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[Q] Theming JVB

I've been theming small aspects of JVB, specifically Perception II. I've tried to theme the background of the music controls inside the status bar drawer. On Froyo ROMs, I could just throw a modified png into the zip. Now, I do that and it's still purple. I even decompiled and recomplied with the new pngs, but it doesn't work. Any ideas on what to do? I attached the modded files below. Thanks!

Are you replacing the ones in twframework-res.apk?
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modest_mandroid said:
Are you replacing the ones in twframework-res.apk?
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Of course. I opened them in Photoshop and edited and put them back into twframework. Thing is, I've done this before very successfully modifying themes on Froyo.

Wacky.. dunno dude, I'll give it a shot later tonight and see if I can get it to work if the wife doesn't burglarize all my time.

modest_mandroid said:
Wacky.. dunno dude, I'll give it a shot later tonight and see if I can get it to work if the wife doesn't burglarize all my time.
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Wow thanks a lot man

Yeah, that's weird.. changing the png's doesn't seem to affect what actually shows up. Makes you wonder if it's grabbing them from somewhere else entirely..
Edit: I was right! Check out /system/app/MusicPlayer.apk, it has it's own set of status bar png's. I haven't tried replacing them myself yet, but I have a strong feeling that those are the ones you should be changing as opposed to the ones in twframework-res.apk. Samsung seems to enjoy scattering their graphics around.. there are also a couple pertinent to the status bar and dropdown shade in SystemUI.apk and Phone.apk.
Good luck, dude! Let me know if those were the correct ones!

modest_mandroid said:
Yeah, that's weird.. changing the png's doesn't seem to affect what actually shows up. Makes you wonder if it's grabbing them from somewhere else entirely..
Edit: I was right! Check out /system/app/MusicPlayer.apk, it has it's own set of status bar png's. I haven't tried replacing them myself yet, but I have a strong feeling that those are the ones you should be changing as opposed to the ones in twframework-res.apk. Samsung seems to enjoy scattering their graphics around.. there are also a couple pertinent to the status bar and dropdown shade in SystemUI.apk and Phone.apk.
Good luck, dude! Let me know if those were the correct ones!
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Is SystemUI.apk new to Gingerbread? I'll look into it.
God THANK YOU, that's an amazing find and so useful to me! I am SO GRATEFUL. Damn, Samsung isn't the most efficient company of coders. Putting lockscreen music control backgrounds in framework-res and status bar ones in music apk? Wow.

SystemUI.apk handles all the notification bar/dropdown stuff and all of those images are used instead of what's in twframework-res.apk now (GB).
The background and buttons for the dropdown are in MusicPlayer.apk though. Crazy.

So apparently the toggle PNGs in SystemUI.apk are locked, so they cannot be edited in Photoshop and lose their transparency. Sucks....

Yeah, kinda sucks. I grabbed a screenshot of Explorer with large thumbnails, copied each one and inverted them so they're smoothed to black background, made black transparent, then changed the color. It works out ok I guess.

CuriousTech said:
Yeah, kinda sucks. I grabbed a screenshot of Explorer with large thumbnails, copied each one and inverted them so they're smoothed to black background, made black transparent, then changed the color. It works out ok I guess.
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They still turn out jagged because the originals, using transparency, are smoothed. I think I can get someone to fix that...

If anyone is interested, I am recreating a lot of the elements by hand. It's HARD OH MY GOD, some pieces require 7 layers of separate transparencies i have to match to the originals. But I'm making a theme, just modded stock for now but I'll be working on it for a while. I'll make a thread soon!

So ALL the battery icons are locked... I downloaded a random GB theme and took out the battery icons, and those are locked too. Decompiled framework, still locked. What the hell???? How do I mod them?!

I figured most stuff out now. Except how to change the status bar background. I put it into SystemUI.apk (2 different names), framework, and twframework. Nothing works. Any clues?

Haloruler64 said:
So ALL the battery icons are locked... I downloaded a random GB theme and took out the battery icons, and those are locked too. Decompiled framework, still locked. What the hell???? How do I mod them?!
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How'd you solve this?
Haloruler64 said:
I figured most stuff out now. Except how to change the status bar background. I put it into SystemUI.apk (2 different names), framework, and twframework. Nothing works. Any clues?
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Check SystemUI.apk drawable-hdpi directory, also check the values directory, there's one xml in there that defines the background color for the dropdown shade.
Edit: nevermind, changing that xml does nothing

Haloruler64 said:
Is SystemUI.apk new to Gingerbread? I'll look into it.
God THANK YOU, that's an amazing find and so useful to me! I am SO GRATEFUL. Damn, Samsung isn't the most efficient company of coders. Putting lockscreen music control backgrounds in framework-res and status bar ones in music apk? Wow.
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Half of it is left over Google crap, half of it is left over Samsung Froyo crap, and half of it is actually being used.
It's quite the mess.

