Finesse GO Launcher EX Theme v1.02

Finesse GO Launcher EX Theme v1.02 apk

Requirements: Android 1.6 and up

Overview: A elegant GO Launcher EX Theme Finesse, Clean design with glossy buttons

A clean design theme that doesn´t polute the screen with colored images or backgrounds. Flat red canvas background is simple but the overall theme looks very beautifull, icon buttons have black glossy effects with a charming red glow on bottom. A very elegant theme

Free Finesse GO Launcher EX Theme v1.02 apk

Download

Mirror

Read more »

Cool Reader v3.0.54-34

Cool Reader v3.0.54-34 apk

Requirements: Android v2.1+

Overview: eBook reader. Supports epub (non-DRM), fb2, doc, txt, rtf, html, chm, tcr, pdb, prc, mobi (non-DRM), pml formats.

eBook reader. Supports epub (non-DRM), fb2, doc, txt, rtf, html, chm, tcr, pdb, prc, mobi (non-DRM), pml formats.

Pages or scroll view. Page flipping animation.

Table of contents, bookmarks, text search.

Bookmarks on text fragments (comments or corrections) – useful for proof reading.

Export of bookmarks to text file.

Built-in file browser, quick recent books access.

Online catalogs (OPDS) support.

Text to Speech (TTS) support.

Hyphenation dictionaries;

Most complete FB2 format support: styles, tables, footnotes.

Additional fonts support (place .ttf to /sdcard/fonts/)

Support for Chinese, Japanese, Korean languages; autodetection of TXT file encoding (GBK, Shift_JIS, BIG5, EUC_KR).

Day and night profiles (two sets of colors, background, backlight levels).

Brightness adjustments by flick on left edge of screen.

Background texture (stretched or tiled) or solid color.

Paperbook-like page turning animation or “sliding page” animation.

Dictionary support (ColorDict, GoldenDict, Fora Dictionary, Aard Dictionary).

Customizable tap zone and key actions.

Autoscroll (automatic page flipping) – start using menu/goto/autoscroll or assign action Autoscroll on key or tap zone; Change speed using volume keys or bottom-right and bottom-left tap zones; stop – tap any other tap zone or key.

Can read books from zip archives.

Automatic reformatting of .txt files (autodetect headings etc.)

Styles can be customised in wide range using external CSS.

Select text using double tap (optional).

Similar to FBReader, Aldiko, AlReader, Nook, Laputa, Moon+ reader.

Place additional textures to /sdcard/.cr3/textures/ — to be used as tiled page backgrounds.

Place additional textures to /sdcard/.cr3/backgrounds/ — to be used as stretched page backgrounds.

(/cr3/ directory can also be used instead of /.cr3/, and internal SD or internal storage instead of /sdcard/)

CoolReader is free, open source (GPL), multiplatform project.

Project homepage on SourceForge is http://sourceforge.net/projects/crengine/

To donate this project, you can buy Cool Reader Gold ($10), Silver ($3) or Bronze ($1) Donation package from Market

PayPal: coolreader.org@gmail.com

Recent changes:

Font face setting bug fixed (wrong font on book reload)

Font hinting option added

Fallback font option added

======

Chinese translation of UI

Font rendering fix

Landscape pages setting fix

======

New actions available: NEXT CHAPTER / PREV CHAPTER

Performance optimizations

Bookmarks and last position saving fix

Free Cool Reader v3.0.54-34 apk

Download

Mirror

Read more »

WhatsApp Messenger v2.7.1445

WhatsApp Messenger v2.7.1445 apk

Requirements: Android v2.1+

Overview: WhatsApp Messenger is a smartphone messenger available for Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows Phone and Nokia phones.

WhatsApp Messenger is a smartphone messenger available for Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows Phone and Nokia phones. WhatsApp uses your 3G or WiFi (when available) to message with friends and family. Switch from SMS to WhatsApp to send and receive messages, pictures, audio notes, and video messages. First year FREE! ($1.99/year after)

WHY USE WHATSAPP:

★ NO HIDDEN COST: Once you and your friends download the application, you can use it to chat as much as you want. Send a million messages a day to your friends for free! WhatsApp uses your Internet connection: 3G/EDGE or Wi-Fi when available.

