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[APP][all versions] ColorARGB

Hi all!
I just made this simple app mainly for personal use. However, I decided to share in case someone finds it useful.
It basically turns your Alpha and RGB into a string you can use in xml used by Android (themes etc.). See screenshot.
Source: https://github.com/Rdlgrmpf/ColorARGB
Download: https://github.com/Rdlgrmpf/ColorARGB/downloads

It would be great to change dinamically background color!
Sometimes it's important to see how colors look at phone's screen

dimcher said:
It would be great to change dinamically background color!
Sometimes it's important to see how colors look at phone's screen
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Wow, I'm sorry for the late answer, I forgot to subscribe
The Color of the output changes. Or what do you mean?

[FIX][CM10.1] Layout fixes

NOTE: I'm not responsible if anything happens to your phone. (as always)
=> Source
Framework & SystemUI fixes
This fix includes:
- App background color gradient - eg. in Settings,... (big thanks for this tutorial, aarun!)
- Fixed small/wrong icons across the system - mainly statusbar (again ), menu icons and in power menu
- really small percentage battery icon is a little bigger now
- fixed some lockscreen layouts and dimensions - lockscreens (mainly secure ones) should look better now.
=> Update.zip​

[FIX][CM10 ONLY] Layout fixes (DISCONTINUED!)
Framework-related fixes
This fix includes:
- Proper (blue) overscroll effect color
- App background color gradient - eg. in Settings,... (big thanks for this tutorial, aarun!)
- Fixed small/wrong icons across the system - mainly statusbar (again ), menu icons and in power menu
=> Source (check README)
=> Update.zip
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Changelog
27/4/2013 - Thread cleanup & CM10 fixes discontinued, started to work on CM10.1
13/6/2013 - Source code is now available at GitHub.
To do/fix/improve
Trebuchet.apk - dock and homescreen has bad spacing and align...

Do you think think that gradient shoukd be by default? It 's turned off by default.. or im wrong?

sad96 said:
Do you think think that gradient shoukd be by default? It 's turned off by default.. or im wrong?
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It should be default. AOSP Nexus ROMs have it. Even if not, I will still try to add it, because without it it looks just weird for me...
EDIT: OK, anyway, gradient working

Do you know when the zip file is ready? I haven't really used adb much lately

Benjamin_L said:
Do you know when the zip file is ready? I haven't really used adb much lately
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CWM says some errors, like I must use EDIFY type of updater-script and update-binary, but I have tried to do this but failed... anyway I'm now working on it as I also don't want to use adb for this and always set permissions manually

Update.zip added

Thanks for the fix - the orange overscrolling effect has been really bothering me (and the fact that you can't change it anymore (unlike CM7))
Just a question: What is the "fade to black effect"?

aletto said:
Thanks for the fix - the orange overscrolling effect has been really bothering me (and the fact that you can't change it anymore (unlike CM7))
Just a question: What is the "fade to black effect"?
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On galaxy nexus when you are pulling down the notification tray, things behind it slowly fade to dark as you pull the tray. This should have been default.
Sent from my GT-I5800 using xda app-developers app
EDIT: AT THIS POINT ITS GALAXY NEXUS-specific feature which is not in CM yet... We have to wait till its merged or something...

Any idea of fixing Phone dial-er app?
Layout:
The erase key is on right side of input box,
Shouldn't the be in bottom right? sorry if I'm wrong, but i used to the bottom right.
Reason for the fix : When you choose a contact from smart dial, the first few numbers are hidden, only the last few digits are visible and make the user feels like it wasn't chosen. I'm using the international format like +YYXXXXXXXXXX ...
Search bug
Are you able to search a contact from call log tab or contact tab (not the people app)? I'm kind of missing it.