Haloruler64 said:
If anyone is interested, I am recreating a lot of the elements by hand. It's HARD OH MY GOD, some pieces require 7 layers of separate transparencies i have to match to the originals. But I'm making a theme, just modded stock for now but I'll be working on it for a while. I'll make a thread soon!
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Why aren't you using the originals? Is it because they're Index images that don't open properly? If so, open them with Adobe Fireworks, save them, then open them in whatever else.

res\layout\status_bar_tracking.xml has the background color. Change to image:
<View android:background="@drawable/status_bar_background" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_weight="1.0" />
Copy the file from the theme in my sig if you need a working reference. It has no clock in the bar and no text in the toggles as well.

MikeyMike01 said:
Half of it is left over Google crap, half of it is left over Samsung Froyo crap, and half of it is actually being used.
It's quite the mess.
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3 halves, it must be all kinds of messy!

modest_mandroid said:
How'd you solve this?
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GIMP, convert to RGB, then it works. But GIMP has no real batch mode, like Photoshop. Which sucks.
MikeyMike01 said:
Why aren't you using the originals? Is it because they're Index images that don't open properly? If so, open them with Adobe Fireworks, save them, then open them in whatever else.
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Yeah that's why originally. Can you open 171 files in Fireworks and save them automatically? I don't wanna do that for all the status bar stuff individually.
Also I have to get Fireworks.
CuriousTech said:
res\layout\status_bar_tracking.xml has the background color. Change to image:
<View android:background="@drawable/status_bar_background" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_weight="1.0" />
Copy the file from the theme in my sig if you need a working reference. It has no clock in the bar and no text in the toggles as well.
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Wow thanks! I'll do that now.
EDIT: Using APK Manager 4.9, I keep getting errors while decompiling SystemUI.apk. Any reason or special method to decompile it?

[APP MOD] Google Maps 6.14.3 with NO extra shortcuts

Do you hate launcher spam? I do. If you prefer to have an uncluttered app drawer with only one icon instead of three, here is the latest version of Google Maps with a modified AndroidManifest.xml. Of course, all the missing shortcuts are still accessible within the app, nothing has changed except that I removed the intent-filter declarations that created the extra icons.
This app was tested on my SE Xperia Ray, which runs the official Gingerbread ROM.
Google Maps 6.14.3:
http://rapidshare.com/files/3321873630/Google_Maps_614030402_v6.14.3.apk
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?x95dmq5bpahqzxh

Thanks
Gonna try it

Thx Facebook works perfectly
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please upload mediafire or 4shared thankyou.

Awesome work! Just out of curiosity, is there a way to have Maps+ nav and eliminate places, latitude, etc.?
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Google maps 6,5.2!? none of our phones or tabs show this update and market only has 6,5.1?

Big ZD said:
Awesome work! Just out of curiosity, is there a way to have Maps+ nav and eliminate places, latitude, etc.?
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Probably! All I did was decompile the apk with apktool, remove a few lines in AndroidManifest.xml and compile again.
But I guess the process is the same for the modded Google Maps app you're talking about, and it's pretty much straightforward if you know what you're looking for. The lines you need to remove in AndroidManifest.xml look like this:
Code:
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
You will probably have to remove three of the four occurences of the above code, one for each unwanted icon. You can figure out which three by checking out the icon declaration that precedes the aforementioned code. If the icon's name includes the words latitude, places or navigation, you're good to remove this instance. If I recall correctly, the first instance is the one you will need to leave intact (btw, I used Notepad++ for the editing).

lohtse said:
Google maps 6,5.2!? none of our phones or tabs show this update and market only has 6,5.1?
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Sorry, my mistake! It's 6.5.1 indeed. I corrected the OP.

