LayoutsBeta
Choose how Home, Discover and Citadel are arranged, use the Cinema and Showcase layouts, and make your own in Layout Factory.
Beta
This feature is in beta and may change.
A layout decides how a screen is arranged: where the big Spotlight card sits, whether rows are stacked or shown as tabs, how large the cards are. It is separate from the skin, so any layout works with any skin.
Choose layouts in Settings → App Settings → Appearance. There is one choice for each of three screens:
| Row | The screen |
|---|---|
| Home layout | The home screen |
| Discover layout | Discover |
| Citadel layout | Citadel |
Each opens a list with Default, the layouts that come with the app and the ones you saved. Select one with OK. The first-run setup can pick one layout for all three screens.
The layouts that come with the app#
| Layout | Home | Discover | Citadel |
|---|---|---|---|
| Default | Spotlight on top, rows below | The usual Discover | Rows with a card that turns over into an info card |
| Cinema | The Spotlight picture fills the screen. Its information (logo, one line of details, a short description) and the Play and Details buttons sit at the bottom left. One row of smaller cards, with the row title above it | The focused film's picture fills the screen, information on the left, one row of posters at the bottom | The focused title's picture fills the screen, information on the left, rows at the bottom |
| Showcase | Spotlight in a tall panel on the right, picture framed on the subject, rows on the rest of the screen | A side panel with the picture, posters on the rest | A side panel with the picture and information, rows on the rest |
Showcase frames the picture on faces, or on the part with the most detail, so people are not cut off by the narrow panel.
Layout Factory#
Layout Factory (Appearance, under the layout rows) is the editor for your own layouts.
- A window asks Start from, for the screen you are editing: Default, a layout that comes with the app (you start a new one from it) or one of your saved layouts (Edit: name, edited in place). A saved layout can be deleted from this window; Hegemon asks first.
- The editor lists the settings of the screen you are editing. A Screen setting switches between Home, Discover and Citadel; each screen has its own layout.
- OK changes a value and Up and Down move between settings. Each setting has a Reset button that returns it to its starting value.
- The layout's name is at the top; select it to rename the layout. Save stores it. Close asks Save changes? with Save, Discard and Keep editing.
Home settings#
| Setting | Values |
|---|---|
| Rows | Stacked (rows one under the other) or Tabs (the row titles become tabs and one row shows at a time; the content changes when a tab gets focus) |
| Preloaded neighbouring tabs | With Tabs: 0 to 2 neighbouring tabs loaded in advance |
| One row on screen | Only the focused row is visible, the others stay out of sight. Only with a Spotlight in the Background |
| Spotlight | Top (as before, the Spotlight expands into details), Background (the picture fills the screen) or Side panel |
| Card size | Tiny, Small, Medium (default) or Large |
| Row spacing | 0 to 48 in steps of 8 |
| Card spacing | 0 to 32 in steps of 8 |
| Row title | In Spotlight (default) or Above the row |
With the Spotlight in the Background:
| Setting | Values |
|---|---|
| Information style | Classic (your Spotlight theme) or Cinematic (large logo, details on one line, slow zoom of the picture) |
| Darkening strength | 0 to 100 percent, in steps of 10 |
| Darkening starts at | 0 to 80 percent of the screen height |
| Previous / next, Play, Details | Which Spotlight buttons to show |
| Buttons position | Bottom left, Bottom center or Bottom right |
With the Spotlight as a Side panel:
| Setting | Values |
|---|---|
| Panel width | 25 to 50 percent of the screen |
| Panel side | Right or Left |
| Frame on the subject | Frames the picture on faces or detail |
Spotlight details open as an overlay in both Background and Side panel; the Spotlight does not expand into details as it does at the Top.
Discover settings#
| Setting | Values |
|---|---|
| Presentation | Normal, Hybrid, Info card (the Default is the large focused card) |
| Hero | None, Background or Side panel: the picture of the focused film. Shown only with the Normal or the default presentation |
The picture settings above (darkening, panel width and side) apply here too.
Citadel settings#
| Setting | Values |
|---|---|
| Appearance | Simple (the default: rows over the full screen, the focused card turns into an info card), Cinema or Side panel |
Simple draws the least, so it suits weak devices.