faeran Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 View File Pure I created Pure to be a lightweight custom LaunchBox for Android theme for my Retroid Pocket 2+. This means that it's geared towards a 640x480 screen, is not optimized for portrait mode, and only uses box front images. This theme also demonstrates the use of a resource dictionary of colors that is used to change the frame color around the selected item based on the game's platform. A launching view is also included. What's Included Text list with box - Game View Startup - Launching View Installation Instructions Extract the [theme folder] from zip file (Make sure you do not create a second folder while extracting, creating a [theme folder]\[theme folder]\files situation. Place folder on your Android device, inside of the LaunchBox\Themes folder. In LaunchBox for Android, navigate to intended View and click on the top-right menu button and select Change View, and choose the correct theme view Submitter faeran Submitted 08/26/2022 Category Custom Themes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d0rkblad3 Posted August 30, 2022 Share Posted August 30, 2022 (edited) Are there any resources you could recommend for learning how to create/modify themes? Edit: Sorry, probably the wrong place to ask. Edited August 30, 2022 by d0rkblad3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faeran Posted August 30, 2022 Author Share Posted August 30, 2022 7 minutes ago, d0rkblad3 said: Are there any resources you could recommend for learning how to create/modify themes? Edit: Sorry, probably the wrong place to ask. If you have LaunchBox for Android installed, check out the Documentation.pdf file, which will be located in your LaunchBox\Themes folder on your device. Here's a quick intro video you can watch as well: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viking Posted August 30, 2022 Share Posted August 30, 2022 (edited) Excellent theme @faeran, as always! Test on the 1080p of my Odin (Lite). Works like a charm! Adopted as my main theme on Android =) Maybe a version with the BoxArt that, after 3-4sec, fades to gamePlayVideo? Edited August 30, 2022 by viking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faeran Posted August 30, 2022 Author Share Posted August 30, 2022 4 hours ago, viking said: Excellent theme @faeran, as always! Test on the 1080p of my Odin (Lite). Works like a charm! Adopted as my main theme on Android 😃 Maybe a version with the BoxArt that, after 3-4sec, fades to gamePlayVideo? Good to know that migrated well to the Odin. Sounds like a good idea, however Xamarin.Forms doesn't actually have native animation support, so we may be stuck there at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viking Posted August 30, 2022 Share Posted August 30, 2022 5 minutes ago, faeran said: Good to know that migrated well to the Odin. Sounds like a good idea, however Xamarin.Forms doesn't actually have native animation support, so we may be stuck there at the moment. No real need for animation in this case, I think. A quick fade would be fine, but even without animation, it's nice to have a video preview before launching the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faeran Posted August 30, 2022 Author Share Posted August 30, 2022 1 minute ago, viking said: No real need for animation in this case, I think. A quick fade would be fine, but even without animation, it's nice to have a video preview before launching the game. Sorry to say that a fade is animation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viking Posted August 30, 2022 Share Posted August 30, 2022 Yes yes, excuse me, I always have trouble transmitting my ideas in English =/ Even without any animation, it would be cool! Unless I didn't understand: switching from BoxArt to Video is already an animation? Even without any "visible graphic" animation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faeran Posted August 30, 2022 Author Share Posted August 30, 2022 3 minutes ago, viking said: Yes yes, excuse me, I always have trouble transmitting my ideas in English =/ Even without any animation, it would be cool! Unless I didn't understand: switching from BoxArt to Video is already an animation? Even without any "visible graphic" animation? Yeah, after the page renders, it would require a storyboard to say "at this time make this go away and make this appear". That's where the limitation is with Xamarin.Forms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viking Posted August 30, 2022 Share Posted August 30, 2022 Damn, OK Faeran! =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bawnanable Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 (edited) This is a really beautifully clean theme @faeran! Definitely my theme of choice! Forgive my naivety but regarding the inclusion of videos; is there any possibility of overlaying boxarts that are offset on top of gameplay videos with xamarin? Edit: No worries, I've swapped out the boxart with gameplay videos instead-- works nicely! Edited September 10, 2022 by Bawnanable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtib Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 Hi @faeran thanks for the Theme, it fits also very well on my Odin Lite. Is it possible to change a variable on the "Text list with box.xaml" file so would capture 3D Boxes instead Front Boxes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faeran Posted February 5 Author Share Posted February 5 1 hour ago, mtib said: Hi @faeran thanks for the Theme, it fits also very well on my Odin Lite. Is it possible to change a variable on the "Text list with box.xaml" file so would capture 3D Boxes instead Front Boxes? The Android app doesn't actually support 3D Box image type. It only supports a Box - Front image type. You could manually change each game to use a 3D Image using the Edit Media option, but if you have a lot of games, that may not be a good solution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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