i was wondering if anyone knew how to change the icons for the android system settings. since i have a droid, with stock android the system menu icons are all well, crappy. i like how sense ui has colored icons for the system and was wondering if anyone knew how to change them.
are the icons needed for change in framework?
turkeylord said:
i was wondering if anyone knew how to change the icons for the android system settings. since i have a droid, with stock android the system menu icons are all well, crappy. i like how sense ui has colored icons for the system and was wondering if anyone knew how to change them.
are the icons needed for change in framework?
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Settings.apk/res/drawable-hdpi
you sir are awsome, thank you.
Something a little close to what the first post was talking about. In the settings.apk I have one that was themed and what to use a few of the pngs in other settings.apk sinse I reflashed with a new rom. I've already push a few back that I changed. The png i what to use is a 4G stat data connected, but the color needs be changed to cyanogen and a little transparent for CM6. What program besides PS4 can I use to do it
Thanks
I know you can use photoshop. Those are greyscale.go to image>mode>rgb, then you can make color. For transparent, use eraser too to delete the background. (Its how I did my stuff)
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@turkeylord]....
Settings.apk/res/drawable-hdpi .......... did this worked for you?? i've been looking to change icons in samsung fimrware for last two months but
no success.........
if anyone can help me out..... i want to change my s7 icons to s8 ported.......i have icon packs....everything but where can i find them in system.img
so that i can change them.... .... i checked firmware-res.apk.....systemui.apk... but didnt work.
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I'm using the CM from KalimochoAz, and it's working very well.
I've noticed that in the standard theme (Androidian) the status-bar icons are 25px height, but the status bar itself is 19px.
So the icons are rescaled and appear very blurred and almost unreadable (expecially the 3G one).
I have cropped all the png for status bar (extracted from Androidian.apk) to 19px, but I'm not able to repack them into a new theme.
Is there someone that can do that? I attach the images to this post, in case someone wants work on this issue...
Edit: i've repacked them into a new theme, there are probably some other icons to adjust...
Edit 01/03: other icons added
Edit 03/03: new version - gps icons fixed
Edit 08/03: this theme: Crispy Bread is more complete and resolves the same issue
Bye.
Diego.
Ok, I've just repacked it in an apk theme.
I dont know how to specify that's a LDPI theme, so choosing it theme manager pop a warn: you can do "Apply anyway" and go on.
I've actually been wondering about this blurryness myself but this certainly solves it! Works really nice
Thank you!
New version with other icons cropped.
Some icons appear gray instead of green... this update fixes it too?
Hello, I use your apk and this theme : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=943423
Really nice, together it's almost perfect, but if you know well android can you help me.
I changed few things in the apk, all worked well.
But I want to make horizontal lock bar in lockscreen looks invisible (they are grey translucide in CM7).
I modified the files "jog_tab..." but nothing changed.
Have you some clue?
P.S: With the honeycomb theme the lockscreen bar looks invisible when someone is calling, it's real nice.
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Some icons appear gray instead of green... this update fixes it too?
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Uhm... the icons are extracted from framework-res.apk of the cyanogenmod 7, some of theese are gray (for example the usb or the headphone one).
This theme only fix the blur effect due to the icons scaling from 25 to 19 pixels.
Bye
Diego
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I modified the files "jog_tab..." but nothing changed.
Have you some clue?
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Sotty, this is my first work on android, I don't know very well the system nor the T-mobile theme engine...
Bye
Diego
Little upgrade - 20110303
I was going to put this in the GingerBlur 2.5 thread, but got the smackdown for not having enough posts yet
I was thinking of theming kenneth's great GingerBlur ROM, but have noticed that some of the files seem to be in different places than expected.
It would be helpful if there was any guide or how-to on what .png files would need to be modified to theme particular areas specific to this ROM.
For example I had thought to change the color of the notification bar background you'd find statusbar_background.png in framework-res/res/drawable...alas nothing to be found.
Thanks!
I also want to change the lockscreen slider img.
