bit and post it up as something completely different
>>1932885
Nice bait.
>>1932699
Thanks! I'm using Motiva Sans.
>>1932866
To me, the issue >>1932885 describes is relatively minor, if one at all. People just don't bother to learn anything. These threads aren't to post pretty themes and circlejerk about them and to share configs; they're to discuss, critique, and (through both of those things) learn. Posting klwp zips just completely cuts out the middlemen of discussing and critiquing (thus bypassing learning) and goes straight to "here's a cut-and-paste, ready-to-go theme. You don't have to do jack shit, just use this!" which is what the Play Store themes are for, not this thread.
>If you help them out the first time they get some basis on how to do things
Giving them the answer isn't the way to do this. Put it this way: would you teach someone to fish by giving them a fish without explaining how you got it, what you did to catch it, and how they can improve on their technique? Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach him to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime. Everyone is new at some point, you're very right, but that doesn't mean that they'll become more experienced by people giving them the solutions to every problem they come by without any effort whatsoever on their part. It's the same thing you see with people demanding to be spoonfed configs or wallpapers, just general laziness, lack of agency, and entitlement. That's what spoonfeeding is. It isn't a positive thing or a helpful thing by any means, which is why it is so derisively looked upon by pretty much anyone who isn't either a newfag or a summerfag in these threads.
>>1932908
To continue, as someone who's been around here for a decent while (I was the iPhone 3G anon before I switched to Android, if anyone remembers. I wasn't that memorable but I'm sure I was the only one) it's very sad to see what was a somewhat vibrant, somewhat nurturing thread (there were definitely copycats, beggars, newfags, and so on) to shitpost central. You can't be surprised that someone would take issue with this, and I'm glad I'm not the only one who is. Maybe I'm just a cranky geezer relative to these threads but it's just incredibly frustrating to see what the "scene" has become. Sorry for the rant, but yeah. I just hope that people learn to come here to learn and not get spoonfed configs/themes/setups and, what's more, feel like they should get them without any input on their part whatsoever. I get tinkering and learning from it and those aren't the types I'm talking about, but rather the people who leech off others in order to get config files and never discuss, never critique other's rices, and so on.
That said, in general the quality of rices in this thread is kind of difficult to comment on politely. I'm not sure why it's suddenly dipped so low (sorry to be blunt, but it really has compared to previous threads, and I didn't think I'd ever say that), but that may be another issue altogether.
>>1932924
I'll bite, what are you trying to say? From what I understand of the term spoonfeeding, it is completely the opposite of conducive to learning and so I simply cannot see what you are trying to get. These threads, again, aren't meant to circlejerk with sharing our configs. If the OP isn't enough indication, it's meant to discuss and learn how to rice, and then share those rices and critique/improve on them. How does spoonfeeding fit into this process?
>>1932927
What I'm trying to say is, that if some guy wants a similar layout or whatever it would be better to teach them how to do it instead of just giving them 1file up and done.
>>1932908
I get the whole "teach a man to fish..." analogy but there is a lot to say about having a good example or template to learn from. Granted most don't analyze or attempt to learn from them at all. Imagine a math book without examples in the front of each chapter. The publisher could say it's spoonfeeding but seeing the end product is a great way to learn a process.
>>1932928
This is pretty much what I'm trying to say as well though. I want people to learn how to do something rather than getting spoonfed, that was sort of the entire point of my post.
>>1932929
>I get tinkering and learning from it and those aren't the types I'm talking about, but rather the people who leech off others in order to get config files and never discuss, never critique other's rices, and so on.
I agree. I've looked at themes myself to see how they work and learn something from them. I know there are likely others ITT who do the same. But those aren't the types I was referring to (as mentioned in the quote above). I'm referring to the probable "most" of the posters who don't actually try to learn from the configs they request.
