[CM7 THEME][MOD]Elegant Steel facelift - Android Themes

Hi all!
First of all i want to say i'm new to CM7 and themeing, but i have some experience from other places, not much though. I browsed trough themes, and kinda fell for ElegantSteel by kevin2516. After i installed it, i found it to be, well, not as streamlined as i hoped, so i've decided to give it a facelift. I seeked help in that thread without much response, so i'm going solo (for now), but will not publish before i get a go from the original maker. ATM, i'm working on remaking ALL the statusbar icons and other graphics, using Tokens icon template, slightly modified, but the todo list is long, lol. I will NOT be making custom icons for apps, and the reason is simple; there are way to many, and it doesn't look good when many icons follow a style, but some that aren't supported will stand out.
But, as i mentioned, i'm pretty new to this, and not aware of all capabilities i've got. I wan't this theme to be as complete as possible, so that users(me) won't have to fiddle around with the system files, but instead leave CM7 as stock and just apply this theme. So here are some questions i've got atm:
1. Can i include a status_bar.xml in the theme to override the stock one? This is for changing the colors of the fonts, center the clock etc.
2. Can i include my own custom DriodSans.ttf in the theme to override the stock ones? Simpler than pushing or using 3rd party app to replace, and won't be messy when changing to other themes.
3. Is there any software/scripts to make this job easier and/or organized? I look at files like $theme$/res/xml/android.xml for instance, quite a lot to keep track on (just to mention one file, lol).
More questions will come, but let's not take to many steps at the time All help will be very much appreciated.

I haven't bothered to check my xda threads in a while, still in holiday mode and focusing on other stuff.
Just do whatever you want lol
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can you do center clock mod and put it in with the theme chooser apk? i haven't seen this done yet and i have just been editing my own systemUI.apk each time i update.

I don't know, that's why i'm asking. I most certainly hope so, i imagine i can include it like this: $theme$/res/layout/status_bar.xml (as i recall). But that might also be a sensitive .xml to put in a theme...

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Help with making a custom lockscreen

I usually make a custom wallpaper for my lockscreen or homescreen everytime I switch a rom but so far they are pretty elementary mostly because I have no idea what the hell I am doing lol. I am on a mac so I am working in GIMP but I have a few things I cant figure out. I am uploading a picture of what I have so far. I would like the black areas around the pictures to be semi-transparent and the edges of the pictures themselves to be rounded slightly to give it a smoother feel. I will upload the individual pictures also. I would much rather learn to do it myself but I understand if for whatever reason no one wants to show me. Believe me its not the end of the world. Just something I like to have so when I pull my phone out at work I can see my family. That is me, my wife, and daughter,by the way. ....oh I also wanted a small slightly-less transparent box around the time and smaller but proportional boxes around the sprint and date. I know its alot but I got this image in my head of the perfect lockscreen and not a clue on how to get it to the phone lol.
oh and the reason I posted this in CDMA and not themes and applications was because I wasnt sure if to get the transparency it would have to be update.zip style and I wasnt sure if it made a difference if the phone it was being flashed on was CDMA or GSM. Oh and I am on modaco 2.0
I've got the photo shop experience for this, but I can't seem to find the images in com.htc.resources.apk or lockscreen.apk that need to be edited. If you can point out which images control the lock screen, I will help you with this.
I'll write a quick how to later when I have a linux box/gimp at my hands.
I was just looking into this myself. I know that any overlays are a file known as lockscreen.topedge. I am not good with Photo shop so I havent tried but I downloaded a lockscreen and extracted the .apk and found that image to be the overlay. You could create a picture and use the wand function to single out the background, add transparency to it. I wish i had to the time to mess around with it but work isnt the place unfortunately.
kbizzle said:
but work isnt the place unfortunately.
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I wish work wasn't the place for this kind of stuff
Well it would be if i owned a laptop. Lol Hopefully I can dig in tonight or tomorrow and see what I can do.
The 1st part of what u need I can probably help with, u want the black background semi transparent and the pictures of you and your family rounded a bit correct? That's what I understood from there. The second part I'm not so sure of still
I see in gimp that there is a menu layer ->transparency but I cant see how to make certain regions transparent and if I try to make the whole image semi transparent I do not know how to preserve that transparency through saving, transferring and applying the image to the phone. I figured it would be better off as an overlay as NOJs lockscreens are but I am unexperienced in update.zip and how to sign and package them. I could push them via adb but I am not sure where to push overlay images to the lockscreen. Thanks for all of the help yall are giving me I really appreciate it. This stuff can get frustrating nice to have helpful people in the community.
I am not sure if you are willing to pay a few bucks for it, but i know that Noj is taking requests for custom locksreens for a small donation.
You can find Noj's custom lockscreen request @ Flipz's GeekFor.Me HERE
p.s. I would love to see someone write a quick tutorial on which files need to be edited to make our own lockscreens.
Im really hoping to learn how to do it myself I'll go broke as much as I change the pictures on my lockscreen(about twice a week) lol
The reason you are having issues is due to you probably not following a correct workpath in PShop/GIMP. Use layers/masks/etc.
really he would make u pay money for a little project -___-, well since i dont work today let me take a shot @ this, ill post up what i done later
rockcrawler said:
I am not sure if you are willing to pay a few bucks for it, but i know that Noj is taking requests for custom locksreens for a small donation.
You can find Noj's custom lockscreen request @ Flipz's GeekFor.Me HERE
p.s. I would love to see someone write a quick tutorial on which files need to be edited to make our own lockscreens.
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I stumbled coincidentally in this thread. I wrote a tut for Desire HD recently, since this mod is one of the easiest around anyway. This should answer all your questions.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=907477

