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Hello,
first of all I love the Desire Rom by Paul. I only want to modify the "taskbar" graphics at the bottom of the display. Do you know in which .apk I will find them?
Do you already knwo where i can find the wallpapers in the rom, f.eg. the blue travel wallpaper?
Thanks and regards
donner
framework-res.apk for the notification bar, and alot of other stuff is in there aswell. Try making a morph to start with, it's alot easier. You can even download someone elses, open all the files and if you have a little bit of computer knowlege teach yourself from there.
wallpaper
and where are the wallpapers? they are not in the framework-res.apk
If you're looking for the graphics on the bottom on sense these are located in a seperate .apk on all the desire roms i've seen that is next to the framework-res.apk normally called something like com.htc.desire or something similar
Isn't it rosie.apk?
Most of HTC's stuff is in rosie.apk
Definitely go for a metamorph theme.
Metamorph allows you to specify only a few PNGs, XMLs etc that will be updated within the targeted apk.
On NON-Desire roms, wallpapers are in the launcher.
So yeah, maybe Rosie.apk
This thread is devoted to ADW launcher themes.
Make a post and I'll update this post.
Themes:
britoso - Transparent icon bubbles
rori~ - Smoked (smoked launcher box, trans icons, smoked folders ..more)[/URL]
crachel - N1 Drawer icon(Nexus X)
vladnosferatu- iTheme [http://i2theme.webs.com/] (iPhone icons for most popular apps.)
To use a theme:
1) Install the apk.
2) apply the theme. settings->adw settings->theme preferences
To create your own:
Here is a nice guide: https://code.google.com/p/adw-launcher-android/wiki/ADWThemeGuide
All you need is the Eclipse IDE. (get the smallest one, i.e "Java developers" version). After you install/unzip Eclipse, install the ADT plugin.
Get the template project. (click download source)
import the project into your eclipse workspace
read the README file in the project
Customize the project name, version, theme image, wallpaper, and any other image or xml
build a signed .apk in eclipse and post here.
Note: To encourage theme merging and kanging, please post your project source code or upload it to an online repository like google code.
It's nice mate; thanks for sharing
britoso said:
Simple theme that only sets the icon bubble background transparent...
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That´s nice! - thanx for doing this
britoso said:
.. How about a thread for ADW ?..
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Yes started playing around with it..
I can't get search widget to change :-(..
rori~ said:
Yes started playing around with it..
I can't get search widget to change :-(..
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try switching between themes
If I load the source template to eclipse...I cannot change alpha value of the bubbles, right?
(Cause decompiling it then with apk tool, I can get the smali files to change...but I would like to do that in eclipse)
Is there a way?
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If I load the source template to eclipse...I cannot change alpha value of the bubbles, right?
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you can. The value is in theme_config.xml or values.xml
Uff, got it , thanx!
[ADW Theme] Smoked
ADW Theme Smoked 1.7.1
Changelog:
- new wallpapers for gingerbread black statusbar
- new option o choose custom docks for ADW EX !
- other fixes....
ATTENTION: you cannot upgrade! - deinstall previous and then install v 1.7.1
Notes:
- This Theme still does not have thousands of icons, as I use this for my own purpose and that´s all I have on my screens
-> I f anybody likes to join this theme and increase the amount of icons, just contact my, I will provide you the layouts and we can put as many icons as you want in here
- Docks: this is just a quick experiment. Again, if you have some cool dock and want them in here, contact me!
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Update for > ADW 1.3.0
ADWThemeSmoked.apk
ADW Theme Smoked 1.6.1
Changelog:
- reduced app size
- some bugfixes with focuse colors
- works with ADW EX
I.)
Ok, I updated this theme
- added some more icons
- added Wallpaper Gallery with some new creations.
[The apk is quite huge, that´s due to the wallpapers incuded, but you can move it to SD card. And don´t be afraid, it wont slow down your launcher ]
II.)
