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[MOD] Black Notification Bars - CM 4.2.7.1/Dwang v1.13 [12-05]

Credit to jonnybueno for all of the edited .png files in here, I took 90 images from it. Sorry for the period of time this wasn't up here, I was drunk when I redid the thread.
I have received a few requests in the past for a black notification bar from some members, and figured that if a few people want it, well then more do as well request thread)
Latest updated 12-01​
CM 4.2.7.1 (no longer has smorg icon, apparently it is really hard to tell how much battery you have when the battery looks good)
http://www.mediafire.com/?xgzmjqqzzcf
Dwang v1.13 (still has smorg battery icon)
http://www.mediafire.com/?no4znnwymjn
CM 4.2.3.1 with Stericson's Latest Lockscreen
http://www.mediafire.com/?jezgymucuzy
mirror: http://www.4shared.com/file/147284694/a28bfa58/black_bar_4231_SL_110309-new.html
Old Versions​If you need an older version shoot me a pm, comment in this thread, or look in the attachments. (it could be there depending on if it had the lockscreen in it.)
Sorry it has taken me so long to make an official update for this.
About various other apps/widgets being skinned, well basically you can take the apk that it is in the theme and put it on the root of your sdcard and do this in the recovery console
Code:
mount system
mount sdcard
ls /system/app (only if you need to find the exact name, skip if you don't need the exact name)
cp /sdcard/exactappnamecapsandall.apk /system/app/exactappnamecapsandall.apk

awesome! keep up the great work

We can haz screenies? Or am I missing something blatantly obvious?

AdrianK said:
We can haz screenies? Or am I missing something blatantly obvious?
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you are actually having a massive fail (but its ok). there are 3 files edited. one .png, one .xml, one .dex.
literally all this is is a black notification with the clock and date and the text for the notifications white.

david1171 said:
you are actually having a massive fail (but its ok). there are 3 files edited. one .png, one .xml, one .dex.
literally all this is is a black notification with the clock and date and the text for the notifications white.
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Oh I see...thanks.

I would prefer black bars too, but the problem is that app icons are designed for white background, so some of them can't even be seen when the bar is black.

cigar3tte said:
I would prefer black bars too, but the problem is that app icons are designed for white background, so some of them can't even be seen when the bar is black.
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if there is a theme with icons you like i can pull them from there and drop them into it so that the icons are visible.

david1171 said:
if there is a theme with icons you like i can pull them from there and drop them into it so that the icons are visible.
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I personally never cared about the app icons on main screen; I only look at the tray icon and notification bar colors and icons.
The icons I'm talking about are notification ones like the one for Swift, which is just a black flying bird. This would be a black bird on black bar background, making it invisible.

cigar3tte said:
I personally never cared about the app icons on main screen; I only look at the tray icon and notification bar colors and icons.
The icons I'm talking about are notification ones like the one for Swift, which is just a black flying bird. This would be a black bird on black bar background, making it invisible.
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ooohhh i was talking about battery, signal, wifi, notification icons, but yeah i can't really do anything about other apps

actually i think you could probably use that one method to do this also. where you make the apk match the theme. here wouldnt you just have to look for the png and invert the color? or no? i really dont know just says what I's thinks

roadrunnerx7 said:
actually i think you could probably use that one method to do this also. where you make the apk match the theme. here wouldnt you just have to look for the png and invert the color? or no? i really dont know just says what I's thinks
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i could but then if some of the apps or paid then it would be an issue of warez and i would rather not get into that. also it would need to be done every time the app is updated.

true. too much work and trouble. well then, guys if you want a simple black bar, be ready to sacrifice some notifications. none of mine are black, except weatherbug, but thank god you can change that one to white its an option in the app!

Sorry 4 being such a noob but how do I use this

coolmarkoo said:
Sorry 4 being such a noob but how do I use this
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just download it, put it on the ROOT of your sdcard(meaning NOT in any folder) then go into recovery and just flash it like you would flash a rom.
basically its exactly the same as flashing a rom.

That's wat I did but it said bad file and then it aborted the instalation

coolmarkoo said:
That's wat I did but it said bad file and then it aborted the instalation
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hmmm. which one are you trying, also what did it say , did it tell you it was a bad file (i had that one with a rom, and redownloading it fixed it) or did it say something about about verification or not being signed properly?

