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Need help creating theme...FIRST BOOTSCREEN UP!

i would like to contribute to the cdma hero android community with my art but i have been searching and searching and SEARCHING! i cant find any tutorials on how to even start to create a theme for the cdma hero so i was wondering if some one could post step by step directions on how to create a theme so i could put my designs to some use lol and also if you could post how to create a bootscreen also...i have searched up and down im pretty sure i havent missed it so please dont bash me for wanting to contribute to you guys thanks
-Brandon
BUT WHILE IM STILL LEARNING HERE IS MY FIRST BOOT SCREEN!!!!!!!! BY THE WAY I AM STILL LEARNING LOL
http://www.4shared.com/dir/37225849/d82b07bd/sharing.html
I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANT DAMAGE TO YOUR PHONE
THANKS GOES TO ALL THE DEVS ON THE CDMA FORUM THE GREAT WORK YOU DO IS INSPIRING ME TO LEARN AND CREATE! I DONT HAVE SCREEN SHOTS BUT TRY IT OUT JUST FLASH FROM RECOVERY

I can help with the boot screen.
PM me and i will give you my Gtalk

oh, me too me too! I would love to get down on this too, if you dont mind. I love other peoples customizations, and themes, but am ready to get something of mine, lol

jtmercutio said:
oh, me too me too! I would love to get down on this too, if you dont mind. I love other peoples customizations, and themes, but am ready to get something of mine, lol
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All it takes is a lot of reading and some experience.
I wouldn't try to make anything from scratch for your first time. Go off of someone else and tweak it to make it your own. BUT give the person credit!!!
I would actually recommend asking permission first. Its just more respectful.

Is there somewhere I can download boot screens?

I just downloaded boot animation changer from the market the other day and I haven't been able to find any boot screens to actually use on my n1. Is there any website that maybe has a bunch? maybe someone can point me in the right direction so that I can make my own? a diy perhaps? thanks for any help

seeking said:
I just downloaded boot animation changer from the market the other day and I haven't been able to find any boot screens to actually use on my n1. Is there any website that maybe has a bunch? maybe someone can point me in the right direction so that I can make my own? a diy perhaps? thanks for any help
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Have u tried searching this site using boot animation? I did and came up with a variant of CM's boot up screen. I am using the one where the android is dropping boxes to spell out CyanogenMod. Now I love to reboot the phone lol...

kpjimmy said:
have u tried searching this site using boot animation?
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nnnnnnnope

OrganizedFellow said:
nnnnnnnope
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this website doesn't have a section dedicated to boot screens...if it does please link me to the section. I'm looking for a collection of android boot screens all in one place. I don't want to hunt and peck through threads looking for them. I'm hoping there is some where on the internet with some sort of organization similar to sidekick themes for instance.

geezzz, noobs!
You should search. Really.
This has been discussed countless times before.
This website doesn't NEED a dedicated section for boot animations.
What you will find, if you had bothered to visually scan the Nexus One forums, is a sub-forum titled: Nexus One Themes and Apps.
Within there I found these threads:
nexus one boot animation the attached file that you find there is a zip file. Unzip that to your computer, and browse the two folders it contains. That should give you an idea of how they are made.
[Boot Animations] & [Live Wallpapers] Nexus Holiday in a variety of colors more here with preview animations, so you can choose before you download.
{MOD} Bootanimation [Blade, Laser, Blazer] *Six6Sicks* 7/25/10 has a Cyanogen style to it. I like this alot!
After following those above, you should check out: [SCRIPT] Random Boot Animations v1.3 (Updated 2010-04-20, works on CM 5.0.6-5.0.8).
I haven't used the tool/script mentioned here.
But in the first post, you'll come across SAMPLE LIST OF BOOT ANIMATIONS. You'll find eight links to others.
(i bookmarked it. i actually would not have found it if i didnt search)
On a different subject, Live Wall Papers. Everyone loves them.
You might want to make your own.
[Live Wallpaper] Custom Creater 2.6 [SCRIPT] [WINDOWS]
seeking said:
... I don't want to hunt and peck through threads looking for them ...
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I hunted and I pecked, and look at what I found!?
I'm going to call you lazy.
I'm going to call you a newb.
Don't be offended.
I've helped you alot more here than others probably would have.
You may even get more help. But really seeking, you aren't the first nor the last member wanting help to make their own bootanimation.
The information for this and countless other Android™ related projects are out there. They're in here. You just gotta invest in the time it takes to find them, just as I've invested the time and patience it took to copy/paste all those links for you.
PAY IT FORWARD, help someone else out.
If you find something worth sharing, please come back to this thread and post it.
Some other newb may need it.

Hey, I appreciate that you are trying to help me, but I've gone through all of this. I've been using xda since the original tmobile mda on windows mobile. Searching is nothing new to me, especially on the updated vbulliten version of this place.
This is not a matter of being a "newb" or being lazy. This is me asking a question (in the questions and answer forum) about any websites other than xda that might have a collection of boot screens similar to how the sidekick had a website that had nothing but themes.
I know its "cool" to tell people to search and to call them newbies (even when they hae been members longer than you) but you are completley missing the point of this thread.

seeking said:
... you are completley missing the point of this thread.
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I apologize for missing the point of this thread.
If my information hasn't helped you, I hope it will help others seeking this information.

[Q] Want to start

I have a evo now and i came from blackberry i was a theme developer for bb. but really dont know much about themes for android but i want to get into it. For blackberry they have theme builder and composer is there anything similar to these programs only for android? I had alot of themes on crackberry and app world so im not dumb just need a "get started kit for android" thanks alot in advance!

