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Boot Animation Tester[V 1.02][Will be Theme tester soon]

The other day I read that awesome Tut on how to create a Boot Animation by kusotare [link] because of this I started creating a few animations. While doing this I would test them out by flashing them, I did not like this so I created an applet that will basically animate them for you... Its pretty simple code, I am sure anyone on here could do it(and im sure some one has) but I figured I would share it with anyone who wanted it.
All you have to do is extract the .zip into a folder, and when you want to test your animations drop 'android-logo-mask.png' and 'android-logo-shine.png' into the folder. After you put them into the folder, open(double click) 'BootAnimationTest.htm'. This will open up your browser and show you the animation.
Requirements:
-This requires that you have the JRE installed
-'android-logo-mask.png' should be 256x480(Other sizes will work, but the app will resize them)
-'android-logo-shine.png' should be 512x480(Other sizes will work, but the app will resize them)
If you want, until I make it fix it automatically you can
find dimensions of android-logo-mask.png n put those values in BootAnimationTest.htm
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Future:
-In the future I plan to make it were it doesnt matter what size your images are.
-Turn this into a full fledged theme tester!
Feature Request: If you have an idea that you want me to add to this let me know, and most likely I will do so.
Just added a Video!
Change Log:
V 1.02:
-Added buttons that increase/decrease the speed of the shine
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Nice dude...just dimensions get messed....cuz it treats ur boot imgs like theyre full...but its k i just edit the html to my custom dimensions
Just put in ur post to find dimensions of android-logo-mask.png n put those values in BootAnimationTest.htm
Oh n whts with all those red dots underneath the img ?

Daneshm90 said:
Nice dude...just dimensions get messed....cuz it treats ur boot imgs like theyre full...but its k i just edit the html to my custom dimensions
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Awesome, I will have it where it does it automatically though, among other things... I also think I may turn it into a Jar and have it launch in its own window.
Edit - those red dots, are actualy my name... what happened is that you resized it, so it shrunk the applet.

Burlyskink said:
Awesome, I will have it where it does it automatically though, among other things... I also think I may turn it into a Jar and have it launch in its own window.
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tht wud b sweet 2...this is especially awesome for slit animations cuz u gotta modify over n over...n this makes the process easier

Daneshm90 said:
tht wud b sweet 2...this is especially awesome for slit animations cuz u gotta modify over n over...n this makes the process easier
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Yea, thats why I made it, I got tired of having to flash over and over to test mine.

Thanks for the kudos on my tutorial. I had a tough time doing it my first time around, and after six or seven hundred of my friends with G1s asked me how i did it, I finally broke down and did the tutorial.
On the other hand, I absolutely love what you've done with the applet. That will certainly make it easier for people to come up with something they'll really like instead of having to tweak-and-flash as most of us have been doing for ages. Excellent work!

kusotare said:
Thanks for the kudos on my tutorial. I had a tough time doing it my first time around, and after six or seven hundred of my friends with G1s asked me how i did it, I finally broke down and did the tutorial.
On the other hand, I absolutely love what you've done with the applet. That will certainly make it easier for people to come up with something they'll really like instead of having to tweak-and-flash as most of us have been doing for ages. Excellent work!
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Thanks! it really only took me 3 minutes to right but I think it will help me for as long as I make boot animations

hey, the tutorial didnt take me much longer, so dont feel too bad. the longest damn part of it was writing the script for the video down so i could read it back into the mic!
by the way, i added a link to the first post here into the tutorial post. you really did hit a keystone here thats gonna help people. cheers!

How do you guys feel about the speed of the shine? I think I will add a button that will let you make it faster or slower

Helpful, fast and time saving tool...
This is really a great and helpful tool. Its a must have on the utility belt of all theme-er's.
Excellent work...

This is an awesome tool, it'll help me cut down on wearing out my NAND flashing theme updates over and over just to test the boot screen. Thanks a lot!
Edit: Just tried it out on one of my old non used boot animations I had, the 'animation' scroll should be faster in my opinion. I remember seeing it speeding by at least 2x the speed as the applet does it. BUT the buttons to increase/decrese speed would be ideal. Some people may prefer it slower, some fast.
Again great job on this, you saved a lot of trouble!

prash said:
This is an awesome tool, it'll help me cut down on wearing out my NAND flashing theme updates over and over just to test the boot screen. Thanks a lot!
Edit: Just tried it out on one of my old non used boot animations I had, the 'animation' scroll should be faster in my opinion. I remember seeing it speeding by at least 2x the speed as the applet does it. BUT the buttons to increase/decrese speed would be ideal. Some people may prefer it slower, some fast.
Again great job on this, you saved a lot of trouble!
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Ok, I will start working on it... I should have a new build up tonight
Edit - So I was thinking, why not take this a step farther? What do you guys think about me making it where it will also show you what your theme will look like?

