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The KLWP Beginner Series

​If you are just getting started with KLWP, this series will get you off to a great start.  We will actually create an entire preset through this series.​
  • Watch First - Posted July 2016.  Addressing FAQs and KLWP Updates.
  • Part 1 -  Use the internet resources and visit online communities and forums to seek help from many KLWP users.
  • Part 2 - This covers getting KLWP to work on your device.  We explore some pre-built presets that are included with the app, as well as getting everything to match up with your launcher.  I recommend using Nova Launcher, but there are other launchers that work just fine.
  • Part 3 - The interface (Advanced Editor) in the KLWP app can be a bit overwhelming at first.  Watch this video to see what each piece of the "Advanced Editor" is.  You need to become familiar with this before creating your first kustom live wall paper.
  • Part 4 - Overlap Groups and Stack Groups.  They are two different things and they are very important in organizing and getting the information you want to show correctly and have it visually appealing.  Through time, you will be using Overlap Groups and Stack Groups a lot in your wallpaper creation.
  • Part 5 - Global Fonts and Global Colors.  Globals are great to have in KLWP.  You can quickly change MANY things such as fonts and colors instead of having to go to individual items to change them.  Through time, you will learn that Globals have MANY more uses as well.
  • Part 6 - Dynamically Changing Colors.  You can code ("kode") KLWP to change colors based on the time of day.  "Koding" in KLWP can become REALLY complex, but we start off with a basic kode in this video.  You can also dynamically change many other things, but remember, we are still in the beginning phase of KLWP.  
  • Part 7 - Weather and More Kodes.  More stack groups are used here to create a weather display.  Temperature, forecast, etc.  KLWP will allow you to get all the weather information you need in a visually appealing way, all created by YOU.
  • Part 8 - Animations, Animating, Theme, Theming.... whatever you want to call it.  Some basics of animation are covered here and this is where KLWP takes customizing to the NEXT step.
  • Part 9 - Komponents, Progress Bars, and Math - Komponents are easy ways to save small bits of information for future presets.  Progress Bars are neat ways to display battery information, time, or just about anything you can think of, BUT, this involves MATH!  No wonder I enjoy this app so much!
  • Part 10 - Music and Icon Fonts.  Make a Music Player and create your own free icon fonts.
  • The Functions of KLWP - Make sure to check out help.kustom.rocks for the entire function list.
  • Fixing "Jacked Up" Presets - Screen count and device resolution/screen size will have an impact on how your wallpaper is displayed.

Free Presets, Komponents, Lockscreens, Widgets, etc.....

​I removed my apps from the Play Store and instead, have made them completely free.  I did this for two main reasons.  
1.  I don't spend as much time making wallpapers.  In regard to Kustom apps and theming, I now spend the majority of my time creating tutorials and helping others with their presets, komps, etc.  Therefore, Dark Skiddles was not getting the attention like it used to.
2.  I want everyone who watches my tutorials to have access to the files in which I used after I make the tutorial.  This will provide a better learning experience for you all.

For those that purchased Dark Skiddles and/or KLWP Tuts from the PlayStore in the past, thank you for your support and I hope that you continue to use the things that I add here!  You rock!

A fellow Android themer commented on a video, asking about what you can do with the free stuff I provide here.  See the image below for attribution recommendations in any of your presets.
So here ya go!  A lot of free stuff for you to get some ideas and mess around with while having some fun on your Kustom apps!
​Though everything is free, I always take donations that are used towards website maintenance, as well as hardware and software purchases.

The Kustom Calendar

The series is complete, but any future changes will be addressed here, instead of me making a video for each change, bug, or anything else.
The most up-to-date version in my Free Komponents folder is CraftCalV8.
  • Intro - There is so much going on with this calendar.  Check this out to get a quick glimpse.
  • Watch This - ....if you haven't already.  VERY IMPORTANT.
  • Bug Fixes - ....before the actual tutorial series starts.
  • Part 1 - Do you want to show Sunday or Monday first on your calendar? The si(mindex) will be used here.
  • Part 2 - Cycle through the months and have the years automatically change as well in your calendar.
  • Part 3 - Addressing some mistakes and adjustments from earlier parts in the series, which ultimately allows us to reset the calendar to the current date.
  • Part 4 - Let's start working on the first row of dates in our calendar.  There will be a lot of module index stuff to apply here.  It is all covered step by step.
  • Part 5 - The overlap from the previous month will be shown on the current month.  The extra lines of code in the row1 text global will be addressed here.  Module index application galore and incorporating the $df(o)$ function will be used here as well.  There is a minor leap year bug fix that I address as well in this tutorial.
  • Part 6 - Let's use different colors for the overlap of days from a previous or upcoming month on our calendar.
  • Part 7 - The $df(o)$ kode in Kustom.  We will modify this function a little so that we can get the number of days in any month on our calendar.
  • Part 8 - The remaining rows of the calendar can be created and colored using two LONG text global variables.
  • Part 9 - The today indicator.  We will have a shape display to mark the current date on the calendar, given that you are on the current month that it actually is... if that makes sense.  :)
  • Part 10 - The 5th and 6th row.  More math and more logic to hide or show the 5th and/or 6th rows.  I really enjoyed making this tut.
  • Part 11 - We are done with the calendar.  Now, it is time to start working on the agenda.
  • Part 12 - The event indicator.... making it show on the correct days and moving it.  We will also look at moving the dates on the calendar.
  • Part 13 - Another bug fix.... hopefully the last one.  We will also focus on touching the days on our calendar and having that touch change our globals to display that date, month and year.
  • Part 14 - This should be the last part of this series... I THINK....

