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iPhone-like screen transitions for T-Mobile G1 and Android OS

By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, December 4th, 2008 at 4:58 PM

There’s no doubt that the T-Mobile G1 is a serious competitor in a crowded smartphone market. With an open-source Android OS powering the smartphone, the G1 is about as flexible and powerful as any other mobile phone. Unless, that is, you want your T-Mobile G1 to animate screen transitions all slippy-slidey like, much like the iPhone.

Well, dear Android fan, your T-Mobile G1 can rock the sleek side-sliding screen transitions with a little application installing and preference changes. Handy Android developer afbcamaro has posted a method on xda-developers that uses an Android development package to enable sliding screen transitions. Hit up the video below to see what animated screen transitions look like on the T-Mobile G1.

Here’s how to make it happen for yourself:

  • Fire up the Android Market on the T-Mobile G1 and download/install the APKInstaller application.
  • Get a microSD card ready.
  • Download Development.APK to your computer. Find the file here.
  1. Ensure that APKInstaller is installed on your T-Mobile G1.
  2. Connect your T-Mobile G1 to your computer via USB.
    1. Mount the G1 in order to access the microSD card.
  3. Transfer the Development.APK file from your computer to the microSD card root directory (drag the file onto the mounted removable drive).
  4. Fire up the APKInstaller application from the Applications tray.
  5. Navigate to the SDcard directory and choose the Development.APK file.
  6. “Dev Tools” will install
  7. Open Dev Tools
  8. Change Window Animation Scale to “1x,” and Transition Animation Scale to “1x” (you can change these settings.
  9. Enjoy your animated screen transitions!

[Via: xda]

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Will Park

Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...

  • blake

    its much easier if you just download the newer version of DroidSans tweak off the market.

  • mike

    Hello. Does doing all of this void the warranty

  • Ray

    Awesome, love the transition animation :)

    Cheers!

  • Eltawil

    Is it just me or is anyone else sick of reading about how to make everything look like the iPhone?

  • mark

    Yeah, no joke. Screw the damn iPhone. Its not that cool people…

  • jon

    this application also has an option to close out apps which makes the g1 much faster in my opinion.