Hi,
I looked at several places on creating theme layers to Android , but only found a single tutorial I could not understand very well and other confusing , I know how to decompile and recompile applications , but need to know how developers are creating their themes layers, some developer or someone who knows how to create or know where I can read about ?
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I'm a graphic designer and I'd love to start making themes for the SGS2 but I don't know how to create the APKs, specifically, the SystemUI.apk. I've read up about it but haven't found anything helpful.
Could someone write a guide on how to do it or give me a link to one?
Could i recomend looking at VRTheme, see this post and this post, this way you dont have to build apks in the traditional sense.
You will want apktool to decompile apks, then edit, then use it again to recompile.
HY every one i need your help to edit a application . actually i want to create just a application in which i put some good wallpapers. but i dont know how to do . then i think editing a application is easy then making a new application . on google play there are different applications which contain only wallpapers like glaxy s2 wallpapers etc. so i want to edit it just want to changey its name and all of its wallpaper with wallpaper of my choice. so if any one know how to edit application please help me or redirect me to a thread. in way if making new application is easy then plz help me to make this type of aaplication................. thanks to all Members
Nasir javed said:
HY every one i need your help to edit a application . actually i want to create just a application in which i put some good wallpapers. but i dont know how to do . then i think editing a application is easy then making a new application . on google play there are different applications which contain only wallpapers like glaxy s2 wallpapers etc. so i want to edit it just want to changey its name and all of its wallpaper with wallpaper of my choice. so if any one know how to edit application please help me or redirect me to a thread. in way if making new application is easy then plz help me to make this type of aaplication................. thanks to all Members
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There is a program called apk manager
it decompiles the apk so that u can edit it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1664292
jiffer1991 said:
There is a program called apk manager
it decompiles the apk so that u can edit it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1664292
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thanks its helpful..........
I know to to make a theme, but was wondering how to make use of the theme chooser in CM10. It looks like I need to build an apk but I haven't found any guides on how to go about that. Any pointers?
Try the easy way while you wait for help
Well I've been building a theme for months and there's the easy way and the impossible way, one is to extract a template theme or any theme for that matter and replace all the images with your own as long as you don't touch the .9s and use the apk multi tool (googleable) to extract optimise and sign it for you. Thats the easy way
The other is to decompile which lets you edit XML files and .9s but I haven't managed to get that to work and no amount of internet can help me. Which means no changing the name of the theme and no uploading to the market. Which is what I planned to do. But give the easy way a go if you just want it for yourself and friends etc.
I had also posted another question here on the forums trying to figure out why I couldn't theme MMS.apk and Phone.apk; one_love_420 was kind enough to respond and mentioned the same thing you did, which is to utilize theme chooser. So that is what I ended up doing. I found a template for CM10 theme chooser and added in some lines so I could also theme MMS.
one_love_420 also provided me a link to this forum post, which helps with learning how to modify the xml files and personalize the theme.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11545308
I have actually edited .9.png files before, with my old Samsung Moment. granted that was on Android 2.2 but still applies right?
Personally I preferred to use Draw9Patch and xUltimate (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=700904) and Photoshop.
Here are some guides that I have looked at previously:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=605662
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1638978
Thank you for your response SimBol10! Also, let me know if you have any questions about .9.png editing and I'll try to return the favor!
Hello Guys its seems big mess to setting up the things.
Im Install this or that and etc and the things just don`t work sometimes like we expect they to work.
For example im Theme Designer and i never did APK files before.
NOW i want to create a Zooper Clock Widget just for start i already did it BUT now i have to make from this Widget signed APK file in order to be distributed and all other people who use Zooper to be able to install it as a single APK
So any help is welcomed.
I read this tut: http://www.zooper.org/wp/android/zw/apk
and download all the things installed
also this
https://github.com/mycolorscreen/ZooperWidgetSampleSkin
but its seems like the things don`t wana work at all.
Anyone who can help me with the settings or explain me more is there any other variant to create an APK File?
Thanks
Hello friends, I am new to the world of Android themes. I recently found KatKit and I would like to learn more about the tool and the development of themes. I would like to know if there is GIMP documentation for Samsung themes support and how to use it to start with easy things. Somebody could help me?