[HOW TO] ☆ Transparent homescreen statusbar on Note II ☆ for themers and everyone - Galaxy Note II Themes and Apps

[HOW TO] ☆ Transparent homescreen statusbar on Note II ☆ for themers and everyone
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Hi everyone!
Here's a simple guide how to make homescreen statusbar transparent:
1. You should decompile SystemUI.apk
2. Open /SystemUI/res/layout/tw_super_status_bar.xml and change android:background to 100% transparent:
Code:
<com.android.systemui.statusbar.phone.StatusBarWindowView [B]android:background="#[COLOR="Red"]00000000[/COLOR]"[/B] android:focusable="true" android:fitsSystemWindows="true" android:descendantFocusability="afterDescendants"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:systemui="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/com.android.systemui">
3. Save /SystemUI/res/layout/tw_super_status_bar.xml
4. Open /SystemUI/res/values/drawables.xml and edit this line to get transparency you need, for example, 100% transparent:
Code:
<item type="drawable" name="status_bar_background">[B]#[COLOR="red"]00000000[/COLOR][/B]</item>
5. Save /SystemUI/res/values/drawables.xml
6. Recompile SystemUI.apk
Done... Now you have 100% transparent homescreen statusbar
A short hint:
#00000000 - 100% transparency
#3F000000 - 75% transparency
#7F000000 - 50% transparency
#BF000000 - 25% transparency
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Enjoy! And if you have any questions, you can always ask me
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Thank you for sharing mate,
great job!

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::indie:: said:
Thank you for sharing mate,
great job!
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You're welcome!

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Thanks for the How To :thumbup:
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Does this work on a rooted stock rom? Thanks
And one more noobie question..how do you edit the systemui.apk file?
Cheers
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DMax99 said:
Does this work on a rooted stock rom? Thanks
And one more noobie question..how do you edit the systemui.apk file?
Cheers
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Yes, it works with odexed roms as well.
There are a lot of guides how to decompile/recompile SystemUI.apk (or any other apk) on XDA.

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Awesome guide Can somebody tell me what file to change to get a picture on the transparent notification bar? Like vegeta1 makes.
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Kur0saki said:
Awesome guide Can somebody tell me what file to change to get a picture on the transparent notification bar? Like vegeta1 makes.
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What do you mean under "transparent notification bar"? Notification pulldown (dropdown)?
If yes, there is no such file in stock SystemUI. Image should be added to SystemUI and also it's necessary to edit xml source to get it work.
It's our (my and vegeta's) "know how"

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Lol, i want to know how to put a picture on the dropdown, and which xml file and where to edit it. Very much appreciated if you can tell me or pm me
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Kur0saki said:
Lol, i want to know how to put a picture on the dropdown, and which xml file and where to edit it. Very much appreciated if you can tell me or pm me
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Ask in vegeta's thread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1928876
It would be correct.

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This is what I'm looking for! :good:
But, my Note 2 should be rooted first, right?

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mankind_18 said:
This is what I'm looking for! :good:
But, my Note 2 should be rooted first, right?
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Of course lt should be rooted to have access to your system.

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raubkatze said:
Of course lt should be rooted to have access to your system.
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Can I decompile systemUI.apk without rooting?

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mankind_18 said:
Can I decompile systemUI.apk without rooting?
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Do you know the way to copy your SystemUI.apk from system and put it back after recompiling without rooting?

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raubkatze said:
Do you know the way to copy your SystemUI.apk from system and put it back after recompiling without rooting?
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haha.. I guess I didn't have any choice other than root my device

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mankind_18 said:
haha.. I guess I didn't have any choice other than root my device
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Of course And it takes less than ten minutes.

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raubkatze said:
Of course And it takes less than ten minutes.
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Now I had rooted my device.. But I still didn't know what to with decompile apk :silly:

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mankind_18 said:
Now I had rooted my device.. But I still didn't know what to with decompile apk :silly:
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There are a lot of guides on XDA

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raubkatze said:
There are a lot of guides on XDA
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Now I've done decompiling..
1. You should decompile SystemUI.apk DONE
2. Open /SystemUI/res/layout/tw_super_status_bar.xml and change android:background to 100% transparent: DONE
3. Save /SystemUI/res/layout/tw_super_status_bar.xml DONE
4. Open /SystemUI/res/values/drawables.xml and edit this line to get transparency you need, for example, 100% transparent:
I can't find /SystemUI/res/values/drawables.xml there are no values folder.. there are only values-ar-land, values-gl, values-hu, values-in, values-sw360dp, values-sw600dp, values-sw600dp-land, values-uk, values-vi-port, and values-zh-rCN.. what should I do?
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now I've found values folder, but I can't find drawables.xml

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thank u...it was very simple