Of Android, SDK and Customizability:
by ashvala
Well, the Android OS seems to be a big deal in the market today, it seems like it is the ultimate customizable OS and all that, but is it really the one that everyone should use!? I doubt that.
In my experience with the SDK, I have to admit, I have not been able to change the bottom bar! There are several tutorials on the net, which *enlighten* us on how to create a theme… Most of them ask you to root a phone and do lots of stuff! Please! I don’t even have an Android Phone to do any of this rooting and then going to some mode and then putting the theme in business.
The SDK is supposed to allow the user to do stuff the easy way, the Android SDK seems to be the other way round. I created an icon of the same size for the bottom bar, put it into some “android.2-1/data/res/drawable*” and boom, it reverts to the usual 1.6 UI. Howmuch more disappointed can one be!? A reversion of all things! Wonderful!
If there are phones like Hero and Nexus one which come with their own custom UI, mind you, there must be a guy on the net who would have posted an easy tutorial on how to do such changes to the default UI on the SDK. There is none! Which is a pain. Finally, all I want to do, is to create a good, easy-to-use User Interface! Is that too much to ask from google!?
If some one from Google is looking at this, please help me out! Ok?
Nice, keep it up man, like what you are doing, I was the same some year back!