Themer's Tips and Tricks - HTC Rezound

I'm starting this thread as a place for themers to exchange tricks they've learned, also to exchange information. The intent is not to become a "how to decompile ICS" thread.. they are all over if you just search. I'll start it off as an example:
For doing mass .9.png edit ssuch as replacing a color, I found the easy way is a comination of Adobe bridge with Photoshop
For example:
say i want to change all red elements into blue
open your first image in photoshop
create a action with the commands(just a example) Adjust to RGB -> select color range 'reds' -> adjust hue (set to your version of blue you want)->save->close ... say i name action "change"
now in bridge nav to folder where the images are you want to change in the same manner
select all the images you want to run the action on
tools>photoshop>batch
select the "change action" and volla....
another way ive used this is by replacing "select color range'reds'" and again select color range>sample the black edge, so the black border is selected.. followed by select inverse .. this will then select all but the border and adjust hue of the whole image w/o messing the the border

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Tip: if youre trying to rotate multiple images and are using Windows 7, Ctrl+A to hightlight them all and right click to choose "Rotate Clockwise" or Counterclockwise.

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Tip: If your not liking how a .9.png is stretching a image.. look in your sdk tools, there should be one called draw9patch... It's a java app to edit a .9.pngs stretching...(I just recently discovered this)
Up until finding this, I would push images I want to stretch uniformly via zip 7 after compiling..obviously poor practice to do any work later on
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Jmrwbilly said:
Tip: If your not liking how a .9.png is stretching a image.. look in your sdk tools, there should be one called draw9patch... It's a java app to edit a .9.pngs stretching...(I just recently discovered this)
Up until finding this, I would push images I want to stretch uniformly via zip 7 after compiling..obviously poor practice to do any work later on
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Thanks, the theme I'm wanting to do involves some beveled edges on the various status bars and such. Stretching along the vertical edge would be fine but trying to pull the whole image would distort the top and bottom bevels. I'll have to look into this because I was afraid I wasn't going to be able to do what I wanted to do without the ability to control this.
Now I gotta experiment with whether a .9 image can exist where there wasn't one in the original build.
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LOBBS said:
Thanks, the theme I'm wanting to do involves some beveled edges on the various status bars and such. Stretching along the vertical edge would be fine but trying to pull the whole image would distort the top and bottom bevels. I'll have to look into this because I was afraid I wasn't going to be able to do what I wanted to do without the ability to control this.
Now I gotta experiment with whether a .9 image can exist where there wasn't one in the original build.
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don't quote me in this, but I'm pretty sure it's fine to replace .png with a .9.png.....9.pngs are used as a answer to different screen resolutions to prevent distorted images
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think this is the best place to ask. does any1 know where the Launcher drawer Icon is located?
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"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"
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funnyangrykid said:
think this is the best place to ask. does any1 know where the Launcher drawer Icon is located?
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I'm almost certain it's in Rosie.apk in m10 file...which can't change yet..can work around with the m10s for skins but I think that is in Rosie
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Jmrwbilly said:
I'm almost certain it's in Rosie.apk in m10 file...which can't change yet..can work around with the m10s for skins but I think that is in Rosie
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Well that sucks if we are unable to mod it
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I am efficient enough in the Adobe Suite to handle this stuff, but I just dont know how to extract the system files off the phone and then apply the new ones. It is probably easier than I know, but if anyone has a link on how you start playing around with these files that would be great.

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imckay152 said:
I am efficient enough in the Adobe Suite to handle this stuff, but I just dont know how to extract the system files off the phone and then apply the new ones. It is probably easier than I know, but if anyone has a link on how you start playing around with these files that would be great.
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Just download the rom you want to theme on your pc and open with 7zip, most files are in system/framework and system/app, No pulling files from phone needed.
To push them back just download any random theme .zip and replace the files with your themed files

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Therev29 said:
Just download the rom you want to theme on your pc and open with 7zip, most files are in system/framework and system/app, No pulling files from phone needed.
To push them back just download any random theme .zip and replace the files with your themed files
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What do u mean when u say a Theme.zip ? And where would I get one of which u are mentioning?
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Therev29 said:
Just download the rom you want to theme on your pc and open with 7zip, most files are in system/framework and system/app, No pulling files from phone needed.
To push them back just download any random theme .zip and replace the files with your themed files
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tip I have here, I'd to take a peak at the script for the zip...I've seen some peoples scripts include deleting the original apk from the phone before pushing new..if that's the case, you could end up deleting something your not replacing with this method
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funnyangrykid said:
What do u mean when u say a Theme.zip ? And where would I get one of which u are mentioning?
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Here is a blank zip you can use to flash your theme, just make sure you put the right apks in the right folders i.e SystemUI,apk goes in system/app/ and framework-res.apk goes in system/framework.
Jmrwbilly said:
tip I have here, I'd to take a peak at the script for the zip...I've seen some peoples scripts include deleting the original apk from the phone before pushing new..if that's the case, you could end up deleting something your not replacing with this method
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Very true, I have done this myself a couple times, with my own scripts no less

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Question if i wanted t o make my stat_sys_signal_null from a static icon into an animated one that used two different .png what would be the best way. i have tried multiple times and each time i get errors while compiling or it just doesnt work.

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conadg said:
Question if i wanted t o make my stat_sys_signal_null from a static icon into an animated one that used two different .png what would be the best way. i have tried multiple times and each time i get errors while compiling or it just doesnt work.
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I've done this before..with adding a animation to the notifications background..should be able use the same concept..average Joe (I think that was his screen name) has a good write up on this
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