Are there any Theme Generators that will do landscape mode out there? I'd like to make some.
thanks,
Dino
Dino,
Have a look at this site:
http://www.ida.net/users/oe1k/programs/ThemeBuilder/
It'll show you a way to create landscape (& portrait) themes.
Regards,
Albondigas
try this
http://www.thememaker.biz/thememakerproplus.htm
Loaded with Imaging features no other Theme making program has:
Theme Making features that allow you to create great themes faster and easier!
A Multi Document Interface that allows you to have as many images as you need opened to create your theme.
Image editing capabilities including:
Cut
Copy
Paste
Paste to new image
Duplicate
Crop
Clear
Flip
Reverse
Rotate
Shear New
Resize
Canvas Resize
Remove Redeye New
Numerous ways to select image data and modify the selection including:
Select All
Rectangle
Rounded Rectangle
Ellipse
Freehand
Magic Wand
Invert Selection
Expand and Contract
Image Effects including:
Posterize...
Mosaic...
Blue...
Sharpen...
Add Noise...
Emboss...
Gradient Filter...
Edge Detect New
Oil Paint Effect
Stitch New
Picturize New
Color adjustments including:
Grayscale
Invert
Brightness..
Contrast...
Histogram Contrast...
Hue
Saturation
Gamma Correction
Remap New
Balance Colors New
Colored Gray New
Fundamental Paint functions including:
Brush
Pen
Eraser
Fill
Gradient Fill
Color Picker
Transfer themes to PocketThemes.com web site if you are a registered author.
The ability to show or hide the theme you are currently working on to allow more room for the images you are using.
NEW Ability to create themes for the new WM 2003 SE devices in both Portrait and Landscape orientation!
NEW Ability to create VGA size themes that will work in the VGA SE devices and modified VGA devices.
NEW Print function an Print Preview!
NEW Theme Browser allows you to browse your themes on the PC and see thumbnails of the main images. Click here to view this new feature!
Four primary ways of importing images into your theme gives you unparalleled versatility.
Load directly from file
Directly from an active image in the editor.
Directly from a selected area of an image.
From a unique pan-window function.
The ability to adjust Today Screen text for screen captures to post on web sites.
Transparency adjustments for menu and main image that allows you to set the color of the transparency! No other Theme program does this!
Ability to define your own default colors for your themes.
A Color Picker tool for the theme that allows you to accurately and easily set the colors of the Command Bar and Title bar to the colors in the Theme.
The ability to set colors in the Information Dialog box to the same colors as the main Title bar with one click!
A setting that makes the Information Dialog box Title bar the same colors as the main Title Bar automatically! Or in reverse of the main Title Bar!
With one click reverse the colors of the Title Bar!
Set colors of theme by either selecting the item form the menu or just clicking on the item in the theme.
The Auto Color feature automatically sets the colors for the Title bar, Title bar Text, Command bar, Today Screen Text and lines and the Menu Transparency to match the basic colors of the Main Image with the click of a button!
NEW Web Tuned image save where you can adjust the properties of the image for quality or size.
The ability to capture frames from video sources. AVI, MPG, WMV and MOV video files. Video capture devices.
NEW Predefined image resizing for rapid theme creation.
NEW SE image preview screen showing areas of image that is used for Portrait and Landscape modes to see the areas of the image that is used for each orientation.
NEW Stitching functions allow arranging of images on pages for printing and display.
NEW Screen capture function allows the capture of any portion of the screen you define with the mouse.
ThemeMakerPro also has numerous I/O features no other Theme Making program has:
Screen captures of Themes for web posting.
Saving the images of an opened Theme, both main and menu.
The ability to acquire an image from any TWAIN compliant device such as a scanner or digital camera!
The ability to transfer themes to and from a Pocket PC that is Synced with the computer that has ThemeMakerPro installed on. Requires ActiveSync to be installed first.
Having worked with rlToday, and currently coding an app to do something similar, I have wanted a couple of times to display text with an outline (ie white text with black outline so it is visible on any background) but simply printing a black version of the text in a bigger font underneath white text in a smaller fontsize does not work because of the way fonts are scaled.
However, this got me thinking...
What if one were to design a set of custom fonts for this purpose?
The way I am thinking, you would need two fonts - an "inner" version and an "outer" version. The outer version would have to be scaled about the centre of the letter, not about the baseline, and I would imagine that the spacing on the inner font would need to be as wide as the characters on the outer font.
So, before I waste loads of time getting font editors and seeing if it can be done, I would like to ask if anyone knows if this would be feasible, or if they have successfully done it or failed.
