[MOD][GUIDE] Animated Softkeys Sense 6 Lollipop (Flashable) - One (M8) Themes and Apps

Hello to everyone
Before we start somthing about me, im 19 Years old and from swiss, so sorry for my bad english
I was able to animate the softkeys and i think it would make your device a little bit cooler
I attached various zip files, the Systemui.zip file is a flashable zip with Stock SystemUI with modded code, so you can flash a animated button.zip
the second zip file called dev-files.zip this zip contains the basic files for animated softkeys.
the preview.zip contains small videos how it looks
Guide how to add your own animated softkeys to a decompiled Systemui.apk
-Download the dev files.zip
-first delete navigation_icon_xxx.png in res/drawable-xxhdpi (the xxx is for the button you want to animate there could be home,back or recent_apps)
-now copy the Layouts from the zip, just copy the layouts for the button you want to animate ) copy to res/layouts
-now copy the navigation_icon_xxx_transparent.png in res/drawable-xxhdpi (the xxx is for the button you want to animate there could be home,back or recent_apps)
-make your own png set (i used paint with rotationzoom) and give them numbers, start at navigation_icon_xxx_1.png
copy them to res/drawable-xxhdpi
-now you just need to edit the navigation_icon_xxx.xml found in the files.zip at drawable-xxhdpi
so for every png you have made, made a line in the xml file like this :
<item android:duration="60" android:drawable= @drawable/navigation_icon_recent_apps_1" />
with android:duration you can set the time how long the png will show up at display in milisec.
and at android:drawable you will neet to add your png name. like @drawable/navigation_icon_xxx_1"
-compile and have fun :victory:
Guide to make flashable Icons
once you got the mod in your systemui you ar able to flash other icons.
you can use one of my flashable zips for buttons, just change the pngs found in vrtheme/system/priv-app/Systemui/Systemui.apk/res/drawable-xxhdpi
there where some restrictions:
-just flash the pngs no xml files else systemui will crash ( i think its because the generated IDs for every png ) correct me if im wrong
-your png set need to have the same amount of pngs , like the old animation ( in my systemui and files postet below for every buttons where 36 Pngs)
- they need to have the same name as before
-if you want to animate the back button, and you got a flashable animated home button zip, just change the name of all pngs like from navigation_icon_home_1 to navigation_icon_back_1 do this with all png in the zip.
Flashable Animated Buttons
Will add more and replace the old Stock animated because they look ugly
Homebuttons:
Stockhome.zip View attachment StockHome.zip
Atomic Home View attachment 3159198
Home Text View attachment Home_Text_homebutton.zip
Death_Home View attachment Death_home.zip
Circle-PulseView attachment 3170526
HTC ONE M8 Home View attachment 3159241
Backbuttons :
StockBack View attachment StockBack.zip
Back TextView attachment Back_text_Backbutton.zip
Atomic Back View attachment Atomic_Backbuttton.zip
Death BackView attachment Death_backbutton.zip
AOSP Back Pulsing View attachment 3171642
RecentButtons:
StockRecent View attachment StockRecent.zip
Recent Text View attachment 3163944
Atomic RecentView attachment atomic_Recentbutton.zip
Death RecentView attachment Death_Recent.zip
AOSP Recent Pulsing View attachment 3171641
If you want a home button.zip as back or recent button just change the png names to navigation_icon_back_x or navigation_icon_recent_apps_x
Its tested on Stock Android 5.0.1 Sense 6 Rom
Bugs:
-Sometimes the animation stops, you just need do put your device in landscape mode this will fix it
- Glow Animation of the recent Button is not working.
Credits:
-Vrtheme
-Spannaa
-Me
-XDA
If you got your own animations feel free to share them in this Thread
every feedback is appreciated
if you got questions or improvments just tell
Hope you like it:fingers-crossed:

Can you post a gif of this working?

I would love to see a gif of this

I flashed this and it did nothing

muppetmaster916 said:
I flashed this and it did nothing
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Jep there is something wrong with the zip will fix it
New file is uploaded tell me if it works now

LudoGris said:
Can you post a gif of this working?
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added a preview.zip in the Op will make gif if i had time

This is a pretty cool mod. I won't be flashing it myself because I like to stay pretty close to stock but definitely keep up the good work!

It's too busy for me, too much going on, but I appreciate the effort and the idea. It's definitely a cool thing to be able to do and to have. Also, it opens up the opportunity for people to explore similar mods.
I'd personally quite like to see something a bit more subtle, maybe 'pulsing' or 'breathing' buttons. I like the Lollipop buttons too (triangle, square, circle). Don't know why HTC stuck with their old style. I'm not asking for them but it would be nice
Good work by any means! Thanks for the contribution. More than I could do myself

Screen?

