Does anyone know where the keyboards.apk (the multi touch keyboard that comes with the phone stock) is located? or atleast the .png's it uses im interested in changing it to a blackish theme.
I can't seem to find it in /system/app unless it's part of the blurservices.apk or one of the other various blur apk's
LatinIME.apk is the name can be found under /system/app/
Thank you very much.
Jt612 said:
Does anyone know where the keyboards.apk (the multi touch keyboard that comes with the phone stock) is located? or atleast the .png's it uses im interested in changing it to a blackish theme.
I can't seem to find it in /system/app unless it's part of the blurservices.apk or one of the other various blur apk's
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That will be in your "framework-res", in the folder name "drawable-hdpi"
Keyboard background color to edit will be: ( around 16 png files )
name string start with : Btn_keyboard xxxxxx.png
actually no it's not the previosu post was correct it's in teh LatinIME.apk folder...
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Hello all, I would like to ask a question on dialer streakdroid 1.9. are
managed to make my Contacts.apk transparent by simply adding
theme.wallpaper styles.xml in the background of my dialer but continues to be increasingly
gray. how can I do to make it transparent?. thanks
custom dialer background
Ive been searching everywhere building and testing contacts.apk, Can someone with some more code knowledge have a peek at this please?
Ive dug through all the .xml's, the Manifest .xml, the .smali (even though I dont understand very much at all), there are only a few .png's the rest are .9.png, so Im sure the grey comes from code. in colors .xml there are a couple which match this dark gray perfectly, I changed those to black as well as styles Theme to Theme.Black, and Theme.Wallpaper(which will change the other 3 backgrounds but not dialer), ive tried changing background only in styles, no luck.
I saw on Dell website where it says Streak has Customized Dialer, which obviously we know, but I think ours is a unique situation
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Ive been searching everywhere building and testing contacts.apk, Can someone with some more code knowledge have a peek at this please?
Ive dug through all the .xml's, the Manifest .xml, the .smali (even though I dont understand very much at all), there are only a few .png's the rest are .9.png, so Im sure the grey comes from code. in colors .xml there are a couple which match this dark gray perfectly, I changed those to black as well as styles Theme to Theme.Black, and Theme.Wallpaper(which will change the other 3 backgrounds but not dialer), ive tried changing background only in styles, no luck.
I saw on Dell website where it says Streak has Customized Dialer, which obviously we know, but I think ours is a unique situation
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"Customized" is not a word I'd choose to use when describing the horrible dialer. Hope someday we can improve it. I really think the dialer is the worst part of the UI.
if I find it I will gladly make a guide to theme it.
I may even send Dell developer an Email... oh yeah too late not supported..
chrisrotolo said:
if I find it I will gladly make a guide to theme it.
I may even send Dell developer an Email... oh yeah too late not supported..
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+1
I think the EOL is only USA. But I don't think the dell dev team cares too much about us
Brainstorming: Reference for anyone else trying to find this..
the dialer background is not a .png, most images are .9's I pretty sure the background is not a .9.png. There is only one .png close to the color and Ive already tried changing that one.
It could be a color in color.xml, they could have coded it as android:color, but if they did that it would likely be a solid color such as black or transparent, and would have to rely on framework-res. More than likely they would have made their own color in colors.xml, since there is only a dozen or so, at least 2 of which are almost identical greys, I have tried changing these colors to black with no luck.
Ive tried changing almost every .xml refernce I could find to a drawable window/background, etc. to android:color"black" , Theme.Black or 000000,
It could be in .smali, Is where I will dig next, I have tried checking a few of the codes I found in there, they seem to be based on a deep purple?
this is just reference use to help others who may search, wish me luck!!
spelling error found DialtactsActivity.smali line 205 says: const-string v3, "Dailtacts" ,yeah wonder if this why dialtacts theme doesnt theme completly.
some progress!
I fixed the spelling mistake in DialtactsActivity.smali, though i dont /think/ this is what we see. I did change call_background.xml and secondary_call background.xml all parameters to android:color/black, I will keep experimenting, funny how in vertical only the right side of keypad is black,
Once we find the right string , we should then be able to create a custom style instead of just a solid color and use a custom background.png
edit: FOUND IT!, cant post screenie, out right now, should release something later and info. Sit tight everyone.
found it
right where its "should" be, contacts\res\layout-long-finger and res\layout-long-land-finger. the first is portrait, second is landscape. the file for both is twelve_key_dialer.xml. The first line:
LinearLayout androidrientation="vertical" android:id="@id/top" android:background="#ff000000"
just change the android:background="ffRRGGBB" to whatever 6 digit RGB/hex value you desire.
working on this now to call out a custom.png will likely get scaled like cr4p, but will give it a go.
If you dont have any .9.png errors decompiling, then you can recompile and flash it straight away.
If you use my phone&contacts theme, it wont compile because some of my .9.pngs must not be patched. So use stock to change, then after compiling extract the new .apk. If youre using my theme or whatever, then change my contacts.apk to contacts.zip, open my contacts.zip as an archive with 7zip, copy the 2 twelve_key_dialer.xml's, and close. Then in your stock framework where you changed the .xml's go to resources.arsc and right click use 7zip to add to archive... browse and select your contacts.zip with new .xml's. Its important that archive method is .zip and compression must be set to store. make sure update mode is: add and replace files. Then rename back to contacts.apk and place in your update.zip and flash!
I plan on making a guide and probably a stock framework with a custom.png for everyone to use.
Tried looking for a way to change those green highlights that are everywhere in a sense based ROM. For example, when you are in a text message, the message body is highlighted in green and the send button turns green when you hit it. Is there any way to change these?