Another idea I suppose would be to print the outer font 4 times (left one, right one, up one, down one) - I guess this would have the same effect but at the cost of speed.
In an ideal world, it would be nice to not have to make an inner font - just to have to make an outer version of existing fonts, but I am not sure this would work unless you could set the spacing of the stock inner font wider.
Comments, suggestions please.
The classic path approach isn't working on WM?
Ultimatelaunch does it...I have two colored text and it looks pretty sweet. The font is called 'juice' not sure if that has anything to do with it though
What is this "Classic path" method you speak of?
At a guess I think you mean drawing a line around the font programatically?
This is not an option for some things, unless you have access to the source code - it would be nice to have a solution that could be implimented without needing to code for it in the app. For example, rlToday would benefit nicely from just such a system.
OK, so it has been done before then, although I did search around the net before I posted, honest!
It seems that the term used for the "inner" font is a "fill" font. I am going to try and find a freeware fill + outline font combo, pls let me know if you are aware of any.
Synned said:
Ultimatelaunch does it...I have two colored text and it looks pretty sweet. The font is called 'juice' not sure if that has anything to do with it though
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When you say "Ultimatelaunch" does it - what do you mean? I bought UL and I do not see the font on my system or in the UL dir.
I see a "juice" font on the internet that is a fill+outline set, but it is not free.
So if it is possible, I may well have a bash at doing a free one myself. At the very least it would be worth doing just the numbers for SMS / email counts in rlToday
An update here:
My main use for something like this was to be with applications such as rlToday.
However, stefanux is now writing XIAMultiTheme (XMT) which is compatible with, and extends rlToday. One of the things XMT does is allow you to specify a directory as a font, and it will look for image files named accordingly
ie if you wanted to print "123" you would need "1.png", "2.png" and "3.png" in the directory you specify.
I have made a 16px high font of numbers in transparent PNG (Great for overlaying message counts onto icons) and added it to the XMT project for now.
If the need is still there in a while I will look at making a fill font combo and releasing it, maybe as part of the XMT project, but for now this is a good enough solution for me.
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is it possible? I have created a unique sort of clock as an AppWidget that has horizontal bars that should indicate minutes and hours. How could I change the width of the LinearLayout used as a bar from the onUpdate() method? I tried RemoteViews but that Views seems to lack a setWidth() method...
appwidgets are unlike anything else in android. they cannot directly alter, add, or remove items from a layout. the only thing that can be altered is text in a textView, the visibility of a view inside the layout, and the value of any of the views inside the layout, like int, bool, float, images, progress bars.
you can however change the view entirely, as in change to another layout.xml
you'll have to be creative to be able to find a way for your widget to change. i think the setViewVisibility() method could help. if you layout every piece that you need and selectively set their visibility based on the state of your widget.
here is a kinda related topic
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/...-dynamically-in-an-android-widget-api-level-3
Hmm, so if I would do 60 linearlayouts and place them next to each other, and say the clock is 13:30, I set the first 30 layouts visible? How would that many views affect performance???
Not sure. Probably wouldn't be good with that many.
This is where you'll have to be creative. Might be good to have one image view and have a bunch of images of the bar at different stages. Though that would require alot of images.
Just remember you can change the content of a view but you cant add another view "on the fly". Its a tricky thing to deal with in an appwidget. Ive been trying to make a widget that displays a tag cloud of your gmail inbox and ive had to use a textView as a wrapper to display the generated html for the cloud instead of adding new textViews for each tag.
From something awesome
Want to create your own icon sets based on an existing one?
Tired of manually having to apply all necessary steps per icon?
Well... maybe this little tool can help you:
Icon Set-Builder v1.x
:: Introduction ::
Lately I saw an icon style I'd liked and wanted to recreate it using Android ICS icons as base.
Using Paint.NET I could create my template and do so... but since Paint.NET does not support scripting, I had to do everything (resizing, changing color and transparency, applying as alpha mask to my template, etc) again and again for about 200 times.
Being a .NET developer, I thought "Why not write a little script to do that treadmill work for me?".
Well, finally it grew into this "Icon Set-Builder" tool.
:: Screenshots ::
Here's one screenshot of the app, more are in the second post or here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/byzwc8u40kjuai0/xIQ72kDZBG
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"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
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:: Features ::
What can you do with it?
Well, basically it works with several layers (template, icon, mask and overlay) for each you can apply a lot of adjustments.
