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iFont(Easy to change font)

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 04:19:39 +0000

iFont is a new mobile phone font software, integration of dozens of beautiful fonts, easy to change the font, you have a happy mood every day, love life, love fonts.

★★★★Support Galaxy S4 without Root change font★★★★
Main functions:
1.Support Samsung, XiaoMi (MIUI), Meizu phone perfect replacement font
2.Support Htc, Sony, Motolora phone replacement font(Need Root)
3.Support to modify the font size, support for custom fonts
4.Automatic backup fonts easily restore the factory font
5.Without any ad.

Recent changes:
1.Fixed: Galaxy S4 unable to modify the font
2.Fixed: Samsung unroot phone can not replace the custom font
3.Added: Japanese Translation
4.Added: Download server

Toy Story: Live Wallpaper

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 08:15:44 +0000

Hang out with the Toy Story gang in this interactive live wallpaper app. Personalize your phone with a fun, animated background that’s packed with excitement!

Enter Andy's Room, and step into the Toy Story universe on your very own device. This wallpaper will visually brighten your day and provide additional entertainment with amusing, interactive activities!

• Encounter popular Toy Story characters: Interact with objects in Andy’s Room to unlock up to 5 characters from Toy Story including Woody, Buzz, Rex, Hamm, and the Aliens!
• Collect points for more items in your room: Catch falling army men, and hit the bullseye on the dart board to earn valuable points that you can apply towards unlocks!
• See Andy's room change from sunrise to sunset: Watch the room change throughout the day according to your local time!
• Customize your own cork board: Write fun messages and reminders on the cork board in Andy's Room!

The Toys are waiting in Andy's Room; come on over today!

How to setup your Toy Story Live Wall paper once you have installed the app:
1. On your home screen, place a finger on the display and long press
2. From the menu that pops up, select “Wallpapers”
3. From here, select “Live Wallpapers”
4. Here you will see Toy Story: Live Wallpaper
5. Hit "Set Wallpaper"

Recent changes:
Now supports Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages!

How to setup your Toy Story Live Wallpaper once you have installed the app:
1. On your home screen, place a finger on the display and long press
2. From the menu that pops up, select “Wallpapers”
3. From here, select “Live Wallpapers”
4. Here, you will see Toy Story: Live Wallpaper
5. Hit "Set Wallpaper"

WhatsApp Wallpaper

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:44:13 +0000

Wallpaper package to support WhatsApp Messenger

To use our wallpapers:
1) install and launch WhatsApp Messenger
2) start a conversation with a friend
3) choose Menu > WallPaper > WhatsApp

Recent changes:
add more wallpaper.

GOWidget Theme - Transparency

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:31:46 +0000

GOWidget Transparent Theme, designed by Go Launcher Dev Team, is available now! Transparent, black, crystal as a design element, so your GOWidget looks special, make full sense of science and technology. Get it and have a completely new makeover of your GO Launcher!

How to Change GOWidgets’theme?
-Long press on your GOWidget, press the Skin option and choose the Transparent Theme.

★Make sure you have already installed GO Launcher EX whose version is higher than 2.39. You should also update your widget to latest version.

Theme supports the following GOWidget:
-GO Calendar Widget V2.3 or higher
-GO Contacts Widget V1.5 or higher
-GO Message Widget V1.5 or higher
-GO Search Widget V1.1 or higher
-GO TaskManager WidgetV1.3 or higher
-GO FBWidget V1.2 or higher
-GO Twitter Widget V1.2 or higher
-GO WeiboWidget V1.0 or higher
-GO Switch Widget V1.2 or higher
-GO Bookmark Widget V1.1 or higher
-GO Email Widget V1.0 or higher

Recent changes:
1. (Improved)Improve the resources of Sina widget.

Ultimate custom widget (UCCW)

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:41:26 +0000

Make your own widgets easily in a WYSIWYG (What-you-see-is-what-you-get) editor. Use custom layout, fonts, images, shapes, interesting objects like series clocks, weather information with icons,
unread sms and gmail counts, battery information with bars and pie graphs, analog clocks, TASKER VARIABLES and more. Use hotspots to assign actions to widget.
Does not require programming, editing xml files or rooting your phone. Share your creations easily either through uzip files or make apks and post on Google play.
Or keep your unique widgets to yourself and tease others.

