I could really use some help with this theme I am working on for CyanogenMod.
This is my first attempt at theming so be gentle.
First off, this is based off jonnybueno's HexusOne? Theme in fact it is basically the same exact theme except blue instead of black and white. It still took quite a bit of work to change basically every img in it to blue. I will also be changing pretty much everything but I wanted to start somewhere.
Here is some screen shots of the Theme, it is gonna be called NexBlue:
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The problem I am having is that I could really use some help with .9.png files if someone could help. Before you say it I have read the other threads about how to do it. In fact I tried following the instructions in a couple threads but I must have done something wrong because it didn't work. It works fine if I remove all the .9.png files out of my theme but of course there is stuff missing that is the wrong color if I do it that way.
Here is some examples of the screwed up .9.png files:
It is a MetaMorph at the moment so if anyone could take a look at it and help me out here is the link.
NexBlue_Ver_1.0
THIS IS NOT A WORKING THEME!!! DO NOT MORPH/FLASH THIS TO YOUR PHONE IT WILL MAKE SEVERAL PROGRAMS FC!!! IF YOU NEED TO MORPH/FLASH THIS ON YOUR PHONE TO HELP, MAKE SURE YOU DO A NANDROID BACKUP!!!
As far as FC's go, since you are taking a theme and recreating it blue, there is one thing, you cannot do that to all images. Some .9's that is fine, but there are others that you cannot simply just change the color, they need to be reprocessed using eclipse.
Off hand active_title_bar.9.png is one of them. There are others. So first step is separate the .9's from the regular png's. Pay attention to what you replace so you can retrace your steps and find what you can and cannot simply change the color on.
Yeah, I know what your talking about. What I am really trying to figure out though is how to change a. 9.PNG correctly without messing up something.
I never drew (err drawededed... its late and I'm feeling speech impaired) guidelines for the .9s in hexus one. I've found that if you size your .9s to the minimum size android stretches them, you don't need to run them through eclipse. Finding out what size that is, has somewhat eluded me though.
That would fix your widget problem. For your buttons and other stuff, here's what I would do:
Download the original .9 from cyanogens github. Take your modified .9 and copy it within the guidelines of the source .9(which should have guidelines already =D) then make sure your guides are definitely FF000000 black, then run it through eclipse.
That's the lazy jonnybueno way of making half themes.
Thanks, I will give that a try.
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Okay.
Look at this picture:
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You see how the background is only as far as the keys are and you get the white (or whatever color the bg is of the app your on) sidebar and bottom stripe?
You can't see that on the original LatinIME.apk.
See, this is the original.
Its that dark gray background on the LatinIME.apk that I want fixed on the Voice Keyboard.
Come on, is no one gonna help me? I was told it was easy! I have no idea how to fix it, but I was hoping someone would!
I'm playing around with the APK a bit, its called "VoiceSearchWithKeyboard.apk", formery "VoiceSearch.apk" and "LatinIME.apk". I was hoping to find a transparent "Such_and_such_Image.png" in the new one, and the same image, only not transparent, in the old one. So far, I'm not seeing it. Perhaps its something deeper, something in the XMLs?
I can see you don't like the way it is now, but I think most people do, and I believe its working as intended.
Perhaps someone more experienced can help shed some light?
***Attached are the files in question***
In this post Konipub has a flashable zip for his rom with voice keyboard that doesn't have transparent background(atleast not in HIS pictures)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6182240&postcount=2
So I removed all the key layout files from my phone because some of them had different names and I know the zip wouldn't over ride them; and I flashed it. It looks just like the one from darches google ****s. I don't know if konipubs picture is inaccurate, or perhaps the background file is actually a file from the framework-res? I almost feel like it must be. Will do some heavy digging tonight!
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Its probably in an .xml within the layout folder. That keyboard bugs me when its like that as well...I'd dig through the .xml's, but ive been too tired to even focus on it...Try the Droid X keyboard, its nicer.
VinceOB said:
Its probably in an .xml within the layout folder. That keyboard bugs me when its like that as well...I'd dig through the .xml's, but ive been too tired to even focus on it...Try the Droid X keyboard, its nicer.
