I TAKE NO CREDIT FOR THIS LOOK FOR IT UNDER G1 THEMES AND APPS I DON'T KNOW IF THE LINKS WILL WORK SINCE I'M USING XDA APP so here's the post go look it up
I've never started a thread here, as I rarely have a unique idea - but this time I've decided to bite the bullet and share my experience.
It has been discussed on these forums about editing the APKs for non-stock apps in order to make the icon match the theme throughout the OS (as opposed to using Bettercut or similar to just change the homescreen icon). It has also been discussed elsewhere, but I can't find the link.
My problem was very similar, yet different, so I figured I'd play around and see what I could come up with.
I use the unbelievably sexy GlossSuite theme by Moonsspoon which uses this cool little icon in the notification bar to alert you to having a new SMS (and maybe MMS, not sure...).
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I also use the app from the market called SMS Popup. If you dont know what it is, check it out - very handy. One of my favorite features of the app is that you can use it for your SMS notifications, and it allows you to set a custom vibe pattern and it will flash the LED the color of your choice - both very helpful to let you know that it's an SMS you're getting instead of a call or whatever...
You need to turn off the native SMS app's notifications when you use this feature of SMS Popup so that you dont get 2 alerts every time you get a message. The drawback to this, while using a theme like GlossSuite, is that the notification icon for messages that SMS Popup uses is the stock icon:
This is only a problem if you're OCD like myself.
I had already gotten the png icon extracted from the GlossSuite theme in hopes that I could just swap it out with the icon inside the SMS Popup apk (if I could find it, that is).
So I decided to crack open the APK for SMS Popup and see if I could find the icon used and what I could do to make it use the icon from the GlossSuite theme.
Inside the APK in the /res/drawable folder there are 2 images: The app's icon, and the icon used in the notification bar. And to make it even easier, the file name was exactly the same as the file used by the GlossSuite theme! Easy enough!
I used 7zip (WinRAR should work just fine too) to:
1. Open the APK
2. Navigate to the /res/drawable folder
3. Delete the stat_notify_sms.png
4. Drag and drop the png I extracted from the theme into it's spot
5. Delete the META-INF folder inside the SMS Popup APK
-- I got this info from the previously mentioned thread about swapping non-stock icons. It is so that when you resign the APK in the next step, the keys don't conflict with what the APK dev has used (or something like that - I admittedly don't know anything about keys and signing and all that jazz)
6. Close your archiving application.
I then used this auto-signing tool posted by "Dave Da illest 1" to resign the APK using the testkeys. It had to be edited slightly to sign APKs instead of ZIP files. If you want to download my edited version of the auto-signing tool, click here.
Uninstalled the previous version of the app, copied the APK over to my SDcard and then used AppManager to install the APK, and now:
(yes, I know there are typos...)
It works!
I'm sure most of your brainiacs here at XDA have figured this out on your own, but I couldnt find any solid information on it so I figured I'd share what little knowledge I had on the subject.
If you want to try this for yourself and want the icon from the GlossSuite theme, it is here.
And if you just happen to have GlossSuite installed and are using SMS Popup and would like my already edited version of the APK, click here.
[DISCLAIMER: If my sharing of this APK goes against any rules of the forum, please excuse my ignorance. If I find out this is the case, and a mod hasn't beat me to the punch, I'll gladly remove this link!]
So - with all that being said, I should clarify that I haven't done any theme creation (although I have edited a few pngs here and there, but nothing major), so obviously this bit of information is probably well below most of you... But if it can help anyone, then yay for my first real contribution to this community.
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rulyskull said:
5. Delete the META-INF folder inside the SMS Popup APK
-- I got this info from the previously mentioned thread about swapping non-stock icons. It is so that when you resign the APK in the next step, the keys don't conflict with what the APK dev has used (or something like that - I admittedly don't know anything about keys and signing and all that jazz)
6. Close your archiving application.
I then used this auto-signing tool posted by "Dave Da illest 1" to resign the APK using the testkeys. It had to be edited slightly to sign APKs instead of ZIP files. If you want to download my edited version of the auto-signing tool, click here.
