Hi, I have some questions for you devoted developers out there. I don't really know how to theme but I see there are many tutorials out there that can help mer
get started, but there are some things I wonder about that's not been answered clearly.
Question 1: do you have programming skills prelearned from school or are most of you self learned? If you are self learned what is the best way to understand the developing and programming concept?
Question 2: I see a lot of icon packs out there with own design for each icon and there can be thousands of icons in one pack, I was wondering do you make the designs from bottom all by yourselves or do you find a premade template and just alter it with your own design?
Question 3: where can I get a list of icons to theme? To keep myself updated with new apps and icons ? Is there any place where icon templates can get download which are updated regularly ?
Thanks in advance for all serious answers
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seriously no one???
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Is there a way to use metamorph or ninjamorph to change the battery icon in the notification bar. I've done it before but that was a while ago.
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spacecasespiff said:
Is there a way to use metamorph or ninjamorph to change the battery icon in the notification bar. I've done it before but that was a while ago.
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This is not the Q&A board.
A simple search of this board will get your answer.
creator2456 said:
This is not the Q&A board.
A simple search of this board will get your answer.
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for crying out loud its still the theme forum, leave him alone....lighten up on each other honestly, friggen search police
OK so I put it on the wrong forum oops. There are a lot of people with questions on this forum. I thought it would be better answered if it were on this forum since I'm asking about something that can only be done on a rooted phone. I did do some searching but did not find much not saying that there isn't anything just didn't find it.
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TopShelf10 said:
for crying out loud its still the theme forum, leave him alone....lighten up on each other honestly, friggen search police
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Thank you. I just thought that it had something to do with customizeing the phone.
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spacecasespiff said:
OK so I put it on the wrong forum oops. There are a lot of people with questions on this forum. I thought it would be better answered if it were on this forum since I'm asking about something that can only be done on a rooted phone.
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youre fine, dont let wannabe searchsearchsearch mods get to you, people do ask questions all the time in EVERY section, and your question is perfectly relevant to theming. Q&A forum is more of a safe secondary option for people who dont know where to post
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you may be able to actually change the .png through ninja morph but you wont be able to apply it. Ninja morph is a good concept, but until there is the option to sign through it, realistically it creates more steps than it eliminates.
With that said you can alter a Metamorph theme (thats what i do), just go to your theme that you use in /sdcard/Android Themes, and find the image/s that you want to edit, then just reapply the theme.
I'm sorry to ask you this but I'm a big time noob when it comes to this stuff. So it it easier to go that way or just flash it?
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spacecasespiff said:
I'm sorry to ask you this but I'm a big time noob when it comes to this stuff. So it it easier to go that way or just flash it?
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depends. if something you like is already in flashable format, and its compatible with your firmware/ROM, that would obviously be the best way to go. But if you have decent image editing software (GIMP), its not all that hard to access your sdcard from your pc and just edit a few .png files within a theme and then reapply the theme. Sometimes it can be a hassle to figure exactly which image you are supposed to edit to get the result youre looking for.
I'm looking at the battery icons in a thread just a few down from this one. Those I think a flashable. I'm running on the stock rom.
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You can find about 7 different battery icons using the gst app. All you do its download the icon you want and put it on the root of your sd card. Then use rom manager to boot into clockwork mod recovery and select the apply zip from sd option. The battery icon will show up on there.just click it and that's it.pretty easy huh
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Can I still do that on my modified notification bar. I'm using the clear with the modified icons that I got from one of the threads on this forum.
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TopShelf10 said:
for crying out loud its still the theme forum, leave him alone....lighten up on each other honestly, friggen search police
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TopShelf10 said:
youre fine, dont let wannabe searchsearchsearch mods get to you, people do ask questions all the time in EVERY section, and your question is perfectly relevant to theming. Q&A forum is more of a safe secondary option for people who dont know where to post
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you may be able to actually change the .png through ninja morph but you wont be able to apply it. Ninja morph is a good concept, but until there is the option to sign through it, realistically it creates more steps than it eliminates.
With that said you can alter a Metamorph theme (thats what i do), just go to your theme that you use in /sdcard/Android Themes, and find the image/s that you want to edit, then just reapply the theme.
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TopShelf, I think you're way out of line here. The theming forum is obviously not the best place to ask questions about theming. People like "creator" shouldn't have to be bothered to click on threads that they don't have the desire, nor time to answer. Instead, creator and other busy people need to only see threads that they enjoy reading, and all questions pertaining to theming should never be asked in the theme forum.
His valuable time cannot be spent answering questions to threads he clicked on and read, and only in the severe ignorance of the OP can he be bothered to reply, and of course, only reply with a full paragraph explaining the ignorance of the OP.
I'll thank you, Top Shelf, to remember the forum etiquette in the future. If you're going to utilize the theming forum, then please remember to berate and belittle anyone that also utilizes it for questions pertaining to theming.
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Hi everyone! This is my first post so don't doubt to tell me anything i do wrong...
I just finished a little icon pack for my LG GT540, and i'd like to share it with you. I've taken a little bit of here and a little bit of there to customize my launcher app shortcuts, hope you like them.