The reviews say it all

"It is a clock widget that allows probably thousands of combinations you can start with, and from there, the ability to tweak and change every setting of every element to your heart’s content" - Android Tapp

"This is the type of app that designers tend to flock to, as it gives them an outlet to share their styles and influences through tons of Android devices. " - Droid-life

"UCCW is an app that will allow you to create a custom clock in minutes, thus satisfying your OCD’s every whim regarding aesthetics" - xda-developers

UCCW features in detail:

1) The following objects are available in widgets:
- time and date elements
- Week bar
- Analog clock
- Static texts
- Battery level, battery status, battery bar (solid and barcode) and battery circle
- Weather elements like current temperature, condition, humidity, wind speed, icon, minimum temperature, maximum temperature, forecasts etc.
- Shapes
- Images
- Unread counts for Gmail, sms and missed calls
- Next alarm time
- Series clocks and series time and date elements
- TASKER VARIABLES

2) Each objects has various options like size, color, alpha (transparency), rotation (angle) etc. to satisfy your most needs. Examples are using images for widget background, hour and minute objects;
using custom texts for time and date objects and weather conditions etc.

3) You don't need experience in coding, or knowledge of xml files. Root not required.

4) Use custom fonts easily. Put your fonts in 'sdcard/fonts' and set them in the app.

5) Assign custom images, made in photoshop, gimp or paint, from gallery or file explorers.

6) Make your own analog clocks.

7) Make your own weather widgets. Adorn them with weather icons. UCCW supports different weather icons during night.

8) Import/ export, save skins for easy sharing. Post skins on Google play - see below.

9) Set hotspots on widgets. Hotspots are clickable areas on UCCW widget that perform action when touched. Actions are launching apps, opening alarm clock or update weather.

10) Use custom text option for time and date elements and weather condition. Useful for translation or having your own custom values to show in place of the default ones.

Skins:

Search Google play or visit website link for examples of skins.

To post your UCCW skins in Google play follow this link for further information:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1901170

Notes: 

Please don't ask questions in google play feedback. There is no way to answer you back. Either email me or post question on website link. Email link is given in app.

Issues:

1) Widget may not update if killed by task killers. Kindly exclude UCCW in task killers.
2) If you get force closes uninstall app and install again. Send me logcat if possible.
3) Clock not updating is an issue with the stock MIUI v4 launcher. Use different launcher if clock does not update.
4) Google play skins may not appear for some custom roms or if you changed screen density.

Help with translation:

Visit this page to help with uccw translation:
http://goo.gl/3gaEO

Permissions explained:

write external storage - to export skins.
accsess network state - for weather data and google ads.
read contacts - for number of missed calls.
read sms - for text messages unread count.
LOCATION - for weather.

Recent changes:
Version 2.8.5
1. Skins can have higher resolution
2. Shadows for shapes
3. Improvements to weather
4. Improvements to image fonts (now full names like 01.png also supported)
5. Other small changes

Thanks to blackbearblanc (xda) for the new icon.

Minimalistic Text

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 20:51:05 +0000

Minimalistic Text is a widget app that displays information in a minimalistic way.
It can be configured to display time, date, battery and weather information. The layout of the widget is highly customizable through the layout editor.

YouTube videos:
Barcode Battery Bar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPsug6jQ3o4
Use custom fonts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ou_kaXfyiU

Supported languages:
* English
* Danish
* German
* Greek
* Dutch
* Polish
* Norwegian
* French
* Croatian
* Serbian
* Czech
* Spanish
* Estonian
* Italian
* Portuguese
* Hungarian
* Russian
* Swedish
* Simplified Chinese
* Traditional Chinese
* Slovak
* Afrikaans
* Slovenian
* Hebrew
* Bulgarian
* Catalan
* Korean
* Turkish
* Finnish
* Ukrainian

Explanations for the permission requests:
** android.permission.VIBRATE **
used in the layout editor to give feedback that an item has been dragged
** android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION **
used by the weather service to get your coarse location and retrieve the weather for it
** android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE **
needed to determine if the weather data can be fetched
** android.permission.INTERNET **
needed to actually retrieve the weather data and to get the name of the location you are
** android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED **
needed to be able to wait until the phone booted before initializing
** android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE **
to gain access to your SD card and save the preferences to it
** android.permission.GET_TASKS **
used to determine if the home screen is currently active. This is used by the automatic rendering option
** android.permission.CHANGE_COMPONENT_ENABLED_STATE **
To enable / disable widget sizes
** android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE **
To support WiFi variables
** android.permission.READ_CALENDAR **
To support calendar events
** com.android.vending.BILLING **
To support In-App donation
** de.devmil.minimaltext.permission.USE_DIRECT_CALL_ADDON **
allows Minimalisitc Text to use the Minimalistic Text direct call addon (if it is installed)

>>Donate App<<
If you have the donate/pro app installed then you will get early access to new features and the ads will be removed.