★ MULTIMEDIA: Send Video, Images, and Voice notes to your friends and contacts.

★ GROUP CHAT: Enjoy group conversations with your contacts.

★ NO INTERNATIONAL CHARGES: Just like there is no added cost to send an international email, there is no cost to send WhatsApp messages internationally. Chat with your friends all over the world as long as they have WhatsApp Messenger installed and avoid those pesky international SMS costs.

★ SAY NO TO PINS AND USERNAMES: Why even bother having to remember yet another PIN or username? WhatsApp works with your phone number, just like SMS would, and integrates flawlessly with your existing phone address book.

★ NO NEED TO LOG IN/OUT: No more confusion about getting logged off from another computer or device. With push notifications WhatsApp is ALWAYS ON and ALWAYS CONNECTED.

★ NO NEED TO ADD BUDDIES: Your Address Book is used to automatically connect you with your contacts. Your contacts who already have WhatsApp Messenger will be automatically displayed under Favorites, similar to a buddy list. (You can of course always edit Favorites any way you like)

★ OFFLINE MESSAGES: Even if you miss your push notifications or turn off your phone, WhatsApp will save your messages offline until you retrieve them during the next application use.

★ AND MUCH MORE: Share location, Exchange contacts, Custom wallpaper, Custom notification sounds, Landscape mode, Precise message time stamps, Email chat history, Broadcast messages and MMS to many contacts at once and much much more!

———————————————————

We’re always excited to hear from you! If you have any feedback, questions, or concerns, please email us at:

android-support@whatsapp.com

or follow us on twitter:

http://twitter.com/WhatsApp

@WhatsApp

———————————————————

Recent changes:

WhatsApp Messenger v2.7.1445 apk

Version 2.7.1320

- Crash fix for image download caused on Christmas;

Version 2.7.950

- Updated localizations across all languages. Brazil Portuguese re-instated;

- Fixed contact ordering problem in WhatsApp Contacts screen while sharing;

- Fixed contact photo missing in some instances;

- Fixed “Enter Key is Send” on some handsets;

- Bug fixes and improvements for Ice Cream Sandwich;

- Bug fixes and improvements for Sony Ericsson devices – Thanks Kasia!;

- Add support for South Sudan.

Free WhatsApp Messenger v2.7.1445 apk

Download

Mirror

Read more »

Holo Everywhere

[This post is by Adam Powell, an Android Framework engineer who cares about style. —Tim Bray]

Android 4.0 showcases the Holo theme family, further refined since its debut in Android 3.0. But as most developers know, a new system theme for some Android devices isn’t a new or uncommon event. For developers new system themes mean more design targets for their apps. Using system themes means developers can take advantage of a user’s existing expectations and it can save a lot of production time, but only if an app designer can reliably predict the results. Before Android 4.0 the variance in system themes from device to device could make it difficult to design an app with a single predictable look and feel. We set out to improve this situation for the developer community in Ice Cream Sandwich and beyond.

Theme.Holo

If you’re not already familiar with Android’s style and theme system, you should read Styles and Themes before continuing.

Compatibility Standard

In Android 4.0, Holo is different. We’ve made the inclusion of the unmodified Holo theme family a compatibility requirement for devices running Android 4.0 and forward. If the device has Android Market it will have the Holo themes as they were originally designed.

This standardization goes for all of the public Holo widget styles as well. The Widget.Holo styles will be stable from device to device, safe for use as parent styles for incremental customizations within your app.

The Holo theme family in Android 4.0 consists of the themes Theme.Holo, Theme.Holo.Light, and Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar. Examples of these themes in action are shown in the screenshots lining this post.

To use a Holo theme, explicitly request one from your manifest on your activity or application element, e.g. android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Holo". Your app will be displayed using the unmodified theme on all compatible Android 4.0 devices. The Holo themes may also be used as stable parent themes for app-level theme customizations.

