Documentation

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_"Search":http://www.sweeterhome.com/search/index/sweethome?wiki_pages=1&q= this wiki._
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h1. Sweeter Home 2 - Beta
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h2. About
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Sweeter Home is a home replacement app for Android. It replaces the 'standard' or 'stock' home and can be set as your default home. Sweeter Home allows for user editing of all the UI functions of the home, which means that any user can create the home they want using deep tools with highly customisable configurations including function and look. Editing is localised to your handset so you can build themes on the bus, on the couch, or next to the pool! It features syncing which enables a seamless experience as app categories auto-populate into trays. It also caters for easy sharing of themes using a server hosted list where you can download themes by others, or upload your own themes for the world to use. Already there is a vibrant user community sharing hundreds of themes with thousands of downloads. Due to the ease of theme sharing Sweeter Home is also perfect for those people who don't want to edit their own themes, but simply want to use the new and exciting themes created by others.
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During these documents we'll sometimes refer to the Sweeter Home app as "SH".
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h2. Active mode vs Edit mode
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Sweeter Home runs in two distinctive modes. The live home screen where you can swipe around your theme, use widgets, and launch apps, we'll call Active Mode. Conversely [[Edit Mode]] is where you can design all aspects of your theme by adding UI elements (blocks) and editing functions and look. 
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h2. Active Mode
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Sweeter Home currently makes use of 5 screens in the shape of a "+". Three screens along the horizontal (left, middle and right), and from the middle screen you can also scroll up or down. In addition to using your finger to navigate, you can return to the middle screen at any time by pressing the Back button on your handset. 
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Pressing the Menu button of your handset brings up a set of options. 
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* Themes - Launches into the [[Theme List]]
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* Rate Theme - allows you to rate and review your currently applied theme
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* Edit theme - puts you into [[Edit Mode]]
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* Wallpaper - Launches the stock Android wallpaper picker
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* Report Bug - allows you to "email a bug report":http://www.sweeterhome.com/projects/sweethome/wiki/Beta to Sweeter Home at any point
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* More
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** Preferences - three simple SH preferences.
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*** Show Edge arrows (off be default)
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*** Show Cross-Desktop Wallpaper (on by default). This is standard wallpaper behaviour you're used to. De-selecting this will remove any wallpaper and you may only set wallpaper by adding it as a [[Picture]].
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*** Automatically sync tags (on by default). See [[Tagged Tray]]s for more. 
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** System settings - the Android settings menu
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** [[Screen Capture]] - Save a screen shot to SD, or use the shot as the preview image for an uploaded theme
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** Sync Tags - force [[Tagged Tray]] sync
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** About - display your current build and SH info
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h2. [[Edit Mode]]
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Read about [[Edit Mode]]
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h2. List of Block types
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* [[All Applications]]
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* [[Calendar]]
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* [[Contact List]]
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* [[Current Date]]
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* [[Custom Tray]]
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* [[Picture]]
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* [[Plain Color]]
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* [[Recent Calls]]
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* [[Recent SMS]]
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* [[Search Box]]
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* [[Springboard]]
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* [[System Widget]]
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* [[Tagged Tray]]
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* [[Text]]
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* Action -- advanced
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h3. Common configurations when editing blocks
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The following config types are common across all/most blocks:
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* [[Title]]
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* [[Frame/Background]]
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* [[Layer Level]]
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* [[Icon/Label Style]]
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* [[Text Style]]
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For more configuration info click through each Block type above. Also read more at the [[Edit Mode]] page.
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h2. [[Beta]]
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Sweeter Home is currently in a public Beta period and is not released to the Android Market. During this time user feedback is essential to making Sweeter Home a fully stable and robust default home app. Please report bugs! 
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* Read [[Beta]].
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h2. Known Probs Requiring User Feedback
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* [[Red Eye hang on reboot on some Droids]]
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h2. Other info
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* [[FAQ]]
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* "Forums":http://www.sweeterhome.com/projects/sweethome/boards