Current Version: 1.1.6.5
Requires Android: 2.1 and up
Category: Tools
V1.1.6.5 update:
application caching added
1.1.6.1 – uninstall crash fixed
1.1.6.2 – stock accent no longer messes up global theme color
1.1.6.4 – some tuning to cache process, attempts to avoid duplicate entries
1.1.6.5 – more tweaks for duplicates while caching
Overview:
Ad-free version of Launcher 7.
The Winphone 7 lookalike launcher, almost like the real thing and in some ways even better!
Features:
- 1×1, 2×1 and 1×2 tiles with configurable colors
- Widgets in a tile! (provided that widget fits)
- Almost real like tile animation
- Almost real like tile re-arrange mode
- Almost real like status bar
- Animated contacts tile (supports G+ synced contacts)
- Pinnable contact-tile which animates like the real phone
- Folder tiles
- Webpage tiles
- Picture hub (use with care, it needs memory!!!!)
- Filterable application list
- Stock wp7-like colors and color selection
FAQ:
- PICTURE HUB NEEDS A LOT OF MEMORY! IF YOU ENCOUNTER PROBLEMS, STOP USING THE TILE – THERE IS NO WAY TO MAKE MEMORY FOOTPRINT SMALLER, OR INCREASE MEMORY ON YOUR DEVICE
- Initial setup may be broken depending on your phone manufacturer, you probably need to replace the tiles
- To add new application to main screen, long press on an application in application drawer and select “pin to home screen”
- Filtered apps can be restored from the launcher settings fitered apps page
- Tiles can be made transparent by adjusting the alpha value from the horizontal bar on the color selector
- All bitmaps must fit inside 48 megabyte heap (high-end phones, lower-end phones even less than that), so don’t try to use too many 25 megabyte bitmaps on your tiles or you will see FC.
- Gmail tile will not work anymore, use Mail tile instead
- By default WP7 statusbar shows icons only if you touch it. You can adjust the functionality from statusbar options
- “Smaller tiles” will make 1×1 tile to 172×172 pixels in HDPI resolution. I managed to measure the tiles wrong when I started developing L7 and tiles have been too big ever since. 172×172 tiles seem to be faster too, so I suggest you to try them!
TODO-list:
- folder of contacts tile
- revamp the application icon addition (allow text color selection etc)
- App integration (Twitter, Facebook etc.)
- two-sided tiles
- cropping tool to make custom bitmap selection easier
Changelog
Version 1.1.5
- Picture hub is now available
- Shortcuts can be assigned to tiles [BIG NOTE: you can only add shortcut to an existing app tile, so pin something from app drawer and modify it to contain shortcut]
- Wp7-style statusbar has been updated
- fixed an issue with background polling
- error reporting updated
- Create default tiles-button will now show only once, L7 settings will let you create the default tiles if you miss the prompt
- 1.1.5.5: enabled large heap on ICS to reduce OOM:s
- added warning to picture hub
- OOMing picture hub or contact tile shouldn’t block rendering the rest of the tiles (unless they run out of memory too, in which case you are totally out of luck)
- Data connectivity state is no longer displayed if data connection is off
- Couple of stupid crashes fixed
Version 1.1.4
- rotating tiles have made an epic return
- orientation lock on the first page will enable / disable real landscape mode, the rotating tiles is back in animation options and will have function ONLY and ONLY if you lock the orientation to portrait
- sluggish ICS scrolling fixed [really, this time I actually activated the APK 
]
- fixed issue where async loader no longer delivered new contact images to contact tiles
- fixed issue where multiple contact tiles wasted extra memory
Mail me if you wish to learn more about the folder themes, how to make one and how to improve them in the future
Permissions:
android.permission.READ_SMS – SMS tile
READ_CONTACTS – contacts tile
INTERNET – ads <3
GET_ACCOUNTS – calendar tile
READ_GMAIL – gmail tile (2.2+2.1)
READ_CALENDAR – calendar tile
WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE – backup/restore
CHANGE_NETWORK_STATE – statusbar
READ_PHONE_STATE – statusbar
ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE – statusbar
ACCESS_WIFI_STATE – statusbar
EXPAND_STATUS_BAR -statusbar
Code:MrsLlZR6
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