Pure - Android Homescreen Tutorial

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Credits go to GaRyArTs for this amazing homescreen - Pure

Here is the link to his screen, featured on mycolorscreen.com:
http://mycolorscreen.com/2012/11/16/pure-16/

Wallpaper,UCCW widgets, and homescreen indicator icons here:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15951305/pure.zip

Inspiration from here:
http://dmonzon.com/freebies/minimal-light-user-interface-freebie/

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Part 1: Applying Apex Launcher Settings

Here is the link for Apex Launcher Pro, as it comes with a few key features needed for this screen as well as many others:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.anddoes.launcher.pro&hl=en

Key changes here would be changing the 'portrait grid' to 9x7, manage screens should be changed so that there are only 2 screens, 'Wallpaper mode' should be single screen and 'Hide notification bar' should be ticked. Back to the main screen, change your Dock Settings by scrolling down and selecting 'Hide Dock'. Next would be to go back into the main screen, go into advanced settings, and select 'Overlapping Widgets'. Finally change your wallpaper to the one provided in the link at the top.

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Part 2: Adding in the UCCW and Homescreen indicators

Simply add the UCCW widgets that are provided in the link at the top. This can be done by copying them onto your phone then selecting them when you choose "Open uzip" on the UCCW menu.
The homescreen indicators can be added using desktop visualizer, link below, by first selecting any size DV widget. Tapping the widget will bring up the menu, whereby you can select the homescreen indicators provided in the top link as well as selecting the chosen action as none.
Alternatively you can apply the Apex Actions (holding down on the homescreen) and selctecting Screen 1 and Screen 2. After changing the icon, you can simply tap these to jump to the next screen, mad!

Desktop VisualizeR: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.co.bii.android.app.dskvzr&am...
UCCW: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.vineetsirohi.customwidget&am...

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Part 3: The bottom icons

There are a number of ways of doing this, so I'll provide two:
Firstly, for say the app drawer, simply holding down the screen to add the apex menu shortcut "app drawer" and then choosing a blank image will sort out this part.
For the gmail and phone icons, I used Minimalist Text, and just applied the "Static Text" option in a custom layout. I added in a premade MT preferance just to help you out a bit, just paste in the minimalist text preferences folder. Font used is Wendy LP

Minimalist Text: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.devmil.minimaltext&hl=en
Blank image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/cs1l3ycjigx7elz/Blank.png
Minimalist Text preferences:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/nt8mj9xj359btog/purephn.mtpref
Wendy LP font:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gtbi43chq89iu2s/WendyLPStd-Medium.otf

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