I remember someone wishing there was a way to do this, and i found this in the Nexus 7 forums:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1985592
I tried it just for fun and it sorta worked, the nav bar was gone, but system ui kept force closing about every minute... but in the meantime i could browse around. But i hadn't installed a different launcher or nav app so it was kinda hard.
Anyway, i wonder if there was a further edit that could be made, perhaps in systemui, to make this work better? Anyway, try at your own risk, i was able to navigate to my /system folder and delete my new build.prop and take the .bak off my original one to get back to normal.
You can modify systemui to make the bar smaller maybe even remove/hide it altogether
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cool, thanks. would it be navigation_bar.xml? any advice on editing that? when i click edit it opens it up in a notepad, but it's a bit unintelligible to me. I also downloaded a trial of an XML editor, but it said the XML can't be opened.
you have to decompile the apk with a tool. apktool is most often used and then i use notepad++
Rangerbry said:
You can modify systemui to make the bar smaller maybe even remove/hide it altogether
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Ohhh the nav bar smaller? Where can change this?
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I was wondering if there is a way to reverse icon colors in the status bar. I just downloaded a black status bar and a lot of the icons blend into the black bar (if that makes sense).
If anyone can help me out, thanks. I don't know anything at all about coding and very little about the root process, so a Metamorph option would be the easiest way for me, although I can figure out theming.
Maybe you like those...http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/...tatusbar-icons/page__view__findpost__p__33425
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Maybe you like those...http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/...tatusbar-icons/page__view__findpost__p__33425
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I saw those. I wasn't quite sure if it changes the Messaging, Gmail, Voice and other icons since all I see is the USB and USB Tethering icons. Do you know if those are changed?
Haven´t checked that...best, open file and have a look before you morph.
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Haven´t checked that...best, open file and have a look before you morph.
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Wow that is a great idea. I never thought of that haha (still brand new to this stuff). Well, unfortunately it doesn't have icons for Messaging, Gmail and a few others. Thanks for the idea though. Now I know I can check.
Any other ideas?
Anyone know of anything else to do?
Shameless bump because I really want this.
There is a desire morph around somewhere, locate the files or images you want and I can make a morph, just need to know what rom and icons.
Also bumping. Now that CM has theming, I think someone should have one out.
Use ninja morph and inverse the images u want in framework-res.apk ...really easy
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Made this one a while back...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=766561
martin0285 said:
Use ninja morph and inverse the images u want in framework-res.apk ...really easy
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I checked out ninja morph. You're right, it does exactly what you said...EXCEPT you have to modify every icon individually, which ends up being an enormous pain.
Also, I could have missed something but how do you inverse icons directly on the phone? I looked around and still couldnt find anything. Ended up transfering them to the pc and editing them from there.
In the end, I'm just amazed that android doesn't have a unified icon / theming system yet. To edit messages, you have to go in to mms.apk (took me forever to figure that one out), to edit gmail you have to look in gmail.apk, system icons were in framework, etc. What a pain.
Hi everyone! Im making a theme for Gingerbread for the Galaxy Tab and am stuck because of an icon I cant get rid of or find where it is! Can someone help and tell me WHERE the icon (below attached) that pops up on the task bar during Media Scanning, is hidden? I looked everywhere, all system APKs I can think of including framework-res.apk and SystemUI.apk and cannot find it anywhere. Its driving me crazy!
I've successfully modded stat_notify_sdcard.png, stat_notify_sdcard_prepare.png and stat_notify_sdcard_usb.png from framework-res.apk and during PREPARE SD CARD operations the new updated icons show up.
However during MEDIA SCANNING operations, the old shows up again, no matter what. This stock icon I want to replace is hiding still somewhere else (..I cleaned all caches multiple times just in case and doesn't fix it)
Thanks in advance for the tip!
maybe you find in under music player ?
who knows
i never saw it before ~~
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Hi everyone! Im making a theme for Gingerbread for the Galaxy Tab and am stuck because of an icon I cant get rid of or find where it is! Can someone help and tell me WHERE the icon (below attached) that pops up on the task bar during Media Scanning, is hidden? I looked everywhere, all system APKs I can think of including framework-res.apk and SystemUI.apk and cannot find it anywhere. Its driving me crazy!
I've successfully modded stat_notify_sdcard.png, stat_notify_sdcard_prepare.png and stat_notify_sdcard_usb.png from framework-res.apk and during PREPARE SD CARD operations the new updated icons show up.
However during MEDIA SCANNING operations, the old shows up again, no matter what. This stock icon I want to replace is hiding still somewhere else (..I cleaned all caches multiple times just in case and doesn't fix it)
Thanks in advance for the tip!
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You will find that on the mediaProvider.apk. in system/apps
If you need any help just PM me....
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Thanks
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You will find that on the mediaProvider.apk. in system/apps
If you need any help just PM me....
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Thanks, that solved the issue of the missing icon for me.
Cheers
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You will find that on the mediaProvider.apk. in system/apps
If you need any help just PM me....