[Theme] Frost for AOSP Rom

so im new to the whole developing thing but i did make a tweaked version of frost using various parts of other themes that works with the aosp magic rom. if anyone wants to try it out let me know. i will be sure to give credit where its due once i compile a list of all the people involved in making the orginals.i will also add that the only actual editing of any sort that i did was of the services.jar to make the foont on the notifications bar white instead of black.
(I am not responsible for anything that may happen to your phone.)
Things themed in zip:
Framework-res.apk
TWFramework-res.apk
New Fonts
Settings.apk
Youtube.apk
also added...
Captivate Keyboard
KeyboardManager <----- My favorite thing ever
mediafire.com/?6z719n5wc46v1gh
Thanks to:
Manup, Ludeboy, Threax, Frostman89, dashultz, ne0fhyk, All of the Dev Community.
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I will give it a whirl.. got some screenshots?
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Don't include setCPU. The developer has asked for it not to be distributed in roms and/or themes.
Just giving you a heads up.
my bad lol. i remember reading that now that you mention it. like i said. new to this. thanks for the heads up.
Post a copy.. I like it, i'll try it out. I have been looking for a clear notification bar with the black type of theme.
So I can't actually post links but the semi url in the post is the link out at least it should be ;-)
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I downloaded the theme and like it alot. A couple of suggestions to make it better though:
-When downloading apps the font is black on gray and is really hard to read, if it was white it would be much better
-I'd love to see the stock lockscreen thrown in the ROM if possible
-The green font is kind of neat in the menus but, having the green text entry box limits your theming options
I will take a look at these things and see if I can make those changes. Probably won't be until tomorrows though. Kinda busy...
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where is the link?
I like this! Diggin the status bar and icons ++1, wanna see more of this
do we install this thru cwm?
This makes the AOSP look fantastic!
Three issues:
- The bold seems to be forced to non-bold, as an app I have which normally lists unread in bold and read in non-bold, which now lists ALL entries in non-bold, now.
- The green subtext in settings is tough to read and detracts from the larger white titles, as they are now non-bold. A grey would be better served instead of green, and re-bold the text.
- The download notification text is black and is nearly hidden. Making it white or light grey is best, here.
Thanks for making the AOSP ROM look less like a 1994 era HTML page and more like a modern UI
Am i missing the dl or link?
lowkee said:
This makes the AOSP look fantastic!
Three issues:
- The bold seems to be forced to non-bold, as an app I have which normally lists unread in bold and read in non-bold, which now lists ALL entries in non-bold, now.
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This is especially annoying in Gmail since new emails are shown in bold. Also the stock lockscreen can be found over in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=793479&highlight=deodex. It works fine since ASOP magic is already deodexed.
aecky01 said:
This is especially annoying in Gmail since new emails are shown in bold. Also the stock lockscreen can be found over in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=793479&highlight=deodex. It works fine since ASOP magic is already deodexed.
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it is more than likely the font that i have installed im going to start taking a look at all these other things right now. probably have an update and/or another zip for the stock font tonight. thanks for all the input btw. considering this is my first attempt at anything im glad to see that for the most part it is liked.
Any updates coming soon? I'd love to keep this theme, but the lack of bold is killing me
lowkee said:
Any updates coming soon? I'd love to keep this theme, but the lack of bold is killing me
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I have a flashable zip i made for someone a while back with just the stock font if you want to use it in the meantime. It will give you back bold.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8555878&postcount=39
Thanks frost. Sorry guys my hdd went out on my pc lol.
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Frost with bold and no extra apps
I love this Frost theme, but hated losing bold and had no use for the added apps included, so I made a stripped down version with bold support.
Contains:
FONT: Zegoe (Light and normal) font -- so bold is less bold and normal is really light, taking up less pixel space per character
No extra apps
Original Frost theming changes
Simply flash through recovery as always
Thanks! I will have to try this when I get home.