Anandababu153 said:
Any idea of fixing Phone dial-er app?
Layout:
The erase key is on right side of input box,
Shouldn't the be in bottom right? sorry if I'm wrong, but i used to the bottom right.
Reason for the fix : When you choose a contact from smart dial, the first few numbers are hidden, only the last few digits are visible and make the user feels like it wasn't chosen. I'm using the international format like +YYXXXXXXXXXX ...
Search bug
Are you able to search a contact from call log tab or contact tab (not the people app)? I'm kind of missing it.
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I will have to look at it... and the erase key should be as it is now. Different position from ICS, its normal.

Hi,
Do I just flash the zip. file?
Sent from my SG 580 powered by CMX.

SamG3apollo said:
Hi,
Do I just flash the zip. file?
Sent from my SG 580 powered by CMX.
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Yep ... Please Use CWM (Recovery Mode) to flash the zip.

Progress update
OK, I'm now stuck on bootloop after testing my another fix with icons (complete remake of them to JB ones) I'm working on solution how to pass that and after that, I'll update OP with another improvement

Another progress update + fix available
OK, fixed icons mainly in statusbar area, changed from GB ones, now looks a lot better with JB ones, also fixed bad icons in power menu.
FINALLY

Cool work , there is problem with very small and distorted fonts too with default launcher with ADW launcher it's fine but still.

vishal8492 said:
Cool work , there is problem with very small and distorted fonts too with default launcher with ADW launcher it's fine but still.
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Thanks, is this issue present even in CM7/CM7 with holo launcher? Because I think it will be due to our phone's resolution/screen size... isn't it?
Sent from my GT-I5800 running CMX

Flashed the current update.zip ....
Appreciate the blue cursor in the input box
Ideas:
Is it possible to have blue active icons in the notification drawer? Let that be white at in-active state.
Also the dial-er app drop down arrow while getting more than one search result (Where is it??? CM bug?)
The missed call notification is now in black & white. Is it correct?

Anandababu153 said:
Flashed the current update.zip ....
Appreciate the blue cursor in the input box
Ideas:
Is it possible to have blue active icons in the notification drawer? Let that be white at in-active state.
Also the dial-er app drop down arrow while getting more than one search result (Where is it??? CM bug?)
The missed call notification is now in black & white
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1st of all, I changed all icons as they should be. That means, back/white icons are in holo theme, official in Android 4.0.4+ now. The icons before with exp. build 1 were GB ones, because in android source repository are no JB icons for LDPI/MDPI yet - I guess that is placeholder for later... So I came with at least this solution because I don't think they will continue with LDPI (old) resolution support for icons, because they wasn't even in ICS...
And for the blue icons... I'm trying to make it as close as possible to official CMX/JB as possible, because for our resolution default layouts are just uggly.. No blue icons in CMX, so no icons that I will do Just official JB because for LDPI is yet undone. It will be good to have theese fixes merged to marcellusbe's port so it wont have this type of issues.

[Q] Find a specific color in a color box?

An app I'm using lets the user pick any color they want. But instead of RGB, Hex or number entries, they just use the 3-box picker (where the right skinny box is the rainbow, the big left box shows the a large gradient of the color selected, and the bottom box is Alpha amount).
Anyone know of a web page or app or some way so I can take an image, click a specific part of the image & get a visual on where to find it? This can be an all-in-one, or I can use a 2-step of Photoshop (memory serving, I got RGB values in there) & an app that lets me type in the RGB & shows me where to click to get them.
Trying to get some colors by manually sliding around - but I just stink at it
Failing that, is there a name for this 3-box picker thing to help me google for the right thing?

Perhaps this is what you're looking for?
http://imagecolorpicker.com/
http://www.rgbhexcode.com/

Dude , RGB values are hexa numbers . Minimum no. Is 0 and max is f .A RGB colour box have 6 values . First two stands for Red , then Green and Last the Blue .
White colour is stands for colourless . It can be represented by #000000 .
Black is a mixture of all coloures . It is #ffffff .
Red :-#ff0000
Blue:-#00ff00
Green:-#0000ff .
Similerly other coloures are the mixture of RGB . So mix it in hexa values .
Click thanks if I helped .
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krishneelg3 said:
Perhaps this is what you're looking for?
http://imagecolorpicker.com/
http://www.rgbhexcode.com/
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Wow - perfect. Exactly what I was looking for! Thank's very much!!!