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YES! UR absolutely right, it actually made sense to be inside that package! thank you very much! I have one more (last) icon I cant trace where it is I want to modify for my theme; its the icon that pops on the left on the taskbar afetr an app is installed (for example after a package ins downloaded from Market and then installed, this is the notification icon). Can U help help me locate inside which package its hiding?
Thanks a lot again XDAholic
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YES! UR absolutely right, it actually made sense to be inside that package! thank you very much! I have one more (last) icon I cant trace where it is I want to modify for my theme; its the icon that pops on the left on the taskbar afetr an app is installed (for example after a package ins downloaded from Market and then installed, this is the notification icon). Can U help help me locate inside which package its hiding?
Thanks a lot again XDAholic
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That's in the vending.apk itself. I think drawable.mpdi. but just look in the Res folders you'll see it.. definately vending.apk tho...
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That's in the vending.apk itself. I think drawable.mpdi. but just look in the Res folders you'll see it.. definately vending.apk tho...
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You're right again, thank you very very much!! Im almost done with all the graphics except one and editing some XMLs:
First, the download successful graphic was indeed in the vending.apk but when the download is not successful the standard red warning triangle is displayed. This graphic is not part of the vending.apk so im assuming its pulled from the standard stat_sys_warning.png from framework-res.apk?
Finally, I need to change and that is the size of the fonts for the date display on the top right of the taskbar. Do you know which XML or file I need to edit to change that font size?
Thanks again for all you amazing knowledge and help on this
VeEuzUKY said:
You're right again, thank you very very much!! Im almost done with all the graphics except one and editing some XMLs:
First, the download successful graphic was indeed in the vending.apk but when the download is not successful the standard red warning triangle is displayed. This graphic is not part of the vending.apk so im assuming its pulled from the standard stat_sys_warning.png from framework-res.apk?
Finally, I need to change and that is the size of the fonts for the date display on the top right of the taskbar. Do you know which XML or file I need to edit to change that font size?
Thanks again for all you amazing knowledge and help on this
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I do believe the status bar clock is controlled by the services.jar and not a particular. Xml file, but ive never edited that clock so i am not 100% positive. Im horrible with smali code. Sorry! Yes the stat-notify-error.png in framework-res would control the statusbar icon for errors while downloading apps.
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Out of curiosity, Ive seen the icon on the WIFI tab that shows the signal strength and encryption status some where in an APK resource but now, cant find it anymore. Does anyone know where its located? (Screenshot below in case UR not sure what Im talking about).
Thanks much!!
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Out of curiosity, Ive seen the icon on the WIFI tab that shows the signal strength and encryption status some where in an APK resource but now, cant find it anymore. Does anyone know where its located? (Screenshot below in case UR not sure what Im talking about).
Thanks much!!
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It's been a while but I'm pretty sure that one is either framework-res or twframework-res (if you're still on a TW ROM). I thought I saw it in amongst the stat_sys_* images, but I could be completely wrong. I don't think I've tried editing that one.
EDIT: By the way, check in status_bar_expanded.xml and status_bar.xml for some parameters regarding the clock, but be careful cos they can ruin a theme (everything from graphical artifacts to bootloops) quite easily.
Okay so I am slowly diving into theming and decided to look into some XML edits. My goal is to make some edits to the status bar and move the clock to the center, notification icons to the right, and signal and battery icons to the left. Here are the steps that I took:
1. Using APK Manager, I placed the SystemUI.apk from Humble 5.0 in the place-apk-here-for-modding folder
2. Selected the apk using TWframework-res as a dependency and then decompiled systemui.
3. Navigated to projects/SystemUI.apk/res/layout and clicked edit on the status_bar XML file.
4. Went to the line containing com.android.systemui.statusbar.IconMerger and changed androidaddingLeft="6.0dip" to Right and changed android:layout_alignParentLeft="true" to Right
5. Changed the line containing android:id="@id/statusIcons from androidaddingRight="6.0dip" to Left and changed android:layout_alignParentRight="true" to Left.
6.Changed the line containing com.android.systemui.statusbar.Clock from androidaddingLeft="6.0dip" to Center and left the rest of the line alone.
Can anyone with more knowledge of XML edits help shed some light on whether or not this will do what I am looking to accomplish or if there is more to it than making these little changes? I'd eventually like to find a way to move the status bar to the bottom of the screen similar to the Nook Color but I gotta take this one step at a time, haha. Any insight is more than appreciated!
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Okay so I am slowly diving into theming and decided to look into some XML edits. My goal is to make some edits to the status bar and move the clock to the center, notification icons to the right, and signal and battery icons to the left.
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You need to change a lot more than just that. Give me a few minutes and I'll link you to a guide. I was able to use this guide to get the following changes:
Centered clock
Icons on the left
Notifications on the right
Only problem with my results is that the notifications overlapped the clock.
Here's the guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1361715
Make sure you "thank" TheGrammarFreak for the write up!