All Themes

High Limit Themes & Ports​
For dev purposes only I am not responsible if you flash these over Newest B.O. or ever for that matter
Re uploaded and refreshed links to my Themes and Ports of other users themes There all out there but figured I'd consolidate them for all you Broken Out themers. Including a new Stock Bo theme Zip (allways good to have backups) Just click the link in my signature.
These are for anyone for any purpose, I might pop back in every now and then but for the most part I'm just too busy.
Enjoy
Thanks to :
spchicks
drt
kane
johhnyann
I.M.
smiller
noobzilla for supporting shadow
and many others (dont get sandy vag if I forgot your name)
for all the help, support, permission to port and all their hard work.
and a special thanks to Mt for making this phone usable as without your hard work this phones a paperweight IMO. seacrest out
HighLimit said:
High Limit Themes & Ports​
Re uploaded and refreshed links to my Themes and Ports of other users themes There all out there but figured I'd consolidate them for all you Broken Out themers. Including a new Stock Bo theme Zip (allways good to have backups) Just click the link in my signature.
These are for anyone for any purpose, I might pop back in every now and then but for the most part I'm just too busy.
Enjoy
Thanks to :
spchicks
drt
kane
johhnyann
I.M.
smiller
noobzilla for supporting shadow
and many others (dont get sandy vag if I forgot your name)
for all the help, support, permission to port and all their hard work.
and a special thanks to Mt for making this phone usable as without your hard work this phones a paperweight IMO. seacrest out
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seacrest.....lmfao :laugh: that was funny.
Let me know if any of those Dl's dont work or u cant get what u need something screwy happened when I uploaded so its a possibility.. hope it helps
I ran broken dread on bo 2.0.1 and Still looks great, only issues are that 1)there is a black bar across the top of the calendar app and 2) the screen shot icon is a battery bar. Any way to fix this?
that would require editing a lot of xml's. Takes time. I believe somebody is working on porting some of highlimits themes.
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sleepycarl5150 said:
I ran broken dread on bo 2.0.1 and Still looks great, only issues are that 1)there is a black bar across the top of the calendar app and 2) the screen shot icon is a battery bar. Any way to fix this?
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Those are easy to fix just replace the battery image in I believe
Framework-res.apk just extract change replace from zip to zip and push
Same for the Calendar.apk (no xml edits needed)
I believe spchicks posted a how to theme tutorial on these forums, That is how I learned. Its very easy Once you get it all set up which is the hardest part.
p.s. These aren't meant to be flashed over the new rom, They have not been ported. They are for others to port or change. I do believe JohnnyAn is the guy to talk to But if it works it works.

