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[Project]The Black Project!!

So, before ppl start flaming.....
This has nothing to do with skincolors
I am feeling the itch to start working my photoshop skills again...
Before anyone ask about ETA or anything like that:
There is no ETA.
This can take days/weeks/months
Im just curious about the interest for this. It used to be a popular thing, but times change.
Black project means that I want to skin the basic apps like the dialer, comm manager, manila and a few more from the dull (in my eyes) white into a more mysterious (!!!) black
This is just a test I made, it has alot of work, but its a start:
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Lookin' good, I'd be a user.

Yeah I agree, looking real smooth

Wou! Rely amazing! I love it! Cant wait to have it.
But that "call" button would be look nice at green. (imo)

Scuse me for asking, but is that just an inverted greyscale image of the Blackstone dialer?

All-around black'n white - I would like
I always try to find "black background and white symbols" no-nonsense themes for all my phones.

Very Very nice! I must have it!

Hahahha. Damn Itje. Shouldn´t you spend some time with me chatting instead of colourizing Apps??
ITsItjeBlack
It is NOT unpopular..IT is loved by many...BLACK!!!!!

Leddy said:
Scuse me for asking, but is that just an inverted greyscale image of the Blackstone dialer?
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mostly it is, but if you think this work is "just" then go ahead and try

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice

Looks great
I'm still sticking to stock atm and learning as much about wm atm. Preparing to port over soon

Nice...I'll definetly have this if you do spend the time (I looked at the images for the dialler myself and there was sooooo many)
I did a quick fix by swapping the buttons around so that the dialer was black (You can get from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=459260 )

@itje: i will probably join in and reskin some stuff like the sbp-panel similar to your work here. i will start in the next days and maybe we can customize near all aspects of the x1 with a one nice black style/skin (if you dont mind).
greetings
- QuadWord

Any way to fix wallpaper gradients??

It seems that any wallpaper with a gradient or any shading or glowing is displayed like in 8-bit style. What I mean by that is this.
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Its really making alot of wallpapers look hideous and would like to know what I can do to make it look the way it should. Thanks in advance.

Seems like a little help and a little research does wonders these days.
Just so this can be used as a reference, i'm gonna go a little in dept here.
newone757 said:
might try adding some noise to the pic. just a little bit. I used to have to do this on my touch pro 1+2 on some walls
let us know how they turn out
a quick google turned out this:Say Goodbye To Gradient Banding | Planet Photoshop
this looks promising too
How To Correct Banding In Your Gradients Using Photoshop - SloDive
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These methods work in getting rid of the banding lines but what I figured out was to keep the quality, you need to do alot of tweaking and messing around. What I found out was adding a gaussian blur on a new layer thats slightly transparent and adding a little noise on a overlay layer thats slightly transparent is the trick.
This took me 2 mins to do. (Its 6:22am on fourth of July, I'll put up better examples later)
Before
After
What got me thinking was some of my camera pictures and other pictures in the gallery look stunning but anything I transfer via pc had horrible banding. Didnt make any sense at all. I'm no expert but adding a little blur and noise almost tricks the evo's screen.

great idea! thanks, now i can finally get some good wallpapers onto my evo.

How about sharing the exact settings you used? Or even better would be to post a PSD template that only requires people to paste their wallpaper (or possibly copy a layer style)

Download wallpaper set and save from the market. It fixes this problem.

Jelly Bean does have native battery percentage

If you modify the build.prop file and set the DPI to 160, Android will switch to a UI designed for larger screen sizes. Along with that comes a native battery percentage indicator in the notification shade.
So my question is this, if it exists in the native OS, is there a simple hack to get it to appear in the other native interfaces?
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Sure would be nice if this was a system setting! Be nice to get type size larger without rooting!

No kidding! It would seem promising to me though that the operating system does, in fact, have a battery percentage indicator built in. I can't imagine it should be too much of a stretch to force it to appear in the non-tablet interfaces.

