Holo light UI - Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

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".

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I'm looking for a module that allows you to be able to change the aqua/cyan/blueish/green colour when you go into phone, appears in calls, the top boarder of the text messages and the settings background colour. If anyone could tell me a download that allows you to change it I would greatly appreciate it! Thank you in advance.
There probably isn't such a thing. The closest approximation is probably Xposed framework or the Wanam module that change a few dozen specific elements e.g. status bar colour or clock colour. But I don't recall them tackling any of the phone screens.
The other places to search are the Play Store and XDA. You're unlikely to find anything more comprehensive than the Xposed collection of tweaks though since there is no API that would make it easy to change system theme colours. Instead Themers make changes here and there and some of that gets adopted or developed in parallel in Xposed.
You could browse or search XDA for themed phone packages. Perhaps there is one that appeals to you. But an app that lets you dial in custom colours is unlikely. Xposed is the notable exception if it has any phone related settings.
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[Q] Translucent holo dark/light background in apps

Hi guys,
I'm looking for a way to make the holo dark and light app backgrounds slightly translucent.
What I mean by that is that apps that now have holo dark or light theme get a translucent background so that you can see your homescreen background slightly lighter or darker (depending on the used theme).
A few days ago I had installed a custom kernel which installed an app called 'synapse', in this app's settings there where 3 theme's: dark, light and translucent. I liked the translucent so much that I wanted it on all my apps. Thats why I'm asking for this.
I've already tried to imitate it with some xposed modules that allowed me to customize the holo dark and light backgrounds, but I couldn't get what I wanted
I really hope someone knows a way to make this work.

Layers/Substratum and/or theme creation help

Hi,
I have the XT1625 (G4) rooted and running stock. All the action appears to be in the G4 Plus forums, so I'm posting here. Anyway, I'm not a fan of the MM theme (white bg with the putrid green accent/settings icons). I would love to change to a dark theme/background and change the accent color to something aesthetically pleasing. I've tried using both Layers and Substratum, but have only had varying degrees of success. Using Deity in both Layers & Substratum is a fail. I select red for my accent and/or primary colors but still get a blue theme. Inversion works for the most part but notifications are not readable due to black on black...plus it retains the purtrid green accents. I believe both themes also have problems in Contacts with black on black. I'm currently using Pigment in Layers. It kind of does what I want but not totally.
I have decompiled apps for other phones and been able to change some themes/colors, but am not sure which xml/value(s) to modify for the G4. My priorities are to change the green accent, and then, if possible, invert the white to black. I've looked into creating a Substratum theme but feel over-whelmed by the process atm. If I can do this simply by modding system apps that would be great!
Thanks,
I have learned the putrid green color I do not like is actually "Teal"...silly me.
I attempted to create a Substratum theme following this guide, but it is too complex (for me, at least). However, I have decompiled my framework, settings, and SystemUI and attempted to theme them according to this guide. I have successfully changed the putrid "teal" to a nicer red. Unfortunately, my background is still white although I have edited the apps to have a dark background. For some reason the change is not taking effect. Also, my expanded header color is not changing either.
Any suggestions?
mn1968 said:
Hi,
I have the XT1625 (G4) rooted and running stock. All the action appears to be in the G4 Plus forums, so I'm posting here. Anyway, I'm not a fan of the MM theme (white bg with the putrid green accent/settings icons). I would love to change to a dark theme/background and change the accent color to something aesthetically pleasing. I've tried using both Layers and Substratum, but have only had varying degrees of success. Using Deity in both Layers & Substratum is a fail. I select red for my accent and/or primary colors but still get a blue theme. Inversion works for the most part but notifications are not readable due to black on black...plus it retains the purtrid green accents. I believe both themes also have problems in Contacts with black on black. I'm currently using Pigment in Layers. It kind of does what I want but not totally.
I have decompiled apps for other phones and been able to change some themes/colors, but am not sure which xml/value(s) to modify for the G4. My priorities are to change the green accent, and then, if possible, invert the white to black. I've looked into creating a Substratum theme but feel over-whelmed by the process atm. If I can do this simply by modding system apps that would be great!
Thanks
hi. which android api ? only themes built for oms work for me at 7.1.1 . the themes i can use usually have 7.1.1 in bottom right corner of app icon. also there are somtimes options that very from between apis in one app and u have to manually select your api (a swift black e.g) usually first option below toggle.i also cannot compile with the stable aapt compiler i have to use aopt and disable legacy fallback.
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mojoswagger1980 said:
mn1968 said:
Hi,
I have the XT1625 (G4) rooted and running stock. All the action appears to be in the G4 Plus forums, so I'm posting here. Anyway, I'm not a fan of the MM theme (white bg with the putrid green accent/settings icons). I would love to change to a dark theme/background and change the accent color to something aesthetically pleasing. I've tried using both Layers and Substratum, but have only had varying degrees of success. Using Deity in both Layers & Substratum is a fail. I select red for my accent and/or primary colors but still get a blue theme. Inversion works for the most part but notifications are not readable due to black on black...plus it retains the purtrid green accents. I believe both themes also have problems in Contacts with black on black. I'm currently using Pigment in Layers. It kind of does what I want but not totally.
I have decompiled apps for other phones and been able to change some themes/colors, but am not sure which xml/value(s) to modify for the G4. My priorities are to change the green accent, and then, if possible, invert the white to black. I've looked into creating a Substratum theme but feel over-whelmed by the process atm. If I can do this simply by modding system apps that would be great!
Thanks
hi. which android api ? only themes built for oms work for me at 7.1.1 . the themes i can use usually have 7.1.1 in bottom right corner of app icon. also there are somtimes options that very from between apis in one app and u have to manually select your api (a swift black e.g) usually first option below toggle.i also cannot compile with the stable aapt compiler i have to use aopt and disable legacy fallback.
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U need to run a ROM compatible for substratum as stock currently is not. Thus the reason why you are not getting what u want
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Thanks for the (late) replies everyone. Since I originally posted in December I have already learned the limitations of stock ROMs and Substratum.
I have also moved on to Lineage OMS 14.1 and am able to theme to my heart's content...I'm good to go!

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