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Good job on this whole project, please don’t take the donate button away…I like to donate to new features too, not just themes…I can make those already! Lol! Keep it up ANDERWEBS! BAD CODER? I wish I was as bad as you are then!

This looks awesome and I have loved the previous versions. Keep up the good work sir….

ADW 1.0 is awesome. Glitchy, but it works. I’m sure kinks will be worked out soon. I’m using ADW.Theme.One btw.

Great job!

Sorry if I am posting this in the wrong spot but i cant seem to find the correct one.

ADW is awesome and I am loving the swipe guestures.

Will you be adding a notification counter for things like text or email? I noticed launcher pro has this feature so I am guessing it can be done. Just to be clear what I am talking about here is when I recieve a text while in HTC sence I get a 1 above the text icon show I have 1 new text. Also one flaw in launcher pro is the counter only works with text and the gmail app. It doesnt work with the regulare mail app the one I happen to use lol.

Anyway ADW is way to sweet to switch back to launcher pro so ill be sticking it out hoping you plan to impliment this. Either way I am going to donate. This is some awesome work and ill show my apprication with a donation. :)

Fantastic update thank you for all the hard work. Are user created themes an option? Is there documentation somewhere for the theming gurus to do their magic with?

Using ADW.Theme.Black slight modified right now… loving the update – no glitches here so far (stock ROM DInc). Gonna try White shortly… thanks for all your hard work on this.

Eagerly waiting for clarification on the naming scheme for market app icons in drawable for themes.

However, I would like to say that you totally just eliminated the need for apps such as BetterCut and FolderOrganizer. They are probably going to sue you for undercutting their business. :D

Will someone post the apk? I cannot download it from the market. I get “Incompatible update” or some other error.

Great work! Been using ADW Launcher for the better part of a moth now on my Sprint Hero. It’s nice to see a free/donation-based launcher that finally supports themes. Just updated and immediately snagged your ADW One theme. Again, great work! Looking forward to seeing your theme template when you post it!

Just wanted to say thanks for the amazing work! This has brought my X10 to a level that I never thought possible with this handset.

you shouldn’t take down your donations field. I’ll try and give back a little joy once I can.

Hi, fantastic launcher but..
I’ve just updated the adw launcher, tried 2 themes and then returned to the standard one that I prefer…

now I’ve got serious problem in moving (and so deleting) widgets!!
they are not selectable anymore!
just some of them are movable if I click on the corners…
everything is fine instead with the normal apps icons

please anderweb can u upload the apk here because i have a problem with the market and i cant download anything

Sorry for my bad english.

Thanks for this update.

I report a bug. We can’t move widget by holding an action area on this widget. So We can’t move a 1×1 widget with an action area on this ( per exemple: the tesla flashlight widget or a simple toggle widget)

Hi,

Thanks for all hard work on this. I’ve bought your themes and will donate too :)

One thing, with the 1.0 update, it now takes a lot longer to select icons through long press if you wanna move them around :)

Other than that it works fine for me (I’ve changed the dots to the slide bar paginator which was making the status bar look very thick)

Once again, thank you.

Thankyou so much for all your work on this app, there’s no question of using any other launcher now, ADW is the very best!

However with the update to 1.0.0, there seems to be an inappropriately large gap at the top of my home screen now, it kinda messes up my widget spacing. Here are screenshots before and after:
http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/329/adw090.png
http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/2312/adw100.png

man you’re calling this a major update you even make it paid app n’ yet it’s still not better then launcherPro
install launcherPro n’ try to add something that he didnt added to your launcher

till now his work is a hell a lot better AND FREE !!

Hi Ander. Loving the update! The themes are a great addition to a fantastic launcher.

One suggestion: within a theme, make is possible to choose from default icons and theme icons. I may like most of the icons in a theme, but not all of them. Or, more likely, I may want to use themed icons on just my dockbar, or just my LAB/RAB, or just one homescreen. I don’t love the mix of themed/unthemed icons on the same homescreen, and obviously can’t expect anyone to theme every single icon!

