If android is open source and able to be modified, can it be made to look any way I want it? All android roms look basically the same. Except for colors and themes, they all have the same basic properties. The same look phone to phone. I want something that looks completely different. I don't mean themes or something like that, I mean something that is completely different. I'm sorry (personal opinions seem to offend around here) but I am tired of the same basic look rom to rom. Anybody know anything? Thanks.
You can make your own launcher which will allow your home screen to look different than the rest but involves a lot of programming.
Also http://mycolorscreen.com has a bunch of people posting up their homescreens and what apps they used to achieve that.
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First things first. I want to take the current ROM I'm running, which incidentally is damagecontrol 2.07, and build a custom theme that is much darker than the stock HTC Sense, with some transparent elements, and changing every single bit of that day-glo green color into a nice cool blue, while keeping LWP fuctioning. I figured I would be using Metamorph for this, unless there's some sort of incompatibility issue that I have no clue about. Fairly simple, so I thought.
I'm new to android, but I have done themes and skins for things like winamp in the past. Lets be clear up front, I am in no way a slick coder, I haven't the slightest idea how to code Java, or Android, or the Linux it is based on. I'm a graphic designer through and through, and that's about as far as my knowledge goes.
Currently, I need help with setting up Eclipse to compile .9.png images for my theme. I've tried to research and get info on the .9.png images, and I understand how they work, I just haven't been able to find anything to tell me which version of Eclipse to download, (there's several on the site) and how to set it up with Android 2.1, (and a fairly new leak from Sprint) which is what the ROM is based on.
I can't help but think that what I'm asking help for has been asked before, but I don't know if I'm just searching or looking for the wrong thing, and I'm having a tough time finding answers to a very quickly growing list of very specific questions. If there's any thread's you guys know of to help me out, or specific resources to check out, let me know, so I can stop cluttering the forums.
In 5 days I'll have my newest thearmo theme up. Every bit of green is being replaced by cool blue. If you want, you can use my blue framework files to build your theme around. I've spent hours making everything that was green into blue. It's insanely tedious, especially the 9.pngs. I'm working on those right now. The offer stands...if you want to save yourself some time, you can build your theme with the files from my framework, etc....
hope that helps.
-alex
I hate to be a wanna-be mod, but this is posted in the wrong section. This is only for ROM development, not theming.
good luck with the theme tho, sounds awesome.
alexthearmo said:
I've spent hours making everything that was green into blue. It's insanely tedious, especially the 9.pngs.
-alex
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I agree with you whole heartedly (but you also know how rewarding it is when you see the finished product )
beyondinferno said:
I hate to be a wanna-be mod, but this is posted in the wrong section. This is only for ROM development, not theming.
good luck with the theme tho, sounds awesome.
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...and I agree with you as well
Konikub said:
I agree with you whole heartedly (but you also know how rewarding it is when you see the finished product )
...and I agree with you as well
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And I agree with you agreeing with them.
yes it is in the wrong area but still why not help answer the guys question. if you are looking to theme I wrote up a pretty comprehensive guide on how to do it you can find it in the wiki pages or just click here.
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First things first. I want to take the current ROM I'm running, which incidentally is damagecontrol 2.07, and build a custom theme that is much darker than the stock HTC Sense, with some transparent elements, and changing every single bit of that day-glo green color into a nice cool blue, while keeping LWP fuctioning. I figured I would be using Metamorph for this, unless there's some sort of incompatibility issue that I have no clue about. Fairly simple, so I thought.
I'm new to android, but I have done themes and skins for things like winamp in the past. Lets be clear up front, I am in no way a slick coder, I haven't the slightest idea how to code Java, or Android, or the Linux it is based on. I'm a graphic designer through and through, and that's about as far as my knowledge goes.
Currently, I need help with setting up Eclipse to compile .9.png images for my theme. I've tried to research and get info on the .9.png images, and I understand how they work, I just haven't been able to find anything to tell me which version of Eclipse to download, (there's several on the site) and how to set it up with Android 2.1, (and a fairly new leak from Sprint) which is what the ROM is based on.
I can't help but think that what I'm asking help for has been asked before, but I don't know if I'm just searching or looking for the wrong thing, and I'm having a tough time finding answers to a very quickly growing list of very specific questions. If there's any thread's you guys know of to help me out, or specific resources to check out, let me know, so I can stop cluttering the forums.
