Get full Windows Phone 8 UI in your Android

If you’re tired of having the same interface design every day on your phone and you already have noticed how elegant looks the new Windows Phone 8 OS, you must be wondering if that should be possible in your phone without losing the versatility that gives your Android.

There is a solution for those WP8 secret lovers and it is: customizing.

Below is the complete guide to MOD your android and get the hot windows phone 8 UI without having to install that OS.

 

 

INTERFACE

1.- Metro Interface

Download Launcher8 here and install it, test all the grand new features that gives you this amazing app.

2.- Tiles

After configuring the launcher you could notice that seems to be missing some specific tiles such as calendar and other notifications tiles as gmail, whatsapp, etc. This extra tiles we can easily create thanks to UCCW.

Here we have the uzip for:

- Gmail

- Weather

For calendar widget we can easily use the Simple Calendar Widget and done.

3.- Notifications

For those colorful notifications that WP8 has, you should install an app called Windows Phone Notifications

It is a very nice app that gives you the option of having the WP8 notifications in your android device.

4.- Boot Animation

This should be for advanced users and for specific roms, but you can also use it in any rom thanks to ROM toolbox

With this you can customize the boot animation of your phone to this:

Here is the zip ready to install bootanimation.zip

5.- System Font

With ROM toolbox you can also set the system font to the one used in WP8 that is included in the ROM toolbox fonts and it’s called: “segoeui”, find it and install it!

6.- Status Bar

To change the stock status bar you can use the StatusBar+ app.

APPS

1.- Contacts

For the amazing WP8 contacts look you can use the WP7Contact app.

This app, as well, is very easy to configure.

2.- Messaging

For the Windows Phone 8 messaging look and feel you can use Messaging7

3.- Whatsapp

For Whatsapp you firstly must download & install the Whatsapp+ App and then apply the theme according the color you like:

 4.- Media

There is no other music player most elegant that the WP8 one and we can have it in ZPlayer or in UberMusic app

  

5.- Calculator

For the minimalistic WP8 calculator app we can install Seven+ WP7 Calculator

Sources:

Whatsapp+ themes

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