I've searched around a lot, but haven't seen if this could be done yet. I've heard that WM6.5 can do it easily, but I want to know if we can do it on 6.1 somehow.
I am no programmer/coder but if we can modify .task files and change the colors of the taskbar, shouldn't it be possible that we can make it clear/invisble too? Just curious.....
I think the screen would look much bigger if we could remove the bars yet keep the buttons there...
it can't be don without using something like spd pocket plus
the normal shell only support 1 colour given to the titlebar
and not even all colours then it does the garient shiny stuff itself
no way around that not even a way to get the colours it dont use
like white or something
Ok, thanks , I'll check out that app.
im looking for a transparent lock screen as seen on the Eris and Htc hero.
something looking like this : http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=305585&d=1270676211
taken from this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=659807
many thanks to anyone with the know how
i think it's possible creating a transparent 280*340 image in Photoshop and pass it to your SD. Then select it as LockScreen, but it's all thoughts..
nah this give us a black background unfortunately
Just make a screenshot of your desktop and put it as background for lock screen
hahaha, so simple
the problem is that i rearrange my icons too often
im working on customising the lock screen, just need to check some things with some theme gurus first.
Clear lockscreen
Try this one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=675170
worked on stock Rom rooted tattoo
exactly you want
see image
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=468298&stc=1&d=1292865991
Im looking for good images, icons, colors anything yall think represents steampunk well. Im looking for this stuff to help me speed along a SteamPunk theme i am imagining.
Ideas/suggestions for it are also welcome.
Let me be clear im not requesting a SteamPunk theme i am merely requesting community input to help give me ideas for the theme.
Not very many icons here, but I had to hunt them down when I saw your topic because they look very cool, and are very detailed.
http://dlanham.com/ui/steampunk/
Should give you some inspiration.
Here is an icon set i found
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...um=1&hl=en&tbm=isch&ei=BjyfTZiYBom60QGbzLydBQ
Along with a couple images
Hope that helps......
Thanks to the both of you for those icons, im going to try my hand at creating everything from scratch but these will definitely help to point me in the right direction.
Any suggestions for the way i should make notification bar look? oxidized bronze type look?
concepts and ideas are all im looking for really, tho icons and pictures help
thank you to everyone in advance.
have you seen the starwars steampunk images they look nice. i will see if i can find the link to it.
heres the link http://starwarsblog.starwars.com/index.php/category/steampunk/
Steampunk iron man .
I would go with the ozidized bronze color and the notification icons with look sweet in a faded cooper color
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I would go with the ozidized bronze color and the notification icons with look sweet in a faded cooper color
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you read my mind, i was initially thinking of how a wifi antenna would looked in the 1800s but then i realized i dont have that imagination so i'm mocking up some concepts of the notification icons textured and bronze/copper riveted together, with bioshock style lights underneath
this is really gonna test my ability to use photoshop.
If this gets made and will work on Bi-Winning, you can count on donation from me. Oxidised bronze sure sure. Maybe a pressure gauge battery. Analog looking clock, etc. Depending on skill in photoshop.
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If this gets made and will work on Bi-Winning, you can count on donation from me. Oxidised bronze sure sure. Maybe a pressure gauge battery. Analog looking clock, etc. Depending on skill in photoshop.
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i dont have infinite time on my hands so it will take a bit of time on my end, im realistically aiming for a release date some time in late april if not mid may
i do have a mockup of my pulldown bar icons done i want to get them on photoshop before i start showing yall my work. im not great at drawing with out grid paper.
Understood. This is a hobby for devs and themers alike. I'm just saying this is such a great idea that I look forward to the progress, no matter how long it takes.
How about with the bronze notification bar being bronze/copper, having the Notification pull down menu be like a steel colored wired mesh with a bronze frame and rivets. Rustier and dirtier the better lol. But really whatever will play nice with text on top. Great idea by the way.
