i'm starting a thread for androkkid themes and icons to be posted here, rather than have to trawl through pages and pages on the main app thread
(sorry i don't have one myself!)
a few widgets can be found here
New!! Dirty Metal Frames in the Transparant Frames series
After many hours of grueling work I have completed the Dirty Metal Frames in the Transparant Frames series. Please have a look at them, if you use them please post a screenshot on this thread by way of thanks.
IMPORTANT!!!! If you have already downloaded these, please delete them (They have many errors) and download this new set of 124 icons which are checked for errors.
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I HAVE MOVED ALL ICON DEVELOPMENT TO THIS THREAD
Themes and where to find them!!!
THEMES!! THEMES! THEMES!!!!
Here's where you find the themes
burnlea Obsidian Theme --- Harlequin Theme---- Obsidian Noir Theme---- Serenity Theme ----- Brimstone Theme
qkzoo Wood Panel Theme --- Paper Theme ---- John Deere Theme
Teacher Dark Mood Theme ---- Teacher's Gold
alecodyiv 7orb Theme
wmdirk WMDrokkid Theme---- Star Wars Theme ----- Nexus One Theme ---- Nature Theme---- -----Espresso Theme
looking forward to checking them out
A snapshot of the new icons
I think they look very good on my phone. coming tomorrow..
New Icons for Androkkid "TransparentFrames" finally!
These new Icons should work better for those of you who have like me found the standard winmo icon ugly and pixelated.
I have always thought that some of the IPhone's attraction was the beautiful icons that were uniform in size and shape. So I made my own for Ifonz (based on other people's graphic work). When Androkkid came along I loved the scenic wallpapers you could use but I thought the beautiful scenery of the wallpapers became too cluttered with the IPhone style icons and that the square icons ruined the effect of the beautiful wallpapers.
So these new icons are designed to preserve a uniform style and at the same time be better integrated into the "scenery" by using transparency.
I hope that some of you will have a look at these and tell me what you think
PS If you resize these, they will not work. If they are resized by Androkkid they are fine.
If you want to use these and need other icons, ask me on the themes Thread and I'll see what I can do.
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I HAVE MOVED ALL ICON DEVELOPMENT TO THIS THREAD
New!!! Golden Frames
For those who really want to pimp up our phones
here are some Screenshots
The theme used is Teacher's Gold which you find below with the icons
More Screenshots
and even more
the icon files
Finally the iconfiles!
Please consider to try them out, I don't think they are as beautifull as some of the Iphone like icons, like the ones made by bluemetalaxe or Stereo's Leopard, but when you see them glide across the scenery in Androkkid they feel much more integrated into the scenery than the Iphone like icons which leave kind of a square hole in the scenery, however beautiful they are. So what do you have to loose, give 'em a try:
Edit have added new iconfile today 15/12-09 they are now checked out for "white and black" holes and should be okay
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Transparent Icons
These look nice, thank you very much! Any chance you could add a couple more icons to the package (96x96): SMS, Voicemail, Calender, Missed Calls? Or, just tell me how to make these myself and I'll take a stab at it, there's a few web icons I'd like, too. Thanks again!
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These look nice, thank you very much! Any chance you could add a couple more icons to the package (96x96): SMS, Voicemail, Calender, Missed Calls? Or, just tell me how to make these myself and I'll take a stab at it, there's a few web icons I'd like, too. Thanks again!
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I'll gladly tell you how I made these, but first here are some suggestions for icons, but what do you mean by an icon for "missed calls" In Androkkid you get a small red circle with the number of missed calls you have. If you think about something else give me a hint
Hope you like these
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Or, just tell me how to make these myself and I'll take a stab at it, there's a few web icons I'd like, too. Thanks again!
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What is problematic with winmo is that it doesn't support "white". In an icon with transparancy, pure white will show up like a black hole in the icon so you have to substitute white with another light white-ish color.
Another problem is this: When a graphic program like gimp or photoshop compresses a png to a smaller size. it conserves the smoothness of the png by making semitransparant pixels, these are not supported either and show up like white holes in the icons.
If you just index the png it will avoid the semitransparent pixels, but it will scale down with a very crude and pixelated result.
My way around this is to put the compressed png in a frame filled with a very nondescript greyish color. Then I have to eraze all the grey color and decide pixel by pixel which pixels have enough color to let them remain.
This is why it takes so much time to resize these icons. I have to do this every time. In the icon files I have uploaded you can find both an empty and a filled frame.
