• After 15+ years, we've made a big change: Android Forums is now Early Bird Club. Learn more here.

Let's see your XOOM Desktop Home / Wallpaper

That's what i thought, just wanted to make sure. Great job and way to think outside the box!

got another one for you. What size did you make your icons and backgroup? I tried 1280x800 but it's still to big.

I made my icons 800 pixels wide, can't remember the height (I'm not at my home laptop to see). You have to remember though that the icons will be resized to whatever widget size you use in Desktop Visualizer.
 
Upvote 0
ghoticov, you need to change the title of this thread from "Lets see your XOOM Desktop / Wallpaper" to "Tutorial: How to create my awesome desktop" :)

No need for us to fiddle around and post our hobo desktops... yours wins. We must have it!!

LOL

Well, I have to give a lot of credit to a guy name CZonin on a few other boards. He inspired what I have and pointed me to the Minimalistic Text widget.

And mine doesn't win, everyone has their own taste. :)
 
Upvote 0
thanks for the info....i can set it all up in the app but it isn't adding the widget to the homescreen. am i missing something? i added a 1x5 widget, edited it, saved it but nothing happens after that. probably something simple that i'm missing

Minimalistic Text can be buggy at times, I assume it is because it is not optimized for Honeycomb yet.

One way I got around mine not showing up on my home screen was I created the widgets on a different screen and the dragged them to my main screen. I created them one by one on my far right screen (since I don't use it for anything). They all seemed to show up that way and I have had no issues.
 
  • Like
Reactions: jokeefe10
Upvote 0
How did you do those screen captures?

Oh boy... lol

That is something that is out of my league, I needed A LOT of help to do it. Basically you have to install the Android SDK on your computer and then plug the xoom up, it will show as a device and you can choose "Device" then "Screen Capture".

You do not have to be rooted but you have to install the Android SDK and the latest Java. If you do a search on the XDA Xoom forums there is a huge thread there on it and it will explain it.
 
Upvote 0
I couldn't ask a favor could I, I would like to get your Wallpaper but with the XOOM/Moto logo moved up about two lines of the text that's showing behind it. I want to add links below it but the logo is about a 1/4 in too low. If not no biggie. Thanks for all of the help with these desktops. I'm sure you have created some Monsters, me included LMAO.

Nevermind, I edited it in MS Paint.
 

Attachments

  • IMAG0493.jpg
    IMAG0493.jpg
    940.5 KB · Views: 320
Upvote 0
I couldn't ask a favor could I, I would like to get your Wallpaper but with the XOOM/Moto logo moved up about two lines of the text that's showing behind it. I want to add links below it but the logo is about a 1/4 in too low. If not no biggie. Thanks for all of the help with these desktops. I'm sure you have created some Monsters, me included LMAO.

Nevermind, I edited it in MS Paint.

Nice!

I actually thought about making just TEXT icon links instead of the buttons look... just haven't done it. Not sure if I will though but yours looks nice!
 
  • Like
Reactions: Tech Addiction
Upvote 0
You guys have to just keep trying. Its hard to explain how to do it. It took,me a day to figure it out then it just clicks. I had to create my MT widgets on a blank screen ( I only use one screen, the center one). Once I created them I dragged them to the main screen. Mt is buggy, probably because it is not optimized for Honeycomb but it will work.
 
Upvote 0
You guys have to just keep trying. Its hard to explain how to do it. It took,me a day to figure it out then it just clicks. I had to create my MT widgets on a blank screen ( I only use one screen, the center one). Once I created them I dragged them to the main screen. Mt is buggy, probably because it is not optimized for Honeycomb but it will work.

I have the batt and date,etc going. Its the rest I'm having issue with. Getting the games, net, part
 
Upvote 0
Here is my latest, I believe this is my final one :) Here is the main screen:

XOOM_Desktop.jpg


And here is what it looks like when I click on the GAMES, MULTIMEDIA, SOCIAL, APPS or TOOLS Widgets (Widget is CircleLauncher):

XOOM_Desktop1.jpg


I was using APS Organizer for the pop up before but it was horizontal, I really like the way CircleLauncher launches it as a circle and it is centered on the wallpaper.

I am not even using any of my other 4 screens, everything I need is right on the main screen. Once the twitter and facebook widget work, I may put those on one of the screens... who knows.
 
Upvote 0

BEST TECH IN 2023

We've been tracking upcoming products and ranking the best tech since 2007. Thanks for trusting our opinion: we get rewarded through affiliate links that earn us a commission and we invite you to learn more about us.

Smartphones