I dont know how extensive iPhone themes are, but heres a pretty impressive looking one, you could crack it open and take a look at the images for some ideas. (EDIT: Ok so theres no link to download the actual theme, either way there are a few design elements you can glean from the screenshot.)
http://kormyen.deviantart.com/art/S...oost:popular in:customization steampunk&qo=40
..and heres a set of widgets I found that would go GREAT with this theme, they come in different styles but the stock theme is very steampunk/bioshock-ish, check out the screenshots. Heres the market link:
https://market.android.com/details?id=se.vitamin.android.mlg&feature=search_result
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I dont know how extensive iPhone themes are, but heres a pretty impressive looking one, you could crack it open and take a look at the images for some ideas. (EDIT: Ok so theres no link to download the actual theme, either way there are a few design elements you can glean from the screenshot.)
http://kormyen.deviantart.com/art/S...oost:popular in:customization steampunk&qo=40
..and heres a set of widgets I found that would go GREAT with this theme, they come in different styles but the stock theme is very steampunk/bioshock-ish, check out the screenshots. Heres the market link:
https://market.android.com/details?id=se.vitamin.android.mlg&feature=search_result
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Something along these lines would look pretty B.A.
Well I did it again, More Dialers and more Honeycomb. This will probably be my last dialer theme for a while. I will eventually look into recoding the layout for hi-res landscape, I'll bet ya, Dell just copied the one from 160 density, and never tested it.
Anyways here it is, I actually started on 160, but had to build on 240. All dialpad keys are visible at 240dpi in portrait mode. In high res, landscape dialpads will be cut off as usual. Best I could do for now. You'll just have to rotate to portrait I guess.
You can change the backgrounds of course by following my Tutorial: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1215898
the screenshots in this first post will be at 160dpi, the 240dpi will be in the 2nd post.
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for future use, thanks!
update:HCPhoneThemev2 (without glow): icons updates, jog tabs now HC Style, and in call buttons now stock instead of transparent( just mute, bluetooth , and speaker).
update: Aug. 16 - HC Theme with Glow uploaded. Its slightly involved to add glow, and since I resized buttons to fit all densities, you'll noticed the pressed square effect, that's about the best I can do. Glow Color is actually much brighter, but the dark background darkens it. All icons updated in Glow and Regular version. Also added stylish highlight for tab selections.
I have tried to change the layout at hdpi to fit in the landscape dialer, I dont think this can be done via .XML, although it sure looks like it. the .xml calls out the Button Grid Layout as well as height and widths, I have tried changing them all, even ones I knew were not correct. Best I did was change the total layout allowed for buttons, but buttons size would not change. I saw in the .smali code where it calls to get height and get width, so I would think .xml controls it. Even I change the .png sizes it would still center them in the same spot in the layout I think.
Oh well, portrait is more than fine with me. I usually use my phone in portrait and try not to rotate it because Im on 220 lcd density right now.
Looks great @ 180 density.
Thanks!
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sure, thanks for the feedback!
I like your avatar, thats the Dude your getting a Dell guy right ? with a Streak?
funny
Nice work Chris! Thanks! I'm learning so much just picking this stuff apart.
sure, no prob. Id like to see your custom color dialers @ NickShertzer
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sure, thanks for the feedback!
I like your avatar, thats the Dude your getting a Dell guy right ? with a Streak?
funny
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Yea, I actually found that pic on Dell's website when the Streak first came out. I used it as my Facebook profile pic until all my friends got mad at me. It seems everybody hates the Dell Guy...
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Chris love this dialer but is there anyway to get the buttons to glow when u press them?
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possibly, sure, like what color glow did you have in mind, white or blue?
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possibly, sure, like what color glow did you have in mind, white or blue?
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Cyan with light mix of blue would b nice
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Cyan with light mix of blue would b nice
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That will work
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working on it, noticed a lot of icons still needed top be updated as well, should have some screenshots later today.
