So this is my first theme Ive ever done. It took the better part of today and wasnt too difficult. I used the Go Launcher Theme Factory to build it. The home screen icons are custom made in either Illustrator or Photoshop. As Im not yet experienced with button layouts and styles, I would really love some feedback on what you think works and what doesnt.
I was really inspired by the Miui widget styles with the dot-matrix look. I havent paid for my dev account with Google Market yet, so please download this theme here. And thanks for all the critiques and what-not!
Update: 2/7/11 Ok so another update here. I added a few more icons for some commonly used apps. Only 7 of them. They are all 72x72 so they should match up with the background ok. Probably not exact but they should work.
Also the dock apps actually have 'twin' app icons in the app drawer that use the stock image. So these icons in the app drawer have the 'common' background image applied to them (blue square). you can replace the dock version icons for these default ones if you like them better. I placed them above the counterparts in the pics below. Other than this I also changed the app drawer tab look to the dot matrix style. makes things a little more cohesive.
I have also included a .zip file with all the dock icons in 60x60 format for you to put on your device and change manually. Just in case the apk leaves them out for some reason. When you change them manually they also tend to be just a little more crisp.
Hope you guys enjoy.
EDIT: I just noticed the app drawer tab icons are getting shrunk by go launcher so they dont match the background. Too tired to change them now. Maybe tomorrow, so.....late......zzzzzz
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tazbo28 said:
So this is my first theme Ive ever done. It took the better part of today and wasnt too difficult. I used the Go Launcher Theme Factory to build it. The home screen icons are custom made in either Illustrator or Photoshop. As Im not yet experienced with button layouts and styles, I would really love some feedback on what you think works and what doesnt.
I was really inspired by the Miui widget styles with the dot-matrix look. However Im having the hardest time to get them to look uniform and not do that weird jumping around thing that small dots tend to do with aliasing and such. Do you think it may have something to do with me designing the icons small rather than starting big and shrinking them?
I havent paid for my dev account with Google Market yet, so please download this theme here. And thanks for all the critiques and what-not!
Looks pretty sweet Taz. Keep up the good work man.
So.. are you planning on selling your theme? As a Go Launcher theme..? Just wondering
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If you're using photoshop just set the DPI so that 1px = 1 dot. Then just set the canvas size to whatever the icon size is and you can "paint" in each pixel.
Just a thought..
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tazbo28 said:
So this is my first theme Ive ever done. It took the better part of today and wasnt too difficult. I used the Go Launcher Theme Factory to build it. The home screen icons are custom made in either Illustrator or Photoshop. As Im not yet experienced with button layouts and styles, I would really love some feedback on what you think works and what doesnt.
I was really inspired by the Miui widget styles with the dot-matrix look. However Im having the hardest time to get them to look uniform and not do that weird jumping around thing that small dots tend to do with aliasing and such. Do you think it may have something to do with me designing the icons small rather than starting big and shrinking them?
I havent paid for my dev account with Google Market yet, so please download this theme here. And thanks for all the critiques and what-not!
Looks pretty sweet Taz. Keep up the good work man.
So.. are you planning on selling your theme? As a Go Launcher theme..? Just wondering
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Actually I was planning on giving this one away on the market for free since it is my first attempt. Im gettin the hang of the theme factory a bit now. It can be really confusing to replace some of the images properly. And with no Manual on how to use the dang thing, its all guess work.
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If you're using photoshop just set the DPI so that 1px = 1 dot. Then just set the canvas size to whatever the icon size is and you can "paint" in each pixel.
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Thanks, I was trying to use Illustrator with artboards that were the exacct size of the icons, but i think i was setting the dpi wrong because they would come out bigger. I guess ill stick to photoshop for my next ones. Wondering if icons are usually painted large then shrunk down?
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I'm digging this theme. The ICS blue layout, the simple minimalist look is how I like my themes. Unfortunately, the dock icons look a little odd to me. Though I'd gladly use this if you kept improving on this theme.
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I'm digging this theme. The ICS blue layout, the simple minimalist look is how I like my themes. Unfortunately, the dock icons look a little odd to me. Though I'd gladly use this if you kept improving on this theme.
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That is exactly what i plan to do. I figured out my problem with the dock icon resolution problem too. Go Launcher shrinks the normal icon image from 72x72 down to 60x60 when you place the icon on the dock. I was making the dock icons at a resolution of 72x72. This is why the dots would look weird when they were put there. So im going to try and fix that by creating a template for myself. I will upload it onto a new thread with pixel guides for the various icon sizes and a psd file for people to create their own icons with. After doing all the pixel math I was able to layout all the guides for the home screen grid according to a 5x6 pattern.
