I've done a lot of searching, and I just can't seem to put the steps together on how to build themes and skins. Does anyone have a step by step guide they've put together on how to do it and what software to use?
I don't want to get flamed, but, I know after someone does something for awhile, it's easy to forget how hard it was getting started. I'm willing to put in all the work I need to, I just don't even know where square one is yet.
Thanks in advance.
And I don't have a problem donating!
Check this out, I know I've seen it here and I just read it over at MoDaCo...
ThemeGenCE
I have'nt used it personally, it could be worth looking at.
Hi,
ThemeGenCE is the best Theme maker for WinMob devices. I use this all the time and it's easy to use.
I see you're Christian also. I have made some and found other Christian themes if you're interested. I have attached some as a sample.
I can't seem to upload the ThemeGenCe file, but if you do a search, you'll find it easily. It's also freeware.
ThemeGenCE and FunnySnake TkCreater
MACkjam said:
Hi,
ThemeGenCE is the best Theme maker for WinMob devices. I use this all the time and it's easy to use.
I see you're Christian also. I have made some and found other Christian themes if you're interested. I have attached some as a sample.
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Thanks for your compliments.
I post here because you do not seem to accept pm !
I have analyzed your themes uploaded here and I find 3 themes that are not created with ThemeGenCE but with FunnySnake TkCreater :
Jesus2
Jesuspraying
Passion of Christ
And with the official version of ThemeGenCE, my programs cannot open these themes. I have an error in reading.
I debugged my programs and found that the files in your TSK (TSK are in fact Cabs) have their Dates and Times set to ZERO ! So, my program (and the 2 others MSCEInf and BrowseThemeCE which also open TSK) hangs there, by trying to decode date and time.
I have now handled this problem and now it works for these themes.
Maybe published in the future...
Regards,
Benoît
MACkjam said:
Hi,
I see you're Christian also. I have made some and found other Christian themes if you're interested. I have attached some as a sample.
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Yes, I love our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ!
Thanks for the attached themes, I love them. Especially the Passion of the Christ theme.
I see you're a Aliens fan too! IF I can get good at theme making, first a Christian theme, then an Aliens theme
BenThon said:
Thanks for your compliments.
I post here because you do not seem to accept pm !
I have analyzed your themes uploaded here and I find 3 themes that are not created with ThemeGenCE but with FunnySnake TkCreater :
Jesus2
Jesuspraying
Passion of Christ
And with the official version of ThemeGenCE, my programs cannot open these themes. I have an error in reading.
I debugged my programs and found that the files in your TSK (TSK are in fact Cabs) have their Dates and Times set to ZERO ! So, my program (and the 2 others MSCEInf and BrowseThemeCE which also open TSK) hangs there, by trying to decode date and time.
I have now handled this problem and now it works for these themes.
Maybe published in the future...
Regards,
Benoît
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Thanks for your input. The Christian themes, except the three mentioned by you, are not my work. They are part of a pack I have. The very first Themes I made were using TKCreator, that is, until discovered themeGenCE. They do all open ok for me. That's odd.
All my themes are now created with themeGenCE.
Is ThemeGenCE the only option?
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wow!! it's SNOOPY!! My favorite comic in my childhood!!!^^
thanks for your share
Great theme....thanks pp18's effort
considering there are quite some variants of M3D, i have doubt on which device(s) this theme works. to those who have tested this theme, grateful if you could give a feedback under this thread and i'll consolidate the testing results in post #1 for others' reference.
thanks.
gah! you have Charlie Brown as your friend and he keeps calling you!!??!
nice theme btw!
does it work on rhodium?
sunwee,
hehe... Charlie Brown is the placeholder for contacts without a photo. so, can have a lot of Charlie Brown in the contact list.
Deiota,
theoretically this theme should work on Rhodium as well. grateful if any brave soul can give it a try and let me know the testing result.
wow it's sooooo cool man
reminds me my childhood's favourite toy
Please do not cross-post across multiple forums. I've found 3 different threads so far.
