Ever since the released of Windows Phone 8, I’ve wanted to find something that would closely mimic it on Android. After searching on Various sites i found a way to transform your Android Device into a Windows Phone 8 Device.
To do so you Required a Rooted Device.
You will be able to transform your Android device after following these 8 Steps :-
1. Windows Phone 8 Boot Animation
A member (arter97) from XDA developed a Windows Phone 8 Boot Animation.
Windows Phone 8 Boot Animation
You Need to Download this Boot Animation.
After Downloading put bootanimation.zip into /system/media with permission level rw-r-r. You an use Root Explorer to do so.
Before doing it Make Sure that you Have Backed Up your Phone.
2. Changing SystemUI
The Next step is to Change your System User Interference.
Windows Phone 8 System Settings UI for Android
You Can do so by downloading WP SystemUI.zip and Fleshing it with CWM.
3. Changing Launcher
After a lot of Searching on Google i came across with Launcher 8.
Launcher8 is a great app for you to experience the brand new style UI on your Android mobile phone.You can esay design look like Windows Phone 8 layout.
Launcher 8 for Android
Features of Launcher 8 :-
- You can add different size tiles;
- You can add a variety of color tile;
- You can save and restore the theme;
- You can edit the start screen layout;
- You can set the current background style;
- You can switch the application list style
- You can add Android widgets in the tiles;
- You can set the wp8 style lock screen and status bar;
- You can select more than one hundred kinds of theme colors;
- You can add special features tiles,like time,flashlight,pictures and contact photo.
4. Changing Contacts Layout
Windows Phone like Contacts App for Android
Windows Phone 8 Contacts Viewer app For Android
There is an app “WP7 Contact Lite” in the Play Store which lets you Transform your Ordinary contacts viewer into a Windows Phone Look like Contacts Viewer.
5. Changing Messages Viewer
WIndows Phone Look Like SMS app for Android
Download Messaging 7 app from the Play Store and change your SMS Viewer into a Windows Phone look like Messages Viewer.
6. Changing your Calculator
Windows Phone Look Like Calculator for Android
Windows Phone 8 Calculator App for Android
Download Seven+ WP7 Calculator app from Play Store and Transform your Calculator into a New Windows Phone Look like Metro Calculator.
7. Windows Phone Look like Music Player
Download ZPlayer Music app from Play Store that looks exactly like Windows Phone Music App.
ZPlayer Features:
- Music album reviews, artist biographies, artist top tracks, top songs, top albums, similar artists, similar albums, artist events*, song lyrics*, last.fm scrobbling, last.fm ‘now playing’ status updates, last.fm ‘likes’ submissions
- Video and Audio podcasts streaming and downloads, podcast searching, podcasts subscriptions, podcast resuming.
- Online radio streaming (with metadata), radio searching, radio favorites***
- Music library listening history, Automatic playlists (favorite songs, new songs), playlist creation
- •D3 Tag editing for songs and whole albums, album art editing*, ID3 tag information for songs, cross-playlist adding and removing of tracks,
- Video playback, editable ‘music videos’, and ‘movies’ directories
- Music weekly charts featuring top artists, top tracks, and track favorites of community users
- Browse the albums sections not in your library and even get the album prices, 30 seconds audio samples of tracks, and “Buy” links to the albums.
- Audio Equalizer, Bass boost, Virtualizer, Automatic EQ (based on track genre) **
- ZPlayer now fully supports ICS, Status Bar+, and features 5 beautiful widgets, which give different functionality.
- Cool features, including artist background images and panoramas, selectable background images (High memory devices)
- Zplayer supports, English, French, Italian and Portuguese languages
- Swiping the homescreen to the left/right shows the ‘current playing’ song and listening history.
- To jump to the ‘now playing’ screen, use the volume controls to reveal the music controls, and then tap on the track or artist name.
8. Changing Notification Layout
Windows Phone Like Notifications in Android
Metro Notifications for Android
There is an App named “Metro Notifications” in Play Store which lets you enjoy Windows Phone like Notifications in your Android Smartphone.
Metro Notifications displays Metro UI styled non-intrusive notification banners for any app on your device.
You can swipe the notification to the right to dismiss it, to the left to dismiss all notifications, or click it to launch it.
You can set a custom colors for any app.
You can swipe the notification to the right to dismiss it, to the left to dismiss all notifications, or click it to launch it.
You can set a custom colors for any app.
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