The vast majority of your editable pngs are in drawable-hdpi, but many of them are draw-9 pngs and require some special handling to alter.
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I also want to change the lockscreen slider img.
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Lockscreen slider is a draw-9 png in the framework-res/res/drawable-hdpi folder. In order to alter it you would need to decompile the apk, as opposed to simply extracting it, change the image, and then recompile the apk. I am planning on starting a thread in the near future as a guide/discussion for theming.
Hey guys! Super glad that you all want to theme GingerBlur. I will encourage you to go ahead and wait until the release of GingerBlur 3.0.
Version 3.0 will have a re-worked framework that can be decompiled more easily. Theming will be a breeze!
Good luck!
Awwww man..
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Hey guys! Super glad that you all want to theme GingerBlur. I will encourage you to go ahead and wait until the release of GingerBlur 3.0.
Version 3.0 will have a re-worked framework that can be decompiled more easily. Theming will be a breeze!
Good luck!
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Awwww... I've themed it already.. lol.. here are some shots... I got some of this stuff from the Galaxy S Poison Green theme, with a few of my own tweaks... and still a work in progress as I have more time to match the other parts to the theme... this is with fly-in affect... looking forward to the 3.0 update
kennethpenn said:
Hey guys! Super glad that you all want to theme GingerBlur. I will encourage you to go ahead and wait until the release of GingerBlur 3.0.
Version 3.0 will have a re-worked framework that can be decompiled more easily. Theming will be a breeze!
Good luck!
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coool, cant wait. There are some aspects that I like changing (text colors mainly) and I hope it really is going to be a breeze. Changing images are easy in any case though. It's the text stuff that are tough.
Wow man that theme you got there looks pretty awsome!
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Awwww... I've themed it already.. lol.. here are some shots... I got some of this stuff from the Galaxy S Poison Green theme, with a few of my own tweaks... and still a work in progress as I have more time to match the other parts to the theme... this is with fly-in affect... looking forward to the 3.0 update
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Looks a lot like the steel blue theme I am currently using but green. Very nice.
Sent from my Blue Steeled Atrix
Big-A-Rob said:
Looks a lot like the steel blue theme I am currently using but green. Very nice.
Sent from my Blue Steeled Atrix
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Thanks... It's pretty much a mirror of that theme, but not as customized as Tones.. don't have that much time to mess with all the features
The origianl Galaxy S them has Blue, Green, and Red themes of the same.... which is where we both got the theme from to put it on the Atrix..
FYI some icons are in system/app/systemui.apk
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Hey guys! Super glad that you all want to theme GingerBlur. I will encourage you to go ahead and wait until the release of GingerBlur 3.0.
Version 3.0 will have a re-worked framework that can be decompiled more easily. Theming will be a breeze!
Good luck!
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Awesome news and a sincere thank you for all of your concerted efforts! Quick general question: do you know if Android supports transparency in the notification bar (the actual static bar at the top)?
I would assume so given they are .png; I think it would be pretty cool if you could have your notifications floating on top of your wallpaper.
adding transparency is not as simple as just editing the png's...you will also need to edit the services.jar in the framework (i think)...i know that is true for adding transparency to the notification bar dropdown...also after some research, launchers such as adw and launcher pro may cut off the wallpaper underneath the status bar, not sure about the stock motoblur launcher, so adding transparency may be pointless...
a more experienced dev or android user may know a bit about this...but i'm just sharing what i know...
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Awwww... I've themed it already.. lol.. here are some shots... I got some of this stuff from the Galaxy S Poison Green theme, with a few of my own tweaks... and still a work in progress as I have more time to match the other parts to the theme... this is with fly-in affect... looking forward to the 3.0 update
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WTH man??! Amazing screenshots!! This is exactly the color scheme I was wishing for on the Atrix!
How could you keep such good goodies only yourself? Or did you post your here somewhere?
Me would like it very much!
Thanks!
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Edit: Sorry! those beautiful screenshots got me a head-rush! I read later it's work-in-progress. gold luck.