I was flashing it normally and it said the blackbar(bad) instalation aborted I was using cm 4.11.1 but I will redownload and try again

i think it might be the signing thing.. does the file name have anything to do with it? cause i see for 4.0.4 it says signed but 4.1.11.1 does not. might be that?
crap i gotta go back to work. be back later!

roadrunnerx7 said:
i think it might be the signing thing.. does the file name have anything to do with it? cause i see for 4.0.4 it says signed but 4.1.11.1 does not. might be that?
crap i gotta go back to work. be back later!
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nawh man, (or else i probably would've heard something from the 15 or 16 that have got it so far).
i think that means that the download got corrupted, try to redownload it and flash it again, if that doesn't work i will resign it and upload it again.

ok i tried redownloading but its not working with 4.1.11.1 then i tried to download the other one to see if it was a problem with my conection it downloaded fine. i think i might need a mirror

[WIP] White Notification Bar

Hello everyone, I am hoping some more developers will try to help out and keep this project alive. Hoping these issues might be figured out by someone.
Issues:
3G and 1X dormant icons are default HTC as well as USB
White clock text
Clear button is dark with black text
Some things worth noting. The stat_sys_data_usb.png icon and the stat_notify_sync_error.png icon are already in /system/framework/framework-res.apk but the weird problem is for some reason these icons are not showing up correctly, and instead they default to HTC. Other icons in framework-res and com.htc.resources are not doing this.
I TAKE NO CREDIT FOR ANY OF THE WORK THAT HAS BEEN DONE SO FAR.
Credits:
Zifnab06
DiGi|
ivanmmj based off his Eris Offical 0.7.1 Rom
The original post can be found here:
http://www.thefuzz4.net/home/AndroidPhones/Eris/HowToRootYourHTCEris/WhiteNotificationBar.aspx
Downloadlink for current white notif bar:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/doh3g4
Hoping some further talented devs can keep this alive and finish it...

alexhendershott said:
Hello everyone, I am hoping some more developers will try to help out and keep this project alive. Hoping these issues might be figured out by someone.
Issues:
3G and 1X dormant icons are default HTC as well as USB
White clock text
Clear button is dark with black text
Some things worth noting. The stat_sys_data_usb.png icon and the stat_notify_sync_error.png icon are already in /system/framework/framework-res.apk but the weird problem is for some reason these icons are not showing up correctly, and instead they default to HTC. Other icons in framework-res and com.htc.resources are not doing this.
I TAKE NO CREDIT FOR ANY OF THE WORK THAT HAS BEEN DONE SO FAR.
Credits:
Zifnab06
DiGi|
ivanmmj based off his Eris Offical 0.7.1 Rom
The original post can be found here:
http://www.thefuzz4.net/home/AndroidPhones/Eris/HowToRootYourHTCEris/WhiteNotificationBar.aspx
Downloadlink for current white notif bar:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/doh3g4
Hoping some further talented devs can keep this alive and finish it...
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There is a TON of info on editing task bars and other theme elements in the cdma hero section mater of fact a good deal of their stuff works with various eris roms. Some of the roms running over there are legend or eris based now we have ports based off the Sprint roms so theyre themes and various add ons working also (ive tried a few) as far as text and icons I believe it has to do with the .9pngs etc...give it a read and there are a ton of helpful heroc fellas. chubz, vince just to name a few.

Yeah I've been waiting for someone to come up with a fix for the clock font color, but it seems to be fairly difficult to find? Or perhaps other things are being worked on by the limited amount of devs we've got on the Eris.

you forgot me the guy who was trying to finish it, and posted it for all!:d
alexhendershott said:
hello everyone, i am hoping some more developers will try to help out and keep this project alive. Hoping these issues might be figured out by someone.
Issues:
3g and 1x dormant icons are default htc as well as usb
white clock text
clear button is dark with black text
some things worth noting. The stat_sys_data_usb.png icon and the stat_notify_sync_error.png icon are already in /system/framework/framework-res.apk but the weird problem is for some reason these icons are not showing up correctly, and instead they default to htc. Other icons in framework-res and com.htc.resources are not doing this.
I take no credit for any of the work that has been done so far.
Credits:
Zifnab06
digi|
ivanmmj based off his eris offical 0.7.1 rom
the original post can be found here:
http://www.thefuzz4.net/home/androidphones/eris/howtorootyourhtceris/whitenotificationbar.aspx
downloadlink for current white notif bar:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/doh3g4
hoping some further talented devs can keep this alive and finish it...
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ORIGINAL link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=657229