What about device themes?

We have no desire to restrict manufacturers from building their own themed experience across their devices. In fact we’ve gone further to make this even easier. In Android 4.0’s API (level 14) we’ve added a new public theme family to complement the Holo family introduced in Android 3.0: DeviceDefault. DeviceDefault themes are aliases for the device’s native look and feel. The DeviceDefault theme family and widget style family offer ways for developers to target the device’s native theme with all customizations intact.

Theme.Holo.Light

Formally separating these theme families will also make future merges easier for manufacturers updating to a new platform version, helping more devices update more quickly. Google’s Nexus devices alias DeviceDefault to the unmodified Holo themes.

Making use of your chosen theme

We’ve added a number of theme attributes to report common metrics and color palette info to apps that want to fit in with a theme. These include highlight colors, default padding and margins for common UI elements such as list items, and more. Apps that wish to integrate with their chosen theme (both Holo and DeviceDefault included) can refer to these theme attributes as in the examples below:

Sample button with system-supplied touch highlight:

<ImageButton android:id="@+id/my_button"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:src="@drawable/button_icon"
    android:background="?android:attr/selectableItemBackground" />

Sample widget with a custom pressedHighlightColor attribute, value retrieved from the system theme:

<MyWidget android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    myapp:pressedHighlightColor="?android:attr/colorPressedHighlight" />

Sample list item layout using system-supplied metrics and text appearance:

<LinearLayout android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="?android:attr/listPreferredItemHeight"
    android:paddingLeft="?android:attr/listPreferredItemPaddingLeft"
    android:paddingRight="?android:attr/listPreferredItemPaddingRight">
    <TextView android:id="@+id/text"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceListItem" />
    <!-- Other views here -->
</LinearLayout>

Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar

(Available in API level 14 and above)

Defaults for Older Apps

If an app does not explicitly request a theme in its manifest, Android 4.0 will determine the default theme based on the app’s targetSdkVersion to maintain the app’s original expectations: For values less than 11, @android:style/Theme; between 11 and 13 @android:style/Theme.Holo; and for 14 and higher @android:style/Theme.DeviceDefault.

Using Holo while supporting Android 2.x

Most Android developers will still want to support 2.x devices for a while as updates and new devices continue to roll out. This doesn’t stop you from taking advantage of newer themes on devices that support them though. Using Android’s resource system you can define themes for your app that are selected automatically based on the platform version of the device it’s running on.

Theme.Holo and Theme.Holo.Light have been available since API level 11, but Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar is new in API level 14.

res/values/themes.xml:

<resources>
    <style name="MyTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme">
        <!-- Any customizations for your app running on pre-3.0 devices here -->
    </style>
</resources>

res/values-v11/themes.xml:

<resources>
    <style name="MyTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo">
        <!-- Any customizations for your app running on devices with Theme.Holo here -->
    </style>
</resources>

Finally, in AndroidManifest.xml:

<!-- [...] -->
    <application android:name="MyApplication"
            android:label="@string/application_label"
            android:icon="@drawable/app_icon"
            android:hardwareAccelerated="true"
            android:theme="@style/MyTheme">
<!-- [...] -->

You can go as far with this idea as you like, up to and including defining your own theme attributes with different values across configurations for use in your other resources. To learn more about Android’s resource system, see Application Resources.

Final Thoughts

Android apps running on 4.0 and forward can use the Holo themes and be assured that their look and feel will not change when running on a device with a custom skin. Apps that wish to use the device’s default styling can do so using the DeviceDefault themes that are now in the public API. These changes let you spend more time on your design and less time worrying about what will be different from one device to another. Finally, Android’s resource system allows you to support features from the latest platform version while offering graceful fallback on older devices.

