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"Official" Beautiful Widgets Skinning Thread
- Thread starter 928Droid
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1. buy the app
2. install app
3.long press home screen select "widget"
4. Select Beautiful Home or Beautiful Home Smaller
5.click skins and download what you want.
6.apply skin
7.????????
8.Profit
-=Jason=-
Sounds like you have your USB cable plugged into your PC and the SD card "Mounted". Unmount the SD card (Turn Off USB storage).
Due to all the questions about how to use and install skins in Beuatiful Widgets I decied to make a "Beautiful Widgets for Dummies" 
User manual to make things easier for those not familiar with it.
BTW, this same Guide will be posted on Page 1 , Post 2 of this thread. Please direct/link people to it when then need help with using Beautiful Widgets. Direct link to "Post 2" - http://www.droidforums.net/forum/dr...tiful-widgets-skinning-thread.html#post151242
Installing and Using Beautiful Widgets Home (and Smaller Home) Widget and Skins.
Step 1: Purchase and Download Beautiful Widgets from the Android Market
Note: Beautiful Widgets is a WIDGET and not a APP, you will not find it in the App Drawer after installation.
Step 2: Long Press in the open area of your Home Screen where you want to add the Beautiful Widget and the “Add to Home Screen” pop-up will appear (see 2nd screen capture)
Note:If you are planning to use “Beautiful Home” it is a 4x2 Widget and you will need 2 empty rows on the Home Screen where you want to add it (see 1st screen capture below). IF you are planning to use Beautiful Smaller Home it is a 4x1 Widget so you will only need 1 empty row on the Home screen.
Step 3: Tap “Widgets” and your Widget List pop-up will appear. Select either “Beautiful Home” or “Beautiful Smaller Home” depending on the version you want to use (or the room you have available).
Step 4: After selecting one of the 2 widgets the Configure Screen will open. Make the appropriate choices on this screen and then tap “Skins” at the bottom right....
Note: The screen capture shown is “stitched” together, you will have to scroll the screen to see all the options shown.
Step 5: The Skins Screen. Note at the top you have 2 “Tabs”, the one on the left is the “Installed Skins” which displays the Skins you have downloaded or manually installed. (This is the default screen that displays when you visit the Skins Screen).
The right tab is the “Download Skins” and is where you see what skins are currently available to you on the Beautiful Widgets server. When you tap that tab you will see the “Loading Skins” pop-up. Depending on your data connection and server load it can take a minute or more for the skin previews to download, be patient.
Once the Skins List is populated from the server you will see a list of Skins available for you to download and the “Download Skins” tab is now highlighted..
Step 6: You can now scroll through the list of Skin Previews and decide which one(s) you want to download and install. When you are ready simply tap the Skin you want to download and you will see the Download confirmation pop-up.
After selecting “Download” you will see this “Downloading” pop-up…
Once that has completed you can download other skins if you like. Once you are finished tap the left “Installed Skins” tab at the top of the page to return to the Installed Skins screen. The skins you just downloaded will now be displayed on this screen (along with others you may have installed).
Step 7: Decide which of the installed Skins you want to apply to Beautiful Widgets and tap the Skin preview. You will get the confirmation pop-up “Do you want to Apply this Skin”..
Once you tap “Yes” you will notice a small message near the bottom of the screen “Applying Skin”. Once this is completed then tap the “Save and Apply Skin” button at the bottom of the screen.
If you followed the steps correctly your Beautiful Widget will now display on your Home Screen….
After you have successfully installed the Widget you can easily change the skin by following these steps.
Step 1: Tap the area where the weather is displayed on the Widget and the Forecast/Animation Screen will appear..
Step 2: Tap the Phones “Menu” key and the pop-up menu will appear at the bottom of the screen..
Step 3: Tap the “Skins” button and follow the previous steps above starting at “Step 5: Skins Screen” to Download and /or install another skin of your choice. If you plan to use skins you have already downloaded you can skip “Step 5” and start at “Step 6”.
Enjoy!!
User manual to make things easier for those not familiar with it.BTW, this same Guide will be posted on Page 1 , Post 2 of this thread. Please direct/link people to it when then need help with using Beautiful Widgets. Direct link to "Post 2" - http://www.droidforums.net/forum/dr...tiful-widgets-skinning-thread.html#post151242
Installing and Using Beautiful Widgets Home (and Smaller Home) Widget and Skins.
Step 1: Purchase and Download Beautiful Widgets from the Android Market
Note: Beautiful Widgets is a WIDGET and not a APP, you will not find it in the App Drawer after installation.