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adding transparency is not as simple as just editing the png's...you will also need to edit the services.jar in the framework (i think)...i know that is true for adding transparency to the notification bar dropdown...also after some research, launchers such as adw and launcher pro may cut off the wallpaper underneath the status bar, not sure about the stock motoblur launcher, so adding transparency may be pointless...
a more experienced dev or android user may know a bit about this...but i'm just sharing what i know...
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This sounds hard...maybe I just stick with black
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adding transparency is not as simple as just editing the png's...you will also need to edit the services.jar in the framework (i think)...i know that is true for adding transparency to the notification bar dropdown...also after some research, launchers such as adw and launcher pro may cut off the wallpaper underneath the status bar, not sure about the stock motoblur launcher, so adding transparency may be pointless...
a more experienced dev or android user may know a bit about this...but i'm just sharing what i know...
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that's not true, i use paint.net and make transparencies on many of my png's, then simply add them back to the apk and vola.
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Lockscreen slider is a draw-9 png in the framework-res/res/drawable-hdpi folder. In order to alter it you would need to decompile the apk, as opposed to simply extracting it, change the image, and then recompile the apk. I am planning on starting a thread in the near future as a guide/discussion for theming.
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please make a thread! i'm a little confused, i use 7-zip to extract (which you say is a no no), then change the images (even the .9's, i just add .png to the end, and yes i know that's a no no but that's the point of being deodexed, so you can throw any png in there and either match the name or change the xml, in my case, it works everytime....), throw them back into the apk, and either root exploror the framework back (with an immiediate reboot) or adb it in in between boots (the way your suppose to do it, unless you make an zip to flash which i don't know how).
this method works for me, but if you use root explorer, the rom erases your dialer history (odd, never happened on the cappy).
p.s. this isn't a guide, if somebody does this and bricks their phone, they can hold me responsible and sue me (as i have nothing, nor a job). but seriously, backup your framework and know how to use adb if you want to mod your framework...
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that's not true, i use paint.net and make transparencies on many of my png's, then simply add them back to the apk and vola.
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I was referring to adding transparency to the notification/status bar...
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I was referring to adding transparency to the notification/status bar...
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The bar is a normal png, you can transparent it fine without any fancy coding.
Yes, the status bar image is a standard png and can be made transparent. However, the wallpaper does not expand behind where the status bar is - so even if you make your status bar transparent, some color needs to be represented behind it. I went into drawables.xml and set the status_bar_background to transparent as well but it still shows up black for the homescreen, it does stay transparent for apps though and shows up differently based on what app is running (aka, for words with friends it shows the blue stripes - but not when I screen cap). Here are some images of what I mean.
- black on the homescreen, wallpaper must not extend that high
- see straight through to the notifications
- shows more grey on my phone than here
Ok I pulled my Settings.apk and started Greying out a bunch of the Icons like I been doing with my SystemUI.apk but I dont know if i keep missing it but I can't find the Icon for the Connect to PC. And also how would I go about changing the blue border at the top of the settings screen and possibly even inverting the white background and black font?
BTW I am running an evo view with HC DeSensed-View Version 1.5
I haven't looked into this one yet on HC but the png should be in drawable-mdpi, ic_settings_connect_pc.png i think. If it's not there it's in framework somewhere. The top bar is in com.htc.resources.apk i believe (search for pngs with "titlebar" and "header" in the name) The background looks to be both a png and possibly a hex color in XML somewhere. And I'm not sure about the text colors yet..
I will be looking at settings, text colors and transparency in HC tomorrow.
ok now for the XML how do I edit that? And I just looked again it guess I already greyed it out but its still in color on my settings...weird I'm going to check framework now
Try looking at the theme links posted here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19712596&postcount=5
Sent from my HTC Flyer.
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Ok I pulled my Settings.apk and started Greying out a bunch of the Icons like I been doing with my SystemUI.apk but I dont know if i keep missing it but I can't find the Icon for the Connect to PC. And also how would I go about changing the blue border at the top of the settings screen and possibly even inverting the white background and black font?
