This theme is quite fitting for our country: it looks complicated, awesome and time-consuming, but it's really quite easy.
The Fourth of July is a day to celebrate our union, to acknowledge its past and look ahead to its future. It's also an excuse for everyone to take a day off work in the middle of the summer, go swimming by the river, grilling in the backyard, drink some star-spangled beer and blow up some fireworks. Whatever your plans for this Independence Day, make sure that your phone is decked out in some red, white, and blue brilliance with our quickest theme yet, built upon American adaptability and KLWP.
KLWP — short for Kustom Live Wallpaper — is the bigger, bolder brother of , the what-you-see-is-what-you-get widget builder that we've used in many of our theme the last few years, including our recent and . KLWP is a what-you-see-is-what-you-get live wallpaper builder, allowing you to build widgets, shortcuts, and designs right into your live wallpaper.
See the 5 white app icons on the screen? Everything besides those is part of our live wallpaper, and that means that since we've already built the theme, all you lucky users need to do is apply the live wallpaper, apply your icon pack, and get on with grilling and chilling.
This theme was originally based around a widget I found and liked in , which is a wonderful preset pack I recommend checking out for KWGT. I hunted down the fonts and fonticon pack to help re-create the dock in KLWP and then made several edits and additions, including:
- Converted the three app shortcuts into music controls
- Added song information to the bottom of the dock, just above the nav bar
- Organized the Time/Weather elements to help them remain better aligned
- Tied all the theme elements to Globals for easy color adjustments
- Created and adjusted a custom tricolor music progress bar to sit sit along the edge of the dock
- Added a conditional layer to hide the interactive elements while on the lock screen
This is a theme I've tinkered and toyed with for over a month, and a KLWP Preset that I've adjusted and fine-tuned through weeks of personal use. Since you'll be importing the KLWP Preset I've made, you'll need KLWP Pro, which is $4.50. Considering how powerful KLWP is and how responsive its development team and community are, I think it's more than worth that price.
Applying Whicons Icon Pack
This is a simple red, white and blue theme, and it works best with a simple white icon pack, and for a simple white icon pack, we turn once again to one of my favorite icon packs on Google Play. is one of the three free icon packs from that mesh with so many themes that it's just unnatural.
- Open Whicons.
- Tap the three-line menu icon in the top left corner.
Tap Apply.
- Tap your desired launcher.
Tap OK.
I arrange my apps on the home screen using Nova Launcher's , but you can place your icons anywhere above our patriotic dock.
Your turn
So, do put fifty icons on your home screen for the 50 stars — assuming your home screen is big enough for that many — or do you take a more reserved approach to our Fourth of July theme? Want to kick it up a little more? Try this I made using The First Avenger's colors and signature shield for some Star-Spangled Awesome.
Are there any themes you'd like us to tackle? Let us know in the comments!