Also I add a little kanged apk: com.adwtheme.iconpack.apk.kang.apk
- install as regular apk
- select a custom shortcut from this theme drawer icons & some text icons
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III.) [I will keep this theme here, for those who use older versions of ADW Launcher]
ADW Theme Smoked for < ADW 1.3.0
Tested on CM 6
Update 08/13:
New icons: SyncSettings, New Google Voice Search, Contact Sender
ADW smoked theme includes:
- wallpaper
- smoked launcher box
- smoked application background
- k9 icon
How to:
1) install ADW.smoked.apk
2) apply theme in settings->adw settings->theme preferences
In "theme preferences" you see a download link for a morph -> ADW Smoked Morph, download and apply with MetaMorph to get it.
ADW Smoked Morph includes:
- smoked statusbar
- battery icon
- vibrate icon
- New Google Voice
- SyncSettings
- Contact Sender
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britoso...hope you can find some time to change some orange to cyan - would pretty much complete your theme for me
[ADW Theme] N1 Drawer icon
Here's one I did that:
Changes Wallpaper to the basic blue pictured below
Changes the drawer icon to the Nexus One icon
On a side note, it would be nice if there was a way to easily combine two themes.
[ADW Theme] Transparent icon bubbles
Simple theme that only sets the icon bubble background transparent.
Will try and change some orange to cyan if I get the time.
Had to replace the wallpaper so I threw in a blue/gradient one. Change it if you dont like it.
Download:
[1.0]
Edit: Works with VTL Launcher
(Britoso, perhaps you wanna change thread title to ADW themes, if anybody else want to use this thread ..)
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nice theme.
updated OP.
Update 08/13: ADW smoked
New icons: SyncSettings, New Google Voice Search, Contact Sender
I have not been able to install any themes that are not from the market to my droid x. If anyone could pm me the information that would be great.
Thanks crachel, "•Changes the drawer icon to the Nexus One icon"
I have been looking all over for this Nexus X.
Anyone know where I can find the other Nexus X for ADW Launcher drawer icon, the boot animation type X???
Hi i have changed the images in this file the way i want them, thats all i want to change, but when opening in the project in eclipse 3.6 with SDK etc i just get errors in the manifest xml If i upload the zip with my updated images [just the res folder] would someone be so kind as to compile it to APK for me lol? changed all the names and path like said in the how to but lowest i can get is 2 errors on 2 lines 'missing acquired attribute name' ?? specifically on line " <activity android:name=".main"
android:label="@string/theme_title">'
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Hi i have changed the images in this file the way i want them, thats all i want to change, but when opening in the project in eclipse 3.6 with SDK etc i just get errors in the manifest xml If i upload the zip with my updated images [just the res folder] would someone be so kind as to compile it to APK for me lol? changed all the names and path like said in the how to but lowest i can get is 2 errors on 2 lines 'missing acquired attribute name' ?? specifically on line " <activity android:name=".main"
android:label="@string/theme_title">'
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Did you right click your project and select "Refactor->Rename"? AnderWeb has covered most problems in the comments section here
got as far as extracting it but dont know where to start with signing it int he keystore wizard lol
Everytime I try to make a theme using the template all I get are errors. I use the same file names and everything, just changed the icons with different ones. End up with more than 200 errors. What am I doing wrong? The readme isn't very in depth.
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A quick question for any advanced themers out there...
I am working on a custom theme for the AOSP Messaging application. I have successfully edited everything in the app EXCEPT for the holo background, which I would like to change. Specifically I want to make the Holo gradient disappear and instead have a solid color that I define. Is it possible to set the background of the APK without having to change the framework-res.apk? If so, how can I do it?
Thanks!
gridlock489 said:
A quick question for any advanced themers out there...
I am working on a custom theme for the AOSP Messaging application. I have successfully edited everything in the app EXCEPT for the holo background, which I would like to change. Specifically I want to make the Holo gradient disappear and instead have a solid color that I define. Is it possible to set the background of the APK without having to change the framework-res.apk? If so, how can I do it?
Thanks!
