MultiHome (Filip) - Android Homescreen Tutorial

You either know this screen, or you know of it. Ranked 1st as the most popular screen on mycolorscreen.com and 2nd as the most viewed. So I decided to do a video tutorial on it. What makes it stand out is its beautifully designed screen categories, that combine into one truly inspiring (as seen in its comments) Android homescreen. Let us begin.

Link to the original MultiHome screen by Filip:
http://mycolorscreen.com/2011/12/09/m...

Link to his MyColorScreen homescreen homepage:
http://mycolorscreen.com/filipovsky/

Even though MultiHome has many different apps/widgets, and they look complicated to set up, it's actually one of the easiest screens I've set up so far. The first thing you'll need are the wallpapers, below is the steps needed as well as the link:

1. Go to this link for the wallpapers: http://minus.com/mXMaUsXMm
2. Copy them into a folder, either on your phone or PC
3. Now copy it to your phone if you haven't downloaded them straight

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Apex Settings:

---- Homescreen Settings:
- Portrait Grid: 10x9 (or whatever works best for you)
- Horizontal Margin: Large
- Vertical Margin: Medium
- Manage Screens: 4 Screens
- Wallpaper Mode: Multiple Screen (scrolling)
- Show Indicator: Disabled
- Hide Notifications: Enabled
- Hide Shadows: Enabled
- Hide Icon Labels: Enabled

---- Dock Settings:
- Hide Dock: Enabled

---- Multupicture Live Wallpaper:

1. Menu (or hold down on homescreen) - Add - Wallpaper - Live Wallpaper - Multipicture Live Wallpaper.
2. Add Individual Settings - Add 1, then 2, then 3, then 4
3. Screen 1 settings - Picture Source - Single Picture - Find Home Wallpaper
4. Crop/Resize Ratio - Fit to Screen (should work)
5. Repeat for the rest.
6. Disable (untick) all options in the main menu.
7. Transition Type - Card
8. Go back - Set Wallpaper


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Screen 1: Home

1.1. Download Minimalist Text (Free) from here
https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...
1.2. Small Bottom Left Clock: Menu - Add - Widget - Minimalist Text - 2x1 (hor)
1.3. Take off show background
1.4. Predefined Layout - Custom Layout
1.5. Custom Layout - Hour (24hr, 2 digits) | Static Text (full stop) | Minute (2 digits)
1.6. Font is Helvitica.
1.7. Do the same for the rest and make changes where necessary for the other MT's.
1.8. Download Desktop VisualizeR here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...
1.9. Apply the blank png, here is the link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/sfu8he8pi7c...
1.10. Add DV as a widget and change the icon to the blank png, Action - Whatever action you need
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Screen 2: Office

2.1 Download Simple Calendar here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...
2.2 See video for all the changes
2.3 Download Brilliant Quotes Free here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...
2.4 Add it to the bottom
2.5 See video for added Minimalist Text's.

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Screen 3: Internet

3.1 Simply add 3 Desktop VisualizeR widgets over each of the large icons, changing the icon to the blank png and Target to Twitter, RSS Feed and Mail.

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Screen 4: Media

4.1 Download UberMusic:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...
4.2 Download the clear skin for it on the Play Store in Find Skins
4.3 Add Ubermusic (2x1 then drag across) to the top
4.4 Download and copy to your phone these icons by AlexT:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/12923162/Ico...
4.5 Drag or Add Apps to this screen, hold down on them - Edit - Tap the Picture - Select Picture - Find a suitable icon from the ones above!

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Phraw, long tutorial but I hope you guys enjoyed it! This was a request, so you see I do listen :) Please subscribe and also check out the new playlists that will be emerging this week!

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[Chung You Jing]

Im stuck with android 2.3 waht launcher should i use to do this?

[mycolorscreen]

Try SSLauncher too

[Manoj Kumar]

Hey Marco, instead of that black png method can I use hotspot since it is UCCW, isn't that much easier. with black png there is always the risk of losing the icons if i wanna start again.

[mycolorscreen]

Good point, it's just some people hate the look of hotspots, but yes I'd rather do that too, saves battery and memory in the process

[Tomáš Ranocha]

What is that accent?

[mycolorscreen]

South African 

[MiningBlock]

are you ever going to do a tablet tutorial?

[tenzin choeden]

omg finally I made it....thanks hope to get anothr amazing homescreen...headsup......god job..

[tenzin choeden]

helo sir,m using note2 m tired of this theme.so I hv decided go thru multihome screen.i did according to your way.i hv problem in minimilistic text I hv download dat from playstore bt lpredefine payout is not showing...plz need littpe here...

[Dave Handler]

Not that I care for this home set up. But, MultiPicture Live Wallpaper will not work with a US Samsung Galaxy S II. Even if you choose to force it in Nova still won't work. It was something in the last droid update from one of apples court cases they won. Sucks.

[Notrightnow100]

It doesnt show events that I add to the calender, or is it because it doesnt show events that are like 2 weeks from now, how do I make the widget do that? (I am doing it correctly by just adding events to my normal calender, and it should show up in the widget, right ?)

[Amen Pray]

can you make the wallpaper in a larger resolution...i hve a S3 but the resolution of the wallpaper just made it look blurry

[Ahmed Naguib]

You can use what you do to build your own launcher and pay it

Really you are jenuos

[bahrta sai]

Sorry, I meant Chung You Jing. auto-complete is a pain sometimes.

[bahrta sai]

@Chung You King: I don't think there is a Launcher available for 2.3 that will allow you to exactly copy this. "Adw" or "Adw ex" is probably the closest you could get.