I have been searching for HOURS the last couple days to find the answer to this and have yet to solve these issues. I appologize if this is the inappropriate place for this, but it seemed right......
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This is part of the settings menu(obviously) but I can't find out how to edit the text here that is black!! I want to invert the settings menu but I have only made framework edits(I HAVE LOOKED and have found no good tutorial on this...) If anything, how do I make the text black? Id rather it be white text on black bg.
Edit: Thanks xKape!!!!
Finally got the settings inverted. Decompile. Edit manifest to theme.dark and edit the res/layout/manageapplications and manageapplicationsitems xmls and add android:textColor="#ffffffff" after each of the text appearance areas and add android:background="#ff000000" to the orientation & frame lines.
In this menu, I need to make the text white here and can't find the solution.
In the buttons on the bottom, I want to make that text white, but can't figure it out.
EDIT: Styles.xml search for Widget.Button and edit the text there and search <style name="TextAppearance.Widget.Button" parent="@style/TextAppearance.Small.Inverse">
<item name="textColor">@color/primary_text_dark</item>
Make <item name="textColor">@color/primary_text_dark</item>
As you can see in the market history(as well as the suggestions) I get white text on white. Idc how to fix this, but id like to see white text on black bg but it doesn't really matter.
This is the "more" menu for apps. I need white text here.
EDIT:Fixed (ill look for the change I made and tell)
again, the settings menu, I'd like to see this inverted, but at least black text would suffice. I want the menus to black bg with white text.
Edit:
Read the first picture for the edits. Thanks xKape!!!
I have scoured 8 different forums and tutorials with no luck and none of the tutorials covered the areas I need help with. Would someone please point me to a sufficient tutorial or help me make these edits. I have been trying for the last 10 hours trying to get this fix'd, next to the week or so of researching and testing throughout with no luck.
Thanks
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Hey is that your GBP7?? Lol
I wish I could help you man, just saw your thread and wanted to see what you needed
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yep...reworked all the.9s and pngs and it looks really nice...it's released currently as a patch to fix the other theme errors from b4...but this is all that's left. Anyone?
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BUMP! For urgent support please.
Someone has to know how to do this.
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for settings.apk edit the manifest t be theme.black. that will take care of all of it except the manage applications section. for that, there are two xmls in the layout folder that you need to add the background and text color code. android:background="#ff000000" and android:textColor="#ffffffff"
For the others, i dont have much experience but, i will tell you this.. if you are trying to black out your rom, i would really look at the framework and go into colors.xml and find the black calls and make them white. what i would probably do as a test is, lets say i was chaning 5 colors in there.. i would make a note and change one to pink, purple, yellow, red and green. then i would install it and figure out what went to what color and then go back and change accordingly with that knowledge.
I see the potential in this babe.
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Thank you xkape! That was the major issue. The framework edits are going to be rough going through because I have looked at everything and can't find the right edits. I thought bout doing the random color edits and note what was what. I'll prob do that after a couple more edits and release of the update.
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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
I've been trying to change some of the text colors in a dark theme I'm working on, but I can't seem to get certain text to become white. The text I'm talking about is the black stuff in the screenshot below. I've used the color changer tool, but it doesn't seem to be able to change these colors. Either that or I'm just not finding the correct option. Can anyone help and point me in the right direction?
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The color changer tool I'm using:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=535630&highlight=white+text
mytharak said:
I've been trying to change some of the text colors in a dark theme I'm working on, but I can't seem to get certain text to become white. The text I'm talking about is the black stuff in the screenshot below. I've used the color changer tool, but it doesn't seem to be able to change these colors. Either that or I'm just not finding the correct option. Can anyone help and point me in the right direction?
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The color changer tool I'm using:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=535630&highlight=white+text
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xml edits. Been 100 threads started for this same question. Please feel free to search for one of them.
Ignore the previous post, I am not sure why noobs feel a need to come on here and be a d*** when they have no clue what they are talking about. Search as you like, unless you are going to compile your own ROM from source, this cannot be accomplished through an xml edit. Though these font colors are initially in xml files, after the ROM is compiled they are in .dex files. Search for baksmali.jar, which will decode your .dex files so that you can find the proper file (there is also smali.jar to compile), then search on how to edit the .dex files. This is not easy, but can be done. To be honest, for my theme I found it to be much easier to just change to color around the font.