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I was only able to change the background by changing the png in framework-res. That's the place I think it gets it from. It took me a while to theme the Mms.apk the way I wanted to. That was before the developers for CM made it more themer friendly in recent builds. I changed a lot of stuff around in layouts that's now located all in colors.xml.
Hi there,
So recently I got Nexus 5 after 4 years of HTC Desire. Quite a huge leap performace wise I might add, and this phone is absolutely a sweetheart. The first thing I did was rooting the phone :laugh:
Anyways, I am thinking to change the color of all icons (including icons of applications) to black and white. I get it that I would need to extract the icons first, and then change the color using some icon or icon editing program or simply a photo editing program etc.
Now what I would need to know is that how can I repack the icons back to the application? or would I need to place it in some directory and fiddle with some xml file?
Cheers!
oombongo said:
Hi there,
So recently I got Nexus 5 after 4 years of HTC Desire. Quite a huge leap performace wise I might add, and this phone is absolutely a sweetheart. The first thing I did was rooting the phone :laugh:
Anyways, I am thinking to change the color of all icons (including icons of applications) to black and white. I get it that I would need to extract the icons first, and then change the color using some icon or icon editing program or simply a photo editing program etc.
Now what I would need to know is that how can I repack the icons back to the application? or would I need to place it in some directory and fiddle with some xml file?
Cheers!
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Why don't you just use a Launcher that allow you to use custom icons? with Nova and Apex you can do it
oombongo said:
Now what I would need to know is that how can I repack the icons back to the application? or would I need to place it in some directory and fiddle with some xml file?
Cheers!
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Icons are icons. The colour of icons does not need xml files. Its all controlled by images.
You can actually repack quit easily, but also takes a lot of effort. You need to look at the villain rom theme engine. It is a flashable zip that unpacks each apk and replaces whatever you have in the zip in the apk. Essentially you would have /system/app_name/res/icon.png (pretending that this is the location of the icon in the apk, each will be different I expect)... but you have to do this for every app.
Is there a way to theme touchwiz or stock for custom status icons via signal bars, clock colors, notification colors etc? Tried making flashable zips but didnt change the look any, still the same default after editing images and changing xml color codes still no luck
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ebs512 said:
Is there a way to theme touchwiz or stock for custom status icons via signal bars, clock colors, notification colors etc? Tried making flashable zips but didnt change the look any, still the same default after editing images and changing xml color codes still no luck
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Without the theme creator you might have to copy a theme from system/app and decompile and edit. I haven't had a chance to start on one for my phone yet. I would grab a theme that has made the most changes so the apk is the most complete.
here is a link for some themes you might want to look at http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...e-samsung-stock-s6-themes-collection-t3080847
cmos8088 said:
Without the theme creator you might have to copy a theme from system/app and decompile and edit. I haven't had a chance to start on one for my phone yet. I would grab a theme that has made the most changes so the apk is the most complete.
here is a link for some themes you might want to look at http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...e-samsung-stock-s6-themes-collection-t3080847
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I just wanted to make a few system edits via signal bar colors, battery bar icons etc. When you decompile the SytemUI.apk on the stock deodexed rom, the images are in Samsung's QMG format. You can convert the QMG images to png format and edit them but after multiple attempts at trying to create flashable zips and forcing the apk into reboot, no changes were made, the png images are in the apk with the original QMG format deleted but still the same default. I installed the xposed framework and installed the x Theme Engine but it does not support lollipop 5.1.1. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am on a loop as to what to do now to make a fully custom theme for my stock rom
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ebs512 said:
I just wanted to make a few system edits via signal bar colors, battery bar icons etc. When you decompile the SytemUI.apk on the stock deodexed rom, the images are in Samsung's QMG format. You can convert the QMG images to png format and edit them but after multiple attempts at trying to create flashable zips and forcing the apk into reboot, no changes were made, the png images are in the apk with the original QMG format deleted but still the same default. I installed the xposed framework and installed the x Theme Engine but it does not support lollipop 5.1.1. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am on a loop as to what to do now to make a fully custom theme for my stock rom
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Use xblast tools for xposed
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ebs512 said:
I just wanted to make a few system edits via signal bar colors, battery bar icons etc. When you decompile the SytemUI.apk on the stock deodexed rom, the images are in Samsung's QMG format. You can convert the QMG images to png format and edit them but after multiple attempts at trying to create flashable zips and forcing the apk into reboot, no changes were made, the png images are in the apk with the original QMG format deleted but still the same default. I installed the xposed framework and installed the x Theme Engine but it does not support lollipop 5.1.1. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am on a loop as to what to do now to make a fully custom theme for my stock rom
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The files you are changing might be getting replaced by a theme overlay, even the default theme (lollipop) is an overlay. So you should try replacing the images in whatever theme your using.