Miloud Florian said:
Screen?
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In the Preview.zip are small videos to each button
Josh8550 said:
This is a pretty cool mod. I won't be flashing it myself because I like to stay pretty close to stock but definitely keep up the good work!
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matmaneyre said:
It's too busy for me, too much going on, but I appreciate the effort and the idea. It's definitely a cool thing to be able to do and to have. Also, it opens up the opportunity for people to explore similar mods.
I'd personally quite like to see something a bit more subtle, maybe 'pulsing' or 'breathing' buttons. I like the Lollipop buttons too (triangle, square, circle). Don't know why HTC stuck with their old style. I'm not asking for them but it would be nice
Good work by any means! Thanks for the contribution. More than I could do myself
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Thanks for the Feedback
Its a nice idea, will add one to the OP

erislav said:
In the Preview.zip are small videos to each button
Thanks for the Feedback
Its a nice idea, will add one to the OP
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I just noticed the guide (love it when people pass on their learning haha), so if you don't get chance I could try myself. Thanks for that ? I don't get a lot of leisure time though so it's doubtful I'll get time, but if you manage to I'd definitely give it a flash, so thanks in advance but don't worry if you can't
Sent from my HTC One_M8 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

Will add it to the OP when i have break at work
The homebutton is already uploaded

erislav said:
Will add it to the OP when i have break at work
The homebutton is already uploaded
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Lovely work...thanks.
I did a screen recording of the pulsing buttons here and I've credited you and linked to this thread in the description so feel free to add the link to the OP if you want

Thanks for this tutorial and files. just tested and works great. Had to edit 100 png files for my pulsing home button but is very subtle now ! Cheers

Does this only work for sense 6 or can you flash it on any type ROM?

Would love to see this as an xposed module.....the request is for whole xda....not to particalarly @erislav....
Great finding man....keep up......this is what makes us the XDA community

Mr Hofs said:
Thanks for this tutorial and files. just tested and works great. Had to edit 100 png files for my pulsing home button but is very subtle now ! Cheers
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a flashable zip would be appreciated.

Any plans on porting this to Nexus 6?

Confirmed : Working great on IC 6.0.7

shredmatix said:
Would love to see this as an xposed module.....the request is for whole xda....not to particalarly @erislav....
Great finding man....keep up......this is what makes us the XDA community
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Yeah would love to see this too
but there are 2 Problems:
the next 4 months i need to learn for school, and dont have much time to do this
and the other one is, i never made an app or somthing this way, i do not have that much knowledge in developing.
But if someone would help me or want to do this, why not
munchy_cool said:
a flashable zip would be appreciated.
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would only play the first 36 images, so you would need to edit the animation xml in the decompiled systemui
mobile_maniac said:
Any plans on porting this to Nexus 6?
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No but you can try it you may need to change the names of the images