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That is exactly what i plan to do. I figured out my problem with the dock icon resolution problem too. Go Launcher shrinks the normal icon image from 72x72 down to 60x60 when you place the icon on the dock. I was making the dock icons at a resolution of 72x72. This is why the dots would look weird when they were put there. So im going to try and fix that by creating a template for myself. I will upload it onto a new thread with pixel guides for the various icon sizes and a psd file for people to create their own icons with. After doing all the pixel math I was able to layout all the guides for the home screen grid according to a 5x6 pattern.
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Thanks for the explanations. I ended up trying this out on my mom's Fire last night and it looked awesome.
I then went ahead and loaded it up onto my Infuse and I'm definitely liking this theme more. I love the folder icons on this theme especially.
One of the things I noticed is that there was an icon pack when I installed it on the fire (one of them was the facebook icon which had some subtle snowflakes on them) and it doesn't show up on my Infuse (just the standard blue border) and when trying to pick icons from the themes it says there are no images. I was hoping there would be a different icon for music and the browser so that my dock would match more.
I'm attaching some of the images of my phone right now for others to get a good look.
And one more thing, where did you get that lockscreen and clock widget?
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Thanks for the explanations. I ended up trying this out on my mom's Fire last night and it looked awesome.
I then went ahead and loaded it up onto my Infuse and I'm definitely liking this theme more. I love the folder icons on this theme especially.
One of the things I noticed is that there was an icon pack when I installed it on the fire (one of them was the facebook icon which had some subtle snowflakes on them) and it doesn't show up on my Infuse (just the standard blue border) and when trying to pick icons from the themes it says there are no images. I was hoping there would be a different icon for music and the browser so that my dock would match more.
I'm attaching some of the images of my phone right now for others to get a good look.
And one more thing, where did you get that lockscreen and clock widget?
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Thanks so much for the comments! Im glad you like it. The clock widget is called "Digital Clock Widget" in the market. Its usually the first one to pop up when you search it. I dont think I posted a lock screen. But I cant remember since i removed the pics. I actually usually just change the swipe actions in Go Launcher to hide the dock and status bar. But I now have discovered Statusbar+ and its really awesome! Looks like the windows phone status bar. all the icons will hide after a specified amount of seconds, except for the Clock in the upper right. really love it since its really minimalistic. when you tap the status bar the icons all drop in. Loving it.
I now just use the stock lockscreen. Im not sure why your internet icon didnt show up? I actually removed some of the custom icons that were in the last version. That means the facebook icon along with a few others will now use the original icon with the blue square around them. If you like Ill just upload the dock icons so you can change them manually. and maybe ill make a music icon for ya too!
Excellent. Better than some of the $2 themes I've purchased for Go Launcher. It's tough to find good minimalist themes!
Oh in the OP screens, what is the second icon from the left? Phone ? Apps SMS WWW
I thought it was contacts, but I can't get the icon to work for it.
tazbo28 said:
Thanks so much for the comments! Im glad you like it. The clock widget is called "Digital Clock Widget" in the market. Its usually the first one to pop up when you search it. I dont think I posted a lock screen. But I cant remember since i removed the pics. I actually usually just change the swipe actions in Go Launcher to hide the dock and status bar. But I now have discovered Statusbar+ and its really awesome! Looks like the windows phone status bar. all the icons will hide after a specified amount of seconds, except for the Clock in the upper right. really love it since its really minimalistic. when you tap the status bar the icons all drop in. Loving it.
I now just use the stock lockscreen. Im not sure why your internet icon didnt show up? I actually removed some of the custom icons that were in the last version. That means the facebook icon along with a few others will now use the original icon with the blue square around them. If you like Ill just upload the dock icons so you can change them manually. and maybe ill make a music icon for ya too!
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Hm, thanks for the new clock widget, it looks awesome. Though it's kind of lame that we can't use hex color codes or set the date and time to have the same color. Unfortunately something went very wrong with my phone after I installed and messed with this app. Random reboots, apps wouldn't load, extreme amounts of lag, home button stopped working, my extended power menu disappeared, you name it and I had it. Due to this, I was forced to send my phone back to stock. Oh well, I'll just stick with official TW now that we've got GB. Plus, TW is sort of nice now that I haven't used it in 6 months haha. I'll jump back to Go Launcher in a week since the TW icons are HUGE.
