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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.
I find that when I 'Use this picture as a background' (WM6, Dopod D810) the image appears but it's always 'whitewashed'. By that, I mean it's faded to white - I'd prefer to see the photo in it's full colour with no faded look.
I'm certain that in the early days of WM5 this used to work fine?
Any ideas would be appreciated
use picture & video viewer to find the picture you want to use as your background. tap and hold for the context menu and select "Set as Today Background..." a screen will appear where you can select transparency. set it to 0% and you should be in business!!
Thanks cortezzi, I'll give it a go.
Any idea of XnView Pocket does it? I can't seem to find a 'set as wallpaper' option.
*can't find it*
Also tried out a trial version of Resco Photo Viewer and although it allows me to Save > Use as Home Screen then set the viewable image area and transparency (which I set to 0), however the new wallpaper never appears despite receiving the message 'Picture was correctly set as Today wallpaper'.
Settings > Today shows the background picture is currently set to 'Custom Wallpaper'
Is there a registry hack I can do to stop the default Today settings from adding transparency to new background images?
I had the same problem.. In my case it was caused by the theme I had installed. Try a different theme or modify the one you use.
as helpful as ever....thanks blitzwurst
i tried using a plain colour theme with spb menu but any custom today backgrounds i choose still come out with transparency. how exactly do you suggest i do this? i'm certain that it used to work fine (no transparency) under WM5....
i'm just eager to make use of the great backgrounds another xda user suggested on the Slide2Unlock topic (I think) at http://www.zuned.be !
That Zune site is pretty nice!
In my case I had to get a theme (.tsk) editor and embed the background I wanted into the Theme as opposed to selecting an image from the device to use as a background.
no worries, i might do the same...any recc's on a good theme editor to use?
does it run on the device or on a pc?
Hello, I've created a note app similar in appearance to that of the default iPhone one only with more features. I'm looking for testers as I've recently made some big updates so would like to work out any issues also suggestions. The app is called classic notes and it's in the market. Here is a link via the web:
https://market.android.com/details?...ns.app.notesclassiclite&feature=search_result
Features at present:
* Export notes as text to SD
* Share
* Export/Import entire database
* Google translate notes
* Text to Speech audio playback of notes
* Add notes to Google Calendar
* Add notes to status bar
* Create Home Screen shortcuts of notes
* New Note Homescreen shortcut
* New Note Statusbar entry
* Modify timestamp
* Note Details: create date, modification date, word count, character count, line count
* Search note contents
* Search database
* Image support
* Audio notes
* Video notes
* Geotag + Address look up support
* In note content search with hi lighting and search & replace options
I've updated with the app to now include private notes and file attachments e.g PDF, MS Word, MP3, PowerPoint, etc
Is there anything specific you want for us to test?
nejc121 said:
Is there anything specific you want for us to test?
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Nope and new update released if anyone wants to give it a go. New features:
- To-do support w/ privacy options for password protection
- Priorities - Prioritize notes, to-do's, to-do tasks
- Sorting through notes, to-do's, tasks will remember your preference
- Attach To-do's to notes
- Tagging & tag sorting. From the sort menu you can choose the sort by tags option and a list will be presented with all tags you've entered and choosing one will display all notes/todo's with that tag.
I will try this out
-Downloaded, have some suggestions
Ability to change font size
I love the sketch feature. When attaching though, it would be nice to have a preview image like the one for an attached Image. (Instead of having to hit the tiny "attached sketch" link
Will add more as I use this over the next few days.
i'll check it out.
push to evernote/db?
EDIT:
Tried to add To Do List to homescreen shortcut...
"Sorry!
The application Loading... It may several minutes to complete, please wait (process.com.htc.launcher) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
EDIT II (the sequel):
same thing when trying to More>New Note Shortcut from main screen
EDIT III (the sequel returns):
lol it put them all on my first homescreen. i have 4, the default homescreen is 2
i'd like to be able to change the text color to black. other than that, i really like it so far!
