Hello, I bought Sonny Sekhon's Lucid Theme from the market and it's almost perfect for me. EXCEPT the pull down notification. How do I edit it so that it would look like the pulldown from minimalbread? It's the only thing I want to change from Lucid.
I also got the MellowYellow theme but I want to change it so that the horizontal dividers in menu are transparent or black (as long as I dont see them. ) Please see attached screenshot.
You would have to decompile the .apk then recompile it.
MIUI themes are much easier to mod
Nah you could edit it without d compiling with winzip. Just open the apk in winzip and swap the files out.
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Those lines are more than likely .9 PNG files. In my experience swapping files in winzip causes errors, but I guess that works too
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nbeebe24 said:
Those lines are more than likely .9 PNG files. In my experience swapping files in winzip causes errors, but I guess that works too
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I've never had a problem. Done it many many times.
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Also they are nine patches.
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Help so have been trying to teach myself how to theme a rom and can edit PNG files all night long but seem to be spending all my time with simple color changes so any body know how I can just edit the color XML files so it changes all the default colors at once or am I doing it right and have to change all the PNG files???? I'm new to eclipse so would need to know what plug in I need to do this if at all possible thanks
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Help so have been trying to teach myself how to theme a rom and can edit PNG files all night long but seem to be spending all my time with simple color changes so any body know how I can just edit the color XML files so it changes all the default colors at once or am I doing it right and have to change all the PNG files???? I'm new to eclipse so would need to know what plug in I need to do this if at all possible thanks
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Yes you have to manually change all the images from what I've read and then you have to do the .9 png trick to edit them not really familiar with editing the .9 images so cant say much on that but im not aware of using xml to change the actual images it only applys directions for the images.
would this help? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=883392
kevin2516 said:
would this help? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=883392
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That's what I needed thanks will hit the button next time I'm on my PC would've been nice to have that option with this new app
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Can anyone help me by telling me where the files are located to edit the notification pulldown? I am looking to change colors, transparency, etc.
I am trying my hand at theming JVH.
Thanks
Search google for "uot" and check out the online theme kitchen.
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System ui apk
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Sounds interesting, I went into the System ui apk, and opened "res" folder, then "drawable-hdpi", and found what I believe to be the right file, "status_bar_background.png" is this the correct file to edit for say, changing the transparency in gimp or photoshop?
I, like vdubguy, would like to know how to do this without using the kitchen.
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Sounds interesting, I went into the System ui apk, and opened "res" folder, then "drawable-hdpi", and found what I believe to be the right file, "status_bar_background.png" is this the correct file to edit for say, changing the transparency in gimp or photoshop?
I, like vdubguy, would like to know how to do this without using the kitchen.
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With the new system ui API you ,have to decompile the apk and change a value as it points the background to a color code and not the image. Once you change that then you can change the image to add transperncy. You will also have to decompile it to make color changes as well
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With the new system ui API you ,have to decompile the apk and change a value as it points the background to a color code and not the image. Once you change that then you can change the image to add transperncy. You will also have to decompile it to make color changes as well
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Ahhh....Thanks Zel. Looks like we got some us some learnin to do
I have to say that, after spending a couple hours just looking around in the rom, trying to find things and figure out what is what, I have a whole new respect for all you devs and themers in here. My hat is off. Thank you.
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Ok I figured out what to change but can't seem to edit the xml. Any tips?
vdubguy said:
Ok I figured out what to change but can't seem to edit the xml. Any tips?
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decompile w/ apk manager and use notepad++ to edit
When you get it figured out, could you do everyone a solid and post the updated files and where they should go? I'd be your bestie for life!
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Thanks Thinkk!
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When you get it figured out, could you do everyone a solid and post the updated files and where they should go? I'd be your bestie for life!
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I'll do my best but it might be a while!
Hey guys,
So I decided to take a stab at altering SystemUI.apk to uncenter the clock, but I've run into some problems. Just FYI, I am total noob at this so I could be doing something incredibly stupid, but oh well.
Anyway, I was able to successfully decompile the apk, edit res\layout\status_bar.xml to set <com.android.systemui.statusbar.Clock... android:gravity="right">, build the apk again, sign it, and push it to my phone, however after all that the status bar just does not show up. I don't think it's the decompiling, building, or signing that's messing up because I performed all of those without editing any of the xml files, pushed it to my phone, and everything worked perfectly.
