Hi,
I'm quite new to Android so I don't know where to find all elements in the phone. Please have a look at this image and let me know if you know if the images are used or obsolete!
One additional element not in the photo is the scrollbar handle, that large thing that used to pop out from the scrollbar at times - is it gone?
I assume there is already info on how to theme the progressbar, I will search for this info later.
Thanks in advance.
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all of those are in framework-res.apk/res/drawable
the scrollbar is also in that same folder.
to edit the color of the progress bar you have to edit progress_horizontal.xml, here is a little guide i made in a thread about how to easily do hex edits for color in .xml's. the only one of those files that still applies is .xml above. 1.6 did away with 1.5's way of doing the progress circles.
Pretty sure he's asking where the elements are actually used on the phone. As in, what apps use them, etc.
All are used besides the battery charged, and the files are like david said in the "framework-res.apk/res/drawable"
There are some outdated images left over from older OS versions, I usually just tend to ignore these so I have less to edit. The scroll bar large mode icon appears in contact.apk if you still want to edit that, im not sure which other system app uses it. I think what happened was google did a little cleaning up and moved app specific resources inside the app's apk files instead of having them float around in frameworks. They do need a serious clean up of the folder though.
Thank you for the replies!
Yes, I am in fact asking where they are used on the phone. I have a HTC Dream that I'm testing with, and I have not found apps that use the elements that I've listed.
So the battery charge is not used - thanks!
What about the rest, do you know an app that uses them?
The reason I want to find them is so that I can change them and see how it turns out on the device. I'm doing this for a client and I've tracked down all of them except these last ones.
I'm not positive but I can say a lot of them ARE obselete:
Erase Button: I believe it used to come in handy during 1.0/1.1 OS, haven't seen a use for it on 1.5+ devices
Picker Box: Definitely obselete, have not seen these used in quiet a while..
Spinner: These might be date/time picker images, go into alarm clock app, set alarm or change time for any of them I believe they show up here, not sure about the arrows though.
Battery Charge: have NOT been used since android 1.0 initial release, rc29, which was taken out a long long time ago.
Progress bar graphics: These are xml changes, I believe. As someone pointed out earlier you can try changing them via xml changes.
Your best bet is just not edit them, they're in the system/frameworks folder for no reason at all, I say save yourself the work and avoid them.
Hope that's clearer.
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I'm not positive but I can say a lot of them ARE obselete:
Erase Button: I believe it used to come in handy during 1.0/1.1 OS, haven't seen a use for it on 1.5+ devices
Picker Box: Definitely obselete, have not seen these used in quiet a while..
Spinner: These might be date/time picker images, go into alarm clock app, set alarm or change time for any of them I believe they show up here, not sure about the arrows though.
Battery Charge: have NOT been used since android 1.0 initial release, rc29, which was taken out a long long time ago.
Progress bar graphics: These are xml changes, I believe. As someone pointed out earlier you can try changing them via xml changes.
Your best bet is just not edit them, they're in the system/frameworks folder for no reason at all, I say save yourself the work and avoid them.
Hope that's clearer.
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Thanks a bunch! This just saved me a headache
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Can anyone explain how 6.5's Title and Bottom bar are transparent?
I have read several times over the past year that creating transparent bars that would be compatible with multiple themes would be impossible. Rather, the image creator would have to blend their theme with the top and bottom bars for each theme. So someone with some imaging background and has an idea what is inside of 6.5 build 21159 that would allow that to happen could you please explain this to me, thank you in advance.
I noticed this when I was working on my first rom. I have encountered many errors when the device boots over the past day after removing and adding files. This is what it looks like so far.
Last night I was capable of only having the highlighted items appear on the today screen. For example, if I was to select "Phone" it would become centered and the rest (favorites, voice, time and operator, text...) would disappear but I forgot what operations I performed to allow that feature. I was forced to restore all the files. However, it did look nice not having the today screen cluttered.
Cooking a rom is not easy, I learn better by visualizing and "hands on" rather than reading, which appears to be my only resource. I should probably take a few notes. Anyhow I am going to give it a few more attempts.
edit: I forgot to mention this theme is not mine. I do not know where it came from and there was no purpose for a rom to be released with this theme. So I apologize to the theme and icons creators' in advance.
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Can anyone explain how 6.5's Title and Bottom bar are transparent?
I have read several times over the past year that creating transparent bars that would be compatible with multiple themes would be impossible. Rather, the image creator would have to blend their theme with the top and bottom bars for each theme. So someone with some imaging background and has an idea what is inside of 6.5 build 21159 that would allow that to happen could you please explain this to me, thank you in advance.
I noticed this when I was working on my first rom. I have encountered many errors when the device boots over the past day after removing and adding files. This is what it looks like so far.