I'm a super noob at this, but I spent part of the day yesterday trying to fix my title bar with the icons I wanted in the Aloysis ROM. It seemed like the text color and icon image files were referenced by xml files? Have you tried looking there for fixes to your issues?
For the record there is a hero theme the Aloysis 4.1 ROM is based off of which may be configured close to what u want. I wanted to configure mine to look more like yours but I got frustrated and gave up.

hex editing
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I'm a super noob at this, but I spent part of the day yesterday trying to fix my title bar with the icons I wanted in the Aloysis ROM. It seemed like the text color and icon image files were referenced by xml files? Have you tried looking there for fixes to your issues?
For the record there is a hero theme the Aloysis 4.1 ROM is based off of which may be configured close to what u want. I wanted to configure mine to look more like yours but I got frustrated and gave up.
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A lot of this stuff is xml hex editing from what I've read. There's a ton of info in the cdma heroc forums. It's stickied there. Good info check it out.

Whats up with the black clear button

COMPLETELY OT...
What clock is that ??

is there any way to get a transparent notification bar?

pman219 said:
COMPLETELY OT...
What clock is that ??
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The clock is from the com.betterandroid.deskclock.apk from GrdLock's VanillaDroidv1.zip.
ekolon said:
is there any way to get a transparent notification bar?
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Yes, you could do any color.
Also, I've made quite the progress, this is where I am now. All I have left is the "Clear" button.
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Awesome! Can we get an upload? And please tell me how you got the clock. Was it something in the services.jar/involve the odex file included or something more simple?

The last piece has now been figured out.
No more black "Clear" button.

awesome alex! you got a link for us all?

laxattack said:
awesome alex! you got a link for us all?
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Coming soon, give me a day or so. I will post ASAP.

ekolon said:
is there any way to get a transparent notification bar?
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+1 That would make it perfect if you ask me.
And the CLEAR text isn't centered.

alexhendershott said:
The last piece has now been figured out.
No more black "Clear" button.
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Way to go! I was thinking about this last night and trying to figure it out as well. Glad to see you got it.

this is sweet! any news on the link?

I would love a link to this!

awsome! I want it bbbbad!
Sent from my Eris using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk

me too (again)
Sent from my rotary phone using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk

[Theme] Tweaked Frost Remix NexTheme

I'm very new to android dev/hacking and I hope this is acceptable conduct (taking someone else's theme and putting a different spin on it) but I really liked Frost Remix NexTheme but I wanted a different battery notification icon, updated charging icons and thanks to some prodding from ludeboy, I felt the default settings text should be changed so I made my own spin on a theme which I'm posting here for your using pleasure.
Change Log...
10/2/2010
Theme Frost Remix from 9/27/2010 (forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=788294)
Changed secondary text from baby blue to green
Replaced battery icons and updated charging icons from "D" variant of Fightspit's Super Circle Battery mod (Thanks for porting s44 - forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=791886&page=3)
As soon as a figure out how to turn this theme into a rom I will and I'll get that posted but for the time being, here I have attached the framework-res and twframework-res.
To install - copy both files to your system/framework folder and restart your phone.
****This has been tested on my phone and works fine but as always - use at your own risk but let me know if you run into any problems...and always back up your originals ******
Big Thanks to ludeboy for the request to identify what xmls to change for color mods (I'm fairly up to speed on how the theme engine works), frostman88 for the initial theme and s44 for porting over the battery mod!

Works great bud! Just installed it and love it. Any way you can make the battery indicator, wifi meter, vibrate phone "lines", and the icons from the pull down menu when selected the same green as the text? I have a green type theme going on and would love it all to match. If not its cool since I have my notification bar hidden on home screen anyways but figured I could ask. Thanks for your work.
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Let me know which xml you edited. Looked through the framework and twframework, and the only xml ones I found pointed to white not that blue ****.

