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change menus from White on Black to Black on White?

Many of the default Android menus are white text on a black background. Not only do I find these visually unappealing, they are actually counter productive given how poorly dark themes read in sunlight.
Can these be changed to black text on a white background (or light background) instead? Does anyone have a theme they can share to accomplish this? Thank you.

OK, I guess this is not possible. It's a shame because I find Android's list based menus awfully plain and unaesthetic. White text on a black background with little visual art...it really looks like a plain vanilla terminal of yesteryear. While I love Android's openness, customization, and tweaker-friendly platform, it really needs a major overhaul in terms of looks and user friendliness. In short, the GUI needs some polish and consistency.

It would appear that Android has built-in "themes" for apps to use. If none is specified, then the dark or black theme is used. I wonder if there is a way to force apps to use the "light" theme even if specified otherwise. Perhaps a custom ROM could be created to always use the light theme.
http://www.anddev.org/tutorial_ui_themes-t4367.html

i know this thread is old enogh, but i'm searching for a answer to this question too.

Same here, I´m looking for a solution to this problem
For me is near impossible to read white letters on black background, and i have a new ZTE Blade that can´t use because this
If someone have a solution, please !!!
Thanks!

Recently this has been bugging me as well. I wish there was a very simple way to perhaps tweak the framework and systemui so that black on white can become a reality...

This is totally feasible. You would have to do a bunch of XML edits in your framework-res.apk and declare everything correctly.
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Changing the theme style in styles.xml should work I guess... if I have little to do I can take a look
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Okay, I've done it, just gotta see if I've caused any bugs and write a how to
Edit: Bah, it's hard, the whole system and lots of apps are based on how it is now, changing it causes lots of trouble. Don't know if I'll make it :/

Btw, I did it in my cm7 theme. You can see it in my signature
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AWESOME. There are some issues though, such as black text on dark backgrounds in the music app, which I'm guessing would take more than some xml editing to fix. But other than that it's GREAT!

EnMod said:
AWESOME. There are some issues though, such as black text on dark backgrounds in the music app, which I'm guessing would take more than some xml editing to fix. But other than that it's GREAT!
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Thanks I have fixed most of these issues I think, but one of the issues was kind of tricky, cause when I fix them, I create others :/ and I don't have the stock music app installed atm, I will install it and see the issue myeself

Habarug said:
Thanks I have fixed most of these issues I think, but one of the issues was kind of tricky, cause when I fix them, I create others :/ and I don't have the stock music app installed atm, I will install it and see the issue myeself
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I don't see that theme anymore in your signature. Would it be possible for you to share it? I'm still in search of a way to get Android to be a bit lighter (outside of going with MIUI), which I find far more visually appealing.

Question on howto improve Android homescreen text

Hi guys,
Does anyone know if it's possible to some how change the text on the home screens?
For example, instead of the text with the ugly black round border thing around it, would it be possible to say have the text with a drop shadow instead?
Also a way to change the font too

curious
did you find anything? I just thought of the same, wat if ...
That gray text background thing annoys me as wel.
How about extreme (oposite) contrast like with the (optional) windows mouse pointer so that if, for instance the background is black the text will be white and vice versa.
please let me know if you've found something. I'd hate to just open a thread for nothing

there might be some reg edits or tweaks, ill look around and let u know!

Did you find something yet ?
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Try searching "Font Changer"
I think you'll find what you're looking for.

[REQ] SMS Unread Mods

Please post your modded SMS Unread Count apk's and requests here! To install a modded version, uninstall the Market version and then install the downloaded .apk from your favorite file manager.
You can add your custom icons for use with SMS Unread Count by placing them in "sdcard/data/com.kanokgems.smswidget/".
- Blue
- Dark Blue
- Green
- Purple
- Orange
- Gold
- Black
- Pink
Current Requests:
- Transparent Background/Black Text

Good idea...
Subscribed.
I know there's a purple one out there, too.
Orange bg/Black or white text would be cool.

Pink BG/Black text please & thank you

Here's a purple one
http://db.tt/MOtIobU
I like to move it move it....

I'm not to bothered about the counter color. The thing that I would like to mod is the orange high light when you hit the SMS unread icon. Has anyone changed this so there is no color at all when you select it
[sig]stock gingerbread rocks[sig]

cjward23 said:
I'm not to bothered about the counter color. The thing that I would like to mod is the orange high light when you hit the SMS unread icon. Has anyone changed this so there is no color at all when you select it
[sig]stock gingerbread rocks[sig]
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No, but I can tell you that the highlight is a .9 png in the res/drawable folder.