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If you pm me your google talk, I can help you set it up in 5 minutes later and show you how to compile the .9s and all that
nuformzdesign said:
First things first. I want to take the current ROM I'm running, which incidentally is damagecontrol 2.07, and build a custom theme that is much darker than the stock HTC Sense, with some transparent elements, and changing every single bit of that day-glo green color into a nice cool blue, while keeping LWP fuctioning. I figured I would be using Metamorph for this, unless there's some sort of incompatibility issue that I have no clue about. Fairly simple, so I thought.
I'm new to android, but I have done themes and skins for things like winamp in the past. Lets be clear up front, I am in no way a slick coder, I haven't the slightest idea how to code Java, or Android, or the Linux it is based on. I'm a graphic designer through and through, and that's about as far as my knowledge goes.
Currently, I need help with setting up Eclipse to compile .9.png images for my theme. I've tried to research and get info on the .9.png images, and I understand how they work, I just haven't been able to find anything to tell me which version of Eclipse to download, (there's several on the site) and how to set it up with Android 2.1, (and a fairly new leak from Sprint) which is what the ROM is based on.
I can't help but think that what I'm asking help for has been asked before, but I don't know if I'm just searching or looking for the wrong thing, and I'm having a tough time finding answers to a very quickly growing list of very specific questions. If there's any thread's you guys know of to help me out, or specific resources to check out, let me know, so I can stop cluttering the forums.
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This is EVERYTHING you could POSSIBLY need.
Android Ultimate Theming Guide
LINK: https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AcdxIJRSH9ypZGZzc2pxNDlfMjdnazk4OHNxZA&hl=en
I want to change stuff like icons, the flip clock and other cosmetics. I've got loads of ideas, but no clue of how to make use of them. I am absolutely new to creating themes, but my creative and GIMP skills are superb, if I may say so myself. So how do I do it? I need some kind of program right? Will the theme work on any ROM?
whatevaUsay said:
I want to change stuff like icons, the flip clock and other cosmetics. I've got loads of ideas, but no clue of how to make use of them. I am absolutely new to creating themes, but my creative and GIMP skills are superb, if I may say so myself. So how do I do it? I need some kind of program right? Will the theme work on any ROM?
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Would also like to know this. I just got the new MIUI rom and there's so much I want to change >.<
This would be very interesting - so I´m still waiting for good posts.
cu
Michel
Major bump, I am also, very interested in this.
well i rarely leaves comment on any site but your blog is really so amazing that i can't stop myself from making comment on it...
I like Android. I liked some of the custom ROMs even more. Especially in combination with a theme. However, there are always certain things that bother me. That's why I want to make my own ROM. Since I do not have any skill in any program language, I'm not going to build a ROM from scratch. That wouldn't be a good idea anyway . And I don't need to. I'm just going to use a custom ROM as a base. So mainly what I want to do is theme.
This is what I want to achieve:
- I want to theme every single aspect of the OS, or at least as much as possible. I want it to be a whole.
- As I said, I'm not going to build a ROM from scratch. That would be impossible. But my guess is that there are things that are possible to change. For example, I should be able to change the order in which the buttons in the settings menu are shown, right? And the buttons itselves? The text on the buttons? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I imagined it as a big text editor file in which you can just change some text. For example, there would be a big code for each button with lots of numbers and symbols, but between those codes there would be plain english text which I could edit (for example, the Application button at the menu: I could change it to say "Apps" instead of "Applications"), and I could also change the order in which those codes are shown. Anyway, that's the sort of stuff that seems editable to me, and it's also the sort of stuff I want to edit. What doesn't seem editable (or not so 'easy' at least) to me, is the fact that you can't pulldown the notification bar in the lockscreen in CM7. This is just an example, but you get it. I want to change as much as possible about a certain ROM, but only the things that I can easily change, like the order of certain buttons or the text on certain buttons.
I just used those things above as an example. I do want to change the order of the buttons and the text on buttons, but it's not going to be the only thing I want to change. So keep in mind that it is just an example.
These are the tools that I found that may be useful:
- UOT Kitchen
- HTC Android ROM Kitchen (works on NS)
- How-to-theme guide on XDA
- A Metamorph guide on XDA
I don't know if I need UOT kitchen when I'm going to use that big How-to-theme guide. Probably not. HTC Android ROM kitchen looks nice, but I don't know if it can change the order of the buttons and the text on buttons and that sort of stuff.