KWGT

KLCK

Tasker and KLWP 
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​Clocks and Time in KLWP
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RSS Feeds
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Animations (Non Complex)
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  • Creating a Button and Making it Trigger an Animation - This is one of the first tutorial videos I made that covers KLWP tutorials.  With a dedicated developer, you may notice that your version of KLWP looks different.  The developer of KLWP (Frank Monza) updates the app on a regular basis.  However, with all that said, this is one way that you can trigger an animation in KLWP.  There are other ways as well, but this will get you hooked and you will realize, if you haven't already, that the possibilities of KLWP are nearly endless!
  • Auto Animate Anything In KLWP - Have something automatically scroll across the screen or fade in and out.  The video linked below shows you another way of pretty much doing the same thing.  You'll soon realize there are multiple ways of doing the same thing in KLWP.
  • Another Way to Auto Animate Anything in KLWP - Similar to the video linked just above this, but its a different technique.  Like math, there are many ways to solve an equation or word problem.  The same applies to KLWP.
  • Create a Slide Show on your Wallpaper - Add some pictures to a folder, and follow the techniques here to have the pictures display in a random order on your screen.  Kodes will be used here.  Please note, some people have reported that the kode doesn't work, where as others have been able to get the kode to work.  I am still able to replicate what I did in this video, so I'm not sure where the bug is.  Check out the comment section of the linked video for possible solutions, should the technique not work for you.
  • LIVE Animations using the Loop feature in KLWP - Loop and Loop with Return are great for animating objects.
  • The Gyroscope - Pretty neat.  I'm just showing you what it does here.
  • An Animation When You "Boot" or Unlock Your Device - What the link says.  Have a look!
  • Animating A Dock in KLWP - Create a dock in KLWP with buttons, and then use an on/off switch to animate the dock(s). 
  • Animating Docks Part 2 - Create 4 (or more) docks and cycle through them smoothly!  The list global variable is used here!
  • Animating your Music Progress Bar "Differently" - Use any shape to show music progress.
  • Music Equalizer Effect - Add a music equalizer (bars) effect when music is playing.
  • Animation of "Menus" and "Submenus" - Check it out.  
  • Alternating the Delay of Several Animations - This gives a nice transition effect when "opening" or "closing" an animation.
  • The "Infinite Cycle" Animation - This uses the list global variable and allows you to cycle left or right infinitely to show your various "groups" of information.  The groups will "loop" regardless of whether your are scrolling left or right and they come from the correct direction.  Check it out!
  • Half Circle Progress with Animation - Create a half circle progress bar and then animate it using the MASK feature.  
  • More Triggered Action Button Techniques - Here is a method to Show ONE of your items, ALL of your Items, or NONE of your items.
  • Clipping Masks and Animations - Clipping masks can add some nice effects for animations, "window like" widgets, and unique effects for displaying text.
  • Animating Digits - You can add animations to the individual parts of a "digit" to give a nice effect as the seconds change... or minutes, hours, etc.
  • Material Style Floating Action Button - Morph a plus into a check with this action button triggered by a global switch.
  • Dock Animations, Dock Delays, and Fun With Globals - Vertical and horizontal docks for right and left handed users, mixed in with some fun with overshoot, bounce, etc. effects, will create a nice dock that allows for lots of kustomization!
  • Make a Ferris Wheel - Learn about positioning objects using math.  Also, I cover rotating objects around the module center vs. screen center, which will ultimately give us a highly customizable ferris wheel.
  • Alternating Fades and Delays - This is useful when you have two items animating on top of each other and you want to alternate them, but still have "time" to view the stuff.
  • An Hourglass - We will use a lot of number global variables to make the hourglass, but ultimately, these globals will make moving and resizing the hourglass much easier.... in the long run.
  • Hamburger Menu Icon Animations - Multiple examples are shown, but I cover ONE of the examples in the tutorial.  It takes a lot of explaining, but you can grab all of them on my KLWP Tuts APK which is linked near the bottom of this page.
  • Black Hole Animation - Recreating an animation from earlier in 2016.  Multiple animations are used in this tutorial.
  • Animate Your Map - Scroll through the google static map that shows your location.... and surroundings.
  • The Animated Dock Wheel - Tricky koding, but a nice effect that gives you a dock that rotates in both directions.
  • A BUG?? But... We Can Still COMPLETELY Reset Animations on BG Scroll - Check it out. This "bug" will probably be fixed soon, but we can still accomplish our end goal in this tutorial. 
  • The Protractor - Use the gyroscope to create a protractor.  I also show you my new setup for create future tutorials on YouTube.
  • Protractor V2 - Using Tasker, JavaScript(lets), and "deviceorientation", you can display the actual angle number in KLWP.
  • Bubbling Battery Animation And So Much More - There is a lot covered here.  A great video for the eager beginner who wants to learn ALOT about ALOT.
  • BG Scroll - Some of the Basics - Taking a step back from the complexity of KLWP and looking at some basic BG Scroll techniques that I use with fading.  This also applies nicely to scaling items in your KLWP.
  • Wire Animations Video 1 - This video will cover making a wire animation clipped by a square.
  • Transforming Shapes Using Clipping Animations - Here is another application of using the "clip" FX feature in KLWP.
  • Fun With Triangles/Camera Shutter - A neat effect, even if you don't want to apply it as a "camera shutter."
  • Battery Charging Animation - Have an animation show when you are charging your device.
  • An Extended and Expandable Status Bar - Revisiting the list global and some animations.  This video is helpful for beginners looking to start with animations and having things show and hide automatically.  
  • Liquid Wave Effect - Though I use the battery level in this tutorial, you can apply this effect to whatever you want.  This uses some complex animations as well.
  • Auto Scroll Text Box - A great application to song titles.  If it's too long to fit inside your "box", let KLWP animate it for you!
  • Rotating/Spinning Album Cover Art - Fade in and rotate your album cover art when your music is playing and make it "go away" when the music is not playing.
  • Multiple App Launchers Part 1 - The text global variable absolutely ROCKS in this animation tutorial.
  • Multiple App Launchers Part 2 - We will use a few complex animations to finish this off.
  • Air Command Action Animations - This animation is similar to the Galaxy Note animation you see when you pull the SPen out of the device.  With KLWP, we can customize this quite a bit!
  • Parallax Scrolling Background - A really nice 3D (2.5D) effect to give some depth to your wallpaper.
  • Heartbeat Animation - A heartbeat effect that you can actually turn into somewhat of a music equalizer effect.
  • Vertical Scrolling and Scaling Cards - This is also a free template where you can add items to this 3 screen setup and tweak the BG Scroll to your liking.
  • Orbit - Rings orbiting a "sphere".
  • A Different Type of BG Scroll - Let's animate a "3D Flower" on our background using delays after we scroll.
  • Matrix Style Life Wallpaper - Pick up the .png from my Free Stuff folder and create your own matrix animated live wallpaper.
  • A Free Parallax Wallpaper - These three high quality PNG images can be customized with various colors and speeds to give a nice parallax effect.
  • The Sine Wave Animation - Using just a few circle slices in a stack group, you can get a nice sine wave effect in KLWP.
  • Automatically Closing Pop-Ups - Using the on/off switch in conjunction with a list global allows you to make pop-up windows or menus that automatically close after a certain amount of time.
  • Icon Reveals - Using two identical shapes, but making one a clip and the other a "light" will allow you to reveal icons.
  • GeoLocator - Use a compass and any latitude/longitude location to determine your bearing to reach that location.  The distance and compass are included as well.