gpolydoros said:
Probably! All I did was decompile the apk with APK Easy Manager v1.0 (using Gingerbread decompiler), remove a few lines in AndroidManifest.xml and compile again with APK Manager 5.0.2. This combination was the only one that worked for me, with every other failing either during decompiling or recompiling the project.
But I guess the process is the same for the modded Google Maps app you're talking about, and it's pretty much straightforward if you know what you're looking for. The lines you need to remove in AndroidManifest.xml look like this:
Code:
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
You will probably have to remove three of the four occurences of the above code, one for each unwanted icon. You can figure out which three by checking out the icon declaration that precedes the aforementioned code. If the icon's name includes the words latitude, places or navigation, you're good to remove this instance. If I recall correctly, the first instance is the one you will need to leave intact (btw, I used Notepad++ for the editing).
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Haha, I appreciate the instructions and the quick response, but I have no idea how to do what you describe. If you think it is possible, maybe one of you able coders out there could do a quick little mod. Thanks to anyone who can, and if not, no worries!
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Haha, I appreciate the instructions and the quick response, but I have no idea how to do what you describe. If you think it is possible, maybe one of you able coders out there could do a quick little mod. Thanks to anyone who can, and if not, no worries!
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Well, the instructions are here, someone will. It's fairly easy. I don't use Google's navigation, so let's hope someone will upload a tested apk.

Thank god. Those shortcuts are annoying.
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Ty. Hated the shortcuts
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Brilliant! Love it!

Sorry, anyone tried the latest fb update on market v1.91? Are the additional icons still there after the latest update? If they are will this patch solve it again?
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Zaihanzainal said:
Sorry, anyone tried the latest fb update on market v1.91? Are the additional icons still there after the latest update? If they are will this patch solve it again?
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Yep, the icons are still there. It's funny that in the "What's New" section Facebook states that they've updated the icons based on user feedback. I've been checking out the app comments every now and then for the past few days and, honestly, there are hundreds of users complaining that they simply don't want those extra icons. At all. Then a few said that the icons were misleading, as they did not clearly state that they were Facebook shortcuts. And there you have it, Facebook updated the icons, adding a small Facebook badge to make them distinguishable. Pretty selective listening, don't you think?
Anyway, this mod still works and it will probably stay this way, unless Facebook decides to use a customized compiler that apktool can't handle. I updated the OP with RapidShare and MediaFire links for the new version.

Thanks! Yeah they chose to listen to a comment about making the icons distinguishable but failed to listen to the prob hundreds that didn't wasn't them there in the first place..... strange place this world is.....
Anyway thank you again for the reply and most importantly the patch!
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Does not work on a variant of CM7. App will not install.

WhammyDroid said:
Does not work on a variant of CM7. App will not install.
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Hmm. Are you talking about Facebook or Maps? Or both? I haven't used CM ever since I got rid of my old ZTE, so I can't test it myself. One thing I know for sure is that you can't overwrite the original app with the modded version. You have to completely uninstall it first (this probably requires some extra steps if it's a system app). But if you've done that and the modded version still refuses to install, I guess I'm out of suggestions... Still though, it's frustrating, because these apps don't depend on any specific frameworks.

FB from 1.8.4 to 1.9.1

Could you please update the Google maps version to the latest available??

[Q] Disable Ticker Animation (Notification Privacy)

I am talking about Paranoid Android's very useful tweak. The "Do Not Disturb" option in settings menu where it completely disables the ticker animation whenever there's a notification.
This is a great tweak for me because whenever a friend borrows my phone to browse the web or to send an sms, he/she sees the COMPLETE incoming text thru the ticker animation. This is really an annoying accidental invasion of my privacy.
"So why don't you just use paranoid android rom?"
Well, because that mod is the only reason i was able to stick to that rom for almost 2 weeks.
I am more than willing to create a custom rom that suits my exact preferences but i lack the time and skills to do it.
Okay so i've searched EVERYWHERE (trust me) but i can't find an individual mod that does exactly this.
Thanks for reading and I am very grateful if anyone answers. :good:

ej8989 said:
I am talking about Paranoid Android's very useful tweak. The "Do Not Disturb" option in settings menu where it completely disables the ticker animation whenever there's a notification.
This is a great tweak for me because whenever a friend borrows my phone to browse the web or to send an sms, he/she sees the COMPLETE incoming text thru the ticker animation. This is really an annoying accidental invasion of my privacy.
"So why don't you just use paranoid android rom?"
Well, because that mod is the only reason i was able to stick to that rom for almost 2 weeks.
I am more than willing to create a custom rom that suits my exact preferences but i lack the time and skills to do it.
Okay so i've searched EVERYWHERE (trust me) but i can't find an individual mod that does exactly this.
Thanks for reading and I am very grateful if anyone answers. :good:
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Does it only affect SMS/MMS? If so, the mod can probably be cleanly packaged into a modded mms.apk and the setting option/toggle moved from PA settings to mms settings. Can't say, never used it, but someone with time on their hand can probably track it in the PA git.