To get the donate/pro app search for "Minimalistic Text (donate)" in the market.

If you have any problems, write me an email!

Now with Buzz Launcher support! Minimalistic Text can be restored exactly the way it has been packed using the Buzz Launcher. This way you can share your complete Homescreen easy with other Buzz Launcher users!
Download Buzz Launcher here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.buzzpia.aqua.launcher

Please don't use the comments for feature requests or bugs. You can write me an email (develmil@googlemail.com). (Of course you still can rate lower due to bugs or missing features)

Tasker integration:
1) add a Locale variable to your layout and set the variable name (click it)
2) in Tasker select Plugins -> Minimalistic Text for an action
3) Click "Edit", a new activity starts
4) enter the name of the variable and the text that should be displayed for this variable (you can use Tasker variables)
done

Wiki: wiki.devmil.de

Recent changes:
3.0.10.4.1
- fixed a FC - sorry
3.0.10.4
- new translations (Finnish, Ukrainian)
- performance improvements
3.0.10
- Hebrew support
- When Minimalistic Text has a problem updating the widgets it will now force close. Please send the error report!
- added preset selection
- Fixed Yahoo weather
- Variable multi-add
3.0.x
- Complete new widget settings menu
- Buzz Launcher support
- Improved UI performance
- added volume variables
- text icons
- help texts

Apex Launcher

Sat, 04 Aug 2012 17:22:03 +0000

Apex Launcher helps you create a customized homescreen experience on your Android (4.0+) device.

"Fantastic app that has the potential to give your phone a complete makeover. I highly recommend it." - MakeUseOf
"Even after a lot of customization, Apex Launcher feels super fast." - Pocket Now
"We must say it is as smooth as butter." - Droid Life

Five Best Android Launchers - Lifehacker
The 25 Tastiest Apps for Ice Cream Sandwich - PCMag
Must-have apps for the Nexus 7 - ZDNet

Features:
• Customizable homescreen grid size and up to 9 homescreens
• Scrollable dock with up to 7 icons per page and up to 5 pages
• Infinite & elastic scrolling (homescreen, drawer and dock)
• Fancy transition effects (tablet, cube, etc.)
• Hide elements as you want (persistent search bar, status bar, or even the dock)
• Customizable icons and labels for shortcuts and folders
• Choose different folder preview styles and background
• Multiple drawer styles (transparent/opaque, horizontal/vertical, paginated/continuous)
• Drawer apps sorting (title, install date, mostly used)
• Hide apps from the drawer
• Lock your desktop to prevent accidental changes
• Enjoy homescreen gestures (pinch, swipe up/down, double tap)
• Advanced theme engine (icon packs, skins, etc.)
• Backup/restore settings and data
• Optimized for both phones and tablets
• Lots of other customization options!

Apex Launcher Pro (Paid Version) Features:
• Powerful drawer customizations (unlimited drawer tabs, folders in drawer)
• Unread count notifications (provided by the free Apex Notifier extension)
• Dock swipe actions (swipe up and down actions)
• More gesture options (two-finger gestures)
• Additional transition effects (accordion, cross, etc.)
• Flexible theme options (ADW, LauncherPro, Go Launcher themes)
• Enhanced folder support (batch add, merge folders)
• Advanced widget options (widgets in dock, overlapping widgets)
• More features on the way!

Tips:
• Pinch the screen to access screen previews (like Exposé or HTC Sense).
• Long press an icon to drag and drop it over another one to create a folder.
• Long press icons/folders on the desktop and choose edit from the popup menu to customize icons and labels.
• Drag, hover, and drop app icons over the delete button at the top of the screen to quickly uninstall apps.
• Long press an app in the hide apps list to quickly launch that app.
• Switch to single screen wallpaper mode to fix wallpaper zooming issues.
• Enable the Root Helper in advanced settings (root required, Android 4.0 only) to add widgets from the drawer.