BTW I am running an evo view with HC DeSensed-View Version 1.5
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It's it possible to look at the stock version of Settings.apk from a different device in an attempt to strip out the HTC theming? I don't 100% understand how the whole Sense layer works - does it kind of overlap the stock settings application or does it throw out the stock art assets completely in favor of Sense?
I just have a question on theming this particular Rom, I love the layout and everything about this rom, the only thing i'm trying to change is the signal bars, the 4g, and 3g icons, and the battery icon. Now i have themed other apps like the sms and the mail, that was easy, but in the SystemUI.APK, there are sooooo many different icons in there ranging from stock-AOSP style icons, what do i need to change specifically? and if i want to use the AOSP style icons in the folder already, how would i do that?
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I just have a question on theming this particular Rom, I love the layout and everything about this rom, the only thing i'm trying to change is the signal bars, the 4g, and 3g icons, and the battery icon. Now i have themed other apps like the sms and the mail, that was easy, but in the SystemUI.APK, there are sooooo many different icons in there ranging from stock-AOSP style icons, what do i need to change specifically? and if i want to use the AOSP style icons in the folder already, how would i do that?
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theme all the icons in the drawable-xhdpi folder. if you want to use the aosp icons already there just rename them the same as the icons you are replacing.
dalvear88 said:
I just have a question on theming this particular Rom, I love the layout and everything about this rom, the only thing i'm trying to change is the signal bars, the 4g, and 3g icons, and the battery icon. Now i have themed other apps like the sms and the mail, that was easy, but in the SystemUI.APK, there are sooooo many different icons in there ranging from stock-AOSP style icons, what do i need to change specifically? and if i want to use the AOSP style icons in the folder already, how would i do that?
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All of them will be in drawable-xhdpi. Pretty much all the icons you need to change begin with stat_, like the data icons should be, as he said, in the drawable-xhdpi folder, and the 4G, 3G icons you're looking for should be called stat_sys_data_connected_3g_lte.png, and also other 3 pictures for 3g, _in_ _inandout_, and _out_. And then 4g should be stat_sys_data_connected_vzw_lte.png, along with those same three others for it.
Sent from my ICS HTC Rezound
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theme all the icons in the drawable-xhdpi folder. if you want to use the aosp icons already there just rename them the same as the icons you are replacing.
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Oh cool, ok didnt think it would be that simple, thanks for letting me know exactly which one to fine em in too
dalvear88 said:
Oh cool, ok didnt think it would be that simple, thanks for letting me know exactly which one to fine em in too
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Yep, you just gotta look at them, and then download other people's themes and see what they themed and such. I barely learned all this about a week ago honestly, just studying people's themes.
Sent from my ICS HTC Rezound
Is there a way to change the color of the notification ui?
I open the "stock android" app today and it changed the color of my notification ui from Grey to blue without messing around with it.
Is there a way to change the color back to the original in the settings somewhere (I've been searching for some hours now, changed theme and all, uninstalled and reinstalled nova and changed nothing) without installing an app for the notification ui?
I have nova launcher installed FYI.
@EmbleerFrith
I think you mean the quick settings background. It changes according to the background you set on your launcher in theory. If you open MiFavor launcher without making it default, then change the background on it, THEN hit the home button to get to the stock Android launcher, it should fix itself. I did that before, and it seems to work
Honestly I'd love to change the whole quick settings UI altogether, but I have no idea how to mod systemUI
I have noticed that it only changes if I change the theme of the phone and only then
Yes There is
Yes there is a way. You have to decompile SystemUI_ZTE.apk and do some smali code color changes. I have mine set to one color all the time.
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I have noticed that it only changes if I change the theme of the phone and only then
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I think it changes according to the wallpaper color set in default launcher.
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Yes there is a way. You have to decompile SystemUI_ZTE.apk and do some smali code color changes. I have mine set to one color all the time.
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can you make a guide or something? Maybe theme the B09's (or B35's) systemUI and share it somewhere? This would be a nice addition to @raystef66's ROMs, as an add-on