polobunny said:
Does it only affect SMS/MMS? If so, the mod can probably be cleanly packaged into a modded mms.apk and the setting option/toggle moved from PA settings to mms settings. Can't say, never used it, but someone with time on their hand can probably track it in the PA git.
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It affects all ticker animations that pop up on the status bar whenever there's a notification.
For example, when i turn the feature on and i use titanium backup to do a batch restore, the icon is still there but there will be no ticker animation.
It's quite redundant if you ask me.

7 months passed.... still looking. lol

ej8989 said:
7 months passed.... still looking. lol
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Would also be really interested in this if it's possible.

liabilityman said:
Would also be really interested in this if it's possible.
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Still not possible thru stock SMS. I use Textra SMS and it's got the option to hide the ticker animation

ej8989 said:
Still not possible thru stock SMS. I use Textra SMS and it's got the option to hide the ticker animation
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Still no luck? I am searching everywhere, like you, but I can't find a mod for this. It is found in Cataclysm rom, but I can't understand why this is not asked for more. Every rom should have a preference to disable all notification tickers.

fredrik74 said:
Still no luck? I am searching everywhere, like you, but I can't find a mod for this. It is found in Cataclysm rom, but I can't understand why this is not asked for more. Every rom should have a preference to disable all notification tickers.
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I learned to accept the fact that noone will make a stand-alone mod (or even an app) for this specific feature.

I am in exactly the same boat.. I don't know how many hours I've spent looking around and found nothing.
I need to specifically for WhatsApp; no such luck.
Did you guys find anything?

ombadboy said:
I am in exactly the same boat.. I don't know how many hours I've spent looking around and found nothing.
I need to specifically for WhatsApp; no such luck.
Did you guys find anything?
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No luck here. Almost 2 years looking around.

If I had a better idea how ROMs work.. I would've had a look at the one you mentioned in your OP and maybe create an XPOSED mod..

ej8989 said:
No luck here. Almost 2 years looking around.
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See the changelog for SlimKat Weekly 8.9. Is this what you actually want?

smit.sanghavi said:
See the changelog for SlimKat Weekly 8.9. Is this what you actually want?
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Yes. I have also seen those settings on mahdi last week

So nobody has helped you yet? Strange.
Decompile SystemUI with ApkTool (Import the framework, decompile)
Open res/values/bools
Modify the string <bool name="enable_ticker">true</bool> TO <bool name="enable_ticker">false</bool>
Recompile the app with apktool using the command: apktool b -c SystemUI.apk.
DONE

CoolJoseph96 said:
So nobody has helped you yet? Strange.
Decompile SystemUI with ApkTool (Import the framework, decompile)
Open res/values/bools
Modify the string <bool name="enable_ticker">true</bool> TO <bool name="enable_ticker">false</bool>
Recompile the app with apktool using the command: apktool b -c SystemUI.apk.
DONE
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Thanks! But custom ROMs nowadays already has this as a mandatory feature.
And I already switched to another device.

ej8989 said:
Thanks! But custom ROMs nowadays already has this as a mandatory feature.
And I already switched to another device.
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Yeah, i've just pointed it if somebody needs it

how to move battery icon to left

Hi guys can move battery icon to left status bar..or guide me

SystemUI>res>layout>status_bar.xml

Morningstar said:
SystemUI>res>layout>status_bar.xml
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Lollipop changed xml no status _bar.xml

amro habib said:
Lollipop changed xml no status _bar.xml
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I have status_bar.xml from both TW lollipop and CM12 open in front of me as I type this.....It's there...

