I would like to edit the crop tool in Honeycomb. I have created a template for user in the Xoom forum, but that does not help when saving possible wallpaper straight from the xoom.
What I would like to do is edit the crop guide that shows to include four more guide lines to give users a better idea of what will actually be visible once the wallpaper is cropped and applied.
Here is the link to my template to get a better idea of why I want to do this.
Xoom Template
Im not sure what file I should be looking to edit.
Anyone have any ideas what so ever?
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Were i can locate the default wallpapers on my HTC and if anyone know whats the default size of them
Maybe i will sit and make one of my own so i need those info
And ..what i need to make it a weather - wallpaper ? And what i need to make it animated?
Thanx in advance
MOD EDIT - Moved to General forum as not related to rom development
no one can help me?
You're free to decide in which direcotory to put your own wallpapers, no need to put them in the default directory. I for myself have put several wallpapers in a directory on the storage card. Later, as you change your wallpaper, just go to the TouchFlo tab called "wallpaper" or "background picture" (I'm not sure since I use another language version) and navigate to this directory, then select your own wallpaper.
They can be of different sizes. Since this is not a full answer to your question, I added a container with some nice wallpapers which I found in another forum. The last one ("fantasy") is special, it has an additional frame.
Thanx for reply !
i need to know the dimensions cause i like to make my own theme (Starcraft 2 )
Anyway you know how to make it animated ... or like those new "Weather Wallpaper" ?
i have an HTC HD with Maryone Rom... 6.5
dalunatic said:
...i need to know the dimensions cause i like to make my own theme (Starcraft 2 ) .... Anyway you know how to make it animated ... ?
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I only can tell you the dimensions of the one I use myself ("fantasy", it's included in the *.zip file I uploaded). Its dimensions are 533 x 800 pixels.
Sorry, no idea how to animate a picture, my knowledge in graphics is down to almost zero. However, searching with "how to animate a jpg" brought instant access to several solutions (software packages). Some are to be found here: http://bit.ly/cblIdu. Good luck, though!
ok mate
thanx a lot
Hi All-
So, while I'm relatively experienced in computer programming, I'm just starting out learning the android SDK and one of my first tasks was to replace some files in an APK file, namely the Dazzle widget apk.
I wanted to make the background of the widget slightly transparent instead of fully black. I opened the APK, pulled the background file out of the HDPI drawable folder, opened it in GIMP, reduced the opacity, and saved it as a png. I put that PNG back into the Dazzle APK, resigned it using a tool I found here on XDA, and used ADB to install it.
However, when I try to add the widget, the background is now too small (however, it is transparent, so clearly it is reading the correct file)! It only takes up about 75% of the size of the widget, and doesn't cover the white buttons that are supposed to be imposed on it. I have not edited the dimensions of the image, so I don't know what's going on.
Is there something I'm overlooking? Please help!
Thanks!
danktamagachi said:
Hi All-
So, while I'm relatively experienced in computer programming, I'm just starting out learning the android SDK and one of my first tasks was to replace some files in an APK file, namely the Dazzle widget apk.
I wanted to make the background of the widget slightly transparent instead of fully black. I opened the APK, pulled the background file out of the HDPI drawable folder, opened it in GIMP, reduced the opacity, and saved it as a png. I put that PNG back into the Dazzle APK, resigned it using a tool I found here on XDA, and used ADB to install it.
However, when I try to add the widget, the background is now too small (however, it is transparent, so clearly it is reading the correct file)! It only takes up about 75% of the size of the widget, and doesn't cover the white buttons that are supposed to be imposed on it. I have not edited the dimensions of the image, so I don't know what's going on.
Is there something I'm overlooking? Please help!
Thanks!
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Maybe a dumb question but was it a .9.png by chance?
It is a .9.png! I didn't realize files with that extension had any special meeting. I assume that I'll have to use the special tool that come with the developer kit in order to properly edit these.
Anyone have a link to a guide/directions I can follow?
Hey Developers,
I'm currently really busy with Android and everything around it. now I want to start and create my own theme. So far I know I have to pull (or get it from my current ROM) framework-res.apk and take the res map out (or icons) and then when I'm done I have to open it with 7zip and but the files I've edited back and then I can push it (not 100% sure how I have to do that but I'll find that out later)
Now the problem I'm having is changing the colors. I want to set the color of everything (buttons, radio buttons, numbers) and stuff to Purple instead of the normal Green.