Thunderbolt
Das BAMF GB 2.1
LauncherPro
shahm0nsterr said:
I will try this out
-Downloaded, have some suggestions
Ability to change font size
I love the sketch feature. When attaching though, it would be nice to have a preview image like the one for an attached Image. (Instead of having to hit the tiny "attached sketch" link
Will add more as I use this over the next few days.
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That should be easy enough to add. BTW, there is a font option in the main screen menu though it doesn't change the size but rather the reverts to default android font which actually looks bigger.
didda said:
i'll check it out.
push to evernote/db?
EDIT:
Tried to add To Do List to homescreen shortcut...
"Sorry!
The application Loading... It may several minutes to complete, please wait (process.com.htc.launcher) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
EDIT II (the sequel):
same thing when trying to More>New Note Shortcut from main screen
EDIT III (the sequel returns):
lol it put them all on my first homescreen. i have 4, the default homescreen is 2
i'd like to be able to change the text color to black. other than that, i really like it so far!
Thunderbolt
Das BAMF GB 2.1
LauncherPro
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For some reason HTC sense always seems to pose a problem for me lol. On the emulator, n1, and galaxy s w/ cyanogenmod I have none of those issues. BTW, which font color are you referring to. The brownish one?
I tried it. Looks pretty nice, the style, color and font! The Add to statusbar option is nice.
Bug: Add To-Do option FC's.
"Request": I would say an "Add a new note" button at the bottom of notes list would be useful
LG Optimus Black P970
I think I'm keeping it until I see the first ad popup.
Common task shortcut buttons on the main screen would be more user friendly then having to go through the menus
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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
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"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"
}
:: 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.
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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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
MissionImprobable said:
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.
I decided to give a quick update to an old app that I use quite often, but thought was in need of a UI makeover. So heres CPU Spy with Material Design!
Features:
* CPU, Device & Kernel information
* CPU core & temperature monitoring
* Shake to Refresh & Automatic Refresh
* Widget to reset timers from home screen
* Option to hide states below a certain percentage
* Automatically resets states once battery is charged
* Light & Dark themes + Auto theme based on time of day
* Background monitoring service that notifys if device doesn't enter deep sleep
Code:
[B]v3.2.1[/B]
- Updated translations
- Optimize new profile pngs
- Update some deprecated APIs
- Fix a couple NullPointerExceptions
- Fix ListView padding and text sizes
- Fix crash when showing error text
- More layout fixes for tablet devices
- Only show last 500 lines of logcat log
- Do not center full kernel version text
- Update developer circleimageview border
- Use new BottomSheet from support library
- Simplify setting logcat progress bar color
- Bind more colors/string using ButterKnife
- Simplify tinting of text selector handles
- Use wrap_content for AppCompatButton width
- Always use accentColor for text input field
- Disable user from changing color input alpha
- Update 3rd party libraries to latest versions
- Fix Running Processes title on KitKat devices
- Update charged drawable to be more material-ish
- Use new Support Vector Drawables instead of pngs
- Update colors and elevations to match guidelines
- Only set background color when cardview is shown
- Fix NullPointerException when closing InfoFragment
- Add null pointer check when setting mLogcatSummary
- Use Fragment and DialogFragment from support library
- Replace Listview with RecyclerView from support library
- Show error text when temp monitor throws an exception
[B]v3.2.0[/B]
- Rewrite CPU usage code
- Fix padding on tablet devices
- Show list of running services
- Use Butterknife resource binding
- Define size of sliding tab ArrayLists
- Only call Utils.isXposedInstalled once