Since this theme is available in multiple resolutions, I suggest editing your title to reflect that, and then listing which devices it "should" work with.
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Hi pp18, I am another fan of peanuts! I have a request for you: can you share the images of the theme (in png or other type)? I would use them for a Wad skin (I have a Polaris, no m3d...!) Thanks in advance
allanon,
basically you can use CFC GUI to re-engineer the theme image files back to .png.
after all, i'd recommend you not to do this from the m3d theme for your Polaris due to the big difference in screen resolution. instead, you may extract .png files from my [email protected] theme. simply follow the hyperlink in my signature.
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added an S2U2 theme to post #1
nice!!!!!
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added an S2U2 theme to post #1
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Thanks...loving the S2U2 theme!
Great job!
Many thanks
pp18 said:
allanon,
basically you can use CFC GUI to re-engineer the theme image files back to .png.
after all, i'd recommend you not to do this from the m3d theme for your Polaris due to the big difference in screen resolution. instead, you may extract .png files from my [email protected] theme. simply follow the hyperlink in my signature.
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Thanks for the link, I'm working on a Wad project and when finished I'll share all the graphics.
please post a vga for s2u2. thanks a lot for ur themes.
It works great on my Touch HD with L26 Ultimate 2.5 ROM.
hyperfire21 said:
please post a vga for s2u2. thanks a lot for ur themes.
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uploaded. pls see post #1
thanks a lot
hyperfire21,
did you try the M3D theme? just would like to verify whether the theme works properly on VGA. thx.
Theme Gallery Up And Running HERE!!
Ok I got the swine flu so I decided to do something productive. I have seen many posts on here talking about a theme page and no one made one that is gallery stile. Every one I found is like Themedroid (not functional yet) and others that are forum stile. So I sat down and made a gallery for them. I updated this with all the themes posted here on xda. Yes I sat down and added every theme I could find on xda to punk-in. If you would like your theme removed please email me the name of it and I will gladly remove it for you.
I do not take any credit for the themes I just wanted a better way to view what each looks like. Now make sure you view what is required to run the theme. I am not responsible for bricked phones. Also I had to break them down into old themes, cupcake themes and hero themes. Now If I get good feedback I will organize it much better but for now This is how it has to be.
http://www.punk-in.com/gallery/main.php
Thanks for your input,
[email protected]
just took a very quick look at it because I have somewhere I have to get to. but it looked nice from what I saw. I will look more later. thanks
jc1337 said:
just took a very quick look at it because I have somewhere I have to get to. but it looked nice from what I saw. I will look more later. thanks
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Thanks, I appreciate the input.
Sucks about you gettin swine flu but the site looks nice.
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Theme Gallery Up And Running HERE!!
Ok I got the swine flu so I decided to do something productive. I have seen many posts on here talking about a theme page and no one made one that is gallery stile. Every one I found is like Themedroid (not functional yet) and others that are forum stile. So I sat down and made a gallery for them. I updated this with all the themes posted here on xda. Yes I sat down and added every theme I could find on xda to punk-in. If you would like your theme removed please email me the name of it and I will gladly remove it for you.
I do not take any credit for the themes I just wanted a better way to view what each looks like. Now make sure you view what is required to run the theme. I am not responsible for bricked phones. Also I had to break them down into old themes, cupcake themes and hero themes. Now If I get good feedback I will organize it much better but for now This is how it has to be.
http://www.punk-in.com/gallery/main.php
Thanks for your input,
[email protected]
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wow dude! What an implementation of a great idea! I like it! Good way to just scan through themes and see what they look like before even going to the threads! Congrats, dude!
PS: Sorry about the swine flu.
Not to shabby. Would be good for new people looking to check out themes. One thing I would change is you have 3 sections: Hero, Cupcake, and old. I would change Cupcake to just Android or something more general since cupcake is kind of old news now. Might confuse people running Donut.
how about section for themes for donut?
Could you organize them by build?
