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.
- Ensure that APKInstaller is installed on your T-Mobile G1.
- Connect your T-Mobile G1 to your computer via USB.
- Mount the G1 in order to access the microSD card.
- Transfer the Development.APK file from your computer to the microSD card root directory (drag the file onto the mounted removable drive).
- Fire up the APKInstaller application from the Applications tray.
- Navigate to the SDcard directory and choose the Development.APK file.
- “Dev Tools” will install
- Open Dev Tools
- Change Window Animation Scale to “1x,” and Transition Animation Scale to “1x” (you can change these settings.
- Enjoy your animated screen transitions!
[Via: xda]