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AOSP taskbar icon?

I'm working on a complete AOSP taskbar, however I'm having trouble with one pesky little icon (see attached). If I'm correct, then that's where the location icon should be, however for some reason it's giving me the roaming icon. Now, I'm not roaming for one thing, and for another, I have the correct .pngs in the file (sym_gpsone_[0,3]_[sprint,vzw].png in com.htc.resources.apk) but it doesn't want to use those.
Am I editing the wrong icons? Or is there another hack necessary to get it to use the correct ones?
Thanks.

What are the names of your gps icons in com.htc.resources.apk? Should be sym_gpsone_0_sprint.png and sym_gpsone_3_sprint.png. Make certain...If you can, zip up your com.htc.resources.apk and i'll take a look...

Gregalous said:
Am I editing the wrong icons? Or is there another hack necessary to get it to use the correct ones?
Thanks.
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If you're positive that you know you're editing the correct .png file and that you aren't roaming, then next logical problem would be in the .xml programming of the taskbar...but I highly doubt many of actually mess with the code inside the .xml files.
Double check the icon and your network settings.

Take a look for yourself. It's sym_gpsone_0_sprint.png and sym_gpsone_3_sprint.png.

Gregalous said:
Am I editing the wrong icons? Or is there another hack necessary to get it to use the correct ones?
Thanks.
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What ROM is this for? And where did you get the services.jar for it? I only ask because the same thing happened to me when I was puttin some **** together and used a .jar for Legend on Sprint(or the other way around I dont remember). Anyways, it looked exactly like that. So, you might want to check that first...

My ROM that I'll be releasing soon has, I think, all of the icons changed to their AOSP counterparts. (might be missing mail, since I don't use that apk) The headphone icons I had to derive from the black versions, but I think they look very good. (I couldn't find aosp icons for headphones??) I don't have the rest of the ROM exactly how I'd like it yet, so I'm not posting it yet... but if you'd like to look at (or steal) what I've got, you're welcome to, just send me a PM and I'll link you to it. It's highly based on the Gomorrahs Green Hero One theme, and he had most of them already fixed.
I'd also like to add that I've got the notification panel AOSP themed too, minus the carrier text color.

gomorrah said:
What ROM is this for? And where did you get the services.jar for it? I only ask because the same thing happened to me when I was puttin some **** together and used a .jar for Legend on Sprint(or the other way around I dont remember). Anyways, it looked exactly like that. So, you might want to check that first...
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Good point, I snagged the services.jar from one of the posts in the themes thread, I think it was for one of the earlier Fresh ROM's...
I'll try a different one and see if I get different results. Thanks for pointing that out!

REQ [MetaMorph]: Swype / Files inside

Hi,
i never did a Morph myself, probably i will try it later today. If someone is a bit more experienced he'll do that in a few minutes i think.
May someone be so kind and do the morphs for me (and tell me which file he needs?).
I have different Keyboard Layout styles here for swype (original, black/red, htc style, galaxy syle, original brown style).
I put them in the correct folders like com.swype.android.inputmethod/assets/keyboards. There are only some png's which have to be replaced.
They should work with every version / mod.
A sample morph can be found here (but it is for the old Metamorph version)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6753575&postcount=102
The Morphs include QWERTY AND QWERTZ Layout.
Credits will be added soon, i have to look for myself from where i got this. I modified the black QWERTZ and the brown original style.
Thanks Sho3box for the Black Theme http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=2308049
Files following

screenshots here
second step would be adding different tracer and corresponding glow colors so everyone can mix that and do his favorite version!

nice!
thanks
PS: Yeah a metamorph would be great.

no metamorphers here?

Have you tried editing en resigning the latest beta release?
Manually and autosigning it both made it crash in my case.
Thx and greets

Yes works great for me but I am signing manually (ok i see you tried both..)
what do you edit exactly?

watercool said:
Yes works great for me but I am signing manually (ok i see you tried both..)
what do you edit exactly?
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I tried signing my own apk yesterday and I can't figure it out on my mac. There isn't much support online for Mac users. Were you able to make an HTC theme for Swype yet, or did someone? I don't need anything fancy just the HTC style keyboard in either a MM or apk. I think someone posted the Morph file in another thread but it's for the old version of MM which I can't find one that works on my N1. Let me know if you have anything modded already that could help me out or even the old version of MM would work I suppose with the other HTC style keyboard previously posted.
Thanks!

