[TUTORIAL]Basic Skin Guide - HTC Desire X

This has been quite an overdue tutorial from the inception of desire x forum. But here we are finally with members who are so eager to try their own.
Since VTS worked very hard to decrypt the m10 file, they deserve a donation for their work, as such they have made the tool absolutely free to work with if you are just decompiling/recompiling APKs. If you want to decompile and recompile shared.m10 files, you can. But a watermark will appear in some pngs like lockring and app icon. So if you want to learn you can learn how to use VTS and then buy the license if you want.
[Tools & Setup]
For decompiling/recompiling XMLs and M10 files
1. Install Virtous Ten Studio & Microsoft .Net Framework 4.5 (Needed by VTS)
For Image/PNG editing
2. Photoshop CS5 or any software that can handle alpha/transparency
Framework Setup for Desire X
1. Grap framework-res.apk and com.htc.resources.apk from the Android version you are interested to skin for. Keep in mind framework cannot be interchanged for ICS / JB. If you want to skin JB Sense 4+ then you need the two apks from JB Sense 4+
[How to install and setup framework in VTS]
1. Open VTS
2. Click File menu and choose Open Settings
3. Expand External Tools > Click Apktool
4. Click "Add Single or Multiple Frameworks"
5. Enter the Framework Tag > Something like DesireX (This way when you are working with Desire X skins you can easily choose the tag and the frameworks will load by auto)
6. After giving tag as "DesireX" click OK and choose Local Files and select the framework files mentioned as above. Click OK and close everything except VTS
Now you are ready to create your first skin. Its always a good idea to work with a skin already created like decompiling the Matte skin or according to your choice.

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This Will be good for our community :good: Inb4 Op update but do you mean if you want to make a Jb Skin & ICS Skin (for the same phone) you have to separate framework files ? I thought you could have one load of framework files (e.g. Jellybean) and just change the Android version & Android Code, Sense version etc. in androidmanifest.xml and works fine with ICS or whatever , no ?
Hopefully you can incluide a bit about 9.pngs & r.9.pngs and stuff like changing the colour to RGB so certian images can be dited okay in photoshop.
Aswell if you want this post reserved then i'll be more then willing to get rid of this post

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BatEarsJoe said:
This Will be good for our community :good: Inb4 Op update but do you mean if you want to make a Jb Skin & ICS Skin (for the same phone) you have to separate framework files ? I thought you could have one load of framework files (e.g. Jellybean) and just change the Android version & Android Code, Sense version etc. in androidmanifest.xml and works fine with ICS or whatever , no ?
Hopefully you can incluide a bit about 9.pngs & r.9.pngs and stuff like changing the colour to RGB so certian images can be dited okay in photoshop.
Aswell if you want this post reserved then i'll be more then willing to get rid of this post
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Yeah i thought so too BatEarsJoe. But the frameworks have their own version codes which is cross referenced while creating skin. Maybe this is why you might have run into lockscreen ring problem earlier as well. Yeah will include a huge 9png tutorial

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ayyu3m said:
Yeah i thought so too BatEarsJoe. But the frameworks have their own version codes which is cross referenced while creating skin. Maybe this is why you might have run into lockscreen ring problem earlier as well. Yeah will include a huge 9png tutorial
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Haha no I only just used VTS properly the other day (never really went near .m10 files. First) always just used apktool and photoshop. I've got a ton of un-released skins for desire X from various devices. So ill open up them in VTS and see what else I can do with them & then release 'em
Sent from my HTC Desire X