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Thanks. I actually do have Froyo with CM6 Test Build 0 right now, but I think the VoiceSearchWithKeyboard.apk was removed.
szainmehdi said:
Thanks. I actually do have Froyo with CM6 Test Build 0 right now, but I think the VoiceSearchWithKeyboard.apk was removed.
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I take it back, I think the problem is because the. .apk is for high resolution phones. I'm willing to bet there s an hdpi folder instead of mdpi. Yup, I was right this is for high Res phones. Its an easy fix.
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I take it back, I think the problem is because the. .apk is for high resolution phones. I'm willing to bet there s an hdpi folder instead of mdpi. Yup, I was right this is for high Res phones. Its an easy fix.
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If it's an easy fix, do you think you can do this? Please say yes.
And I almost gave up all hope.
Mods can delete this thread. No longer applies to CM Roms. Issue resolved.
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I am making myself a theme and was wondering if anybody knew which files changed these two things.
-Box when moving widgets
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-Title background for folders (apps organizer)
Sorry I can't be more help immediately but I can tell you the green widget moving box will be a .9.png and will probably be pretty small.
Obvious places to start would be in the 2 framework apk's but they may well be somewhere in system/app too. I'd look in anything widget related (downloader, updater, etc) and I'd look in rosie.apk too..
again, sorry thats just a couple shots in the dark but I'd like to know too. I'll poke around some tonight and see if I can find them
Yeah I figured it was going to be a .9 file, probably 1px but I just can not find them.
rujelus22 said:
Yeah I figured it was going to be a .9 file, probably 1px but I just can not find them.
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Well it would probably be a minimum of 9x9, and it looks like it has rounded corners so maybe more than that. Also, both of these things might not be pngs. Could be simple xml drawings.
I was thinking maybe xml also. are there any good tutorials on how to edit the xml's?
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I was thinking maybe xml also. are there any good tutorials on how to edit the xml's?
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Use APK manager to decompile the apk, it'll output readable/editable xml files. I don't have the link on me but a quick search in the forums will bring it up.
AwardTour, have you recompiled a framework apk with AppManager yet? I tried but kept getting an error when it got to the manifest.
OP, here is a link to Apk_Manager_4.8. I can't offer any advice on editing xml, yet.. I just decompiled and saw a readable xml for the first time a couple days ago it was cool
apktool
http://code.google.com/p/android-apktool/
makes altering apks a snap.
I have looked around in the XML's and png and still can not find these for the life of me. I have a few more I can not find either. Any help on any of these would be greatly appreciated.
1- Progress bar
2- Calendar Item Color
3- Phone Highlight Color
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All this really is is an inverted version of OrangeStree i made for my wifes HaraJukuLovers theme. But i figured id share it.
If you dont know about OrangeStreet here is the original post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=766998
.cab
http://www.brittondelizia.com/josh/BlueStreet.cab
There is probably some files that look better the other way that still work fine.. all i did was run an invert action script over the whole thing. So feel free to bust it open and mix and match the two themes however you see fit.
Edit: I modified a few files to work better, such as the message bubbles since they were black instead of white and the text didnt show.
Kinda girly...........................which is why I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do you have any girly email mods you'd be willing to share?
Looking good, nice twist on the original........
Thanks Conan.. im gong to build a script that will find and edit colors so anything we build we can just run it through it and make 2 or 3 color versions with no extra work.
ezzie said:
Kinda girly...........................which is why I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do you have any girly email mods you'd be willing to share?
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I dont use email on my phone.. my phone bothers me enough already. .lol. .so i havent did any email edits.. sorry. .but if you have anythign you want done im sure one of us will tackle it!
m0bmentality said:
Thanks Conan.. im gong to build a script that will find and edit colors so anything we build we can just run it through it and make 2 or 3 color versions with no extra work.
I dont use email on my phone.. my phone bothers me enough already. .lol. .so i havent did any email edits.. sorry. .but if you have anythign you want done im sure one of us will tackle it!
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Nice..... gotta love automation.........
@ezzie........
if you have something in mind for a "girly" email mod then stick a few images or a rough sketch of what you want up in my thread and see what I can do.......