>>1932933
I'd explain how I set it up, from where I started to where I finished. That's actually mine, so I could if you want me to. I don't mind posting the config, since I don't really care if someone uses it (I lose nothing for it, after all) but yeah, I'll write up a post on how I did it, then. It isn't really tradition to do that with every post though (as is easy to see) and I've gladly done it in the past before, for what it's worth. Takes a little more effort but it's easily worth it, just more people ask "Post config?" instead of "How'd you do that?"
>>1932933
Alright, so here I go.
I always start off ricing with a sketch of the layout I'm going for. Pic related, it's not a very complex set of sketches at all and it's more for me to figure out what the hell I'm doing than for artistic anything. It's just easier for me to figure this out now than before I begin, since I can then work towards a cohesive whole concept rather than piecing together elements one at a time haphazardly. I went through a few different layouts and what I need in them — for example, a sketch where the music was instead represented with a bar containing the cover art for the album currently playing instead of just the music info text (I scrapped that idea because it took up too much room in my opinion) and some similar ideas that I ultimately decided I didn't like as much. I usually only really need a set of app icons for my most-used apps, a clock, and music controls, but sometimes I like to try to add more if I can. This time, I decided not to. When I decided on one, I looked for some wallpapers on pixiv and danbooru, as well as flickr and /wg/. I settled on a few and went through the process of elimination to decide on only two, which took a while to be honest since there were a few I was very fond of. I usually have the most trouble with picking wallpapers.
From there, it's all KLWP (unless I'm using Tasker). I'll get into that in a follow-up post since it can be difficult to explain in a short way (and I'm closer to the character limit than not).
>>1932952
Waiting warmly.
>>1932948
The reason why is probably because good, in-depth guides on KLWP are far and few between. There's this guide: http://www.jagwar.de/kustom-beginners-guide-part-1-klwp-basics/
But it isn't all-encompassing by any means, and, in my experience, the best way to learn KLWP was just to dive into it blind and figure it out. It's incredibly intuitive in most ways and fiddling with it is often enough to get you to understand most of it. The guides in the OP and the guide I linked are just that — guides, not tutorials. So there's some active learning/practice/etc. required, I think. Nobody's here to hold your hand, y'know?
That said, here's the KLWP portion of what I did.
Rarely, I make a framework of what I'm going for. This is because I fuck up frequently. I'll change something that doesn't work as well as I thought it would or I'll just completely alter the sketch I'd been working off, and then my framework is no good anymore. I usually start off with setting some globals; globals for my bitmaps ("n" for the normalfag wall/non-anime wall, "a" for the anime wall, a font global, and n/alight as well as n/adark color globals just to make it easier on my poor fingers and save time. For this theme, I also added dark and light color globals, since I didn't really use n/adark variants; I used the same "dark" color for the bottom rectangle for both the normal/anime walls, and the same "light" color as well. Alight and nlight instead were used as the blue/green in the theme that you see. I also set up a global font (Motiva Sans) as the "main" font and got to work. First off, I set up a bitmap as the "wall"/background. In this case, it was just easier to do that than use the native background feature, but sometimes I use that instead if I can. I used a formula to change the bitmap between the two n and a global bitmaps based on my SSID (if my SSID = [SSID name], then use "a", if not, then use "n").
Continued in the next post.
>>1932957
Wall set up, and now it's time for the rectangles/bars. I set up an overlap group and in the overlap group made two stack groups, one for the two rectangles (the blue/green and the #303030 one) and the other for the content of the top rectangle (so the clock/date and the battery/sms/email counts). This might seem counter-intuitive or overly complex but it made the most sense to me at the time. At any rate, the stack group for the rectangles should be pretty easy to figure out: literally two rectangle shape elements, the top as a shorter one and the bottom as a longer one. The stack group for the clock/date and notification counts is a little trickier but still super simple since it's all done in KLWP. In the stack group for the clock/date, etc. I used another 2 stack groups, one for the clock/date and the other for the notification counts. The clock/date stack group is easy enough, just a stack group with two text elements (one for the clock, one for the date). For the notification counts stack group, I set up three more stack groups within, each for each individual app. For the battery icon, I set up a formula so that if the power source was AC or USB, the icon would be battery_charging_full and battery_std if not, so that the battery would show a charging icon if it was connected and a non-charging icon if it wasn't. The other element in the battery stack group was just a text element for the battery percent. The sms/email count stack groups are similar but simpler, with each stack group containing just a Material icon font element and a text element with the relevant notification count using KLWP's native ni() feature (very handy stuff, otherwise I'd have to have used Tasker and that makes this longer to explain).