Morningstar said:
I have status_bar.xml from both TW lollipop and CM12 open in front of me as I type this.....It's there...
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tw rom 5 lollipop tryed more but no change

I use to disable standard battery icon completely and use the icon from GSam battery monitor app. That resides on left side because it is notification.

amro habib said:
tw rom 5 lollipop tryed more but no change
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No offense, but if you need it spelled out for you, maybe these mods are a little too advanced....
Anyway, look in status_bar.xml. Do you see where the battery is? No? Well, we know it's on the status bar, so look at the <includes....There's only one, system_icons, so take a look at that....Oh, look! There's the battery! Imagine that!
Now, either pull it out of system_icons and place it somewhere in status_bar, or change the location of the <include in status_bar....

Morningstar said:
No offense, but if you need it spelled out for you, maybe these mods are a little too advanced....
Anyway, look in status_bar.xml. Do you see where the battery is? No? Well, we know it's on the status bar, so look at the <includes....There's only one, system_icons, so take a look at that....Oh, look! There's the battery! Imagine that!
Now, either pull it out of system_icons and place it somewhere in status_bar, or change the location of the <include in status_bar....
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try pull of system_icons and place in status_bar but no change
attched for system_icons.xml and status_bar.xml
pleas cheak and moded...

up.......

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SystemUI Navigation Bar Animations (Solved)

Hey I know that other people have asked this sort of question before, but I was wondering if anyone can help me with setting up the Pixel/Pixel XL navigation bar animation on a none Pixel device (in my case Nexus 5X).
The reason I have started this thread is because I'm very suspicious of people when ever I see someone post a system modification for a device without explaining what they did to get there so I research things online and make my own version of they're system mod. Another reason is that asking these questions allows people to help me with my struggles and it expands everyone's knowledge on system modifications allowing everyone to create their own system mods or this same mod for their own device on any version of android.
Anyway the current things that I have found out is that the Pixel's SystemUI has a few extra files in the drawable folder (SystemUI.apk\res\drawable) they are
ic_sysbar_opa_blue.xml
ic_sysbar_opa_green.xml
ic_sysbar_opa_red.xml
ic_sysbar_opa_yellow.xml
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they contain a information similar to these
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape android:shape="oval"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<size android:height="@dimen/opa_dot_diam" android:width="@dimen/opa_dot_diam" />
<solid android:color="#fffbbc05" />
</shape>
What this means:
Version of XML
Start of draw circle shape string
Thing
The size of the circle
Colour of the circle
End of string
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This tells android to draw the little dots that appear when you press the home button on the Pixel. I have inported these files into my sytemui and was now wondering how to create the dots and make them move. I believe that this can be activated by finding out which file causes the home button to make that little ripple effect when you tap it and comparing it to find out what's different. So my question is at the moment is:
What file controls current home button animations (the home button ripple effect) on the Nexus 5X?
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If any of you want the uncompressed versions of the Pixel's SystemUI and current Nexus SystemUI that I'm using then feel free too download them. (I have removed any unnecessary guff).
Edit: I think I have found the file. It's located at:
SystemUI.apk\res\layout\home.xml
Edit: I have edited the home.xml and it seems that it just cuases my SystemUI to crash. I believe this is caused by something else in the apk.
My current guess is that there is another file in the Pixels SystemUI that reads the xml file ic_sysbar_opa_colour.xml or home.xml
If anyone knows of a way I can search for those values in a large amount of xml files quickly, then please tell me.

No, It is not that simple. lots of things needs to modify, not only the res, dex code needs to patch, the one that detect the assistant and trigger the animation.
The worse thing is, if you do anything wrong, you have to use the twrp to restore the phone...

Charles_l said:
No, It is not that simple. lots of things needs to modify, not only the res, dex code needs to patch, the one that detect the assistant and trigger the animation.
The worse thing is, if you do anything wrong, you have to use the twrp to restore the phone...
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I've edited the navigation bar in the SystemUI before without any problems. I know what you mean by resetting the phone if I mess anything up because I messed up a few things while editing the framework.apk but I haven't run into any problems with the dex file before.