With a little work and permission from jabbawalkee I have ported parts of the MattedBlues theme into this ROM. The original MattedBlues can be found at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=768848
I would also like to add a thanks and credit to nitsuj17 for some of the images and the dialer. At the time of my original post, I was unaware that some of the pieces I was using were his.
This is in beta as I have not yet gotten everything in it that I want, but it's a good start and usable. As usual take a nandroid backup before you flash anything. I am not responsible for anything you do to your phone while flashing any of this content. That being said, I have had no problems with any of it. It uses all of the dependencies so all of the stock apps should work and anything that has been removed can be added from the Pick-n-Pack ROM.
Here are a few screen shots. They are low res, so the dock icons look especially fuzzy.
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Just download, put on your sdcard and flash in recovery.
http://www.mediafire.com/?6zzr2aucgr4k686
If you want to use the icons for the phone, contacts, app drawer, mms, and web they are in the icon.zip below.
This looks like a theme as opposed to the rom, looks good though and Thanks for posting it.
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androidman78 said:
This looks like a theme as opposed to the rom, looks good though and Thanks for posting it.
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I probably should have explained a little more. I only decided to deem it a ROM because I left the apk's in tact. Since it installs apk's and not just the drawables and xml's I couldn't call it a theme. I will probably start a pull on all of that stuff so I can put it out as a theme also, but I have several others I'm working on right now so this was the easier for me. Kinda lazy I know, but if the permissions come in I want to be able to get them put out for the variety for now.
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OK, I took the time, not as long as I thought btw, to go ahead and rip out the files that need to be taken out of the ROM to make a theme only version. I will post it in the themes and apps section as soon as it finishes uploading.
i would like to say that some of my images and dialer from the fascinate port are in here ...in addition to the ones in the original
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i would like to say that some of my images and dialer from the fascinate port are in here ...in addition to the ones in the original
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Sorry, about that. I thought that I had the original downloaded. I will correct the OP to include you. I never meant to take without asking.
I need some help fixing a modified framework-res.apk (or at least that's where I assume it is). I have it fully decompiled and ready to edit, but I have no idea where to look and I'm sure someone with more experience than I can tell me where to find it quickly. Here's my issues:
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As you can see, the top and bottom bars on Gmail are black with grey text / icons due to a bad invert. I'm trying to make them back to the white-grey-whatever color they were stock. I've deleted the Gmail.apk file and reinstalled Gmail, but nothing works because, again, I assume the framework is screwing with it. The strange part is that when I select an email:
It becomes normal and all the text / icons on the top and bottom are visible again with the right colors for the bars.
Any help figuring out what to do would be great, I really appreciate it! It's a nightmare trying to read this in the Florida sun, so please, don't advise to put everything to inverted, I need the stock look back and can't make everything black with white text. Thanks!!!
This is on my SGSIII, listed in my sig, in case that changes anything in the framework - running 4.0.4
I think I have the answer ...
KryptosXLayer2 said:
I need some help fixing a modified framework-res.apk (or at least that's where I assume it is). I have it fully decompiled and ready to edit, but I have no idea where to look and I'm sure someone with more experience than I can tell me where to find it quickly. Here's my issues:
As you can see, the top and bottom bars on Gmail are black with grey text / icons due to a bad invert. I'm trying to make them back to the white-grey-whatever color they were stock. I've deleted the Gmail.apk file and reinstalled Gmail, but nothing works because, again, I assume the framework is screwing with it. The strange part is that when I select an email:
It becomes normal and all the text / icons on the top and bottom are visible again with the right colors for the bars.
Any help figuring out what to do would be great, I really appreciate it! It's a nightmare trying to read this in the Florida sun, so please, don't advise to put everything to inverted, I need the stock look back and can't make everything black with white text. Thanks!!!
This is on my SGSIII, listed in my sig, in case that changes anything in the framework - running 4.0.4
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First, I'm assuming you got this GMail.apk from a ROM release over the last 24-48 hours (not the official release, which I believe is available now). I'm saying this because, the ROM build I uploaded to JDBeitz last night should solve this issue.
Let me know.
Peter