Today you get some news about Sweeter Home! Firstly, the “preview” suffix is gone: this new release will be known as Sweeter Home 2! And you’ll be very pleased to know that, all going well, a public beta will be available for you to download in the next several days.
Now to some information I haven’t been able to share with you until this week.
Sharing
Previously I’ve mentioned that ‘sharing is much improved’ in Sweeter Home. The whole app has been rebuilt since Preview 1 and this means that things like saving and sharing themes is contained, solid and simple. When saving a theme everything, including images, is packed into the .slx (theme) file. This can be saved to your SD card (and emailed to friends or hosted on your blog etc), or it can be uploaded to the Sweeter Home server for sharing with all Sweeter Home users. When browsing for themes you can access an entire list from the Sweeter Home server and apply any theme to your phone with one click of a button! You can also rate themes you’ve tried out to let others know whether it’s worth a download or not. It’s simple and easy and means you now have a central point to check out what other people are building. It’s like I’ve said from the beginning: share your themes!
Tag Trays
New in Sweeter Home 2 is Tag Trays. A Tag Tray is a categorised tray that populates with apps that match that category. For example you might have a games tray. If you have apps installed that most other people have categorised as games then that tray will automatically populate with those games. If the majority have it wrong in your eyes, then you can drag that app to any other category – your selection will always override to be the default on your phone. This means 2 things. Firstly, any theme you first apply in Sweeter Home that uses Tag Trays will automatically populate those trays. You don’t have to spend time setting up the trays; over time the defaults will do the hard work for you. Secondly, once you have your tray set up the way you want they will always populate with the apps you’ve selected. No matter how many different themes you apply from different authors, your apps will always be right there and ready to use. No more long pressing or dragging to set up every new theme!
Stay tuned here, or follow me on Twitter. I’ll be posting an alert when Sweeter Home 2 public beta is available for download.
WOOOHOOO!
Me so happy.
As excited about this as I was to get my Droid in the first place!
Awesome.
The Dude abides.
Eeeep! I can’t wait! My husband thinks I am nuts because I am excited about a home replacement app!
Will this still be out before the new year?
Howesome stuff !!!!!! When is it gonna be available ?
Are we getting 2 soon? I had been using the program but had to do a hard reset and lost it!
Missing Sweeterhome bad!