How To Make The T-Mobile G1 / Android Interface Even More iPhone-y!
To corrupt a line from the seminal movie Hackers, “Android is good.”
Nevertheless it is just a touch off the ecological disaster of oil-slickness that is the iPhone’s side scrolling interface. Well, it seems with a little ingenuity and some small preference changes/installs, your T-Mobile G1 can look even cooler!
The animations do add an extra layer of class to an already beautiful operating system, see the video below for it in action!
So…you wanna get in on this? Here’s how you do it!
- Fire up the Android Market on the T-Mobile G1 and download/install the APKInstaller application.
- Get a microSD card ready.
- Download Development.APK to your computer. Find the file here.
- Ensure that APKInstaller is installed on your T-Mobile G1.
- Connect your T-Mobile G1 to your computer via USB.
- Mount the G1 in order to access the microSD card.
- Transfer the Development.APK file from your computer to the microSD card root directory (drag the file onto the mounted removable drive).
- Fire up the APKInstaller application from the Applications tray.
- Navigate to the SDcard directory and choose the Development.APK file.
- “Dev Tools” will install
- Open Dev Tools
- Change Window Animation Scale to “1x,” and Transition Animation Scale to “1x” (you can change these settings.
- Enjoy your animated screen transitions!
Thanks, as ever to the industrious minds at XDADevelopers for making this happen!
Source: IntoMobile