Hey all, been searching for a while looking for a tutorial on building a CM9 theme for the theme chooser, even decompiled some apks and found basically nothing of value for coding myself. Would love some help on this, anywhere theres a guide, or video, anything to get me started would be great.
To be clear, when you decompile these, the class that does something seems to always be called foo and they dont have any code at all within them other than declaring that they extend activity. That in particular makes no sense to me.
Heres a tutorial on porting themes to the Theme Chooser engine. You have to make a theme first then you should be able to port it over, or ask if you can use someones theme already and port that.
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/25221-guide-how-to-port-themes-to-t-mobile-theme-chooser/
You can use this theme as a template for yours.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1642077
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Why are more themers NOT using the theme manager in CM7? I think this is one of the absolute COOLEST additions to CM7 and cant find that many themes that support it.
What gives? It it SO much better than having to boto to recovery and flash every time, and if you dont like it, its SUPER easy to get back.
frettfreak said:
Why are more themers NOT using the theme manager in CM7? I think this is one of the absolute COOLEST additions to CM7 and cant find that many themes that support it.
What gives? It it SO much better than having to boto to recovery and flash every time, and if you dont like it, its SUPER easy to get back.
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made a whole thread out of it to get more attention,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=948109
I still like to flash because I know it's made for my device. Plus, correct me if I'm wrong.. but theme chooser doesn't give you things llike widgets?
I use Sonnys themes here because it gives me a bunch of widgets and apps that are themed.. as well as lockscreens, notification pulldowns.
That said, I wouldn't have an issue applying a theme then pushing the widgets I want, but I haven't found any that are really my style.
Rippley05 said:
I still like to flash because I know it's made for my device. Plus, correct me if I'm wrong.. but theme chooser doesn't give you things llike widgets?
I use Sonnys themes here because it gives me a bunch of widgets and apps that are themed.. as well as lockscreens, notification pulldowns.
That said, I wouldn't have an issue applying a theme then pushing the widgets I want, but I haven't found any that are really my style.
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I think themers are still unlocking the potential of theme manager. Over the past two weeks I've seen more and more complex themes being released. Personally I love the theme manager and how easy it make to hop from theme to theme.
I'll be keeping my themes flashable for a while still. In order to get them on theme manager, I'd have to re-do everything (again). Also, themes installed through the theme manager app can't modify a lot of things that make a theme look "complete" and I'd rather release a flashable theme that covers all the bases than a theme for the theme manager that only gives you half of it.
I've noticed that there are a lot of great themes available, but I find myself in a conundrum. I was wondering if there was a way to easily create a theme for the T-mobile theme chooser using bits and pieces of other themes already created?
Hey all,
I would like to know how to male my own theme, changing the colors of the apps and that kind of stuff. Not the real deep software part, but just the changing of colors in an app? Just like Amoled Blue from etoy does. Would really appreciate it if someone could tell me!!
Greetzz, Jojoost.
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There are plenty of theming tutorial threads at xda. Start reading.
Theming involves decompiling each app and the framework and swapping the image files to the desired ones. It's a lot of work - that's why there's not a ton of themes out there, outside of the CM7 Theme Chooser apks.
I want to implement my icons into a theme, and my questions are:
First question: Does the cm9/aokp (prev cm7 themes) have the capability of theming all application icons, including non-system apps?
Second question: Is there a way to make the theme only apply icons, and nothing else.
My goal is to create a theme that is just icons, due to the limitations of the theme chooser (my understanding is one can only have a single theme applied at once). This way someone could apply my icons, and then install a theme via flashing it, to have the best of both worlds.
Any help would be appreciated, I couldn't find an answer otherwise.
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Delvien said:
I want to implement my icons into a theme, and my questions are:
First question: Does the cm9/aokp (prev cm7 themes) have the capability of theming all application icons, including non-system apps? .
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I Googled your question to find out that there's one theme in the play store that is a "cm9/aokp (previously cm7 theme)" they actually say they had to port it to cm9 (read the theme's info on play store), anyway the developer says that the icons come in a separate package -for the moment, IMHO and since these people have promised to have the third party apps in the coming weeks, then it is possible as long as there are people who have already been working on it.
Good luck.
Take a look at the Cobalt, Crimson Cobalt, and Purple Kush themes. They work really well and look good, they also theme 3rd party app icons (I noticed ES file explorer and Google Chrome were themed.) You can look through the apk to see the method of third party theming, i'm sure it isn't too hard with the theme chooser implemented.
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Take a look at the Cobalt, Crimson Cobalt, and Purple Kush themes. They work really well and look good, they also theme 3rd party app icons (I noticed ES file explorer and Google Chrome were themed.) You can look through the apk to see the method of third party theming, i'm sure it isn't too hard with the theme chooser implemented.
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Hey guys,
Is it possible to apply only the status and navbar part of a theme like e.g. Fi or Atomic Green? Often I don't like the changed design of some apps and menus, but really like other parts the theme I'd like to apply. Sadly that is all done with the "Style" part.
Thank you!
I don't think that's possible without decompiling the themes app and removing the theming you don't want. Then again, I'm not themer so I cannot say for sure. Someone else more knowledgeable could chime in and clear the air.
P.S. this belongs in the Q+A forum not themes and apps.
Thx for the answer and the move to the right forum