CyanogenMod / AOSP Skin Maker

* I meant AOKP in the topic title, if a mod could change this, I would be very grateful *
Hi guys, I've started work on a skin maker for all ROMs that use Theme Chooser.
Before I continue work on it, I'm wondering if it is something people are interested in, and if so if anyone wants to help me develop and test it?
So far, it can preview various screens (many more previews in progress) based on the default APKs that ship with whichever ROM you choose to theme. This images are then replaced by active project images, allowing you to see the full effect the theme will have, even if you're only changing a single image.
Advanced features so far include decompiling 9-patch images, and decompiling XML files. These two features alone make theming for any ROM much easier, as you can now modify 9-patch images and XML much easier. Recompiling is yet to be added, but I presume can be done via ant (not tried this yet).
The skin maker will then take all the images you have submitted as project images, arrange them into folders, create a manifest, compile the APK and sign it (you will need to define a key store for this).
This should streamline theme creation, and allow themers that have little coding experience to make new themes.
So, in short, if anyone is interested in helping me build this project, please PM me.
Read it very quickly because I'm going to eat, but already bookmarked. I would love to use a program like this!
Kudos for the work already done! Cheers
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just waiting
This is an awesome project!
I don't have time to create a full theme atm but I bet it's a welcome tool for everyone who is interested in creating a theme
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Okay, the project is pretty much ready for extra help now.
I basically need help creating the Preview screens, they are written in XML, so anyone who feels confident enough in XML, contact me and I'll send over the alpha version and some notes on how to create Preview screens.
I'm thinking of changing it up a bit so that it doesn't rely on Theme Chooser and instead create my own theme applicator that will work on all custom ROMs. What are peoples thoughts on this idea? Should I stick to Theme Chooser, or create my own?
This will be epic
is this project still alive? I'd love to create a theme, but extracting the image names and creating a manifest and getting eclipse to build the theme is very complicated and about the only thing that is holding me back
You can try this theme editor tool

[Q] Can i edit a theme apk?

I'm loving Android.
Oooh, so much.
Even more I'm loving the amount of possible customization we're given from Cyanogenmod!!
Which takes me now to theming.
Ok, so we all like it and we all love to make our minis look like they're not that mini.
I've found a very valid theme and I'm loving it to bits, but I just can't cope with the images shown during calls.
Yeah, cause apparently we use mobile phones to call people. Sometimes.
So, i went, extracted the theme apk, found the files i've been tch-tch-ing about, edited them with photoshop (didn't even bother to make anything too fancy, just some diagonal 1px stripes over a background colour plus a black gradient fading it all to black) and put them back in the apk with 7zip.
...And of course the installer spat it back in my face.
I knew it wasn't going to be that easy and i seriously only have to change 4 pngs from the whole theme (i'm fine with everything else!), so I wouldn't really want to go and make a whole new theme by myself (maybe later one day?).
So, is there a way for me to overcome this heartbreaking problem and make my life ABSOLUTELY perfect?
Thank you guys in advance, you seriously rock our android world and i'll throw in a strawberry cheesecake if you manage to give me any advices.
Peace
Install apologize multi tool extract ,change PNG, zip,sign,install
I don't like strawberry cheesecake just give a normal cheesecake
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grap zipsigner from market, (if it's not compatible, from somewhere else) sign it and install OR push it to /system/app and set permissions to
x x -
x - -
x - -
You guys are BEAUTIFUL!
Silly stupid me. Never thought it all came down to signing the thing.
I just realized i don't have any strawberry cheesecakes with me.
Would a strawberry shortcake be ok instead?
(http://80scartoonpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/strawberryshortcake1.jpg)
Thanks again buddies.
Also, in the end i used "one click signer".
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=822388
Now, managed to install the apk and everything. Does anybody know though why dialer would fc after i edited the call background pngs?
I also edited some other parts of the theme but they don't seem to be giving me any problems.
Do i have to save them in some specific format? After i edited them in photoshop i saved them as indexed but i did notice they were slightly bigger than the source files...
Never mind. A reboot solved the problem. Have to say, i'm pretty happy now.
Thanks once more buddies!

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