Well...i stayed up again last nite to finish this theme i started it
to use in my update. Its basically a rosie-reskin with:
blue accents
pearl/opaque rosie
white notifier
blue battery icon
matching vanilla lockscreen bars
other stuff i forgot(im tired)
were still working on this roidrage put icons together for it
and there will be more added but it will be added to my
update that should be out some time today. I just wanted
it for myself and we dont have it yet so figured id make it
and put it up. ALSO This is my first theme and it came out
pretty good i think soooo i hope someone likes it. And if not
idgaf, so go piss in another thread..... then on yourself....
THANKS
From what I see it looks nice. But one thing that should defently be fixed is the icons in the notifaction bar. The black squares look tacky. There are difrrent icons you can use in one of the stickies if you are to lazy to make your own. I'm sure they have some for white backgrounds in there.
MyDroidHax said:
From what I see it looks nice. But one thing that should defently be fixed is the icons in the notifaction bar. The black squares look tacky. There are difrrent icons you can use in one of the stickies if you are to lazy to make your own. I'm sure they have some for white backgrounds in there.
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Yeah, im still not good at this part yet,i wasnt being
lazy, i dont even know how to make the icons, though
i did not try. but i went from asking themers
here yesturday to do this for me, to messing with cs4
the whole day and this was the result (just think of
it as a rough draft)im a fast learner though,sooo....
nevermind, found in an other post
MagnusRagnarok said:
Yeah, im still not good at this part yet,i wasnt being
lazy, i dont even know how to make the icons, though
i did not try. but i went from asking themers
here yesturday to do this for me, to messing with cs4
the whole day and this was the result (just think of
it as a rough draft)im a fast learner though,sooo....
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Just load up the icons in CS4 or GIMP and make the background transparent. Also, you need to change the clock color to black.
if i wanted just the font, how do i get that
try this font pack, its called the droid font. Use it with metamorph. http://android-stock-theme.googlecode.com/files/fonts.zip
found in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=589315
font pack by jroid
the droid font is a little thick, and messes up some display of titles, etc.
when is this coming out
Took me way longer than it should of to do this (I am no graphic artist/designer), but I wanted it. For stock rosie only. Does not show up well against a dark background. I still want to improve it for the button presses, but it's a start.
new version, with better (now cyan) button presses!
danaff37 said:
Took me way longer than it should of to do this (I am no graphic artist/designer), but I wanted it. For stock rosie only. Does not show up well against a dark background. I still want to improve it for the button presses, but it's a start.
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screenshot?
Sorry about the lack of screen shot, was in a hurry. Here ya go.
By the way, this will not change your task bar or mess up your live wallpapers with sense or change anything else.
edit: I haven't tested, but in theory this should replace espresso to look like this, since I used trev's stock rosie replacement as a learning tool. so credit to trev for his help, even if he didn't know it.
I just recently moved from iOS to Android, and I like it so far but it looks kind of... cheap. I'm talking about HTC Sense specifically, stock/AOSP Android is well design but albeit dull to some (although I don't agree, I prefer the minimalistic design). Some of it is okay while other parts don't make a whole lot of sense or just look plain amateur. Most of all, I think it's way over exaggerated. I hate looking at the browser bar and seeing a heavily glossed bevel with a near near flat text input and a inset button. Why would a button be even inset?
Anyway, I like some of Sense's additional features, and since Cyanogen isn't stable yet, I'd like to re-design Sense to be more subtle and just better designed. I'm a well established UI/UX designer but always have a lot of work on hand. So if someone who is knowledgeable with the graphic files that make up Sense (preferably in the new Froyo build) and is willing to identify and send the files (preferably in a zip of organized folders so I could just re-design and leave as is which could then be easily turned into a usable update file by someone), I'd get started ASAP.
The EVO is fine as is, but improving the appearance of Sense would go a long way in calming my OCD mind Attached is a quick example of how it would look like. It's the "to" contact bar in the HTC messaging app - the top is default, the bottom is my redesigned version.
My main beefs with the default graphic are:
a. It's too glossy making the outset depth of the bar appear high, problem is that a flat element (the text input box) is laid on top of it thus making it look weird and unnatural. Plus it makes it look like cheap plastic.
b. The button is inset. Why? Have you ever seen a inset button? Maybe once or twice. Looks more like a active selection than a button. the lighting is also off and just plain looks terrible.
c. The corners are rounded, but why? It looks out of place and loses fluidity with the rest of the layout. One thing I noticed is that HTC likes to throw in rounded corners in just about everything they can.
Like I said, this will be a very subtle theme but I think it will help make the stock Sense theme better. So if anyone wants to help identifying the files or knows a known resource (which I doubt since Froyo must have changed things a bit), just PM me.
I second this request. I wish I could help.
I totally agree with you in that the Sense theme needs to be more subtle.
I have always wondered why it has taken so long for someone to come up with this theme.
that would be nice
I like the idea!
