Setting up lightUI

Setting up lightUI

preliminary note:

The Homescreen was built for a Xperia Z.

The Screenresolution of this Phone is overall 1080×1920. Without Softkeys 1080×1776.

If your phone has other resolution you may have to Change  some specifications in this tutorial.

The Taskerstuff and other Widgets are NOT part of this tutorial.

Applications you need:

Lightning Launcher, Media Utilities, Power Toggles (if you like), Simple Rss Widget (if you like), Zooper Widget pro (not the free version), (Tasker), Tiny White Icons

Preparing:

Install all Applications listed above

Copy the *.zw  files to following folder on you sdcard

Example: /sdcard/ZooperWidget/Templates/

1. Lightning Launcher Settings

Long tap on Screen

Customize Ligntning

Current Screen

Icon Pack 

• Apply an ADW Icon Pack

• Select Tiny White Icon Pack

Items

• Enable  Display the label

• Font Size 12

• Font Style Normal

• Use a Custom Font. I used AppleGaramound

• Disable Refection

Wallpaper&Background

• Color  transparent

• Change the screenwallpaper (incl. in the download)

Layout

• Disable Free Mode

• Set a Grid 8 Columns 12 Rows

Zooming and Scrolling

• Scrolling Direction Horizontal only

• Snap to pages

• Disable diagonal scrolling

• Disable pinch zoom

Lost&found 

• Screen orientation Portrait

• Hide the status bar

Go back

2. Configure Media Utilities

• Start Media Utilities

• Select one of the Media Apps

• Else Tap on the 3 dots on the upper right corner

• Add Media App

• Select app

• Tap again on the 3 dots on the upper right corner

• Select Settings

• Check Zooper if unchecked

• Go back to homescreen

3. Zooper Widgets

Please add the widgets right in this order, otherwise you have to change 

the “layer positions” of the widgets and apps later again.

To add a Widget:

• Long tap on Screen

• Add

• App Widget

• Zooper Widget 1×1

• (Please use always a 1×1, because LL makes it always bigger, why ever)

• Resize it to the Size I tell you and position it.

• Tap back

• Tap the Widget and load from sd-card

Here is the order of the Widgets, name on sdcard and the size:

Please name the widgets unique it’s easier to find them later in step 6.

4. Pining Widgets or Apps

• Long tap on the widget or app 

• Select Position

• Select pin

• Go back

 

5. The tricky part

Be shure that you have pined the widget 6!

Scroll/navigate to Page 1

Start Zooper Widget pro

Configure Widgets

Select the widget No.6 (nu_main_nav)

Select Layout

Scroll down to Hs_home and tap it

Select Module on tap

Select Shurtcut

Select LL – Screen & position

Tap on the Screen where you can see Page 1

Go back to homescreen

Scroll/navigate to Page 2

Start Zooper Widget pro

Configure Widgets

Select the widget No.6 (nu_main_nav)

Select Layout

Scroll down to Hs_home and tap it

Select Module on tap

Select Shurtcut

Select LL – Screen & position

Tap on the Screen where you can see Page 2

Go back to homescreen

Scroll/navigate to Page 3

Start Zooper Widget pro

Configure Widgets

Select the widget No.6 (nu_main_nav)

Select Layout

Scroll down to Hs_social and tap it

Select Module on tap

Select Shurtcut

Select LL – Screen & position

Tap on the Screen where you can see Page 3

Go back to homescreen

Scroll/navigate to Page 4

Start Zooper Widget pro

Configure Widgets

Select the widget No.6 (nu_main_nav)

Select Layout

Scroll down to Hs_media and tap it

Select Module on tap

Select Shurtcut

Select LL – Screen & position

Tap on the Screen where you can see Page 4

Go back to homescreen

6. Placing Apps and Widgets (other than Zooper)

• Add Applications/Shortcuts and Widgets on the Screens 1,2,3 and 4

• Applications are all resized to 2×2

I have an additional ZooperWidget incl. in the download.

Nu_alarm.zw. It’s a Widget which shows the next alarm. It’s 8×2.

You are done 😉

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BwdfIpCyi8ZVcVp3dl8yb09nRDA&usp=sharing

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16 Commentsto Setting up lightUI

  1. Anonymous says:

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    Nice tutorial my friend.. This setup is so cool 🙂 good job gerd reuter !

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  2. Anonymous says:

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    Fabrice Fournier Thank you very much Fabrice!

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  3. Anonymous says:

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    Woah … sehr ausführliche Erläuterung – vielen, vielen Dank dafür und die Bereitstellung der Dateien. Ich werde es an meinem Handy versuchen, denke aber, dass ich Dich noch einmal bei der Einbindung von Media Utilities um Rat fragen muss 😆

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  4. Anonymous says:

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    Petra Pingalerie Danke Petra. wenn du es laut anleitung machst dann sollte es eigentlich so funktionieren. ansonsten einfach nachfragen, kein problem 😉

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  5. Anonymous says:

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    Ja – nach so einer genauen Anleitung, muss es ja klappen. Weiß leider nicht, wann ich dazu komme, bin z.Zt. in Stress 😝

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  6. Anonymous says:

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    Petra Pingalerie Läuft ja nicht weg 😉

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  7. Anonymous says:

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    gerd reuter thank you..Gerd… I am going to try it right now on my S4..!!. As always said, Good work my friend… And thank you for taking the time for sharing with us your work and tutorials

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  8. Anonymous says:

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    Gustavo Luis Soto thank you gustavo as always 😉

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  9. Anonymous says:

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    Hamza Khan no backup, sorry. learning by doing 😉

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  10. Anonymous says:

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    gerd reuter yes you are right gerd, that is the best way to reduce the learning curve of this fantastic launcher

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  11. Anonymous says:

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    That’s great. So it must be easy for u to setup. All neccessary files are available in the download. In my backup are private data which are not for public

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  12. Anonymous says:

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    gerd reuter ;i am just confusing Gerd, In your tutorial , you said that in zooming and scrolling we neeed to check vertical, but in the video I see that you scroll horizontally… Also I could not resize the widgets , in the same manner as you show in your picture.. COuld it be that I have a different resolution than your phone –??. Thank you for your kind help

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  13. Anonymous says:

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    Gustavo Luis Soto hi gustavo, oops, horizontal is right. my fault sorry. i will corrct this. which resolution has your phone. i think you have a s4 with 1080×1920? grid must be 8 colomns and 12 rows.

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  14. Anonymous says:

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    gerd reuter YEs I have an S4, When you talk about pages, are you referring to Desktops or just screens ???. Thank you Gerd..

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  15. Anonymous says:

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    i use always one Desktop Gustavo Luis Soto. pages are that what LL means with pages too ( for example at “snap to pages”). you can have multiple pages on one desktop. like it’s shown on all of my tutorial-pictures. in this special case here the page 2 is the page with the “house-symbol” in the upper left corner.

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  16. Anonymous says:

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    Ok. Gerd. Thank you clear enough… not a easy setup though….

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