ANYWAYS, I am going to rock this theme once I can get my phone settled down and Go Launcher on this. A music icon would be awesome since I like having my music in my dock. And uploading all of the icons into the theme would be nice too since it'd give us options on which icons we'd like to use. And if you don't mind me being nitpicky, would you mind making an icon set of the stock icons but with the blue border? That would just be icing on the cake.
zhukov_ said:
Excellent. Better than some of the $2 themes I've purchased for Go Launcher. It's tough to find good minimalist themes!
Oh in the OP screens, what is the second icon from the left? Phone ? Apps SMS WWW
I thought it was contacts, but I can't get the icon to work for it.
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Yup, that's for contacts, I was wondering about this the first time I saw this also.
Yes that was for the contacts. Im really not sure why Go theme factory may be screwing up the apk. Im going to repackage a new one with the icons and without. Ill add the blue square to dock icons too as extras. Ill try to upload a zip with all the icons I make so you could just replace the dock ones with pngs if you want. Maybe thats how ill do the music one too is GTF doesnt package it right. Ill be sure to test it out first.
Also im relaly sorry to hear about the widget probs. Ive always had that widget and it never really gave me any problems. Maybe it was a malware app or something. Not sure about it. But Ill definitely add some more cool stuff to this theme since you guys seem to like it so much.
and heres some examples of another direction i want to go in for a theme...
Both were made in photoshop using mainly layer effects. Im leaning more towards the gray one. But the black one is inspired by my new Logitech k750 keyboard. I love the buttons and want something to come out looking like the theme is made of keys from this keyboard. enjoy.
Updated the apk. enjoy.
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Updated the apk. enjoy.
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Thanks alot! I will be using your theme for a very long time.
You have great taste and should consider monetizing your work IMO.
zhukov_ said:
Thanks alot! I will be using your theme for a very long time.
You have great taste and should consider monetizing your work IMO.
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Appreciate it! I definitely plan on placing my future themes up for sale in the app store.
AWESOME I am currently using this
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These icons are really good. Very pleasant too. Do you have a zip of these icons?
Hi, id just like to update you on this theme. Im still loving it but i like a consistent look and feel to my phone so I've decided to use parts of this theme and and the ics theme. I love the way you've made the folders, background, and the app drawer look so I've kept those there. Here's some ss of my phone now. Thanks for making my phone look sick!
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Hi, id just like to update you on this theme. Im still loving it but i like a consistent look and feel to my phone so I've decided to use parts of this theme and and the ics theme. I love the way you've made the folders, background, and the app drawer look so I've kept those there. Here's some ss of my phone now. Thanks for making my phone look sick!
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You need to theme the things in your bar on top
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diablo009 said:
These icons are really good. Very pleasant too. Do you have a zip of these icons?
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I do not unfortunately, as I may be using them in an upcoming theme. But i will let you guys know when the theme hits the app store!
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Hi, id just like to update you on this theme. Im still loving it but i like a consistent look and feel to my phone so I've decided to use parts of this theme and and the ics theme. I love the way you've made the folders, background, and the app drawer look so I've kept those there. Here's some ss of my phone now. Thanks for making my phone look sick!
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That looks absolutely rad! I love it. Mixing and matching works best i think. I found myself doing the same thing! Im really glad to see people getting a kick outta this theme.
If anyone here makes themes as a kind of hobby, or for fun, I would greatly appreciate a custom theme. I would like it to be for Go Launcher, and compatible with the latest version. Fully detailed would be nice.
The theme should be centered around Ancient Norse runes, the Elder Futhark. App icons could just be placed on top of flat, dark stones, maybe with some sort of inlay blending.
Colors should be mainly black and dark green. A little white for contrast in small areas may look nice, and make it pop.
Norse mythology stuff is acceptable, as long as it's accurate. Somehow incorporate all 24 rune symbols into the theme.
I wish I could design and code apps. I have a great idea for folks like myself. A rune-charm widget! Select 4 or 5 runes, to place in a 4x1 or 4x2 area on homescreen of your choice. That would be sick!
Anyways, I don't even know if the theme could be done, just thought I'd try asking.
you could always use UOT or Dsixda and make your own theme. It takes some reading but it will allow you to make it exactly how you want it. Even if someone else creates the theme it may not be exactly what you are looking for.
Hello guys,
Monday i received mine Oneplus One and it is a true flagship killer. But i am not happy with the default icon pack, Don't get me wrong. I love it but, just a few apps get changed.
Now i am a designer and i would love to change the icons. But how can i change the .png of the app in the app drawer?