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The files you are changing might be getting replaced by a theme overlay, even the default theme (lollipop) is an overlay. So you should try replacing the images in whatever theme your using.
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Im not finding the default theme and out of a few apks I have decompiled, the system is the only one with the signal icons, this is some folders related to theming but even the touchwiz app doesnt have the signal bars, xblast tools works but if I'd like to include the feature in my own theme, I still have not found a way. I decompiled a theme and the only images in it are related to app icons so that's a dead end there
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ebs512 said:
Im not finding the default theme and out of a few apks I have decompiled, the system is the only one with the signal icons, this is some folders related to theming but even the touchwiz app doesnt have the signal bars, xblast tools works but if I'd like to include the feature in my own theme, I still have not found a way. I decompiled a theme and the only images in it are related to app icons so that's a dead end there
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A theme overlay I would think is the only way to do it now. In older versions of Android you could simply replace images and do xml and smali edits. Now it is much more complicated since Samsung hasn't released theme designer/creator to the public...
If you look inside the main apk of a theme in data/app you will see all the rest of the apk's for that theme. Example Material dark is com.cambunch.MaterialDark. If you decompile all the apk's inside the theme's main apk you can make changes there. I haven't tried to change anything that isn't included yet in a theme. But you might be able to add apk's that you create to it that have your changes you have made.
I hope more people jump in here so we can figure this out so people can create personalized themes for themselves and others.
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A theme overlay I would think is the only way to do it now. In older versions of Android you could simply replace images and do xml and smali edits. Now it is much more complicated since Samsung hasn't released theme designer/creator to the public...
If you look inside the main apk of a theme in data/app you will see all the rest of the apk's for that theme. Example Material dark is com.cambunch.MaterialDark. If you decompile all the apk's inside the theme's main apk you can make changes there. I haven't tried to change anything that isn't included yet in a theme. But you might be able to add apk's that you create to it that have your changes you have made.
I hope more people jump in here so we can figure this out so people can create personalized themes for themselves and others.
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The default theme is not in /data/app. I manually pushed a modified systemui.apk with changed images and it force closed the systemui. After a reboot, there was no force close but no status bar either
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ebs512 said:
The default theme is not in /data/app. I manually pushed a modified systemui.apk with changed images and it force closed the systemui. After a reboot, there was no force close but no status bar either
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I was referring to the MaterialDark theme as an example and how theming is done now with lollipop. I know systemui.apk is in system/priv-app and theming individual apps doesn't work anymore.
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I was referring to the MaterialDark theme as an example and how theming is done now with lollipop. I know systemui.apk is in system/priv-app and theming individual apps doesn't work anymore.
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The Material Dark theme was made using the theme service software? That's the only current way to create a theme now?
Edit: they are all separate apks now for each part of the theme
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ebs512 said:
The Material Dark theme was made using the theme service software? That's the only current way to create a theme now?
Edit: they are all separate apks now for each part of the theme
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Yes this is the only way to theme now.
Also all those smaller apk's are all located in the main apk for the theme. Using MaterialDark as en example again com.cambunch.MaterialDark is the main part and has all the smaller apk's inside. Each of the smaller apk's theme one app.