ballaholyk84 said:
Works great bud! Just installed it and love it. Any way you can make the battery indicator, wifi meter, vibrate phone "lines", and the icons from the pull down menu when selected the same green as the text? I have a green type theme going on and would love it all to match. If not its cool since I have my notification bar hidden on home screen anyways but figured I could ask. Thanks for your work.
Sent from my SCH-I500 using Tapatalk
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I'll look into that - I like the green on black and do also currently like the green thing going on. I'm going to do some more tinkering but my creative is lacking from a graphical standpoint so if anyone has great ideas - If I like them I'll look at them and either roll another flavor or build it into what I have here.
frostman89 said:
Let me know which xml you edited. Looked through the framework and twframework, and the only xml ones I found pointed to white not that blue ****.
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Short Answer -
framework-res.apk\res\color-hdpi\zzz_tw_secondary_text_sub.xml
framework-res.apk\res\color\zzz_tw_secondary_text_sub.xml
(I think the first file is the only file that actually had to be modified but the second file was a few steps of color different from the first so I just modified both of them)
Long Answer -
It took me a little time to get familiar with how the themeing (styles, layouts, etc) worked but I think I have a pretty good handle on this. To figure out what controlled the text color I dumped the settings.apk, identified the layouts and styles, traced the styles backwards until I worked my way back into the framework-res.apk and then located that it was pointing to the color file of zzz_tw_secondary_text_sub
I spent about 5 hours digging but now knowing the how the colors, layout and styles work I could most likely have done it in 15 minutes.

Ah right, you know I saw it pointed to a specific color, like color1, color2, color3, but I had been up for about 19 hours with 5 hours of sleep and really did not feel like trying to trace it back to whatever else apk.
So overall I had about 30 min to dig through the xmls.

Darn, I'm so peeved right now. In the time it took for you to post this up,
I went and Odin Restored my phone, re-clean deodex + aosp'ed it,
used the Black Mod theme in Metamorph,
and then applied the D Circle Battery,
and backed it up like 5 times. If i'd have seen this sooner, it would have saved me so much time

Thanks for this. I really like Frostman's theme, but I did want the circle battery indicator, and I also really like the green text.

Works good. I like the green and the battery. Thanks
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I copied the battery mod into the System/framework folder, first, and it borked my wallpaper back to the underwater live wallpaper, and then I kept getting FCs when I tried to open Root Explorer again. After I restarted, I was able to get the other file in, using Root Explorer, and I was able to reset my wallpaper. Nothing big, but I thought you might like to know.

spotmark said:
I copied the battery mod into the System/framework folder, first, and it borked my wallpaper back to the underwater live wallpaper, and then I kept getting FCs when I tried to open Root Explorer again. After I restarted, I was able to get the other file in, using Root Explorer, and I was able to reset my wallpaper. Nothing big, but I thought you might like to know.
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Thanks - I am guessing that could be something to do with root explorer possibly. I do not use root explorer and currently am doing all my pushes using adb. I'll look at root explorer and see if I can explain what happened (guessing maybe a dependency thing but who knows).

dashultz said:
Thanks - I am guessing that could be something to do with root explorer possibly. I do not use root explorer and currently am doing all my pushes using adb. I'll look at root explorer and see if I can explain what happened (guessing maybe a dependency thing but who knows).
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We could work together if you want, I can just toss em in different flashable zips for convenience.

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We could work together if you want, I can just toss em in different flashable zips for convenience.
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That sounds great - I sent you a PM regarding this.

Flashing a zip sounds like a weiner
Sent from my SCH-I500 using Tapatalk

You can't use this if you're using the "super clean ROM"
Sent from my SCH-I500 using XDA App

Any chance of removing "samsung fascinate" from the glass lock screen?
good day.

KF1 Theme Problem

I have been theming a KF1 build from the leaked KF1 firmware (Now have moved on to Cognition 5.2 but have the same problem) and have run into one seemingly small problem - - the drop down shade shows black text on the very first notification (for Lookout app). Please see attached screenshot.
I haven't been able to find the correct xml file to edit. Does anyone know of the "usual" file I need to edit to show white text instead of the black?
I apologize if this question has been answered before and I appreciate any help given.
ADDITION: I posted this in the Q&A section and have gotten no response. Hopefully someone will know a solution.
It also occurred to me yesterday to try and lighten the background to make the black text more visible. I'm currently trying that path but if anyone can tell me which text color attribute in which xml file for what apk to change to white, I would be grateful.
Thank you for your time and consideration!

That is because that notification is run by Lookout, you would have to edit/change some settings in Lookout to get the text to be white.

