Creating a custom android UI

Question

does anyone know how I would get started creating a custom android UI? it wouldn't be an app. Once you install it, it would change the appearance of your UI until you uninstall it.

I've done some research but it doesn't seem to be possible/available yet??

If anyone could help or link me to a site on how to to get started that'd be awesome, thx!

I program using eclipse, btw.

This is basically what i want to do, but i want to design it myself http://www.intomobile.com/2011/02/09/sentio-ui-android-home-replacement-app/ How would I get started?

Answer 1

I think you want to create a custom theme that can be selected by the user. There unfortunately is VERY little documentation around that. The most extensive writeup I've found is at http://www.android.net/forum/custom-android-themes/58323-tutorial-making-themes.html , and after reviewing it I wasn't really able to get too far myself.

A similar question was also asked at How to create and manage custom themes for whole Android system? . Let me know if you find something that works for you.

Answer 2

I did not understand your question about what you really want. So i am trying to provide every possible solution.

If you are talking about Home Replacements.

Here is an example by Google :-

Android Home Replacement Sample

and if you are not talking about Home Replacement and you found android layout designing a bit hard then you can use DroidDraw. Just Google DroidDraw, download it and install it on your PC/MAC. It gives you the features like drag and drop widgets, set their property visually and lots more. You can generate the android layout without writing a single line of xml code using droid draw.

Answer 3

maybe you should read the document about this site,i think i will help you.most of the ui element can create by xml file,or coding. if you want to know more about that,to read this site: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/index.html