Android themes - General Questions and Answers

Dear Fellows,
I'm new to CM and its just my second post, I'm kinda interested in making/modifying themes on android phones. I have some queries regarding this..
1. do i need to create a new project from scratch and build my own apk or
2. do i just decompress other's theme apk and change it way i like (is that legal or acc to rule of android, CM forums etc )
3. Can i sale themes on play store using second method ( i know they worked but if its possible, i wont do if its not or illigal)
thanx for your reply in advance

1. There are plenty guides on the Android Theme section. I have written up a updated guide to create themes from scratch with extra info on how to theme your interface. There are some that show you how to theme using pre-made apks
2. Yes you can as long it is not a paid theme. A free one then its fine, you just have to ask the original themer for permission. So they know you're using his/hers theme as a base.
3. Yes you can if you have permission

Related

Hero Mods, Themes, APK's, Fonts, Lockscreens, Taskbars

Share your themes and edited apk's here 10-12-09
Phone must be rooted
Can some 1 create update zip for my clocks and lockscreen for easy install .. thanks in advance
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This thread is for the tweaking of the Hero. Thanks to "Chocmatic" we had the files pretty early in the game and now have been tweaking, modding, and creating themes.
Rom makers let me know if you need anything I'll be glad to assist creating themes/icons for our phones..
Complete system files
provided by Chocmatic
http://www.divshare.com/download/8876975-4f6
Mirror link from Godzson (me)
http://www.filesavr.com/systemzip
Here are some creations I've made and will add your's in the following post's for easy find for everyone to enjoy, let me know through pm if you find any aswell with permission.
ONYX clock Enjoy!
http://www.filesavr.com/godzsonclock1
Second Clock per request (Chocmatic)
http://www.filesavr.com/godzsonclock2
World clock
http://g.imageshack.us/img14/previewclock.png/1/
http://www.filesavr.com/godzsonclock3
Wallpapers:
Some wallpaper website (not all wallpapers images are suitable for everyone)If you have other locations pm me and I'll post here.
G1Wallz.com
Let me know and I'll post other links you've found
Android Apps (Games, Life, Etc..)
[url]101BestAndroidApps.com[/URL]
AndroidandMe.com
Phandroid.com
AndroidForums.com
Sprintusers.com
Here it is my 1st lock screen enjoy..
Big Big ups to jamezelle for all his help and ruskiyab
http://g.imageshack.us/img510/godzdonlockscreen5.png/1/
screenshot by Jamezelle
http://www.filesavr.com/comhtcresources_2
Enjoy, and lets continue our fellowship!
Metamorph App: theme your phone without having to reboot into recovery mode and flash some kind of update.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=591329
Theme Resources:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4438978&postcount=1
Making a theme:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3175518&postcount=2
Easy steps:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3175518&postcount=6
How To Theme Develop for Windows For Dummies in 10 easy steps:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3175518&postcount=4
Breakdowns:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3175518&postcount=5
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Apps, gapps, zips, & fixes.

Hello all!!
Thought it might be a good idea to start a thread for everyone to post G APPS, ZIPS, FIXES, and of course APPS!!
NO PAID APPS / OR COPY RIGHTED MATERIAL PLEASE....
Many times flashing between different ROMs it is a pain to search from the phone to find the right " stuff " to add to a new software.
Idea is to post them here in one easy to find location. Please list as much info about the item you post as you can.
Best regards,
Chris
P.S. MOD'S please remove / delete this if there is any issue.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, CREDIT THE ITEMS DEVELOPERS!!!! OPEN SOURCE MEANS OPEN SOURCE, BUT IF YOU WORKED YOUR BUTT OFF, YOU DESERVE CREDIT!!!
Someone wanted a new font, here is a thread with a flashable font zip, it does work on cm7, just applied it!!!!
And not to mention several cm7 themes and extras!!!!!
Enjoy!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=768848

[APP] [Alpha-03] - xCharge - SE Reboot Options for Xperia - http://xcharge.sf.net

