Customizing Android Home Screen Is An Art - 3

In today's "Customizing Android Home Screen Is An Art" post  I will explain how to make Android home screen to look like below. Intention of this post is not only to tell to how to make it look like below instead it is to let you know about the apps which can be used to customize the screen and give it a mesmerizing look.

How To Do It

Tools required

ADW Launcher

UCCW

Icon pack - Round Stickers by AVDesign

Above screen has 3 parts in it. Top one is a widget created using UCCW then shortcuts to application and a dock at the bottom.

1. Download ADW launcher and make it as your launcher.
2. Menu -> ADW settings -> Screen  and set Desktop columns to 4 and Desktop rows to 5
3. Set a black image has  homescreen wallpaper .
4. Menu -> ADW settings -> Themes and apply sticker icon theme which you have downloaded.
5. Menu -> ADW settings -> App Dock -> Dock size = 5 
6. Add message, contact , phone and app drawer application launcher to the dock at the bottom.
7.  Menu -> Add -> widgets -> UCCW -> UCCW 4x2.
8. A finger image containing "touch here" appears on the screen. Click  on it. It will redirect your control to UCCW.
9. Android image what you see in the screen is downloaded from some website. Download a similar image and add it has background  in UCCW.  You can do so by going to edit object option in UCCW. Then add following objects in UCCW  - time, date, am/pm , analog clock ,battery level , battery bar ,current temperature and icon - current condition . Now edit those added objects and set the position ,color  and size of the objects appropriately to fit it into the 4x2 widget. Click on save and save it as skin and hit exit. And go back to your home screen. Now you will see the newly created UCCW object on the screen.
10. Menu -> Add -> Custom shortcut -> pick your activity. Select the application shortcut which you want to place it on the home screen. Check apply theme background option and keep the label empty. Click OK to add it to the screen. Follow the same step to add all application shortcuts to the screen.

That's it , your new customized home screen is ready!!! Now its time to check out some surprise. Click on App drawer and you will see the icons appearing like below and that's because we changed the ADW theme.

Hope this post was useful. Thanks and enjoy customizing.