The result is fascinating to see and does wonders to help set this theme apart from others of its kind. There are quite a few shadow-based themes available in Cydia, but none of them literally stand out like Flatish, which features icons containing multi-level layers that cast different levels of shadows. You can add Veexillum to your theme collection for $2.49, and it brings over 600 icons and a wide array of UI tweaks to all iPhones and iPads running iOS 7–9. This theme is simple, beautiful, consistent, and unique, not to mention it has hundreds more icons than most themes out there, all working to make it one of my favorites – if not my top favorite – from this list. For instance, iMovie and OneNote are examples of apps that keep the primary color of their official icons – purple – which makes them easy to find while still conforming them to the uniformity of Veexillum. The range of background colors used helps to differentiate apps as well.
This strikes a beautiful balance between the wide variety of branding styles of various apps and the monotony of them all having the same basic color in a theme. This is accomplished by using a few basic colors – white, black, blue, green, purple, and others – as backgrounds for the icons, with a logo or symbol unique to that app in the center. To me, the most outstanding thing about Veexillum is the uniformity it brings to iOS without making all the icons look boring. While everyone’s visual preferences are different, here are some of the best-looking themes available, per your author’s tastes. With the release of iOS 9, designers have been updating existing themes and releasing new ones, many of which we’ve looked through to bring you some of the best Winterboard themes for iOS 9 in Cydia. From icons to system glyphs, WinterBoard has the power to transform the aesthetics of the user interface on an iPhone or iPad. Metroon for iOS is available in the Cydia store for $1.50.Īaron Souppouris contributed to this hands-on.Theming has long been a part of the jailbreak community, with designers exercising their creativity by redesigning various elements of iOS.
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It's a fun way to experience Microsoft's Windows 8 interface on an iPhone, but I wouldn't recommend it for daily use. Overall, Metroon's attention to detail is impressive and it's a great companion to the Track 8 Metro style music player for iOS, but the combination of a mixed mode of Metro and the default iOS notifications makes it confusing at times. A desktop tile brings you to the familiar iOS home screen and the Charms bar is once again accessible to bring you back into the Metro interface, almost identical to Windows 8's desktop mode. All iOS apps can be pinned to the Metroon Start Screen and there's even a Charms bar that appears when you swipe from the right-hand side of an iPhone or iPod Touch. Once Metroon is activated it works in a similar way to Microsoft's Windows 8 Start Screen, providing a launcher for apps with live tiles providing information on apps at a glance.
The theme includes a Windows Phone-like lock screen complete with notifications, volume controls, and a swipe up to unlock feature.
Metroon, a Dreamboard theme for jailbroken iOS devices, does just that - providing a near-perfect replica of Microsoft's Metro interface. If you're eagerly awaiting Microsoft's Windows 8 Metro interface, due in late October, then you might be interested in obtaining it a little earlier for an iPhone or iPod Touch.