Homebrew Homebrew Launcher with grid icons, paging and info on top screen

[mashers]

Just a little update on the UI redesign:



The page indicator at the bottom works and shows which page you are on. The arrows which move between the page so appear and disappear when needed (I.e. Only if there are pages before/after your current position to move to). I need to find away to make the icon on the top screen bigger and change the font. Then I can add a shadow to the icon and the redesign will be nearly done.

 

[Februarysn0w]

Just a little update on the UI redesign:

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The page indicator at the bottom works and shows which page you are on. The arrows which move between the page so appear and disappear when needed (I.e. Only if there are pages before/after your current position to move to). I need to find away to make the icon on the top screen bigger and change the font. Then I can add a shadow to the icon and the redesign will be nearly done.

I cant wait your release. keep your great job(≧▽≦)

 

[SLiV3R]

Hi everyone

I decided to start a new thread about my update of Smea's HBL, as I didn't want to detract from the thread @suloku has running about his fantastic update to provide sorting and folder support.

My update of the HBL is slightly different in that I am endeavouring to replicate this layout:

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So far I've got as far as:

• Removing the water animation
• Moving the info for the currently selected app onto the top screen
• Rearranging the icons into a grid
• Implementing paging so you can move between grids of 8 icons using L/R

I wanted to create a video to show paging but can't upload it anywhere, so here's a picture of progress so far:

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Outstanding tasks to replicate a full launcher:

• Improve appearance to replicate the screenshot above
• Some fixes to the code which navigates the grid (occasionally it is possible to navigate off of the grid onto a non-existent icon. Should be easy enough to fix). DONE: The selector now stays within the grid all the time.
• Fix touch recognition as this currently calculates the positions of the icons in their positions on the original HBL. DONE: Icons can now be selected and launched using touch and/or arrows and/or thumbstick.
• Disable the scrolling code as this currently expects vertical scrolling so messes things up. DONE - scrolling is disabled for now. I might reintroduce scrolling to allow scrolling between pages, but don't hold your breath for now.
• Create on-screen buttons for moving between pages. DONE - on-screen buttons now allow movement between pages.

Once this is done I intend to add more features. The features I definitely want to add are:

• GUI settings for changing things like sorting options
• Customisable backgrounds and theme colours

Possible future additions include:

• Drag and drop icon arranging
• Folder support
• Background music
• GUI sound effects

I'm using smea's HBL source code for this. I will of course open the source once it's in a fit state.


Please post feedback, suggestions or feature requests here!

This is 100 times better than the original design!!!!

Keep up the great work! =)

 

[mashers]

Thanks for the encouragement guys! Going to take a break from this now as I've been working on it all day. I'll check back in tomorrow

 

[Garcia98]

This is looking really good

But share the source code please

 

[Tjessx]

Nice homebrew you got there

 

[BurningDesire]

@mashers Thanks for the free advertising!!

 

[kehkou]

Nice work! But I would keep the water animation and replace the HBL logo with app info on a translucent black rectangle.

 

[~Poke~]

It's probably too far a stretch, but it would be really cool to see this have the same layout as the 3ds home menu and support the same themes.

 

[jagerstaffel]

Wow, I can't wait to try this. I like that the water animation is removed because everytime I use Save Data Manager, scrolling games one by one is a bit slow and would pause that animation leading me to believe there isn't enough resources to scroll and animate at the same time.

 

[Jwiz33]

This is great!
Would you care to release a pre alpha?

 

[mashers]

This is great!
Would you care to release a pre alpha?

Actually I'm not that far off. I spent a lot of time today getting a settings screen working so you can toggle the region free loader. Once I've added an option to sort alphabetically I will be able to upload a beta.

While I have every intention of releasing the source, I would prefer to do this when I work out how to put it on GitHub.

 

[BurningDesire]

Can you add support in the settings for this

 

[Jwiz33]

Actually I'm not that far off. I spent a lot of time today getting a settings screen working so you can toggle the region free loader. Once I've added an option to sort alphabetically I will be able to upload a beta.

While I have every intention of releasing the source, I would prefer to do this when I work out how to put it on GitHub.

Good to hear.

 

[zezzo]

Actually I'm not that far off. I spent a lot of time today getting a settings screen working so you can toggle the region free loader. Once I've added an option to sort alphabetically I will be able to upload a beta.

While I have every intention of releasing the source, I would prefer to do this when I work out how to put it on GitHub.

Could we get a video/picture of the menu!?

 

[mashers]

Can you add support in the settings for this

Custom themes will be a future addition, but the format probably won't be compatible with suloku's as the UI is now completely different.

 

[zezzo]

Custom themes will be a future addition, but the format probably won't be compatible with suloku's as the UI is now completely different.

Do you think it will look like the concept? Maybe you could add a store to download hombrew later. I hope the menu becomes the official download because it looks better than the original

 

[mashers]

Could we get a video/picture of the menu!?

Ok here's an updated photo. If anyone can tell me how to take screenshots from homebrew then I can start uploading proper screenshots.

Do you think it will look like the concept? Maybe you could add a store to download hombrew later. I hope the menu becomes the official download because it looks better than the original

It will be pretty close to the concept but not exactly. Certain things like the star rating and beta indicator won't be there, but I'll get it as close as possible. Adding a store isn't going to happen I'm afraid. This would be a massive project which would require ongoing work to maintain the store and I simply don't have the time. Sorry.

 

[zezzo]

No problem
Could you post some screen shots or a video I really want to see it in action

 

[Jwiz33]

Ok here's an updated photo. If anyone can tell me how to take screenshots from homebrew then I can start uploading proper screenshots.

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It will be pretty close to the concept but not exactly. Certain things like the star rating and beta indicator won't be there, but I'll get it as close as possible. Adding a store isn't going to happen I'm afraid. This would be a massive project which would require ongoing work to maintain the store and I simply don't have the time. Sorry.

If you are on 9.2 or below, you can use NTR-CFW to take screenshots. I remember it working with Ninjhax 2.0/Ironhax/Tubehax/Whateveruserlandhax, but I am not sure about Ninjhax 1.1b

EDIT: You should update the OP with that updated photo