Saw a few that I liked but none that would work for CM 4.1.999
HooliganAMA said:
Could you organize them by build?
Saw a few that I liked but none that would work for CM 4.1.999
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I think you should do that. Searching by build would be the easiest way for me to find a theme I like.
@[email protected]
This is a really well put together site, thank you for taking the time to compile a list of themes out there.
PS: Sorry u got the swin flu
Wow!
Thanks for taking the time to do this. It's great.
You might want to go through alldroid.org as most of the new major themers have moved there
Wow! This is a great help is quickly checking out how the themes look like
Everyone is right the site looks great thanks for all the hard work. I do agree that a little more detail about what ROMs these Themes work for would be nice. Maybe the ROM specific Dev name like Cyan, JAC, Haykuro, etc would be nice but anyone could download a theme and make it work for that rom just by moving the files around. With 7 Zip and the Auto Sign tool it a peice of cake.
Get Well Soon but Enjoy the Time Off
nice work! you should put a search option
thanks for putting my theme
sorry you got that swine flu hope youre better soon!
Thanks so far for the feedback.
Thanks for the input. I feel ok to sit up and check up on some of my projects. I looked at alldroid.org and allot of the themes are there also. I will make a post there and see if they like the idea. I do not want to step on anyone's toes. I am just trying to get away from viewing all the themes via forum. I like to see all of them together and pick the one I like.
I also keep hearing people want it to have a Donut section. I will draw up an android maby eating a donut or something. LOL.
If everyone wants it more organized please give an example. Like All Cyanagin put together? Or all builds separate or how to do it? I would like to get it all set up now so in the future people can just add a pic an a link to there theme and people could look at them and do what they have to do.
Thanks for the feed back and support.
[email protected]
Also if you would like to look at the new punk-in beta site I almost have the home page all done.
http://www.punk-in.com
Barina said:
nice work! you should put a search option
thanks for putting my theme
sorry you got that swine flu hope youre better soon!
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There is a search bar. Just click the link in the upper right hand corner called "sidebar" From there it will pull up a window on the left with a search and login. I know it is hard to find. I am thinking about moving it.
good looking site. i registered. thanx
mmmm... i think you should let the themers do the dark work..
Barina said:
mmmm... i think you should let the themers do the dark work..
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What do you mean? Is there another site that is better. I am just doing this to help but if there is another site that is better I would love to NOT have to maintain this. Please let me know.
Please note: I am trying to get away from the whole forum thing. I really like this site here http://g1wallz.com/ but they only have wallpapers.
I have tried opening the original default GDE theme to give myself a basic template to work from. I edited many photos and have a theme ready to use, however I would love to change the name and information which is stored on the AndroidManifest.xml.
Last night I installed Eclipse and all android addons, however the AndroidManifest.xml in the GDE skin I've tried editing, will not open in Eclipse.
As I am new, I'm positive I'm doing something erroneous that's simple to fix or solve, but any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance to anybody who replies.
Jon.
Nevermind!
I'm an idiot, it literally took less than an hour of reading and investigating the xda forums.
Found the APKTool to edit and change the original GDE theme.
For those of you who actually look for themes for GDE still rather than metamorph, be looking for my themes.
Jon.
sounds promising.
.. GDE has been a bit dead lately..hopefully u can revive it.
I hope. I've tried all the home replacements, and GDE is the only one I'm really interested in. Anybody have any suggestions? I'm working on multiple colors of the hero first, nearly finished with them all..
If you all know any specific theme types I should work on that would target some crowd, all suggestions are appreciated.
theres a nexus, hero, cliq, and few other device ui's that are badass which have all been created..but no one has created an Espresso one..might wanna give that one a gander.
Funny, I didn't think of trying any of those, however the only one you mentioned having not being done yet, is the one that inspired me. Haha, I have an espresso one. It was created by someone I believe from this very community.
SoCalSpecialist said:
theres a nexus, hero, cliq, and few other device ui's that are badass which have all been created..but no one has created an Espresso one..might wanna give that one a gander.