Jackio987 said:
I've edited the navigation bar in the SystemUI before without any problems. I know what you mean by resetting the phone if I mess anything up because I messed up a few things while editing the framework.apk but I haven't run into any problems with the dex file before.
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The dev that figured out how to enable the animated nav bar for the Nexus 5 posted this I hope it helps
http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...-fake-nexus-rom-nexus-5-t3466736/post69496350

kevtrysmoddin said:
The dev that figured out how to enable the animated nav bar for the Nexus 5 posted this I hope it helps
http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...-fake-nexus-rom-nexus-5-t3466736/post69496350
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I noticed that someone else has done it before, (it's on page 120) link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...t/rom-fake-nexus-rom-nexus-5-t3466736/page120
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And that inspired me to ask how it was done. Another thing is that I have a nexus 5X and he has a nexus 5 which both have different processor types (arm and arm64). I also tried flashing his zip which as you would of guessed caused my phone to crash as soon as the phone had booted up requiring me to factory reset it. I might try flashing the zip onto a phone that has an arm processor (my moto g 2nd generation running cyanogenmod 14 beta) and figure out how to export it to my Nexus. Anyway I have asked qitt the guy that made the original nav bar animation for the nexus 5 work how he did it and he still hasn't responed.
Also taking a look at it, it seems that the Pixel's SystemUI and qitt's SystemUI are almost identical with only about a 200 byte difference.

Jackio987 said:
Hey I know that other people have asked this sort of question before, but I was wondering if anyone can help me with setting up the Pixel/Pixel XL navigation bar animation on a none Pixel device (in my case Nexus 5X).
The reason I have started this thread is because I'm very suspicious of people when ever I see someone post a system modification for a device without explaining what they did to get there so I research things online and make my own version of they're system mod. Another reason is that asking these questions allows people to help me with my struggles and it expands everyone's knowledge on system modification allowing everyone to create their own system mod or this same mod for their own device on any operating system.
Anyway the current things that I have found out is that the Pixel's SystemUI has a few extra files in the drawable folder (SystemUI.apk\res\drawable) they are
they contain a information similar to these
This tells android to draw the little dots that appear when you press the home button on the Pixel. I have inported these files into my sytemui and was now wondering how to create the dots and make them move. I believe that this can be activated by finding out which file causes the home button to make that little ripple effect when you tap it and comparing it to find out what's different. So my question is at the moment is:
If any of you want the uncompressed versions of the Pixel's SystemUI and current Nexus SystemUI that I'm using then feel free too download them. (I have removed any unnecessary guff).
Edit: I think I have found the file. It's located at:
SystemUI.apk\res\layout\home.xml
Edit: I have edited the home.xml and it seems that it just cuases my SystemUI to crash. I believe this is caused by something else in the apk.
My current guess is that there is another file in the Pixels SystemUI that reads the xml file ic_sysbar_opa_colour.xml or home.xml
If anyone knows of a way I can search for those values in a large amount of xml files quickly, then please tell me.
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I'm working on same and I'm willing to help you .. it's quite a surprise why despite so many ppl being there, none have managed to figure this one out. I'm also moderately knowledgeable about the subject so I just might be Able to help you. Can you share the systemUI.apk file for pixel?

raghavsharmaxda said:
I'm working on same and I'm willing to help you .. it's quite a surprise why despite so many ppl being there, none have managed to figure this one out. I'm also moderately knowledgeable about the subject so I just might be Able to help you. Can you share the systemUI.apk file for pixel?
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Here you go.
I got this by flashing the Pixel's system.img onto my Nexus 5X extracting the entire system partition then re flashing android 7.1.1 beta. I have also included the .obex files in the system_other.img that comes with the Pixel's factory image.
I'm just wondering if it's as simple as changing the name of the Pixel's SystemUI, the AndroidManifest.xml, the meta-inf, the .odex and anything else related to application identification to get it working. The reason I say this is because qitt claims to have done this and I've taken a look at what he has done and it seems that there is basically no different between the Pixel's SystemUI and his in terms of file and folder layout. One problem is that qitt's SystemUI is optimized for the Nexus 5 which has a arm based processor not a arm64 one like the nexus 5x meaning that we just can't install it.
Here is qitts post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...t/rom-fake-nexus-rom-nexus-5-t3466736/page120
Just create a flashable zip of systemui with animated navbar ( from 26/10 ). Try it if you want. Worked for me on 1/11 Fake Nexus. All credits to author this ROM ganachoco.
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Jackio987 said:
Here you go.
I got this by flashing the Pixel's system.img onto my Nexus 5X extracting the entire system partition then re flashing android 7.1.1 beta. I have also included the .obex files in the system_other.img that comes with the Pixel's factory image.
I'm just wondering if it's as simple as changing the name of the Pixel's SystemUI, the AndroidManifest.xml, the meta-inf, the .odex and anything else related to application identification to get it working. The reason I say this is because qitt claims to have done this and I've taken a look at what he has done and it seems that there is basically no different between the Pixel's SystemUI and his in terms of file and folder layout. One problem is that qitt's SystemUI is optimized for the Nexus 5 which has a arm based processor not a arm64 one like the nexus 5x meaning that we just can't install it.
Here is qitts post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...t/rom-fake-nexus-rom-nexus-5-t3466736/page120
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I'm wondering how to solve the signature problem after modifying the AndroidManifest.xml?

