hey everyone got a quick question.
so ive searched and searched multiple forums and threads and i just can't find away to do this. what i would like to do is change some miui system icons with out applying a whole theme. like going into the icons of the theme and just changing the ones on my homescreen. i know that if you use a different launcher you can change them but i do not want to use an alternate launcher i would like to use the stock launcher. if anyone can't point me in the right direction on changing them feel free to post in here or message me.
thanks in advance
You can either open the theme you're using and modify or add the icons, or you can use Desktop Visualizer. You'll still have the app icons on your screen, you can just put them in a folder if you want. Use a Desktop Visualizer widget, don't use the shortcut.
If you need help changing your theme (or making an icon theme if you're not using a theme) you can pm me & I'll do it for you. Just send me the icons and name them what you want them to be. If you don't know how to name them properly, I can do it. I just need to know what you want the icon to represent.
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plainjane said:
You can either open the theme you're using and modify or add the icons, or you can use Desktop Visualizer. You'll still have the app icons on your screen, you can just put them in a folder if you want. Use a Desktop Visualizer widget, don't use the shortcut.
If you need help changing your theme (or making an icon theme if you're not using a theme) you can pm me & I'll do it for you. Just send me the icons and name them what you want them to be. If you don't know how to name them properly, I can do it. I just need to know what you want the icon to represent.
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sounds good what is the best way to edit a miui theme? through 7zip?
and yeah if i can't figure it out ill just send you the theme along with the icons that i would like changed. appreciate your time!
mikey2487 said:
sounds good what is the best way to edit a miui theme? through 7zip?
and yeah if i can't figure it out ill just send you the theme along with the icons that i would like changed. appreciate your time!
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7zip should work. Unzip the theme, and inside you'll see an "icons" file. Add a zip extension and extract. Add/replace the icons that you want - they have to be named the process name. For example, if you want to add an icon for the Market, you'd name it "com.android.vending.png". You wouldn't add the png extension since it's already there. The MIUI Music app would be com.miui.player.png, and so on. Once you've finished, rezip the icons and remove the zip extension. Then zip up the whole theme and change zip to mtz.
I know a lot of the popular process names off the top of my head because I do this a lot. It's actually faster for me to do it for you than to try to give a step by step guide, so if you run into issues send me a pm.
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I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to find out the correct application activity code to rename icons so they replace the applications default
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Please read the announcement in this forum before posting.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/announcement.php?f=617
This is not development, so moved to Q&A
Pull your framework-res and have a look, or the apps apk and change it directly.
What im trying to do is add icons to a theme im making , ive added some which i had to rename in order for them to replace some of thr default icons for apps when activating the theme. But i would like to replace some other default icons but i need to find out what to rename my custom icons too in order to replace the remaining default app icons when i activate the theme (adw launcher)
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AngelDevoid said:
What im trying to do is add icons to a theme im making , ive added some which i had to rename in order for them to replace some of thr default icons for apps when activating the theme. But i would like to replace some other default icons but i need to find out what to rename my custom icons too in order to replace the remaining default app icons when i activate the theme (adw launcher)
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I had the same issue with my modded theme ADW theme, you need to pull the apps such as "Conversations.apk" which is basically MMS.apk on 1.6 and either change the icon in the apk itself or rename the icons in the theme to what they are now called in 2.1, and the only way you'll find that out is by pulling the apks and opening them.
Ferk.... alot of digging around , after ive found as many as i can that work ill post a list of what to rename your icons to in your theme to replace the default icons. If you or anyone else already knows some can ya post it to help out thanks
Looking for stuff like this .....
Shortcut icon to the camera is named ....
Com_camera_cameraactivity
(or something like that)
So i would need to rename my icon from icon.png to com_camera_cameraactivity.png , then place it in the theme apk using eclipse , under a folder named /res/drawables_hdpi/ .
After that i would install the theme and the camera icon will have changed to the icon i want.
So thats the info we require ; the correct icon renames for as many apps as posible .
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i've been trying to use themes, and noticing that with launcherpro, after you press menu on the home screen, some of the icons don't change along with the new theme. as such, the search, notifications, and preferences icons don't change. does anyone have a way to fix this?
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i've been trying to use themes, and noticing that with launcherpro, after you press menu on the home screen, some of the icons don't change along with the new theme. as such, the search, notifications, and preferences icons don't change. does anyone have a way to fix this?
