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[Q] Title Bar removal

How do I remove the gray title bar for my app in the xml file for layout?
I cannot find anything I understand, doesn't error, or at least does not require a re-write of too much code.
thanks to anyone with this answer.

LuvinAndroid said:
How do I remove the gray title bar for my app in the xml file for layout?
I cannot find anything I understand, doesn't error, or at least does not require a re-write of too much code.
thanks to anyone with this answer.
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The title bat background is determined by what is in the ROM's framework-res.apk, not the individual app.
Go to framework-res.apk/drawable-hdpi and replace the activity_title_bar.9 and bottom_bar.9 with the one's you like. Remember, these are .9 files, broken files may give you FCs.

In your AndroidManifest.xml add:
Code:
android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar"
To the <activty ...> tag
Example:
Code:
<activity android:name=".Foo"
android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar" />

ah, thanks guys, the xml file edit was the one that woked for me.
On another note, I am playing around with the SkellyAPP to learn the pricnipals behind Java/Android structures.
How would I load in an image NOT loaded by the xml but one loaded in that I can re-assign placement based on random numbers so I can wrap my head around a "main loop" with action going on.
Sorry for my noobishness, but I learn by taking baby steps and I promise not to spam the forum with too much trivial stuff

Need a little help with framework

Ive been trying to look around for a while and i cant this. In the thunderbolt theme i created, the background blends in with font seen on second post here. I cant seem to find out which file controls that background. Before i port my version for liberty, i really want this fixed. can anyone tell me that.

This is from one of the Bowers awesome guides on themeing here
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/te...ming-guide-changing-system-text-settings.html
After decompiling the framework-res.apk look for the styles.xml in /res/values
Next is the menu text (when you hit he soft key for menu)
Do ctrl + f and put in TextAppearance.Widget.IconMenu.Item and click find next.
You should now be at this area
Code:
<style name="TextAppearance.Widget.IconMenu.Item" parent="@style/TextAppearance.Small">
<item name="textColor">?textColorPrimary</item>
</style>
Change textColorPrimaryInverse (black) to textColorPrimary (white and then black when pressed)
Also you could delete the whole ?textColorPrimary and just put #ffff00ae as an example for the color code you desire.
If that is all you need save and look down for the completing instructions.

[REQ]ICS Modified SystemUI.apk w/out AT&T Logo

The title pretty much sums it up. I'm fine with the stock icons and looks, but I would love a modified SystemUI.apk that just gets rid of the AT&T logo. I'm pretty sure I can remember what carrier I'm using. Especially since it's branded on the front of the phone.

working on it..

I've been looking through the code... can't find anything. I seriously need to brush up on my smaliing
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me either i cant find it..

tw_status_bar.xml in SystemUI.apk\res\layout
Code:
<com.android.systemui.statusbar.phone.CarrierLabel android:gravity="center_vertical" android:id="@id/carrierLabel" android:background="#ff000000" android:paddingLeft="4.0dip" android:paddingRight="4.0dip" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:singleLine="true" />
is the first thing you're gonna want to get rid of...
theres plenty more carrier and touchwiz references in there as well. Theres also alot of non tw_ layout xmls, for instance status_bar.xml that samsung left in there so i would start replacing tw xmls with the standard.

I could not find most of the standard xmls....status_bar and more weren't in there...

is your res folder just a bunch of images?
if you just simply extract the SystemUI, you wont see them. you're gonna want to decompile it instead. otherwise theyre in resources.arsc
removing all the references in res/values should help...
like
Code:
<public type="id" name="carrierLabel" id="0x7f0f00af" />

Ah found it. And I took it out. I'll test it and upload.
After I get home, that is...
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1568128
love this + apex launcher.
I think it will hold many of you over in the mean time, for me im not sure i'll ever want to change

theHOTNESS said:
tw_status_bar.xml in SystemUI.apk\res\layout
Code:
<com.android.systemui.statusbar.phone.CarrierLabel android:gravity="center_vertical" android:id="@id/carrierLabel" android:background="#ff000000" android:paddingLeft="4.0dip" android:paddingRight="4.0dip" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:singleLine="true" />
is the first thing you're gonna want to get rid of...
theres plenty more carrier and touchwiz references in there as well. Theres also alot of non tw_ layout xmls, for instance status_bar.xml that samsung left in there so i would start replacing tw xmls with the standard.
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Set layout_width and layout_height to "0.0dip". I also set padding from 4 to 0, but I'm not sure that's required. Recompile and its gone. I don't think you need to edit the others (I didn't).
BTW, don't edit the tw_status_bar_expanded unless your intent is to remove the "AT&T" when you drag the bar down (by the "Clear" button). IMO, it looks weird to remove that one because then the date and the button shift left.