The basic steps:
Choose a template and, if supported, a template style (i.e. several colors)
Choose your favorite icon set
Optionally, choose an alpha mask to be applied for each icon
Optionally, choose a matching overlay
Play around with the settings
Let the tool generate your icon set
All changes you make are immediately applied to the previews, so you always know, what the result would look like.
Basic icon sets (ICS, Metro, PixelPerfect, iOS-like) and templates are included.
Most templates i created myself myself, some are based on or inspired by other's ideas (see below).
But of course you are free and encouraged to create your own stuff and contribute!
Well... that's what it's for, right?
To easier bring your own ideas to live!
:: Download Location ::
Versions 0.9.x as well as (maybe in time...) older versions can be found in this DropBox:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/e837ronlu4k4roc/j_kuqNgUo0
Download of version 1.0.0 and later is available here:
http://iconsetbuilder.echtzeitig.de
Direct links for latest version:
MSI-Installer
ZIP-Archive
Some AddOns:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6edgq8hnvxkur5y/lBL0R4i8n2
Both a simply zipped version as well as an MSI-installer are available.
The folder also contains a ZIP "IconSetBuilder_Samples.zip" containing some created samples.
The tool itself is only 160kB, but with base stuff it's about 9MB.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Using MSI-installer, v0.9.1 should no longer cause problems with Windows "User Access Control", since the installation folder changed.
Also fixed a nasty bug with leftover debug-code which tried to save an intermediate image in "D:\Temp" and crashed if that folder was not available. SORRY!!!
Requirements: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or later, but I guess that's already installed nowadays on all Windows PCs.
:: Samples ::
Sheets displaying a few icons of various styles can be found here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/cugwu9xzh06riuh/ecqPW_CzTY
More samples as single PNG icons are here (no complete sets!!):
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/tvvmptmz47rnq2e/RDL4p3oTFZ
:: Detailed Features ::
Template:
Choose a basic template
Some templates may offer styles, i.e. various colors
Templates may have matching default settings, which one can automatically load and apply
Adjust size, cropping and position
Modify colors: invert, greyscale, transparency
Icon Set:
Choose icon set
Adjust size, cropping and position
Modify colors: invert, greyscale, transparency
Choose style: overlay / blend with template / apply as alpha mask (i.e. to create a "cut-out" in the template)
Apply a shadow/glow effect
Rotate the icon
Add mirror effect on X- or Y-axis with adjustable axis-position
Choose all or just some icons you want to use
Textual Icons:
Choose a txt-file containing the texts for your icons in icon set-list
Choose your favorite font from system or custom folder
Change the fonts size and style
Change color and transparency for the text
Choose alignment (top/middle/bottom, left/center/right)
Choose wether text should wrap on blanks and/or shrink to fit inside the available space
Use all basic effects mentioned above for further modifications
Alpha Mask:
If you wish, you can apply an alpha mask to the icon
This allows i.e. to cut off parts
Overlay:
If you wish, choose an overlay
Adjust size, cropping and position
Modify colors: invert, greyscale, transparency
Choose style: overlay / blend with template / apply as alpha mask
Preview:
Save currently shown icon as single file (without generating complete set)
Open a preview window which "simulates" a phone's screen
Choose between different backgrounds to see what it looks like
Layouts from 3x3 to 5x6, plus dock
Create:
Choose the output size of the icon, from 8x8 to 256x256 everything is possible
Give your icon set a name (will be used as folder name)
If the folder exists, you can let the tool automatically create a new one (i.e. "My Set (001)") or use the existing output folder
If an existing folder contains icons, you can let the tool delete all of them before generating the new set
Optionally save your settings for later reuse
Press "Generate" and watch it do it's work
The tool works pretty fast. Some effects (shadow basically) may take a little longer. But overall it takes less than or only a little longer than a second per icon.
:: Thanks and Mentions ::
I would like to thank the following guys for their great work and inspiration.
Their ideas and work are the fundament the tools is build upon.
Some elements I reused as templates or basics, I hope they don't mind (will inform them soon and will remove from tool if necessary).
NiteOwl360
for the great "Semi Sense" icons I cut and spliced and re-implemented as template
BlackBearBlanc
for his awesome minimalistic ICS-based icon sets, which I included honorably as templates
for his work on the ICS- and additional icons included as base in some of his set (BTW: some needed optimization; I did so *g*)
rawdealer
for his "PixelPerfect" icon set, great minimal basic set; I took the liberty to also include them
P_C
for his "3C" icon set, great minimal basic set; I took the liberty to also include them
Unknown guys:
the various Suave icons I included
the various other iOS-like icons I included
various creators of Metro-styled icons (I don't quite remember which one I used for creating my basic set, SORRY!!!)
