More Android fiddling.
Jul. 31st, 2011 03:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
abortrephraseNuked my Desire Yet Again™. I had been running CyanogenMod 7.1RC1 with all the GO replacement parts (Launcher, Contacts, SMS, Keyboard), but I found that occasionally GO Launcher would go unresponsive -- which was deeply inconvenient at 1AM when I wanted to change the alarm clock! -- and CM7.1 simply ate too much of the built-in storage, particularly given the number of extra widgets and whatnot I was using.
So now it's Oxygen 2.1.6, which is a fairly stripped-back ROM based on AOSP 2.3.4. And I bit the bullet and paid for SBP Shell 3D. This is yet another replacement launcher for Android, and it comes with a bunch of rather well-designed widgets.
SBP made pretty much the best-regarded replacement shell for Windows Mobile, back in the day, so they've got a lot of experience doing this kind of thing. What they've done here is quite good, and I suppose once you consider the number of nicely-designed widgets they've included the $15 price tag isn't completely insane, even if it is pretty high by Android app standards.
And here's a screenshot of my "home" screen:
So now it's Oxygen 2.1.6, which is a fairly stripped-back ROM based on AOSP 2.3.4. And I bit the bullet and paid for SBP Shell 3D. This is yet another replacement launcher for Android, and it comes with a bunch of rather well-designed widgets.
SBP made pretty much the best-regarded replacement shell for Windows Mobile, back in the day, so they've got a lot of experience doing this kind of thing. What they've done here is quite good, and I suppose once you consider the number of nicely-designed widgets they've included the $15 price tag isn't completely insane, even if it is pretty high by Android app standards.
And here's a screenshot of my "home" screen: