To begin... make a backup 1st.... not responsible for damages while left in the parking garage.. enjoy the game!
This theme was made with permission of "thebowers". It's his creation. I brought it into GB land for the X2. I don't know if I did everything he did but I can tell you that I have made image edits galore for resizing purposes and to get all the new GB images not yet themed. I have also edited the crap out of a lot of xml's so things should work 100% smoothly out of the box. I have also incorporated some inverted apps which, I had nothing to do with. Credit there goes to thebowers, ecsnead and B-Boy. I themed the Phone and I started on the other 2 but, then, I saw someone else already did pretty much the same thing. So, I just used that. No need to waste time. That would be bouchigo. You can find him on rootzwiki. I also made a few apps myself because once I got going on 0.2.2, I got carried away.
Also, I changed the boot animation. It matches the theme oh so well. Credit there goes to Versatile1 because he made it.
Before we begin, I will list all the apps I have included. For ease of use, I highly recommend getting rid of any app on the list from your phones data folder first. For example, if you downloaded Facebook from the market, remove it from your data folder. Not saying you HAVE TO, just putting it out there if you run into issues, you know how to fix them.
Also for the market... this one you do HAVE to do... First, verify that you DO NOT have a vending app in \data\app!!!!! If you do this will not install!!! You will need to uninstall updates before flashing... Settings>Applications>Manage Applications>"ALL" tab>Market>Uninstall Updates
Will it break your phone if you don't do that? No, it just won't install a market... at all!
Lastly, I have taken the time to guide every .9.png file in the framework and in every app I touched. What this means to you.... If you want to make other changes, everything will decompile and recompile without error. Of course you need to add the dependencies if your editing systemui or settings but thats a blur thing. Not something I did.
Now.. onto the part anyone actually cares about..
The theme is located here.... No.. over there ----> ok its actually back there <------
If you see any issues or think of anything else to add let me know.
Here's whats included
framework
SystemUI
Calculator
Camera
Contacts
Dialer
Phone
Facebook (Inverted)
Gallery3D
Gmail (Inverted)
Google Quick Search (Inverted)
Keyboard (updated from 2.2 to be darker)
Settings (Inverted)
GTalk (Inverted)
Market (Inverted)
Google Voice (Inverted)
Some of these apps will be called dark or black in the app drawer. Example: Facebook = Dark Facebook
Screenshots:
http://www.4shared.com/all-images/k4K9F-uM/_online.html
A screen of something didn't come out.. don't know what it was but.. im sure it looked pretty good
Very cool! I especially like the 80085 in your calculator screen shot
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Very cool! I especially like the 80085 in your calculator screen shot
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haha.. posted this in 3 forums... glad someone finally got it!
Yeah its exactly the thing I did in math class...every year...
Anyways, what are the chances we could just install the apps individually? I'm really only interested in the blacked out gmail.
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just open up the theme in 7zip and delete what you dont want.
No stone unturned... we had to do some smali edits on gmail to get it to work. looks good though. now i realize that is the screenshot that is missing.
I just extracted the apk and used root explorer to push it into system/app. Changed permissions, rebooted, and voila!
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As long as it works and you like it, I dont care how you got it on your phone...lol
Good stuff man. I noticed a few small things that I thought I would share, nothing deal breaking or anything like that.
1.) I noticed when you're in the middle of unlocking the phone theres like a slight white bar in the unlock tab, this doesn't occur when you switch between silent and audible mode.
2.) When you're in a call and say if you're on speaker and drag down the notifications the call information is pretty hard to see maybe a lighter shade of black?
3.) Some of the press colors are still orange/blue.
4.) When downloading from a browser the status bar is blue opposed to red and you can't read what you're downloading (b on b issue).
Still one slick theme regardless! Thanks!
Very nice work xkape. Appreciate the quick turnaround for 0.4.
I noticed there is something unthemed in the blacked out gmail. When in your inbox an you check an email and click on the "labels" button that interface is not blacked out, it is black type on a white bg. When you scroll on this screen the entire screen blacks out and you cannot read your labels. Not a deal breaker by any means but I am just throwing it out there.
Sounds like the colorchachehint is ok (thats what makes it black when you scroll) but the bg and text need to be switched. I'll take a look at that.
