Works with sense 3.6 ics roms, conrom, cleanRom, nils, ineffabilis v1.0
I was hoping someone already did this but I couldn't find it if they did.
I simply changed the png's, using coolstorybro_123's APK Manager 5.0.2, by removing the gb in rgb
because of that some of the skin isn't awesome(imo) and some (like the download bar) can be hard to see.
images ended up like dark redVelvet and some bright red (like in messaging)
You'll need to replace or place in system/app and change permissions to match.
Thanks to coolstorybro_123 for the tool and for making it simple enough that even I could do something with it.
I'm under the assumption these two are HTC skins.. I'm not sure who to thank for them.
I'd be pretty surprised if a skin could do any damage but if it does I'm not responsible.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9398026/BlueSky.apk
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9398026/Burgundy.apk
Hopefully we get that working m10 editor soon and you can edit fusion to complete these skins in red. Stuff like widgets and rosie. Nice work.
zhp pilot said:
Hopefully we get that working m10 editor soon and you can edit fusion to complete these skins in red. Stuff like widgets and rosie. Nice work.
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There is a work around for some of the m10 files, if you turn these into a normal skin, you can incorporate a older version of a m10 into the skin, will be fully functional and can use m10 tools...
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Hi. I'm pretty legit with GIMP and would like to create a MetaMorph that will work on Sense ROMS. Ideally, I'd like to keep Rosie the same (so I'd don't need to re-map) and then theme the rest of Sense out (like Aloysius). I'd also like to modify Sense widgets and Android widgets in general to go with my overall theme.
I've never themed anything before, but my understand is that you just need to DL an appropriate .apk to your desktop, change the filename to .zip, and swap out the relevant .png's in most cases. Then, you'll want to make sure the .png's are optimized then re-sign and zipalign the .apk file.
I want to start with something similar to UltraLinx's Minimal Matte Grey theme for the Desire (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=745854). I want to make a Sense Rosie that goes with this and then theme the rest of Sense like Konikub did with Aloysius.
Who's got some experience and wants to help me? Any and all help/advice is appreciated!
If you're making MM themes, then you don't have to resign the apks. In fact, you only have to include the pngs that you're replacing, in their respective folders. I suggest that you dl any newer mm theme and unzip it. Then look at the xml file and how the folders are setup, the just reverse engineer it. Let me know if you need any help.
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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.
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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.
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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
Example: HTC Incredible if you wanna replace images/icons etc, you'd replace the icons with what you wanted in the drawable-hdpi folder. Where does the Flyer running HC pull these icons from by chance?
Hmm. Maybe one of the devs can chime in but I would try the framework-res or com.htc.resources apk's. From digging around in the framework those are the only two that make sense to me.
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Well i just looked in the SystemUI.apk and all the signal bar images and such are in there but they aren't the same icons being used..
But i know things like overscroll are located in the framework-res.apk
Yeah, I know that those icons are inside those apk's, just not sure which folder after the /res folder. I should've been clearer on that one, sorry about that!
If you asking which images your going to edit, it'll be the ones in drawable-mdpi. I've been unable to decompile apks on HC properly, so I haven't really played with theming on HC too much. But the few edits I've done that don't require a decompile, like replacing icons an whatnot, I've done to drawable-mdpi.
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If you asking which images your going to edit, it'll be the ones in drawable-mdpi. I've been unable to decompile apks on HC properly, so I haven't really played with theming on HC too much. But the few edits I've done that don't require a decompile, like replacing icons an whatnot, I've done to drawable-mdpi.
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I have attempted to decomplie some apps, mainly the framework to toy around with things like screen annimations and beats audio but I can not get the apk to decompile.
Thanks for the responses guys! I'm looking into making an ICS style theme, gonna be tough!
Some of the icons swapped in drawable-mdpi don't change, so I'm assuming they're in com.htc.resources.apk...
This will be a lot of work to do. I will just have to keep playing with it when time allows.