Read more »

Weather Services PRO v1.2

Weather Services PRO v1.2 apk

Requirements: Android 1.6+

Overview: Weather Services is ultimate weather and clock application including 4 widgets. Get the latest current conditions, forecasts, weather chart, maps and more with largest network of professional weather stations all over the world…

What’s in this version :

Weather Services PRO v1.2 apk

(Updated : December 23, 2011)

v1.2 – MAJOR CHRISTMASS UPDATE

Added: Notification bar icon with actual temperature and weather details

New initial config window for easy startup setup

Added: Start on device boot on/off setting

Improved “My location” algorithm for better localization service

Application is now running on background

Added: New themes

Added: Sliding possibilities on Daily forecast & Charts screens

Added: Wind unit “Knots”

Changes in UI in landscape mode

New support and contact email – see About in menu

Features :

Weather Services PRO v1.2 apk

Live, local weather conditions and forecasts

Access up to tens of thousands of locations around world

4 desktop widget (Weather&Clock 4×2, Forecast 4×1, Clock 4×1, Mini 1×1)

Up to 10 active locations

One of the best battery consumption application on the Market

Webcameras & weather maps (satellite)

Fully customizable (font types, backgrounds, colors and others)

Easy use and high-impact visual eye candy views

Quick access to your default clock and calendar applications

Weather charts and details

Cached weather maps for faster and offline viewing

Android 1.6+, QVGA, WQVGA400/432, HVGA, WVGA800/854 compatible

Free Weather Services PRO v1.2 apk

Download

Read more »

Color Splash Photo v1.0

Color Splash Photo v1.0 apk

Requirements: Android 2.1+

Overview: Create dramatic images by converting images to gray color or apply colors to your images.

Gray out everyone in an image, except for you.its a free application.

Change the color of anything!

Features:

Color Splash Photo v1.0 apk

+ Pinch Zoom.

+ Convert images to gray color and color mode.

+ High resolution image quality.

+ Recolor image with any color of your choice.

+ Image from FaceBook Albums.

+ Post to wall and Upload photos to FaceBook and Twitter.

+ Email paintings to friends.

+ Save the image to the SD Card.

+ Configure brush size in settings screen.

+ Undo your changes using refresh button.

+ Move to SD card option.

If you’ll have any issues with the app kindly email me. I will try to solve your problems. Kindly dont put at once the bad ratings.

Free Color Splash Photo v1.0 apk

Download

Read more »

Android Assistant(18 features) v3.5

Android Assistant(18 features) v3.5 apk

Requirements: Android 2.0 and up

Overview: Top 17 features to help you easily and efficiently manage your android phone.

Android Assistant is one of the most powerful and comprehensive management tools to improve your android phone’s performance. It speeds up your phone’s running speed and saves battery.

【Top17 features】

Android Assistant(18 features) v3.5 apk

1. Monitor status (cpu, memory, battery)

2. Process Manager (Auto Boost and Quick Boost can distinguish different types of processes thus will not kill fatal system processes and apps in Ignore List.)

3. Cache Cleaner

4. System Clean(Browser History, Clipboard, Market History, Gmail History, Google Earth History, Google Map History)

5. Save Battery Settings(bluetooth, wifi, gps, auto-sync, orientation, haptic feedback, screen brightness, timeout)

6. File Manager

7. Startup Manager

8. Batch Uninstall

9. Battery use

10. Volume Control

11. Ringer

12. Startup Time

13. Startup Silent(Menu->Settings->Startup Silent)

14. System Info

15. Widget(Quick Booster[1,4], Shortcuts[4])

16. App 2 SD(Support android2.2 and later)：Get more free internal phone storage space

17. Batch Installation

【Common Problems】

Q: Why not support move to sdcard?

A: Because the system bug moved to sdcard will not be able to use widgets.

Q: Why “App 2 sd” not working?

A: “App 2 sd” feature is only supports android2.2 and later.

For any other questions or suggestions please email to crazymobile.wind @ gmail.com.

What’s in this version:

Android Assistant(18 features) v3.5 apk

Fix app backup and restore bug.

Process manager add sort function.

Free Android Assistant(18 features) v3.5 apk

Download

Read more »