- Check if a light accent color is used
- Add new developer section to Settings
- Fix colored nav bar enabling by default
- Use Chrome custom tab when opening links
- Only recreate if theme preference changes
- Rename kernel/device menus to match action
- Fix padding for credits and license layouts
- Allow multiple retries when updating states
- Catch exception when checking for an update
- Allow checking for multiple update versions
- Use primary color for deep sleep notify icon
- Allow better support for Right to Left layouts
- Fix cpu usage crashing when exiting InfoFragment
- Update libraries and build tools to latest versions
- Define ArrayList sizes for Credits and Licenses
- Use AccelerateDecelerateInterpolator for animations
- Allow catching exception when setting core visibility
- Hack to fix DiscreteSeekBar text color with light accent
[B]v3.1.9[/B]
- Fix ProgressBar height on Lollipop devices
- Remove DynamicCheckBox background color
[B]v3.1.8[/B]
- Update to latest build tools
- Move openURL method to Utils
- Use vector drawables for API 21+
- Use ArrayList instead of LinkedList
- Add Translators to Credits section
- Add CPU usage monitoring to Info tab
- Reduce number of calls to getActivity
- Only call CPUUtils.getCoreCount() once
- Add missing onCreate() to CpuSpyApp
- Remove useless code from CpuSpyPreference
- Use vector drawables for Preference icons
- Fix ProgressBar height on KitKat devices
- Use String.format() to fix lint warnings
- Automate checking if new version is available
- Add setting to change primary and accent colors
- Tint AppCompatButton to match new accent color
- Tint charged image to match new accent color
- Use new Design Support Library for sliding tabs
- Allow using String Array for changelog content
- Recreate activity when dismissing Xposed warning
[B]v3.1.7[/B]
- Updated translations
- Add support for Marshmallow
- Fix charged view card alignment
- Revert back to using text for tabs
- Use AppCompatButton for all buttons
- Adjust full kernel version text size
- Remove redundant calls to getResources()
- Show the total number of unused states
- Add bootloader information to Info tab
- Use SwitchPreference for API 21+ devices
- Update primary colors to match guidelines
- Summarize which theme is selected in Settings
- Specify initial size of getStates ArrayList<>
- Disable layout transitions during charged view
- Allow animating progress bars with Auto Refresh
- Simplify checking views when Auto Reset is enabled
- Fix background color not showing correctly on KitKat
- Move hiding states below percentage to new toolbar
- Add toolbar for hiding/resetting/restoring states
- Use ContextCompat.getColor() from support library
- Allow Settings to keep scroll position during recreate
- Override KeyEvent instead of using BackHandledFragment
[B]v3.1.6[/B]
- Fix crash on KitKat devices
[B]v3.1.5[/B]
- Check if new update is available
- Reduce total state time text size
- Update libraries to latest versions
- Animate progress bars on app launch
- Use icons instead for sliding tabs
- Updates and fixes to theme changing
- Use Roboto-Medium for snackbar actions
- Fix crash if checkCoreMonitor returns zero
- Use Butter Knife to bind button listeners
- Show warning dialog if Xposed is installed
- Use sliding cardview for full kernel version
- Return null if unable to retrieve cpu info
[B]v3.1.4[/B]
- Remove unnecessary return functions
- Remove useless call to ButterKnife.bind
- Add Exception catch for CPU core monitoring
- Add null pointer check to fix issues #69 and #70
- Dont refresh onShake if mSwipeLayout.isRefreshing
- Add local SeekBarPreference to fix KitKat margin issues
[B]v3.1.3[/B]
- More variables can be final
- Add checking runtime to Device Info
- Update Butter Knife library to v7.0.1
- Update Android Support Library to v22.2.1
- Make hasTemp() return false if file length is 0
- Update to latest gradle and android build tools
- Add service to check if device is entering deep sleep
- Catch ActivityNotFoundException if unable to open intent
[B]v3.1.2[/B]
- assert mActionBar != null
- Move app version to build.gradle
- Update Snackbar library to v2.10.10
- Add function to show/hide unused states
- Clean up SharedPreferences in CpuSpyApp
- MainActivity: Add missing @Override to onResume()
- Add option to hide states below certain percentage
- CpuSpyApp: Use SparseArray instead of HashMap
- CpuStateMonitor: Fix logging and handle exception