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Good stuff man. I noticed a few small things that I thought I would share, nothing deal breaking or anything like that.
1.) I noticed when you're in the middle of unlocking the phone theres like a slight white bar in the unlock tab, this doesn't occur when you switch between silent and audible mode.
2.) When you're in a call and say if you're on speaker and drag down the notifications the call information is pretty hard to see maybe a lighter shade of black?
3.) Some of the press colors are still orange/blue.
4.) When downloading from a browser the status bar is blue opposed to red and you can't read what you're downloading (b on b issue).
Still one slick theme regardless! Thanks!
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1) Should be an easy fix
2) Just saw that. I tested to see if it was in frame or phone and im pretty sure I just missed it in the framework. I'll find it.
3) Theres just so many of the damn things. Hard to get em all.
4) Never used the stock browser before. I use Dolphin HD. So, this one probably won't get fixed.
I'm adding one... in the phone when you are looking at a specific number in recent. if you click on it for "call details" that screen needs fixed. I think Im also going to darken the text of the unselected tabs. I thought the grey I chose was darker than that.
And by the way.. thank you both for pointing those out to me. I can't fix the theme and make it better if I don't know it needs to be.
I use boat browser mini.
I did some investigationg into the ongoing black on black issue in the status bar. Each app sets that seperately. The only way to fix that would be to either a) make the whole things white again with black text or b) edit each app that points at a black color instead of a white one for text. I will edit it for phone app and for dolphin.
Nice theme, I haven't found anything I don't like. The boot animation is sweet too.
I've never been a fan of just black and white themes, but this looks very tasteful. I'll give this a shot after flashing Eclipse .4 later!
triton, I never was either. In fact, I had never even used BNB. But, I came to feel that colorized themes just didnt work for me anymore. So I decided Id use BNB and edit up to the X2.
Although, I must admit, I am a sucker for those neon themes in Blue or Red.
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triton, I never was either. In fact, I had never even used BNB. But, I came to feel that colorized themes just didnt work for me anymore. So I decided Id use BNB and edit up to the X2.
Although, I must admit, I am a sucker for those neon themes in Blue or Red.
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Eh, the neon themes are ok, but I'm picky about what themes I have on my device. This one you made looks great though!
neon image i just made right quick.
I was thinking this could take the place of the buttons.. for example.
thanks triton!
I've got a list from peoples feedback of a few imperfections here and there. I'll be fixing those real soon as well.
I ran into an issue with the app shortcuts on my home screen not moving to delete. They were frozen. I could add them to the homepage but couldn't delete. I flashed eclipse.4 and everything is working correctly now. I did install that speedy zip yesterday. Not sure if that was the issue or not. Would that be launcher issue or something in the theme zip?
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I am now using the awesome all black mod and was wondering how hard would it be to "all black" the gmail and gtalk apps to match. Black background and white/grey text perhaps. I would think in my case this would save a lot on battery as well as I check email frequently.
I would love this as well though I am just a user, not a programmer or the like. However I don't think this would be too hard. It could be as simple as implementing maybe a high contrast which pretty much almost flips the colors. No idea though
If their layouts, styles, etc are defined in accessible XML files it could probably be done.
yeah add me! this would be an awesome mod. can totally see 2+ days with something like this.
Anyone able to actually do this I poked around some and was unable to make it work.
I'll take a look...
That would be awesome. If you would be willling to share your findings that would be icing on the cake as I would love to learn how to do this myself.I tired to change the background colors by changing color values in the chat_view.xml but that seemed to have no effect. I am sure its just a matter of changing color values in a few key xml files but just dont know where to look.
Thanks again
Check out the thread called "tiles by ardchoille" in the section I think it may be what your looking for
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Check out the thread called "tiles by ardchoille" in the section I think it may be what your looking for
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Thanks for the link but no that is not what I am looking for. What I want is for the background screen inside the apps to be black background with white text. The default for gmail and gtalk is a white background with black text on it.
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Thanks for the link but no that is not what I am looking for. What I want is for the background screen inside the apps to be black background with white text. The default for gmail and gtalk is a white background with black text on it.