Related

CHT widget B&L_Group Animation Widget

CHT widget B&L_Group Animation Widget​
Description: New widget - Animation. The principle is simple folder put a bunch of equally-sized pictures (preferably not more than 20 and not horse-sized (enough for 100 * 100)) and in a certain place the widget you will see endless cartoon.
All images are stored in Program Files \ BL_Group_Animation, and have the template name BL_Group_AW_ (three-digit number with leading zeros pictures). Png. This means that if you have the first frame of his room in the name of the tether will be 001, but if the tenth is 010. Before replacing the images would recommend to disable the widget from the table, remove the old pictures, upload their pictures (their number may not coincide with mine), add the widget to the table with the will recount the images in the folder and will start your animation. In the CAB today is a dancing rabbit, the symbol 2011.
I want to note that the picture turns Manila and because a similar rate of gif files will not be able to achieve.
There is an opportunity to move, resize, and dock.
Compatible with other widgets.
Author: B & L_Group (MoonNah)
Now we're talkin!!!!
Another nice one.
This should get some creative juices flowing!!!
Wow^^ trying right now
.....mmmh I got massive problems with it I installed your cab to my device memory. But when I put it on my homescreen and soft reset like it suggested my homescreen was kind of destroyed. the taskbar and the old softkeybar is displayed ( the one with Phone and contacts) but the homescreen is black. I cant get to settings to deinstall it and not a single other thing. I cant remove it from the homescreen, because it seems my device isnt using CHT2 at the moment
would be glad if you could help me fast.
I cant really provide system information, because I cant get them to be displayed. The only thing I can say, is that I am using elegancia rom
Edit:
well got my homescreen back due to reinstalling and just softreseting after the deinstallation:
OS : 5.2.21916 (21916.5.0.95)
Manila : 2.5.20181424.0
Rom: Elegancia V 5.0 Final WWE
Radio 2.07.50.27_2
Hmm, working just fine here.
Thanks again for your efforts to get this out.
No problems here also.
Thanx for this nice widget, it's fun
Moonah, you are a madman
Is there a way of altering the frame speed? If so this could be really easily adapted to be a slideshow widget - just place images for slideshow in the folder, name correctly, set frame speed to 5 seconds or so and voila, digital slideshow
Happy Holidays
Install Animation Widget HERE from MoonNah first.
Extract to: Program Files\BL_Group_Animation
Dunc001 said:
Moonah, you are a madman
Is there a way of altering the frame speed? If so this could be really easily adapted to be a slideshow widget - just place images for slideshow in the folder, name correctly, set frame speed to 5 seconds or so and voila, digital slideshow
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Yes, I think without problems. I will make 2 version with a change in time of display pictures.
dont know if this widget needs a lot free space. But still got the problem posted earlier I would really like to use that wid
Nordpolcamper said:
dont know if this widget needs a lot free space. But still got the problem posted earlier I would really like to use that wid
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It takes exactly as much space as will take your picture
MoonNah said:
It takes exactly as much space as will take your picture
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Well I cant seem to get it working at my hd2 the screen goes black and only task and the old softkeybar are displayed no sliding option whatsoever
I had some issues with clocks before. that they wouldnt show up and stuff a guy told me it would be because there was something with CFC-Compression?? I dont know. could you plz help me MoonNah?
Nordpolcamper said:
Well I cant seem to get it working at my hd2 the screen goes black and only task and the old softkeybar are displayed no sliding option whatsoever
I had some issues with clocks before. that they wouldnt show up and stuff a guy told me it would be because there was something with CFC-Compression?? I dont know. could you plz help me MoonNah?
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I use png files, and there is no compression plays a role, but why not see this question because this widget is easiest as ABC
might be something with the mode 9 file or the lua, or the xml file sry I dont know. the functionality might be simple, but i am way to stupid to solve this problem. I had an issue with poyensas typoclock too. but version 3 worked perfectly
Nordpolcamper said:
might be something with the mode 9 file or the lua, or the xml file sry I dont know. the functionality might be simple, but i am way to stupid to solve this problem. I had an issue with poyensas typoclock too. but version 3 worked perfectly
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Can you check in your registry and see which widget slot it is installing to (HKCU\Software\HTC\Manila and scroll down to CHTI.AddonWidget.Slot...) If it is slot 10 and you have not applied the 20 slot widget fix then this might be your problem.
Dunc001 said:
Can you check in your registry and see which widget slot it is installing to (HKCU\Software\HTC\Manila and scroll down to CHTI.AddonWidget.Slot...) If it is slot 10 and you have not applied the 20 slot widget fix then this might be your problem.
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Yes dunc its slot 10. do you by chance have the fix at hand?
Hi MoonNah,
I just installed it and it's working perfectly, very funny widget, nice job!
Thanks for sharing.
Best regards and Merry Christmas!
Nordpolcamper said:
Yes dunc its slot 10. do you by chance have the fix at hand?
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LOOK HERE - hope it helps
BIGTHX for your fantastic work
something for after Christmas
my tp2 is here but pretty hard on the knee
maybe something small to make the png
Dunc001 said:
LOOK HERE - hope it helps
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Yeah that helped^^ got it working now thanks.
Would be awesome if it was possible to speed it up
Thank you. Worked on my Touch Diamond

[MOD][PORT][THEME] Notification Menu Power Control Widgets for Sense - 3.70 - THEMES!

