how to theme apps guide or how to
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that would be nice
pimp100500 said:
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Do a search, plenty of tutorials on the site. Just as a quick helpful thing, use xdaAutoTool I think it's called and decompile the app you want to mod. Then, find where it decompiled it, and most of the icons and things will be in /res/drawable or /res/drawable-hdpi. Some of the colors are also in the /values folder in .xml files.
Here is a Tutorial I wrote up for another member.
http://www.multiupload.com/6RU7F5PG6G
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It's not necessary but just hit the menu touch button on your phone and there is an option to view in browser and it can be done there.
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In that tutorial it assumes that you have installed Android sdk,Java,and apktool,have them in your path and installed the framework files correctly to apktool
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Excuse me if im in the wring section but i know we have touchwiz 4 ports already but this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1050817 has really awesome icons. Its a shame its on the I9000 already. Any way of porting that same exact one onto the vibrant?
it ofen FC for me
this is very easy to accomplish
just need winrar and image files from that version
What do you mean?
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If you want the icons, download the icon pack found in that link. As far as I know, the only difference in that launcher is the icons. Just change the icons for the apps and it will look identical.
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that does have good icons....
I already have the pack I just need to know how to change them. Its a touchwiz launcher, not adw or launcher pro
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kevho00 said:
Excuse me if im in the wring section but i know we have touchwiz 4 ports already but this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1050817 has really awesome icons. Its a shame its on the I9000 already. Any way of porting that same exact one onto the vibrant?
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It's depend on what rom you have on your phone. If you are using Bi-Winning V3 or (Project-V prior to the new release of 06/05/2011), I already posted the TW4 along with the color icons. You can click the link below my signature.
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I already have the pack I just need to know how to change them. Its a touchwiz launcher, not adw or launcher pro
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Find the apps you want to change; messaging, contacts, dialer tab activity, any others you want to change. Use 7zip and open the archive. Go to Res/drawable hdpi and find the app icon. Take the icon you want to replace it with and rename it to the name of the original app icon. Drop it in the the hdpi folder and your done.
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Find the apps you want to change; messaging, contacts, dialer tab activity, any others you want to change. Use 7zip and open the archive. Go to Res/drawable hdpi and find the app icon. Take the icon you want to replace it with and rename it to the name of the original app icon. Drop it in the the hdpi folder and your done.
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Dan, I think, he wants a TW4. Everyone wants a TW4 including me. lolz
VibrantThemer said:
Dan, I think, he wants a TW4. Everyone wants a TW4 including me. lolz
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I have it lol.
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Dan_Brutal said:
Find the apps you want to change; messaging, contacts, dialer tab activity, any others you want to change. Use 7zip and open the archive. Go to Res/drawable hdpi and find the app icon. Take the icon you want to replace it with and rename it to the name of the original app icon. Drop it in the the hdpi folder and your done.
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d00d, i have no idea what you said. i d/l 7zip, do i open my internal sd or external? where are those apps?
kevho00 said:
d00d, i have no idea what you said. i d/l 7zip, do i open my internal sd or external? where are those apps?
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Use root explorer and go to: system/app. Find the apps you want and copy and paste them to your internal or external. Take them from the SD, and place them on your PC. Then do the 7zip.
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Use root explorer and go to: system/app. Find the apps you want and copy and paste them to your internal or external. Take them from the SD, and place them on your PC. Then do the 7zip.
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Ok awesome it worked. Which tw 4 launcher do you use?
kevho00 said:
Ok awesome it worked. Which tw 4 launcher do you use?
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The one in bi-winning. The actual edt ported tw4.
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Do you think bi-winning is better than bionix?
kevho00 said:
Do you think bi-winning is better than bionix?
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I think so, but my vote doesn't count. Im the dev for Bi-Winning
That's awesome. I just flashed to bi-winning. Its good so far, what should i overclock it too?
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Try both clock speeds. Every phone handles oc differently.
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Wait I'm an idiot. I flashed v2. V3 is the latest right? I can flash from 2.2?
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Just wondering and I'm new to this, how do I change the icons on a sense rom? Don't want to use a launcher. Please help
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Just wondering and I'm new to this, how do I change the icons on a sense rom? Don't want to use a launcher. Please help
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you can use desktop visualizer or you can open every apk to change out the icon in each ones res/drawable-hdpi and zip it back up using 7zip(make sure you use normal and you have apk at the end and not zip)
Thanks! Will give it a try
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Is there anyway to theme apps on the go? Meaning replace some icons, images with the phone....
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Nope you need to decompile the apk and change the files which cant be done on the device.
You could use a custom launcher to change the image it uses for the icon but it won't actually change the apps icon
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Nope you need to decompile the apk and change the files which cant be done on the device.
You could use a custom launcher to change the image it uses for the icon but it won't actually change the apps icon
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Thanks for answering my question... Hopefully one day someone comes up with an app to be able to do theming on the go..
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Hello everyone. I would like to change all the icons for all the apps on my phone. How would I go about doing this? I have Desktop Visualizer, but I don't think that is going to do the job. I have many icons to use, just not sure where to put them or how. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks
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Easiest way is to probably dl a launcher, like go or adw, I'm sure one of those you can change icons
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Easiest way is to probably dl a launcher, like go or adw, I'm sure one of those you can change icons
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I would prefer not using a launcher. I would like to change it inside the ROM itself. I would do it per app if I have to. Just not sure what I need to change.