OP updated, Glow Version ann also updated many icons for both version.
this was good to help me learn how to create glow effect, I may be able to do another one with a very thin effect, like an out line, but I like the larger effect my self. It doesnt matter a whole lot to me, I was satisified with original version.
Waiting to hear your feedback.
would like to see this on a lighter background if anyone has one.
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OP updated, Glow Version ann also updated many icons for both version.
this was good to help me learn how to create glow effect, I may be able to do another one with a very thin effect, like an out line, but I like the larger effect my self. It doesnt matter a whole lot to me, I was satisified with original version.
Waiting to hear your feedback.
would like to see this on a lighter background if anyone has one.
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Good job Chris but the bottom three buttons don't glow or is it the background?
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Im aware of this. I'm not sure If I could do those the same way. I'll see what I can do.
wow, managed to cook em up pretty quick, but they wont work because they are .9.png's they stretch and distort, so I could just try a blur but likely wont look good. I'll check it out.
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Im aware of this. I'm not sure If I could do those the same way. I'll see what I can do.
wow, managed to cook em up pretty quick, but they wont work because they are .9.png's they stretch and distort, so I could just try a blur but likely wont look good. I'll check it out.
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Thanks for the great work.
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Im aware of this. I'm not sure If I could do those the same way. I'll see what I can do.
wow, managed to cook em up pretty quick, but they wont work because they are .9.png's they stretch and distort, so I could just try a blur but likely wont look good. I'll check it out.
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The blury .9 png's can still be fantastic! Reminiscent of a lightsaber. Maybe Star Wars themed over HC could be cool
ok, I'll check it out later
I can get back, call and voicemail to glow as well as voicecall in landscape. I could make the glow effect smaller so you dont see the edge of the button and looks cut off... would probably be better, this is a really bright blue, but doesnt look as bright with dark wallpaper. I dont think I could make the glow effect on the numbers so small that it doesnt get cut off, because the numbers and letters take up so much room it would have to be a 1 or 2 pixel glow and that would still probably get cut off, unless I did similar to the bottom buttons and just use a generic gradient bubble background, but that doesnt look as nice.
Ill keep playing around with it when I have time, based on everyones feedback.
Seeing as how, CRT animation and gingerbread Overscroll looks a bit too involved for me. Quite possible for someone like DJ or Fards.
edit: idea: how about changing the bottom 3, .9.pngs to not touch the button edge, and have a transparent horizontal oval in the center, so it doesnt overshadow the icon. And.. I could try to edit the dialpad keys to "round" out the glow so again it doesnt look so boxy. I'll give it a shot when I have some time.
progess made.. sort of
heres what I got, changed quite a few things,
lets hear what you think, I will look into making the glow.png oval instead of square, maybe that will help.
and the .9 button glows area gamble, some will look nice, others too large, etc.
change jog tabs to HC style. also change in call buttons such as speaker back to stock, just those 3.
next release will likely be last for this project. probably because I use phone so little and would like to focus on other things.
Hi there,
I would like to know how I can change colours on my Android... Just like the blueish thing on the top bar, I can't stand it... Can't I just change it to white or else???
Why is'nt there any options to change that... I mean it's not a big ask is it
Vonz
I dont think you will be able to achieve this even if you are rooted. You have to install some custom ROMs which will proide you options for this. For ex: AOKP.
Mate, I have 6 ROMS in my BootMenu and NONE of them provides the option. I always wanted to do so since GB and now we have moved up it is still not possible. Even the themes do not cover the base frame and you still CANOT CHANGE THE COLOURS.
Appologies for my frustration but it seems that it is the simplest and the FIRST thing that any user will be trying to do if interested in customisation. I have all the custom ROMS in the world and still kicking around with the basic ugly blueish colours the designers arbitrarly choosed for us without implementing a simple menu to change them, what's the go with this??
Everybody is happy the way it is? No one wants to have a possibility to change layout colours?