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Hi,
For all of you who doesn't like the gray color or are tired of the same old touch look, I made a new dialer skin. If you have PDVIET 4.0.0.0.6 or you have installed touch style dial pad, all you have to do is to copy these files to your windows and soft reset. I don't have time to make a proper cab file, but feel free to make a cab file out of these and share it with us
oh by the way the dialer skin is only for portrait mode, later on I will make a landscape too.
I also installed the transparent home plug in icons, I uploaded them before, but I'm gonna upload them along my other files.all you have to do is copy all the .png files to your windows folder and soft reset.
I hope you like it
Nice. I've build cabs...
Hello,
is it possible to customize our own landscape and portrait background picture ?
regards,
(if so please specify which folder in the /windows)
elFahd said:
Hello,
is it possible to customize our own landscape and portrait background picture ?
regards,
(if so please specify which folder in the /windows)
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usually all the relative images are in windows folder ! and yes it is possible , that's what i did ! just keep the image's name and format the same.
Eladio.Linares said:
Nice. I've build cabs...
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Thanks It was fast !
Thanks for the nice addition
how do I return to original please ?
gpsaanzee said:
Thanks for the nice addition
how do I return to original please ?
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haha well i though this skin is so brilliant that nobody wants to go back to the original one lol..
all you have to do is overwrite the attached images to your windows folder
If you want your home pluging Icons back, sorry i don't have them , you have to hard reset.
It is nice , but I found it too bright
it is not easy to see in the sunlight, may be with another text colour will be nicer
thanks for help
its nice, but if im gonna change the background picture im gonna have to change the buttons too, maybe you should remodel the dialer in a way that the background of the numbers is transparent ?
elFahd said:
its nice, but if im gonna change the background picture im gonna have to change the buttons too, maybe you should remodel the dialer in a way that the background of the numbers is transparent ?
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If you look closely at the buttons that i posted , they are transparent (look at the numbers) the thing is that i haven't found a dialer dll that supports transparent images. If you found a dialer that you could simply change the background image, let me know
did u take a look at this thread ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=315685
elFahd said:
did u take a look at this thread ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=315685
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Niceeeeee ! i looked at it and i will make a dialer so that everybody can just change on simple background and they will have their own handmade dialer Or at least i'm gonna try
thanks man..
thank you very much at commit the good gives ,
Finished working on hma4s first skin
Hi folks,
i've made a few changes on the first skin of hma4.
But now i see that there is a much better way to skinn the dialpad.
Anyway i changed all pictures for port and land
skylow said:
Hi folks,
i've made a few changes on the first skin of hma4.
But now i see that there is a much better way to skinn the dialpad.
Anyway i changed all pictures for port and land
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nice job ! It looks fancy
Photoshop Files
Okay, I promised that I'm gonna make a dialer skin so that everybody can change it just by changing one background image! well i tried and I didn't succeed. but for those of you who know Adobe Photoshop, I attached the psd file so you can use it to make your own dialer. all you have to do is to change the background layer and save your file as a png file. If you don't know Photoshop just don't bother, I really can't explain further. also you have to overwrite the button images with the images in the zip file. If you know Photoshop and you want to make a dialer for yourself, look at my psd file, trust me it will help feel free to share your creative dialer skins with us
gpsaanzee said:
It is nice , but I found it too bright
it is not easy to see in the sunlight, may be with another text colour will be nicer
thanks for help
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Just for you my friend
The Gray Skin is for famewolf
Hope you like it
Touch and touchlike dialers
Guys, hdialerere is my 2 cents about the touch (and derived) dialers
Positive: nice big buttons
Negative:
1) The photo is awfully small, even smaller than in the standard wm6 dialer
2) 2 buttons are missing: speed dial and history. You have to open these functions with options. not funny
3) There is still some space left on top that can be used.
I hope that someone can make a dialer with these buttons and with a bigger photo. Thx.
hma4 said:
Just for you my friend
The Gray Skin is for famewolf
Hope you like it
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Thank you hma4! Excellent work all around. Question: I run linux and have access to GIMP which can do many of the things Photoshop can...is the layer method supported in GIMP as well? I'm wondering if there is a step by step tutorial on the net somewhere and willing to google for it...always willing to learn something new although I am in no way or shape an artist.
famewolf said:
Thank you hma4! Excellent work all around. Question: I run linux and have access to GIMP which can do many of the things Photoshop can...is the layer method supported in GIMP as well? I'm wondering if there is a step by step tutorial on the net somewhere and willing to google for it...always willing to learn something new although I am in no way or shape an artist.