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Lier, there's a one called bokeh and I'm using it <3
protomanez said:
Lier, there's a one called bokeh and I'm using it <3
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oh sssshiiit..
nevermind op.. this dude was right
good looks!
This is one I've got so far, needs some alignment on the bottom buttons, but so far so good.
Let me know what you think.
LookAlive said:
This is one I've got so far, needs some alignment on the bottom buttons, but so far so good.
Let me know what you think.
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i can barely see it..
whats the middle icon?
Featured in this video? This is exactly what I've been looking for... I found a download link, but both it and the dev site were down . No info in the youtube link either.
SO close but yet so far away. This is a theme I would pay money for!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NARseyrR6w
I haven't seen much else come close to this except for my current (heavily modified) version, which lacks some authenticity.
Any help hunting this down would be greatly appreciated!
Xda has this crazy, ground breaking function called "Search"
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=530269&highlight=Windows
i think this tread that you means
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=530269
mtglo said:
Xda has this crazy, ground breaking function called "Search"
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=530269&highlight=Windows
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I've searched all over the forums, and I've come across that one, but it is NOT the same theme that's featured in the video.
Unless there's something in that thread that I'm missing?
This theme is not on this forum. My web site is cancelled and this is a reason why you can not download my theme. You are lucky man, I found something in my PC
VGA:
htp://rapidshare.com/files/439946676/WIN7_VGA.ZIP
WVGA:
htp://rapidshare.com/files/439946828/WIN7_WVGA.ZIP
If you will have some problem with install theme send me a private message.
Please correct htp: on http: in download link
marco-23 said:
This theme is not on this forum. My web site is cancelled and this is a reason why you can not download my theme. You are lucky man, I found something in my PC
VGA:
htp://rapidshare.com/files/439946676/WIN7_VGA.ZIP
WVGA:
htp://rapidshare.com/files/439946828/WIN7_WVGA.ZIP
If you will have some problem with install theme send me a private message.
Please correct htp: on http: in download link
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This theme is incredible! How did you manage this? Did you do it just for yourself? Why did you remove it from download, or why don't you have the file hosted here? It's amazing, and it is the truest representation of Win7 on a phone that I've found. It has everything.
Thank you so much for this! It is looking and running beautifully. A thousand times thank you!
Could someone create a new link for this theme as it was restricted to only ten downloads. I would like to get my hands on it. Much appreciated. Nice work.
i like this theme too but can't download it
Download not available
http://rapidshare.com/files/439946828/WIN7_WVGA.ZIP10186
The file of the above link no longer exists. This could be for several reasons:
■The uploader deleted the file
■The file contained illegal contents and was deleted from our Abuse team
■The file is incorrect
■The server is busy and can not process the request.
Unassigned file limit of 10 downloads reached.
insane73 said:
Could someone create a new link for this theme as it was restricted to only ten downloads. I would like to get my hands on it. Much appreciated. Nice work.
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rioolrat said:
i like this theme too but can't download it
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I am create new thread. You can download theme here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=894761
jovalleau said:
This theme is incredible! How did you manage this? Did you do it just for yourself? Why did you remove it from download, or why don't you have the file hosted here? It's amazing, and it is the truest representation of Win7 on a phone that I've found. It has everything.
Thank you so much for this! It is looking and running beautifully. A thousand times thank you!
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No it is not only for myself I am public Win7 theme on my website but I had some problem with my web provider and he delete all my website.
marco-23 said:
No it is not only for myself I am public Win7 theme on my website but I had some problem with my web provider and he delete all my website.
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All is well.
I'm working on creating an integrated Windows Media center. If I give it to you when I'm done, would you want to add it to your skin/theme?
Hello, I would like te create new themes for Galaxy S6. What soft I have to use for this ? I'm french and I'm looking for something easy. I would like change icons, keyboard, colors etc...