To reiterate, great work. Do you think it would be easy to implement that suggestion? Maybe split at the “add” menu, to applications and themed applications.

Great update for the best launcher out there! I like your free themes better, so I tried to donate again, but it didn’t work again. I’ll try to figure out how I donated last time. It’s amazing how you could keep making something really good even better with every update!

Do you plan to include the text count or email count at all in any future updates? For instance, when I get a new text it should show a 1 above the text message showing I got 1 new text. Same with email. Any plans to add that into futur updates or not likly?

Thanks for the incredibale launcher.

I agree with Jamie, not loving the gap at the top when using dots. My dots fade out too, and I don’t think there’s a need to leave a gap for them. I was happy with them appearing over the widgets.

Fantastic home replacement though! Definitely my permanent.

Saw this app in Droid market Love it how do I get it to work

Just wanted to chime in with my gratitude! This launcher alone has gone a tremendous way towards making my recently purchased Samsung Behold II not be a piece of sucky trash..

Can someone please tell me how this works????? It was recommended to me and I don’t know how to launch it or anything. Thanks

Zac :
Will someone post the apk? I cannot download it from the market. I get “Incompatible update” or some other error.

The other error I get is “package was not signed correctly”. I deleted every trace of it on my phone and still get the same issue.

Hi,

Great Job !

Could it be possible to permit using physical buttons to switch between screens ? (like htc sense does).

It would be a great feature.

Best regards.

Can any one post a link for .apk because I don’t have access to the market?

1.0 breaks my Beautiful home widget. It usually touches the sides and top of the screen but now its shifted down and left maybe 20px each direction. (Had to restore to 0.9 again)

you fixed the widgets problems!! I love you mate!! :D

Looks great! Theme support is a nice idea to make the app even more customizable.
But im still missing an option to hide icons from launcher, what in my opinion belongs to customisation (dont know if this word exists but i hope you know what i wanna say) Perhaps in next update?

Thanks in advance!

Hi! Just installed your launcher application on my HTC Desire, but even after rebooting the handset, I don’t see anything changed on the home screen… How does the launcher launch? :-) What should I do to use it? Any documentation?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Please release your themes on alternative markets such as AndAppStore, I want to buy some, but I have no access to Market as of now.

Even if screen scrolls, I want you to have setting not to move wall paper

Ander Web… you should add to the Drawer Settings… different scrolling up and down effects…i don’t know how difficult it is… but sounds like a good idea to maximize your customize launcher

Since you’ve moved to a paid application, will ADW still be available for developers to include in their roms? Or is this not a problem because you’re selling themes? Just wondering.

Is there anyway to disable the swipe up and down function? Perhaps by adding a (x)disable option to each swipe up/down setting? I like to swipe up the app drawer and this obviously prevents that.

Also, anyway to disable the widget-size prompt feature?

I’m running cyanogenmod 6.0rc1 on a G1, which comes with ADW, but I installed the market one anyway. That’s okay, right?

One longstanding android annoyance is how hard it is to move items between panels. Maybe it’s my G1, but I find myself sliding a widget up and down on the side of the screen trying to get the switch-panel action to occur. I end up deleting everything and recreating, which can be annoying for widgets with custom settings.

It would be cool when dragging an item, any horizontal motion will cause to the desktop to scroll with the item smoothly, as opposed to snapping between panels only at the edges. Increasing the horizontal movement sensitivity during drags, proportional to the number of desktop panels, will allow one to quickly move an item to the far end of the desktop.

I want you to add an option not to move wallpaper even if screen scrolls

Love this launcher have been using for awhile now. there is only one thing i think needs looked at. when i save my settings and layout, then install new rom and then let everything download. i restore my settings and layout. well the settings restore just fine but my layout doesn’t it replaces everything on my desktops but puts problem loading widgets. on everything but the power control widget. but other than that annoying little thing. i love love love this launcher.