Permissions:
• Access widget data: Only used to create and display widgets on the homescreen. (Android 4.1+ only)
• Application information: Used to display warnings when other launchers are running.
• Control vibration/Status Bar/Wallpaper: Standard launcher functions.
• Network communication: Used for anonymous usage/error reporting (optional).
• Phone calls: Used when you create direct-dial shortcuts on the homescreen.
• Storage: Used to backup/restore settings and desktop data.
• Superuser: Required to add widgets from the drawer (Android 4.0 only).

Love Apex Launcher? Rate us on Google Play. We’re always trying to make Apex Launcher better. If you have questions or suggestions, please share them with us!

Recent changes:
v2.0.1
* Folder background transparency
* Transparent status bar for HTC devices (may require root)
* Bug fixes and minor UI improvements
* Updated translations

v2.0.0
* Folders in the app drawer (pro)
* Integration with Apex Notifier (pro)
* Notification badge style options (pro)
* Improved activity picker and wallpaper chooser
* Re-organized and improved settings menu
* Disabled auto update checks by default
* Removed permissions for notifications
* Various fixes and improvements

GO Launcher EX

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 18:45:01 +0000

GO Launcher EX is the most popular Android home launcher replacement app in Google Play. It offers you many first-ever features to customize your own homescreen experience. Go launcher EX provides you speedy and smooth operation, fancy and plentiful themes, and utility functions with imagination.

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/GO-Launcher-EX/110639522355878

Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/golauncher

Key Features:
☆ Extremely smooth transition animation
☆ Smooth flipping operation
☆ More than 5000 personalized themes
☆ Amazing custom gestures feature offers you more convenience and fun
☆ Various GO widgets (weather, switcher, calendar…)
☆ Efficient and strong app management function, including sorting, hide app, search, cleaning memory and refresh.

New features:
- Supports GO Launcher super themes (more homescreen effects),the last pic above is our "Dryad Super Theme".(Search "Dryad" in google paly, it's free to download)
- Draw patterns to active apps (double click on home screen to active custom gesture)
- Squeezing effect of icons and widgets (Jelly Bean style)

Tips
1. How to get themes, widgets and lockers?
a) Search ‘go launcher theme’, ‘go widget’ or ‘go locker’ in Android Market.
b) Use GO Store via menu button in GO Launcher.
2. How to set transition animation?
Use ‘Effects settings’ via button in GO Launcher.
3. Icons are too small?
Use ‘Icon Size’ option in ‘Preferences->Visual settings->Icons’ to make icons bigger.
3. Long press the app icon to enter editing mode on home screen and app drawer.
4. Glide up to open menu and glide down to pull down notification.
5. The widgets in the screenshots belong to GO Widget, attainable from Android Market or GO Store.
6. File browser can be found in the lower left of app drawer.
7. Process management feature is found down the running tab of app drawer. Clicking the broom icon and clean the memory.

Important:
1. GO Launcher is a totally free app without any charge.
2. If you cannot set ‘GO Launcher’ as the default home app, download ‘Home Manager’ to fix it.
3. ‘DIRECTLY CALL PHONE NUMBERS’ permission?
It's required by the feature to create shortcuts of ‘person’ and ‘direct dial’. GO Launcher won't make unattended phone call and cost your money.
5. ‘READ CONTACT DATA’ permission?
It's required by the feature to create 'person' shortcut as well as to add contact folder.

Our commitments are respecting user privacy and delivering cool experience. Please help us by rating this app and recommending to the others.
Want an extreme makeover to your phone? Try it out!
Follow Us on
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/GO-Launcher-EX/110639522355878
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/golauncher
Owned by and Visit 3G.cn Through Your Mobile.
Copyright 2004-2012 All Rights Reserved.

Recent changes:
1. (New) Add the feature to auto-clean unuseful icons on homescreen
2. (New) Know the upcoming features in advance via Preferences-> About
3. (New) Toucher theme switch supported(Menu-Add-Theme-Toucher)

PicSpeed HD Wallpapers 500,000

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 01:45:01 +0000

The BIGGEST collection of TOP QUALITY background images for any taste. Every picture is FREE and AMAZING!
Fastest wallpaper app with over 500,000+ images. All backgrounds are high quality, high definition images.