Thanks to my good friend DooMLoRD for this breakthrough, Bin4ry & Androxyde for developing and maintaining FlashTool, the ability to drop from the desktop into Recovery on the X10 is now just a widget download away.
The original thread has since evolved and is worth looking at to understand the concepts, some history and challenges faced with thanks to all the XDA developers and forum members who have given help and time, in making this possible. This evolution, would not be at all possible without the DooMLoRD and his work and efforts and contributions for Xperia owners has made many owners very happy, the [Universal] for ALL ROMs / ALL Xperia Android devices with any Recovery is where it all began and now, the ever popular app by Koush application Rom Manager , available for the Sony Ericsson Xperia.
Requirements:
Any of the following supported devices
Phone needs to be rooted with Busybox installed
Any Working Version of Recovery
Supported Devices:
Xperia X10
Xperia X8
Xperia X10 Mini
Xperia X10 Mini Pro
How-To:
1: Download the update.zip (its flashable via recovery) and save on sdcard
2: Reboot into recovery and flash the update.zip
3: Reboot phone
The app is a widget and does not have a App Drawer icon yet! (coming soon), once u enter home screen long press on blank area to add widget (this requires 1x2 icon space).
1: Locate "Xperia Reboot Options" and select it
2: Click on the app icon (X) to lauch widget/app
3: Select what reboot option u want
Click Process
Allow superuser prompt for permissions... click "Allow"...
DONE!!!
reserved
Release:
[19-May-2011] Xperia Reboot Options v1.0.0 - Initial release
Downloads:
v1.0.0: xperia_reboot_options_v1.0.0.zip
reserved
finally released...
still lots of work to be done...
MrHassell lets get those SED cmds into JAVA...
deserved for its release
thaaaanks
A big step to us
Waiting for the next update....
It can not boot into xRec when using z's kernel
cheers,
L
MrHassel, Just saw your message, I think I should now work on the SF repo, right?
Are the todos here all the needed?
zoz33 said:
MrHassel, Just saw your message, I think I should now work on the SF repo, right?
Are the todos here all the needed?
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hi zoz33,
i dont know if MrHassel updated the sources after our discussions but basically we are trying to implement SED commands based on v3 (reboot_into_rec_univ_xperia_v3.zip) of add-on_installer.sh script from here... in java..
may be he will upload the latest files in a few hours...
Zoz33 sorry for delay response, Australian time zones.. Had to undo something yesterday, working at cross purposes on mount points and ended up with a buffer problem. Using Apache Commons isn't working nice due to fifo..
Stream EDit (sed) is much better way as DooMLoRD said. So I will be modifying and reissue sources now.
zoz33 said:
MrHassel, Just saw your message, I think I should now work on the SF repo, right?
Are the todos here all the needed?
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Moved to proper forum.
do I still need to edit the scripts before installing the widget?
or
just the widget only?
thanks.
great work guys
Nice.
What exactly do you want graphics-wise?
*when complete* provides alternative to scripts
@junixquiaoit good question. This app is not ready for release, it is still being developed. The reason I posted to the developer forum is that I have put this together based on DooMLoRD's scripts, with his assistance and guidance.
Mr Clown relocated rightly, as this is an APP but still in development and not ready for public testing just yet - this maybe causing some.. you have my apologies.
For now perhaps it is best to stick with scripts. When ready the widget / app could potentially replace scripts, although both will be maintained by DooMLoRD and myself.
I will continue to provide assistance and support for as long as I am able, life hopefully
junixquiaoit said:
do I still need to edit the scripts before installing the widget?
or
just the widget only?
thanks.
great work guys
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AyDee said:
Nice.
What exactly do you want graphics-wise?
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Hi Aydee Great to hear from you, presently it has one single Transparent PNG, 72 x 72 px - created in Adobe Illustrator CS5, no filters or effects, attached at the top of this thread.
http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/widget_design.html
Ideally it should continue to have a 72x72px graphic, for the App drawer and a very small icon for the Widget selection panel and desktop.. HOWEVER what would be really nice imho is to have a few options, one as a spanning 4 column 2 row desktop widget, which can display important state of chargemon (modified / stock), recovery version (ie; xRecovery 0.3 / 0.2 etc..), root active, uptime or some system info..
Best Regards,
MH
Hi all,
sorry to pull a noob on this one put I cannot get this widget working? Can anyone take me though a quick dummy-guide after dl? I tried installing with custom zip, and nothing, can't install...no idea.
X10 Mini E10i Gigglebread V6
phoneyericsson said:
Hi all,
sorry to pull a noob on this one put I cannot get this widget working? Can anyone take me though a quick dummy-guide after dl? I tried installing with custom zip, and nothing, can't install...no idea.
X10 Mini E10i Gigglebread V6
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Your post will be Ignored because you failed to read & understand any of the posts!!!
P.S
ONLY for Developers!
you know what...
I guess a development thread (hosted with official open source hosting) isn't a development related?
As it turns out neither was the development of Zdzihu's kernel, that he released on April 1.
All I've done amounts to nothing. Just create an open source development project at SourceFoge, prepared a guide for zoz33 (with a lot of redundant java code, which is obviously just an APP or theme or something)... the fact you can't install it means nothing I guess.
@Mr Clown - as this is apparently no longer an active development and isn't any longer a part of the development thread. Why not just remove it altogether?
It's never going to get released when it's sitting in an App or Theme thread, without any input from developers.. so just delete this ok?
I'll do the same with my XDA account and everyone can just be happy.
Cheers.
MrHassell said:
I guess a development thread (hosted with official open source hosting) isn't a development related?
As it turns out neither was the development of Zdzihu's kernel, that he released on April 1.
All I've done amounts to nothing. Just create an open source development project at SourceFoge, prepared a guide for zoz33 (with a lot of redundant java code, which is obviously just an APP or theme or something)... the fact you can't install it means nothing I guess.
@Mr Clown - as this is apparently no longer an active development and isn't any longer a part of the development thread. Why not just remove it altogether?
It's never going to get released when it's sitting in an App or Theme thread, without any input from developers.. so just delete this ok?
I'll do the same with my XDA account and everyone can just be happy.
Cheers.
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oh come on dude....
dont get disheartened...
we will complete this soon...
Mr. Clown said:
Moved to proper forum.
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Remove altogether thank you sir.
Devs required
@ALL
this work will be really helpful to the Xperia community as it is laying a foundation for anyone to use this platform to create his/her own apps... we are already sharing the code with the community @ http://xcharge.sf.net and would really appreciate many more devs to help out with various aspects of this project...
firstly i want to make a few things very clear... this is a purely development thread where-in all parts of the app have not yet been finalized and work is still goin on in its development...
all the files for this are openly available at SourceForge http://xcharge.sf.net
@MODERATORS
i request you to please move this thread to X10 Development Section so that the intended audience (developers & designers) can see it and help us out...
we need help from devs/designers to create graphics for this application/widget...
we need help from devs for improving on the programming parts and also on creating newer apps/widgets based on this...
we have a few ideas for additional apps/widgets based on this:
FreeXperia Recovery installer - currently it comes preinstalled on CM7 roms by jerpelea & also can be installed thru flashtool v0.2.8 and above, but doesnt have a installer like xrecovery had
Battery/Performance tweak toggle app - like the tweaks mentioned here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1005027
Custom kernel selection on reboot menu - now that the bootloader has been bypassed newer custom kernels will be released... wouldnt it be great to have an app to select which custom kernel u want to reboot into? we can have overclock/undervolt/etc kernels...
Multi-boot menu - slightly far fetched and will need help from the devs who create the ROMs
Having this in apps & themes, is like having a car frame, a few boxes of nuts & bolts, 4 wheels and a horn.. then saying "let's go for a drive!".
That is obviously how some people roll.. so anyway.. since mostly all thread's are getting hijacked, you're going to see less postings from me. If any - thanks to J.Anderson this place is like a ghost town and the moderator's have become annoyed so much, they don't want to see new development projects, just finnished results. Fair enough..
You can't install this. It is not an app. Where it belongs is a different forum, maybe even a different website.
For anyone interested in the current state. Finnish widget and will post back when tests complete.