Complex Animations
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The Text Global Variable
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The List Global Variable
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  • The List Global Variable - Like the text global variable, the list global variable can be used to trigger animations with buttons.
  • Scroll Through Events - Use the list global variable to scroll through upcoming events.
  • Extracting Colors Using the List Global Variable - Yet another application of the list global variable.  Pull colors from your background to add to your shapes, text, and other items on your wallpaper.
  • Show and Scroll Through Sets of Upcoming Events - This is a follow up to the video linked above, but this allows you to see more than one event at a time and you can cycle to the next set of upcoming events.
  • Changing Colors Every "x" Seconds - You can change many other things every "x" seconds too.  I have another video on this page discussing that topic.
  • Extract Colors to Part of a Text Item - If you want different extracts for certain parts of a text item, check this out.
  • RSS Widgets - This is the "new" way I kode my RSS feeds.  Much easier to use the list global, in conjunction with the text global variable to achieve pretty much the same thing.  However, these changes in how I use globals also makes it much easier to add new topics with minimal kode change.  Even if you are not interest in RSS feeds or know about RSS feeds, you may learn a thing or two here with how I "link" globals together.
  • Google RSS Images Correctly Synced - This requires you to pull the RSS information directly from the xml rss file instead of using the KLWP functions for RSS.  
  • New York Times RSS - NO XML parsing here.  KLWP handles the NYT rss feeds quite nicely.  Add even more topics and get the descriptions from all articles using this tutorial.  Note:  The NYT limits how many times you can read the FULL article (unless you subscribe and/or pay).  However, the RSS is not limited.
  • Changing Backgrounds Quickly - You can toggle various backgrounds without having to open the Advanced Editor every time by using the List Global to cycle through them.
  • Changing Colors Quickly - Using a very similar technique to toggling backgrounds "on the fly", we can toggle colors on the fly as well.
  • Referencing to the Index of Your List Items - We talk about colors and what not, but I hope you learn a little about the indexing of the items in your list global.

The Anchor Global Variable

  • The Anchor Global Variable Introduction - The first part of this video shows what I plan on explaining to you through a series of videos.  There's a lot to cover here.  Towards the middle of the video is where I start the actual tutorial.

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