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really if you are using 7zip pull out the png you want to edit and make sure the one you are replacing it with is the same dimensions (i.e. if the original is 20pixels by 20pixels then the replacement should be the same 20x20) and have the new one named exactly the same (i.e. original named awesome.png then the new one you name awesome.png case sensitive) and drag the new .png back to where you got the original from inside the apk there is no need to resign. so leave the Meta-Inf alone and adb push the .apk file back onto your phone where you got it from.
... so what i'm getting at is no need to delete the meta-inf and resign if you are replacing the .png with a .png of same dimensions and name.
unless i'm missing something which i don't believe i am. (then again i don't use a file manager to reinstall the .apk i just push it to the phone.)
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The keyboard on the Droid X has been released and modded to work on an EVO, and some other 2.1 devices.
I think it is a great KB, and will use it over the HTC KB, I like the space between each keys, the speed, and the multi-touch.
The KB looks simple and is very easy to type on, in fact it finally has the biggest feature I want on an android KB, it corrects commonly misspelled words, but does not display them, or suggest them. This feature is cool but IMO, adds clutter to typing. For example, when typing "heklo" on the the keyboard, it auto corrects it to "hello" without displaying words or suggesting them like on the HTC and Stock Android KB.
Now, the purpose of the post. The only thing that Would make this KB perfect for me is to change the background color behind the keys to a grey color, I provided an image with something that I would like using Paint.
I have never developed for android and have no idea how to do it, but if someone who knows how to do it, could simply open up the code of the app, and just change the background from white to a grey, that would be awesome.
Many people would prefer it IMO, and it is a better typing experience because the colors are different and the keys are more noticeable, making it easier to type more accurately.
I provided a screen shot to show what I was talking about, and the original .APK of the Droid X KB.
Any help is appreciated.
If someone could point me in the right direction in finding it, I would be more than happy too. I'm looking through it now, if i figure it out......... I will make a black one
Like I said I have no idea how to develop, but tried something out, maybe it can help you.
I use Astro (file explorer) and when I open it I click browse file.
click 5th option=res>drawable-land-hdpi>then down to keyboard_background.9
I copied that to my computer, edited the pic which was originally white, and then changed it to the grey I wanted, I then deleted the original file to the .APK and then copied the version I edited on their and tried to install it.
But when I went to install it, it says application can not be installed.
If someone could explain it to me, I know because I edited a key file in the app, It probobly won't work or install properly, but does the whole .apk have to be refinalized and ready to install with the change I made to install right?
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Like I said I have no idea how to develop, but tried something out, maybe it can help you.
I use Astro (file explorer) and when I open it I click browse file.
click 5th option=res>drawable-land-hdpi>then down to keyboard_background.9
I copied that to my computer, edited the pic which was originally white, and then changed it to the grey I wanted, I then deleted the original file to the .APK and then copied the version I edited on their and tried to install it.
But when I went to install it, it says application can not be installed.
If someone could explain it to me, I know because I edited a key file in the app, It probobly won't work or install properly, but does the whole .apk have to be refinalized and ready to install with the change I made to install right?
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You might just need to resign the .apk.. not 100% sure though, never did it.
How do you do that?
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How do you do that?
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Like I said I've never done it, but if I had to I would try this..
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?p=1838214#post1838214
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I NEED SOME ONE TO HELP WITH THE XML FILES!! Please..... any help would be appreciated. What I need- learn the xml documetns coding, and when that happens... I believe I will have the letters white
froyo support?
will this have froyo support?
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will this have froyo support?
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If I'm not mistaken, this keyboard FC on Froyo
I'll just post the apk. It's weird how the space button is having the shadow stretching thing going on...... maybe someone can lend a hand.
If you already have the multi touch keyboard installed- uninstall-then install this one-go to settings-then uncheck then recheck multi touch keyboard- change input method in text field
Thanks so much, its people like you that make this website what it is.