Feature suggestions:
1) (easy) implement a “hide application” list. If an application is added to the list, it won’t be visible in the drawer. This can be a benefit for two reasons; a) eliminate unwanted system applications without breaking the system, b) makes it possible to MOVE an application to the home screen — user might not WANT the application to appear in both places. Implementation of this is easy: during the drawer propagation loop, check if (application is on the list), don’t show. Add item to list by expanding the “delete zone” to include a “hide” option. Remove an application from the list with an extra settings menu option that lists the items on the list and allows you to remove.

2) little more complicated. Implement folders within the drawer for the purpose of categorically sorting applications. There are more than one ways to implement this: a) in the manner of “advanced launcher” which used a desktop-folder type of folder and a launcher placed within the drawer along with a “hide”, b) restructuring the drawer hierarchically — select a “folder” and it clears the drawer and replaces with the contents of that “folder”. Press the “up” button within a folder, it clears the drawer and replaces with the base contents.

Can I run ADW.Launcher 1.0.1 on a Motorola Droid running CM6 RC1?

Well that sucks. I still love the launcher. I plan on buying some themes when there is some more so I can donate more than 2 euros.

Love this launcher and the themes even better. Will you be updating with more icon support? It seems like a lot of additional work with the amount of apps out there. I brought the paid apps to happily support you.

Keep up the great work and runs great on N1!

Great job, and keep up the good work. This is the first home replacement I actually like on my Behold II.

I don’t know if this is a known issue, but when you use certain programs (Super K.O. boxing and Camera application on my phone) the icons and widgets shift slightly towards the right.

Same as Michael above, getting the whole screen shifting over just a few pixels to the right, which causes beautiful widgets to lose the right edge. doesn’t start out like that, just after running an app like camera doses this visual bug emerge. this bug came with 1.0.0, still in 1.0.1, not in 0.9. Every page is shifted over just a little, almost imperceptibly. not fixed with stretch feature it. this is on cm 5.0.8.

It’s not on. Has never been on. Any other suggestions?

AnderWeb :
And you get the same answer, don’t use persistence option.

Actually your initial answer to him made no mention of persistence option. But after further testing, your reply to him does work. It has everything to do with the desktop indicator type.

The glitch only occurs on the “dot paginator top” setting. You might be interested to know it doesn’t matter if the indicator is set ON or OFF, the bug still happens if the indicator setting is on dot paginator top and the indicator is turned off.

Just trying to help you bugshoot here.

AnderWeb :
That’s the idea, but although seeming “easy” it needs a lot of coding :)

There is REALLY not much coding involved… at least not for #1,
Have a look at LauncherModel.java:533 — that is the line where the full list of installed applications is received from the package manager. To remove applications from the drawer, all you need to do is scan through the list “apps”, compare to some list of hidden packages, and remove the hidden items from apps.

Of course this will only take effect on launcher restart, but as a quick and dirty, that’s all that will really be needed.

So all you have to do is expand the “delete zone” with a menu. Option 1: delete. Option 2: add item to “hidden list” and notify user “removed — will take effect when the launcher is reloaded”, or you can remove the item from the drawer — the removePackage() function in LauncherModel.java should do that….

And then the last piece of the puzzle is the ability to remove items from the hidden list…. so that would be in your adwlauncher settings menu, add an item called “unhide applications” — which opens a list of hidden applications with checkboxes, check the items to unhide and press the “unhide” button.

#2 is obviously a lot more coding involved.

That’s easy though ;)

sqlite is so smoothly integrated in android that you hardly have to think to use it.

On load, you open the database (if it exists), iterate through the applications running a “select where” against the database (if database is not null..) — if it spits back a match, you remove the application from the list.

On hide, you “openOrCreateDatabase” and “create table if not exist”, “select where” against the database, and if there are no matches, insert.

Hey anderweb when are going to add 3d drawer?

Hey AnderWeb!

First of all, this is the best launcher I’ve seen/used! Great job! I really love it and it offers a lot of features that I like!

I have one small problem though… When I run some application for a long time and come back to the home screen, all my icons are gone (including the Action Buttons) and I have to wait for 30 seconds or so for them to redraw again. In that state, the app drawer is also empty and it has to re-populate itself.
Am I missing anything?

Thanks!