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You have to touch a blank spot on the screen. A menu will pop up, hit shortcut then applications. Pick your app then click on the icon and it well ask if you want the default icon or a custom one. You should be able to use any pictures you have in your gallery. You can also google png (fill in the blank) icon pictures and then download them to your sd card.
No he's talking about the icons for the menu options. When you press menu on the homescreen. I believe its because some of the icons call on the system default icons (the default in your case being whatever theme your using) and some come with the app. I think you would have to open the apk and swap out the .pngs with the icons you want to use.
I think...I've never done this, so hopefully someone will come in and fill in the holes that my ignorance couldn't.
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No he's talking about the icons for the menu options. When you press menu on the homescreen. I believe its because some of the icons call on the system default icons (the default in your case being whatever theme your using) and some come with the app. I think you would have to open the apk and swap out the .pngs with the icons you want to use.
I think...I've never done this, so hopefully someone will come in and fill in the holes that my ignorance couldn't.
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yea thats what i meant. here's what it looks like currently. its a honeycomb theme with bionix 1.3.1 and using launcherpro. you can see that some of the icons are the new blue ones, but the rest didnt change.
i tried using ninjamorph to change the the icons, the blue ones are in system/framework, but i dont know where the notification, search, and preferences ones are located. anyone have any clue?
Those specific ones should be located with in the launcher pro apk, if im thinking about thi s correctly. you will need to resign the apk after making my modifications for it to work. Hope this helps
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haha cool. if u find out how or where the icons are located, could u post a short tutorial?
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I have searched and searched for a decent tutorial on how to create or modify an icon pack that can be used with Apex, Nova, or Go Launcher. I have decompiled an apk to see how it works, but I cannot figure out what exactly needs to be edited. However, I do see the folder full of the icons, but I'm not sure what I need to do with some of the XML files. Can anyone point me in the right direction??
I basically want to create a icon pack later, but for now.. I have made a couple icons that I want to add to an existing icon pack I'm using. Thanks guys!
dEris said:
I have searched and searched for a decent tutorial on how to create or modify an icon pack that can be used with Apex, Nova, or Go Launcher. I have decompiled an apk to see how it works, but I cannot figure out what exactly needs to be edited. However, I do see the folder full of the icons, but I'm not sure what I need to do with some of the XML files. Can anyone point me in the right direction??
I basically want to create a icon pack later, but for now.. I have made a couple icons that I want to add to an existing icon pack I'm using. Thanks guys!
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Bump! I would love to know this myself!
Here is a tutorial for Apex:
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1649891
Here is a tutorial for Go launcher:
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/an...94-making-icon-pack-golauncher-questions.html
And for nova launcher you can use the icon packs you created for go launcher to work with nova launcher.
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Okay, so I'm trying to customize an Icon Pack, by adding some Icons for some apps that it doesn't have.
I want to know how exactly can I do this?
I'm using Go launcher, and I saw in another thread a thingy about Go Launcher Theme factory...The problem is, I'm not trying to create a theme, I just want to add the Icons I've made for certain apps to the existing Icon Pack (I'm not planning on uploading it or anything).
Thanks for any help.
Would it be possible to include extra icons in a theme download?
I have 'Depth' installed, but would like to change the folders on the left most screen. Unfortunately I can't find matching icons...
AndyCr15 said:
Would it be possible to include extra icons in a theme download?
I have 'Depth' installed, but would like to change the folders on the left most screen. Unfortunately I can't find matching icons...
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A lot of the time the designer uses custom icons, so it's not possible to get the pack.
What you could do, instead, is use your own icons or find an icon pack on the internet and just replace all icons with those. Then you'll have some to spare.
I found a nice white pack on deviantart by googling "android icons". I loaded them into my picture gallery, and then just changed them from the main screen (long press > edit > choose picture and save). I'm using the same theme as you. The icon pack I used is called "Whiteout".
ThemerSupport said:
A lot of the time the designer uses custom icons, so it's not possible to get the pack.
What you could do, instead, is use your own icons or find an icon pack on the internet and just replace all icons with those. Then you'll have some to spare.
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How do we do this? Most Icon Packs now are tied to select Launchers and only those Launchers...
How do I install Nox pack and then load these to my Gallery?
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How do we do this? Most Icon Packs now are tied to select Launchers and only those Launchers...
How do I install Nox pack and then load these to my Gallery?
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Using root explore rename the .apk to .zip and extract
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