Thanks by advance for yours anwers
Olivier
There's alot out there but I use tickle my android and it works great. You can Google it to find thread in xda. It's very easy to use .
mikep2323 said:
There's alot out there but I use tickle my android and it works great. You can Google it to find thread in xda. It's very easy to use .
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What exactly is tickle my
android?
It's a computer program that decompiles and recompiles the apk your trying to theme. You need a program like that to change colors and images.
Cool... thanks for the info...
Thanks for your answer but you need to be root and it looks not so easy to use nothing else like a theme editor ?
Well if you want to look up tools for Android Decompiling and finding out the resources files where each UI element or color is, and make your own theme from there, but it's a long process D:
hi , there was My Theme , which was to support S6 from April ... honestly don't know if it really does. I'm interester too. I would like to make a pure black theme so we could increase battery life
Apply to become a theme developer on Samsung's website. You need to present a basic concept and some previous design work. It didn't take me long to get approved. 2-3 days. Software is really simple.
If you get approved they send you an email on how to download the theme tool
how to present previous design work?
from where can I degin,befor getting the theme editor?
SwornXIII said:
Apply to become a theme developer on Samsung's website. You need to present a basic concept and some previous design work. It didn't take me long to get approved. 2-3 days. Software is really simple.
If you get approved they send you an email on how to download the theme tool
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SwornXIII said:
Apply to become a theme developer on Samsung's website. You need to present a basic concept and some previous design work. It didn't take me long to get approved. 2-3 days. Software is really simple.
If you get approved they send you an email on how to download the theme tool
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Not easy enough apparently.. Put in my request, I even have a web site with my work. Then I was denied. Laff. **** you samsung.
ars0n said:
Not easy enough apparently.. Put in my request, I even have a web site with my work. Then I was denied. Laff. **** you samsung.
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Well guess im SOL. I dont really have any background! I just want something so simple and specific and each theme is SO close. Ugh.
send me the email
SwornXIII said:
Apply to become a theme developer on Samsung's website. You need to present a basic concept and some previous design work. It didn't take me long to get approved. 2-3 days. Software is really simple.
If you get approved they send you an email on how to download the theme tool
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Hey, could you (PLEASEEEEEEEEE) send that email to me
Arter79 said:
Hey, could you (PLEASEEEEEEEEE) send that email to me
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I got it so long ago, they had an update where they were very strong on letting people know that the software cannot be redistributed and they are heavily against it.
I can't remember how to download is handled. It's possible that each file has a unique identifier idk.
If you deserve to be on the store then you'll get on there, and looking at the garbage quality of designs that are on there right now, you should be fine.
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I got it so long ago, they had an update where they were very strong on letting people know that the software cannot be redistributed and they are heavily against it.
I can't remember how to download is handled. It's possible that each file has a unique identifier idk.
If you deserve to be on the store then you'll get on there, and looking at the garbage quality of designs that are on there right now, you should be fine.
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do you take custom requests? Paid of course
johanos123 said:
do you take custom requests? Paid of course
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I could probably do requests. Haven't previously. There's so much gross stuff on the theme store that it made me not want to make anything for it aha. Feel free to PM me with what you want andone we can work something out. Not looking for big money
ars0n said:
Not easy enough apparently.. Put in my request, I even have a web site with my work. Then I was denied. Laff. **** you samsung.
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Exactly it's not easy to get approved.
SwornXIII said:
I could probably do requests. Haven't previously. There's so much gross stuff on the theme store that it made me not want to make anything for it aha. Feel free to PM me with what you want andone we can work something out. Not looking for big money
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Did you recieve my PM?
I want to make a theme
I don't have a rooted phone and would like a custom theme, any help?
Samsung Theme Tool
Don't know if this is relevant, and I know this is an old thread but I just downloaded this and I'm going to try it out. Maybe this can help for anyone else wondering the same thing.
A quick google search found the Samsung Theme Designer tool.
I can't post the link because this is a new account but google search for "samsung theme designer" and it should come up as the first result at develper.samsung.com