First of all, major thanks to JsChiSurf for his amazing work on this port!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=877003
This is a separate thread for themes of this mod.
I've always wanted a clean, slick looking shade on the notifications pull down and thanks to JsChiSurf, it's pretty easy to theme it.
Here are two that I made today. I haven't gotten around to skinning the buttons yet though.
Try these, static images don't do them justice, it's neat seeing the way they move. For more details on flashing these, please refer for JsChiSurf's thread above. These already contain the updated 2.1.1 services jar.
After zipping, you can use this:
http://circle.glx.nl/
to restore your battery %. Thanks chogardjr!
PCS_v2.1.1 Brushed_Metal_Grate_Small_Circular_Light
PCS_v2.1.1 Brushed_Metal_Grate_Small_Circular_Dark
PCS_v2.1.1 Brushed Metal Grate Small Circular Dark Industrialized
PCS_v2.1.1 Brushed_Metal_Grate_Small_Dark_Industrialized_Android
PCS_v2.1.1 Brushed_Metal_Grate_Small_Dark_Industrialized_Android_v2
PCS_v2.1.1 Brushed_Metal_Grate_Small_Light_Industrialized_Android_v2
Neo3D said:
First of all, major thanks to JsChiSurf for his amazing work on this port!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=877003
This is a separate thread for themes of this mod.
I've always wanted a clean, slick looking shade on the notifications pull down and thanks to JsChiSurf, it's pretty easy to theme it.
Here are two that I made today. I haven't gotten around to skinning the buttons yet though.
Try these, static images don't do them justice, it's neat seeing the way they move. For more details on flashing these, please refer for JsChiSurf's thread above. These contain the 2.1.1 services jar.
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Wrong section to post this in, however, nice MOD.
Hi. How do i go about installing this mod please?
Jason Black said:
Hi. How do i go about installing this mod please?
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jschisurf has intructions in his thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=877003
since he originally ported this, it's best to refer back to his thread.
oh, i already included his latest 2.1.1 services jar, so there's no need to flash twice.
SteelH said:
Wrong section to post this in, however, nice MOD.
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Sorry Thanks for moving it to the correct section!
Using with Myn rom
I think the brushed metal version looks great and want to install, but would that change myn's black notification menu power control back to white or just add the metal screen drop down. I like the black notification menu power control over the white version.
Thanks
terence74 said:
I think the brushed metal version looks great and want to install, but would that change myn's black notification menu power control back to white or just add the metal screen drop down. I like the black notification menu power control over the white version.
Thanks
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Hmm, honestly, I'm still new at this, so I don't know. Can you make a Nandroid image, then flash it and let everyone know?
terence74 said:
I think the brushed metal version looks great and want to install, but would that change myn's black notification menu power control back to white or just add the metal screen drop down. I like the black notification menu power control over the white version.
Thanks
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yes, it will.
This is all very easy. If you have done this much then you can do it all. I have faith in you.
chogardjr said:
This is all very easy. If you have done this much then you can do it all. I have faith in you.
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Is it just a matter of replacing the PNG's?
What PNG optimization do you recommend?
Also, how do you change the color of the fonts? I tried to look at the xml files but they open up as strange characters in any text editor I use (Notepad++, notepad, etc)
I also noticed that I lost my battery % after flash jschisurf's mod?
Thanks for your faith! The hardest part is knowing where all the PNG's are that need to be replaced!
Replacing png's is the noob way to do it. But is is the best place to start. You need to find apktool and learn how to use it. This will solve most of your problems with xml's. You also need a program called xml editor. This is my starters list. Here is a link you might learn a lot from.
http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/index.html
As far as learning which png's, most are in the drawable-hdpi folder. Stay away from .9.png files untill your ready for them. Apktool will let you know when you make a mistake and where the mistake is to fix. Search youtube and do a lot of reading in this forum. It seems like a lot but after a while you will start to understand how the OS works and manages the files. Happy Themeing!
Neo3D said:
Is it just a matter of replacing the PNG's?
What PNG optimization do you recommend?
Also, how do you change the color of the fonts? I tried to look at the xml files but they open up as strange characters in any text editor I use (Notepad++, notepad, etc)
I also noticed that I lost my battery % after flash jschisurf's mod?
Thanks for your faith! The hardest part is knowing where all the PNG's are that need to be replaced!
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Neo3D said:
I also noticed that I lost my battery % after flash jschisurf's mod?
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Go to the sticky where the rom wiki is and at the bottom of that page you will find kitchens. One is for changing battery icons. That one is the easy fix to getting the icons you want into the his mod. But if you must know more, there are 3 xml files in the drawable folder that needs to be replaced to work with more png files than his stock ones. All I can say is APKTOOL and 7ZIP is the bread and butter.
Thanks for the awesome tips and info!
I found the .png for the toggle switches (stat_power_background.9.png) and yea, it must be some kind of special PNG cuz I measured it out to be 80x75 but rendered incorrectly.
Sweet, looking forward to learning more about Android!
BTW, just finished looking over that Android page and is this the APKTool you're referring to?
Android Asset Packaging Tool
Thats one of them. Here is a post made by a guy who compiled them all together for anyone who wants them. Use just the tools and use that link I gave to learn about them. APKTOOL is something made by someone here on xda but I can't find his link.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=882742&highlight=apktool
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Thanks for the awesome tips and info!
I found the .png for the toggle switches (stat_power_background.9.png) and yea, it must be some kind of special PNG cuz I measured it out to be 80x75 but rendered incorrectly.
Sweet, looking forward to learning more about Android!