- Stop monitoring temperature if getTemp() returns null
- Remove usesless call to CPUUtils.getKernelVersion()
[B]v3.1.1[/B]
- Handle NFE instead of ignoring it
- Fix lint warning by using apply()
- Add support for monitoring 6-8 CPU cores
- Fix some padding issues on KitKat devices
- PrefsActivity: Add missing switch break
- Random code clean up and improvements
[B]v3.1.0[/B]
- More variables can be final
- Switch to new sliding tab layout
- Fix Auto Refresh causing crash
- Add reusable method for reading files
- Move core monitoring to CPU Info card
- Show unused states when resetting timers
- Use simple listview for open source licenses
- Enable monitoring only if fragment is visible
- Update material-dialogs library to v0.7.6.0
- New Auto theme based on the time of day
- Disable swipe to refresh if auto is enabled
- Add null pointer check when removing all views
[B]v3.0-BETA8[/B]
- Remove circle reveal animation
- Add widget info to welcome card
- Support more devices CPU temp
- Add action button back to snackbars
- Merged French translations (Micks29)
- Add colored btn_selector to buttons
- Update to latest build tools and gradle
- Fix Info text overlapping if multiple lines
- Fix setting Preference icons based on theme
- Add style for setting ActionBar elevation
- Apply dialog content color based on theme
[B]v3.0-BETA6[/B]
- Added Shake to Refresh timers
- Added CPU Temp monitoring
- Refreshed charged view layout
- Added new widget to reset timers
- Added indicator to kernel version
- Added darker primary text color
- Adjusted layout for tablets/TVs
- Updated to latest support libraries
- Use native font on API 21 and above
- Tons of code cleanup and fixes
- Fixed main card animation from being cut off
- Improve checking if states file exists
- More improvements to theme changing
- Simplified getting/setting of cpu frequencies
[B]v3.0-BETA5[/B]
- Fix memory leak when setting typeface
- Updated internal 3rd party libraries
- Removed deprecated getDrawable
- Revert using webview for dialogs
- Simplify getting/setting cpu freqs
- Decrease card animation duration
- Random code cleanup and fixes
- Improve reading of states file
- Improve reading cpu information
- Improve theme changing and dark theme
- Simplify checking which views to show
[B]v3.0-BETA4[/B]
- Add Material Ripple library (KitKat)
- Updated internal 3rd party libraries
- Animate About cardview sliding up
- Adjust padding for welcome cardview
- Add donate to settings overflow menu
- Kernel version should use singleLine
- Add custom Typeface for ActionBar title
- Revert back to using CheckBoxPreference
- Add colored navigation bar and dark theme
- Disable cpu monitoring when app is paused
[B]v3.0-BETA3[/B]
- Refreshed UI to be more Material
- Fix settings menu for KitKat devices
- Some random code clean up and fixes
- Add decimal to states view percentage
- Add new Info page with CPU/Kernel info
- Casting '_app' to 'Context' is redundant
- Sync material-dialogs library with v0.6.x
- Update snackbar and WhatsNew strings
- Add WhatsNew option in overflow menu
- Add option to reset timers when charged
- Add new WelcomeCard on first launch
- Use SnackbarManager to handle queues
- Clean up WhatsNew dialog webview usage
- Click states cardview to view unused states
- Add anonymous crash and usage reporting
- Switch to new blue primary/accent colors
- Switch to Handler instead for Auto Refresh
- Fix mBatInfoReceiver causing an exception
- Add per CPU core and frequency monitoring
[B]v2.0[/B]
- Added Pull to Refresh library
- Fixed a few more lint warnings
- New About and License menus
- Added support for KitKat and TVs
- New Material style launcher icon
- Use colored nav bar on Lollipop
- Optimized/removed unused PNGs
- Add Gmail-like Snackbar library
- Timers now reset when battery full
- Add Auto Refresh option to settings
- New WhatsNew dialog for new releases
[B]v1.2[/B]
- Fix issue when no states file found
- Adjust padding to match Material guidelines
- Rearrange home_layout and fix xml formatting
- Move 'Total State Time' above 'Unused CPU States'
[B]v1.1[/B]
- Adjusted padding a little
- Reduced some text sizes
- Removed some unused PNGs
- Removed 'Time in State' header
- Added shadow to action bar
- Fixed progress bar background color
- Added temporary icon until one can be made
[B]v1.0[/B]
- Initial release
Now available on Amazon App Store
Source: https://github.com/existz/cpuspy
Credits to the original dev @storm717.