DemonWav said:
That is because that notification is run by Lookout, you would have to edit/change some settings in Lookout to get the text to be white.
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Thank you....I thought of that but I'm kind of bummed because Lookout updates semi-constantly. After an update I assume the text would go back to black.
I'll try it and see......stay tuned!
EDIT: Can't seem to find the apk for Lookout (not in system/apps) which makes sense since it is a security app. Oh, well....trying opacity with the background next

any chance of you uploading your theme at all?

cbalt said:
any chance of you uploading your theme at all?
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srsly, looks sexy

You could try to do what I thought up of and make the background for notifications a gradient so though black text would still be harder to read, it wouldn't be invisible.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1059841

I will create a full CWM zip file tomorrow and upload it here.
My DSL is down until my ISP brings a new modem tomorrow.
Please know that I didn't do anything extraordinary...just changed some png files from some roms I liked as well as changed some colors here and there. I will try to give some credit where I remember.
I did add the AOSP lockscreen mod as well as the ui mod. Let me figure out who to credit so we all can recognize all the talented devs we all rely upon as well as admire.
Thank you for your interest and consideration!
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA Premium App

I tried to upload my theme and screenshots but I think I uploaded the wrong files.
I did a complete reinstall of Cog 5 v2 to check the theme and it seems I'm missing something.
Oh well....learning here. Stay tuned!

I started fresh but am having problems making the shade background transparent.
Every graphic I can think of in SystemUI and Framework-res are 10-50% transparent and all I get is this gray background on the shade. Maddening!!
I borrowed the shade graphic from Blue Darkness just to test (in case anyone unzips the files) so I can see if I get a transparent shade.
Any suggestions would be apppreciated. Thanks!
ADDITION: For some reason every screenshot app I use discolors the blues and the reds/oranges. I apologize for the weird screenshots.

I am confused, what are you trying to do?
Oh, and protip, use ddms.bat in your tools folder of your sdk for screenshots. Not only is it easier to get the screenshots onto your computer (cause they already are...) they won't be scewy.

mattern1974 said:
Thank you....I thought of that but I'm kind of bummed because Lookout updates semi-constantly. After an update I assume the text would go back to black.
I'll try it and see......stay tuned!
EDIT: Can't seem to find the apk for Lookout (not in system/apps) which makes sense since it is a security app. Oh, well....trying opacity with the background next
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The apk is probably in data/app since you had to install it!

About coloring theme

I use non root note 8, and I like to know if there is any way to color the icons of the status/notification bar (the clock, the battery, mobile data and so on) and the apps color something like this: https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s8/themes/wings-root-substratum-theme-launch-10-t3693952.
Thank you.

soilentgreen said:
I use non root note 8, and I like to know if there is any way to color the icons of the status/notification bar (the clock, the battery, mobile data and so on) and the apps color something like this: https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s8/themes/wings-root-substratum-theme-launch-10-t3693952.
Thank you.
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You know you don't have to be rooted to use substratum, right?

tbvnz said:
You know you don't have to be rooted to use substratum, right?
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Yes I Know. but I can't find how to change the color of the icons of the status/notification bar.

I believe that since lollipop, the Android OS only allows white icons in the UI . From what I understand you should be able to tweak the alpha value to allow degrees of grayscale, but no color. Maybe hide the status bar and use third party app?

soilentgreen said:
I use non root note 8, and I like to know if there is any way to color the icons of the status/notification bar (the clock, the battery, mobile data and so on) and the apps color something like this: https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s8/themes/wings-root-substratum-theme-launch-10-t3693952.
Thank you.
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You know you don't have to be rooted to use substratum, right?
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No, you don't have to be rooted to use substratum! You just need an add on to use it with Samsung.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=projekt.substratum&hl=en
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=projekt.sungstratum&hl=en

are there more themes out now that work on a non rooted note 8 with substratum?
i was using it when the phone first came out, and there were only a couple of themes that worked properly on the note 8..

There is swift Dark,Samsung wings,and I use a sub theme called onyx from play store. You can basically pick and choose what colors you want and if you want dark apps or transparent apps. I'm using venom tron theme mixed with some from the onyx theme and Samsung wings theme. You can mix and match

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There is swift Dark,Samsung wings,and I use a sub theme called onyx from play store. You can basically pick and choose what colors you want and if you want dark apps or transparent apps. I'm using venom tron theme mixed with some from the onyx theme and Samsung wings theme. You can mix and match
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Thank you, but I must ask how do you use Samsung wings theme? There is no link for download the app?
I try to change the green color in the play store app to red. how can I do it?
I use swift dark. I'll check the others you offer.
By the way I found great app to change the color of the icons of the status/notification bar (the clock, the battery, mobile data) and change some Icons (which not work with the batery icon-too small ) -without root: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.james.status.
I tried to check onyx but there's afew apps with the same name. Can you share the links of venom and onyx links?
Thank you.