polstein said:
Wow - perfect. Exactly what I was looking for! Thank's very much!!!
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No worries :good:
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Change Navigation bar colors without root or extra apps/themes

As you all know June update limits choices for the color of navigation bar. But underlying settings can be still set to arbitrary values using adb shell.
- No root access needed
- No extra applications needed
- No changing themes needed
- Change is persistent after reboot.
Relevant settings are under global/navigationbar_current_color and global/navigationbar_color.
For example by running this you'll get a dark shade:
Code:
adb shell settings put global navigationbar_color -317057255
adb shell settings put global navigationbar_current_color -317057255
adb shell settings put global navigationbar_use_theme_default 0
You can change the number value to get different colors. Default is "-986896"
Pay attention to minus sign if result of calculation is negative, it is significant.
Color picker
To pick colors easily and calculate their values automatically you can use the color picker
Example colors
• Opaque black: -16777216
• Transparent black: 65793 (this is not true black - rgb (0,0,0), but almost black - rgb (1,1,1)-)
• Transparent gray: 8421504
You can use the color picker linked above to calculate values for arbitrary colors of your choice.
Caveats
• Don't use transparent colors if you don't want navigation bar color to change with different apps (ex. keyboard)
• Some applications may set custom colors for navigation bar. This setting only changes default color of the bar, it doesn't override application specific colors.
• Fully transparent navigation bar is not possible except few builtin applications (eg. Gallery or app switcher). You can specify transparency but it just specifies how the nav. bar. color will render on top of the applications color, it doesn't mean the application will render under the navigation bar
• For some reason fully transparent true black shows up as opaque white in most applications. Workaround is using almost black colors instead of true black.
Details for manually calculating values:
Value format is ARGB hex color code converted to signed decimal. (Thanks Acoustichayes for pointing it out.)
1. Pick a color and find out its RGB hex code using a color picker (such as http://htmlcolorcodes.com/). For example you should get.
2. If you want transparency you must prepend transparency value to the color value. 00 is fully transparent, ff is fully opaque, inbetween are varying degrees of transparency.
3. Convert this value to decimal
4. If the resulting value is larger than 2147483647, subtract 4294967296 from it.
Example:
1. Hex value of desired color is #4826bf
2. We want 10% transparency, thus using e6 as the hex value for transparency. Prepend to color value and the number becomes e64826bf
3. Convert to decimal: 3863488191
4. 3863488191 is greater than 2147483647 (max signed int), thus our value wraps and become
Code:
3863488191 - 4294967296 = -431479105
5. Run
Code:
adb shell settings put global navigationbar_color -431479105
adb shell settings put global navigationbar_current_color -431479105

Does it stick after a reboot?
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sunwee said:
Does it stick after a reboot?
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Yes it does.

Was going to post about this, but you beat me to it

MishaalRahman said:
Was going to post about this, but you beat me to it
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If you figure out the meaning of values please share with us

Hello, newbie here and I am not happy with the new update. If its okay, can you put a step by step on how to do this? I've never tried doing this kimd of things but I would if there's an instruction. Thanks!!

Are they not her values for color?
Generally, 6 digits is base color, eg: ffffff is white. Where each double digit is a representation of r, g, b.
And 8 digits adds alpha value(transparency) so the first 2 digits are the transparency and the last 6 are the color. You can Google hex color codes to look up exactly what you want

Any option like this to change the height of navbar?
Nice find btw

CrazyCypher said:
Any option like this to change the height of navbar?
Nice find btw
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.... check here in first post https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3604341

Mikegasm said:
Hello, newbie here and I am not happy with the new update. If its okay, can you put a step by step on how to do this? I've never tried doing this kimd of things but I would if there's an instruction. Thanks!!
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You have to install "adb" in your computer and connect the phone to pc with usb cable. You can search for adb guides on Google for detailed steps. It is a general android topic and not S8 specific so you can find plenty of guides.