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Ignore the previous post, I am not sure why noobs feel a need to come on here and be a d*** when they have no clue what they are talking about. Search as you like, unless you are going to compile your own ROM from source, this cannot be accomplished through an xml edit. Though these font colors are initially in xml files, after the ROM is compiled they are in .dex files. Search for baksmali.jar, which will decode your .dex files so that you can find the proper file (there is also smali.jar to compile), then search on how to edit the .dex files. This is not easy, but can be done. To be honest, for my theme I found it to be much easier to just change to color around the font.
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or you can take 2 seconds to edit the xml file (2-3 instances of the same string) and put it in your theme tada done. Ive done it a hundred times
mytharak said:
I've been trying to change some of the text colors in a dark theme I'm working on, but I can't seem to get certain text to become white. The text I'm talking about is the black stuff in the screenshot below. I've used the color changer tool, but it doesn't seem to be able to change these colors. Either that or I'm just not finding the correct option. Can anyone help and point me in the right direction?
Screenshot:
The color changer tool I'm using:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=535630&highlight=white+text
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Hey, if ur using cyan's rom then just run colorchange.jar....itll do this and much more
since no one will actually give you a straight answer. to change the text from black to white for those items, then you will need to edit
framework-res.apk/res/layout/status_bar_expanded.xml
framework-res.apk/res/layout/status_bar_latest_event_content.xml
also for market downloads
DownloadProvider.apk/res/layout/status_bar_ongoing_event_progress_bar.xml
change the 6 digits after 08 00 00 1C to FF FF FF to achieve the white text.
Thank you, David, for that not so useless reply.
Should be obvious to anyone who read my first post that I've already done searching and worked with the color changer BEFORE posting.
mytharak said:
Thank you, David, for that not so useless reply.
Should be obvious to anyone who read my first post that I've already done searching and worked with the color changer BEFORE posting.
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Cm settings. Under user options u can change it also if ur using cm
Hey all, I created a dark themed version of open eclair 1.2.1 baconweave.
This is a full rom so you will need to do a full wipe before flashing.
I created this by pulling some icons from Xrom and editing the classes.dex file.
I did not build this rom so thanks to the open eclair team for an excellent 2.1 rom and I would also like to thank Justanothercrowd for the icons i pulled from his rom.
As this is my first shot at themeing I only changed the framework-res.apk and services.jar. So, this is not a full theme.
If you are already running open eclair 1.2.1 an easy way to apply my changes would be to extract the framework-res.apk and services.jar from my zip and adb push them to the appropriate locations on your mobile.
I will most likely not be updating this as it suits my needs.
I made a couple other changes to this rom.
-removed gallery3d.apk
-fixed bluetooth issue when pairing both handsfree and media audio.
As always I am not responsible for anything that happens to your device....
Download here:
http://www.4shared.com/file/226481604/cb5b6cc8/OpenEclair-DARK.html
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oh this looks really sexy. cant wait to try it out O_O
EDIT: it's pretty cool. Love the Notification bar and the downloading down arrow. pretty sweet man. one question;
How did you change the notification bar? I know how to change the png's but not the whole thing to make it look black =(
Macrophage001 said:
How did you change the notification bar? I know how to change the png's but not the whole thing to make it look black =(
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The only real editing I did was to change the text color to white. The rest was simply replacing the existing PNG's with the ones I pulled from justanothercrowd's Xrom dark ROM.
An easy way to see what PNG's are what is to extract them from the framework-res.apk and view them as thumbnails. I can't remember what other files I edited. When I get home I can retrace my steps and give more info later.
yeah I mean I can do that too. But most of the time when I try to make all the png's on the notification bar black, they just pop up as black squares on a white surface =/
EDIT: I think I found out how. the name of the png that changes the notification bar color is activity_title_bar.9.png right?
Macrophage001 said:
yeah I mean I can do that too. But most of the time when I try to make all the png's on the notification bar black, they just pop up as black squares on a white surface =/
EDIT: I think I found out how. the name of the png that changes the notification bar color is activity_title_bar.9.png right?
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Ahh I see what you are saying the color of the notification background when you pull the notification bar down. Yes I believe that is the correct PNG.
EDIT: If you are trying to edit what I think you are the correct PNG would be these PNG's
http://forum.xda-developers.com/album.php?albumid=987
Yepp Those are it. Thanks for the help man.