First off welcome to the android world. Its fun with android it allows you to create more and gives you freedom to edit just about every image. I came from BB to and wasn't able to get full control of the BB OS, like the keypads and other images. The android is fun at the same time confusing and frustrating. Especially when it comes to signing. But, now signing apps, which you will learn is a bit easier, at least for me.
Start off by downloading Avabox V2. its your signing program. Which is easier then others. There are others that does more but this is the most simpliest one that I use and like. There are; SDK, Eclipse, app manager, and some others. These take up lots of space and the instructions can get frustrating when you follow them and then to find out something else is missing. So follow them to the Tee.
Good luck and hope to see some of your work.

Thats great thank you for the introduction. I will download now and get to work! I can imagine it will be a bit tricky as you were saying thanks for the heads up. All info is really appreciated since im new to android. I've had it just over a month now and this thing is incredable I really didn't think I would like it this much.i really really love this phone!
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Just googled avabox v2 can't find a download page happen to have a link?
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This thread will help you started
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=916814

programs needed for themeing..
I would say start off small, theme a systems app, such as mms or settings, just so u can get a feel for whats to come ..
I would say start downloading the following programs
AppManager, Adb (or Droid Explorer) .. theres also a lot of tutorials out there and numerous programs, theres a sticky thread somewhere were it explains themeing in detail.. enjoy your android

Ok I got some stuff downloaded I'm kind of confused def gonna need a tutorial. Thanks for the link!
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Anyone have any good tutorials?
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[REQUEST] Theme / Rom creation tutorial.

Would there be anyone willing to do a different kind of guide for those wanting to learn to theme or even rom.
If someone would .... as there creating a theme, document the whole process, and as someone trying to learn, could download the files needed and instead of just downloading an already completed theme, they could build the same theme themselves while following the directions. I think that could be a great way for someone to learn this craft. I imagine once you have built one, things start to make more sense.
I have read a few of the themeing guides, and they are great, lots of great info, but a lot of times they dont explain the how/why things are done. Like when can you just edit the .png files to gain a certain look, vs. when you have to go and edit xml files, or which files need to be edited to create a lot of the looks we are looking for.
For me, i learn best by doing. I would love to d/l the same base rom one of you devs. would and follow some instructions and just follow along and perform all of the modifications you might make to create a theme from start to finish. Then a lot of other things might make more sense.
Just a thought if anyone has the time or would be interested, I am sure many people would like to learn this talent.
Thanks.

happimeal said:
Would there be anyone willing to do a different kind of guide for those wanting to learn to theme or even rom.
If someone would .... as there creating a theme, document the whole process, and as someone trying to learn, could download the files needed and instead of just downloading an already completed theme, they could build the same theme themselves while following the directions. I think that could be a great way for someone to learn this craft. I imagine once you have built one, things start to make more sense.
I have read a few of the themeing guides, and they are great, lots of great info, but a lot of times they dont explain the how/why things are done. Like when can you just edit the .png files to gain a certain look, vs. when you have to go and edit xml files, or which files need to be edited to create a lot of the looks we are looking for.
For me, i learn best by doing. I would love to d/l the same base rom one of you devs. would and follow some instructions and just follow along and perform all of the modifications you might make to create a theme from start to finish. Then a lot of other things might make more sense.
Just a thought if anyone has the time or would be interested, I am sure many people would like to learn this talent.
Thanks.
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http://www.reddit.com/r/Universityo...erested_in_learning_android_programming_over/
Reddit is holding a android programming tutorial/class, go check it out

Looking at that now, looks very cool. Seems to be focused more on android programming though, will be looking for some theme/rom tutorials, or maybe ask for one.
Thanks for the link!

happimeal said:
Looking at that now, looks very cool. Seems to be focused more on android programming though, will be looking for some theme/rom tutorials, or maybe ask for one.
Thanks for the link!
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yea it def is focused on programming. But reddit seems like a good place to find our request something your more interested in.

Looking for tips on cooking my own ROM

Hi,
I just got my XT860, the GSM version of DROID 3. I have tried some ICS roms like CM9, AOKP and even the new KEXEC one. Sadly for me none of them have support for video camera... the hardware codec drivers are missing, and that's a show stopper for me.
So I'm sticking with the official gingerbread ROM but I want to customize it a little so I feel more confortable with it.
I need guidance on how to deodex/zipalign it so I can remove all of motorola's bloatware and change some things like the launcher to the one I like, I also want to change the loading screen to a customized one, change the phone's theme (I *need* those xperia arc icons badly, theyre just gorgeous!). Oh, I also would love to know how to make the rom be compatible with hashofcode's safestrap.
I searched trough many topics on those subjects but I didn't find much information so any help is apreciated. Thanks in advance!

Wow, 120 views and 0 replies.
Come on, guys. Please lend a hand.

you should read these topics
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=633246
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1227549
http://forum.dailymobile.net/index.php?topic=62368.0

bogdan_wrc said:
you should read these topics
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=633246
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1227549
http://forum.dailymobile.net/index.php?topic=62368.0
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Thanks for taking your time to help me.
I have read the first topic u linked before posting, but it says thats for HTC devices and information on adding support for other devices is either really vague or i`m too dumb to understand. Propbably the latter.

I honestly have no idea.
Are you fluent in any coding languages? If you don't know anything then making a rom is pretty far away.

bogdan_wrc said:
you should read these topics
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=633246
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1227549
http://forum.dailymobile.net/index.php?topic=62368.0
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That and google. Apks arent usually manufacturer dependant, though it depends on the app. Instructions can always be followed and tweaked, you dont have to s-off etc... Google will help you though or you could just rip them out of a pre-existing rom and repackage.