It's nothing. I realized, while texting someone, that the weird shadow is on the orginal keyboard too
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Create custom FlipFont files with font preview and icon.
*At present this only works on Galaxy S phones, but should work if FlipFont is ported or released on other devices*
Why do we need to jump through hoops?
It seems that the fonts in the MonoType apks on the market are digitally signed. This is what is preventing the use of any old font being added to an APK. I believe the FlipFont app is looking for the digital signature in the font within the APK. If its not there, it does not use the font and reverts to using the default font. It MAY be possible to edit the FlipFont APK so that it no longer looks for the digital signature. This should allow us to use any font without jumping through hoops.
If you can find the FlipFont Apk please post its location or better yet PM me with its location. If your really feeling spunky ADB pull the file off your phone and post it here, so we can take a look at it.
Lets trick FlipFont. Heres what you need.
Apk Manager 4.8 found here. This will allow you to decompile and edit the APK attached at the bottom of this link. Dont worry its much easier then it sounds.
FontCreator 30 day trial found here. This is a windows only program. If you know of a cross platform, open source or FREE font editor please let me know. The one on source forge is not stable enough for use at present and its install needs its own walk through.
***Link for FontCreator has been downgraded to version 5, which will allow you to save fonts during the 30 day trial, unlike version 6. Thanks sigeltek***
Photoshop or Gimp. Note you only need this if you want to edit the icon file for the app. I will not go over editing the icon in the walk-through, this should be pretty self explanatory.
Digitally Signed Monoglyceride font found here For some reason Mediafire sees this as a jpg file. Click the download this image button in the link and you will see its actually a .ttf file. ODD :ºp
The Monoglyceride APK attached at the bottom of this link.
Walk-through editing the Monoglyceride font with FontCreator.
Open the Monoglyceride.ttf font with FontCreator
Open the .ttf font you want to use.
Make note of the number of Glyphs at the bottom right side of FontCreator when you have your font selected.
Click the Monoglyceride font window in FontCreator and choose edit>select all at the top of the program.
Hit delete on your keyboard. This should delete everything in the Monoglyceride window.
click Insert>Glyphs... at the top of the program
type in the number of glyphs your font has in it and hit ok. You should now see a bunch of empty glyphs in the Monoglyceride window.
Now switch back to your font and again hit edit>select all
Hit edit>copy
Swith back to the Monoglyceride window and click edit>select all... and then edit>paste special...
This will open up the Paste Special window. Put a check in every box in Item section and choose "Add Mappings" in the mappings section and then click OK.
If this worked properly you should see all of the characters and mappings from your font in the Monoglyceride.ttf window.
Close your fonts window in FontCreator
Click File>Save as, rename the Monoglyceride.ttf with the name of your font.
Thats it you now have a digitally signed font. If you want to double check, open the new font in windows and you should see that the font is still technicaly the Bauhaus font, but it now contains your fonts characters. :º)
*** eweo911 has just informed me of a quick way to resize the font if it is too large. You can check to see if its too big by double clicking on one of the glyphs after preforming the Paste Special section of the instructions above. Its best to choose one of the uppercase letters. If the glyphs image goes above the guide shown for cap it WILL be a large font on the phone. These guides are set in the perfect position for our phones screen.
Here is the quote from eweo911:
I have figured out how to make the fonts smaller so you can adjust them to fit the screen better. Not sure if anyone else has done it yet but here is what I did.
After you do the "Paste Special" in font editor (per Ritalins how-to), you will need to make sure all of the glyphs are highlighted in the new font. Yiou will then go to "Tools" and then "Glyph Transformer". Once there, you will select the "Selected" button, then under Available Features you will expand the Outlines tree. Select scale and then you will have two variables for Outlines-Scale. Choose an integer that you want to test with and then hit "ok". Save as your new font name and that should be it.
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Walk-through editing the apk with Apk Manager 4.8
Download the monoglyceride.apk listed below.