I saw a black/white one today, hopefully gomorrah will be kind enough to stop by and post them
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rycheme said:
I saw a black/white one today, hopefully gomorrah will be kind enough to stop by and post them
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Can you share black, white and yellow too?? hope gomorrah can do this. thanks!

[request]No bubble, just the digit, please.
I would like to see this widget with only the digit visible, no bubble, no outer ring or glass effect.
I have posted on the "Transparent widget skins" thread -->here but I think quite heavy coding is required. Only managed to remove the glass effect of the bubble.
There is a work around for this using Minimalistic text and Tasker, so it is not a problem for me, but would be nice to see a free and easier alternative.
Also, it will require some digging in the "Post your screen shot" threads but the black bubble mod is there somewhere.

Here's a gold one and orange one, although they are very similar.

Okay, I've figured out how to mod the bubble color, but I can't figure out the text color.
Here's pink with white text and black with white text.
Transparent might be tough, because the bubble is RGB and not ARGB, so there is no alpha value control transparency.
I'll keep trying for for text color and transparency.

Awesome guys, thank you!
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thank ya bunches

How can i apply them?!!

amr_myheart said:
How can i apply them?!!
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Install them like any regular app. If you already have SMS Unread Count on your phone, it should just update with the new color.

Thanks, exactly what I was looking for!
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Ok this is great but I have one question how do I change the icon I know that I have to put them in the folder for the app but my thing do I have to name them message and phone or do I make a folder called icons
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vegasdgk said:
Ok this is great but I have one question how do I change the icon I know that I have to put them in the folder for the app but my thing do I have to name them message and phone or do I make a folder called icons
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I have the same question. Put them in the folder mentioned in the settings. But the icons dont show up in the icongallery of the widget.

Durka said:
I have the same question. Put them in the folder mentioned in the settings. But the icons dont show up in the icongallery of the widget.
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The folder you need is a subfolder of the data folder on the SD card. You should put them in "sdcard/data/com.kanokgems.smswidget/".
If it doesn't exist, create it.

ty very much. didnt even notice the folder was there

[Q] MIUI skinning question

Hi All,
I have been looking for the past weeks for the following.
Nobody really replied but Vukandric, who is really busy.
Even on the Miui dev board no answer.
And I cant imagined this has not been asked before.
I am running the black (or dark as it is called) theme for MIUI.
Great, but for me 2 apps which are involving daily activities are still white.
The email-app en the calendar-app (not widget) are still white.
The calendar is white backgroud with black text, even worse, email is white back with lightgrey text.
I would like to get both apps in black background with white text.
Is this impossible? I have not seen a theme yet with this layout.
Or doesn't anybody want this.
I sure could use dome help in achieving this. What files do I need to change and where can these files be found.
Thanx to anyone trying to help in advance.
EJ

depending on whether the backgrounds are images or .xml values(?), you'd have to open up the .apk for the relevant program, find the images you wish to modify, modify them, and add them to the relevant theme.
The text however can be modified with a themes_value.xml in the relevant theme, but I know /little/ in regards to what wording is required, other than the colour being specified as #FFFFFFFF.

Need help with a theme

Yes I need help editing a theme. The theme I installed on my phone makes certain apps have the same text color as the background color making it impossible to read. I've tried using ninjamorph to edit the affected apps but I can't figure it out or if someone could edit the theme itself for me to install since I'm not good at it at all I'd appreciate it.
The affected apps so far is:
Meetme (myyearbook)
Pro wrestling.net
Also the notification background is pretty close to the text color as well.
I'd like to be able to just edit the text color to make it a brighter more noticeable color. Anyone have any assistance they could provide?
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You can't use Ninja morph to edit the xmls color, only replace them it the are compiled... since ninjamorph doesn't decompile the xmls are pretty much unreadable. If you send me the what you have and the color you want the text to be I can change it for you.

Annex1 said:
You can't use Ninja morph to edit the xmls color, only replace them it the are compiled... since ninjamorph doesn't decompile the xmls are pretty much unreadable. If you send me the what you have and the color you want the text to be I can change it for you.
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OK thanks.
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here's the link to it :
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vjn84k1cezj32aq/WT.GS2.AOKP.zip
id like for the text to be able to be blue in all apps. if possible. some were showing white on white which seems weird to me. if u cant get it its ok no big deal.