Link to original thread: http://goo.gl/N3drrP
TODO: Updated 5/19/15
- Option to view time in state for each core (?).
Thanks man, works fine
If you want to follow progress of this app, check my G+ page... Currently looking for other devs to help out.. Please reshare if you use G+.
I should have an update very soon.
https://plus.google.com/111678887963556771807/posts/Jzdag2yhcvT
Really good thanks mate
UPDATE:
v1.1
- Adjusted padding a little
- Reduced some text sizes
- Removed some unused PNGs
- Removed 'Time in State' header
- Added shadow to action bar
- Fixed progress bar background color
- Added temporary icon until one can be made
Great ?
Finally a re-design, very well
Inviato dal mio Nexus 4
great very well .. thanks broo
much needed
thnx
So I've had quite a few people point out that the padding does not follow Material guidelines (which is 16dp).. Although I do agree that it needs spaced over a little more, but I'm not sure how I feel about 16dp yet (but it is growing on me the more I see it). Below is a screenshot of the padding adjusted to follow material guidelines..thoughts?
existz said:
So I've had quite a few people point out that the padding does not follow Material guidelines (which is 16dp).. Although I do agree that it needs spaced over a little more, but I'm not sure how I feel about 16dp yet (but it is growing on me the more I see it). Below is a screenshot of the padding adjusted to follow material guidelines..thoughts?
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Looking between the current setup and the 16dp I personally prefer the 16dp
I'll have an update tomorrow with more UI improvements and small bug fixes. This will probably be the last update for a week or so, at least until I can get more of the important stuff done (ie pull to refresh..etc), I dont like having a bunch of small releases back to back to back, like I have been doing these last couple of days lol. But I want to get this next release out soon because it puts things more inline with Material guidelines.
existz said:
I'll have an update tomorrow with more UI improvements and small bug fixes. This will probably be the last update for a week or so, at least until I can get more of the important stuff done (ie pull to refresh..etc), I dont like having a bunch of small releases back to back to back, like I have been doing these last couple of days lol. But I want to get this next release out soon because it puts things more inline with Material guidelines.
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Tbh as an end user I personally prefer having larger releases with more content unless it is just a bug fix release take your time to make a stellar product.
UPDATE:
v1.2
- Fix issue when no states file found
- Adjust padding to match Material guidelines
- Rearrange home_layout and fix xml formatting
- Move 'Total State Time' above 'Unused CPU States'
This will probably be the last update for a week or two, at least until im able to get more of the important stuff done (ie pull to refresh..etc), sorry for all the updates back-to-back.
Great man, thanks
I might take up the offer on the icon. Hello, existz, it's nice to see you again; back from the DHD days.
kingofnice said:
I might take up the offer on the icon. Hello, existz, it's nice to see you again; back from the DHD days.
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The good ole' days
existz said:
The good ole' days
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I have made a similar app before and has more functionalityy than this
I Just recently updated it with material design )
If you want to save some time you can update that one
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gmu3y80gynd1t4y/Cpu_States_2.0.0b199.apk?dl=0
If you want the source please PM me )
@existz
Do you mind changing that the app requires a touchscreen there are devices that do not have touchscreen such as TV based devices
From developer.android.com for devices that use android.hardware.faketouch
"Note: Because applications require the android.hardware.touchscreen feature by default, if you want your application to be available to devices that provide a fake touch interface, you must also explicitly declare that a touch screen is not required by declaring <uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.touchscreen" android:required="false" />"