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Almost positive framework for google apps (gapps) is closed source and not to be modded or distributed. that is why CM got the cease and desist letter.
You could create a metamorph to do this but it would take quite a lot of hunting to find all the .xml files needed, as well as all the .png's used. The easy part would be editing the basic framework files. Editing all the apps you've installed is a whole new story.
Snoop around in framework.res and twframework.res if you like. That's what the AllBlack mm changes.
FYI, Cyanogen got a C&D for the _distribution_ of Google apps. I strongly doubt Google would care if you change the graphics of gapps for yourself, so long as you're not making the apps themselves available for download.
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Any new way to accomplish this?
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Any new way to accomplish this?
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Same here. I would love to get a blacked out Gmail.
I had found one on a droid x forum recently. Someone has done it.
Scarinzi said:
Same here. I would love to get a blacked out Gmail.
I had found one on a droid x forum recently. Someone has done it.
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Hi,
Blacking out apps is a royal pain to do it right. I've been working on this for my newest (still unreleased) honeycomb theme, and its slow, and tedious. I can spend hours changing one color value, or one line of code, re-compiling, push to phone, test, only for it to not work properly, and then I have to undo the change, and start over.
https://picasaweb.google.com/113127051130934911253/HoneycombTheme?feat=directlink
Gmail for instance, uses XML layouts, colors coded into the java directly, and then custom CSS for the message view.
I've been tweaking and debugging for days, and still can't override enough of the font colors to black out the message view to a level I'm happy with.
Anyway, I've done gmail, gtalk, googlevoice (well, like 90%, can't blackout the setup process properly no matter how I try) AOSP 2.2 calendar (I hate touchwiz) CM6/AOSP Mms (just touchups), google quick-search-box, twitter 2.0.1, android market, and the ABSOLUTE worst of them all, google maps (only like 85-90%, I can't decompile the resources, so some parts will never be inverted properly.) And then there were also tweaks to Contacts, Browser, Beautiful widgets, Voodoo control app, and the frameworks themselves.
And I still need to blackout facebook, google reader, google books, and a few more.
I had planned on releasing eventually, but in order to blackout maps, the framework-res.apk has to invert every call for a "light" theme to "black" instead, so it WILL break other apps that use custom display styles, but rely on default android text colors (or vice-versa.) And of course, if anyone starts asking for a release-date, I'll likely just abandon it entirely. This was all done for my own personal enjoyment and use, not anyone else's.
Blah, sorry for sounding *****y, I'm tired of people causing drama in the android world, its supposed to be FUN, not high-school.
Cheers, =)
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Hi,
Blacking out apps is a royal pain to do it right. I've been working on this for my newest (still unreleased) honeycomb theme, and its slow, and tedious. I can spend hours changing one color value, or one line of code, re-compiling, push to phone, test, only for it to not work properly, and then I have to undo the change, and start over.
https://picasaweb.google.com/113127051130934911253/HoneycombTheme?feat=directlink
Gmail for instance, uses XML layouts, colors coded into the java directly, and then custom CSS for the message view.
I've been tweaking and debugging for days, and still can't override enough of the font colors to black out the message view to a level I'm happy with.
Anyway, I've done gmail, gtalk, googlevoice (well, like 90%, can't blackout the setup process properly no matter how I try) AOSP 2.2 calendar (I hate touchwiz) CM6/AOSP Mms (just touchups), google quick-search-box, twitter 2.0.1, android market, and the ABSOLUTE worst of them all, google maps (only like 85-90%, I can't decompile the resources, so some parts will never be inverted properly.) And then there were also tweaks to Contacts, Browser, Beautiful widgets, Voodoo control app, and the frameworks themselves.
And I still need to blackout facebook, google reader, google books, and a few more.
I had planned on releasing eventually, but in order to blackout maps, the framework-res.apk has to invert every call for a "light" theme to "black" instead, so it WILL break other apps that use custom display styles, but rely on default android text colors (or vice-versa.) And of course, if anyone starts asking for a release-date, I'll likely just abandon it entirely. This was all done for my own personal enjoyment and use, not anyone else's.
Blah, sorry for sounding *****y, I'm tired of people causing drama in the android world, its supposed to be FUN, not high-school.
