In my earlier post I had explained in detail how you can change your home screen using adw launcher and how you can download and use adw themes to quickly change the look & feel of your Android phone. I did explain that some of the adw launcher themes are iPhone look alike themes. In case you have missed that post then you can read it at : How-to apply iPhone theme to Google Android mobile phone using ADW Launcher
I had mentioned in my last post about two kinds of wallpapers for Android, Image Background Wallpapers and Live Wallpapers. Image backgrounds are the traditional wallpapers which we know and "live wallpapers" are the new type of wallpapers which comes with animation effect and are interactive. In this post also I am covering traditional wallpapers and I may cover live wallpapers in some future posts. But you need not wait and you can download coolest live wallpapers available in Google's Android market and other Android app stores.
In this post I am going to cover the second wallpaper app from this series of three coolest apps which you can use to download free and coolest wallpapers for your Google Android phone.
HD Wallpapers App : This is another simple and best wallpapers app which you should give a try at. It is simple to use and provides most of the basic functions which we need to search and find best and cool wallpapers for Android phone. Again the best part is, it is absolutely free. You can find this Wallpaper app in Google Android market or your favorite Android app store with ease. Once you install this app on your phone then you are ready to go and start looking for coolest wallpapers available out there. When you run the HD Wallpapers app then it displays it's main screen with various wallpaper categories as shown below.
HD Wallpapers Main Screen
You can see that there are many interesting categories of wallpapers namely Abstract, Animals, Cars, Cartoons, City, Computer, Design, Diversity, Female Celebrities, Gaming, Love, Machines, Male Celebrities, Movie, Music, Nature, New and Sports. If you tap any of the category then you would find more sub categories within that main category of wallpaper. For example when you tap the Nature category, you would find more categories as given in screenshot below.
HD Wallpapers - Nature Wallpapers
You can see that within main wallpaper category Nature there are sub categories like Desert, Drops, Fall, Flowers, Fruits, Landscapes, Lightning, Nature Water, Rainbow, Space, Trees, Underwater, Waterfall, Winter and more. Each category has collection of beautiful, coolest and breathtaking Android wallpapers that you would love to have. The collection of beautiful and coolest wallpapers from Lightning sub category are shown in screenshot below.
HD Wallpapers - Lightning Wallpapers
You can see how beautiful these wallpapers are and probably it is difficult to decide which one to download. You can tap the wallpaper you like from the thumbnail view shown above to enlarge it. Just to give you an idea how an enlarged wallpaper looks like on android phone screen, one of the coolest wallpapers from underwater category is displayed in enlarged size in screenshot below.
HD Wallpapers - Underwater wallpaper
This underwater wallpaper looks awesome, isn't it? On this screen there are various icons and buttons which can be used to perform various activities. Lets start with icon at top left hand corner of the screen. You can tap this icon to send this wallpaper using various options like bluetooth, email etc. The heart shape icon at top right hand corner of the screen allows you to mark this wallpaper as your favorite. This could be very useful when you are not able to decide which wallpaper to use and you want to see more coolest wallpapers before you decide on one. Save button at the bottom of the screen allows you to save the wallpaper on your Android phone SD card. "Set as wallpaper" button just sets the given wallpaper as your phone's wallpaper. Other two buttons at bottom of screen are to see the previous or next wallpaper from the available collection. On enlarged wallpaper screen, when you press menu button of your Android phone then you would see the app menu as shown below.
HD Wallpapers - Menu
"Save" menu from these app menus perform the same action as that for Save button we seen earlier. Categories menu takes you back to list of wallpaper categories. Rate app and Report problem menus does exactly what they say. More menu provides few more useful menus which you may would like to try out. When you tap "Favorites" menu then it takes you to the favorite wallpapers screen where you can see all the wallpapers which you have marked favorite using heart shaped icon explained earlier. Example favorite screen is shown below.
HD Wallpapers - Favorites
The wallpapers displayed in favorites would depend on what you have marked as favorite. If you don't mark any wallpaper as your favorite then this list would be empty. You can see few beautiful and coolest wallpapers in above favorite screenshot. So far you have seen many cool and awesome wallpapers which are available with HD wallpapers app. You must have also noticed that there are plenty of different categories and choices for you with HD wallpapers app. If you are looking for any specific wallpaper then most likely you would find it using HD Wallpapers app.
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So that is second of the coolest three wallpaper apps for your Google Android phone. You can use these wallpapers for all android phones, be it HTC, Samsung, Motorola or any other brand in market. Just a suggestion, don't download app .apk file from untrusted sources. Instead you can download HD Wallpapers app from android market or any of your trusted android app store. Once you install wallpapers app then you can start downloading coolest wallpapers for your android using the app. In coming posts I would be covering third of three best wallpaper apps. Keep checking back for more exciting, best and coolest Android apps.
You can quickly replace the default android home screen and theme with fancy theme like iPhone look alike theme. You can do this Android home replacement with a free app called ADW.Launcher. But doing Android home replacement using ADW.Launcher is bit tricky for normal phone users and I am going to teach you how-to get up and running with ADW.Launcher in no time.
Download And Install ADW Launcher From Android Market : You can download the ADW Launcher .apk file from many sources on net but I would suggest you to download app apk from your trusted sources only. Similarly you may find many ADW Themes for free download on internet and I would again suggest that download themes from your trusted sources only.