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No kidding! It would seem promising to me though that the operating system does, in fact, have a battery percentage indicator built in. I can't imagine it should be too much of a stretch to force it to appear in the non-tablet interfaces.
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easily doable via System UI edits...decompile using apktool
need to update stat_sys_battery.xml and stat_sys_battery_charge.xml to include pngs for all files, and add in your pngs

Yeah it'd be great to have a battery indicator and the clock/notifications on the bottom, but heard of too many scare stories to even try, like the Nexus 7 bricking on boot and more incompatible apps

Having the battery percentage showing up in the tablet is not something new. I have it on my HoneyComb Tablet: it shows up the percentage near to the battery.
I don't know if it isa modification made by HTC, but I don't think so.

Sorry to revive a dead/old thread, but have any of you found a solution to this since last posting here? Or can anyone else comment on this? I'm trying to get the battery percentage showing next to/inside of the battery icon on the status bar on my friends phone for him, without rooting preferably, and without installing additional software (otherwise I'd just install GSam).
TYIA!

[Q] Chrome fonts are different sizes when zooming in.

Hi,
Since the last Chrome update I've noticed that when zooming in on a website (these forums for example) that one post will be in a large font and another post will have a tiny font.
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I've gone back to the older version and everything works fine. I was just wondering if anyone else had this problem and if there was a solution other than downgrading?

I've noticed the same thing since the new update. I've also noticed that when you click on something. It doesn't flash blue anymore to indicate that it was pressed. Plus, when you first enter a website and start scrolling around before it's fully loaded. The page will automatically scroll back to the top when it's done rendering. My Nexus S used to do that and it drove me crazy. Hope they send out a quick fix for all this stuff. On another note, how does Google not notice these glitches before an update is released?.. Boggles my mind sometimes.

I've also noticed that when zoomed out the display is no where as crisp as it used to be. For example reading xda full screen in portrait it was quite easy to read, now it is quite blurred and the letters run into each other.

Chrome is a disaster, I really wish Google would sort it out, as I love the desktop version.
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Is that what we are leaving it at? That it's a disaster? Firefox does this too. After searching, I haven't found a solution. Has anybody?

tylernol said:
Is that what we are leaving it at? That it's a disaster? Firefox does this too. After searching, I haven't found a solution. Has anybody?
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Aosp browser.

meangreenie said:
Aosp browser.
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+1

I think this is a good feature. Yes, it doesnt look like real page but i am reading texts more comfortable with this feature. Anyway, its not a disaster..
Sent from my Nexus 4

My workaround to still using chrome/chrome beta on xda, is to scroll down to the 'quick style chooser' and change it from 'xda 2013 beta' to 'xda 2010' that seems to totally sort out the wonky formatting on my nexus 4.

The feature is called Font Boosting in Chrome, or Font Inflation in Firefox for Android.
I don't think it can be disabled.

[Q] How to apply trasparency to status and navigation bar?

Hi guys!
We are planning to release a new application for Android; we already design the app mockup and developed a solid base (and something more).
Now we are trying to give the app an aspect like that
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This is a new app from Play Store called Wally.
As you see the status bar and the navigation bar are both translucent, so that it is possible to see the app in background; I thought that this was related to the new ImmersiveMode Google introduced on Android 4.4, but looking at the examples and demos given by Google itself in developer.android.com I start to wondering where these effects really come from!
Do you guys know to achieve that? We designed the app in that way and we would be so sad to change direction now!
Tanks a lot for paying attentions, see ya!

brainvision said:
Hi guys!
We are planning to release a new application for Android; we already design the app mockup and developed a solid base (and something more).
Now we are trying to give the app an aspect like that
This is a new app from Play Store called Wally.
As you see the status bar and the navigation bar are both translucent, so that it is possible to see the app in background; I thought that this was related to the new ImmersiveMode Google introduced on Android 4.4, but looking at the examples and demos given by Google itself in developer.android.com I start to wondering where these effects really come from!
Do you guys know to achieve that? We designed the app in that way and we would be so sad to change direction now!
Tanks a lot for paying attentions, see ya!
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Well that is enirely possible and as you say was introduced in KitKat you just have to draw behind the nav and status bar and use a TranslucentDecor theme.