Last night I was capable of only having the highlighted items appear on the today screen. For example, if I was to select "Phone" it would become centered and the rest (favorites, voice, time and operator, text...) would disappear but I forgot what operations I performed to allow that feature. I was forced to restore all the files. However, it did look nice not having the today screen cluttered.
Cooking a rom is not easy, I learn better by visualizing and "hands on" rather than reading, which appears to be my only resource. I should probably take a few notes. Anyhow I am going to give it a few more attempts.
edit: I forgot to mention this theme is not mine. I do not know where it came from and there was no purpose for a rom to be released with this theme. So I apologize to the theme and icons creators' in advance.
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I, for one, thank you for transparent bars. ( . Y . )
I didn't realize
how much important information could be hidden by those top and bottom bars!
Now I know
will this theme make 6.5 have full transparancy with the top & bottom bars? if so can someone post it? i've tried the registry mod with full transparent images and i couldnt get it to work. thanks
There are many threads talking about this, but this one seems best answer:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=536141
Hi all,
I saw the winmo 7 video other day in youtube. It looks great but it was like a dejavu for me. I have sony erricsson Xperia X1, in that we have a panel called Media experience, it is more or less the same as new winmo interface. (for those who haven't seen it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEQt8tGUuYg )
The only differences are that instead of txt showing you where you are (each time you get in a folder the name of the txt goes on top, that way you know where you are) in Media experience it shows you an icon
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notice the icon on the right ( music icon) indicates that you are in music player. Oh yeah and unlike winmo7 it is in the left side. The thing that this is missing is the clock on the background (i photoshoped it) and the weather widget.
HTC UI is great but it also slows down the phone, that's why I prefer titanium. I was wondering if somebody could figure out a way to put a clock and weather widget with it. Some other pics,
That theme concept looks gorgeous. It's a brilliantly huge improvement over the default Titanium. However, it reminds me of the SE media manager. But nevermind that.
The clock on the top right corner looks ugly - it's doesn't blend well within the theme. I suggest that a plain text clock in the background should be implemented to give the theme a minimalistic and elegant look. I've worked up on the image to show you what I mean.
The menus should also have some transparency so the background and the clock are visible.
i think it's better the clock on the background but the icon only the bigger at the center end take away the little one at the left!
d3thstalker your picture looks exactly what I was thinking. I did a quick paintbrush work so it looks awefool. But yeah this is what I was talking about, how though
It would be really awesome if someone could develop this for us. I have no background in developing anything or whatsoever. However, I'd like to extend my help to wherever I can.
EDIT: Perhaps if someone could post links to guides or tutorials on editing the Titanium menu, I can try something.
Yes found it,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=512029
and some other interesting links
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=501584
http://pagespro-orange.fr/BenThon/IndexEn/IndexEn.htm
It doesn't look that difficult, it's worth a try. But you are reminded again that I have no background in these things or whatsoever, so don't get your hopes too high, I might simply dump the project if I can't do it.
I'm handling some workload from my office atm, I'll begin immediately after that. I'll flash my phone to WM6.5.3 today, however, to take a look at how this whole thing works. On second thought, it would be better if someone could pass me the following files from the WINDOWS directory on their phone - bronzeres.dll, CHome_listback.png (hidden file) and Titanium_240x320.cpr
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It doesn't look that difficult, it's worth a try. But you are reminded again that I have no background in these things or whatsoever, so don't get your hopes too high, I might simply dump the project if I can't do it.
I'm handling some workload from my office atm, I'll begin immediately after that. I'll flash my phone to WM6.5.3 today, however, to take a look at how this whole thing works. On second thought, it would be better if someone could pass me the following files from the WINDOWS directory on their phone - bronzeres.dll, CHome_listback.png (hidden file) and Titanium_240x320.cpr
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Ok I am sending you a private message with those files.
Greate screen,
A link to the Download?
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Greate screen,
A link to the Download?
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Where can I upload these?
Maybe My email, [email protected]
Ok I just sent it to you. I looked at the tutorial too, when I opened the bronzess.dll in PE explorer I see lots of icons, starting with the number of 2000 to 4000. I can guess how to change the icons, but I dont understand how can I change the system of how icons are being shown. I mean in "Media Experience Panel" when you tap on something it goes to the left side. How do make that happen? Anyway I dont know anything about programming.
Hope somebody comes up with a solution.
I understand the link between the registery, the bronzeres.dll and the way the icon are displayed. However, I still don't understand how to shift the icons to the left side. I think that has something to do with Titanium_240x320.cpr.
I don't think that it's possible to make the icons shift to the left upon clicking them because I have never seen that in a theme. I think that would require the Titanium code to be re-written or something, which is beyond me.