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GIMP opens psd files and also supports layers. for tutorial for GIMP you can visit here: http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/
here is what you can do, try to open the .psd file that I uploaded couple of posts above, then if you could see my file in different layers then you can work your way from there. you have to make 3 .png files, namely:
Progress_BkgdP.png
Dialer_BkgdP.png
indialer_ps.png
all you have to do is look at those layers, one of them is the background image, try to change that to what ever you like, another layer is the button masks so you have to overlap that on your background, and finally save the file in .png format with the names that I mentioned.
I really can't write a thorough tutorial for this, I think if you spend a little time you can figure it out all by yourself.
Good luck don't forget to share your creative work with us
Hi Peeps!!!
I searched and searched and searched again but not found
Could someone tell me how can I make my 6.5.5 bottom bar TRANSPARENT (I want only the writing as "menu" "Phone" without Background or curtain)
I accept links, cabs, reg, tutorials....Women, beers.....Oups
Awaiting your answers.....
THE TRUTH IS....UP THERE
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Hi Peeps!!!
I searched and searched and searched again but not found
Could someone tell me how can I make my 6.5.5 bottom bar TRANSPARENT (I want only the writing as "menu" "Phone" without Background or curtain)
I accept links, cabs, reg, tutorials....Women, beers.....Oups
Awaiting your answers.....
THE TRUTH IS....UP THERE
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Tomorrow i can trying to make a cab for you! Pls remember me tomorrow.
I will wait too
what means transparent to you???
Background vom MainTab of Manilla, if you are using it?!
then look into the cookies hometab 1.8.5 ... there you can set the top and bottom bar from an Backgroundimage...
futureshock said:
what means transparent to you???
Background vom MainTab of Manilla, if you are using it?!
then look into the cookies hometab 1.8.5 ... there you can set the top and bottom bar from an Backgroundimage...
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I'm talking about the buttons (Start, Phone, Menu on main page) not the background of these buttons.
As you see on my screenshot even if I change the BG, it doesnt change the button, so I got the edge, the curtain....
I only want to see the writing on my black Background
OR got buttons with full black skin without the edges
Dic3ptor said:
Tomorrow i can trying to make a cab for you! Pls remember me tomorrow.
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Great looking for long time! Thanks!
all you need is a transparent .tsk file,unzip and copy to your windows folder then set in......
start menu>settings>home> transparent softkeys
it will change your top and bottom bars to grey i think,after you choose it just use whichever app it is you use to re-skin your softkey and taskbar area's
made a cab for us lazy folks
Not Working
Here the result after cab installation
Maybe another thing to do????
try this cab
Mastakony said:
Here the result after cab installation
Maybe another thing to do????
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it doesn't automatically do it for you,after the cab install you must
{select start menu,select settings,in there select home,you will see a list of whichever rom your using .tsk files which will change softkeys,colors of taskbar softkey area,Select trans. softkeys in that list and select ok in bottom right corner,give it a few seconds and it will change the softkeys to transparent, ***note as i mentioned before it will turn the softkey area and the taskbar area to a grey color,also as i mention simply re-skin your taskbar area and softkey area and soft reset when prompted via whichever app you are using,after that you should have results like the ones i posted in the pic}
hope this is a better explanation of how to achieve the effect your looking for!
thanks
poyensa said:
try this cab
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very good it is working
thanks a lot
Thx for all
It works!!!!
THX YOU FOR ALL!!!
THE TRUTH IS....DOWN THERE
You are welcome,
This cab is only a small change in the registry path:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Today\Toolbar\ToolbarIconBubbleButtonThemeImage changing the value to \Windows\HTCdefault_toolbarIconBubbleButton.png
After this cab installed, any template png format named HTCdefault_toolbarIconBubbleButton.png existing in windows folder of your HD2 will be used as button for the incons of the bottombar.
And exactly the same for the buttons of the texts, but using the value \Windows\HTCdefault_toolbarTextBubbleButton.png for the registry path HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Today\Toolbar\ToolbarTextBubbleButtonThemeImage
Of course if there is no png file with that name in \windows will be no buttons in the bottombar then
EDIT: this is the way it works in my HD2 with WM6.5.5
poyensa said:
You are welcome,
This cab is only a small change in the registry path:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Today\Toolbar\ToolbarIconBubbleButtonThemeImage changing the value to \Windows\HTCdefault_toolbarIconBubbleButton.png
After this cab installed, any template png format named HTCdefault_toolbarIconBubbleButton.png existing in windows folder of your HD2 will be used as button for the incons of the bottombar.