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I was wondering if anyone can help me out and make this Beautiful widgets skin for me or at the very least help me do it. They have changed the way they theme the SC now and the pngs have borders around them similar to a PNG.9 which I could edit, but these are just pngs, so I'm not sure what to do with it. I tried, but it didn't show up. Thanks in advance. Below is the thread the theme is located:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1393744
In the attachments is the background I would like, so you can get the colors right.
can you post the default bg image of that beautiful widgets clock?
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can you post the default bg image of that beautiful widgets clock?
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I wasn't trying to bother you bro. You already were busy, but I thank you. Do you have to have the default or can you use a skin? because the default skin is not on the sd card, it's in the apk itself and hard to find.
nah man, its cool.. i wanna help. I've never really used beautiful widgets so i am not sure how it works but from what i understand you have the default widgets and they have a themeing engine where you donwload skin apks and you can select between skins through the app?
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nah man, its cool.. i wanna help. I've never really used beautiful widgets so i am not sure how it works but from what i understand you have the default widgets and they have a themeing engine where you donwload skin apks and you can select between skins through the app?
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That's right, but The default widget is in one of the drawables and I can't tell which. I can post the folders in a zip and also what I got so far.
Below is the drawable and drawable-hdpi out of beautiful widgets, the skin I had been working on called SparkICSClockSkin. after all it is your original creation, and some skins I downloaded that you can use for an example.
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That's right, but The default widget is in one of the drawables and I can't tell which. I can post the folders in a zip and also what I got so far.
Below is the drawable and drawable-hdpi out of beautiful widgets, the skin I had been working on called SparkICSClockSkin. after all it is your original creation, and some skins I downloaded that you can use for an example.
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can you send me a skin apk, it might be easier for me to look through that
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can you send me a skin apk, it might be easier for me to look through that
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theres a couple above in the zip named scskins.zip
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theres a couple above in the zip named scskins.zip
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Ok cool ill check it out and let u know
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Ok cool ill check it out and let u know
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Alright, thanks. I already did all the pngs in the zip above called, SparkICSClockSkin.zip, but I don't know how to compile it. I already tried it regular, and I already put borders around it like a png.9 but can't get it to show up for nothing.
I also think I just found a Beautiful widgets dev kit. Check attachments.
Here is a little info on it too: http://www.droidforums.net/forum/th...-widgets-skinning-thread-147.html#post1309792
did you decompile the apk or did you just extract? it seems you just extracted it thats why the .9 borders arent showing up....
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did you decompile the apk or did you just extract? it seems you just extracted it thats why the .9 borders arent showing up....
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I got it working, I just have to edit it to look a little better now, but you don't extract the skins. their just in a folder on the sd card in Beautiful widgets/skins/scskins, but They are compiled like png 9's but you don't have to run them through eclipse like you would for framework. I got it working by using draw9patch and then changinging it from a png9 to a png. then I rebooted and it showed up. just needs a touch up.
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I got it working, I just have to edit it to look a little better now, but you don't extract the skins. their just in a folder on the sd card in Beautiful widgets/skins/scskins, but They are compiled like png 9's but you don't have to run them through eclipse like you would for framework. I got it working by using draw9patch and then changinging it from a png9 to a png. then I rebooted and it showed up. just needs a touch up.
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ok i guess what your way is just replacing the image files in it but they are originally .9s
but your way should work too
We're your able to come up with anything ?
I did replace them with png 9's but I just changed the 9 to just png like in the folder, bc I don't see the ext 9.png. But anyway, here is what I got, but you can barely see the blue border I made, because of the stretching, and I don't like the numbers or how close the number background is..
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my first watcha think?
That's good stuff. I actually couldn't get it the way I wanted it on beautiful widgets, bc I hate how close the number backgrounds are when compared to real sense clock, so I made one for Fancy widgets. Here's mine. Original is on the left and mine is on the right.