Things I need help with:
- Is there or is there not a big text editor file in which I could just edit some codes, or isn't it as easy as that? I'm not going to change a whole code. Like I said, I only want to change what's easy to change, like the order of buttons or text on buttons.
- What ROM should I use as a base? CM7 is probably the best, because of course I want a lot of features in my ROM.
- Can I use UOT Kitchen in combination with that guide, or is kitchen completely useless when I use that guide?
- My most important question: What, do you think, is everything I can change with my knowledge? I don't have any programming skill, but I do have time. And besides, I don't even want to edit a lot of stuff in a ROM. Just stuff from the outside. So mainly theming. Not too much feature-like.
Long thread. If anyone can help me get started, that would be great!
Please? Can anyone help?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=886971
Found this above thread also very useful.
To clarify what I want some more:
Besides changing the order of the settings menu and the text on the buttons, I would also like to add some more settings. I would really like to have the voodoo sound settings integrated in the settings menu.
Again, those are just examples, but those are the kind of things I would like to change. So nothing major!
Is it possible on android to make your own lockscreen from scratch, or at least a custom combination type thing because I've had an idea for something that would be nicer then a numeric lock but less of a failure then pattern.
* In retrospect I probably should've scrolled down to android section, oh well.
Yes, is possible but you must know programing in java..
Been doing java for a couple years, could you point me to a reference or something that its been done before?
Well, you could go learn Java programming language and go from there, or you can use an app called WidgetLocker. It's free in the Play Store but there is also a paid version available for purchase. With this App you can change the slider on your lock screen and also add widgets like you would on your homescreen. You can also add app shortcuts to it. If you'd like to download more slider options go to this link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=968613
There are hundreds of options to choose from. Just download it to your computer then drag it into your phones SD card and it should show up in the slider options. I hope this helps you out!
Y'know I know you probably want to get your 10 posts going and all but I see nothing in your reply that has anything to do with the original statement.
Sorry EphemeralMirage if no one has been of great help to you lately, I think he was just trying to help you and he was just trying to be nice. He didn't clearly understand your question, but being a bit nice to others would help in this forum.
You should probably check this guide out, have a look at it and see if it looks like what you need.
http://androidforums.com/sprint-hero-all-things-root/48610-guide-creating-custom-lockscreens.html
Thanks that looks like what I'll reference, as soon as I get the source stuff hammered out and all.
If you are looking to actually create your own way to unlock the screen
that is different than taking a stock method and changing the graphic.
It was something that I was going to look into, but I haven't got that far.
In the Nook, the screen unlockers are implemented in /system/framework/android.policy.jar
There are apparently three of them already:
LockScreen - the standard slide to unlock
LockPinKeyguardView - a four digit pin
LockPatternKeyguardView - apparently a pattern lock
So theoretically just use the source for that, add in yours and see what happens?
Then again that might be easier said then done, into AOKP I go!
AndroidPlus
Check this website to make some basic apps. it is very useful for the beginners.
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hello!
Was wondering if there was a way, or an app/hack available to tweak some small ui elements w/out root...
Love my phone, but there are a few things that I don't like at all and want to change, such as some of the colors (ie. on calender)
Stock system, not rooted (yet =]
huawei G610-U200
There are stock themes on the phone, but they don't change the system ui itself, just icons and such (should these themes change other elements as well? My old htc themes did. If so, them maybe that would do the trick- but they are not changing system colors etc.
btw, any chance thre will be a dedicated forum to this phone any time soon?
Also, if and when I do decide to root, I want to make sure there are some solid roms/kernels avail. for this model- so far I have not found much-
Does anyone know of any out there besides MIUI?
Thanks.
xda___ said:
hello!
Was wondering if there was a way, or an app/hack available to tweak some small ui elements w/out root...
Love my phone, but there are a few things that I don't like at all and want to change, such as some of the colors (ie. on calender)
Stock system, not rooted (yet =]
huawei G610-U200
There are stock themes on the phone, but they don't change the system ui itself, just icons and such (should these themes change other elements as well? My old htc themes did. If so, them maybe that would do the trick- but they are not changing system colors etc.
btw, any chance thre will be a dedicated forum to this phone any time soon?
Also, if and when I do decide to root, I want to make sure there are some solid roms/kernels avail. for this model- so far I have not found much-
Does anyone know of any out there besides MIUI?
Thanks.
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XBlast tools may help.But root is needed at first to install xposed framework.