And exactly the same for the buttons of the texts, but using the value \Windows\HTCdefault_toolbarTextBubbleButton.png for the registry path HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Today\Toolbar\ToolbarTextBubbleButtonThemeImage
Of course if there is no png file with that name in \windows will be no buttons in the bottombar then
EDIT: this is the way it works in my HD2 with WM6.5.5
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Da best solution cuz we don't have to change our theme...
Great idea, bro
THE TRUTH IS...UP THERE
help
Now the comm manager is looking very funny
It possible to show it complete ? With registry twek ? And change the size too .
Straitup27 said:
all you need is a transparent .tsk file,unzip and copy to your windows folder then set in......
start menu>settings>home> transparent softkeys
it will change your top and bottom bars to grey i think,after you choose it just use whichever app it is you use to re-skin your softkey and taskbar area's
made a cab for us lazy folks
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Care to share that wallpaper, it's really nice
Straitup27 said:
it will change your top and bottom bars to grey i think,after you choose it just use whichever app it is you use to re-skin your softkey and taskbar area's
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I just installed your cab (thanx!) and indeed the top and down taskbar areas became grey. How can I change them to black?
wow ive been looking for this for a long time, in installed it and looks very good! but when you are at a tab you will see the background thats to bad...
nevertheless good job!
Straitup27 said:
all you need is a transparent .tsk file,unzip and copy to your windows folder then set in......
start menu>settings>home> transparent softkeys
it will change your top and bottom bars to grey i think,after you choose it just use whichever app it is you use to re-skin your softkey and taskbar area's
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Thanks!!!!!!
Straitup27 said:
all you need is a transparent .tsk file,unzip and copy to your windows folder then set in......
start menu>settings>home> transparent softkeys
it will change your top and bottom bars to grey i think,after you choose it just use whichever app it is you use to re-skin your softkey and taskbar area's
made a cab for us lazy folks
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tks man，ill just going to try！immediately！hoho
Hello,
Does anyone know how can I make the bottom curtain transparent on my HD2?
I'm using Dutty ROM ML v11 and CHT 2.0.
Thank you.
starbucks2010 said:
Hello,
Does anyone know how can I make the bottom curtain transparent on my HD2?
I'm using Dutty ROM ML v11 and CHT 2.0.
Thank you.
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the first cab - transparency line operator (under the taskbar)
second cab - transparent slider
lapis21 said:
the first cab - transparency line operator (under the taskbar)
second cab - transparent slider
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Thank you for these cabs but they didn't helped me. I want to have the bottom curtain gone/transparent. See the picture.
Best regards.
I think this might be what your looking for......
All credit to poyensa for his work
Thank you for the file, but what is the procedure to replace the file?
Best regards.
oops sorry.......
I forgot that it wasnt in a cab.....
You can place that file into the windows folder in your device memory, overwrite the one thats already there and restart sense.
Ill make you a cab and attach it to this post in a minute if thats easier........
Edit;
Attached cab....
Hope thats what you were looking for........
Thank you very much for your efforts but the result is the same (see photo). I want to remove the bottom black area marked with red in the photo. Maybe it has something to do with CHT 2.0. I don't know.
Best regards.
starbucks2010 said:
Thank you very much for your efforts but the result is the same (see photo). I want to remove the bottom black area marked with red in the photo. Maybe it has something to do with CHT 2.0. I don't know.
Best regards.
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I know it's a software problem CHT, the question must ask the author of the program, the transparency of cab files for this are not met
starbucks2010 said:
Thank you very much for your efforts but the result is the same (see photo). I want to remove the bottom black area marked with red in the photo. Maybe it has something to do with CHT 2.0. I don't know.
Best regards.
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ohhhh that bit..........
you cant, thats just the manila weather animation not fitting the screen properly.
There might be a fix but I havent seen one
Sorry.
Finally, I make it working. The problem was the wallpaper who was shorter. Once I change it to another, the weather went all the way down.
Off topic: do you know a way to put high quality pictures to contacts without 3rd party apps? If not, what is the maximum resolution for contacts pictures that can be assigned?
Thank you for your help.
trasparence bars
Fantastic, I looked for all these 3 trasparences.
Thanks a lot.
Sorry for my English.