Can we get the information needed to make this happen to the dev over at this theme: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1568128&page=5
So he can make this happen in his next update? That would be amazing.

romracer said:
Set layout_width and layout_height to "0.0dip". I also set padding from 4 to 0, but I'm not sure that's required. Recompile and its gone. I don't think you need to edit the others (I didn't).
BTW, don't edit the tw_status_bar_expanded unless your intent is to remove the "AT&T" when you drag the bar down (by the "Clear" button). IMO, it looks weird to remove that one because then the date and the button shift left.
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glad it worked for you. yeah i noticed removing it completely was somewhat of a bad idea because of the layout changes. its almost like you have to leave placeholders or things float places like css.
new to messing with android files but its funny how much the xml resembles html/css formatting. i would have thought they would have gone a little more "absolute" like apples cocoa bs but i guess this makes more sense for android given all the different screen sizes and dpis...
yeah i took mine out of the expanded as well.
the other edit was a different approach...instead of removing it from the layout i was getting rid of what it referenced to (so no other xml could use @id/carrierLabel) both will work but the former is more elegant.

Brightness slider in notification bar pull down?

This thread talks about the ability to add the brightness slider to the pull down notification area by doing the following mod in SystemUI.apk:
Open res/layout/tw_status_bar_expanded.xml and removing the android:visibility="gone" from the following line:
Code:
<LinearLayout android:orientation="horizontal" android:focusable="true" android:visibility="gone" android:clickable="true" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="56.0dip">
Well, Ninjamorph cannot handle this task since you need to decompile tw_status_bar_expanded.xml to edit that code line, so if anyone could use my attached already highly modded SystemUI.apk (it has a toggle edits, GPS icon removed, battery icons) and decompile, edit the code line, recompile and repost, I would much appreciate it.
Thanks in advance!

Lock-N-Load said:
This thread talks about the ability to add the brightness slider to the pull down notification area by doing the following mod in SystemUI.apk:
Open res/layout/tw_status_bar_expanded.xml and removing the android:visibility="gone" from the following line:
Code:
<LinearLayout android:orientation="horizontal" android:focusable="true" android:visibility="gone" android:clickable="true" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="56.0dip">
Well, Ninjamorph cannot handle this task since you need to decompile tw_status_bar_expanded.xml to edit that code line, so if anyone could use my attached already highly modded SystemUI.apk (it has a toggle edits, GPS icon removed, battery icons) and decompile, edit the code line, recompile and repost, I would much appreciate it.
Thanks in advance!
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This should work. There were 2 errors while de-compiling regarding your e911 cross hair images. No errors on building though so should be ok.

mastamoon said:
This should work. There were 2 errors while de-compiling regarding your e911 cross hair images. No errors on building though so should be ok.
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Thanks.. I will try it out and report back. Likely, the errors were the fact that the 2 GPS crosshair images were deleted that stops those annoying crosshairs from showing up

UPDATE: so... yes the 2 errors were the missing png files for the GPS icon. I could fix that easy though with Ninjamorph.
Now, you got the brightness slider in place BUT it does not work it doesn't do anything. I don't blame this on you so no worries as it seems to mean that some other additinal edit needs to be made as this just put the slider in place BUT does not actually activate it's function. So.. kinda worthless sadly

Lock-N-Load said:
UPDATE: so... yes the 2 errors were the missing png files for the GPS icon. I could fix that easy though with Ninjamorph.
Now, you got the brightness slider in place BUT it does not work it doesn't do anything. I don't blame this on you so no worries as it seems to mean that some other additinal edit needs to be made as this just put the slider in place BUT does not actually activate it's function. So.. kinda worthless sadly
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Half way there

mastamoon said:
Half way there
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true that.. but I dont know the other half and it would no doubt require deeper edited code to make the slider actually do something
oh well, thanks for the help as I did not expect this would be the outcome.