EDIT: This modding of titanium is too hard for me, I don't understand several aspects of it. I am letting go of it here.
Ok I think I figured it out. Its not Titanium that can do this stuff. It is actually this
http://developer.sonyericsson.com/cws/devworld/technology/windows-mobile/xperia-x1?cc=gb&lc=en
which probably can do this. Hmmmm............ I guess I have to do this all by myself
any update on this wonderful looking theme ?
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any update on this wonderful looking theme ?
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+1 i'd like to see this. even a beta is alright.
Yesterday as I was leaving work I noticed a new icon on my default (home) desktop called Android. I didn't put it there and have no idea how it got there. When you tap it, it opens a window with like 8 android system icons, txt, settings, ect. Its kinda handy I suppose but not really needed, but I'm really curious where the heck it came from. Anyone else see this on their device?
Sounds like a folder rather than a shortcut? Never seen it before and it's not one of the default folders either.
Yeah I think you're correct. All those functions I usually do from the (LP) dock, and its like the phone decided I use those enough that I need a dedicated folder!!?? Nothing else has changed, the first place I looked was "About Phone", everything is as it was before. Weird!
Edit: also I have LP set to not have text labels for any icons, but this one does say "Android", jesus phone indeed, ha!
Edit: Oh, and the graphic is a generic gray cellphone.
Screenshot??
Sure when I get home and have access to my computer/SDK
SDK? Looking at the spec list you don't need it?
You are aware you can use screenshot apps with root, right?
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SDK? Looking at the spec list you don't need it?
You are aware you can use screenshot apps with root, right?
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Yeah took a quick look at the Market and nothing really jumped out at me, and didn't have a lot of time to monkey around with my phone.
Anyhow,
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Not sure about the Android shortcut/icon, but the second screen looks similar to the popup that shows when you hold the home button. (recent activities list)
Looks like one of the default Folder Organizer items, do you have that installed? If so, you probably added the widget while it was in your pocket or something. I'd be less worried about your phone and start wondering if your leg is becoming self aware!
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Looks like one of the default Folder Organizer items, do you have that installed? If so, you probably added the widget while it was in your pocket or something. I'd be less worried about your phone and start wondering if your leg is becoming self aware!
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Bingo!! Its a widget selection for a program I have called App Organizer, having said that, it takes four (specific) keypresses to get it to a place where I never put icons. I always leave my default home screen devoid of any clutter, (except time), for viewing cool wallpapers.
So I guess I'm back to, did this program just decide, without any interaction from me to put an icon on my desktop? Certainly not earth shaking, but a little bit irritating having some guy behind a monitor deciding how I should use my device.
In the scheme of things theres probably a lot more than less of this going on behind the scenes than I can see, lol.
Thanks for the replies/help clearing this up!
fubaya said:
I'd be less worried about your phone wondering if your leg is becoming self aware!
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Other leg haha, since about 12 years old
Hey guys so I m pretty much flat out new to theming and Android in general but I've gotten by so far with google and sites such as this, and androidforums. Except I keep running into problems and I figured posting my self would probably be best. My plan is to update this post with new questions I have and also keeping updated with the correct answer if provided for easy reference for future use.
Current Problem: SystemUI.apk - quickpanel_quick_settings.xml XML changes won't apply
What I am trying to do is change the default "Auto Rotation" text in the status bar to one line and realign it with the rest of the GPS/Bluetooth/WiFi text.
I have managed to change the strings.xml to reflect the "Auto Rotation" > "Rotation" change, but if you look in the below picture the text for "Rotation" is still unaligned with the other text.
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I know the XML for positioning the text is in quickpanel_quick_settings
I changed the following line:
Code:
android:textColor="@color/quickpanel_text" android:gravity="center_horizontal" android:id="@id/quickpanel_rotation_btn_text" android:paddingTop="44.669983dip"
to
Code:
android:textColor="@color/quickpanel_text" android:gravity="center_horizontal" android:id="@id/quickpanel_rotation_btn_text" android:paddingTop="54.669983dip"
Yet it still does not lower the text by what appears to be the right value (10px, or to 54.669983 - all GPS,Wifi, Bluetooth share the exact same format). Is it something wrong with compiling or am I forgetting to change a value somewhere else?
Fixed Problems
Problem: twframework-res.apk TAB images don't stretch:
Fix: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15842355&postcount=3
Cite said:
Hey guys so I m pretty much flat out new to theming and Android in general but I've gotten by so far with google and sites such as this, and androidforums. Except I keep running into problems and I figured posting my self would probably be best. My plan is to update this post with new questions I have and also keeping updated with the correct answer if provided for easy reference for future use.