Samples
Some samples, more attached:
Eclipse Rounded Square:
Roostilabel'd Metro:
Semi Sense'd:
Sketch (Chalkboard)
Wooden Plate
Colored Tiles
"3C" in 3D
More samples of V1.0.0 in this posting.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31505848&postcount=123
Version 1.1.0:
Greatly optimized performance for many functions, average 30-40% faster now
Label-over-Icon with seperate "Shadow" settings
Mirror: Optimized and enhanced, more options
"Open folder"-buttons to easily open folders (i.e. containing Exports) in Explorers
Details here.
Version 1.0.2:
NEW: Textual Icons: change texts case to lower case, UPPER CASE or Title Case
NEW: Textual Icons: "wrap" and "shrink" for 2-line-text-icons
NEW: Textual Icons: rewritten 2-line-text-icons functions
FIXED: Rotation of final icons sometimes resulted in not properly sized icons (i.e. 128x124 instead of square 128x128)
Version 1.0.1:
Added "Brightness to Alpha": Create single color icons with the original icons' brightness used as transparency value. More in this posting.
Version 1.0.0:
New stuff:
App Settings: Some settings are now stored in a config-file, like chosen Visual Style, Preview Device or Author Name
Continue session: When closing Icon Set-Builder, this current settings are automatically saved, so next time you start the tool, you are asked wether you want to load the settings and continue your work.
Add to queue: If you want to create multiple icon sets (different, slightly changed or whatever), you may queue the generating and finally start processing all queued sets at once.
Import/Export: FINALLY the long awaited feature to export your creation to a ZIP file and of course import ones from others is available!
Overlays now also have "Hue/Satuation/Lightness" settings like templates.
FEATURE: Download from Web
FEATURE: Import/Export
FEATURE: "Devices" in Simulation
FEATURE: Levels and Gamma
FEATURE: Label Over Icon
FEATURE: Tool "Extract from Titanium Backup"
FEATURE: "Save settings as default"
FEATURE: "Process Queue"
FEATURE: Random items
Detailed descriptions in this post and following.
Improved:
Speed: At various places I could improve the speed a lot.
Rotation: Rotating had some issues, didn't work correctly sometimes, or left too large margins.
Version 0.9.9a:
Hotfix for invalid file name when trying to generate a 2-line styled textual icon set (TAB contained in file name - DUH!!)
Version 0.9.9:
Interims release with just 2 new enhancements/features:
"Fade Out" with adjustable width in "Mirror" function; can be used for mirror reflection also, just set the "axis" appropriately
"2 Line Text Icons": allows to create textual icons with two lines that can be configured seperatly (font, size, color)
Items in TXT-file for icons must contain both lines' texts seperated by TAB-character (i.e. "Read[TAB]Mails")
Enable in "Textual Icons" tab and configure
Version 0.9.8:
Lots of new functions and effects:
Use icon as Mask
Colorize icon
Colorize template
FX: Random Hue Shift
FX: Apply Texture
FX: Pseudo 3D
In-detail descriptions in this and the next postings:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30344572#post30344503
Many samples (not complete sets!) you can find here in the DropBox (previews and zips):
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/udpmii8763x7zs0/lXfLC3fcfg
Version 0.9.7:
Minor changes.
HSB color functions are now also available for template
Moved "Generate" parts (output size, icon set name, buttons) from tab to main window area
Version 0.9.6b:
In version 0.9.6 MSI and ZIPs one DevExpress DLL was missing, app didn't even start, SORRY for that!
Uploaded 0.9.6b with included missing file, should work now properly.
Version 0.9.6:
Added "Random Rotation" as finalize function
Added "Crop to icon size" as finalize function
...plus all from 0.9.5pre2
Read more here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=29991028&postcount=47
Version 0.9.5pre2:
Preview version only right now, not released yet!!!
Reworking UI in progress
New effect "Pixelation"
New effect "Color Accent" with three modes and adjustable width of accent
Color Accent: only accent chosen color
Primary Color: finds primary color in icon and accentuates that color
Replace Primary Color: finds primary color, but uses chosen color for accentuation
New adjustments "HSL":
Shift HUE in color wheel, i.e. red becomes blue etc
Adjust SATURATION (boost or dim color strength)
Adjust BRIGHTNESS, make colors brighter or darker
Version 0.9.3:
Only added functionality to save currently shown icon as single file (without generating complete set).