BTW, just finished looking over that Android page and is this the APKTool you're referring to?
Android Asset Packaging Tool
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I found the website: FWI use v1.3.1 as v1.3.2 has bugs
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...8j1-bcnOf1Rz8k9fA&sig2=4MkcxzG_ROaqAr4-tWwlGw
As stated, just changing the .png's is the starting way of theming. Just make sure you do a nandroid backup before you go around messing with anything.
When you get comfortable with that, the next step is to look into XML. XML is generally easy to learn but can be complicated at parts. I don't really know of a good starting guide to XML for android but I'll post one if I see it.
NinePatches (*.9.png) aren't as complicated as people think. Once you get the concept of it, they are actually pretty easy. I'm creating a guide for it when I have time. But the basic concept is:
The NinePatch tool ads a 1px border to an image.
The new border can be colored black (except the 4 corners).
The left and top borders defines the stretchable area.
The right and bottom borders defines where content is allowed.
Like I said, I'm making a guide to it which will explain it better and have pictures.
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Thats one of them. Here is a post made by a guy who compiled them all together for anyone who wants them. Use just the tools and use that link I gave to learn about them. APKTOOL is something made by someone here on xda but I can't find his link.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=882742&highlight=apktool
I found the website: FWI use v1.3.1 as v1.3.2 has bugs
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...8j1-bcnOf1Rz8k9fA&sig2=4MkcxzG_ROaqAr4-tWwlGw
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ok sounds good, thanks!
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As stated, just changing the .png's is the starting way of theming. Just make sure you do a nandroid backup before you go around messing with anything.
When you get comfortable with that, the next step is to look into XML. XML is generally easy to learn but can be complicated at parts. I don't really know of a good starting guide to XML for android but I'll post one if I see it.
NinePatches (*.9.png) aren't as complicated as people think. Once you get the concept of it, they are actually pretty easy. I'm creating a guide for it when I have time. But the basic concept is:
The NinePatch tool ads a 1px border to an image.
The new border can be colored black (except the 4 corners).
The left and top borders defines the stretchable area.
The right and bottom borders defines where content is allowed.
Like I said, I'm making a guide to it which will explain it better and have pictures.
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I tried the 9patch app and it's pretty easy to use (I have experience with Illustrator and Flash). However, when I replace the original 9path file w/the new one, it shows the 1 px border on my android. Also, it seems to scale it wrong. I attached an example of what I'm talking about. I measured the bkg of the power toggles to be 80x75, but on the Android, it shrinks the graphic and you can see the 1 pixel border?
Looking forward to that guide!
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I tried the 9patch app and it's pretty easy to use (I have experience with Illustrator and Flash). However, when I replace the original 9path file w/the new one, it shows the 1 px border on my android. Also, it seems to scale it wrong. I attached an example of what I'm talking about. I measured the bkg of the power toggles to be 80x75, but on the Android, it shrinks the graphic and you can see the 1 pixel border?
Looking forward to that guide!
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are you talking about the background of the icons or the entire power area?
the background of the icons look fine to me even zoomed in.
if your trying to make the entire power area be the caution image, then there is an xml edit involved in res/layout-hdpi-v4/status_bar_expanded.xml. ill give you the exact change you need if you cant figure it out.
just keep in mind that ninepatch will only stretch images, not repeat.
Skullmonkey said:
are you talking about the background of the icons or the entire power area?
the background of the icons look fine to me even zoomed in.
if your trying to make the entire power area be the caution image, then there is an xml edit involved in res/layout-hdpi-v4/status_bar_expanded.xml. ill give you the exact change you need if you cant figure it out.
just keep in mind that ninepatch will only stretch images, not repeat.
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ahh ok, i wasn't sure how the background of that area worked. so there's a background png and a background png for each widget?
i found this png: stat_power_background.9.png
which other one is for the background of the entire thing?
about the extra 1 pixel showing, you can see on the sides of the background a black vertical line. on 9patch png's, is the 1 px border that defines the 9patch actually supposed to show? i think there might be something wrong with my 9patch png's.
also, if you look at the screen cap again, there's horizontal white space above and below the toggle widget bkg graphics. is there a way to make them larger so they cover the white space? seems like android likes to shrink them to that size (in the screen cap) no matter how tall the image is.
Neo3D said:
ahh ok, i wasn't sure how the background of that area worked. so there's a background png and a background png for each widget?
i found this png: stat_power_background.9.png
which other one is for the background of the entire thing?
about the extra 1 pixel showing, you can see on the sides of the background a black vertical line. on 9patch png's, is the 1 px border that defines the 9patch actually supposed to show? i think there might be something wrong with my 9patch png's.
also, if you look at the screen cap again, there's horizontal white space above and below the toggle widget bkg graphics. is there a way to make them larger so they cover the white space? seems like android likes to shrink them to that size (in the screen cap) no matter how tall the image is.
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Well theres a solid color using a ARGB hex (for the background of the power control area) and a png for each icon background by default. you can set it up so there is an image for each.
the stat_power_background.9.png controls each icon (as you may have guessed already)
i'm not sure why the power control area isnt a solid color.
when in the ninepatch editor, you are supposed to see the black extra pixel but when you load it on your phone, they should dissappear. i honestly dont see them in the ss you provided.
can you send me the framework-res.apk you are working on so i can see if everything is set up correctly?

