Friday, July 18, 2014

Something that will never be released

Long time ago i found an emulator of Mac OS System 7. Here is the link. I decided to make it's shell for my ipad. But after i've made desctop i've found elements to little, so i've stopped the development. Also i've made a shell for my Nokia e72, but soon i bacame tired of gray style. Both designs are abandoned.


Tuesday, July 15, 2014

[Android] New phone, new shell

I'm back!

Few weeks ago i have received my new smartphone Samsung i927. I was looking for a phone with physical keyboard, and this one was the best choice: nice style, 1gb ram, dual core 1GHz, 4 inch screen. Not so powerfull as many may say, but for me it's perfect. The main reason of buying this model is hardware keyboard. Some time ago i began to work via terminal and remote a lot, and i got tired of onscreen keyboard. It's nice when you need to send some short messages, but when you need to write lots of commands in console...

First of all i have flashed phone with custom rom and reprogrammed keyboard to add my native language support. Than i have changed density to make all elements smaller. The original density was 240, i looked through some forums and found that proper values are: 120, 160, 240, 320. I choose 160, and also cheked "bigger fonts" in settings to make all system fonts a bit bigger and readable. I like what i've got in the end.




















Also i bagan to create new interface for this phone. For now i choose Ubuntu Unity 13.10 cause i have some graphics already.
Main desctop and all programs window are finished, now thinking of additional features.
















On the right is my phone, on the left is my friend's one i was given to flash MIUI (it was a hell to flash it btw, don't like LG)


Also i've shared my main phone design in GDesk section