I'm about to release dxTop, which is a Launcher.apk replacement. My next feature that I want to implement is applying a theme. I was hoping someone could send me a there material for there theme so I have some images to work with. I'm looking for the images for the Launcher.apk and all the icons for the default apps. (I figure I could also replace the icons for users who don't have root)
Just PM me if your willing to help, and thanks in advance.
Thanks,
John
All you need to do is open up any theme's update.zip and extract launcher.apk and open that as a zip as well. It's gonna be filled with resources that other people have probably skinned. I'd start with the Buuf skin because it seems to be one of the most complete.
Man, I wasn't thinking clearly, thanks
Yes a great start would be BUUF, it has the most complete theme mods i Ihave seen to date.
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I love colored themes so I made one for the latest Milestone CyanogenMod 7 RC4.1 0.08-11.04.10
Everything is colored, you will love this theme. Some screenshots are attached (or see post #8) , but that's not all...
Download the file, put in OpenRecovery/update folder and reboot in recovery
Important: Make a Nandroid Backup before installing!.
Install like you installed CM7 and Google Apps
Change background (default is black to save space) and enjoy
Here is the NEW link:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0KLRMOVJ
or else download from MirrorCreator (thanks to sileshn)
http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/G9WU4VAW/
Note: there are other updated versions in the following pages.
Feel free to download my theme and use my icons in your themes
where the preview...?
Make it Theme Chooser theme or I am pretty sure noone will use it.
It's not only for framework-res, but also browser, settings and more files.
With Theme Chooser you will have less than 40% of the theme.
I will post preview in few hours
EDIT: I don't know how to make an update.zip file, if someone link me a guide I will do it.
I tried once and make a disaster, maybe because I used the google apps update.zip as source
downloadman said:
It's not only for framework-res, but also browser, settings and more files.
With Theme Chooser you will have less than 40% of the theme.
I will post preview in few hours
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you should make an update.zip package. your method is too complicated for a noob... and a preview is also a most recommended thing
downloadman said:
EDIT: I don't know how to make an update.zip file, if someone link me a guide I will do it.
I tried once and make a disaster, maybe because I used the google apps update.zip as source
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You can use the attached template for creating a update.zip for your theme.
apps go into /system/app folder
fonts go into /system/fonts folder
framework files go into /system/framework folder
edit : Here is your theme as a flashable zip file.
Done. Now I'm making some previews.
Here is the theme:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0KLRMOVJ
p.s. first post updated with this link and some screenshots
very very colorful
Looks great.
but could someone upload it to another server coz can't download.....
thanx
hearts king101 said:
Looks great.
but could someone upload it to another server coz can't download.....
thanx
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Check.my post with the attachment. There is a mirrorcreator link in there.
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Nice theme, but could you please let me knowhow to rollback to original theme?
nowforever said:
Nice theme, but could you please let me knowhow to rollback to original theme?
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Just select system default in theme manager.
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sileshn said:
Just select system default in theme manager.
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But this way the customizations in browser and settings will remain, I believe.
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But this way the customizations in browser and settings will remain, I believe.
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Well, in that case , you need to replace the themed apps in the theme zip file with the original ones and apply the theme again.
Beautiful theme! Great work! Thanks
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This Theme ist really great. I like Colorfull Themes.
I think i will make it for The FroyoMOD.
I make the EpicBlue for FroyoMOD. You can find it at Android-Hilfe or Google for " [METAMORPH] + [apk] EpicBlue The FroyoMod".
I cant post links right now so sorry for that.
Of course its not my whole work I just take the Icons of:
ModdedBlack von Bandit
EpicBlue von stetsonaw
Motorola Defy
SE Xperia arc
Samsung GalsxyS
I like it and its looking good. I will do the same with yours Ok??
Basian Mile said:
This Theme ist really great. I like Colorfull Themes.
I think i will make it for The FroyoMOD.
I make the EpicBlue for FroyoMOD. You can find it at Android-Hilfe or Google for " [METAMORPH] + [apk] EpicBlue The FroyoMod".
I cant post links right now so sorry for that.
Of course its not my whole work I just take the Icons of:
ModdedBlack von Bandit
EpicBlue von stetsonaw
Motorola Defy
SE Xperia arc
Samsung GalsxyS
I like it and its looking good. I will do the same with yours Ok??
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Of course you can. Take every icon you want.
I'm downloading your theme, maybe I'll find some better icons for my theme
Cool.
Iam already at work ;-)
Have fun too...
I have finish it.
You can find it at "Android-Hilfe" under the Name
Basians Color Theme FroyoMod
Its awesome. I have change some icons and colors. Also i have made the "scrollbar_handle_..." in green-red. Its better to see and its looking very cool. J4m2c.
great theme. but the dial pad seems weird.
I'm currently working on a Honeycomb theme for ICS. I really prefer HC's UI style but I still want the features of ICS. I'm running into some obstacles though.
I'm directly modifying SystemUI.apk and framework-res.apk. Is there a better way than this?
9-patch PNGs are giving me issues. I've figured out how to use draw9patch but I can't get the PNGs to compile properly. I need one for the notification clock panel but I can't figure out how the 9-patch should be because I can't decompile either.
I've searched for about 3 days but I can't find help on how to decomiple and then recompile ICS APKs with apktool. Does anyone have a good source?