[HOW TO] Animated Status Bar Pulldown for GB Roms

I saw this in an article on droid-life: Here
Original Thread: Animated status bar pulldown for GB roms
Hope this could help some devs/themers get this going for us EVO users
The Author of this is: Alastrionia
Youtube Demo
MODS: If this should not be here, please remove, and my sincere apologizes.
Animated status bar pulldown for GB roms
First off this should work with all GB based roms that use systemui.apk
there may be subtle differences but the basics should be the same all around.
after much trial and error and ripping what little hair I have left out
success was mine and it's time to share this with everyone
and it's so simple that you'll love how fast you can integrate this into ROM's / themes / whatever your heart desires
1. take your systemui.apk and decompile it
2. navigate to layout folder
3. grab "status_bar_tracking.xml" and open it up in your editor
(now for the fun)
4. to the first line - "com.android.systemui.statusbar.TrackingView" add this ""android:background="@drawable/...anim.xml""
<com.android.systemui.statusbar.TrackingView android:background="@drawable/...anim.xml...>
5. after saving that, navigate back into the drawable folder and add your animation.xml file there
5a. next navigate into the drawable/hdpi folder and add your animated images
6. also in the drawable/hdpi folder find and open up the shade_bg.png with your editor and make it 100% transparent
7. now it's time to recompile your apk , following all the usual directions with that
8. enjoy your newly created systemui.apk with a pretty animated background. new and fresh and unlike anything before
that's it. done deal. it's super easy and fast and breathes life into true customization.
I used the stat_sys_upload.xml from the framework-res.apk as my base
all I had to do was change the timing and change the image names.
also you'll notice above - don't copy it word for word on the xml.
I did the "..." meaning whatever you decide to name your file.
I'll try to throw up a video shortly of my success with this so everyone can see it.
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You lost me at "decompile"
SantinoInc said:
You lost me at "decompile"
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I think by that he means to open the systemui.apk
I used 7zip to open a cm7 nightly just now and it's located in the system/app folder. Inside the .apk theres:
res (folder)
AndroidManifest.xml
classes.dex
resources.arsc
Inside the res folder:
anim (folder)
drawable (folder)
drawable-hdpi (folder)
layout (folder)
xml (folder)
Hopefully some themers can get some pretty nice/cool things done with this.
No you would have to decompile the apk with a apk decompiler..Unzipping it will not work.Thats just for replacing images.
1 Aw3s0m3 M0d!!
i'll help people if they're having trouble. probably won't do this personally.
and yeah, to see .xml files correctly, you need an apk decompiler.
Nice find! Will definitely try this.
forgive me if im not reading this right.... is this for aosp of sense?
What will they think of next
Evolutionmods said:
forgive me if im not reading this right.... is this for aosp of sense?
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I believe this is for AOSP but reading through the entire thread someone says "this also works on the com.htc.resources.apk for sense ROMs."
Subbed and Definitely Interested!
More demos with different animations are starting to appear. This is looking really awesome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf7lFsAkxFA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vte37qjSiEc
Oh yeah. I got big plans for this one. Cant wait to get some time to sit down and code it. It really is as simple as stated.
It's not just for gingerbread. I shot this with my crappy 5 year old digicam.
Another demo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAHoKJ2N0Xw
Has anyone given this a go on the EVO yet??
Yeah, I got it working...Needs some tweaking. I tried it with a 24 frame boot animation.. very laggy. I suspect that a 8-15 frame animation would do well
blassilando said:
Another demo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAHoKJ2N0Xw
Has anyone given this a go on the EVO yet??
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The vid I posted above yours is on an evo.
Would either of you mind posting your xml so i could use it as a reference? Not totally clear on that part of it. Thanks.
http://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTEyOTE1MzA3OQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEKsfTiaif0
Ill gladly be a testbot for anyone working on this for our evos
would be nice to get a zip we can flash. so everyone including us noobs can get this mod.
thanks for the info great job