I'm currently doing this by opening every file with Photoshop edit it and save it.
Is there any other way to do this or am I using the right way?
Hope someone can help me out!
Thanks in Advance,
SterAllures
You can do it this way with no problems.
If you want have all animations on notifications bar available at the moment you can use my framework-res if you want, it also have com.htc.resources.apk for espresso launcher theme, I based my work on other framework do it here with all animations on notifications enabled because I can't do it well without problems.
Framework with espresso [30-09-2010]: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DEIXMTG4
Framework with espresso carbono [30-09-2010]: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OIAQDS5E
GPS movement on conection
Rotate sync icon
SCB "I" do it by NeoPhyTe for me and added later for http://circle.glx.nl
All notification icons replaced and colored
"Herotizado" window style
And some others that I don't remember at the moment
Well I want to start by editing the colour and after that change the colors. but thanks a lot for the frameworks! I'll download them and look at it!
but I still want to know if by editing them with Photoshop is the best way to do it? or is there an easier/better way?
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Well I want to start by editing the colour and after that change the colors. but thanks a lot for the frameworks! I'll download them and look at it!
but I still want to know if by editing them with Photoshop is the best way to do it? or is there an easier/better way?
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You can look at my small tutorial in my signature
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
After a long fight with my framework-res.apk I must warn you: if you push the new apk back on the phone via adb you are likely to get a lot of errors on boot from alle the HTC apps launching at startup. You're way better off if you create a update.zip and flash it - no errors at all. In Fightspit's tutorial is a link to the utils for such an update.zip (the tutorial is great and a life saver btw).
And do not forget to decompile framework (not unzip) before editing images, or u will have problems with .9.png (they must have 1px border around)
Edit: and yes u have to edit images one at the time with photoshop
Heya,
I'm back from a lil vacation .
Wanted to thank you all I've read through the link in your signature which was very helpfull!
And Unfortunately Mendozinas I already had a feeling I had to edit every lil file one by one but thanks for clearing that up, gonna be a pain the first time I think but it will be worth it!
Hope I can create a professional looking theme!
Hi !
I would like to extract the image of a live wallpaper, but I can't seem to find it.
Used apk tool to decompile the apk, and when I look for the image there's only a 256x256 thumbnail of the wallpaper in the res/drawable folder... How come ?
Another solution would be to modify the apk to make the wallpaper still instead of animated, but I don't know where to start. Is there a file I could modify to do that ?
Thanks a million for your help !
Cheers
It sounds like the wallpaper is generated entirely with an algorithm. Live wallpapers are actually special apps that run behind the icons.
A simple solution is to just take a screenshot of the wallpaper. You can select it in the Live Wallpaper picker and take a screenshot of it. Then, you can crop out the bottom area that has the Settings and Set Wallpaper buttons.
What wallpaper are you trying to take a still image of?
That's what I thought... Damn.
I tried to use a screenshot but it's not the same since it's smaller and can't cover the sliding effect. Better than nothing though.
I'm trying to get a still image of the "Holo Grid" wallpaper.
Thanks anyway
Hi all,
Trying to create a new wallpaper from a screenshot. So far can only create a small portion of the whole picture as wallpaper. Is there any earthly way to make those cropping thingies include the whole screenshot pic? So far I can only fit Kate Upton's face onto the wallpaper, but would like to get face AND boobs. Kate's pic without boobs is just not right. Seriously, any help much appreciated.
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Hi all,
Trying to create a new wallpaper from a screenshot. So far can only create a small portion of the whole picture as wallpaper. Is there any earthly way to make those cropping thingies include the whole screenshot pic? So far I can only fit Kate Upton's face onto the wallpaper, but would like to get face AND boobs. Kate's pic without boobs is just not right. Seriously, any help much appreciated.
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bump for more boobage
Try to crop out the clock/widgets/icons then try Google image search to see if the actual picture is on the interweb somewhere.
Thanks for the reply Stronger. Think I may have stumbled onto a solution. With the image in Gallery, I zoomed out making the image smaller. About the size of the cropping rectangles in setting the image as wallpaper. Hope this makes sense. I think the key is making a smaller image that will fit in rectangles.