There are any roms for add more sms skins? Because the current skins are for child..
It's actually fairly easy to modify stock sms skin. when the g2 first came out I actually created a patch file 2 theme the stock sms because I felt it was childish also. It's buried somewhere in my computer now lol but if your froggy I would suggest pulling out the stock SMS apk decompile making your adjustments and then just add to archive with 7 zip or something
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How do you change the conversation bubble colors in the stock text messaging app? I know I could just use GoSMS or Handcent, but I like how clean the stock app is and the fact that it works well. I just dont like that "peach" color...doesn't match anything.
Use handcent SMS its free in the mareket and you can customize everything from bubble colors to fonts to the color of the notification icon
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lilhaiti said:
How do you change the conversation bubble colors in the stock text messaging app? I know I could just use GoSMS or Handcent, but I like how clean the stock app is and the fact that it works well. I just dont like that "peach" color...doesn't match anything.
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Are you on GB?
@jhild352 I am aware of the many different free options that I could use, just wanted to know if I could "theme" the stock one.
Yes I am using GB.
There arent settings to change it. You will need to manually do it. If you really are dedicated enough, then extract the apk and replace the desirable drawables.
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@jhild352 I am aware of the many different free options that I could use, just wanted to know if I could "theme" the stock one.
Yes I am using GB.
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You can find the images in the framework. They're located in the blur-res.apk in the drawable-hdpi folder. The images are called msg_in_item_bg and msg_out_item_bg. They are .9 pngs so you'll have to decompile the blur-res.apk to edit the images. If you don't want to edit them yourself you can maybe find a theme that includes the blur-res.apk and replace your current apk with that one.
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You can find the images in the framework. They're located in the blur-res.apk in the drawable-hdpi folder. The images are called msg_in_item_bg and msg_out_item_bg. They are .9 pngs so you'll have to decompile the blur-res.apk to edit the images. If you don't want to edit them yourself you can maybe find a theme that includes the blur-res.apk and replace your current apk with that one.
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Thats exactly what i was looking for...thanks
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I want to replace the stock icons with illest theme icons from kgill7.. is there a way with out using a third party launcher to do this? Right now I'm using apex launch with white frost theme for the skin and illest adw icons. It looks nice, the only thing is that apex doesn't change most of the icons even tho its in the theme. So I been snooping with root explorer to see if I can just rename the .png and push it to replace the stock icon. But I've had no luck so far. If anyone can point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated.
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Not sure if it's what you're talking about exactly, but I changed the icon of a stock HTC camera apk one time. Used 7zip on a PC. I had a camera apk that had an icon I really liked, but a newer version of camera with stupid icon came out.
Anyhow, I put both apks on desktop. Opened with 7zip. Browsed the pngs til I found the main camera icon. (Think it was called launcher.ic.png) just swapped the PNG into the camera apk that I wanted. Didn't have to sign apk or anything. Just don't extract the apk to browse its files. 7zip lets you browse without extracting.
Not sure if this was the kind of info you were lookin for. Sorry.
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I want to replace the stock icons with illest theme icons from kgill7.. is there a way with out using a third party launcher to do this? Right now I'm using apex launch with white frost theme for the skin and illest adw icons. It looks nice, the only thing is that apex doesn't change most of the icons even tho its in the theme. So I been snooping with root explorer to see if I can just rename the .png and push it to replace the stock icon. But I've had no luck so far. If anyone can point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated.
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I like Nova Launcher becuase of all the various options it allows and it also allows you to change out the icons for virtually any of the aps you add to your desktop - I personally am using ADW icon Pack and a Launcher Pro Icon pak (both work with Nova just fine) Not sure if this is what you were talking about - but I hope it helps -
desktop visualizer will do that for you.. change icons without using a launcher
Thanks I'll look in to that n yea I know how change the icons on the desktop just really want to change the icons in the drawer as well but thanks for all the responses
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N yea I thought about looking through the apk to see where the PNG was, but in system/app on the root of my phone. Tried looking, but no luck. :/ guess I'll try to back em up n see if I can just re install.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=824656 found something interesting
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Desktop visualizer :thumbup:
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I have found a way to actually change the icon, unlike desktop visualizer where it only creates a short cut of the app, this app actually modifies the icon to which ever one you choose. It's called ninjamorph. I take no credit found it on another forum just don't remember what forum.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=stericson.ninjamorph.free
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thanks that seems to be exactly what I was looking for. only problem is that Im finding trouble tracking down what folder or file I need to replace inside these apk's. Ive been able to switch out some except for some like the dialer and calender, etc.
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thanks that seems to be exactly what I was looking for. only problem is that Im finding trouble tracking down what folder or file I need to replace inside these apk's. Ive been able to switch out some except for some like the dialer and calender, etc.
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The phone, calender, contacts, gallery, etc icons are in a apk in system/framework
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found em in the com.htc.resource.apk thanks
Alright I know how to do this, but I am wanting to change a lot of my icons in the sense Rom I am running. Is there a way to do it in batch form? What is the easiest simplest solution to this? Any help from you expert themers would be very helpful. Thanks....