Would anyone else be interested in this mod? I'll try to figure out how to make a CWM ZIP if there's demand.
armada786 said:
I'm currently working on a Honeycomb theme for ICS. I really prefer HC's UI style but I still want the features of ICS. I'm running into some obstacles though.
I'm directly modifying SystemUI.apk and framework-res.apk. Is there a better way than this?
9-patch PNGs are giving me issues. I've figured out how to use draw9patch but I can't get the PNGs to compile properly. I need one for the notification clock panel but I can't figure out how the 9-patch should be because I can't decompile either.
I've searched for about 3 days but I can't find help on how to decomiple and then recompile ICS APKs with apktool. Does anyone have a good source?
Would anyone else be interested in this mod? I'll try to figure out how to make a CWM ZIP if there's demand.
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Pm me , I can give you my work shop that I setup for Ics.
And there is a better draw 9 patch tool , but it is not free.
But I gotta tell you now, I can help but I won't hold your hand with every step.
Don't have the time and the time I got goes to the theme building for flexreaper.
Just wanted to give back to the community and went ahead and pulled the new ASUS Day Scene Apk from the new update for the Prime to are OG Transformer. All you have to do is use rootexplorer or adb and push to system/app and set permissions like the original one and make sure to remove the odex file from the original day scene and reboot thats it. Here is the link just post a comment and let me know how it went.
http://www.mediafire.com/?aro26bhbacoli2z
Thanks. So it adds 2d effects on top of asus wallpapers. Pretty nice.
Anyone have any idea how to make it work on non ASUS roms?
Could you by chance add the necessary ASUS libs. I can't get it to launch on Code Name Android v.1.5.5 due to the missing libs. Thanks
only stock ROM's for now.
yourtravelboy said:
Could you by chance add the necessary ASUS libs. I can't get it to launch on Code Name Android v.1.5.5 due to the missing libs. Thanks
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Right now it will only work if your using stock or a ROM made from the stock ROM as it has the libs your talking about. I got the apk from the virtuous prime rom so I would start there by downloading it and looking inside the zip for anything that will help you with installing it on a ASOP ROM, good luck and let me know how it works.
Do you have to be rooted?
yes you must be rooted
Yes you must be rooted.
Anyone have ANY IDEA how to make this work on non Asus roms? On CM9, it just shows a black background with overlay 2d effects because it's unable to get the wallpapers.
horndroid said:
Anyone have ANY IDEA how to make this work on non Asus roms? On CM9, it just shows a black background with overlay 2d effects because it's unable to get the wallpapers.
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I took a look inside it and all it has is the _small wallpapers so i would assume you would need to essencialy use your own tutorial to work the wallpapers into the launcher or sideload the asus launcher2
or you could edit the xml's to change the path to inside the app its self and put everything in there
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I took a look inside it and all it has is the _small wallpapers so i would assume you would need to essencialy use your own tutorial to work the wallpapers into the launcher or sideload the asus launcher2
or you could edit the xml's to change the path to inside the app its self and put everything in there
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Yea I've seen that. It just has the small thumbnails. I really wish I knew how to program right now.
I've tried decompiling and recompiling the default launcher of CM9 to add asus wallpapers with their original name and edited array.xml so they all show up correctly in wallpaper picker but the live wallpaper still doesn't see them.
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Yea I've seen that. It just has the small thumbnails. I really wish I knew how to program right now.
I've tried decompiling and recompiling the default launcher of CM9 to add asus wallpapers with their original name and edited array.xml so they all show up correctly in wallpaper picker but the live wallpaper still doesn't see them.
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Pretty sure it is looking for them in launcher2 not the default launcher so that may be the issue
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Pretty sure it is looking for them in launcher2 not the default launcher so that may be the issue
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How would you go about loading launcher2 into memory or force the ROM to run it?
Simply placing launcher2.apk in system/app didn't work. I tried to run it but it won't.
If anyone has problem decompiling asusdayscene.apk, use the hacked jar posted here http://code.google.com/p/android-ap...Type Status Priority Mi lestone Owner Summary
Hi everyone.
As no one on the rom thread want to help me, I'm asking here.
Could someone tell me how to add Theme Choser to this rom ? It may take ressources but I don't care, I want a nice phone.
Thanks.
TsarFlow said:
Hi everyone.
As no one on the rom thread want to help me, I'm asking here.
Could someone tell me how to add Theme Choser to this rom ? It may take ressources but I don't care, I want a nice phone.
Thanks.
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It's not that they won't tell you, it's that you won't be able to do it, because it will take you a year to do it, even more so if you don't know crap to smali.
Theme chooser isn't only an APK you install. It's hours of modifications to framework.apk, systemui.apk and other programs that can get modded by themes (now contacts.apk and mms.apk)
It's just simpler taking CM base and building your own rom from it rather than taking an existing AOSP based rom and trying to merge in theme chooser.
HOWEVER, for the not so faint of heart but nowhere as hard as integrating theme chooser, you can simply mod the graphics of the rom permanently. Many people have done so quite successfully here, for example with rasbeanjelly rom.
Is it possible to mix-and-match components from different themes? For instance I wanted to use the dialer/contacts, calculator and messaging apps from one theme with another theme but keep the other themed UI components from the second theme. Both themes work on my current rom/kernel setup.
Can I just overwrite the files in the second theme with the stuff I wanted to keep from the first theme? If so, what files would I need?
bump?
Can I just copy over the apks from the one theme into the other or is it more complicated?