Acoustichayes said:
Are they not her values for color?
Generally, 6 digits is base color, eg: ffffff is white. Where each double digit is a representation of r, g, b.
And 8 digits adds alpha value(transparency) so the first 2 digits are the transparency and the last 6 are the color. You can Google hex color codes to look up exactly what you want
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Wow thanks this must be it. I'll check it out.

Confirmed hex codes. I needed root to run in shell. Maybe not required for USB though.
Sent from my SM-G955F using Tapatalk

So what are the best codes to use?
Is it possible to make it transparent using this method?
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sunwee said:
So what are the best codes to use?
Is it possible to make it transparent using this method?
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Yes i would also like to know if transparency is possible?

Leeum said:
Yes i would also like to know if transparency is possible?
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Transparency is possible by adding transparency value to beginning of hex number. It somewhat tricky to calculate because integers overflows and wraps around to negative values.
Formula is:
1. Add transparency value to beginning
2. Convert to decimal
3. Substract 4294967296 if it is greater than 2147483647
For example if you want color "34 bd 3c" and make it fully transparent you must prepend "ff" and the number becomes "ff 34 bd 3c". Convert it to decimal: 4281646396. Substract: 4281646396-4294967296=−13320900. So −13320900 is the value you want.

amadeusz.odi said:
.... check here in first post https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3604341
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Woah, thanks man!
---------- Post added at 01:02 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:50 PM ----------
Anyone figured out how to achieve the same transparent navbar as it looks when it is set up on auto-hide? Black semi-transparent background and white buttons?
Thanks ?

CrazyCypher said:
Anyone figured out how to achieve the same transparent navbar as it looks when it is set up on auto-hide? Black semi-transparent background and white buttons?
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-2140904348 should be good enough

haksancan said:
-2140904348 should be good enough
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Thanks, will try it at home

You can just use the hex code without converting to decimal. I just made it white with ffffffff and black with ff000000.
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Because am little confusing ,can please someone tell me whats the value for black color ?
Thank you .

How to: Dark navbar in dark themed apps

So as the oneplus missed the bit on dark navbar on dark themed apps:
Small guide for the somewhat skilled xda-members.
Take backups as usual.
Pre req:
1: Deodexed rom
As not there are none so you have to do it yourself
(Fulmics deodex tool is an good start)
I may provide an rom if enough requests.
2: Decompile OPSystemUI.apk
An excellent toll : Advanced+ApkTool
3: Go to: OPSystemUI.apk\res\values\colors.xml
Change to <color name="op_nav_bar_background_light">#ff000000</color>
4: Recompile, and flash
I attach an updater for deodexed roms.

The reason for why it's white is because it's to avoid possible burn ins. And I read somewhere that you can download this app called "navbar app" which can change it to black if you're really wanted too.

Tefzors said:
The reason for why it's white is because it's to avoid possible burn ins. And I read somewhere that you can download this app called "navbar app" which can change it to black if you're really wanted too.
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Navbar app resets to defaults, eg, not functional on op5T

For me "Navbar Apps" does the trick, you just need to grand accessibility service, you don't even need root. I just disabled the color changing animation.

Any screens?

Navbar apps work but not everytime. Like - It doesn't work perfectly on Nova Launcher and Google App.

For the most apps the navbar app improved the ugly grey navbar. Facebook in App browser for eg forces the grey navbar. I attached chrome screenshots with enabled black navbar and the default grey one. Nova launcher works perfect for me.

I've never been a fan of the black navbar. I've always thought it should match the color of the top status bar.
So far, using the Light theme, the off-white navbar looks pretty good.