I have googl'd enough but i don't understand that, it is like abracadabra to me. Does someone have a really useful tut for me?
I don't want to create a new icon pack, i just want to expand the default one.
Greetz,
MrC
Hey guys!
I wanna ask advice cause im out of inspiration or rather gave up...
Currently the most "normal" theme I found is "blak ui" in the samsung themes, with that the lockscreen clock is normal [(not that retard ones like top hours bellow minutes) well if I set a different wallpaper as lockscreen it changes back to retard one ]
It all would be good, but no since there are a lot of icons, are not included in icon packs (on samsung themes) idk about you guys but, I either want a square icons or rounded ones when mix its annoy me...
Oh, and maybe cause im stupid, but I dont want to use Nova or any launcher (since my old memories from >2014 made me hate launchers) and i also love the orignal launcher...
You guys have some theme or any solution for my problem? (i saw you can make themes with samsung theme maker but u need to be a developer and I dont think they make everyone to developer)
Thanks for answers, and sorry for my grammar, one day ill learn
ps: would like something like this
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ia0uJsycZRU/maxresdefault.jpg
square/dark ones
ps2: Also wondering in android there arent function liks "date and clock icons are changeing ? eg date icon would show the current date etc)
[url]https://www.dropbox.com/s/sjnra0klvqfnqhu/Screenshot_20190216_043524_com.huawei.android.launcher.jpg?dl=0[/URL]
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Hi guys so I've searched for themes online which enable you to have round stock icons. I haven't found anything of good quality so I decided to give it a go and edit one of the built in themes on Honor Play. With luck not only was I able to change every icon to round (Photos Above, only on big Icons!) using only the stock icons but accidently managed to make a theme that adds another feature, which is to make any other icon which is not round into a round icon (almost) and makes your icons look so much better! I kept everything else stock I hope you like the theme! All the adaptive Icons for calendar and weather have also been changed while still fully fictional. The only icons I did not keep stock were the Music, Themes, and the Audio icon as I found better looking ones. The lock screen has no wallpaper set as I have left it on Magazine unlock to make it easy for those of you who like to use that feature. I do apologize if I have made any mistakes during this post this is quite literally my first ever post.
The link to the .hwt file is below. This theme will work on any Honor or Huawei phone but was initially created for Honor Play EMUI 9.
The instructions to install once downloaded are Copy File into Internal Storage > Huawei > Themes > and paste into this folder > Restart Phone > Open the themes app > Me > My Themes > You should see the theme for selection so like any other theme Apply and enjoy!
Big Icons> Set home layout to 5x6.
[url]https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V9prv_AOF87bw8B-4FLeY1WvkoThOutf/view?usp=drivesdk[/URL]
Small Icons>
[url]https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SOSlzN70IfZaHjCFTetHwmZEi2ux4P00/view?usp=drivesdk[/URL]
DaRdamnDoG said:
You are a legend.
Edit: the circles are too big my friend. In the app drawer they almost touch each other lol.
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So what you think I've added small Icons now too, let me know of it's better now?
Thank you for sharing
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Thank you for sharing
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I was starting to think this post was useless, but thank you for your response.
I am using small icons quite long time. Thanks for sharing!
But the Docs, Slides, Sheets and Drive icons are all the same thing
pja1985430 said:
But the Docs, Slides, Sheets and Drive icons are all the same thing
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Only on big Icons theme will all the non round icons be forced to be round. Try it and let me know! Check my screenshot below!
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htxosku8 said:
Only on big Icons theme will all the non round icons be forced to be round. Try it and let me know! Check my screenshot below!
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Okay. I was referring to ... having the same design in the 'small icons'.
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pja1985430 said:
Okay. I was referring to Google Docs, Sheets, Slide and Drive icons having the same design in the 'small icons'.
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Yes I know! Read what I have said if you want adaptive round icons you need to use the big Icons. I showed you Microsoft app icons because they don't support round icons yet in my theme they are round. On small Icons theme only the main apps will be round! So download the big Icons you will see every single app in your drawer will be round including your apps mentioned above.
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Yes I know! Read what I have said if you want adaptive round icons you need to use the big Icons. I showed you Microsoft app icons because they don't support round icons yet in my theme they are round. On small Icons theme only the main apps will be round! So download the big Icons you will see every single app in your drawer will be round including your apps mentioned above.
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Okay. But, I like the small round icons the most.
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Okay. But, I like the small round icons the most.
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Ok give me a few weeks I will see if I can make it work on small Icons when I'm free and I'll let you know when it's ready.