I have to give this app credit (Widget Locker) because at least it does what it claims. I also tried Magic Locker, which could superimpose many completely different lock screens, but they were not true lock screens because the back button could circumvent this app.
So the best I've seen available for now is Widget Locker, which really doesn't seem to offer that much at all. I may wish to add more than just three custom buttons to my lock screen. More importantly, I would really like to do away with Google's very ugly standard lock screen altogether! I hate having to swipe to the side (it's impossible with one hand), and I really, really don't want to have Google Search waiting to infuriate me every time I thumb vertically, which I'm used to doing on my old phone. I simply cannot think of a more pointless and obnoxious app than this in a time when every web browser in current use has a link to the search engine of your choice from the URL line. Widget Locker does not allow me to tweak the standard Google "features", and I wish to change my swipe orientation for unlocking the screen as well, thank you!
I recall knowing that this was possible when some of my apps (such as music players and at least one home screen) offered their own swipe screens, which bore no aesthetic or mechanical resemblence to the manufacturer default. They actually worked, but the last time I used one I was running Gingerbread (I'm on Jelly Bean now). Did evil Google go and make this impossible?
I am posting this here because I suspect that what I want to do, if it can be done at all, may require root access.
So the best I've seen available for now is Widget Locker, which really doesn't seem to offer that much at all. I may wish to add more than just three custom buttons to my lock screen. More importantly, I would really like to do away with Google's very ugly standard lock screen altogether! I hate having to swipe to the side (it's impossible with one hand), and I really, really don't want to have Google Search waiting to infuriate me every time I thumb vertically, which I'm used to doing on my old phone. I simply cannot think of a more pointless and obnoxious app than this in a time when every web browser in current use has a link to the search engine of your choice from the URL line. Widget Locker does not allow me to tweak the standard Google "features", and I wish to change my swipe orientation for unlocking the screen as well, thank you!
I recall knowing that this was possible when some of my apps (such as music players and at least one home screen) offered their own swipe screens, which bore no aesthetic or mechanical resemblence to the manufacturer default. They actually worked, but the last time I used one I was running Gingerbread (I'm on Jelly Bean now). Did evil Google go and make this impossible?
I am posting this here because I suspect that what I want to do, if it can be done at all, may require root access.