Version 0.9.2:
Added "Simulation Preview":
Open a preview window which "simulates" a phone's screen
Choose between different backgrounds to see what it looks like
Layouts from 3x3 to 5x6, plus dock
Version 0.9.1:
SORRY the first version caused problems. Didn't take Windows Vista/7 UAC into account. Also there was a stupid DEBUG-code left over, which tried to save an intermediate file into "D:\Temp", but crashed if that path didn't exist. That and hopefully missing rights related problems are fixed now. For MSI please try 0.9.1, it uses a different (per user) install folder, so UAC should be history now. Uninstall 0.9.0 before.
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Looks like a great tool! Does it make an apk that will automatically apply the icons?
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No, sorry. Maybe the name is misleading. It creates a folder containing the generated PNGs. But that's an interesting idea!
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Thanks for share
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will try when i am free:good:
Thank you this will make it alot easier, was gonna do an icon set.
Added quick note in first post regarding Windows's UAC.
When using MSI installer, you might encounter the tool runs, but is not able to generate icons.
Sorry, will fix this soon. For now: use "Run as administrator" in this case. Or use ZIP and unzip to a non-protected folder.
Version 0.9.1 available.
SORRY the first version caused problems. Didn't take Windows Vista/7 UAC into account. Also there was a stupid DEBUG-code left over, which tried to save an intermediate file into "D:\Temp", but crashed if that path didn't exist. That and hopefully missing rights related problems are fixed now.
For MSI please try 0.9.1, it uses a different (per user) install folder, so UAC should be history now. Uninstall 0.9.0 before.
Thanks for this! I'm not having any troubles so far.
If only I could compile these icons to nova, but that's another difficulty level for me.
Will your program work with this icon set: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1702688
Would be a great way to help it get rounded out more quickly.
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Will your program work with this icon set: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1702688
Would be a great way to help it get rounded out more quickly.
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Think so! PSD looks good, will give it a try this evening.
Suhweetness. Thanks much.
Lala v2
MissionImprobable said:
Will your program work with this icon set: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1702688
Would be a great way to help it get rounded out more quickly.
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It's done, created assets for Icon Set-Builder from Lala V2-PSD-template. You need high resolution icons, but it works pretty well.
BUT: Not only did I port the template, I also added a LOT of different backgrounds for the basic icon. This opens a lot of new possibilities, i.e. to create icons like wooden block with ICS icons.
Here are some screenshots and samples:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1f6ys481qoaxdks/CmXHR4I1m2
You can download the "Lala V2"-assets here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6edgq8hnvxkur5y/lBL0R4i8n2
It's two ZIPs, one for 128x128 icons, one for 256x256 ones.
You must unzip the ZIPs into the Icon Set-Builder-tools "Assets"-folder (i.e. located at "c:\Users\{User}\AppData\Roaming\Icon Set-Builder\Assets\" if installed using the MSI).
After that it's listed in "Templates" and also applies default settings.
Enjoy!
EDIT: Fixed ZIPs, unzip into "Assets" didn't work, accidently there was an additional subfolder in the ZIP. Now it works.
Great job on getting it done so quickly and putting together such a cool utility. I've always had a bit of trouble keeping full unity when I'm trying to build icons from beveled/3D icon PSDs so this is perfect.
Here's one more you might like to add if you get the chance: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26818917
Your Builder is definitely one of the best theme aids that has been made
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Great job on getting it done so quickly and putting together such a cool utility. I've always had a bit of trouble keeping full unity when I'm trying to build icons from beveled/3D icon PSDs so this is perfect.
Here's one more you might like to add if you get the chance: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26818917
Your Builder is definitely one of the best theme aids that has been made
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Thanks a lot for your appreciation! And therefore motivation
Your next suggestion looks do-able, will dive into it as soon as possible.
Also, for the tool I still got ideas in the back of my head, it's definitely not finished yet (if ever will).
Next thing is import / export for themes, so it'll be much easier to add new themes and stuff.
Am also planning further color adjustments like hue/saturation/lightness, but I think this first requires a bit redesign to avoid cluttering.
Well... Enough said. Glad this tool got some attention and response already!
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Ok, I tried it and it's really good.
Just some lower quality but it probably looks good on a 480x800 screen.
Just too bad that the 3C icon set is customized to every icon, the bottom bar has to be the same width as the icon, thanks BBB for ICS icons.
An option that resized the template to the width of the color in the icon would be too much to request, so I'll make them separately when I'm done with my other project.
Still an awesome program that I'll use alot.