[TUTORIAL] Build your own flashable VRTheme Mods for Xperia 2011 HDPI.[ANY ROM] - Xperia Arc Themes and Apps

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You are using this tutorial by yourself and i'm in no way responsible if your mobile is damaged due to it. I will help you in best way possible to get you out of the worse situation but I can't guarantee anybody. ThankYou!
How to build apps icon pack:
Things you require:
-Base VRTheme-Here!(Don't worry there are no trojans)
-Some icons-Here are my AOSP icons.
-Required apps from the ROM which you want to modify.
-Notepad++ for changing updater-script.
-Any good photo editing tool.
-A brain to avoid mistakes and bother me with stupid questions.
-Kindness to press the THANKS button below.
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Steps:
1. Download all the things required.
2. Open your ROM and copy all the apps and move them to a seperate folder. Here we will take only 3 apps-Browser, Messaging and Calculator.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
3. Now extract these apps using 7zip or winrar.
4. Now open the app folder, go to res and find the location where the icon of the app is present. These are generally present in mipmap-hdpi or drawable-hdpi. For e.g. in my case Browser app it's present in mipmap-hdpi named as ic_launcher_browser.png:
5. Now extract the VRTheme base folder and go to vrtheme->system->app and make a new folder their with named as appname.apk(Here appname refers to the name of the app). For e.g. Browser.apk in my case.
6. Now make res folder in it. And under res folder make another folder which contains app icon. For e.g res->mipmap-hdpi in my case:
7. Now place your modified icon in it and rename it to the original icon name. For e.g. ic_launcher_browser.png in my case. And resize it to 72X72. If you want to resize it by percent then decrease xhdpi icons by 66.7%. I don't recommend resizing from MDPI as it will decrease the quality of the icon and blur it.
8. Do the same for other apps. In my case calculator and messaging.
9. Now give this icon pack your name. Go to META-INF->com->google->android and open updater-script with notepad++ and in second line replace alokbina with your name. You can practically change almost everything under ui_print in updater-script but remember that it should be in the format ui_print("ABCD"); . Here replace ABCD with whatever you like.
10. Now you will be having 4 folders- data, META-INF, system, vrtheme and an image named as preview. Zip all these and rename it whatever you like and flash it with CWM and you're done! Enjoy your own icon pack Feel free to THANK me :laugh:
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Important Tip:-Note the size of the original icon and modify the other icon accordingly or else you may not get any icon or smaller icon. For e.g. sometimes the icon present in the app is of size 96X96 though it is hdpi app. But still change the other icon size also to 96X96 to get best result.
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Credits:
Sandy7 who taught me all this(sorry forgot to mention earlier ). Please give him a THANKS too.
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Reserved for framework-res.apk VRTheme making.

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Reserved for SystemUI.apk VRTheme modding.

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Does this only work for morphing drawables? Or can xmls be morphed as well?

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Re: [GUIDE] Build your own flashable VRTheme Mods for Xperia 2011 HDPI.[ANY ROM]
DdcCabuslay said:
Does this only work for morphing drawables? Or can xmls be morphed as well?
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Yes xmls can be morphed/themed the same way but remember ro place them in the correct folder and ur good to go
Press THANKS if I helped,
Best Regards,
AJ

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alokbina said:
Yes xmls can be morphed/themed the same way but remember ro place them in the correct folder and ur good to go
Press THANKS if I helped,
Best Regards,
AJ
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Nice guide but,
How to theme non-system apps?

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Re: [GUIDE] Build your own flashable VRTheme Mods for Xperia 2011 HDPI.[ANY ROM]
Prider555 said:
Nice guide but,
How to theme non-system apps?
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Just change the location...
Press THANKS if I helped,
Best Regards,
AJ
Dont miss the ICON FARM!

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Nice guide. I always want to try this vrtheme on my arc.
Edit : The guide works... Thx again bro....