Charles_l said:
I'm wondering how to solve the signature problem after modifying the AndroidManifest.xml?
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I really want to just flash the files and then start editing from there but since my 5X is my personal device and if there are any stuff ups with this installation it meas that I have to factory reset my device which isn't that great if I have to do it every time I flash the file. I also don't want to make a TWRP backup and just recover from that when I'm all finished be cause every time I have done that my data partition always stuffs up basically causing me to factory reset again.
Testing this could become a slow and repetitive process

Ok I have figured out how to keep my devices data intact so I can flash the systemUI.apk over and over again without having to factory reset my device, now it's time to get this thing working.

Jackio987 said:
Ok I have figured out how to keep my devices data intact so I can flash the systemUI.apk over and over again without having to factory reset my device, now it's time to get this thing working.
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If you keep the apk signature, when you get systemui fc, you can always replace the original apk file with TWRP, reboot and everything back to normal.

Jackio987 said:
Ok I have figured out how to keep my devices data intact so I can flash the systemUI.apk over and over again without having to factory reset my device, now it's time to get this thing working.
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I have succeeded in porting all res and smali things to 5X's systemUI which is related to Assistant.
Process by now, the sendOpaBroadcast refuse to work.
issue:
Code:
11-11 11:58:02.915 D/AssistManagerGoogle(3038): New assistant: null

Charles_l said:
I have succeeded in porting all res and smali things to 5X's systemUI which is related to Assistant.
Process by now, the sendOpaBroadcast refuse to work.
issue:
Code:
11-11 11:58:02.915 D/AssistManagerGoogle(3038): New assistant: null
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Do you have the new google assistant enabled?
If not then you can change your build.prop to get it working
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change
ro.product.model=Nexus 5X to ro.product.model=Pixel
and add
ro.opa.eligible_device=true
somewhere into the build.prop then flash it or push it back onto the device.
This might be useful since the little circles the home buttons draws are called
ic_sysbar_opa_colour.xml
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and the build prop tells the device that you can use opa with this line
ro.opa.eligible_device=true
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Charles_l said:
I have succeeded in porting all res and smali things to 5X's systemUI which is related to Assistant.
Process by now, the sendOpaBroadcast refuse to work.
issue:
Code:
11-11 11:58:02.915 D/AssistManagerGoogle(3038): New assistant: null
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Also can you tell us how to got the System UI's nav bar working, if it does work after you have changed the build.prop

Jackio987 said:
Also can you tell us how to got the System UI's nav bar working, if it does work after you have changed the build.prop
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What did you do with build.prop, if you add a line in it to enable some settings, the setting doesn't turn off when you delete the line, you have to set the value to 0 of what you have added.
Good news, now I got the home button animation, though the four dots didn't appera.
I might need the Pixel phone user setting, if I can't override the Opa_Enabled settings.

Charles_l said:
What did you do with build.prop, if you add a line in it to enable some settings, the setting doesn't turn off when you delete the line, you have to set the value to 0 of what you have added.
Good news, now I got the home button animation, though the four dots didn't appera.
I might need the Pixel phone user setting, if I can't override the Opa_Enabled settings.
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Here goes the build.prop from the Pixel if it helps.

Jackio987 said:
Here goes the build.prop from the Pixel if it helps.
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Thank you but no need, after analysising Google App, I found a way to get systemUI turn on the OPA animation switch. I will start a new thread for details.

Charles_l said:
Thank you but no need, after analysising Google App, I found a way to get systemUI turn on the OPA animation switch. I will start a new thread for details.
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Can you please make a tutorial on this so we can port it to other devices like my moto g 2014 or a nexus 6P or future updates to the nexus 5X.

Charles_l said:
Thank you but no need, after analysising Google App, I found a way to get systemUI turn on the OPA animation switch. I will start a new thread for details.
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I worked on this for week but no luck .. if you have figured out how and do know the exact reasons, let me know..thank you
PS- don't back and restore /data all the time. Simply replace the apk and grand permissions from aroma file manager which can manipulate data from recovery itself.