Cheers, =)
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I don't blame you at all.
If you decide to make this available to everybody, it will be awesome. Good work.
I couldn't find it on XDA but a quick Google search found one on a droid x forum in zip form.
I flashed it with CWM and it worked.
Not as nice looking throughout as s0niqu3's but looks alot better than the regular version.
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/blacked-out/128296-release-gmail-2-3-4-1-blacked-out.html
I'm looking to start a new metamorph project this week. So, I figured I'd ask the community if anyone had any requests of how they want their phone modded? If you have any ideas or requests of framework modifications (satus bar, status bar icons, battery, notification pulldown items settings menu, ex.), just let me know here or shoot me a PM and I'll see what I can do. Thanks!
I have posted this before but as far as I can tell no one has done it for eclair. I would like a set of black apps. I have the modded black dialer and would like someone to either create or help me create a black version of twitter, gmail and gtalk.
Black meaning the main screen are all black (aka no power used) with maybe a whitish text and grey highlight bar. I know this can be done as I have found it for froyo, I am just not ready to move to froyo yet as my bionix rom is nearly perfect.
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I have posted this before but as far as I can tell no one has done it for eclair. I would like a set of black apps. I have the modded black dialer and would like someone to either create or help me create a black version of twitter, gmail and gtalk.
Black meaning the main screen are all black (aka no power used) with maybe a whitish text and grey highlight bar. I know this can be done as I have found it for froyo, I am just not ready to move to froyo yet as my bionix rom is nearly perfect.
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I have yet to modify an app, but I will definitely give it a try. It must be easier then modding the framework anyway. Do you have any screenshots of the froyo version? Or better yet, a link to download the apps for froyo?
I am by no means trying to steal anyone elses hard work I have seen the black apps in froyo rom called 928BlackDroidGlass there is also a market and twitter addon. I have tried to re-create these apps in eclair by doing a file by file compare of a standard froyo version and this version then using the diff files making the same changes in the froyo version. I have so far failed miserably. There are about 10 xml files just for gtalk alone that need color changes it seems. It would seem almost all the changes are to the background color or text color. I know I am close but just cant get it working and just dont have enough time to re-trace and find my error. If you like when I am home I can send you the filenames and locations that I suspect are the xml files that need to be changed for the gtalk app.
I took a look and think I know which files your talking about, but definitely send me what you got and maybe we can get it working.
Honestly I just want a plain touchwiz stock battery mod like how it should be. I started working on it but haven't picked it back up. I just want the stock color blue no percentage and it be accurate and compatiable with JI6.
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I took a look and think I know which files your talking about, but definitely send me what you got and maybe we can get it working.
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This is what I believe are all the files needed for GTALK
*** Layout
chat_screen.xml
chat_view.xml
custom_title.xml
group_chat_approval.xml
picture_view.xml
search_results.xml
set_status.xml
*** Values
colors.xml
*** Drawable
chat_item_background.xml
In each there are settings for background of test color. It appears if we reverse the colors on them we may get the desired effect but I cant get it to work. Color codes appear to be FF000000 and FFFFFFFF
Any help yuo can provide would be much appreciated. Would also love to do this for other apps as I mentioned previously but have not had time to do a file compare on anything else.
P.S. Remind me to send you my twframework and framework files, a combination of mods based on bioni and black mesh with notification icons by s0niqu3 (her skills are unparalleled) and the accurate segmented battery mod (green as dont like the blue).
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Honestly I just want a plain touchwiz stock battery mod like how it should be. I started working on it but haven't picked it back up. I just want the stock color blue no percentage and it be accurate and compatiable with JI6.
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You got it. I'm gonna get this up and running sometime this week. I take it you're on bionix?
Ps- I have created a blue battery mod WITH percentage ([Mod]Battery mod (blue, accurate) located somewhere in this thread.You can try it out to hold you over until I can get the new one up.
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This is what I believe are all the files needed for GTALK
*** Layout
chat_screen.xml
chat_view.xml
custom_title.xml
group_chat_approval.xml
picture_view.xml
search_results.xml
set_status.xml
*** Values
colors.xml
*** Drawable
chat_item_background.xml
In each there are settings for background of test color. It appears if we reverse the colors on them we may get the desired effect but I cant get it to work. Color codes appear to be FF000000 and FFFFFFFF
Any help yuo can provide would be much appreciated. Would also love to do this for other apps as I mentioned previously but have not had time to do a file compare on anything else.
