Hello everybody,
I'm trying to figure out if I can create a EmotionUI theme which also changes the icons of individual apps.
Is this possible?
I know some system icons are named as for example: com.android.browser.png
Would I simply have to find the name for the app icon and change it to for example: com.whatsapp.png?
I don't know how to find these values if this is the way to go.
But I would very much like my theme to be able to change ALL icons I could possibly make for the apps I have, not just the system icons.
Also is there some sort of emotionui forum this question should be posted? I couldn't find it...
EDIT: I also found out I am unable to change theme. I can change the appearance of the current theme I'm using by taking stuff from other theme's, but when I apply a other theme the theme will stay on the current one and doesn't switch. This includes the lockscreen theme and some other things I wish to still change like fonts and such.
(This might have something to do with me soft bricking my phone found in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/ascend-p7/help/ive-soft-bricked-phone-p7-l10-t3258350)
EDIT2: Okay it seems like this method is working. I just use an apk extractor to check which value an app has. For whatsapp this was indeed com.whatsapp.png which worked. However for com.android.vending.png which is google playstore, that one doesn't seem to work. I would like to find out why...
This way I can have all my icons in a custom theme
EDIT3: after my factory reset in my other post I couldn't change the themes anymore.
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I am trying to create an icon pack similar to the one by smithtech, which can be found here: http://androidspin.com/2011/01/13/app-drawer-icon-pack-for-adw-launcher/
Having made icons for metamorph before, its not the images that are giving me an issue, but finding documentation on how to create the xml and arsc code files that are built into the zip file.
Any help is appreciated, thx in advance.
exact same question!
posted this several times on some other Droid forums but haven't had any luck yet.
i know this is old, but I've been searching it as well for a few hours. lol.
I went on LauncherPro forums, and they posted how to do them, dated May 19: http://www.launcherpro.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=7754
Hi.
I am sufin' the web to find clues about custom adw icons packs to create mine.
I found a wiki explaining how to create themes for ADW. There is a vid on custom icons on this page : code.google(dot)com/p/adw-launcher-android/wiki/ADWThemeGuide#Getting_Started_On_Your_ADW.Launcher_Theme
I'm currently testing it.
Hi.
I found figured out a simple method to create an kind of icon pack for ADW.
Using an already existing theme.apk, i inserted the custom.png in the drawables folders and finally resigned it.
Using adw i can select to apply only the icons from a given theme. It works if i only add/replace .png. Howewer adw crashed when i tried to suppress the unwanted icons in drawable-hdpi (i only wanted to change the icons appearing in the drawer)
Since i'm a beginner in themeing, I would be thankful if someone could give me some help or advices if it is possible to remove those unneeded icons.png without crashing the theme adw.
Edit: Removng original png files is not allowed with simply winrar and such. However the ADWLauncher theme wiki allows to create own themes/icon packs
basically what i am asking is if i have an apk how do i theme it with either a smoked glass/ transparent look? so far i have found most of my themed widgets online. i am particularly looks to theme my launcher pro (widgets only)... i know member signals23 has done this, but i cannot get it to work for the life of me and decided i want to do it myself and besides it could give me good practice for if i want to learn more theming in the future. i have tried metamorph but unsuccessfully but then again i am a somewhat semi-noob at it, advice? suggestions?
Not sure exactly how you are going about modifying the images, but when I do it, I transfer the apk to my desktop, and extract the drawable files to my desktop, then I can look at each individual image, and then make my changes, and add the modified images back to the apk. But the only way I can get it to work, is to put the apk in system/apps...
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This post in his thread explains what to change and where.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8201765&postcount=2
I'm in the process of making a theme but I have come across an issue I just can't seem to resolve. Basically everything goes fine for my theme except the icons. I downloaded another theme and applied it and the icons in my app drawer change. Yet I don't see where these changed took place in the actual apk when I decompile it. The only changed icon is the com_browser_ic_launcher icon and nothing else. Yet this is the icon that is changed in the app drawer which doesn't make sense because I don't see any related changed in any xml files.
I've been following this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=964391
I downloaded the templatebread theme and have been changing what I wanted but now I am stuck on the icons. I can change the launcher icons without any hiccups now I just need to find out how to change the actual icon thats in the app drawer. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Well obviously its done with xml and its all based on the process names the process names have to be exact. When they are it will work even if you have one error in the process names eclipse will throw an error or should and they wont work... I've never done it but i've read alot about it.
That's what I figured but for some reason after doing a few restarts the icons now appear as they should. I guess that the old icons were cached or something.
I have found many topics on Icons, but none that expalin how to prevent to auto-create icons resized and with background in customized_icons_1
I know that I can extract the original icon from an app and overwrite the image in the dir customized_icons_1, but I would like to avoid doing so for each app.
I whould like to prevent MIUI generating resized app icon instead of original icon.
Can anyone would help me doing so?
Thank you in advance for your kind reply.
Not sure about MIUI's inner workings but, the Dark White theme seems to have no background image. You could just apply its icons.
Thanks deejaylobo
I am looking to be able to modify the rules how MIUI generate 3rd party icons to put in customized_icons_1icon directory, however.
The dark white seems to work but it still decide to use some icons instead of others.
I'll try to explore how it's made...
Thanks in any case
Partially solved
I've partially solved the background problem.
I've overwritten the file icon_background.png inside the archive data/system/theme/icons and pushed back to phone.
Than I've wiped the customized_icons_1 folder.
Reboot.
Now the icons are really wonderfull.
I still didn't find a way to avoid the slight resize of the icon MIUI generate inside customized_icons_1, But with the semitrasparent new background + border seems to look very good.
In any case, if somebody knows how to avoid the risezeing ? would appeciate to know ...
See you.
Try to install android 2.3 icon theme, and icons in MIUI Launcher should look normal.
deejaylobo said:
Not sure about MIUI's inner workings but, the Dark White theme seems to have no background image. You could just apply its icons.
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That's my theme!
Hi all
Does anyone know of a good guide that shows you how to create a theme for a galaxy s6?
I am wanting to make a theme that uses the standard icons, but has some darker colours in the sms/phone app.
I dont like the theme store AMOLED friendly / black themes because they dont have enough colour and we loose the defaut iconset.
Basically if i can take the standard theme and modify a few things I'd be happy
Whenever I try to search for answers, all i seem to be able to find is references to some elusive and unobtainable theme creation tool that samsung was ment to release back in April.
I am just after the tool or a guide right now, i dont want to add my themes to the samsung theme store.
foundit
Oooh looks like this site is now back up again
developer.samsung.com/theme#mytheme
Edit: Nevermind that doesnt do the job
It is a super basic editor that just allows you to add wallpapers and icons - it wont let you change the background and coloring of the sms and phone apps.