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Windows 8 Metro Theme Created For Rooted Android Tablets

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the all-the-good-none-of-the-evil dept.

MikeatWired writes "Now here's a cool one for you tablet users that like to tweak the appearance of your UI! XDA member BroBot175 has created a Metro UI theme for all tablets running Honeycomb or ICS! The theme is a fully functioning replica of Windows 8 that allows you to create your own tiles, and organize them however you want."

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  1. Re:in b4 lawsuit by game+kid · · Score: 5, Funny

    Indeed. They'll say "People actually want to copy Metro?"

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  2. Cool? by 1u3hr · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Now here's a cool one

    Mimicking Windows is cool? Not from where I'm sitting.

  3. What problem does this solve? by tftp · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This whole tile madness is driven by commercial reasons. Since MS can't make a phone to be as capable as the desktop, they want to dumb the desktop down to the level of the phone. Then, they think, if everyone is trained to love the bomb ^W the Metro interface there will be more software for Windows phones, and more money for MS.

    A tile (as shown) is nothing but a small application window that can't be arbitrarily resized, and that has no Z ordering. The demo on the linked page is totally confusing - my Galaxy Tab has exactly the same stock configuration of installed applications; the only difference is that all application icons are of the same size (so more fit on each screen.) I'm not sure what was gained by doing this.

  4. Not "fully" functioning; missing the point by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Rather than being active as they are in WP7/WP8, the tiles here are just shortcuts. That essentially makes this a metro-looking Android launcher, which isn't really exciting, nor front page-worthy.