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Find my iOS themes in Cydia: ClearHighNotifications, ClearLowNotifications, GmailSMS, LS Nimbus Wide, LS Frost for iPhone 5, ClearNotifications, and TypoClockClear.
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Since its inception, Messages+ (the SMS replacement app from developer team Intelliborn) has been bundled into the larger IntelliScreenX app—purchase a license for the latter and you were able to use Messages+ as part of the ISX experience. But should you decide you only wanted to use the SMS plug-in, you were out of luck; Intelliborn forced users to buy a separate license if they wanted a standalone Messages+ app.
As of today—thanks largely to Cydia creator Jay Freeman—that has changed. Read the details after the jump.
After a few days of teasers, new tweak SemiRestore has begun its beta phase. For jailbreakers, the tweak—which does a near-complete restore of an iOS device but stops short of loading a new firmware—could mean the difference between keeping and losing a jailbreak.
The good news is that early versions seem to be working as promised. Follow the link for iDb’s walkthrough, and keep up on the release schedule by following developer CoolStar on Twitter.
Substrate and WinterBoard Come to Android
After what Cydia creator Jay Freeman describes as “years of effort,” the theme engine known as WinterBoard—long a staple of the iOS jailbreak world, where users use the app to change the look of their devices—has come to the Android platform. If the vast world of iOS theming is anything to go by, this should be very interesting.
And for the more technically minded, Freeman (better known to the jailbreak community as @saurik) has also released full documentation on iOS substrate—the code that powers Cydia.
Cydia Tip:
Set Cydia to ignore upgrades to certain packages by changing your preferences in the Package Settings of individual apps. Useful for situations when a newer version doesn’t support your OS, or (as with the recent Grabby update) when it’s a paid update you don’t need.
The /r/iOSthemes section of reddit has quickly become a breeding ground for some of the newest tweaks and themes in the iOS world, giving new designers a platform to get their work in front an eager crowd. The results have been pretty spectacular.
This week, user Dekesto announced a work in progress BiteSMS theme that proved extremely popular—a then-unnamed, off-white, minimalistic theme. A few days later—now going by the name Imperial—it was done and released to Cydia on Dekesto’s own repo. To grab it for yourself, add the following repo to your Cydia sources—and be sure to keep an eye on /r/iOSthemes for future releases: http://cydia.myrepospace.com/dekesto/
One note: The keyboard shown above is not part of the theme. Instead, it comes from the FlatIcons ColorKeyboard theme. To use it you’ll need Color Keyboard, FlatIcons, and FlatIcons ColorKeyboard.