I'm tring to create my own dock bar.
it doesn't seem to be difficult
when i create an image on the photoshop it looks transparent
but when I push it into the phone the transparent parts look black.
I compared my dock bar to this one http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=898057 by cryshop
and both look transparent in photoshop.
still when I push cryshop's dock bar it looks transparent unlike mine..
I guess there's something I don't understand about the images..
please somebody explain to me how to make the images transparent on the phone
Save it as PNG-24 with transparency checked! This through "Save for WEB or device" menu... Maybe you didn't check transparency? Or if you did, you might want to optimize those png's - see here... Cheers
Saved as png24 with transparency checked - didn't work
optimized with optiPNG - didn't work
still on phone looks black
please help if you can
can you upload the psd file? I'd see if there's something wrong with it
Dr.Romca said:
can you upload the psd file? I'd see if there's something wrong with it
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Here you go. thanks
shadowtr said:
Here you go. thanks
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he wants the psd (photoshop format) not png (just informing you to speed things up)
chansthename said:
he wants the psd (photoshop format) not png (just informing you to speed things up)
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Oh.. right.. thank's for the heads up man.. my bad.
here's one.. not exacly the original that I created.. but pretty close.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DUIFHSVR
DLing I'll look into it later today
Hey guys,
I was asked a week or so back to make a guide so others can theme the Stock SamsungIME.apk the way they like. I have made my thread to do this and you can put in request if this guide is not helpful(which I hope it is).
I will answer as many questions as I can, time permitting, and be as Noob friendly as I can, as well. I know this guide will not be perfect and there might be some things I am leaving out, and if so tell me, I will adjust the OP with any suggestions or changes. So here goes nothing...
Things you need:
Android SDK
Java JDK and JRE
Apktool
Notepad++
xUltimate-d9pc
Photo Editor (Gimp/Photoshop)
Before we begin, I am not going to go into how to load/decompile/recompile apks.. There are some good guides out there and here are some..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2195680
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2206938
After you have the SamsungIME.apk totally decompiled you will want to open the folder it decompiled into and start with the res/drawables-sw359dp-xhdpi folder. In this folder there is all the pngs you need to edit. For starters the keys themselves..
You want:
sip_key_bg_normal.9.png
sip_key_bg_option.9.png
sip_key_bg_pressed.9.png
As you can tell, by the name, these are not normal pngs. You will see a 1 pixel border on all sides of the image. When editing the png either erase them or resize the canvas of the image. Just subtract by 2 form the height and the width, but remember when you save it re open it and adjust the canvas size back to the way it was. As my understanding of these goes, they are named this way because Android recognizing these .9.pngs and stretches them.. When I first attempted editing these I would have nothing but problems, of course because I was doing it wrong. I never could understand where the lines go and what they actually do. Thats probably because I was trying to do it with transparent/semi-transparent images and could not see the actual image expanding. Well when you are editing these with draw9patch, I noticed two very important things to look at (for the keyboard). The window to your right is how the actual image will look when expanded, but to see that you have to go to the bottom of the screen and the second scroll bar, move it all all the way to the right.
You will notice that it stretches the image.. This is the same thing Android does.
The middle image needs attention here because it expands it horizontally. So that means when you expand it all the way thats what you spacebar will look like. .
You notice that these edges (red lines) Are not defined they are rounded.. Because they are not patched correctly.
Notice the difference? This after it was patched with the proper line alignment.
To start you want add to full lines on the bottom and the right side. Next is the top and the left side. These are the lines you need play with to make you image look right. I used to only add a 1 pixel dot in the middle and one pixel line on the left. But when I started getting more advanced with photoshop/gimp I noticed my images would not looking the same. When you add gradients or borders to you keys, seeing the image on the right expanded is important because you will draw you lines to make you image look like it did in photoshop/gimp. NOTE: Don't leave any space in the lines to the right and on the bottom. You can, however, do so on the left and top but it will distort your png.
Here are a few guides to help you if you have anymore questions:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2326393
The next image of importance is:
qwerty_keypad_bg.png
This is the background of the keyboard.. NOTE: there is also one of these located in res/drawables-sw359dp--land-xhdpi, the only difference being the above image is for Portrait and land is for Landscape. Also, they are two different resolutions so be careful when changing them. You can change this image to anything you want.. It is a normal png so therefore no patching or further steps are needed.
Next would be all the other option pngs, backspace, space bar, voice, settings, enter key, etc. You will will find these starting with the word qwerty_.