Copy the apk into place-apk-here-for-modding folder in the Apk_Manager_4.8 directory.
Run script.bat and choose option 9
Open Apk_Manager_4.8\out\assets\fonts in explorer
Replace existing monoglyceride.apk font with the .ttf font you edited in FontCreator
edit all XML, yml and smali files to include the font name or font.ttf depending on the entry in the original file. Just replace monoglyceride in these files and folder with the name of your font. Pay attention to capitalization in the existing files, and make sure to do the same when replacing with your file name.
Edit the last folder name in the smali folder tree from monoglyceride to the name of your font
Edit the icon.png in the drawable folder with one of your own.
Compile apk - option 11
Sign apk option 12
Check the Apk_Manager_4.8\place-apk-here-for-modding folder and you should see repackaged-signed.apk along with the original monoglyceride apk. Rename your new signed.apk file the same as the monoglyceride one and just check the name at the end with your font name. This is not REALLY necessary, but do it for consistency sake.
install apk on your phone
This might take you about 30 minutes the first time you run through it, but after you get accustom to the steps you should be able to bang through it in about 10 minutes.
Well here you go, here is my first custom FlipFont APK.
Monoglyceride
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http://www.mediafire.com/file/b63fa44f7ks7e3d/com.monotype.android.font.monoglyceride.apk
Its working perfectly for me, but let me know if you have any issues.
If you create a font with these instructions, please share it with the community. There is a thread in the Vibrant theme section found here.
Save this thread as a favorite or subcribed thread and you can easily view it and download the fonts in the XDA tapatalk app on your phone.
You will need Astro or Linda file browser to be able to download the fonts from your phone.
Sweet!! i'll give this a try when i get my Epic
Id like to personally thank you for this guide!!!
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Id like to personally thank you for this guide!!!
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What happened to his thanks button?
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What happened to his thanks button?
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....run along now little timmy before you get into something you'll regret.
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A couple people have asked me for a instructions on using Ninja Morph, so here you go. Since my main computer crashed I am forced to write this using my wifes laptop. This also means that I lost the 4G icons that I had already made. So I will be showing you how to change the signal bars instead. They are contained in the same folder so you can change them on your own once you are done with this. I downloaded a nice simple looking tower with signal waves that will work for what we need. I edited these in Paint to get the colors I wanted and clean them up a bit so they look good at actual size.
NANDROID BACKUP BEFORE YOU START WITH THESE STEPS. I HAVE PUT MY PHONE IN A BOOT LOOP ONCE WHEN DOING THIS. NOTHING THAT A RESTORE DIDNT FIX THOUGH.
1. Download the attached file containing the set of signal bars you will need. For future reference when you make your own they need to be saved in .png format. Save these pictures somewhere on your SD card you will remember.
2. Download Ninja Morph (refered to from here on as NM) from the market.
3. Open NM and allow it to run it's start up checks.
4. Select New Project at the bottom left of the screen.
5. Scroll down and select System folder
6. Select app folder
7. Scroll down until you find the SystemUI.apk and select that
8. After NM has extracted all the files, select the res folder
9. Now select the drawable-hdpi folder (this is where the icons are that we are looking for)
10. Now scroll waaaaay down until you start seeing the 3G icons. A little ways after that is where the signal icons are located.
11. Find and select the .png file that is labeled stat_sys_signal_0
12. Now navigate to the folder where you saved the filed you downloaded earlier.
13. Select the file labeled Tower0.
14. Select yes when it asks you if you want to replace the original file with the new one (don't worry, it will rename your new file to what it needs to be when you save it)