If anyone would like to give me any tips or recommendations about them i'll be pleased.
Thanx for this amazing forum!
Two more icons: XDA app and tether. Hope you like them. Still waiting for opinions.
I just learned how to make screen captures of my cell! And of course I learned on this forum...thanks guys! Here are some caps of my GT540 with my icons, hope you like them. And if anyone could tell me if the Bobclock widget is available in spanish it would be great.
PS: Could anyone tell me if there is any EASY way to turn the buttons of the Network switcher widget into red? that would be awesome...
Modify framework Res to change power icons.
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pashinator said:
Modify framework Res to change power icons.
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Thanks for your answer, but you have to be a little bit more specific. Please explain me how to do that or link me to a post where that stuff is explained, thanks again.
After some hours reading threads, fighting against png's, adding system paths, and signing apk's (never did any of these before...), i got to change my widget icons!!!i'm not sure how it got to work, but it works!
My last quest would be to change the widget font color, anyone can help with that?
PD: pashinator thanks again for your short but helpful post, the word "res" helped me find a thread where i learned where the icons are!
PD2: If anyone want to know how i did any of the steps, just ask.
I change my icons all the time so if you need just pm me and I will guide you fully.
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I've been coding for Android for awhile now, but just with a basic UI. I'm coding an app for a friend in which I simply retrieve his tweets, and Facebook statuses, and I wanted to have a sleek UI for it. I know that since every phone runs ICS, which means they won't get the Holo theme(<3). I wanted to know if anyone could lead me in the right direction, or even help me code the app. Are there templates that I can use, or what? lol. Thanks!
--Simran
i can help you with the ui its a bit tricky at first but it gets to the poibt of second hand nature...
Im not at home if i was i would send over some samples
Zach
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So...you need help with... what? (sorry, I don't understand you )
motodroidfreak said:
i can help you with the ui its a bit tricky at first but it gets to the poibt of second hand nature...
Im not at home if i was i would send over some samples
Zach
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hi.
could you please post it here? i am also looking for some nice ui component.
thanks a lot!
My best advise would be not to follow what most app developers do. Use the built in framework for most of your layout needs. You program will run faster and you will get a better over all UI no matter what version they are using. To many people fill their apps with color coding and images that are not needed. You an jack right into the base framework files for most of what you will need
So since I've been using the new jelly bean OS 4.2 I've noticed how the wonderful widgets automatically move as you attempt to place 1 but I've also noticed that the widgets take up more space in the need some times. Try placing the analog clock on 1 of your screens and then place icons around it, you will see that if you could overlap widgets or overlap widgets and icons you could use your screen real estate more efficiently. No I'm not a developer but I think that if someone could make that work it would be a very useful app.
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Give SSlauncher a try. You can move icons and widgets pixel by pixel and overlapp if you wish. You can get very nice effects with overlapping text for time and date
Sslauncher also lets you place icons on pages that link to other pages. Very useful if you have many pages and don't want to swipe all the time. You can even have a different wallpaper on each screen.
There is bit of a learning curve and the out-of-box (first setup) is terrible. Otherwise it is just your fantasy that limits how your UI look!
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Yes for general questions I agree with that, but when you are trying to get something developed it seems more plausible to post it in a development page
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Yes for general questions I agree with that, but when you are trying to get something developed it seems more plausible to post it in a development page
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Dev section is to be used to only post the ROMs and development related stuff (mods, etc) Isn't it?
If you read my post it is directly related to development, planning is a huge part of developing.
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aperseghin said:
So since I've been using the new jelly bean OS 4.2 I've noticed how the wonderful widgets automatically move as you attempt to place 1 but I've also noticed that the widgets take up more space in the need some times. Try placing the analog clock on 1 of your screens and then place icons around it, you will see that if you could overlap widgets or overlap widgets and icons you could use your screen real estate more efficiently. No I'm not a developer but I think that if someone could make that work it would be a very useful app.
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Here comes the "next launcher" by Go dev team. It can overlap, place icons whichever orientation u prefer and stuff! Cool s**t. Check it
Nova launcher does this doesn't it?
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Hi as you can tell by my lack of posts I'm not too intelligent when it comes to tweaking the appearance of my phone. I want to attempt to make my own custom theme/themes as I have plenty of spare time.
• What is needed to create themes
• Where can I get them
• Are there any special requirements
Thanks guys, Sorry if there is a thread answering this I looked.
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HipFired said:
Hi as you can tell by my lack of posts I'm not too intelligent when it comes to tweaking the appearance of my phone. I want to attempt to make my own custom theme/themes as I have plenty of spare time.
• What is needed to create themes
• Where can I get them
• Are there any special requirements
Thanks guys, Sorry if there is a thread answering this I looked.
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Hi, glad to see you're enjoying Themer
1. Nothing is needed, only your phone and Themer.
2. You can get themes from either Themer itself or the Themer Submissions page on MyColorScreen. Simply paste the .zip files into /sdcard/MyColorScreen/Themer/Exported/zip.
3. No special requirements, but note that if your phone is rooted, please set your DPI/resolution/display settings to default.