P.S. Remind me to send you my twframework and framework files, a combination of mods based on bioni and black mesh with notification icons by s0niqu3 (her skills are unparalleled) and the accurate segmented battery mod (green as dont like the blue).
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Sounds good. I'm away for the weekend, but I will contact you early next week. I'd like to get gmail running properly before moving on to other apps. Thanks for your help!
danr238 said:
Honestly I just want a plain touchwiz stock battery mod like how it should be. I started working on it but haven't picked it back up. I just want the stock color blue no percentage and it be accurate and compatiable with JI6.
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I would love this for all the Froyo ROMs that are out. Or any morphs for that matter!
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You got it. I'm gonna get this up and running sometime this week. I take it you're on bionix?
Ps- I have created a blue battery mod WITH percentage ([Mod]Battery mod (blue, accurate) located somewhere in this thread.You can try it out to hold you over until I can get the new one up.
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Yeah I've used your mod and like it. Thanks for taking request. Like I said I started working on it but with a 2 an 3 year old and my wife working nights I have no time to dedicate to it. Thanks again!
Newest apk and topic now located HEREhttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1017179http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1017179
saved for me....
another one for me...
Flashes, but only takes a split second to do so. Once I reboot, nothing is changed.
Edit: re-downloaded and all is good
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Flashes, but only takes a split second to do so. Once I reboot, nothing is changed.
Edit: re-downloaded and all is good
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Probably a bad download. Thanks for letting me know it works.
No problem!
This is a great theme. I would like to give MrDSL a big thanks as he does not even have a MT4G to test this theme on. Oh and there is much more skinned than shows in the screen shots. Many of the apps like gmail, and market etc have also been reskinned. The market is a beautiful transparent with a touch of blue.
I will try to get some screen shots of this up today.
Where's the redhead? lol
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Where's the redhead? lol
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I think you have to get that wallpaper separately. I'm not where I can upload it right now. Maybe MrDSL can upload it.
It should have done the wallpaper with the theme but maybe its handled different on MY4G..You can get it here
How would I go about getting JUST the cool status bar? Really digging the battery speedometer. =0)
MrDSL for some reason the Wallpaper is not working. I did see your wallpaper in the framework-re.apk/drawable-hdpi but for some reason it is not installed or even available through the wallpapers function in settings.
MrDSL I have noticed a couple more minor things. The Google Search widget is completely transparent, not sure if this is by design? There are just 2 symbols on either side, the microphone and Google icon on the other, nothing in the middle but the text search. Also in the widget selection menu after selecting google search widget, the list of options or type of search widget, the icon for web is missing.
When you open up the search in the browser the microphone on the right side can't be seen as it is white in color and so it blends in with the search frame.
I hope this makes sense and I will later put up some screen shots for you.
great work!
This is the real deal right here, love the color scheme with great detail!!
Great job!!
Ok MrDSL here are some Screen Shots of some of the possible minor issues. I will post some more screen shots in another thread also, don't want to be too confusing.
Great job. I really like it.
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MrDSL I have noticed a couple more minor things. The Google Search widget is completely transparent, not sure if this is by design? There are just 2 symbols on either side, the microphone and Google icon on the other, nothing in the middle but the text search. Also in the widget selection menu after selecting google search widget, the list of options or type of search widget, the icon for web is missing.
When you open up the search in the browser the microphone on the right side can't be seen as it is white in color and so it blends in with the search frame.
I hope this makes sense and I will later put up some screen shots for you.
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Yeah the Google widget is transparent by design although that blue Google icon on the right isn't suppose to be there..I missed a image edit there..attached is how it should look..I will fix it later..its a market app so if you want just delete it and install it from market.
Personal preference I guess cause I like it transparent on my home screen and I know the icons are there
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Yeah the Google widget is transparent by design although that blue Google icon on the right isn't suppose to be there..I missed a image edit there..attached is how it should look..I will fix it later..its a market app so if you want just delete it and install it from market.