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First, if you are replacing status bar icons, the easiest way to do this is open the apk with 7zip and drag your new icons into the correct res/drawable... folder.
If you insist on a batch operation, you can look for a VillainRom theme package. They use a script to replace (and it is flashed in recovery). I suggest finding one of these and looking at the scripts inside to learn how it works. You basically create the folder with the images you want to replace and it does the work for you. Be sure to thank the creators of this very handy tool.
Finally, you could create a batch file that uses 7zip to do it. I actually did this for a brief time until I came across the VR themes.
You could use my ReZone theme as a guideline for doing what you want. The ONLY downside is it doesn't work with TWRP recovery.
Thanks for the replies....
What I should have specified is the app icons in the app drawer, and desktop. I downloaded the anti apple icons, and want to make a custom theme using them for myself. So I can open the apks, and change the icon, but that takes forever. I was wondering if there is a themer program that would allow me to do it in a batch format. That way u wouldn't have to do it for 75 apps individually. I know that you can install theme packs on aosp, and was hoping there was a way to do it with sense. Again, thanks for the interest, and help...
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easy enough if you are using nova or apex launcher and doing an icon set or viperes rom has this option
Yeah, I was hoping to do it on Dsb's 3.6 Rom. I may switch back to viper when the update drops. I was just hoping there was an easy way to do it to sense roms that the themers were willing to share....
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No batch format, but ninja morph is about the fastest way to do it on a phone.
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Its a pain tracking down the icons for each app but a vrteme could work
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Thanks for the replies....
What I should have specified is the app icons in the app drawer, and desktop. I downloaded the anti apple icons, and want to make a custom theme using them for myself. So I can open the apks, and change the icon, but that takes forever. I was wondering if there is a themer program that would allow me to do it in a batch format. That way u wouldn't have to do it for 75 apps individually. I know that you can install theme packs on aosp, and was hoping there was a way to do it with sense. Again, thanks for the interest, and help...
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My original suggestion is what you want to use, it works on Sense. First thing you would do is clean out my folders or just make new ones following the folder structure. Then basically all you have to do is find the apps icon name (extract original .apk). Create the folders and add your new icon. Then just go into recovery and flash it... BHAM!! new icon. Lets not make this difficult. It will work on Sense or AOSP ROMs. Very simple thing to do..
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I have attached a sample .zip were I change 3 icons from my Theme the Camera, Gmail, and YouTube. If you follow that format (icons have different names and locations) you can change any icon you want and all you have to do is flash it.
Thanks Zone. Started last night. You say bam, but more like bbaaaaaaammnnnnnn. I will finish it up through the week, and post it in homescreens thread with a special thanks to you..
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Hello everyone. Im just starting out theming and i cant post in the dev section yet But here my question. I rooted my friends phone and install CM10 and installed a purple theme for her. Shes having a data dropping issues. It sounds like a hand off from 4 to 3 and never going back to 4..no sure..she just complains that she loses data. So my thinking was is because she like the feel of the AOSP roms, i was going to install a senseless one and then theme it. Whats the easiest way to merge an exsisting them apk into a custom rom that doesnt have the theme picker app? would i extract the rom, add the files from the APK into it, compile sign then install?
I've never done any theming, but I'm guessing you'd have to decompile the theme apk, resize all of the images to the DPI and resolution of the sense rom, decompile framework-res.apk from the sense rom and swap out the drawables and then recompile. If you really want a good answer though, I'd PM who MIKE D and ask. He's done some really sick theming.
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I've never done any theming, but I'm guessing you'd have to decompile the theme apk, resize all of the images to the DPI and resolution of the sense rom, decompile framework-res.apk from the sense rom and swap out the drawables and then recompile. If you really want a good answer though, I'd PM who MIKE D and ask. He's done some really sick theming.
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Ok cool, Ill do just that. Ive done some basic themes on apk but never a full blown rom theme, i know because of the system files, there a different way you have to go about it
EDIT: Moved to Themes and Apps section. Now includes a SS flashable zip and my rendition of Kitkat messaging app icon. Enjoy.
Thread here [APP] AOSP Messaging​
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Thanks for the tut bro. I was looking for this.
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This is perfect. Been looking for this for quite some time. THANKS
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This is perfect. Been looking for this for quite some time. THANKS
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Im going to update the OP with a zip too.
I created a kit kat style MMS icon for the app and moved it to /system/app and am using it as my stand alone MMS.apk now. Got rid of TW secmms.apk.
The only issue I know of with this app is the contacts FC issue when you touch your own contact picture. This was an issue on the S4 before too...and it was fixed...athough I dont remember how someone fixed. it.
Ill make a SS flashable zip as well as instructions for making it your system app.
If I could get my decompile apk tools working again...Id theme the dark theme to something different than what it is now...because its bad. lol. Matter of opinion but I personally dont like it. I prefer the dark holo better.
stay tuned...working on it now.