Showing posts with label compatibility. Show all posts
Showing posts with label compatibility. Show all posts

2013/02/03

Icon picker compatibility against launchers

Icon Theme: apply icon theme from launcher settings, all icons in drawer and home screen will be themed accordingly. Obviously all launchers have this feature.

Icon Picker: change home screen icon one by one manually and individually, pick one icon from theme and replace.
ADW.Launcher and Holo Launcher icon picker are not compatible with my theme application now. Hope this can be fixed in the near future.

For GO Launcher Ex icon mask compatibility problem, see here.

2013/01/20

Why some themes don't support GO Launcher Ex

Although there are millions GO Launcher Ex users, GO does not support themers, they just make things inconsistent. Themers must create new package for GO if they want to support GO.

When designing icon style, there is a stuff called icon mask, which help themers to create any awesome  ideas. However, the usage of GO Launcher Ex mask is just the reverse of other launchers like ADW, Apex, Holo, Nova, etc. It makes themers feel hard to support compatibility to GO.

Here's my icon theme Ripped Hole Icon Theme, the icon mask works in ADW, Apex, Holo and Nova perfectly, but in GO:
It's just like ripped icons instead. The effect is cool. lol

Of course, once my design don't need icon mask, I will go back to support GO Launcher Ex.