[Q] Transparent background of system app and notification - Xperia Arc Themes and Apps

I'd like to change the background of system app and notification area with Transparency...
For system app like phone, contacts, setting...
We can change the background as we change semc_bg.png and semc_general_bg.png in framework-res.apk and SemcGenericUxpRes.apk.
But NO Transparency~~!!!!
For notification area, I tried to change shade_bg.png in SystemUI.apk But Nothing changed.
Could you somebody helpl me which xml and attribute I should modify for this two transparency~~??

I see someting strange indeed. It has something to do with core system apps or not.
I have changed in framework-res.apk the file activity_title_bar.9.png.
In every system app (like contacts, sms, settingsmenus) this changed png isn't visible.
But it is changed because in NinjaMorph, root explorer, Traffic statistics, (SE)Office Suite I see the new color (changed png) in the activitybar.
I think this problem is similar with the problem rleon describes in his post above.
Android uses PNG's from framework-res apk, SystemUI.apk and others not always in the same way.
Developer question I think. I hope some of them will give a reaction on this.
Kind regards,
Vintiem

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What file, what resource to modd these colors ?? Help !!

Hello ...
I've been searching a lot and didn't found where I can modify the date color (the one that appears when pull down status bar), the notifications color (also when pull down status bar), and the icon label color. See attached files.
I've been searching in framework-res, twframework-res, policies.jar and services.jar and also in LauncherPro.apk: there are related stuff but nothing moves ... It's a mess, some resources are defined in more than 1 file so we don't know which is the good one !
Nothing very important but ... if someone knows I would apeciate as I don't like white neither green colors on phone
Thanks !!
sambastrakan said:
Hello ...
I've been searching a lot and didn't found where I can modify the date color (the one that appears when pull down status bar), the notifications color (also when pull down status bar), and the icon label color. See attached files.
I've been searching in framework-res, twframework-res, policies.jar and services.jar : there are related stuff but nothing moves ... It's a mess, some resources are defined in more than 1 file so we don't know which is the good one !
Nothing very important but ... if someone knows I would apeciate as I don't like white neither green colors on phone
Thanks !!
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I am not sure, but you can try this:
1) unpack the twframework-res.apk/framework-res.apk...unpack not extract, so that you get readable xml files,
2) In those files, there are options to change color most probably...
dharamg3 said:
I am not sure, but you can try this:
1) unpack the twframework-res.apk/framework-res.apk...unpack not extract, so that you get readable xml files,
2) In those files, there are options to change color most probably...
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yes, I already search in these files and made some modds for others colors aspects. I'm using a tool to decompile/recompile/build which work well. But ... no effects on the notifications area and I didn't found where is the resource for icon label color ...
if u decompiled the framework-res.apk and twframework-res.apk look into res/values/styles.xml and res/colour folder most of the font colours are placed there....... alternately u can try assigning the colours in res/values/colour.xml and see if it helps....
deadwood01 said:
if u decompiled the framework-res.apk and twframework-res.apk look into res/values/styles.xml and res/colour folder most of the font colours are placed there....... alternately u can try assigning the colours in res/values/colour.xml and see if it helps....
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Thanks for theses ideas, I did it for pulldown status. But, nothing for the icon label color ... Just found the icon menu label.
thanks again.

[Q][Theming] Need help with XML edits for color changes in theme

Currently theming and I wanted to change the colors of certain title bars, but cannot find the XML files associated with the color codes. I have looked in the droid developer website and XDA and haven't found the needed info. I also attached images so persons who may know can answer; some stuff I just wanted confirmed. I would like to change some settings title bar colors and some texts. The arrows point out what I need to change, and the fonts of what I want to change are underlined. This is for the droid charge, just so people know.
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I have seen people put images in the title bar in settings so if anyone knows how to do this or has a link to anything about what i mentioned I'd appreciate any links or valid help.
in the 3rd screenshot of the settings bar, that can be edited in framework.res.apk, just look for the bar in drawable-mdpi folder in framework.res.apk and use gimp or photoshop to change the color
nope no good i have edited xmls within framework and none of them change the bars i want. i have edited the pull down bar, MMS apk colors, secondary colors, and none have edited what i wanted. thank you for the post though.
i know it is either in colors, drawable, layout, or values.
The bars have to be in framework, I edited mine and it works using apk manager. hmmmm did you check system.ui?
NookColor Cyanogenmod 7.1 "Overclocked"
yea i have it only changes it for certain instances. the top of the MMS, GMail, the home screen top bar changed, but those i SS in the OP did not change even though i have themed all of the framework-res.apk.

[Q] How to get center status bar clock and change its color

Hi, i'm getting this issue while editing systemUI.apk. I've already read that part (on a xda thread) on how to decompile an apk.
I want to edit Miui.us 2.10.12 ROM for i9023 (nexus s) to get the clock in the middle of the status bar and change its color, so I decompiled MiuiSystemUI.apk, opened res/layout/status_bar.xml and edit, like several guides say (like this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1730388) , recompiled the apk, substitute AndroidManifest and META_INF from the original apk, with this result: now i had clock in the right position, but it won't disappear when a notify arrives and i can't really get to change its color in values/styles.xml
Anyone knows how to make clock disappear and change its color?
thank you, sorry for my english

[Q] Transparent notifications in TW JB?

Been trying to figure out what to edit in TW JB StatusUI.apk to make the backgrounds of the actual notifications themselves transparent. Tried editing a bunch of xmls, but I've only found values for the status bar, the notification dropdown background, and the categories and whatnot in the notification dropdown.
I suspect that the files I need to edit are some of the .9.png files in xhdpi, but I've also found that I can't edit or add any 9patch files without causing SystemUI.apk to fail to recompile, so I haven't been able to test those files. Probably just doing something wrong, there, as I've never messed with those files before.
Looking through the GS3 and GN2 question forums hasn't yielded much in the way of answers for this, so I'm just going to ask here. Any ideas?
Edit: This background (from a different phone): http://s15.postimage.org/y8ad3u917/Screenshot_2012_10_03_17_59_49.png
I got my 9patch files working, still can't figure this out. I can make the status bar transparent, the notification dropdown windown transparent, the quick toggles transparent, but I just can't find what actually sets the background for the notifications themselves!
This is seriously causing me a massive headache. I've edited so many png files at this point that I think I'm losing my mind.
Hi there, willl this help?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1835833
Anyway I also want to know how did you make the statusbar transparent?

[Q] How to Mod SystemUI.apk (Ongoing Background)

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