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Sky LiveWindow Apex Pro versionSky LiveWindow Apex Pro version

Video

Date Added: Sunday, September 23rd, 2012 at 3:17 am

GS3 video:

Live wall showing “fast day” mode for demo only normally it changes very slowly throughout the day.

Apps used:
Apex launcher pro
Uccw
Blue Skies Live Wallpaper paid version
Minimal reader pro

Apex Pro settings:
7×5 grids (Nexus); 10×8 (GS3)
Show notification bar
Dock as overlay
Widgets overlapping

UCCW settings:
These uccws aim to cover part of the live wall without leaving any gaps.

Nexus-
on main screen there are 4 uccw widgets here, 1 on top with weather, middle time and 3 individuals in the bottom.
Sizes:
Grid size 5×1 with dimension 735×165 for top bar and 3 individuals in the bottom (Thanks BBB for the tips!)
middle time dimension is 472×318 with 3×5 grids.

GS3-
2 individual 1×8 uccw bars on top and 2 individual 4×8 uccw in the middle (time) and bottom (batt circle).
Sizes:
1×8 bar with dimension 965×165
4×8, 475×324

Note: Most icons are not embedded in uccw. They just laid on uccw skins so remember to turn overlapping widgets mode in apex settings.

Icons are holo icons modified by me based on google design icons.

Hope this simple guide can help.
Enjoy!

  1. Posted 2012/09/23 at 4:07 am | Permalink

    LOL nice work agayn Alex T . Can you share this uccw fils?

  2. Posted 2012/09/23 at 1:31 pm | Permalink

    Can you share this uccw fils?

  3. Posted 2012/09/24 at 2:59 pm | Permalink

    Thanks! Hopefully I can finally get a nice homescreen. Question: why is the gs3 screen different? Is there like a problem with the nexus layout on the gs3?

    Could you share the other files too? thanks

  4. Posted 2012/09/24 at 4:26 pm | Permalink

    @todd @kangjioh not necessarily to share they are just simple layout.
    @SpArkLeS I don’t exactly know why I guess it related to navbar. Though gs3 has same screen resolution as nexus, nexus layout won’t fit gs3 in my experience.

  5. Posted 2012/09/24 at 8:05 pm | Permalink

    Ok thanks!
    But the weather and time uccw file on top, could you share that please?
    Also I cannot get UCCW to cover to bottem and top. How do you do 1×8 en 4×8 in uccw?

  6. Posted 2012/09/25 at 12:18 pm | Permalink

    @SpArkLeS here it is: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/12923162/Themes/SkyLive%20Window/gs3%20uzip.zip
    by adding a 1×5 and 4×4 uccw widgets then resize and move them to top/bottom.

  7. Posted 2012/09/25 at 3:59 pm | Permalink

    Thanks! Awesome now I only need to figure out how I can get those widgets on the uccw files.

  8. Posted 2012/09/30 at 10:43 pm | Permalink

    Im on apex pro and I have uccw on my gs3…..I have been trying to get the 1×5 widget black box to cover the top of the screen with no gap like you have in the video but the widgets will not adjust to fill the small gap at the top. Ive read your directions over and over and i dont know what im missing….can you please help me and let me k ow exactly what I’m doing wrong?

    I have widget overlapping..still no go..racking my brain lol.

  9. Posted 2012/10/01 at 9:23 am | Permalink

    Out of all the wonderful homescreens you have made, this has to be my absolute favorite. Keep up the good work Alex.

  10. Posted 2012/10/01 at 2:19 pm | Permalink

    @Nokstar make sure that apex settings < homescreen < horizontal + vertical margin are set to none.

    I find it awesome too, but I'm still not able to get those icons on there. How please tell me!

  11. Posted 2012/10/02 at 4:57 am | Permalink

    Can somebody make a simple tutorial for Gnex?

  12. Posted 2012/10/22 at 2:23 pm | Permalink

    hi alex can u share the uzip weather……

  13. Posted 2012/10/25 at 4:04 pm | Permalink

    Alex,

    I really like your work, thanks for sharing. Can you let me know what font you used for the UCCW, and where you found the line-art weather icons. I’ve searched and found nothing similar.

    Thanks.

  14. Posted 2013/05/03 at 10:23 pm | Permalink

    uzip weather please!

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