Burlyskink said:
Ok, I will start working on it... I should have a new build up tonight
Edit - So I was thinking, why not take this a step farther? What do you guys think about me making it where it will also show you what your theme will look like?
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Is that possible? IF you're able to do that, you'll hear a lot of "I LOVE YOU"s from theme makers, especially me.
I understand it would be a 'rough draft' sort of thing considering the .9.png and such but really just to see everything 'together' before flashing it would be a welcome change than what we can do now.

Burlyskink said:
So I was thinking, why not take this a step farther? What do you guys think about me making it where it will also show you what your theme will look like?
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That would be history making...Please do...

fantastic! i just whipped out a spare hard drive and installed windows xp 32bit all b/c i CANNOT GET SIGNING TO WORK IN VISTA 64bit. anyway thanks for the great tool man this is a must have.

prash said:
Is that possible? IF you're able to do that, you'll hear a lot of "I LOVE YOU"s from theme makers, especially me.
I understand it would be a 'rough draft' sort of thing considering the .9.png and such but really just to see everything 'together' before flashing it would be a welcome change than what we can do now.
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Yea, I don't think it would be hard at all... It will just take me a while.
Edit - Ok, so I just posted the new build. This build just added the speed buttons. By the end of the week I hope to have a build that is a full theme tester up. I also think that later on down the road I will make this into a JFrame instead of an applet. Also, what is the deal with the .9.png?

Ok I have been messing with themes, and its coming together good. Its going to take me a while because I have school though.

Burlyskink said:
Yea, I don't think it would be hard at all... It will just take me a while.
Edit - Ok, so I just posted the new build. This build just added the speed buttons. By the end of the week I hope to have a build that is a full theme tester up. I also think that later on down the road I will make this into a JFrame instead of an applet. Also, what is the deal with the .9.png?
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.9.png are images that Android resizes to work in any situation. like the buttons. sometimes they are small sometimes they take up the whole screen. you have to sign them in eclipse for them to work right. check out this thread for a more detailed description of them and what it takes to get them working properly.
if you do make a theme tester I will have kids just so i can name them Burlyskink.

For theme and boot testing...did anybody see the news story about running an emulated Android os (complete with G1 skin) on a Windows PC?
It looks just like a brand new fresh stock G1 and it works. I wonder if that could test out themese and mods?

RAQemUP said:
For theme and boot testing...did anybody see the news story about running an emulated Android os (complete with G1 skin) on a Windows PC?
It looks just like a brand new fresh stock G1 and it works. I wonder if that could test out themese and mods?
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Are you talking about the standard emulator that comes with the official Android SDK?

[Theme] Scrabble CM-4.04 Only!

I call it scrabble but its all wood... lol
CM-4.04 Only! Download:
http://www.mediafire.com/?zmmgij2zzyy
I take no responsibility for anything that may happen to your phone during any part of YOU flashing this
Its not perfect but its another theme where i am testing the different .9 png capabilities... thought someone might enjoy them until i can fix them up
also tried something different with app drawer background
09-23-09 lil before midnight:
this is my last theme for a tonight and maybe a while...
I have been sick and i am sleepy so I am going to take advantage of this and sleep... I havent been able to sleep much during the sickness
i will be back when i feel better... hit me up @RandumAccess on twitter or kenavantsATgmailDOTcom for quick response, i may not be at my laptop.
thanks, and please... no spam, im trying to get better not worse lol

man, you are a beast when it comes to themes.
i love the way that app drawer looks, did you just make the image a certain size and let the system replicate it to fill the screen or make the image the whole size of what it would occupy on the screen and space the bars to sit under the apps. that's cool looking. (hmmm new ideas)

david1171 said:
man, you are a beast when it comes to themes.
i love the way that app drawer looks, did you just make the image a certain size and let the system replicate it to fill the screen or make the image the whole size of what it would occupy on the screen and space the bars to sit under the apps. that's cool looking. (hmmm new ideas)
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Feel free to open up the theme and look, the dimansions are 320x? I forget the height right now... I just used my eye to try and place the docks as close to the icons... its not perfect but I thought it looked good... landscape kinda patterns but not too noticable in my opinion
Thanks and good luck theming
Alright bedtime! Lol

RandumAccess said:
Feel free to open up the theme and look, the dimansions are 320x? I forget the height right now... I just used my eye to try and place the docks as close to the icons... its not perfect but I thought it looked good... landscape kinda patterns but not too noticable in my opinion
Thanks and good luck theming
Alright bedtime! Lol
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alright, thanks man, i hope you get to feeling better soon (i should send you a get well now card)

XDANDROID wallpaper | boot Animation contest :)