Heres what I have so far.
In framework-res, I have included everything I think you will need. You'll have to let me know how much theming you intend to do. ie buttoms/selections (everything with a stock gloss?) or not.
I will continue to dig up more of what you need once I hear how deep you're looking to go. I included the taskbar icons because those will need to be changed to fit whatever the taskbar changes too so they will match. Obviously I have yet to include the signal ones along with 4g, as well as the individual app status bar notifications.
I'll wait to hear back before I progress much further.
Again, very nice looking.
Edit: Updated my post to add more.
I want to fix as much as possible. Anything you send, I'll theme. I'll commit to that.
But at the least, I want to redesign buttons and major UI elements like the example I showed. I definitely would like to redesign selections -- I'm not sure why they are "crystal-like", I much prefer a AOSP-like selection but of course in green for Sense.
I'll look through these and see what I'll do with them.
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I want to fix as much as possible. Anything you send, I'll theme. I'll commit to that.
But at the least, I want to redesign buttons and major UI elements like the example I showed. I definitely would like to redesign selections -- I'm not sure why they are "crystal-like", I much prefer a AOSP-like selection but of course in green for Sense.
I'll look through these and see what I'll do with them.
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Ok, don't know if I edited my post before or after this, but I added more to the framework-res folder with an updated zip. It now includes everything from there you should/could need from that particular file. See what you can do with those. I'm not 100% sure if any of the files used in froyo have changed (what gets used in those folders and what doesn't) so bare with me. But for the most part it shouldn't be that difficult to dig up the rest of the important stuff.
I just pulled it now so it should be the latest files.
I just pushed that sense folder to my work server, once something is in there, they get done. I'll update the folder as I get more items.
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Ok, don't know if I edited my post before or after this, but I added more to the framework-res folder with an updated zip. It now includes everything from there you should/could need from that particular file. See what you can do with those. I'm not 100% sure if any of the files used in froyo have changed (what gets used in those folders and what doesn't) so bare with me. But for the most part it shouldn't be that difficult to dig up the rest of the important stuff.
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Alright so this is what I'll do. I'll theme these current files and when I'm done I'll post some previews and then you or someone else who is willing can send a new batch of files. That way it can be done in waves and can be easily managed.
So I'll finish these and post back soon.
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Alright so this is what I'll do. I'll theme these current files and when I'm done I'll post some previews and then you or someone else who is willing can send a new batch of files. That way it can be done in waves and can be easily managed.
So I'll finish these and post back soon.
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Ok, well this has totally got me pumped, so I went through and did more for you. I've included the other files out of ease, so what I have done is labeled all the folders which have new files (new from that one posted above) and added "contains new" at the end. Then within each folder i have created "new" folders for what I have added. That way you don't have to go through and figure out what you have done and whats been added.
This should keep you busy as I'm done for the night. This is a lot of the major stuff though. I will report back with anything else I find later on.
Award Tour, just curious, do you have experience with .9.png's?
Barnacles, I noticed you pulled stuff out of framework-res, did you toss him the stuff from com.htc.resouces.apk too?
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OP, just curious, do you have experience with .9.png's?
Barnacles, I noticed you pulled stuff out of framework-res, did you toss him the stuff from com.htc.resouces.apk too?
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Yeah the second file I posted here has pretty much everything he needs to start. Most everything from resources, and framework as well as other stock apps
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Award Tour, just curious, do you have experience with .9.png's?
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Not yet, but I understand them now I think. I noticed immediately that some of the files had to scale somehow and from your post just noticed that those files are the .9 files you speak of. I'll look into it but I'm just gonna assume that they have some sort of meta info in them for now. I'll work on those last so I can read up on the file format.
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Yeah the second file I posted here has pretty much everything he needs to start. Most everything from resources, and framework as well as other stock apps
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Awesome, sorry to interrupt, just wanted to make sure
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Not yet, but I understand them now I think. I noticed immediately that some of the files had to scale somehow and from your post just noticed that those files are the .9 files you speak of. I'll look into it but I'm just gonna assume that they have some sort of meta info in them for now. I'll work on those last so I can read up on the file format.
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Yeah they have invisible guides that tell the OS where to stretch the image to suit whatever purpose it needs.
When you open, edit and re-save them the guides disappear so you'll have to redraw them. You will find plenty of info on .9's.
The search bar you did looks much better than Google's version, I'm sure this will end up being a pretty sweet theme
This is no small undertaking or I would jump in on it and help out.
There are tons of people here who are more talented and experienced than I but if you have any questions you're welcome to pm me.
Hey guys. I am up for the night and addicted to flashing **** so let me know if you need a beta tester.
Once you finish what's there feel free to send them back to me and I can throw em back where they need to go and make a morph for the changes to test them out.
ok so are those .zips flashable? any screens of what you have done? it looks nice on the first picture
magicalan said:
ok so are those .zips flashable? any screens of what you have done? it looks nice on the first picture
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I only spent like 20 minutes on it today during work but I should do a hour or so more later tonite.
