Designer 1.1.2 (Patreon)

Weather has been pretty bad here lately, so been stuck inside. Storms ended up tearing up a bunch of my zucchini and tomatoes :( I spent most of that time updating Designer. This update focuses more on the home screen theming. The biggest issue with the stock home screen (for me) is the icon layout. I've seen this layout for over 10 years and it get old. Widgets like widgy are cool, but i'm stuck with the same 4x6 icon layout and a dock that displays on every page. With iOS 16 you can remove pages which is cool but I want to MOVE my icons.

This is not an easy task as it relies heavily on icon state, icon cache, etc. My first thought was well i'll just allow users to move the icon page down and hide the dock. This changes the look and feel drastically so I did that. Then I wanted to change the spacing of icons. I wanted them to be closer together. This turned out to take about 12 hours to pull off. Finding a way to reliably do this was not easy, but I found something that works with changing side and bottom insets. I was able to achieve what I wanted although not how I wanted.

You will see two new sections SB Hide Options and SB Icon Options.

SB Hide Options

• Hide Dock
• Hide Dots
• Hide Labels
• Hide Today View
• Hide App Library
• Hide statusbar

SB Icon Options

• Move Icon List Down
• Set Icon Columns
• Icon Space From Side Edges
• Icon Space From Bottom Edge
• Icon Size
• Icon Opacity

Move Icon List Down

Allows you to move all icons down. This moves the holder of the icons therefore does not mess anything else up. For me I wanted a 4x2 layout. This is very common in Android themes and I wanted to replicate a few. First I created 4x2 icons on every page. So only 2 rows. Then I can move those two rows with this option.

Set Icon Columns

This allows you to set the amount of icons in a row. By default there is 4 you can set up to 8. The drawback here is setting more icons will mess up the today view layout. (its ok I have the ability to hide the today view who uses it anyway?)

Icon Space From Side Edges

This allows you to set a padding that applies to both sides. Allow the icons to move closer together. It's not perfect but it does give some flexibility moving the icons off the side edges.

Icon Space From Bottom

Just like side edges this changes the space from the bottom moving the icons closer together vertically

Icon Size

This works, but it sucks. By that I mean it does change the icon sizes, but the animation when closing an app becomes undesirable. Still researching how to improve this.

Icon Opacity

Changes the opacity of the icons.

Needing to Respring

All the icon options will change without needing a respring. Giving you the ability to play around with it. As you will have to play around with it to get a desirable layout. I wont claim it's perfect but it does give you customization you didn't have before and can make Designer SB themes look much more unique.

Videos

Here is a video of me moving the icon list up and down
https://twitter.com/JunesIphone/status/1670815549868195840?s=20  

and one of me changing the columns
https://twitter.com/JunesIphone/status/1670919046240272387?s=20 

The most requested feature was to hide the status bar on the homescreen. I added it! Keep in mind it only supports devices with a notch. I also added the ability to hide the lockscreen status bar. So you do not need another tweak to handle this.

Cloud Animations I updated the cloud animation to start in the middle of the screen instead of animate in. The dim delay is so fast sometimes you wouldn't even see the cloud animation before the device turned off.

Fast Wake was added too. This wakes your device quicker. I don't know why but on stock iOS it shows information first then slowly fades in the wallpaper. I never liked this if i'm waking my device up I want to see it all as soon as I can. Fast Wake does this. This option is located in LS Options.

When making this tweak I wanted it to be as usable as possible for everyone. For example if you want a tweak that only hides the TodayView then you can use Designer. If everything else is turned off only the hide TodayView option will be loaded in the tweak. This is why you see so many on/off or toggles in this tweak. While it seems to be a tweak that "does a lot" each option has been made to work as a single tweak. When things are off they are actually off.

That being said some have reported that the time doesn't hide on iOS15. The time is hiding fine on iOS15. Seems the developer of Sixteen Music does not disable their features when turned off. If you have this tweak then it is overriding the hide time and the developer should fix it. It has been reported to them, but if you have this issue too I suggest you also report it. If they need help learning how to turn things off when they are off tell them to contact me :)

I'm releasing these posts publicly now. Users want to keep up with the updates even if they don't have Patreon. For that reason they are now public and downloads will be available at the link below.

Designer 1.1.2 download 

Thanks for checking out what i've been working on!