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Description
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Picspeed HD Wallpapers is the most reliable and well-known android backgrounds application, with a large collection of unique, high quality images. We maintain quality and user interest by adding 100 cool,fresh pictures every day; all you have to do is open the "today's wallpapers" section and see for yourself. You can also use the app to crop, rotate and scale backgrounds or let the app cycle through your favorite images. Download backgrounds from our app with the push of a button. Images are grouped in 400 categories, so you cand find anything you can think of, including popular choises like cars backgrounds or 3d images.

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Features
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- Everything is free, all the pictures
- 500,000+ hd wallpapers
- Save and download hd pictures
- Automatic image changer
- Wallpaper editor
- Share backgrounds
- Favorite pictures
- Search for backgrounds
- List or Grid picture viewing
- Feedback / Report a problem interface
- Fast, intuitive interface
- Category / Subcategory easy to use
- Find wallpapers
- Compatible with Go Launcher, Apex, Nova and many other

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Special sections
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- Today's wallpapers : 100 new backgrounds every day, with more than 500 days to browse in the past
- Colors : 50k pictures grouped in 100+ specially picked colors; very usefull when using color themes in some android launchers
- Favorites : Images picked by you, the ones that you like the most. Also used by the automatic background changer
- All categories: HUGE picture groups ordered alphabetically for easy wallpapers find. These range from anime backgrounds to nature and more.

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Top web reviews
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"This app is a huge collection of HD wallpapers for your Android phone or tablet. All you need is an internet connection to start browsing thousands of high-quality images. Once you have found the background you like, you can save it to your device, or share it via social networks such as Facebook and Twitter." - softpedia.com

"There is absolutely no way you won’t find a few different wallpapers that you just can’t live with out." - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuy-yhPpiro - androidspin.com

"an app like Picspeed HD Wallpapers should be one of the first things that you download." - t3.com

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User reviews
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"Gladly giving 5 stars. All wallpapers HD quality and variety is impressing. Good, good work... Thank you." - Oleg

"What a dream selection of high quality FREE downloadable images. This app is state of the art and runs smoothly and quickly on my Atrix HD device. A far cry from the wallpaper "hunt" and limited option to download that was the norm a year or two ago. No need to get caught up with apps that don't deliver the goods. Love PicSpeed." - Stevie

"Excellent. Very good quality pictures and a lot to choose from. Best app of its kind out there."

"I have tried all of the apps in search for the best wallpapers. Picspeed has the best HD defined pics that look amazing on your phone." - Krista

Spanish user review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RwLH5BHusQ

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Thank you
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Thank you for installing and supporting this free product. Let us know what you think!

Recent changes:
Fixed "Change storage path" in Preferences
Better on Galaxy S3, Nexus, Tablets
Save now works with max resolution images
Adding images every day
Save images to SD
Share feature
Automatic Wallpaper changer
Crop, rotate, zoom

Please use "Report problem" from app menu if wallpaper is not set properly. Thank you!

Backgrounds and Wallpapers HD

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:18:19 +0000

## Unique & Superb quality Wallpapers Hand Picked by OGQ ###

The OGQ Backgrounds HD has huge selections of unique and high quality images with category support. It is the Fastest Wallpaper app with easy and intuitive user interface.

** Features **
✔ 1,600+ Unique & High quality images Hand Picked by OGQ
✔ New Unique & Superb quality Images added Daily
✔ The Fastest Wallpaper app with easy and intuitive user interface
✔ Search wallpapers by category, popular, favorite features
✔ Easy to share beautiful images through SNS such as Facebook, Twitter

** Wallpaper Categories **
The OGQ HD Wallpapers includes Animal, Buildings, Cats and Dogs, Cars, Colorful, Flowers, Food, Girly, Heart, Illustration, Love, Monochrome, Nature, Paintings, Patterns, People, Pink, Quotes, Sky, Sports, Texture, Travel, Trees, Universe, Vintage and s going to continue to be added.

The OGQ HD Wallpapers and Backgrounds is the best Android Wallpaper app, which is also known as Wallpapers, Wallpaper, Backgrounds, Live Wallpaper, beautiful images, photos, pictures, and artist drawings.

Copyright © 2011-2012 OGQ Corp., Inc. All rights reserved.

Recent changes:
- The Fastest Wallpaper app even got Faster
- New Superb quality images added Daily
- More efficient use of memory