[TEAM XPOSED] [MOD] Transparent notification pulldown - HTC EVO 3D

Team Xposed at it again with another mod for all of you. This time it is transparent notification pulldowns. "Sharing is caring."
Step 1: Decompile SystemUI.apk with apktool, apk manager, or baksmali.
Step 2: Navigate to \com\android\systemui\statusbar\StatusBarService.smali
Step 3: Open StatusBarService.smali in Notepad++ or any other qualified text editor.
NOTE: Notepad and Wordpad will not edit the file properly.
Step 4: Search for:
Code:
.local v7, view:Lcom/android/systemui/statusbar/StatusBarView;
Look below at:
Code:
const/4 v1, 0x2
Replace 0x2 with -0x3
Next, search for:
Code:
.line 1797
Directly below, look for:
Code:
const/4 v5, 0x2
Replace 0x2 with -0x3
Step 5: Save and close the file.
Step 6: Navigate to \res\layout\status_bar_tracking.xml
Step 7: Open status_bar_tracking.xml in qualified text editor.
Step 8: Replace the 2 instances of "list_item_background" with "status_bar_background"
Step 9: Look for:
Code:
<LinearLayout android:orientation="horizontal" android:background="#ff000000"
Replace #ff000000 with #00000000
Step 10: Save and close file.
Step 11: Grab the existing status_bar_background.png from \res\drawable-hdpi\status_bar_background.png
Step 12: Edit it with your photo editor of choice and add your transparency.
Step 13: Save the file, and replace status_bar_background.png in \res\drawable-hdpi\status_bar_background.png with the one you just edited.
Step 14: Recompile SystemUI and flash it to your phone from recovery.
End result:
{
"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"
}
NOTE: You may notice that the entire thing is transparent, and that the text is black. If this is not to your liking, you can make items appear white (or any other color) by looking at this line:
Code:
<View android:id="@id/tab_header"
This is the second of the lines that you changed to status_bar_background in Step 8. Change that back to list_item_background to get your white item list back while still maintaining a transparent background.
To change text color, look for this line:
Code:
<TextView android:textSize="@com.htc:dimen/list_primary_m" android:textStyle="bold" android:textColor="#ff000000"
Look for #ff000000 and change that to your desired color. The same applies to quicksettings, which is a line below.

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Great tutorial. I have one question, how do you get the Notification text from black to white.
I highlighted the exact text I am referring to in the attachment.

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scrosler said:
Great tutorial. I have one question, how do you get the Notification text from black to white.
I highlighted the exact text I am referring to in the attachment.
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NOTE: You may notice that the entire thing is transparent, and that the text is black. If this is not to your liking, you can make items appear white (or any other color) by looking at this line:
Code:
<View android:id="@id/tab_header"
This is the second of the lines that you changed to status_bar_background in Step 8. Change that back to list_item_background to get your white item list back while still maintaining a transparent background.
To change text color, look for this line:
Code:
<TextView android:textSize="@com.htc:dimen/list_primary_m" android:textStyle="bold" android:textColor="#ff000000"
[code]
Look for #ff000000 and change that to your desired color. The same applies to quicksettings, which is a line below.

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theimpaler747 said:
NOTE: You may notice that the entire thing is transparent, and that the text is black. If this is not to your liking, you can make items appear white (or any other color) by looking at this line:
Code:
<View android:id="@id/tab_header"
This is the second of the lines that you changed to status_bar_background in Step 8. Change that back to list_item_background to get your white item list back while still maintaining a transparent background.
To change text color, look for this line:
Code:
<TextView android:textSize="@com.htc:dimen/list_primary_m" android:textStyle="bold" android:textColor="#ff000000"
[code]
Look for #ff000000 and change that to your desired color. The same applies to quicksettings, which is a line below.[/QUOTE]
I tried that and its still not white. Could you try it and see if it works?
EDIT: Even took a sys UI that has white text and replaced the entire file and its still not white. Could there be a smali edit or am I just going crazy?
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scrosler said:
I tried that and its still not white. Could you try it and see if it works?
EDIT: Even took a sys UI that has white text and replaced the entire file and its still not white. Could there be a smali edit or am I just going crazy?
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Oops.... The text font color is probably located in layout or values folder under ids or public.xml

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freeza said:
Oops.... The text font color is probably located in layout or values folder under ids or public.xml
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Been looking for it all night... lol
I knew that I didn't misread your post! Thanks for confirming that before I went crazy, lol