Personal preference I guess cause I like it transparent on my home screen and I know the icons are there
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OK thanks for the clarification, I think you forgot to attach the image. Also any ideas about the calendar and youtube?
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OK thanks for the clarification, I think you forgot to attach the image. Also any ideas about the calendar and youtube?
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I'll have to look when I get home cause I don't notice anything..I need a bigger screen haha
Okay I see the calendar..whats wrong with youtube?
What is this app called? I can't find it. I got settings.apk inverted but when I click on manage applications, its not inverted so it must be a different app.
no one knows? Im going to have to start decompiling apps 1 by 1 til i find it? lol
I Doubt Anyone Can Help With A Vague Question. I See Manage Applications, Theme, And Inverted. Can You Give More Information About What Your Seeking?
I am using the Droid X2 running Eclipse 2.2. I have themed the settings.apk file. All is well except when I click on "Manage Applications" from inside settings. This tells me that Manage Applications is a separate app than settings. It just shows up in the settings menu. Much like Angry Birds would show up in the App Drawer even though its not part of appdrawer.apk.. or whatever its called.
I am trying to find the file in system/app that controls "Manage Applications".
That there is about as specific as I can get.
Xkape, where did your inverted theme go? Since our recovery requires ac power I didnt want to chance an outage with Irene doing her thing.
I love dark themes and the inverted theme looked awesome. Hopefully you pulled it to tweak something, unless I am completely blind and I'm just missing it.
jeremy, i never posted it here. I did at Droidforums and at rootzwiki. But, now I am updating it to 0.4 since that came out today. Eclipse I mean.
I will post it here but I am waiting on something that hasn't happened yet. When it does, I'll post it.
I know what you want!!! I know what you want!!!!! You want to theme the application manager from the settings menu!!!! Settings>>Applications>>Manage Applications right???!!!
you are RIGHT my friend!!! I see the xmls in the settings.apk but I dont see where there is anything to edit. I assumed it was another app but now I just think I am overlooking something.
Unfortunately I just figured out what you are talking about but know way too little about how to do what you want.... Sorry...
Bump...anyone figure this out yet? Im trying to change text colors in manage applications on eclipse .2.2 because its white text on white BG
Yeah I got it figured out. I didn't see the code in the xmls so.. I just made my own. Works fine. you need to add android:textColor="#ff000000" if you want the text black. Stick any code you want in there though.
What xml's did you use to change the text color for the app name? I have look over manage_applications and manage_applications_item and found nothing. In manage_applications you can change the text color from black to white but that is only for Application Storage and Internal Storage located at the bottom. In the running section everything turn out perfect but not in the downloaded, all and media area have black text.
Consolidating my previous post, here are two simple, modified blur sms apks. we have:
a) Messagingwhite.apk: same as stock, except grey text in conversation list is white rather than transparent/grey. easier to read i think
b) Messagingicsblack.apk: the background of both read and unread texts is black, with unread text being displayed in ICS blue while read texts are in white. black background looks better with the ICS text
For both, the incoming sms box in actual conversations has been darkened. just my fancy.
Next step; blackout the background of conversation list entirely. pretty sure that'll entail diving into the framework. I know its done routinely, but im learning by experimentation as i go (more fun that way!).
Instructions:
1) Must be rooted
2) Download desired Messaging______.apk
3) Rename to Messaging.apk
4) With a file explorer or via adb, navigate to /system/app/ and copy your current Messaging.apk and corresponding odex file (if you're rom is odexed) to somewhere safe (just for a backup) and then delete them from /system/app/
5) Move the renamed Messaging.apk to /system/app/, change permissions to rw-r--r--, and reboot.
And thats it! The changes aren't big, but unlike my attempts yesterday, I think they're much more aesthetically pleasing. Particularly the one with ICS color incorporated.
Hope you enjoy! If you like hit the thanks!
