Guide to getting started with making homescreens

[Guest mattscholey]

Hi,

Did a search and was surprised that I couldn't find a post where this has been discussed before, because everyone was a newbie (and asking this) at one point.

I've had my smartphone for 3 months now, and would like to start making my own homescreens/themes. I've looked at WYSIWYG type editors, but I feel that these are too restrictive in what you can do, so I would like to learn how to do them the 'proper way'. I understand this means programming it in XML.

Where can I find a newbie guide to making homescreens in XML? How did you learn to do it?

Many thanks,

Matt

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

Just click on Home Screen for more info :)

[Guest Richie M]

and of course Microsoft http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default....2homescreen.asp

[Guest zeta101]

also look at other peoples xml code, play around change stuff and see if it does what u expect, its pretty intuitive and straightforward. You dont have to write a xml file from scatch really, u can just take a standard home screen and change everything u want...goodluck