I'm running Mik Shifted-G v1.5, I have modified my task bar and notifications screen via UOT Kitchen. I'm looking for red if there's already a post somewhere, or a DIY tutorial. Thanks in advance
Some of these are application specific and others (the bulk I would say) are located in framework.res and com.htc.resources. In the two framework files, you are looking for .9 pngs in the res/drawable-hdpi folders. If you already have red png's to replace the green, you can just copy them over in 7zip. To change the existing green to red using the original files is a bit more complex and a lot more time consuming, but pm me if you need to go that route, and I can help you out.
I would suggest editing all framework files first and then look for any stray green bits that may be application specific.
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Some of these are application specific and others (the bulk I would say) are located in framework.res and com.htc.resources. In the two framework files, you are looking for .9 pngs in the res/drawable-hdpi folders. If you already have red png's to replace the green, you can just copy them over in 7zip. To change the existing green to red using the original files is a bit more complex and a lot more time consuming, but pm me if you need to go that route, and I can help you out.
I would suggest editing all framework files first and then look for any stray green bits that may be application specific.
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Thanks for the reply, I will check the framework files and go from there. Any specific program that you would recommend for editing the pngs?
It also depends on what Rosie.apk you use as well, like my rosie is Rosie 3 so the button presses for some of the dock are in fusion and some are in Rosie.apk its weird i guess its more or less finding the images you need edited for your version of sense, because now we have Sense 1-3 on the shifty
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It also depends on what Rosie.apk you use as well, like my rosie is Rosie 3 so the button presses for some of the dock are in fusion and some are in Rosie.apk its weird i guess its more or less finding the images you need edited for your version of sense, because now we have Sense 1-3 on the shifty
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This is true, I'm not sure I'm going to have fun with this
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There are only a couple png's in Rosie that you need to change out. Like strapped365 was saying, there are variations among the different versions of Rosie, but you should be able to locate the files to edit fairly easily.
When editing .9 pngs, you must decompile them (not just extract and decompress). This can be done with apk manager. I use pixlr online to do the actual editing. Pixlr is free and it has a color change tool that works ok. Just be sure to use the selection tool to select only the colored area of the image you will change (I always select all but the 1px outer border). If you don't exclude the outer perimeter of the .9 in Pixlr, it won't recompile correctly.
Hope this helps. It took me a long time to learn how to this, but it's the best way I know to get purely custom colors.
Rynomite said:
There are only a couple png's in Rosie that you need to change out. Like strapped365 was saying, there are variations among the different versions of Rosie, but you should be able to locate the files to edit fairly easily.
When editing .9 pngs, you must decompile them (not just extract and decompress). This can be done with apk manager. I use pixlr online to do the actual editing. Pixlr is free and it has a color change tool that works ok. Just be sure to use the selection tool to select only the colored area of the image you will change (I always select all but the 1px outer border). If you don't exclude the outer perimeter of the .9 in Pixlr, it won't recompile correctly.
Hope this helps. It took me a long time to learn how to this, but it's the best way I know to get purely custom colors.
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Thanks for your help. All of you, I will hit the thanks button when I get on my computer again. I want to customize my phone to my liking and this will definitely help a bunch
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hey please let me know if you figured out how to do orange/red
With SMS messages, android by default turns this : ) into this (figuratively)
Where might the code be located that does this text to png recognition? I know the png themselves are located in the framework-res.apk but couldn't fine the code that pulls those png whenever anyone types in : P.
My friend and I want to try and insert keywords that are recognized by the phone to insert a new png emoticon. We know that only we will see the emoticons when anyone types the keyword but that is our goal.
I tried looking around the framework-res.apk for this but all I found were animations and images.
It is actually stored in the font files for Android. Back in my htc rezound days I wrotea file that enabled the jellybean emoticons on ics. I can't remember off hand where those files are or what you need to change, not sure if samsung handles its fonts the same. But hopefully this helps you some. I can look into it at some point for you
Does anyone know where the font directory is that Oakley is talking about?
Or anyone have any more insight?
Where are they? I checked the framework-res and SystemUI of an AOSP rom, and they're just not there. Does anyone know?
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I join the question, i searched in all possible drawable folders and nothing, just grey pngs at ..\framework\framework-res\res\drawable-xhdpi\stat_sys_battery... :S
yuriy636 said:
I join the question, i searched in all possible drawable folders and nothing, just grey pngs at ..\framework\framework-res\res\drawable-xhdpi\stat_sys_battery... :S
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Changing them changes nothing. I've also been looking, haven't found them yet
has anybody found where the battery can be changed?I changed and added my mods in almost every apk, such as contacts,sytemui,framework-res,dialer you name it -I have them in there but still shows the default very frustrating!Same thing with the dial pad it also shows default on the initial dialer but the in-call dialer I was able to theme.
EDIT Nevermind -I have found out the battery among some otherthings are now generated in code in 4.4 ,So sorry to all the modders that like to change things easy.It will now require much more to make changes that were once a matter of changing a few png files or maybe and xml here and there.Lerts hope there are themers out there that find a way around this
I found this post what mean that battery icons is draw by code:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2513466
Right now, the only thing I could find is how to add the % number in the icon.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.kroegerama.android4batpercent
Before.
As the icons are drawn, can't we remove the goto scrpt and use a old drawn icon xml file
try my last mod guys, it can be found in my signature..
Hi,
I want to change default emoticons to something else, cause I dont like the green ones.
I've read that I have to modify mms.apk. But in Nubia, sms app is integrated with phone and contacts app, right?
Can someone tell me the the name of the apk and a location? I've looked in /system/app but found nothing interesting there (I think).
Anyway, when I have the right apk what am I supposed to do?
Can I just extract apk (with 7zip), change the pngs and pack it back?