So without further ado my first problem lies currently in twframework-res.apk.
Currently I am trying to edit the tw_tab_selected.9.png. I have an odd problem in that when I edit it and add in the proper guidelines in draw9- which was none (*Note the original tw_tab_selected.9.png actually does not have any guidelines even though it is a .9png) it seems to stretch out like below:
The image SHOULD stretch out and appear like the following image:
Couple of notes:
- I have tried adding guidelines to my modified tw_tab_selected.9.png, below is an example of one of the guideline formats I tried but still yielded similar results as above picture #1 (This was following the draw9 guidelines of a similar image tw_tab_selected_ss.9.png)
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You'll only see the guides on a decompiled .9.png. I've always had better luck with xUltimates nine patch tool.
Problem: twframework-res.apk TAB images don't stretch
So without further ado my first problem lies currently in twframework-res.apk.
Currently I am trying to edit the tw_tab_selected.9.png. I have an odd problem in that when I edit it and add in the proper guidelines in draw9- which was none (*Note the original tw_tab_selected.9.png actually does not have any guidelines even though it is a .9png) it seems to stretch out like below:
The image SHOULD stretch out and appear like the following image:
Couple of notes:
- I have tried adding guidelines to my modified tw_tab_selected.9.png, below is an example of one of the guideline formats I tried but still yielded similar results as above picture #1 (This was following the draw9 guidelines of a similar image tw_tab_selected_ss.9.png)
How to fix
Okay so it was a problem with properly compiling the image after adding in the guidelines > using xUltimate did indeed fix it. What was done is that I still ended up using draw9patch to edit the guidelines into my modified tw_tab_selected.9.png > put the new png into the example 1 folder of xUltimate9compiler tool > compiled > copied compiled tw_tab_selected.9.png into twframework-res.apk and pushed it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15842291&postcount=2 Thanks 3rd!
Sorry for the bump - will also edit this post for answer to current questions answer
Okay, I've been working on a Viber style theme on behalf of my girlfriend using gosmstheme.goforandroid.com but it just doesnt want to work properly, often showing boxes around my speech bubbles or whatever.
Anyway I was wondering if anyone could quickly do it? It's driving me crazy, its basically the iphone theme built into gosms with a purple bar instead of a blue bar and a pure white background.
If no one is willing to do it, could someone tell me where on my phone the gosms themes are stored so i can edit it myself cos the online theme maker currently has lots of bugs.
Heres actual Viber:
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The online theme maker misses exactly 1 row of pixels off the top of the purple top bar and shows a dark border around my bubble images making it incredibly ugly.
Can anyone help? I can upload the resources I made if anyone is interested in helping.
Heres how it looks so far. crap, in other words.
see? the png files become distorted as the are stretched and the boxes dont match up well. heres the resources if anyone else wants to try.
Body:
Recieved:
Sent:
Top Bar:
Anyone care to help?
I'm not sure if it can use 9patch files, which allows images to be resized without distortion. Google it up for more info and how to create them.
Also, remove the white backgrounds in the speech bubbles, and perhaps add some space around them
Thanks for the reply, I tried removing the white background but it didnt work (it showed up as light grey for some reason). I'll look into the 9patch files. Cheers.
Super short answer:
Edit: Those images were suppossed to have black lines on the borders, not sure what happened there xP
Use thoses as guides. Open them directly with Photoshop or other tool. Do not copy/paste. That could mess with the transparent background.
Short answer:
Those bubbles are way to near to the borders, you need to leave some space in there. As ock said, you should probabbly use draw9 too. In short it's a special kind of png images (9.png) that have a tiny transparent 1 pixel border which can be filled with black if you want to stretch them verticaly or horizontaly.
Long answer:
You could try the GOSMS Theme maker here http://gosms.goforandroid.com/?p=235, you need Java for that.
Just run ThemeTool.bat, configure what you want and then apply. This is going to generate a file called _signed.apk if I remember correctly.
Then you can use apk_manager to decompile it, all you need to do is place the apk (which you can rename) into the "place-apk-here-for-modding" subfolder and then run Script.bat.
That's going to show you a menu, the option you need to pick is 22 for choosing your project. And then 9 to decompile. When you pick 9, its going to make a subfolder in "projects" named "_signed.apk" or whatever you called it. You can access that folder and edit every single image in there.
The images you're looking for are inside "\res\drawable-hdpi", the names are
msgbox_other.9.png
msgbox_other_selected.9.png
msgbox_self.9.png
msgbox_self_selected.9.png
Those kind of files are very sensitive, the borders need to be transparent or black, if they're not, the project wont compile until you fix it. So, make backups a edit carefully.
Thanks dude.