So example:
qwerty_key_icon_enter.png
This is the enter key as it sits on your keyboard.. Yes there are other ones but there are for different actions.
Another thing we might want to change is the color of the CAPS key when it is enabled.
That png is named:
qwerty_key_bg_shift_capslock.png
As you can see a lot of these are named exactly what they are..well some at least..
Next is .xml edits. You want to locate res/values-sw359hp-xhdpi/colors.xml. You will need to open this with notepad++ to edit colors of the key text, pressed key text, shadow of those text, space bar lettering, etc. You will only (or I only do) need to focus on the first 12 lines. They pretty much explain themselves by there names.
Code:
<color name="normalkey_shadowcolor">#ff000000</color>
<color name="functionkey_shadowcolor">#ff000000</color>
<color name="functionkey_labelcolor">#ffe2e2e2</color>
<color name="normalkey_labelcolor">#ffe2e2e2</color>
<color name="pressedkey_labelcolor">#ff122438</color>
<color name="disablekey_labelcolor">#7fe2e2e2</color>
<color name="popup_normalkey_labelcolor">#ffffffff</color>
<color name="popup_pressedkey_labelcolor">#ff2d5a8c</color>
<color name="normalkey_extra_labelcolor">#ffe2e2e2</color>
<color name="spacekey_labelcolor">#ffb6b6b6</color>
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You'll notice that the colors are hex codes.. So the first two letters or numbers is for the transparency.. The next six define the actual color.
After we have edited our xml we can go ahead and recompile the apk. You should recompile with no errors. If you do encounter an error it's possible that you edited the color wrong and made it seven letters instead of eight or vice versa. Make sure that you transfer the old AndroidManifest.xml and META-INF folder form your original APK and transfer them to your new APK in SamsungIME/dist/.
FInally, you can copy you NEW SamsunIME.apk to your sd card, reboot into recovery. I prefer this method (Thanks to @Deckoz2302) because I would have trouble with APK's fully copying through adb. When in recovery select Mount, then click System. Select back. Then select Advanced, than File Manager. When in File Manager goto wherever you put your new APK. Copy it. Then go to System/app/ and hit Select and slide to copy. Reboot!
:good:Special THANKS to: @Deckoz2302: Best developer I have ever talk to! @Rizal Lovins, @grilleld, @Arsaw, @twanskys204, @Winterlove, @GuneetAtwal and I REALLY hope I didn't leave anyone out! If I did I'm sorry, tell me and I will update!:good:
FIRST......!!!
Thanks brother, I am going to give this a go tomorrow.
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This is quite the guide thanks so much for this.
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Nice Tut Great Work..!
Can all this be done on Mac osx?
Shamestick said:
Can all this be done on Mac osx?
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If there is an Android SDK for OSX then i'd imagine it can be done on a Mac.
The SDK was fine, its getting the java jdk that's giving me issue
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The SDK was fine, its getting the java jdk that's giving me issue
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@Shamestick - Do you use Polaris to run Windows? That could work possibly.
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dudeicles said:
@Shamestick - Do you use Polaris to run Windows? That could work possibly.
Sent from my SCH-I605 using xda app-developers app
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I do not, and I haven't gotten a copy of windows to dualboot with yet either. My problems always come whe i try to go to the downloading site for java, it just will never open on chrome or safari
well done my friend ! Nice to see you here
Text color SamsungIME.apk Note3-MOD
I have a big problem.
I decompiled the SamsungIME.apk from Note3-MOD to change the color of the KEY-Text from BLACK to WHITE.
But I can't find the right XML and location where the code has to be changed.
Can someone help me in this topic?
Superwolf77 said:
I have a big problem.
I decompiled the SamsungIME.apk from Note3-MOD to change the color of the KEY-Text from BLACK to WHITE.
But I can't find the right XML and location where the code has to be changed.
Can someone help me in this topic?
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They will most likely be in values/colors.xml
For testing I already changed every black code to white in this XML but it does not change.
Superwolf77 said:
For testing I already changed every black code to white in this XML but it does not change.
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Oops sorry its in /values-sw359dp-xhdpi/colors.xml.. Took me a long time to figure out that! lmao! Anyways have fun hope I helped!
Thank you for the help. It works fine now.
Thnks sir.. usefull :fingers-crossed:
Apks?
For those who have made custom keyboards will you please post your apks?
Good
Thanks for your tutorial. I have a question about adding a backround image for the keyboard.Not sure if thread is to old so please respond if you an answer question and ill write it . thanks