If you’re looking for ways to spice up your T-Mobile G1, you’re in luck because the folks at XDA Developers put together a little How To and integrating transitional effects into the OS. Take a look at the “animation” between screens in the video below:
And here are the steps borrowed from the folks over at MobileCrunch:
What you need:
T-Mobile G1
APKInstaller (download it from the AndroidMarket), Development.APK (Download link), and a MicroSD card.
How to do it:
Make sure you have APKInstaller from the Android Market, and Development.APK from here (If you want, you can point your browser directly to that link from your phone and bypass all the following steps. Thanks to Mark Murphy for the tip!).
Put the Development.APK in the root directory of the MicroSD card. In other words, put it at the very first section of the card – don’t go making a folder named “root”.
Launch the APKInstaller, navigate to the file you just placed on the MicroSD card, and install it. This will install an application called “Dev Tools”
Open Dev Tools, then select Development Settings. Scroll down to the bottom, and change Window Animation Scale to 1x, and Transition Animation Scale to 1x (or play around with them for varying effects).
It won’t blow your mind or anything, but all the little things add up.