I want to be a developer

Hi friends !!!
I am very happy to see a sub-forum for Galaxy FIt and I am surprised to see many developers like Vishwanathptl, pratyushcreed and many others interested in the phone. Basically I am a Mechanical Engineer but then I love computers and I am very interested in android development. So I need help of you and I need help of the developers in learning this .................... so please post some links of sources to learn android development ............. waiting for you replies
krishnakanth_590 said:
Hi friends !!!
I am very happy to see a sub-forum for Galaxy FIt and I am surprised to see many developers like Vishwanathptl, pratyushcreed and many others interested in the phone. Basically I am a Mechanical Engineer but then I love computers and I am very interested in android development. So I need help of you and I need help of the developers in learning this .................... so please post some links of sources to learn android development ............. waiting for you replies
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Eclipse IDK:
For developing Android apps
if you really want to be a developer you must try to learn eclipse
APK manager or APK tool:
it is used to edit android apps
it decompiles android apps so that it's easy for us to edit them
YouTube and Google:
for tutorials to learn how to use them
hope that helps you...!!!!
vaibhavpatil192 said:
Eclipse IDK:
For developing Android apps
if you really want to be a developer you must try to learn eclipse
APK manager or APK tool:
it is used to edit android apps
it decompiles android apps so that it's easy for us to edit them
YouTube and Google:
for tutorials to learn how to use them
hope that helps you...!!!!
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Thanks for your reply .........
i will try learn that .......... and how do developers modify a ROM and make a custom ROM ????
This thread will help you to create custom roms
but its only for HTC devices and some other famous phones
I don't know how to add support for galaxy fit
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=633246
Well, You can use the HTC Android Kitchen! In the kitchen, just dont let it change your updater-script to update-script.
All functions of the kitchen will not work as it is actually made for HTC phones. You can deodex your FW, add boot animation support, Change the name of the fw and Compile it!
So is there any similar tool only for samsung devices?
Nope! The HTC android Kitchen is the best option available. Most of it's features Work Man!
KK
I found this playlist on Youtube by MarakanaTechTV which has about 18 videos about android application development.This user has some other videos on how to make custom ROMs and many other which may be useful for developers .
So here is the link for that playlist titles Android Boot camp:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf7z_mrce00&feature=bf_next&list=PLE953C0B85B50AB62&lf=results_main

[Q] problem with theme engine of cm11

Hello everyone I'm new on XDA please don't judge me bad but with the forum's restriction I can't answer any thread until I get 10 or more points (don't know how get them if I can't answer or publish anything with links)
My issues is weird i've followed every threads that talk about how to create themes I've made all pngs files and xml as well but when I compile it with android studio and I try to install it fails I don't know why.
I've tried also to take an already compiled apk of some themes and tried to mix them fixed xml as well and recompiled with apktool then I've uninstalled official version of the theme and tried to install modified apk but it didn't work anyway I try..
Hope that u can understand I'm Italian and a quite good knowledge of English and android world.
Thank you (hope also to get 10 points to be unrestricted user)

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