15. Now you are back in the SystemUI.apk
16. Select navigate through res/drawable-hdpi and scroll down to the bars again.
17. You should now see the new icon labeled as stat_sys_signal_0.png.
18. Now select the next icon labeled stat_sys_signal_0_full.png
19. Again we are going to replace it with the Tower0.png (I know this seems weird, but stay with me)
20. Say yes to replacing the file and navigate back through res/drawable-hdpi and locate the signal png's again.
21. From now on it should be easy to change all the files without my help, but here is a list of which file replaces which:
stat_sys_signal_1.png replaced by Tower1.png
stat_sys_signal_1_fully.png replaced by Towerfull1.png
stat_sys_signal_2.png replaced by Tower2.png
stat_sys_signal_2_fully.png replaced by Towerfull2.png
stat_sys_signal_3.png replaced by Tower3.png
stat_sys_signal_3_fully.png replaced by Towerfull3.png
stat_sys_signal_4.png replaced by Tower4.png
stat_sys_signal_4_fully.png replaced by Towerfull4.png
22. When you have finished replacing all the icons navigate to the main screen of NM and select Finish Project from the bottom right corner.
23. When it has finished extracting the files it will ask if you want to proceed. Select yes.
24. The next box asks if you want to zip align the apk. Select NO. Zip aligning seems to cause problems when doing this. Select No when it asks if you want to delete the project.
25. When NM has confirmed that the process has been completed you should see you status bar disapear. At this point you need to reboot your phone.
26. Once your phone has rebooted, you should see your new tower icons in your status bar.
Congratulations, you have just completed a custom modification of your phone. Don't worry, if these aren't icons that you like, or you want to change the color, simply upload a new set of icons to your phone and perform the process again from the top except select existing project instead of new project. So far I have successfully changed my 3G to 4G icons, signal bars to tower bars, and once my battery goes down to 10% it turns into a check engine light. So it seems that anything is possible. If you can find where the icon is located, you can change it to what you want.
Good luck and let me know if you need any help.
Edit: here is a shot of what my current mods look like.
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Just got done working on a friends Droid X. His 3G icons were located in system/framework/framework-res.apk. So if you candidates find them in where I suggested in my previous post, try that. I also have a custom set of WiFi icons if anyone is interested.
Here are some shots of my wifi, GPS, and airplane mode icons.
*It's IncREDible*
I have played with Ninja Morph a lot, and am blown away that more people don't seem to use it for some DIY theming. I'd be very interested in getting more of a discussion started on where different theme elements are in different ROMs (I've done a lot with CM7 and stock sense). Thanks for the good initial write up on this!
only thing that bugs me about ninja morph is the Zipalign or Zip at the end of it. most custom roms are Zipalign to save space and to use less RAM. you will have to use it Ninja morph a lot before you will remember which one to select at the end. i wish it would remember if the APK was Zipalign or not before it rebuilds it so you dont have to do a trial and error on it. I just gave up on it and now use 7zip.
Great right up though. I like it.
hello and thank you for this program. I am just starting in this aspect. I have an Acer a100 that only uses Wi-Fi so I would like thouse icons if thats OK. if so where can I find a link to them. I already found where the icons are located on my tablet.
Hi everyone,
this notification symbols are what you will get with this demonstration:
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(all changed icons and all changed apks visible in tiwili_png.zip)
(this charging text exists only for demonstration reasons, completely useless)
but mainly I want to show my new way of installation. Didn´t find anything in this way. It´s a kind of metamorph on PC.
From the beginning of my experiences with android files I complained about the fact that different mods concerning same system.apk “kill” each other, because always complete apks are installed. In other words: last in – first out.
Other disadvantages I see:
Merging apks only with knowledge of changed files inside
Difficult after updating & reflashing
Download & upload size
Nobody sees how a modification works
Same pngs-names on other devices, but e.g. battery-mods don’t work, have to be recoded
So I´ve searched a lot and find nothing, start trying a lot and that´s the result.
Now it´s possible to:
transfer modifications to other builts or hardware
control modifications. Using WinMerge you can compare existing and updating files
have smaller files
can easily be used after flashing new ROM
There are two versions:
tiwili-png:
It´s just for changing pngs inside folders that can be extracted by packaging tools as well. No signing needed. Script deals with existing system-apks on phone, pulls them, using zip-command-line-tool, update files and finally pushes them back to phone. Easy to use and very useful after flashing a new ROM.