Hello All,
I am going to "try" and work out how to do this myself with m10tools and the fusion.apk but......
If anyone has already done this, I figure "why re-invent the wheel".
Basically I want the full clock widget to be 3d (for the seperation effect when scrolling homescreens) but for the flip tabs to be black and the numbers in them white.
I had this on sense 1 and 2.1 as can be seen from the attached screenshot.
Thanks in advance
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Hello All,
I am going to "try" and work out how to do this myself with m10tools and the fusion.apk but......
If anyone has already done this, I figure "why re-invent the wheel".
Basically I want the full clock widget to be 3d (for the seperation effect when scrolling homescreens) but for the flip tabs to be black and the numbers in them white.
I had this on sense 1 and 2.1 as can be seen from the attached screenshot.
Thanks in advance
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if you ever need help themeing, go to the link in my sig.
as for the clock, there are a few skins on the market with incerted style clocks, there are also likely a few on xda as well.
Ok, here's how I am doing with this:
1. using m10tools and a CDMA fusion.apk (I was told the GSM one wont decompile) I decompiled the shared.m10 for the default skin.
2. I inverted each of the flip clock numbers and the flip background
3. I saved the file and using adb push while in recovery, pushed fusion.apk back to my device.
I have a successful black clock BUT, now when I try to view the Settings Widget, I get no previews. I can still see all widgets when using "browse all htc widgets" but no specifically when looking at the settings widget....
Please help..what else did I need to do apart from the fusion.apk?
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Ok, here's how I am doing with this:
1. using m10tools and a CDMA fusion.apk (I was told the GSM one wont decompile) I decompiled the shared.m10 for the default skin.
2. I inverted each of the flip clock numbers and the flip background
3. I saved the file and using adb push while in recovery, pushed fusion.apk back to my device.
I have a successful black clock BUT, now when I try to view the Settings Widget, I get no previews. I can still see all widgets when using "browse all htc widgets" but no specifically when looking at the settings widget....
Please help..what else did I need to do apart from the fusion.apk?
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Check out black beauty in the tram derp thread. It's nice.
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Check out black beauty in the tram derp thread. It's nice.
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Thanks for the suggestion but I don't want espresso style or quite as much of a change, I just am trying to invert the click colours and keep all else stock.
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Ok, here's how I am doing with this:
1. using m10tools and a CDMA fusion.apk (I was told the GSM one wont decompile) I decompiled the shared.m10 for the default skin.
2. I inverted each of the flip clock numbers and the flip background
3. I saved the file and using adb push while in recovery, pushed fusion.apk back to my device.
I have a successful black clock BUT, now when I try to view the Settings Widget, I get no previews. I can still see all widgets when using "browse all htc widgets" but no specifically when looking at the settings widget....
Please help..what else did I need to do apart from the fusion.apk?
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first try zipaligning the fusion.apk and see if that fixes it, but if not, it's possible that since you used a cdma fusion it doesn't have the same ID as gsm in your personalize menu.
I am using LeeDrOiD 5.4, can I take my actual fusion.apk or was I correctly told that this would not decompile?
I recompiled with m10tools and had provided the path to zipalign so I would have thought this was zipaligned when it was recompiled.
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I am using LeeDrOiD 5.4, can I take my actual fusion.apk or was I correctly told that this would not decompile?
I recompiled with m10tools and had provided the path to zipalign so I would have thought this was zipaligned when it was recompiled.
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that's correct. I guess if you've done that and still have the issue, it's likely because you're using a cdma fusion? Do you get any useful errors in logcat?
I don't know, I have since restored a nandroid until Ican make more progress on creating this skin.
Honestly, I'd rather find some decent instructions on how to create a fully installable skin, like those we download from htc hub, and that would install in addition to the standard skins. If all I did to it was change the clock colour, so what, right?
If anyone can direct me to good info on this that isn't "no longer available" as it's on multiupload, i'd appreciate it.