DocRambone said:
Navbar app resets to defaults, eg, not functional on op5T
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I'm using it ,it does no issues so far

DocRambone said:
So as the oneplus missed the bit on dark navbar on dark themed apps:
Small guide for the somewhat skilled xda-members.
Take backups as usual.
Pre req:
1: Deodexed rom
As not there are none so you have to do it yourself
(Fulmics deodex tool is an good start)
I may provide an rom if enough requests.
2: Decompile OPSystemUI.apk
An excellent toll : Advanced+ApkTool
3: Go to: OPSystemUI.apk\res\values\colors.xml
Change to <color name="op_nav_bar_background_light">#ff000000</color>
4: Recompile, and flash
I attach an updater for deodexed roms.
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Thank you for this...
I really miss some of the ROMs from the good old days. Where Devs would take stock ROMs deodex them, decompile individual apps make edits like you mentioned above and smali edits. In some cases the end result would be a stock based ROM with all the extra options.
This was all before Xposed.

Tefzors said:
The reason for why it's white is because it's to avoid possible burn ins. And I read somewhere that you can download this app called "navbar app" which can change it to black if you're really wanted too.
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I don't think you need to worry about burn in down there. Better option would be to change the spacing and nav theme more often (like once every few months).

The reason for why it's white is because it's to avoid possible burn ins.
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White color only makes it burn in harder.

I have not had any issues with the navbar apps from play store. I set to static black and stays that way. I would not mind a fully deodexed stock ROM though, That would be nice. No other modifications, just deodexed, fixed nav of course why this thread is here, and boom. lol

Am really disappointed ,I never imagine that you can change navbar color /icons /notification background /etc. on samsung s8 /s8+/note without root and in our device it will be so difficult .
Never mind i will live with this .

m7ixalis said:
Am really disappointed ,I never imagine that you can change navbar color /icons /notification background /etc. on samsung s8 /s8+/note without root and in our device it will be so difficult .
Never mind i will live with this .
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You can change everything except for the navbar.

reqmon said:
White color only makes it burn in harder.
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Yeah not sure what they were going on about.
bp328i said:
Thank you for this...
I really miss some of the ROMs from the good old days. Where Devs would take stock ROMs deodex them, decompile individual apps make edits like you mentioned above and smali edits. In some cases the end result would be a stock based ROM with all the extra options.
This was all before Xposed.
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+1 to this, I would love to see a deodexed stock OOS for our device that has a few modification options. Similar to what Fulmics did with the LG G3 (and other LG devices). He is the author of that deodex tool after all. Probably most of it could be done through modifying this same system APK & flashing on a rooted device, something I'm considering toying around with (but it would be time consuming...). Only problem with solutions like this is when new system updates come out you need to wait for an updated version of this as well in many cases.

Easier just to install Navbar apps from play

reqmon said:
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No, the *off white* color used with the grey buttons reduces burn-in greatly. A black navbar on an OLED screen simply causes the pixels in the navbar strip to remain deactivated for prolonged periods of time, causing the buttons themselves and every other part of the screen whose pixels remain active more often to degenerate at a much faster rate, causing the burn-in effect. Since the nav-bar isn't completely white, the pixels in that area aren't being driven as hard as they would be, were they stark white, or as white as the display can go. The grey buttons/icons help reduce burn-in as well, as the pixels are still active and "lit" in these areas and are not being driven the hardest possible (stark white on OLED drives the pixels harder than off-white, grey, and most other colors displayed by the phone).

TurboBot247 said:
No, the *off white* color used with the grey buttons reduces burn-in greatly. A black navbar on an OLED screen simply causes the pixels in the navbar strip to remain deactivated for prolonged periods of time, causing the buttons themselves and every other part of the screen whose pixels remain active more often to degenerate at a much faster rate, causing the burn-in effect. Since the nav-bar isn't completely white, the pixels in that area aren't being driven as hard as they would be, were they stark white, or as white as the display can go. The grey buttons/icons help reduce burn-in as well, as the pixels are still active and "lit" in these areas and are not being driven the hardest possible (stark white on OLED drives the pixels harder than off-white, grey, and most other colors displayed by the phone).
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This might be right. But it's ugly as f***

MrPepperino said:
This might be right. But it's ugly as f***
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If you use a dark theme it is.
I use the light theme so it matches pretty well.