*USUAL DISCLAIMER; tinkering with your phone is YOUR choice; should anything happen to your phone I am in no way responsible. Not like this is serious stuff here, but just in case i guess
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btw is there any interest whatsoever in this? im just having fun learning and hoping to eventually get full themes going
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Anyway to do the people (contacts) the same
illb1u2 said:
Anyway to do the people (contacts) the same
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im about to go watch the dark knight rises, but afterwards i'll start messing with it! it will depend on if the app draws from a specific line of code that gives a hex value, or from a .png inside the framework-res.apk. if its the latter, the rom needs to be deodexed and to be universal id have to learn how to make it a flashable zip blah blah blah. BUT if its the former, shouldn't really be that hard.
edit: yes first attempt was a big giant fail. pretty sure contacts.apk and phone.apk are intertwined in some way, I can't even decompile and recompile contacts.apk without errors when i haven't changed a single thing. and theres some images in contacts.apk that only appear in the phone app. so yea. but ill take a stab at it! just might be beyond my grasp atm
eris72 said:
im about to go watch the dark knight rises, but afterwards i'll start messing with it! it will depend on if the app draws from a specific line of code that gives a hex value, or from a .png inside the framework-res.apk. if its the latter, the rom needs to be deodexed and to be universal id have to learn how to make it a flashable zip blah blah blah. BUT if its the former, shouldn't really be that hard.
edit: yes first attempt was a big giant fail. pretty sure contacts.apk and phone.apk are intertwined in some way, I can't even decompile and recompile contacts.apk without errors when i haven't changed a single thing. and theres some images in contacts.apk that only appear in the phone app. so yea. but ill take a stab at it! just might be beyond my grasp atm
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That suxs I was really hoping the people app could be blacked out to match the phone good try though. Thanks
DizzyFox said:
That suxs I was really hoping the people app could be blacked out to match the phone good try though. Thanks
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I'm sure it can be, I just need to figure out how
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eris72 said:
I'm sure it can be, I just need to figure out how
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Have you ever thought about trying the calendar app change the white background to black?
DizzyFox said:
Have you ever thought about trying the calendar app change the white background to black?
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I'm actually a fan of the white, but I'll look into it. Ideally I want to figure out how to make a flashable zip that will black out framework/some selected apps, but I'm not anywhere near that yet. Got my rom of choice (batakang) deodexed, but i can't even change the gradient background to black without problems. Should be a simple edit. Still much to learn obviously!
I have to get a lot of research done in the next week, hoping to get a paper published in the next 6 months, but as soon as Christmas break rolls around, this will be my pet project until grad school starts up again
Right now doing the contacts app is my priority, just figured out a key step that I was missing. still getting mad errors but making progress!
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I am interested in all black themes in apps... willing to donate for such...
Notrega said:
I am interested in all black themes in apps... willing to donate for such...
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No donations necessary. I've gotten a lot from the android community and am just trying to give back since there isn't much dev support for the razr hd.
So far, contacts and phone are not looking good. I've tried all possible routes; most of the time the modded apk won't even compile and when it does, it isn't recognized upon boot. Best I've gotten is the phone to recognize it, but when the phone app is opened it's just all FC all the time. System apps are a tricky *****.
That being said, the messaging app I have pretty solid control over and can alter most of those colors, baring the background. That's tied into framework, which I was able to get blacked out! I can explain the process (moderately difficult) or more likely I'll look into making a flashable zip. So with that in mind, if anyone would like some basic color altering to their sms, I can prolly do so with the limitation that the background is the JB gradient or black. Texts, contact names, text box backgrounds (not the main background!) and such can be changed.
I'm giving up on contacts for now, unless I can find/think of a new way to get it working. phone is tied directly into it to, so that sucks. I can look at the calendar, but since its third party now (on g play where it'll get updates vs the built in one, which I deleted), I have to imagine someone's done that already. If anyone has any requests ill look into it, I'm not sure what other apps there are that someone else hasn't put a theme to that can't be put on our phones.
What I think I'm gonna do is look into how to get aosp apps working, contacts was on some rom on rzr forums but I couldn't get it on my rom (batakang). Maybe if I decompile it and recompile it with my framework...
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working on making this a flashable zip: blacked out framework and black outgoing sms box. looks quite sexy i think
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hey eris just wanted to say i'm very interested in this and am about to give it a try! screen shots look great! thanks so much
EDIT: got it working. looks nice! any word on updating the incoming/outgoing to black?