All by one click!
BUT: For battery-mods a basic framework-res.apk is needed with the corresponding xml-files within that define number and matter of displaying icons, the rest is just organizing folder with pngs! I added my framework-res.apk from Android Revolution ROM 3.0.
Installation:
Download tiwili_png.zip & extract it
If you like Dinik´s style you´re free to download framework-res.apk and copy it into tiwili_png folder (for update-size demonstration I wanted to keep “real” download size as small as possible)
Open folder & Run backup.bat
Run IfYouWantMyFrameworkres.bat (if point 2 answered with “yes”, it´s 2.3.4)
Wait for ready phone
Run tiwili_png.bat
That´s all
tiwili-png I did first, but afterwards I thought it´s better to be able to mod every file within an apk by this method. So this came out:
tiwili-wholestory:
Every modification accepted. Works with system- and other apks. Signing included. Pulls dependencies from phone, pulls specified apk(s), compiles, changes, decompiles, signs and pushes back. It takes more time than tiwili_png but it´s more powerful. Placing just pngs in system-apps will do the same like other script.
All by one click!
Installation:
Download tiwili_wholestory.zip & extract it
Open folder & Run tiwili_ws.bat (Backups of original files are later in originalAPK folder)
Wait for ready phone
That´s all (demonstrated text modification on English only!)
As always: I´m not responsible for any damage etc. If you want to go back run recovery.bat.
Tiwili-wholestory is just for demonstrating. I´m not very skilled in modding but didn´t want to stop at tiwili-png. I simply use it to mod a widget-clock-app from market with clock-mods from HD2 forum. (market apps must be signed)
But any developer may use it to publish his mods. Modification is easy, ReadMe inside zip-files.
Thanks & credits go to:
Auto-sign.zip by Dave Da illest 1: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=471634
Apktool by Brut.alll: http://code.google.com/p/android-apktool/downloads/list
Icons & template by Dinik: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=639163
You can use everything here for your own, for development and for publishing. I think intonation of “public forum” is on “public”.
Who has ideas for the script: talk about it
Who has ideas for better possibilities: talk about it
Who has problems with my english: talk to my teacher, if she´s still alive…
P.S. I don´t know at all which files from systemUI.apk for signal strength are used elsewhere than Germany. But you can simple rename them to proper android file name. Should work.
P.P.S. I bet that´s my first little “program” since the 80´s on my Atari800XL. So don´t laugh so much, please…
Greets
idephili
Quick question
Is it possible to just get the application background (like how the internet app looks on the homescreen) and not the notifications?
I tried this on coredroid 2.2 the other day and all that got changed was the battery icon. The rest were all the same. Was hoping to get some dinik on my phone.
Sent from my Sensation Rockin CoreDroid!
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Is it possible to just get the application background (like how the internet app looks on the homescreen) and not the notifications?
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You mean the icons? They´re made with DesktopVisualizer and icons/iconTemplate from this thread.
pimpmaneaton said:
I tried this on coredroid 2.2 the other day and all that got changed was the battery icon. The rest were all the same. Was hoping to get some dinik on my phone.
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What would be more Dinik? Zip contains notification-icons for a lot of system-apps.
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idephili
great,
but the top bar get transparent only with the original htc skin, on the skin "amazing sence by cypis" ( apk ) the top bar stays as default.. no changes...
is there a way to make the top bar transparent on any skin.. ??
hope it's possible.
thanks ...
great work by the way , i just love it...
I'm sick of this black bar and blue clock clashing with my homescreen. Been tinkering with ninjamorph on the tf for a few days and I've been able to customize most of the ugly things away in honeycomb, but I haven't had much luck with the notification bar.
Does anyone know where the notification bar is in the framework.apk file? I'm looking for the back, home, and running apps icons as well.
Also I want the off-blue clock to be white, but after searching around the only methods I've found were using ninjamorph on phones. Any good methods for tablets?