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There are a few changes that need to be made. If you want all transparent background then there are text color edits that need to be made in three or four systemui xmls, download provider.apk and download provider ui .apk. also a text change in framework. This is a good thread. I'll type up something coherent when I get home to add to it.
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for white text color on transparent background
this is just adding to what freeza has already written
decompile systemui. go to res/values/colors
<color name="white">#ffffffff</color>
<color name="black">#ffffffff</color>
<color name="half_white">#7fffffff</color>
<color name="half_black">#7fffffff</color>
<color name="primary_text_color">#ffffffff</color>
<color name="secondary_text_color">#ffffffff</color>
this is what you want
then to res/values/drawables
<item type="drawable" name="notification_header_text_color">#ffffffff</item>
<item type="drawable" name="notification_number_text_color">#ffffffff</item>
<item type="drawable" name="list_item_background">#00000000</item>
<item type="drawable" name="list_item_background_gray">#00000000</item>
this is what you want
go to res/colors/bright_text_dark_focused
make sure all colors are ffffffff
go to res/color/list_item_primary_text and change ff888888 to ffffffff
go to res/color/list_item_secondary_text and change ffb8b8b8 to ffffffff
also cant remember if this was covered but status_bar_item_background_normal.9 needs to be made transparent.
go to res/layout/status_bar
where you see this and it appears twice
android:textAppearance="@android:style/TextAppearance.StatusBar.Icon
change to android:textColor="#ffffffff"
where you see this and it appears twice
android:textAppearance="@android:style/TextAppearance.StatusBar.Ticker"
change to android:textColor="#ffffffff"
also any textcolor in the xml in html should be android:textColor="#ffffffff"
go to status_bar_expanded
make sure all android:textColor= is ffffffff we do not need to change the style
android:textAppearance="@style/TextAppearance.StatusBar.Title"
because we have already referenced this in values/drawables
i status_bar_icon there is one text color reference. make sure it is white
in status_bar_tracking as i believe was mentioned change text color values from ff000000 to ffffffff
decompile framework-res
go to res/layout/status_bar_latest_event_content
change all text color from ff000000 to ffffffff
go to res/drawable-hdpi and make status_bar_item_app_background_normal.9 transparent
do the same with
status_bar_item_background_normal.9
decompile DownloadProvider.apk
go to res/layout/status_bar_ongoing_event_progress_bar
change all ff000000 to ffffffff
decompile DownloadProviderUI.apk
go to res/layout/download_list_item
where you see
android:textAppearance="?android:textAppearanceSmall"
make
android:textAppearance="?android:textAppearanceSmall" android:textColor="#ffffffff"
there are five instances of this. you are adding a text color value after the refernced text appearence. make sure your syntax and spacing are right
go to res/layout/list_group_header
where you see
android:textAppearance="?android:textAppearanceMedium"
add at the end as before
android:textAppearance="?android:textAppearanceMedium" android:textColor="#ffffffff"
that is it
Cool thing about this is you can now easily change the color to blue or cyan or red much more easily. You can open the whole res folder by highlighting res and an xml like the manifest. I use notepad ++. Then under search/ replace look for ffffffff and change with whatever color value you want. BAM instant color change!
example with blue text

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fernando sor said:
for white text color on transparent background
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You sir are the BOMB!
This was what I was looking for. I was changing line by line to see what woudl happen but eventually gave up and modded someone else mod... To get it the way I want.
This is getting save in favorites for next time!
Thanks!

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scrosler said:
You sir are the BOMB!
This was what I was looking for. I was changing line by line to see what woudl happen but eventually gave up and modded someone else mod... To get it the way I want.
This is getting save in favorites for next time!
Thanks!
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thanks ! you can even go further into framework/res/values/styles and com.htc.resources but i found that these changes cover most notifications

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Pulled the SystemUI.apk from my phone and when I decompiled with Apktool I receive this.....any ideas what is the problem?

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Did you install the framework to decompile with. You need to use the -t (framework) command. Make a folder in your sdk/tools folder and name it, "framework" I named mine "234" then place framework-res.apk and com.htc.resources.apk in that folder and in Adb type "apktool if (your framework-res) 234 (or what ever you named the folder)" and then type "apktool if (your resources) 234 (folder name)" and then to properly decompile type "apktool d -t 234 (folder name) .APK. Try that.
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fernando sor said:
thanks ! you can even go further into framework/res/values/styles and com.htc.resources but i found that these changes cover most notifications
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To add to your changes, I also had to change text in the voicemail apk. Mostly in res/ layout/in about 5 notificaton .xmlsIll write the exact changes when I get to a computer
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steal25 said:
Did you install the framework to decompile with. You need to use the -t (framework) command. Make a folder in your sdk/tools folder and name it, "framework" I named mine "234" then place framework-res.apk and com.htc.resources.apk in that folder and in Adb type "apktool install (your framework-res) if 234 (or what ever you named the folder)" and then type "apktool install (your resources) if 234 (folder name)" and then to properly decompile type "apktool d -t 234 (folder name) .APK. Try that.
I did not install the framework initially. Followed your directions but received errors once I tried compiling the apk. I think maybe I used the wrong adb command to install framework even though it said successfully installed. Could you provide me with additional detail, step by step.
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HackDPlanet said:
steal25 said:
Did you install the framework to decompile with. You need to use the -t (framework) command. Make a folder in your sdk/tools folder and name it, "framework" I named mine "234" then place framework-res.apk and com.htc.resources.apk in that folder and in Adb type "apktool install (your framework-res) if 234 (or what ever you named the folder)" and then type "apktool install (your resources) if 234 (folder name)" and then to properly decompile type "apktool d -t 234 (folder name) .APK. Try that.
I did not install the framework initially. Followed your directions but received errors once I tried compiling the apk. I think maybe I used the wrong adb command to install framework even though it said successfully installed. Could you provide me with additional detail, step by step.
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in your apk folder place the framework-res.apk and your com.htc.resources.
in command window navigate to your apktool folder and type <apktool if framework-res.apk> hit enter
then type <apktool if com.htc.resources.apk> hit enter.
that simple
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fernando sor said:
HackDPlanet said:
in your apk folder place the framework-res.apk and your com.htc.resources.
in command window navigate to your apktool folder and type <apktool if framework-res.apk> hit enter
then type <apktool if com.htc.resources.apk> hit enter.
that simple
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I did exactly that and was able to decompile the .apk successfully. I received errors when I attempted to compile and recreate the apk.
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HackDPlanet said:
fernando sor said:
I did exactly that and was able to decompile the .apk successfully. I received errors when I attempted to compile and recreate the apk.
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That would be what you edited then. Whats the error?
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fernando sor said:
HackDPlanet said:
That would be what you edited then. Whats the error?
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Check out the image of the cmd prompt.
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HackDPlanet said:
fernando sor said:
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if youlook at apktools error log it is pointing you to status_bar_tracking
it looks look you have a color value after text size. you cant do that.
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if your adding a text color the line should read < android:textColor="#ffffffff">
i just used white as an example