Macrophage001 said:
Yepp Those are it. Thanks for the help man.
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wrong info he gave you. the tabs he showed you and that you are looking for are known as status_bar_item_background_normal.9, status_bar_item_background_focused.9, and status_bar_item_background_pressed.9.
the activity_title_bar.9, which he thought was the correct png, is actually where it reads the words "Ongoing" and "Notifications" which is the activity_title_bar.9
anyway, hope that helps clarify things for you guys .
Oh ok thanks man almost got everything confused lol
Beautiful,man.
I came from SuperD-dark, and this is a perfect transition
Since you've tweaked it to meet your needs, I'll take it upon myself to do some other graphical tweaks (like smoothing out the notifications graphics. Too "sharp" for my taste).
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.
I need some help in figuring out what images to edit in my framework-res.apk . I do not like the background for the notifications found in a theme i downloaded from the market for CM7 . I used UOT to make a framework-res.apk file (Custom Theme) and i want to use that image for the background . So i am using a self updated version of apk Manager to extract and sign my apks . but i can not for the life of me figure out which file controls the background for notifications . Can anyone shed a little light on the subject for me ? Ive googled and i found one thread stating that all png's for the status bar must be edited . but i find that not helpful as i dont know which pngs are in controll of the status bar and notifications background . I appreciate all help given ! Btw i appologize if im in the wrong section .
can you post a pic of what exactly you want to change? i have answers...but just want to be on the same page as you.
As you can see , my notifications window is brought down by dragging the status bar down . I hate that ugly background in the notifications window . I want to change it . But can't figure out how . Btw I failed to mention this is a theme I downloaded .
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those are in the system ui apk, not framekworks.
like the pic with is shade_bg.
however, to change those remember you need to change the theme's apk, not your system as themechooser in cm7 supercedes the system.
cheers.
jsmccabe78 said:
those are in the system ui apk, not framekworks.
like the pic with is shade_bg.
however, to change those remember you need to change the theme's apk, not your system as themechooser in cm7 supercedes the system.
cheers.
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AHA ! You are amazing . I cant believe its named shade_bg like i was looking for something along the lines of notifications_background or notifs_bg or something that makes more sense xP that worked btw . now i have another question for you Since youre amazingly smartical !!
Here is a picture of the default theme . Notice where my toggle buttons are (at the top) its a solid background . But where my actual notifications are its not solid . Is this controlled by an xml ? i took apart the default SystemUI.apk and looked at the shade_bg and it is the same throughout(i figured the top of the image was solid and the rest was transparent)
it would make things easier if you drew on the picture so i knew exactly what you are looking at.
if you are talking about the area around the words "no service" and "ongoing" the background is a .9.png but i forget which - however, i have never seen it transparent.
the green bars can be removed with xml editing.
the white bg of the "auto-rotate switch" is a .9.pngs.
all the lettering is in xml/ colors.
the best idea (when i was making these) is to make things outlandish colors, compile and see what it looks like.
also see:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=964391
jsmccabe78 said:
it would make things easier if you drew on the picture so i knew exactly what you are looking at.
if you are talking about the area around the words "no service" and "ongoing" the background is a .9.png but i forget which - however, i have never seen it transparent.
the green bars can be removed with xml editing.
the white bg of the "auto-rotate switch" is a .9.pngs.
all the lettering is in xml/ colors.
the best idea (when i was making these) is to make things outlandish colors, compile and see what it looks like.
also see:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=964391
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Hey thanks for the reply ! I actually looked at the xml and it used a different png . The name was like statusbar_background.png or something like that
. And my theory was correct . Just the top of the image is solid making the background of the toggle buttons solid . And thanks for that think gives me something more to tinker with :-D
Speaking of tinkering , I was messing around with uot and I wanna get the animated background for the notifications . I tried uploading my themes apk but when I tried switching to the uot theme themeChooser said the theme was incorrectly compiled therefore I could not use it . Do you know how I can edit the xml of my theme to give it the animated background ? I uploaded my systemUI and then took it apart to see how it does the animations . And its a series of .png images . But I don't know what modifications are needed to my themes xml to get the animations working . Thanks again for all your help ! You are truly a theme master :-D
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I don't have an exact answer. What files are you seeing as part of the animation? Also, often they are controlled by an XML in the drawable folder (not the hdpi one.) I have changed some animations but not am expert. I would search the thread I gave you to see if possible.
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