like the subject says....
i have a rooted telus milestone..so i can't install roms...
i can however have fun with metamorph...
i've been dying for a black status bar with white font/time...
but all the ones i've found are for roms (dwang or whatever, cy, etc)
i was wondering if one exists for stock roms so we can just use it with metamorph...
thanks!
Creating a MetaMorph file is pretty easy and all you would need to do is dig through the ROM an figure out where those files are and what they are called.
definitely...i took a semi proactive approach and did edit a bunch of things just to test them out...
i was just working a huge week this week and didn't have time to sit aorund and mess with my phone, hehe
i still haven't found a metamorph that changes the font colour of the clock/notifications/etc in the notification bar...
also, i'm trying to figure out how to change the icons of an installed (non-stock) app...there are few mickey mouse ways to do, but not guide per se...if i have time, on wednesday, i'll write one up if i figure it out...
Ok I've been thinking and I've decided I will get a nexus one over a galaxy s on one condition... Is it possible to take all the apk files from a galaxy s rom so you still have the nice blue tabs and power control settings in the statusbar but just keep the default android launcher and lockscreen?
If so can someone walk me through it or do it themselves? It would be appreciated a lot...
Thanks
Swenflea
I'm pretty sure it wont work that easily. At least in Sense, there are lots of core files and dependencies that you need to have before Sense will work. It's possibly the same for the Galaxy S - you need to have touchwiz and other samsung stuff integrated before the APK's would work.
I saw a post a while back linking to all the Galaxy S APKs, maybe try some of them? I tried a few and they didn't work.
There is a thread about it Here
Josh.
Some developer has ported TouchWiz to Nexus, you can use that... and there are also Galaxy S themes/ROMs with Galaxy S status bar or even a metamorph that you can use to turn the status bar into Galaxy S one. But I don't think it's easy as that to just pull the apks and install it on another device, AFAIK every UI has it's own framework and can't work without it.
Hi guys,
This is a very early release of my new tool "SystemUI Editor". It basically lets you edit the images inside a SystemUI.apk package to allow skinning the status bar etc for tablets.
This release is far from finished, but is functional.
Download from filetrip.net/f26366-SystemUI-Editor-0-1.html
(I can't post links yet).
Current Features
Expect many more features as I add to the known files list.
Edit the navigation status bar buttons (back, home, menu, tasks etc).
Change the clock font. (Not updating, needs testing)
Edit a few other images (just added for testing at present).
Customisable Files.xml list so you can add files manually that I have yet to add.
Guide
Copy your SystemUI.apk from your /system/app directory to somewhere local.
Open it in SystemUI Editor.
Choose an item from the tree view and alter as necessary.
Save the SystemUI file.
Copy it back into /system/app.
The UI will crash, so just manually reboot the table (hold power down for 5 seconds or so until it turns off, then turn it back on).
Enjoy
Notes
This is currently a windows program. When it is further in development I will create a Mac OS X version if there is enough demand.
You need root to be able to replace the SystemUI file.
I intend, in the near future, to finish the files list and add previews. Any other ideas are encouraged.
I've mainly released this program so early to test out any problems on different tablets, develop the Files.XML file and get any feedback / ideas on further development.
If anyone would like to help me finish the Files.xml file, that would be a massive help, as I can get on with adding new features instead.
This looks like a really cool tool, going to give it a shot when I've got some more time.
Very good tool I recommend.
Great tool. I think that it would be nice to be able to edit framework-res.apk too. Just for full theming, as battery icons are still in framework.
Good idea. I'm heavily developing this right now, and I decided to expand outside of only editing the SystemUI file.
I'll hopefully get an update out in the next few days.
@StormwaveUK, is this just used for tablets or I can use it for fones? Anyway, great tool
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This looks good - anxious to try editing the stock 4g icons out of CM7 themes where they are untouched.
Thanks.
Subscribed, looking forward to trying this out.
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Why for Mac? Can you make Linux version?
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da900 said:
Great tool. I think that it would be nice to be able to edit framework-res.apk too. Just for full theming, as battery icons are still in framework.
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+1 on this. I'm anxious to take a look at this.
Sounds cool.. bump
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Did anyone get this to work? I keep getting an "unhandled exception" error whenever I try to open up a systemUI image in the editor.
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Did anyone get this to work? I keep getting an "unhandled exception" error whenever I try to open up a systemUI image in the editor.
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Yep, same here. The problem is kind of easy to fix, though. In files.xml, you can specify the image mapping. It seems that everything is hardcoded for a specific device.
Most phones with large screens don't have "drawable-mdpi" but "drawable-hdpi" for example. And the same may apply to image names.
After installing a theme where are the files save.. where does it pull from? Like normally my phone would pull the circle mod battery from drawable-xhdpi under systemUI.. where is everything after installing the theme... reason being I want to cherry pick things from the theme and make them default... thanks
AnaRchy & ChAos
SGH-i747
Source Code
May i ask for the source code VB, ?
i'll try to modify more..
So I have been trying to add some mods to my systemui that I had in my note 3 s6 port those mods consist of memory cleaner in in notification panel, potato clock and 3minit battery, so the issue is every time I compile my new apk then drop in the meta folder i load the new apk and all I get is a black baground and no status bar. I even took all the modded files and and dropped them into the original apk and same thing. I am using apktool 2.0.3 like I have been and for the life of me cant figure it out really starting to [email protected]$# me off lol. Very new to the note 4 so if any of you vets have any advice on what I might be doing wrong that would be greatly appreciated. Im going to try one mod at a time to rule out any bad coding in my xml files to see what might be causing the issue.:good::highfive::good:
Just wanted to share some findings, I took a pure stock(no mods no nothing) UI decompiled it then recompiled, took the recompiled and added the meta folder and from the stock UI and still get black home screen and no status bar so Im thinking it might be the apktool version I am using any one have suggestions on what they are using?
no body lol I know the masters out there saw this post:good::highfive::good:
hi...it is possible to add the carrier id on the left status bar?? like the lock screen on the xt1103 does it need to edit the system.ui?
thanks.....
Assuming you're referring to stock rom then the only option I've seen is and xposed module. Otherwise there are custom roms with this feature and more.
Yeah is for stock ROM.....was just wondering if possible by decompilling the system.ui......
You would need to edit like 5 apks to make it work and your best bet would be to do it from source. Lots of ripping apart and searching.