I basically want a more aosp look to the status bar, notification area, and rid of all the textured borders in favor of flat black borders. Where do I begin? Uot kitchen?
I also wanna enable over scroll glow
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Cor-master said:
I basically want a more aosp look to the status bar, notification area, and rid of all the textured borders in favor of flat black borders. Where do I begin? Uot kitchen?
I also wanna enable over scroll glow
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for full on modifictaions you will have to decompile with apktool (for those .9.pngs and xml edits...and for the hard core smali edits), for minor edits/ editing regular pngs-7zip will work (just right click apk and open archive with 7 zip)
UOT is great for automating xml edits for you and adding in overscroll, battery percentage and other stuff too!
however...i was unsuccessful with both decompiling the framework-res.apk from "att stock ics for chefs or whoever" in both apktool and using it in UOT...both returned an error when decompiling (problem with config flags???)
you can give it a shot, if your succesful let me know
here is what i would suggest if apktool and UOT works...first do some theming with UOT, get a nice base with it because you can easily preview colors and stuff, then once your done with UOT do the remaining theming with apktool and a photo editor/xml editor
for photo edititng i suggest GIMP...its like photoshop but its free
for xml edits i suggest notepad++
*editing the xmls will change the colors of texts and other stuff not controlled by a png
*a ".9.png" is pretty much a stretchable png, the way it is streched is determined by 1 pixel black lines, i have a tutorial on youtube on doing minor edits to them such as changing there color http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3Q1Z4wc3gc&feature=g-upl
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can someone tell me which .pngs in the framework-res correspond to the different elements of the actual pulldown?
ive seen two pulldowns that i want to kinda combine.... the transparent background with the Galaxy S logo of the Darkness theme, and then the other elements of the ANDRODeNa GaLaSSiA theme....
It's in the twframework-res.apk
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CB650 Wolf said:
It's in the twframework-res.apk
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lol, already starting out wrong.... what files correlate with which elements of the pulldowns though?
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lol, already starting out wrong.... what files correlate with which elements of the pulldowns though?
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Throw the twframework-res.apk into apk manager decomplie it and check out the file names and thumbnails of each picture. With a little logical deduction it's pretty easy to find out which file corresponds to each item in the pull down menu. The hard items to change are the font colors. There are a few guides around the forum if you search long enough for them. I however am in a good mood right now so...here are a couple of links to the guides I used when making my JJ4 Gingerbread theme.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=549309
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=831715
This one has a good explanaition of all the components and how to set opacity. Was just looking for info myself since I set all mine to 78% and it didn't look too great.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=812541
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
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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
zelendel said:
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!
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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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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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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