The AOSP email app running on my Droid X (ApeX 2.0 RC2) has white text on a black background for all its screens except the email messages themselves. Is there a theme or a way to have all the screens in this app show up as black text on a white background? I realize it uses more battery, but it's a lot easier to read when one is in a hurry.
Any guidance is appreciated...
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Is it possible to mod the default messaging app? Im looking to start a theme and would like to give the default app an overhaul. FYI, i hate chomp and handcent haha .
In the Deodex ROM, version 1.1 I believe, he uses a black background and white text with different gradients of black and gray to divide up the conversation. It looks slick. I have no Chomp or Handcent anywhere on my device, so I assume its a themed version of the stock app.
Hi, I find the Arc's calendar app very difficult to read with the white text on dark blue background.
Anybody found a way to modify that "theme" or reskin the calendar app?
I've been thinking of editing the xml layout files in the calendar apk (my device is rooted) but thought I'd ask first before starting...
thanks
erwan
if you change the system background (there's a thread on here for it) it will be reflected in the calendar, and the calculator.. amongst other things!
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if you change the system background (there's a thread on here for it) it will be reflected in the calendar, and the calculator.. amongst other things!
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I guess we could indeed do that but that would not change the text color (currently white or light gray) and might be impossible to read of a different background.
we need to be able to fully skin the Calendar app or replace it with the stock Android one.
When you select white writing on black background (dark colour scheme) why does the email Tile still appear as black writing on White background?
Especially at night all the screns are dark and then when you slide over to emails the whole room lights up!
Is there a way to reverse this? The latest Mango updates also seem to have this.
I agree! This bothers me aswell. Hopefully someone knows of a fix.
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Bumping this one.
Dark theme is dark them, and it should reflect in the mail client awell.
Anyone found a fix ?
Hi, I like everyone in the android community is anxiously waiting for kit Kat to arrive and like many are also hoping for a lighter UI (holo light). I want my system to match the rest of the Google Apps and am asking if anyone knows of any good UI or framework themes that are Google UI themed (holo light). I have been looking for awhile and come across a couple decent ones which include holo light theme for aokp / cm and cm holoWhite theme. If anyone knows of any others please post or if are looking for the same thing and I've helped you press the thanks button.
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Sadly, there aren't. Partly because Google designed Android in such a way that apps use either system colors, or a mix of system colors and app colors. If you change the system colors, then apps that use both suddenly end up with invisible text and such. While this is gotten around in many cases with the Theme Engine, the status bar and notification shade are two of the worst offenders. Thus, even cm9/cm10 themes don't change the background color on the status to white or other very light colors. To do so would render a LOT of notification text and status bar icons invisible.
About the only way to fix this would be to make it such that any text displayed outside an app's own UI (ie, in the status bar or notification shade) would be forced to comply to system colors. That is not currently done.
MIUI achieves this, but only through very heavy modification of the system framework - and a few apps are still balky and require a "compatibility mode".
The default messaging app on my phone, the chat bubbles have no border. I keep seeing pictures where it shows the bubbles with an outline/border on them and it's much easier on the eyes. What does this outline mean and is it possible to add it?
Have you tried themes using synergy, substratum lite or #hex
I've got my messages themed and it's awesome
With synergy I think the sprite one UI theme puts borders around bubbles.