[THEME][UPDATE] GreengerBlack v1.1 [Overcome KRATOS]

Hey Friends,
I've mixed up a theme with the classic Gingerbread Icons (exept the battery).
This theme is made on the base of the "Meizu Dark theme" from natious (you will see some colors and impressions of this)
so thanks a lot.
Sorry, the screenshots are a little crap
Update:
Now I use the Installation file from Meizu Dark with the most of natious themed apks. It shut be complett. My sugestion is replace the bootanimation with the "Particel ring" and flash the themed calendar.apk from sohrab1985. Looks great.
If you don't like the Battery, you can change it with the UOT Kitchen
New Version:
add providersettings.apk from meizu Dark
add calculator.apk from meizu Dark
add settings.apk
add swipe.apk from meizu Dark
add mms.apk from meizu Dark
add contacts.apk from meizu Dark
add a few fonts from meizu Dark
Download:
http://netload.in/dateiHEfqugMCfO/GreengerBlack1.1.zip.htm
Have fun and keep it simple
Please, tell me if there any problems.
look great... testing now.
great theme but i love blue on black or white on black ... but still great theme well done
Fab I like it a lot. This'll stay installed for a while. Any chance of sticking a percentage in the battery icon?!
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Fab I like it a lot. This'll stay installed for a while. Any chance of sticking a percentage in the battery icon?!
Sent from my GT-P1000 using XDA App
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Use UTO kitchen to change the battery. Just go to the page, make your choise and upload the systemUI.apk (root/system/app) and the framework-res.apk (root/system/framework). UTO Kitchen works not at every option but for change the Battery does it work.
my Tab fights with Kratos
This is a great theme, thanks a lot for sharing! But I have a quick question:
Is there is a very plain and basic 100% Stock Gingerbread Theme for KRATOS?... just the 100% stock mostly BLACK (which saves battery) along with orange highlights that comes straight from Google... nothing else or modified just stock, no more no less!
Thanks for the advice.
VeEuzUKY said:
This is a great theme, thanks a lot for sharing! But I have a quick question:
Is there is a very plain and basic 100% Stock Gingerbread Theme for KRATOS?... just the 100% stock mostly BLACK (which saves battery) along with orange highlights that comes straight from Google... nothing else or modified just stock, no more no less!
Thanks for the advice.
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I can try it at the Weekend but I can not do any promise. If you have other wishes or suggestions, tell me. Maybe you like 6 Bottens in the quick setting bar for example.
Btw: I'm just a expirienced user so I have no special skills to do this. I also have no original GB Themed device so I don't know how the Stock theme looks exactly but I'll do my best.
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I can try it at the Weekend but I can not do any promise. If you have other wishes or suggestions, tell me. Maybe you like 6 Bottens in the quick setting bar for example.
Btw: I'm just a expirienced user so I have no special skills to do this. I also have no original GB Themed device so I don't know how the Stock theme looks exactly but I'll do my best.
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Thank you very much for your reply. I am not sure which the Quick Settings button is that you refer but its OK, the only thing basically I would like is to strip out all customizations that Samsung and the KRATOS chef did, and have a lean and plain stock Gingerbread like Ive seen n most phones. Its a pure battery-saving theme with most screens using black background and highlighted items are orange. If you can look at a few standard phones with Gingerbread in it they will all look the same kind of like this. It is actually the most simple and cleanest interface.
Anyway, thank you VERY MUCH for your interest and effort and I look forward when you have time to try it and give you feedback. I know many other members and users of the galaxy tab would appreciate having a stock Android look on their machine that has been impossible because of the changes Samsung made to their ROMs.
Danke noch einmal
Icon Resource for theme..
Hi guys! Im making a theme for Kratos and am stuck. 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!
Thanks in advance for the tip!
Download link broken for theme
I was going to try this theme, but the download link is broken
bovineyard said:
I was going to try this theme, but the download link is broken
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I'm very sorry, Bro.
I lost the File...
But try the vanillaginger theme.
It looks good too.
http://http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1242591
new downloadlink ?
Looks great.
Download Not Working.
Can someone help me out with a mirror to download the theme, please.
HELP with some elements
Its been a while I posted on this great thread and have since then done a lot of customization on my Tab but now stuck on 5 key elements id like to know if someone can help me:
1) How do I change the background color of the Phone App? On all 5 tabs of he phone app (Dialer, Logs, Contacts, Groups, Favorites + the outgoing dialing screen itself) the background is White. I want it changed to black but dont seem to locate the file. I was successful in changing the background color to black on the incoming call screen (the files are call_incoming_bg.png and call_incoming_bg_h.png on the phone.apk and just made them black and that's it)... looks super nice. But for the outgoing calls screen and phone app itself, its all still white and I dont know where to edit or if there is a PNG file that control the background.. I dont seem to know where it is (see attachments 1 & 2)
2) I wanted to change the Missed Call icon with a custom I made that I already and use on the top taskbar, that was very easy (its the stat_notify_missed_call.png in framework-res.apk). But the same icon that's displayed in the phone's Log tab I dont seem to locate where it is and to my surprise its NOT in the phone.apk. Can someone tell me where that file is? (see attachment 3)
3) I have managed to successfully tweak many of the elements of the notification pull down menu, like giving it transparency in certain parts on bottom and top, but I cant control color or transparency of the background of the ONGOING operations that have a fixed white background and that id like to change. (see attachment 3) Equally, Id like to change the color and some of the wordings of the WIFI, BLUETOOTH, GPS, SILENT, ORIENTATION LOCK functions. Where can I edit those?
4) Where can I edit the white background color of the pop-up Power-Off menu on the tab that is white (see attachment 5)? I edited the icons easily from the framework-res.apk but dont seem to know what controls the background color..
5) Finally, which files control the blues that usually are displayed in most dialog pop-ups and dialogues? I want to change them to black and grey but have no idea where they are located and which files I should edit.
When Im all done Ill post my theme for download, I think maybe some users might like to give it a try and feedback will be welcome wither way
In advance, thanks a lot for your expert advice on all this