I'm sorry but I guess my problem wasn't the signing because the install went fine, it's just that when running swype it crashed instantly thus making it useless...
maybe I need to try it with an earlier version...
Could anyone who can confirm a successful mod please post the version number in here?
Thanks

wow id love that black swype with a red trace line for my evo..

watercool said:
Hi,
i never did a Morph myself, probably i will try it later today. If someone is a bit more experienced he'll do that in a few minutes i think.
May someone be so kind and do the morphs for me (and tell me which file he needs?).
I have different Keyboard Layout styles here for swype (original, black/red, htc style, galaxy syle, original brown style).
I put them in the correct folders like com.swype.android.inputmethod/assets/keyboards. There are only some png's which have to be replaced.
They should work with every version / mod.
A sample morph can be found here (but it is for the old Metamorph version)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6753575&postcount=102
The Morphs include QWERTY AND QWERTZ Layout.
Credits will be added soon, i have to look for myself from where i got this. I modified the black QWERTZ and the brown original style.
Thanks Sho3box for the Black Theme http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=2308049
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maybe this will help..i have no idea how to do it.. got confused just reading it but im really hoping someone knows how to do it
i researched and came up with this..i hope it helps.. if it doesn't i cant say i didnt try..
http://droidthings.freeiz.com/?page_id=350

wow i really like those themes

I did a Morph and it was processed properly but afterwards Swype wasn't present anymore to choose as input method.
I checked this twice, on internal and external memory.
But both times same result, swype isn't chooseable anymore
So I had to reinstal it again and then all is fien again.

How do you install this?

SlideIT keyboard?

I use SlideIT keyboard, but I don't like the color in it, because it doesn't match my theme I am using. So I ask here if anyone can help me change the colour so it match the GreenGlow theme. Is there anyone here that can help me? I can donate to the person that's help me.
Best regards
J
Sent from my ~FreeX10 2.2~GreenGlow~ Using SlideIT

gonna give this a bump.
Me and another dude are working on a few themes, but we cant find the xml to change key color to white. I will PAY someone if they can find it.
not having white keys are limiting the possibilities. we still have a few versions in progress though

bad4u6669 said:
gonna give this a bump.
Me and another dude are working on a few themes, but we cant find the xml to change key color to white. I will PAY someone if they can find it.
not having white keys are limiting the possibilities. we still have a few versions in progress though
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I'm browsing through the apk right now, and there are a LOT of .xml files, what would it be called on any other keyboard (if you know) or what line of code would i be looking for exactly? im pretty much just looking for the HEX of 00000 or FFFFF not sure which one is black

is is definitly not in the xml as a hex color. 000000 is black ffffff is white.
last week i changed all instances of 000000 to ffffff and it didnt change it. also in the aramibi folder changed the .so file. changed "000000ff" (found twice) to "ffffffff" still no go.
However, messing with my theme i just noticed something. After messing with images i realized something and verified this by changing the background.png to full transparent. once i applied this change the full background is black.
there is something in the xml's that call for a dark background. Im going back through the xmls now. Hope this will help find the string.

I think that this is too much for me, maybe if I knew more about what I was looking for. I'm used to doing this kind of stuff for iOS .plist files and strings...maybe after I get used to android and .xml files I can be more useful. I'll keep looking around though.

Themed Calendar

I really didn't like that wooden calendar and it's colors, so I changed it a little bit.
There is only one color that I couldn't find. (picture number 2)
Special Thanks to biopsin for helping me to build this,
and thanks to cheatman for looking in to it.
If you want to try it, just download the zip file and flash it via recovery.

Does anyone know why I can't change those colors?

Hey guy,
I'm sorry but I can't help you. But i like your app. Please don't give up!

odysseus84 said:
Hey guy,
I'm sorry but I can't help you. But i like your app. Please don't give up!
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I'm trying, but I haven't found a way to edit that xml. I don't have any problem
with other xmls but this one... I don't know what's wrong.