If you want to try this for yourself you are very welcome to do so but remember that you have test each icon on your phone to find "holes" before you publish them.
PS I haven't tested the last batch of seven icons yet but I will test them before I publish a zip file with extra icons.
PS Gimp is a fantastic graphic program which you can download for free here
Best of luck
Missed Calls
And here's a missed calls icon in three colors
Icons
These all look great, and wow that was fast! By "missed calls" I should have put "Call History" or "Call Log", but it looks like you got the gist with the icons because they're perfect! I'm probably pushing my luck, but maybe a "Tasks" icon? It's the only request I can think of off the top of my head. I'll check out the app you suggested tonight and see if I can create a few "Web" graphics, thanks again!
qkzoo said:
These all look great, and wow that was fast! By "missed calls" I should have put "Call History" or "Call Log", but it looks like you got the gist with the icons because they're perfect! I'm probably pushing my luck, but maybe a "Tasks" icon? It's the only request I can think of off the top of my head. I'll check out the app you suggested tonight and see if I can create a few "Web" graphics, thanks again!
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There already is a tasks icon in the icon pack(see thumbnail below), but did you have something else in mind?
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i'm starting a thread for androkidd themes
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reg66, can you change this thread's title to match the androkkid spelling so this thread shows in searches
I have some specific icon requests if possible. I'll also be attempting my own icon pack in the near future.. I'm waiting for this quarter's classes to end first.
SMS like above in the bubble, but instead of a blue bubble, a green one like the MMS.
A voice mail icon
Internet Connection Sharing
Clean Ram
MySoftReset
A lock
3 Icons for the Sound Profile widget
Sims 3 (but I can live without this one) ;x
Thank you so much.. These Icons look great, thats why I hope you can make these so my phone can look even better.
New Theme
Am I the first to produce a new theme for Androkkid?
Let me introduce Obsidian, for those who might prefer a more businesslike theme.
It has been developed on a QVGA screen so I have no idea whether it will work on other screen resolutions.
Just unzip and place the Obsidian folder in the Androkkid Themes folder. It will then be available to select under Settings
The Title buttons (more than shown) can be found in the Obsidian theme folder along with a blank if you wish to make different titles (I can make others if you aren't able to do that). I set the size of the Title buttons to 128 x 32 in Androkkid settings and they have to be positioned, as for any other icon. They can also be used as shortcuts as per normal icons. For example, in my setup, I have the Contact button pointing to my address book.
The 'Lock' Icon on the Home page is not part of the theme but has been designed to match. I have included that icon in the Obsidian theme folder, but none of the other icons.
8 December 2009
Obsidian.zip updated for compatibility with Androkkid 1.2.0.0 (inclusion of TopBarIcons,png) and correction of transparency problem with Edit & Delete buttons
15 December 2009
Obsidian.zip updated with modified graphics
If you like my work, please feel free to show your
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I have some specific icon requests if possible. I'll also be attempting my own icon pack in the near future.. I'm waiting for this quarter's classes to end first.
SMS like above in the bubble, but instead of a blue bubble, a green one like the MMS.
A voice mail icon
Internet Connection Sharing
Clean Ram
MySoftReset
A lock
3 Icons for the Sound Profile widget
Sims 3 (but I can live without this one) ;x
Thank you so much.. These Icons look great, thats why I hope you can make these so my phone can look even better.
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I'll see how quick I can get around to make these
There already is a cleanram icon (the one with the broom) but if you don't like it I can make another. For SoftReset I use the icon from the icon pack called "exit" (I use "Slide2shutdown" myself) There also is a bluelock (ScreenLock) in the iconpack I have that one in green and red too
I don't know which sound widget you mean, please give me a link or something.
Here are some examples, tell me what you think..
Internet Sharing
Below is a suggestion for Internet Sharing.
With a Globe from Everaldo Coelho's magnificent Crystal themed icons
Edit. Made a new versions of this icon where the arrows stand out more
Does anyone know how I can change the hand colors on the analog clock in Android? It's green, but I would like to try yellow or blue. I know, like in Cyanogen, the clock (as well as the power widget) are in cyan colors, so can something similar be done?
Or is there like a third party app/widget that looks like the clock but change colors?
Sorry if this is asked, but I searched on many forums without an answer.
There's quite a few free analog clock widgets in the market that allow customizability. I don't use an analog clock, I use Beautiful Smaller Home by Beautiful Widgets...or you can
try to ninjamorph it.