Step 2: Long Press in the open area of your Home Screen where you want to add the Beautiful Widget and the “Add to Home Screen” pop-up will appear (see 2nd screen capture)
Note:If you are planning to use “Beautiful Home” it is a 4x2 Widget and you will need 2 empty rows on the Home Screen where you want to add it (see 1st screen capture below). IF you are planning to use Beautiful Smaller Home it is a 4x1 Widget so you will only need 1 empty row on the Home screen.
Step 3: Tap “Widgets” and your Widget List pop-up will appear. Select either “Beautiful Home” or “Beautiful Smaller Home” depending on the version you want to use (or the room you have available).
Step 4: After selecting one of the 2 widgets the Configure Screen will open. Make the appropriate choices on this screen and then tap “Skins” at the bottom right....
Note: The screen capture shown is “stitched” together, you will have to scroll the screen to see all the options shown.
Step 5: The Skins Screen. Note at the top you have 2 “Tabs”, the one on the left is the “Installed Skins” which displays the Skins you have downloaded or manually installed. (This is the default screen that displays when you visit the Skins Screen).
The right tab is the “Download Skins” and is where you see what skins are currently available to you on the Beautiful Widgets server. When you tap that tab you will see the “Loading Skins” pop-up. Depending on your data connection and server load it can take a minute or more for the skin previews to download, be patient.
Once the Skins List is populated from the server you will see a list of Skins available for you to download and the “Download Skins” tab is now highlighted..
Step 6: You can now scroll through the list of Skin Previews and decide which one(s) you want to download and install. When you are ready simply tap the Skin you want to download and you will see the Download confirmation pop-up.
After selecting “Download” you will see this “Downloading” pop-up…
Once that has completed you can download other skins if you like. Once you are finished tap the left “Installed Skins” tab at the top of the page to return to the Installed Skins screen. The skins you just downloaded will now be displayed on this screen (along with others you may have installed).
Step 7: Decide which of the installed Skins you want to apply to Beautiful Widgets and tap the Skin preview. You will get the confirmation pop-up “Do you want to Apply this Skin”..
Once you tap “Yes” you will notice a small message near the bottom of the screen “Applying Skin”. Once this is completed then tap the “Save and Apply Skin” button at the bottom of the screen.
If you followed the steps correctly your Beautiful Widget will now display on your Home Screen….
After you have successfully installed the Widget you can easily change the skin by following these steps.
Step 1: Tap the area where the weather is displayed on the Widget and the Forecast/Animation Screen will appear..
Step 2: Tap the Phones “Menu” key and the pop-up menu will appear at the bottom of the screen..
Step 3: Tap the “Skins” button and follow the previous steps above starting at “Step 5: Skins Screen” to Download and /or install another skin of your choice. If you plan to use skins you have already downloaded you can skip “Step 5” and start at “Step 6”.
Enjoy!!
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There you go showing off your 1100x480 super-high-res custom-fabricated dual-scrollbar Droid again.
Thanks for the Dummy's Guide - very much appreciated. I followed the instructions and now have the BW Smaller version on my Home screen, but what I am most interested in is the "skin" that is the black stone wallpaper. That, in combination with the Widget would be great. I was originally thinking that the "skin" was not only the widget, but also the wallpaper.
Can someone help direct me to where that background is - it is very cool. Thank you.
Can someone help direct me to where that background is - it is very cool. Thank you.
cupfulloflol
Senior Member
Just to follow-up to 928's very thorough "Dummy Guide". This is for downloading and using a skin posted here as a zip file if it isn't on the server yet. Figured this one out on my own so I thought I would post it.
-Download and open the zip file using Astro
-Using Astro again go into your sd card files and go to the download folder
-Click on the file named for your downloaded skin
-Copy the folder named for your downloaded skin
-Open the data folder on your sd card
-Open the beautiful widgets folder
-Open the skins folder
-Paste your downloaded skin
The skin will now be listed in your installed skins.
-Download and open the zip file using Astro
-Using Astro again go into your sd card files and go to the download folder
-Click on the file named for your downloaded skin
-Copy the folder named for your downloaded skin
-Open the data folder on your sd card
-Open the beautiful widgets folder
-Open the skins folder
-Paste your downloaded skin
The skin will now be listed in your installed skins.
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Ok, now for a little automotive fun... "GT 40"!
Not sure if it is good enough to submit to BW, but it was fun making it!
Strip it naked because that font would look killer on a light or dark wallpaper.
And that is plenty good enough to submit. Go for it.
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Garemlin;216659 [B said:
Here you go, best name I could come up with is "NakedGaremlin"
The Ford GT font is a little "short", will work on a better proportioned font (so it will be larger) with the same effects and post it latter.
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