Looks like some great work there mate. As for your odd xml file problem, I'm not sure there's much you can do. I've had problems like that with a couple of apk's and I've never found a reliable fix. Sorry

Decompile the apk using apktool or apkmanager .... n den edit the xml....n compile agn
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agc93 said:
Looks like some great work there mate. As for your odd xml file problem, I'm not sure there's much you can do. I've had problems like that with a couple of apk's and I've never found a reliable fix. Sorry
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Yeah, I've had this problem before with a framework.

Thats a nice theme. The wooden calendar wasnt really bad, but your theme makes it really nice!

I realy like your theme. The contacts.apk and the phone.apk are "woody ugly" too. Would you theme theese apps too?

Can you post your said XML alone as an attachment (the already modified and original)? I'd like to take a look at it.
As some resources (files in the /res folder) are shared between apps through the framework, changing anything shared might result in an inconsistency and FC the app.
A workaround might be to completely decompile the framework as a dependency and modify it there. It would result in a more dramatic change, but it would cross over to other apps such as the contacts, dialer and calendar simultaneously.
PS: this also applies to the browser, email app, contacts and so on, depending on what you change.

cheatman said:
completely decompile the framework as a dependency and modify it there.
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but How?
by using what software?
I face similar issue and tried with apktool and apkmanager with no hope.
Would u give me a hand?

odysseus84 said:
I realy like your theme. The contacts.apk and the phone.apk are "woody ugly" too. Would you theme theese apps too?
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I've already woked on both of them, you can find them in Themes and Apps section.

cheatman said:
Can you post your said XML alone as an attachment (the already modified and original)? I'd like to take a look at it.
As some resources (files in the /res folder) are shared between apps through the framework, changing anything shared might result in an inconsistency and FC the app.
A workaround might be to completely decompile the framework as a dependency and modify it there. It would result in a more dramatic change, but it would cross over to other apps such as the contacts, dialer and calendar simultaneously.
PS: this also applies to the browser, email app, contacts and so on, depending on what you change.
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So there are lots of things that should be checked.
I uploded the xml here. There are 3 colors in this xml and I can't change any of
them. The xml is in layout folder and there is another xml with the same name in
layout-land folder. I've tried working on this one as well but the result is the
same as the other one.
Anyway, thanks for looking in to it, mate.

sohrab1985 said:
I've already woked on both of them, you can find them in Themes and Apps section.
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Yes, i know that. They are nice but they don't look as good as the calendar (cause blue). Maybe you can change the colours to a few dark colours like your calendar (it's perfect for Meizu's Dark Theme)
What ever is come... thanks for your work
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odysseus84 said:
Yes, i know that. They are nice but they don't look as good as the calendar (cause blue). Maybe you can change the colours to a few dark colours like your calendar (it's perfect for Meizu's Dark Theme)
What ever is come... thanks for your work
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I see what I can do.

Ok, in the XML I can see you have three variations of brown/orange. Judging by the colors, I suspect this is the default XML, before editing it.
The colors are #ffbe801d, #ffede3c2 and #ff503200. What values are you trying to set instead of these? What I mean is, how EXACTLY are you replacing the actual text in the XML:
#ffbe801d becomes: ???
#ffede3c2 becomes: ???
#ff503200 becomes: ???
This is important as the color representation is not the basic HEX code encountered in regular web dev (for example). It's a 16-bit hex representation with alpha. The first two elements (ff) stand for 100% opacity.
C.

cheatman said:
Ok, in the XML I can see you have three variations of brown/orange. Judging by the colors, I suspect this is the default XML, before editing it.
The colors are #ffbe801d, #ffede3c2 and #ff503200. What values are you trying to set instead of these? What I mean is, how EXACTLY are you replacing the actual text in the XML:
#ffbe801d becomes: ???
#ffede3c2 becomes: ???
#ff503200 becomes: ???
This is important as the color representation is not the basic HEX code encountered in regular web dev (for example). It's a 16-bit hex representation with alpha. The first two elements (ff) stand for 100% opacity.
C.
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Yeah, that's right, this is the default xml.
I edit the xml same as other xmls which I edit without any problem, I just open
the xml in a text file and change the value I want to edit and then I save it and
after that I compile it with Apk Manager.
I just want to change them to something like gray, for example I want to change
#ffbe801d to #ff787878 and #ffede3c2 to #ffbcbcbc. It dosen't matter if they
are not exactly these colors, like I said before I just want to make them gray
For the third one, I don't think it changes those two colors that I want to change.
Btw, thanks for helping.