Lock-N-Load said:
true that.. but I dont know the other half and it would no doubt require deeper edited code to make the slider actually do something
oh well, thanks for the help as I did not expect this would be the outcome.
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Yeah it looks like the Power Widget edits are what actually do the stuff that slider is requesting. Unfortunately I don't have time to do much smali'ing now, but maybe somebody can finish it up for you. Or in reverse, take a completed one and move your images over to it.

mastamoon said:
Yeah it looks like the Power Widget edits are what actually do the stuff that slider is requesting. Unfortunately I don't have time to do much smali'ing now, but maybe somebody can finish it up for you. Or in reverse, take a completed one and move your images over to it.
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agreed 100%. I would have to carry over my battery images and the GPS cross hair mod - which I can do with Ninjamorph easy - but then I need to use whatever toggle setup comes in the completed one that has the brightness slider and I rather like the ones I got.
So, for now, I guess I will just sit tight on what I have.

If you like your current toggles, it's only a matter of swapping out the images of lidroid.
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[How-To] Edit Contacts.apk/Phone.apk for dialer pad ?

hi everybody, I need some help with dialer pad.
As you can see at the pic, there is much space at the right. The lowermost buttons are not in proper line. How i can resize them to put them in a proper line? Do I need to edit smali codes / values codes? Thanks in advance

The images don't need to be resized.
However you'll have to modify the layout. But this will be a task.
First you'll have to find out which layout it is that contains those three buttons.
The way I narrow my search down is, I go into red/drawable-hdpi/xhdpi/xxhdpi or whatever the resolution is. And look for those icons. Once you find the dialer, phone and contact add icon. Copy the names of these .png's to something then using one of the .png's copy the name and in the layouts folder. Search the images name. This will narrow down the layout.xml's and then from there you can find it. Once you find the layout.
There will be three lines that determine the images, you can fix the layouts by using the following code.
android:layout_gravity="center|center"
android:gravity="center"
Change the first one to where you want to button to be displayed so if its on the right side make it "right|center" or "center|right"
Hopefully I helped.
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krishneelg3 said:
The images don't need to be resized.
However you'll have to modify the layout. But this will be a task.
First you'll have to find out which layout it is that contains those three buttons.
The way I narrow my search down is, I go into red/drawable-hdpi/xhdpi/xxhdpi or whatever the resolution is. And look for those icons. Once you find the dialer, phone and contact add icon. Copy the names of these .png's to something then using one of the .png's copy the name and in the layouts folder. Search the images name. This will narrow down the layout.xml's and then from there you can find it. Once you find the layout.
There will be three lines that determine the images, you can fix the layouts by using the following code.
android:layout_gravity="center|center"
android:gravity="center"
Change the first one to where you want to button to be displayed so if its on the right side make it "right|center" or "center|right"
Hopefully I helped.
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thanks for your answer
I tried but doesn't fix it. I found what image it shows at dialer pad. it's '' ic_add_contact_holo_dark '' ( how i found it is? I have change the image with another bigger resolution one. Dialer pad shows it bigger but didnt cover more place ( i have thought that if change the icon wiht bigger one maybe it could cover all transparent space. but it didnt ) so with that way i found which image is that! Then,
I followed ur tellings. '' ic_add_contact_holo_dark '' is in Contacts.apk and the layout xml is '' speed_dial_input_dialog.xml '' . Here is the xml codes :
HTML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout android:orientation="horizontal" android:paddingLeft="15.0dip" android:paddingRight="15.0dip" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<EditText android:id="@id/number" android:layout_width="0.0dip" android:layout_height="48.0dip" android:layout_marginTop="16.0dip" android:layout_weight="0.8" android:inputType="phone" />
<ImageView android:layout_gravity="center_vertical" android:id="@id/contacts" android:layout_width="0.0dip" android:layout_height="48.0dip" android:src="@drawable/ic_add_contact_holo_dark" android:layout_weight="0.2" style="?android:attr/buttonBarButtonStyle" />
</LinearLayout>
I have changed '' android:layout_gravity="center_vertical" '' to android:layout_gravity="center|right"
but doesnt fix it, u have any idea ? really thanks for your help

Mind pulling the .apk from your device and uploading it? Perhaps I can fix it for you.
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krishneelg3 said:
Mind pulling the .apk from your device and uploading it? Perhaps I can fix it for you.
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here is the link: http://yadi.sk/d/ggjXtOnVQVrjt
Contacts.apk , Phone.apk and Framework-res.apk ...
Thanks

@SmiLeToLife thanks, I will take a look at it in an hour or so. Just woke up.
I'll let you know if I finish it
EDIT -
Couldn't find the needed layout. Sorry :\