So what am I missing? Is changing "center" to "right" really enough to kill the statusbar? Do I need to edit something in framework-res.apk or some other file to be compatible with the new SystemUI.apk? Or is it that I need to change something in the smali folders as well as the res folders for it to work?
Any ideas that you guys have would be awesome. I'm not sure if I'm just missing something simple, or if I'm in way over my head with this stuff and need to do more than the hour and a half research and trial and error that I've put in so far =) Thanks guys!
There's a bit more to it than that
There's some moving around to do too.
I attached the original status_bar.xml for you to compare to. (it's already decompiled)
If you wanted you could just replace it with this one. Thought it might help to see what all was changed.
(the attached zip file is not flashable)
Don't sign system apps either. Signing may be why it isn't showing up but I've never signed a system app to know and without looking at it I think you need to put right|center not just right and I am not positive but you may need to move the padding of the status bar icons to the left so there is no overlap.
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Easy guys. Just take a stock systemui.apk and move /res/layout/status_bar.xml over to the modded one. Then push. Don't even need to decompile.
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Easy guys. Just take a stock systemui.apk and move /res/layout/status_bar.xml over to the modded one. Then push. Don't even need to decompile.
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Hey its he wanted to do it himself
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MT makes it look like a walk in the park...lol
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Easy guys. Just take a stock systemui.apk and move /res/layout/status_bar.xml over to the modded one. Then push. Don't even need to decompile.
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MT makes it look like a walk in the park...lol
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Well his method really is a walk in the park if you can move one file to another lol.
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Hmm, something is still wrong. I tried editing the status_bar.xml again, but the status bar still wouldn't show up. Then I deleted the file that was there and pasted in the stock status_bar.xml that Kane posted, pushed it to my phone, and still no status bar/notification pull down. Am I not compiling the apk right?
I'll be on IRC for the next 40 minutes or so if anyone wants to hop on and help me out =)
Did you compile the apk after replacing the XML?
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Yup, I actually finally got it to work and just need to tweak a couple things. I took the SystemUI.apk from the latest ICK.zip update, modified the SystemUI.apk file, then created a flashable zip for it. I don't know if it was using a flashable zip that worked, where just using adb push didn't, or if starting over with a different SystemUI.apk was what did it.
@kane: BTW, do you know the hex color code for your ICK theme icons? I was trying to match the color for the clock, but it's slightly off. And Thanks for the stock apk, without comparing the two, I never would have figured out the format for putting the clock back =)
@beamer: Thanks for the heads up to not sign the apk, worked without doing so. That was an annoying step anyway =)
the stock ICS colors are 33B5E5 and 0099CC
I used 33B5E5 for all the edits I did in the ICK theme
0099CC is a little bit darker
I didn't read the whole post but after pushing systemui did you reboot if you don't reboot you won't get a statusbar
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I didn't read the whole post but after pushing systemui did you reboot if you don't reboot you won't get a statusbar
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I did. I'm thinking the problem was actually the dalvik-cache, maybe? After i got the clock right aligned, i tried to hide some of the status icons like mute and the alarm clock, but i couldn't get any of them hidden and it was driving me crazy. Then i decided to wipe dalvik and it worked perfectly.
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Hi i have aosp gb rom huawei...and i need those png's if someone knows their filename!!thanks!!also there is a way of a gui theming that loads the apk to know which png go where??thanks!!
i'd take a look at contacts, phone and dialertabactivity apk's
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i'd take a look at contacts, phone and dialertabactivity apk's
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We dont have dialeractivity but i took every png with green gray and blue color make it transparent and it worked!!also there was at contacts.apk not dialer
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Contacts.apk drawable-hdpi-finger they are all .9.PNG files that control those
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Hey guys. I would like to theme the Verizon Messages app that you can download from the playstore. I have the apk on my computer and used 7zip to unzip it. I have no idea where to start to get it themed. I would like to them it like the dark aosp 4.2 messaging app. I know my way around gimp fairly well just need some direction as to where the png files are and what all I might have to do. Thanks.
Ok. I think I found the png's. Looks like quite a lot to theme, but I am going to start pecking away at it.
Kinda late but how's the theme going
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When you get it themed I would love to see it..please post a link to it...Thank You
You should probably use apktool to decompile the app, so then you could edit the nine patch images properly. Other than you should be fine. Good luck man!
Also if you want to invert it you definitely have to use apktool to open up the colors.XML and styles.XML properly. If you open up the app using 7zip the XML files won't decompile correctly. Just some advice from an experienced themer. Once again good luck dude!
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