Well, I've looked into it and I can:
1. Fully Decompile the APK. It doesn't need any shared resources from external packages.
2. Edit the XMLs accordingly. I have also seen that you were very thorough in your theme creation process.
It's all good apparently, however, I am unable to recompile everything back. The APK tool reports some missing resources. For some reason, there is a dependency that is not satisfied, although the package decompiles correctly (I have never seen a similar package before).
I'll have to scour some Google documentation before I'll come up with a relevant result, so it may take a while. I'm not gonna let it fly, though. The entire process should be plain smooth and must be doable anyway.

Hi
I have no issues bulding the calendar. If u send me your edited files i can try build it for you..also chech if apktool is up to date, using older ver. will hand out errors..
Edit
Tested these colors
#ffbe801d becomes: ff6090bf
#ffede3c2 becomes: ff9198b1
#ff503200 becomes: ff001d50
ref. : http://www.color-hex.com/
and it builded ok
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cheatman said:
Well, I've looked into it and I can:
1. Fully Decompile the APK. It doesn't need any shared resources from external packages.
2. Edit the XMLs accordingly. I have also seen that you were very thorough in your theme creation process.
It's all good apparently, however, I am unable to recompile everything back. The APK tool reports some missing resources. For some reason, there is a dependency that is not satisfied, although the package decompiles correctly (I have never seen a similar package before).
I'll have to scour some Google documentation before I'll come up with a relevant result, so it may take a while. I'm not gonna let it fly, though. The entire process should be plain smooth and must be doable anyway.
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I'm sorry for putting you throurgh all of this, it's not really a big deal, mate.

[Q] A Path to Take

Hey Guys,
I wanna learn modding and developing Android. I'm new to XDA and don't know which path to take. Should I start by modding some .apks or should I use Android SDK to learn to develop apps. BTW, I use Linux (Xubuntu 1.04) and I'm familiar with the Command Line. I just want somebody to point me in the right direction.
Thank you...

JasonKZLY said:
I'm new to XDA and don't know which path to take.
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Hi.
Take which ever comes naturally, but you should have some idea before signing up as modding an apk or two is a bit different to developing a full app I would say. I would start by reading reading and reading some more.

Hmm...
XperienceD said:
Hi.
Take which ever comes naturally, but you should have some idea before signing up as modding an apk or two is a bit different to developing a full app I would say. I would start by reading reading and reading some more.
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I found this thread by Cyanogen --- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=667298. I decided to take his advice but I have another question, a bit stupid one perhaps, I was trying to edit my Android's Phone.apk. I was changing the colour of the numbers in the dialpad to blue, I used Gimp (Yes, I changed the mode to RGB) and edited the .png files in both drawable-hdpi-finger and drawable-mdpi-finger. I signed and zip-aligned the .apk, after putting it in my phone's system/app, changing permissions and rebooting. The Numbers in the dial-pad was still white in colour, I had also edited the unknow-caller png and that worked but the dialpad thingy didn't work. Any ideas???

JasonKZLY said:
I found this thread by Cyanogen
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A third path then. :silly:
JasonKZLY said:
The Numbers in the dial-pad was still white in colour, I had also edited the unknow-caller png and that worked but the dialpad thingy didn't work. Any ideas???
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It might not be an image but controlled by an xml, or the buttons you've changed aren't what's used by the Phone etc, for example the dialer buttons in my Phonebook to make a call aren't the same as when I'm on a call, as the ones used while I'm in a call are in another apk, which for me is SEMCPhone.apk, which you'll only find on SonyEricsson/Sony Phones.