I finished some of the status bar but I was disappointed to see that the background image for a notification item was missing. I still designed it but if anyone knows how I can throw it in sense (maybe a simple file with the right name? maybe check a AOSP build because it should be in there) let me know.
Here it is for those that are interested, I will probably refine it further but this is what I got so far:
The aim, if you haven't already noticed, is to combine stock AOSP Android with a Sense-like look.
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I only spent like 20 minutes on it today during work but I should do a hour or so more later tonite.
I finished some of the status bar but I was disappointed to see that the background image for a notification item was missing. I still designed it but if anyone knows how I can throw it in sense (maybe a simple file with the right name? maybe check a AOSP build because it should be in there) let me know.
Here it is for those that are interested, I will probably refine it further but this is what I got so far:
The aim, if you haven't already noticed, is to combine stock AOSP Android with a Sense-like look.
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Looks good! Ill look for the notification bg image for ya when I get home tonight.
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App
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ok so are those .zips flashable? any screens of what you have done? it looks nice on the first picture
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They are not flashable. Sorry for double posting but can't multiquote. They are simply folders. Had to zip them up to attach them is all
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App
Try to send me a new batch as well, I *think* I'll be done with this in a hour. If you can, send me the froyo ones.
Alright, I have the latinIME.apk and I'm actually about to post a link from DB.
All I really am asking for is some color mods (There were alot in the HTC Hero sections) and since I upgraded to an Evo, I really miss it. I was wondering if anyone would be willing to work on keyboard mods for android 2.3.3 and up if you get it working, I would love you forever.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15069134/Mo... (Such as keyboard and system UI/LatinIME.apk
is the link for the keyboard.
The mod I'm looking for is the letters on the keys changed. Thanks alot guys.
Here is a kitchen you can use to make your own its really simple.
http://www.gimpsta.com/themer/main.php
Indirect said:
Alright, I have the latinIME.apk and I'm actually about to post a link from DB.
All I really am asking for is some color mods (There were alot in the HTC Hero sections) and since I upgraded to an Evo, I really miss it. I was wondering if anyone would be willing to work on keyboard mods for android 2.3.3 and up if you get it working, I would love you forever.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15069134/Mo... (Such as keyboard and system UI/LatinIME.apk
is the link for the keyboard.
The mod I'm looking for is the letters on the keys changed. Thanks alot guys.
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what kind of colors did you want the letters changed to?
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what kind of colors did you want the letters changed to?
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The color code for it is 0DF7FF which is a light blue. I used UOT to make a new theme for my phone and the color matches. FF0000 would be cool too.
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The color code for it is 0DF7FF which is a light blue. I used UOT to make a new theme for my phone and the color matches. FF0000 would be cool too.
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any other details you want just the key colors changed? also weird question can i see a screenshot?
It appears the theme isn't wanting to take. >.> Screw you Evo >=( First time it's being disobedient with a mod I applied. I want a red one to match the minimal red keyboard in the HTC Hero Gingerbread keyboards in the forums posted by User7816
I switched to Honeycomb 3D because the theme zip I made is being a **** head.
I'll upload the theme zip and hopefully you can learn a little about it or even dare I say it: Find what's wrong lol.
The color for the first code is thiswhile the second one is this
Hopefully someone can do this, I would love to see it on my phone
Hey everyone,
First of all sorry if I posted in the wrong section, I'm very much new here, trying to find my way around the forums.
Now, for my question: I'm using an old but trusty Galaxy Ace with Nebulosity ROM, Nova Launcher and the Gummy Liberty Gold theme. Pretty much everything in my phone is colored yellow or black, except those pesky little blue triangles in the bottom right corner of the contacts icons. (See the attached picture and you'll know what I'm talking about.) It really keeps bugging me as everything else is pretty much unified color-wise. Now, the problem is that I don't really know where the system gets the resources for that particular item. I suspect I could switch the launcher's color theme, but it causes a crash on the current ROM I'm using and forces me to reinstall the launcher. Is there any way to recolor that particular element? How can I find and modify it without having to change the launcher's color theme (if it's even possible at all)? Something I have tried (bear in mind that I have very little programming background, I'm pretty much picking up everything as I go) was decompiling the Liberty Gold theme in hope of finding a little blue triangle somewhere along the assets so that I can recolor it, but alas, nothing like that - this is why I'm suspecting that that element might be part of the system itself instead of the theme.
These might all be stupid questions, as I said, I don't know half as much about these things as I should, but I would really appreciate if someone could elucidate me on the destination of that particular element (or just it's color source) so that I could recolor (either in photoshop or by replacing the color code) it and make the whole UI have the same color scheme. It's not too too big of a problem and I do not want to waste anyone's time, but if there's someone out there who happens to know the answer, please write, I'd really appreciate it.
Thank you in advance!