Preview of my upcoming Boot Animation...

A taste- still working on some banding in the images after the resize, once it is fully optimized I'm going to let you guys have it (and it will be finding a home in a custom ROM near you..).
http://youtu.be/Wpa4mVk29fk
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Anyways how did you figure out the crashing issue? And what was the solution?
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Anyways how did you figure out the crashing issue? And what was the solution?
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Ah, my bad..and I still haven't figured out that particular animation..working on it still, think I will run the images through a resizer..
The link should work now- OP edited..
Ohhh......nice job.
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???
I can't understand what it is.
i like looks pretty cool. i want to figure out how to add boot sounds. is it as simple as adding a "oog" or similar , that would be really awesome with an electrical type sound
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I can't understand what it is.
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It's like transformer-ish metal plates sliding together with a jet-engine 'eye' spinning up in the middle..
The hard part was getting the bootloader screen no screen cap for that
Me and Sharpe are working on a nice theme for his upcoming ROM release (not spilling the beans I hope Sharpe?? ) so this is a teaser..the theme should work for all versions..this is just the boot animation for it..
Going to release this as a raw bootanimation.zip file here in the OP once I get it just right
Hey luna_c666 , any chance of sharing the bootloader screen ? . I wanna incorporate that into my next boot animation
I have the three bootsplash images but getting them in just the right position on a black background will do my head in lol.
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Hey luna_c666 , any chance of sharing the bootloader screen ? . I wanna incorporate that into my next boot animation
I have the three bootsplash images but getting them in just the right position on a black background will do my head in lol.
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Sure just credit me because you are right it was a bit of a pain to reconstruct with accuracy..
Good job. In the future, you might find it easier to simply create a .gif from all the .png files and put that in your initial post as opposed to a youtube video.
fone_fanatic said:
Good job. In the future, you might find it easier to simply create a .gif from all the .png files and put that in your initial post as opposed to a youtube video.
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Yeah, this was just a test of one of many versions I made, and I made the vid for someone I am working with in development of a custom ROM, and, I also was asked to show a friend over facebook. The youtube video of my test bootanimtation booting on my own TF solved all three of these demands
Also, since it isn't the final version I didn't want to create a gif for it just yet.
Wanted to bump this, let you guys know that it's coming along, I am trying to optimize the images so they won't band so badly before I release it, but in the meantime I have a teaser of a new theme (and more to come of this theme's variants) for the TF101..I've put a good deal of time into it, so I figured I would share a glimpse or two So far I've skinned the notifications bar, buttons, quick panel and some of the random status bar icons (like micro SD, SD, and HDD icons etc.). More to come!

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