TW Launcher 4.5

[Vinnie981]

All credit to Swiftwork and Fr4gg0r over at XDA

TW Launcher 4.5

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Hi,
This is the twlauncher 4.5, actually the tw4 launcher from Samsung heavily modified by me and Swiftwork.
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What has been added

Integrated Settings: to reach it, press menu, then preferences
you can adjust lots of stuff here
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Homescreen Settings​

• homescreen count
• default screen
• enable/disable landscape (if you enable landscape it will take effect after next boot)
• number of rows
• uninstall button on homescreen
• icon dock count
• size of indicator (small/big)
• enable/disable dock background
• app labels
• app labels in dock
• enable/disable indicator auto hide

App Drawer​

• number of apps per page
• number of app columns
• sort order (normal/alphabetical, alphabetical will be forced after reboot/changing from normal to alphabetical)
• enable/disable app backdrops
• enable/disable 3D effect for backdrops

Badge Counter​

• enable/disable unread gmail counter (specify accounts to show counter for)
• enable/disable unread sms counter or Samsung Counter

System Settings​

• stay in RAM (enabled by default)

Themes

first theme by philippsp: 'Black-Glas'SGS II'
, by Rausio, Token Theme
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• install a theme (this moves a .zip from /sdcard/ into the theme dir on /sdcard/.TW4Themes/
• Choose a theme. How theming currently works:
  you simply zip all the icons.
  
  
  You can theme the following:
  Code:
  app icons: give the .png the name packageName.pngapp backdrops: give the .png the name tile_packageName.pngrandom backdrops: name it tileXX.png where XX goes from 0 to 15 (both inclusive)app icons only for dock: dock_packageName.pnghome icon: dock_home.pngapps icon: dock_apps.pngdock background: dock.pngand more (menus, page indicator etc.)
  You can combine themes (e.g. a full theme and then apply just a dock theme), "Choose Theme" will just overwrite the old icons with supplied icons in the .zip.
  If you select "none", theming dir will be cleared.
  Now I wanna see some great themes.
  
  
  Btw: Swiftwork is working on a great tw4Manager, which will probably include the possibility to view&download themes directly on the device..
  
• Example of a dock theme can be downloaded here

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EXTRA Stuff​

• Resizing for all widgets enabled (long press widget and then drop it without moving)
• Scrolling widgets are supported (currently not recommended to use though, lags when scrolling)

Issues​

• Power Widget stays gray on samsung firmwares (it does not on cm7 for example), after reboot it will be displayed normally.
• Some/most Samsung widgets won't work without modification with this modded launcher.
• If you want them back, check this link (thanks to scheichuwe)
• To fix other widgets, grab the attached key, in AndroidManifest.xml set android:sharedUserId="tw4.fr4gg0r" (if not there add it) and resign it with the downloaded key (password is touchwiz, alias is fr4gg0r) more details here.

Works with​

• Every device with armv7 processor and froyo or higher

Installation​

• Install the tw4.zip in recovery (also contains ShareApp.apk; this will remove the old twlauncher, so make sure you have another launcher as backup installed!) (if zip does not install the app, /system is not mounted rw, then push the app manually to /system/app/ [remove TouchWiz30Launcher.* if present!] or
• install the launcher as normal app. This will have some restrictions: for example it cannot uninstall apps (not really tested; only possible if you don't already have a twlauncher installed!)

Developers​

• Swiftwork (mainly settings layout, themes, tw4manager)
• me, Fr4gg0r (the rest
  
  )
• this project took/takes a lot of time, since I am studying and don't have much money, donations are appreciated.
  

If you have questions/bug reports feel free to come on irc (freenode) to #cmsgs

Don't take the .apk and theme it, instead make a theme.zip

Changelog:
v1.4.3: crash when no share app is installed fixed, this time also tw4.zip updated

v1.4.2: bugfixes, option to show numbers on page indicators, download all samsung widgets here (thx scheichuwe)
v1.4.1: sms counter crash fixed
v1.4: theming fix, overshoot on homescreen & appdrawer, performance optimizations, send email on crash
v1.3: fix for froyo, a permission was missing
v1.2: theming updated! more possibilities!
v1.1: -fc on startup fixed

Download counts:
v1.4.2: ~3700
v1.3: ~2400
v1.2: ~290
v1.1: ~1600

Important:
If tw4.zip fails (with error 6), try this one

Attached Files

ShareApp.apk (29.1 KB, 4632 views)

tw4key.zip (1.3 KB, 4553 views)

tw4.zip (2.17 MB, 6095 views)

TW4Launcher.apk (2.05 MB, 6378 views)