@hollywooder
I have seen tons of widgets in the market, however I want the same background and hand design, with color changing option.
In that case, morph is probably what you're looking for, but since I don't suppose there is a morph just for clock, you'll also have to make it.
I found ninjamorph and it seems to be able to analyze jar and apk files. If someone can tell me what file that analog clock is, (and if it uses images for the hands), i could probably edit the images and put it together.
Still learning about the OS....
I was wondering if anyone would be willing to take on a concepts for folder/general icons. I find myself still going fairly minimalistic & usually don't run more then 3 screens since I use folders more then anything. unfortunately its pretty hard to find good icons for folders.
Concept: glass style or a raised transparent .png. usually you see this image layered on top of icons. I was hoping there was a way just to get something to the effect of having the appearance of a "on screen button". Since I am the only one that actually uses my phone I would already know what folder is what without the labels or a dedicated "icon".
The icons can be rounded, boxed, glassy, transparent, semi-transparent, doesn't matter. If anyone would like to take on such a task I'd be very appreciative.
TIA.
You might be familiar with Grid OS, FusionGarages latest idea that didn't make the market. While that's a more complicated version of the idea, I'd like to see a theme or launcher capable of displaying icons in a perfect grid of squares without any space between the icons. To compensate for inconsistent resolutions, the theme/launcher would need to simply calculate the available space, with or without an outside margin.
The attachment displays a quick concept of this idea. The blueish background represents the wallpaper, the white and black squares represent icons. These icons may be displayed in a variety of ways - glass themed, miui themed, colors based on average color of default icon with the default icon on top (similar to miui), etcetera, but the main feature is the lack of padding between the icons. A pure grid with dimensionless gridlines. I realize an extra row and column could have been added, but nonetheless, it's just a mockup.
There's also the lack of a dock - this may be added somewhere, but not on an edge as that would distort the grid. It needs to be connected seamless and paddingless to the pure grid, with or without an empty row inbetween the dock and the other icons. In the mockup, it may simply be the lowest row of icons, for example. However, a dock would distract from the solidness of the grid as it would only be useful with multiple homescreens, whereas I reckon the theme would work best if the grid is all there is - no distracting slides to different homescreens, overscrolling the necessary margin to the screen edges and distoring the grid on these sides to compensate for resolution, when moving to the new set of icons on a different homescreen. Instead, scrolling (perhaps just vertically), like on Grid OS, could do. In that case, a margin to compensate for screen edges is only optional as well.
Is there such a launcher or similar theme already? Is it something to hope for, for a fellow developer to build upon this idea?
Would really love to see this. Especially since it's different.
Have you tried sslauncher in the play store yet?
Sent from my SPH-D710 using xda app-developers app
I had a bit of a search on the web and xda developers,but can't seem to find what im looking.Tryung to find out what the stock icon sizes are for the htc one on Jellybean 4.2.2?I would like to add ios 5.1.1/6 icons (120x120) over the top of my exsisting apps,but i dont want to run launchers or different roms,very happy with 4.2.2and Sense 5.Please be gentle,this is my first Android phone,and still trying to get my head around things
Cheers
From my Aussie style HTC One
72x72 & 144x144 .. In apks they seem to be 72x72 but they won't change unless you decompile and sign them from my personal experience. In some of the framework files, the icons for system apps such as calendar, camera, phone etc, they're 144x144.
This isn't concrete as far as where each size dwells but they are the two sizes I've come across for apps.
So if i were able to put the 120x120 aplle icons over android apps,would it end up looking weird,as in weird shadows under the icons,etc?
From my Aussie style HTC One
TornadoF6 said:
So if i were able to put the 120x120 aplle icons over android apps,would it end up looking weird,as in weird shadows under the icons,etc?
From my Aussie style HTC One
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What do you mean putting them over android apps? You'd obviously have to replace them and if I were you I'd resize them to be the same dimensions but it shouldn't matter that much as it's not like ****ty Apple with their stupid masks that leave a black shadow around Icons, especially noticeable when using non-square icons.
The one thing to note is that if you plan to change the icons for things like camera, phone, gallery etc, the icons are 72x72 in the app but 144x144 in htc.resources.apk. If you don't make the icons the same sizes then you will end up with tiny icons on your homescreen but normal ones on the lockscreen. For example, if you change the phone icon then you have to put a 144x144 icon in htc.resources.apk otherwise it won't be the correct size.