Not really interested with launchers, tried alot of them and it just wasn't for me, doing it with ninjamorph to replace the framework files.
If this belongs in questions & answers my apologies, seemed like the theming subforum was more suitable.
ickkii said:
I'm looking for the back, home, and running apps icons as well.
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Look in SystemUI.apk for those icons
thanks man! Found alot of the ones I was looking for but didn't mention as well, like the blue glow. I noticed there were XML files with system bar in the title, does that mean I'm sol?
I haven't gotten around to replacing my wifi/battery icons yet, but I also noticed there are 2 sets - one in framework, and one in systemui, does it matter which one I change? Or do they change different things? They look exactly the same.
depending on which rom your running you can use the UOT kicthen to theme the battery ad wifi icons on the notification bar. it works on the rev HD rom i think, i run the revolver rom and havent tried it yet but i dont see why it shouldnt as long as you extract the framework res etc properly.
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you need to extract both the framework res apk and system ui pk to the kitchen once you have chosen the mods you want
I've use the kitchen with Prime's ROM. Battery icons are good
The font work but you'll have to play around cause some
font don't look too good on the TF.
For some reason kitchen wouldn't let me choose my framework & systemui files, no problem though, I just used a preset on kitchen and moved them over manually.
I just did the systemui apk with a reboot, changed the wifi and a few others but didn't change my battery icon for some odd reason. Updating the framework apk as I type this, hopefully it fixes it.
EDIT: no luck, just messed up my notification menu -.-'
ugh, my notification menu keeps overlapping the notification bar, need to find a system dump for 3.2 to start over because my systemui backup was overwritten.
This keeps happening when I swap the images out with greyscaled versions in ninjamorph.
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ickkii said:
This keeps happening when I swap the images out with greyscaled versions in ninjamorph.
What went wrong?
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looks like 2 framework res's running at the same time, although i could be wrong.
to upload the framwork res and system etc to the UOT kitchen, you first need to extract them from your current ROM, extract them from the rom zip to desktop. then you can upload them to the kitchen. the kitchen needs your current ROM res etc to implement the mods in the right way for your device.
then flash the zip that the kicthen cooks with CWM and you should be good to go.
well I'm not sure that frameworkres is to blame because when I replace the systemui apk back to the default systemui apk it goes back to working normally despite any possible framework issues.
I tried changing it image by image last night and came to the conclusion that when I change notify_panel_clock_bg_pressed.9.PNG, notify_panel_notify_bg.9.PNG, and panel_notification.PNG in the systemui/Res/drawable-mdpi directory it causes them to do this.
I also should add that in some circumstances ninjamorph shrinked the size of my systemui apk file from 1mb to about 800kb. Perhaps a compiling error?
Uot kitchen does not offer any custom notification ui's for honeycomb that I saw, but everything else of theirs that I changed manually to the systemui file worked without errors. It didn't change my battery icons in the frameworkres apk however. I had to change it manually because when I go to upload files, it brings me to this screen without even prompting me to select a file manager.
I'll attempt it on a desktop later on today.
ickkii said:
Uot kitchen does not offer any custom notification ui's for honeycomb that I saw, but everything else of theirs that I changed manually to the systemui file worked without errors. It didn't change my battery icons in the frameworkres apk however. I had to change it manually because when I go to upload files, it brings me to this screen without even prompting me to select a file manager.
I'll attempt it on a desktop later on today.
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Yeah I've never tried it on the tablet itself, always from the PC.
I tried to find the pngs to change, but I only found the outline of the battery. Does anyone know which file I have to change exactly?
ppzoid said:
I tried to find the pngs to change, but I only found the outline of the battery. Does anyone know which file I have to change exactly?
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battery icons png are located in the folder
res/drawable-mdpi
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res/drawable-xlarge-mdpi
easiest way is to use the UOT kitchen
I put together some directorys for the systemui.apk and framework-res.apk i hope they come in handy
and the overscroll glow png's are in framework-res at res/drawable-mdpi overscroll_glow.png and overscroll_edge.png