Launcher 7 - Donate v1.1.6.5


The Winphone 7 lookalike launcher, almost like the real thing and in some ways even better!


Requires Android: 2.1+

Release Date: February 20, 2012


Features:

- 1x1, 2x1 and 1x2 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
- Filterable application list
- Stock wp7-like colors and color selection

FAQ:

- 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 1x1 tile to 172x172 pixels in HDPI resolution. I managed to measure the tiles wrong when I started developing L7 and tiles have been too big ever since. 172x172 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 :P ]
- fixed issue where async loader no longer delivered new contact images to contact tiles
- fixed issue where multiple contact tiles wasted extra memory

What's in this version:

_ 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

Screenshots
 
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Enjoy and Please SeeD :)