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I would be more interested in learning what file I should look in to find the icon so I can change it directly, not dl more to my phone to do it for me. I like doing things in a more hands on manner. I am sure there is a way, I just don't know what it is, yet
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I would imagine you can dissect an apps apk itself, and see what you find, just make a backup before you go too far
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hossman said:
I would imagine you can dissect an apps apk itself, and see what you find, just make a backup before you go too far
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LOL Always backup before doing anything :thumbup: but thanks for the reminder. I was just wondering I'd there was a particular place to start looking. Also if there was a way to do it while on the phone, without doing it on computer. Just trying to get some insight into android "programming"
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donshaffer said:
I would prefer not using a launcher. I would like to change it inside the ROM itself. I would do it per app if I have to. Just not sure what I need to change.
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The All Apps icon is located in the skin apk of the skin you are using. Sometimes the icon is located in fusion.apk if you are running one of the stock skins. It's in the m10 file as the home_icon_all_apps.png
The program called VTS is the only one that can decrypt the m10 images file so you can change it. The program isn't free, but if you want to skin, it's worth the $20. Plus, the site has many easy to follow tutorials.
Edit: I misunderstood. See: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=40659662
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The All Apps icon is located in the skin apk of the skin you are using. Sometimes the icon is located in fusion.apk if you are running one of the stock skins. It's in the m10 file as the home_icon_all_apps.png
The program called VTS is the only one that can decrypt the m10 images file so you can change it. The program isn't free, but if you want to skin, it's worth the $20. Plus, the site has many easy to follow tutorials.
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I really appreciate the info. Thank you very much coal.
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coal686 said:
The program called VTS is the only one that can decrypt the m10 images file so you can change it. The program isn't free, but if you want to skin, it's worth the $20. Plus, the site has many easy to follow tutorials.
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Just to be perfectly clear, so I don't do the wrong program, you are talking about Virtuous Ten Studio, correct?
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Please update if you ever get this to work.. would love to try but im still a newbie.
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Just to be perfectly clear, so I don't do the wrong program, you are talking about Virtuous Ten Studio, correct?
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Yeah, that's it. Sorry for the acronym.
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Xerc said:
Please update if you ever get this to work.. would love to try but im still a newbie.
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If I do, I will let you know I decided it was time to do something different and do it myself. Not just dl something almost close to it.
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coal686 said:
Yeah, that's it. Sorry for the acronym.
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It's not a problem coal. Just wanted to be sure. Thanks again
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Very easy. .just open the .apk file with winrar and extract drawable-hdpi folder. In this, u will see the icon file. Just replace it with your icon. But remember to give it a same name.
Sign the .apk then with apk signer.
Copy it to phone and install.
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jimmy_coolguy2006 said:
Very easy. .just open the .apk file with winrar and extract drawable-hdpi folder. In this, u will see the icon file. Just replace it with your icon. But remember to give it a same name.
Sign the .apk then with apk signer.
Copy it to phone and install.
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I thought of this as it's easier and free if you use 7zip instead of Winrar. But I couldn't find the image there. The only place I found the image was in the m10 file. What's the name of the file in the drawable-hdpi folder that you're suggesting be changed? There are around a thousand in there so maybe I missed it.
Edit: I misunderstood. See: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=40659662
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The apks I've looked at, the icon is located in either drawable-hdpi, or some are in drawable
Named icon.png
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The apks I've looked at, the icon is located in either drawable-hdpi, or some are in drawable
Named icon.png
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Edit: I misunderstood. See: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=40659662
For skins, no PNG files are in drawable. They're all in drawable-hdpi except the few in the drawable land folder (at least the ones in the res folder). But I don't think icon.PNG is the All Apps icon. I think it's the icon that shows in file explorer when you're browsing your files. I just looked through the drawable-hdpi folder for a couple of different skins and didn't see the All Apps icon there. So, I still think the only one is in the shared.m10 file in assets which one needs vts to decrypt.
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I think we're talking about 2 diff things.
Coal, the way I read you're post, you're talking about the app drawer icon? Not sure if that's what you're talking about
I was talking about individual apps. Ie talk, gmail, browser, etc
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hossman said:
I think we're talking about 2 diff things.
Coal, the way I read you're post, you're talking about the app drawer icon? Not sure if that's what you're talking about
I was talking about individual apps. Ie talk, gmail, browser, etc
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That's my embarrassed face. I totally misread the entire thread. Wow!
He said "all the apps icon" and I read "the all apps icon". So, ignore most of what I wrote. Hossman is right. If you want to use Sense and have custom icons for apps, you'll have to change each individually in each app how Hossman said. It's a pain.
I still stand by VTS for working with apk files, but it's not necessary for this application.
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No need to be embarrassed
Just wanted to make sure we were on the same page:thumbup:
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I am working on a new theme and need some help finding the blue in these images.. the color appears to be controlled via xml but I cannot locate it anywhere in systemui
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I am working on a new theme and need some help finding the blue in these images.. the color appears to be controlled via xml but I cannot locate it anywhere in systemui
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ill have a look for you now
EDIT: i have looked in both the framework-res and SystemUI and nothing - This one is slightly confusing, sorry couldn't help this time.
If you still havent found out buy tomorrow i will try again for you...
I have a feeling it's in color values in framework res or HTC framework.. thsres a lot of 33b5e5
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We will find it I really dont see it in the systemui... I'll try more of the framework later...
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We will find it I really dont see it in the systemui... I'll try more of the framework later...
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I know it's not an image
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Kevin3328 said:
I am working on a new theme and need some help finding the blue in these images.. the color appears to be controlled via xml but I cannot locate it anywhere in systemui
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If this is a sense skin you're working on then as suggested you can find it in Colours.xml in the skin (i'm not sure but i think it might be "rosie settings color filter" or "settings title color" )
I give up atleast for now.. I have a feeling it's in the smali folder which is inaccessible in this Rom because it is odexed.. I decompiled a systemui from another sense based Rom that is deodexed and I saw the 33b5e5 code in some of the quick settings smali
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