>>1932955
This will take a few posts, so sit tight.
>>1932960
Top bar is done! Now for the bottom/longer rectangle, I set up an overlap group which contains a stack group that contains a stack group for the apps (which in and of itself contains three stack groups for each row of icons), a dividing bar (which is just a rectangle shape element), and another stack group for the music info, which contains two fonticons elements for the previous/next buttons and a stack group for the music title/artist text elements.
That's pretty much it for the bottom rectangle. Lots of nested elements so it's important to keep track, but other than that, not difficult. Make sure to keep track of touch elements for the apps, music controls, and music info (I personally set it so that the music info plays/pauses my music when I touch it, but that's not really orthodox I think).
Last but not least, I set up a progress bar for the music playtime, and set the colors so that the FG color was transparent and the BG color was the n/alight (blue/green) colors.
That's pretty much it. Sorry, I thought this would take longer to explain. Any questions, feel free to ask. But yeah, if you ask me, most of ricing is really intuitive or just takes a bit of thinking/mapping it out in your head before you blindly decide to start. There's parts where I get tripped up and have to stop to figure it out (such as when an element feels wildly out of place or a theme feels empty) but with practice you get a feel for what looks okay and what just doesn't, and personal preference/tastes play a role in it too.
>>1932963
As for personal preferences/tastes, those can come up in a variety of ways. For example, I like more painterly walls, myself, with less pop-y colors but enough color to not be darkasmysoul.png if you catch my drift. Some people like mechs (shoutout to Timma), some people like super stark contrast setups, etc. It's tough to make a one-size-fits-all rice. Ricing is very personalized, and it should be. But design isn't as subjective and I think it'd be nice if more people looked up color theory tutorials or general design principles, too. After all, both personal taste and a good understanding of design are important in ricing. So yeah, again, if any questions come up, feel free to ask. I'm happy to try to teach how I did this.
>>1932965
I'm to retarded for this but thanks for trying.
>>1932966
That's a pretty sad thing to say and I'm sorry you feel that way, but, at the risk of being rude, why do you think that? Is my explanation too difficult to understand? I can try to help. It's a pity to give up.
>>1932969
I have legit brain problems so it takes me longer to learn than others but if you have an email maybe I can contact you?
>>1932971
Oh, got you. Thought you were being figurative there. Yeah, sure, I don't like giving it out but why not. Feel free to email me. I know 4chan isn't too kind towards reddit but the r/androidthemes subreddit is pretty OK (not wholly /w/ material though) if you're looking for more help, as well.
>>1932972
I'm a fool and forgot to include my email. [email protected], feel free to email at your leisure. I am often busy and don't check it too often (daily, at maximum), as a heads up.
>>1932933
I've been around for around 3 to 4 years now and how things went when I started lurking these threads was that some anon would ask something like this
>How did you make this anon?
And the response would be something like
>I made this using [Photoshop/UCCW/Zooper/Widget Locker/______ Launcher]
The response was really made to point people in the direction to go and if they didn't understand something they would come back and ask more questions (Usually about specific parts of a rice). And because they were given the tools to recreate a rice anons would come and ask HOW to make certain things instead of just asking for the widgets themselves (Though there were people that did that). There's a learning process here and often would help others make their own rices while in a way curating the community within these threads. Those who were willing to learn stuck around and those that didn't left.
Things have changed now and I guess it's just where rice has been heading.
Not sure if I answered any question that's been asked and I'm pretty sure this is just a rant but I'll post it anyways.
>>1932975
sent an email don't know if you got it