One of the trusted sources is Google Android market. Launch the Android market app on your mobile phone and search for ADW Launcher. You could find free version of ADW Launcher as well as Pro and Ex versions which are paid. Tap ADW Launcher which is free and you would see it's description as shown in screenshot below.
ADW Launcher on Android Market
Tap the "FREE" button to proceed for installation to your phone. Once you initiate the installation of ADW Launcher then go back to search of Android Market and search for "ADW theme free".
Download And Install ADW Launcher Themes : This would show you list of ADW themes available for your phone. Some of the free themes on Android market are displayed in screenshot below.
Free ADW Themes
You can install the themes you like but if you are interested in iPhone kind of look & feel then install ADW IPhroid IPhone Free theme. You can also try out ADWTheme MiPhone Free theme. Once you have installed ADW Launcher and one of the ADW themes then you are ready to try out Android home replacement.
Get Started With Android Home Screen Replacement : The tricky part of adw launcher and these installed adw themes is none of these appear as applications in app drawer. To start using installed ADW Launcher press the home button of your Android mobile phone. This would display a menu shown in following screenshot.
Home Screen Launcher Menu
If you notice there is a checkbox "Use by default for this action". If you check this ON then next time this menu would not be displayed and selected Launcher would be launched instead. I suggest to keep it OFF till you carry out all your trials and get comfortable with new ADW Launcher and themes. After applying any theme if it get force closed then the only easy option to recover is press the home button and tap "TwLauncher" option. This would bring you back to good old default home screen of your Android phone. To start using ADW Launcher, tap "ADW.Launcher" option.
ADW Launcher Settings For Android Home Screen Replacement : You can see the new look of the ADW Launcher's default theme in screenshot below. This does not replace your wallpaper which you have already set.
ADW Launcher in Action
Notice the three icons at the bottom bar. The left icon with gray star icon is where you can drop any shortcut from your desktop to make it your favorite. Center icon with four boxes is for opening or closing app drawer. App drawer is where you find all your installed apps. Rightmost icon is your mobile browser shortcut. Now press the menu button of your phone to see the menus of ADW Launcher.
ADW Launcher Menu
Add menu is to add items to your desktop, wallpaper is to set the wallpaper you like, Search is to launch Google search bar, Edit is to edit the desktops and Settings is our good old settings menu. If you tap the more menu then you can see two more menus as shown in screenshot below.
ADW Launcher More Menus
Lock desktop menu locks your desktop icons and settings from accidentally being modified. You should do this ideally when all your desktop settings are done. You can unlock using the same menu if you want to do any changes. Tap the ADWSettings menu to launch the ADW Settings screen.
ADW Settings
There are many choices here and you can explore those and try out in leisure. One of the interesting menus and in which we are interested now is "Themes Preferences".
Applying iPhone Theme To Android Phone : Tap this menu to proceed for trying out new iPhone theme for your Android phone.
Themes Preferences
Now tap "Select your theme" option to launch the dialog which displays the available themes you have on your phone. This include those which you have recently installed and default one from ADW Launcher.
ADW Launcher - Select your theme
The content of this dialog would differ depending on which themes you have installed on your Android phone. For iPhone like look & feel select the theme "ADWTheme_Blazing_IP" option. This is nothing but the "ADW IPhroid IPhone Free" theme which we installed earlier.
ADWTheme IPHROID Preview
You would need to scrolldown to see the preview of the theme and available buttons for actions to take. You can see the button like iPhone in the preview.
ADWTheme IPHROID Preview Scrolled
"Get themes!" button take you to the Android market store. You can start using this new iPhone like theme by tapping "Apply theme!" button.
iPhone look a like Theme for Android
Voila, you can see now your selected Android theme in action. You can see how shortcuts are looking like those on iPhone. Next you can go ahead and change the wallpaper with the one you like and start putting required widgets on your desktops.
Resizing Widgets With ADW Launcher Home Screen Replacement : There are many interesting features and settings in ADW Launcher. One of those which worth mentioning here is you can resize the widgets on Android home screen or desktop. Let me show you how.
Gadget Context Menu
When you long press any widget on your desktop like a clock shown in screenshot above, it displays the context menu with choices "Remove", "Edit", "Uninstall". Remove just takes away the widget from your desktop and Uninstall removes it from your mobile phone. If you tap Edit then it would allow you to resize the widget as shown in screenshot below.
Here is one youtube video which you may find useful to understand ADW.Launcher well
There are many other settings and features available with ADW Launcher and you can explore those further. There are many free and paid ADW themes available for Android which you can use with ADW.Launcher and you should try those. One suggestion which I would like to repeat is, download free ADW.Launcher app apk and free ADW theme apks from your trusted sources only.
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HD Wallpapers App : This is another simple and best wallpapers app which you should give a try at. It is simple to use and provides most of the basic functions which we need to search and find best and cool wallpapers for Android phone. Again the best part is, it is absolutely free. You can find this Wallpaper app in Google Android market or your favorite Android app store with ease. Once you install this app on your phone then you are ready to go and start looking for coolest wallpapers available out there. When you run the HD Wallpapers app then it displays it's main screen with various wallpaper categories as shown below.