So what I am saying is you have to grab a theme off your phone ( just the main app ) it will have all the smaller apk's in it. Then you have to decompile it and you will have all the smaller apk's then you can decompile and edit those. You should be able to add more images other then what is in those smaller apk's as long as the naming is correct.
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Yes this is the only way to theme now.
Also all those smaller apk's are all located in the main apk for the theme. Using MaterialDark as en example again com.cambunch.MaterialDark is the main part and has all the smaller apk's inside. Each of the smaller apk's theme one app.
So what I am saying is you have to grab a theme off your phone ( just the main app ) it will have all the smaller apk's in it. Then you have to decompile it and you will have all the smaller apk's then you can decompile and edit those. You should be able to add more images other then what is in those smaller apk's as long as the naming is correct.
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I talked to a very reputable themer selling themes in the galaxy theme store. After asking her a few questions it appears the ONLY way to theme is with the samsung software which i applied for yesterday. Even decompiling an already made theme, a png is not going to replace a qmg image already set in the application so that's the only downfall. Being short of being capable to fully theme like you used to be able to via cm theme engine is kind of sad aswell. Also, with the samsung theme engine, text colors and status bar icons can no longer be modified with the samsung software
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ebs512 said:
I talked to a very reputable themer selling themes in the galaxy theme store. After asking her a few questions it appears the ONLY way to theme is with the samsung software which i applied for yesterday. Even decompiling an already made theme, a png is not going to replace a qmg image already set in the application so that's the only downfall. Being short of being capable to fully theme like you used to be able to via cm theme engine is kind of sad aswell. Also, with the samsung theme engine, text colors and status bar icons can no longer be modified with the samsung software
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I am theming my phone without Samsungs software by taking a part other themes seeing what makes them work and making my own. It is very slow going but I have been able to replace qmg files with png. and change text colors. I haven't found the limits yet because I haven't tried to add more then what is in anyone theme yet.
Don't be disappointed if Samsung declines you they have declined a lot of known themers. I was declined but I have never publicly released a theme...
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I am theming my phone without Samsungs software by taking a part other themes seeing what makes them work and making my own. It is very slow going but I have been able to replace qmg files with png. and change text colors. I haven't found the limits yet because I haven't tried to add more then what is in anyone theme yet.
Don't be disappointed if Samsung declines you they have declined a lot of known themers. I was declined but I have never publicly released a theme...
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What have you found out so far, have you been able to make a modified apk theme?
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ebs512 said:
What have you found out so far, have you been able to make a modified apk theme?
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I will be posting a howto in the next couple of days. I have been able to replace images and change colors. It is pretty involved because you need to make some batch files to batch decompile, recompile, zipalign and sign around 60 apk's (depending on your theme). The only problem I have had is I have to manually move the sjon file so it doesn't show as a trial theme. Once I figure out how to make the sjon file go to the correct place it will be much easier for installs.
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I will be posting a howto in the next couple of days. I have been able to replace images and change colors. It is pretty involved because you need to make some batch files to batch decompile, recompile, zipalign and sign around 60 apk's (depending on your theme). The only problem I have had is I have to manually move the sjon file so it doesn't show as a trial theme. Once I figure out how to make the sjon file go to the correct place it will be much easier for installs.
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Is the sjon file there if you have purchased a theme? I have purchased a few, would you suggest using a paid theme as a base? According to the pictures of the Samsung Theme Designer software, it looks as easy as selecting overall theme colors in a GUI display so it might be considerably easier if we all just continuously apply until you get approved? From what I have been told, they make verdicts of applicants the 15th of every month...
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Is the sjon file there if you have purchased a theme? I have purchased a few, would you suggest using a paid theme as a base? According to the pictures of the Samsung Theme Designer software, it looks as easy as selecting overall theme colors in a GUI display so it might be considerably easier if we all just continuously apply until you get approved? From what I have been told, they make verdicts of applicants the 15th of every month...
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mine was pieced together with several free themes and will show as a trial theme. I haven't figured out what theme manager looks at to tell if a theme is free trial or payed. You are right about similar color but the theme might not be complete.