With some help from Mark Bencze (for helping with a lot of theming stuff) and Aditya (for testing), I've created a LG Theming Template (and small guide) for UX9. Making LG themes is pretty difficult but I'm hoping that this can help anyone curious about trying it out. With this template, it can be imported into Android Studio and makes creating themes much easier than alternative methods. You can do a lot with theming and even with my limited experience with it, I’ve been surprised on what’s possible with it.
See the link for the project here:
https://github.com/audietron171/Unofficial-LG-Theming-Template-UX9-
It is important to note that the theme generated by this project is blank (in that it doesn’t apply any changes). You will need to add these yourself and this is probably the most difficult part of theming. To find resources, you will need to decompile apps (such as SystemUI and Home) to find the resources you want to modify. It can be very time consuming but helps if there is something in particular that you want to change. If you need something to start with, I recommend using LG’s default themes (White theme and accent APK’s). DON’T USE THIRD PARTY THEMES!!
I've tried to make it relatively comprehensive but I am happy to help anyone that has trouble with it. If anyone has any suggestions or improvements, let me know. There is always room for improvement
Thanks for sharing
Hi. I have zero knowledge about this actually, but i'm willing to give it a try. Right now i'm stuck on "Adding resources to overlays" step. Wich path am i supposed to add the "res" folder? Thanks in advance
Add the "res" folder in the specific overlay folder (or app) that you are modifying. So for Calender, the folder will be "app/individual/calender/src/main/res".
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I would like to use this Widget again but simply cant stand for any background to it, as it doesn't then fit the rest of my simple no background widgets. I tried pulling the apk apart myself and editing the PNG files to be transparent but then I could not get the apk to install nor did pushing it to my device work at all.
If someone can tell me how to modify the apk or modify it for me, I'd be very appreciative.
I emailed the Dev of this and have not gotten a response about adding a transparent background option so that is why I am here now asking for help. Thanks.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.zedray.calllog
So you can see what Last Call looks like I have attached a screen, I believe it is an issue with editing the .9 file. I can't figure out how to do it correctly, ugh..
No one eh? Does anyone think it's just a matter of figuring out how to edit these .9 files and I should be ok no need to resign the package? I Wish the dev would help out here, I'd gladly throw em ten spot for just changing the image background.
I've added a transparent style to the Widget (was a little bit more complicated to implement in practice than it sounds).
For future reference, nine-patch files are altered by the Android build system during compilation making it more difficult for a third party to make the changes described. Hope it suits your home screen.
I have recently started looking into theming and I was wondering if there was a repo somewhere with icons etc. that generally match. atm the moment I'm kinda of pulling from these theme and the other, there a better way to do this? Eventually I'll probably start making some of my own by in the meantime while I'm still dabbling I was hoping I could find these. Right now I've got about 5k images from the various frameworks of themes that I enjoy...Tell me there's an easier way.
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I have recently started looking into theming and I was wondering if there was a repo somewhere with icons etc. that generally match. atm the moment I'm kinda of pulling from these theme and the other, there a better way to do this? Eventually I'll probably start making some of my own by in the meantime while I'm still dabbling I was hoping I could find these. Right now I've got about 5k images from the various frameworks of themes that I enjoy...Tell me there's an easier way.
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There are a few people who have posted guides such as the following:
https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AcdxIJRSH9ypZGZzc2pxNDlfMjdnazk4OHNxZA&hl=en&pli=1
This is a pretty comprehensive guide from people like Manup and Stericson.
Or check here:
http://www.mydroidworld.com/forums/...ns-manuals/3209-how-theme-your-own-droid.html
I think most of it is the same, but may fill in some extra gaps, and is a forum, so you may find some additional questions answered.
I just started theming as well. I originally was just replacing images as well. But the guys doing the big work actuall create their own images (sometimes image creation, as well as coloring). In addition they usually theme the apps (not just the images) but also go in and edit the xml files to create color coded themes throughout the framework and apps. It's quite a bit of work...
Anyways...check out the links and good luck!
http://droidpirate.com/2010/08/25/metamorph-round-battery-icon-in-various-colors/
http://icons.mysitemyway.com/matte-blue-and-white-square-icons-media/
http://androidforums.com/droid-x-all-things-root/246462-theme-help-tutorial.html#post2063232
Hi all!
Working on my rom (JB XXELLC), and got and idea I just want to have some guidence with. Kinda a new to android (about 1 month), but picked up quite a lot allready, and done some simple smali / xml modding.
So, the idea is, to simply add an option in SecSettings with clockcolor, like the inkeffect setting (easy part).
The line in SystemUI xml files is also under control (like the color is basic xml code, like #blablabla)
Now, the thing I need a little guidence with is. When I have my colorvalue in secsettings, how do I get that value into the clock-color-value in the xml file?
The way I think is that choosen color is stoered in some adress (not known yet), say 0x111111 for now. And in the XML file (or some smali?), insted of a #fffffff color the color will be picked up from 0x1111111 ..
Am I thinking right? I'm not requesting a complete mod, or anything like that, just wanted to hear with you more skilled guys if I'm thinking right. Chose the correct method will cut down my dev time, a lot.. Of course It will be tricky, but that's a bit of the charm.
And sorry for bad english.. working on it :silly:
I realized that you said in your post that you wanted to cut DOWN your dev time, but I'm not going to contribute to that motive at all. Instead, I'm going to give you advice on how to massively increase your "dev time" at the same time as you massively increase your knowledge on how things work. After all, this section isn't about "quick" fixes.
(Knowing the answer is nice. Knowing how to find the answer is much, much better.)
Why not grab cyanogenmod or aokp source, and find examples of what you are trying to do (pull a color from something set in settings) in the actual java source, then compile that firmware, and finally push it back through apktool (or whatever your using to disassemble the apk) and find the corresponding smali?
There are a few guides on here but they are all out of date, referencing tools that are outdated and don't work, or just plain broken links. I'm also looking for a template theme that's based on the stock CM10.1 theme. I tried using SystemUI from a rom build but that didn't work too well...
Bump. Sorry. Plenty of people here making themes. Someone must know.
There are many tutorials in the android theme section here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=527
A long time ago, I wanted to learn how to make theme chooser themes, but along the way I learned from various places how to decompile existing themes and take looks on the inside on how they are made. Then I made my own tutorial here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1730445 . No self promotion intended, I took what I learned, and made more use of VTS instead of using command line tools directly for general understanding, and it pointed me in the right direction.
Hope that helps
Hello there!
I would just ask if anyone of you Devs here knows how to theme Samsung Stock apps (settings apk, etc.) or at least know what to specifically do with different XMLs and folders in such APKs and post a noob-friendly guide to help newbie developers like me learn how to deal with things in an APK file we are not fond of (or where this string is applied to in this case "<color name="design_fab_stroke_top_outer_color">#2effffff</color>").
I hope that Devs would respond with peace and not war. Thanks!