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You need to change a lot more than just that. Give me a few minutes and I'll link you to a guide. I was able to use this guide to get the following changes:
Centered clock
Icons on the left
Notifications on the right
Only problem with my results is that the notifications overlapped the clock.
Here's the guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1361715
Make sure you "thank" TheGrammarFreak for the write up!
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Yeah. The only way around this is to give the notification icons a background color instead of having them just be transparent.
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Yeah. The only way around this is to give the notification icons a background color instead of having them just be transparent.
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Hey if you're available I'm gonna hit you up on gtalk sometime tomorrow cuz I need some serious help with this statusbar background lol. I can't get anything to work haha.
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Yea I figured it was much more involved. Thanks for the link spc, I'll post up a screenshot once I figure all this out. Once I get the hang of this I may even try to get notification icons to work using Statusbar+. I think its very clean looking and, since I'm going for the WP7 look, it's a WP7 status bar but doesn't support notifications.
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spc_hicks09 said:
You need to change a lot more than just that. Give me a few minutes and I'll link you to a guide. I was able to use this guide to get the following changes:
Centered clock
Icons on the left
Notifications on the right
Only problem with my results is that the notifications overlapped the clock.
Here's the guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1361715
Make sure you "thank" TheGrammarFreak for the write up!
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yeah thats about as close you can get to center clock mod without diving into smali
the mod used in tsm parts and other apps like that is different and puts the clock in the center in a different fashion and doesnt overlap, but will still be present when u use the pulldown
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Yea I figured it was much more involved. Thanks for the link spc, I'll post up a screenshot once I figure all this out. Once I get the hang of this I may even try to get notification icons to work using Statusbar+. I think its very clean looking and, since I'm going for the WP7 look, it's a WP7 status bar but doesn't support notifications.
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Let me know if you figured it out. If not I can let you know how to do it.
Please use the Q&A Forum for questions Thanks
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So, does anyone know of a way to get rid of the navigation bar?
I'm aware of some apps on the marketplace that can remove both the nav bar and notification bar. If it's possible to just remove the one, that would be epic. Or even something that just makes it totally opaque and removes the buttons from it, I dunno.
I'd like to lose it and gain some screen real estate while I use LMT (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1330150).
Hmmm... Back when I was trying CM9, I initially built without the overlay for the nav bar... that was distressing.
I wonder if there's something in the build.prop? I will look around.
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Hmmm... Back when I was trying CM9, I initially built without the overlay for the nav bar... that was distressing.
I wonder if there's something in the build.prop? I will look around.
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I actually did come across something about a build.prop edit, but I lost the page that had that
*EDIT*
Found this:
Code:
qemu.hw.mainkeys=1
Putting it in build.prop got the nav bar away, but also sent Settings.apk into a continuous FC every 10 seconds.
I think the only *REAL* and *WORKING* way to do it would be to resize the thing to 0, which I've read is what works for people.
*EDIT 2*
Successfully made the nav bar size of 0.... But a lot of other weird stuff happened.
Maybe use some kind of transparency function? I wish there was a way to toggle it open and closed via the volume keys or something.
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Improving this would be really lovely.
Could this help?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2098723
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Could this help?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2098723
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That's basically what I did, but a lot of stuff was changed along with it. I've been meaning to post the screenshots I took.
It DID work, however.
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Did you manage to obtain a bugfree result?
Something like that.
The status bar resized itself, and I never went back in and tried different sizes for that. But if I did, I would have made it work.
I found this in framework-res.apk/res/values/bools.xml:
Code:
<bool name="config_showNavigationBar">false</bool>
It took away the navigation bar as expected, but also sent SystemUI into a constant FC.
What I need to edit the right way are these values:
Code:
<dimen name="navigation_bar_height">48.0dip</dimen>
<dimen name="navigation_bar_width">42.0dip</dimen>
from inside framework-res.apk/res/values/dimens.xml
Also not sure if these lines (from dimens.xml) play into it as well, but they might. Because I have the status bar issues and resized layouts and all if changing the above values to 0.
Code:
<dimen name="status_bar_height">25.0dip</dimen>
<dimen name="system_bar_height">48.0dip</dimen>
The values for all of these are not in terms of pixels. Not sure how exactly to interpret the dip values.
I have just started to learn Photoshop and been making some icons. I would like to make an apk of these icons so they can work with all launchers. Is there a super easy way to make this ( like a program that you choose the files press a button and let it do it's stuff) . Been googling but everything I find out about it is so confusing???
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I have just started to learn Photoshop and been making some icons. I would like to make an apk of these icons so they can work with all launchers. Is there a super easy way to make this ( like a program that you choose the files press a button and let it do it's stuff) . Been googling but everything I find out about it is so confusing???
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I have never seen such a program, but you should try searching around for an APEX icon theme template. Usually it will give you an APK that you decompile, edit following the instructions that they give you, and recompile. So yeah, just use the search bar real quick and find it.