Its time that XDANDROID was properly branded. jk
I'd like to incorporate some creative works from themers and users on xda-developers. And so if you've always wanted to contribute to XDANDROID but didn't have the technical knowledge well nows your chance.
Anyone can participate and i'm hoping to see alot of creative work. I'll be setting up a pole from a weeks time and will let you the user's decide which artworks are best and will be incorporated in the next build.
Here are some details:
Submit your wallpapers | boot animations for XDANDROID here
Requirements
Wallpaper
Must contain the text "XDANDROID" (lowercase accepted)
640x480 dimensions
800x480 dimensions
png, jpeg format
Boot Animation
256x512 dimensions LANDSCAPE
Contain text "XDANDROID" (lowercase accepted)
Unlimited frames. Though try not too much
png format
Landscape
Provide all frames. Do not merge into one file!
Top 5 wallpapers will be incorporated into next XDANDROID AOSP release and 1 boot animation will be replacing the current Nexus one boot Animation.
Please consider a donation to the XDANDROID project. We work on this on our spare time, even not on our spare times and every little bit gives us more inspiration and motivation to continue providing you our friends awww* great builds and support ​
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Nice
Good luck guys, I will try post something too but I have to enhance my photoshop skills

Because of my lack of photoshop skills here's an idea someone might want to try:
The Android droid actualy looks somewhat like a rounded capital A...
If you draw an XD emoticon on it's face, you have an XD Android

I think that this is a fantastic idea.

Comon peeps
We need some of your help guys.
I hate stock and we need cooler mods from a great community on xda

ill try to do something cool, but boot animation, what format should it be in? GIF? Flash format?

Cool idea!
Which resolution do you want for the boot animation?

samizzlah said:
ill try to do something cool, but boot animation, what format should it be in? GIF? Flash format?
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The resolution is 512x256 and if possible provide each frame in png format. As the boot animation reads each image separately. The maximum amount of frames are 60 but you can do less than that.
Can't wait to see what you guys have to offer
You can provide a GIF image too, as i'll just rip it but it would be much easier if you provided the images separate instead of merged into a GIF

This is probably a stupid question but do the wallpaper sizes you asked for allow for the multiple-home-screen sliding of Android to work? They're the same size as the devices' screens, and I don't know if that means that it would only be big enough to cover one home screen without being stretched, or if Android does something differently with regard to setting wallpapers.
Also, the Hero boot animation is 217 frames long, does this matter?
And finally, I guess the animation should be able to loop (?).

Hmm, hard to do anything on only 60 frames. But here's a first draft at a boot animation. Any suggestions for improvements are most welcome.
I'll probably add another animation tomorrow when I have had time to get some better ideas.
At what fps does the animation play back by the way?
And would it be hard to replace the current bootanimation with a custom one? It would be nice to test the animation before submitting it to you.

That one looks great! If I had to be critical I'd say you could make the text colour more distinct from that of the background, but I love the Android
It's much better than anything I would have done... Do you have professional experience in graphics/rendering?

@lugiber: that's funny Good job

It's too bad I don't have skills in this area because I have a great idea. Something like an Android(pretty much pac-man) eating a windows mobile sign and leaving behind the xd-android sign behind.

Thanks for the positive reponses guys! I'll make "xdandroid" stick out more and update the animation.
Hehe, i like the idea about the android eating windows. I'll see what i can do.
I had some ideas in that direction but I wasn't shure if people would respond well to "windows bashing".

Here's an XDAndroid wallpaper idea I made - I know that it's pretty basic but I wouldn't mind some feedback

lugiber said:
Hmm, hard to do anything on only 60 frames. But here's a first draft at a boot animation. Any suggestions for improvements are most welcome.
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Nice one! How about making the background black? It's not filling the whole screen, (since that's how Android does it) So I think whatever's on the outside of the animation is black.
ben_duder said:
Here's an XDAndroid wallpaper idea I made - I know that it's pretty basic but I wouldn't mind some feedback
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Nice! I like it simple and basic!

Here's my idea of simple boot animation.

TheDeadCpu said:
Nice! I like it simple and basic!
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Thanks
mkmatis said:
Here's my idea of simple boot animation.
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Nice! If you don't mind me asking, how exactly do you do that sort of thing? The only way I can think of is by lightening each frame separately, which would be both time consuming and probably quite messy.

ben_duder said:
Here's an XDAndroid wallpaper idea I made - I know that it's pretty basic but I wouldn't mind some feedback
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i like it
nice and simple!

mkmatis said:
Here's my idea of simple boot animation.
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lugiber said:
Hmm, hard to do anything on only 60 frames. But here's a first draft at a boot animation. Any suggestions for improvements are most welcome.
I'll probably add another animation tomorrow when I have had time to get some better ideas.
At what fps does the animation play back by the way?
And would it be hard to replace the current bootanimation with a custom one? It would be nice to test the animation before submitting it to you.
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haha looks like you both interpreted the requirements wrong or i wrote them wrong :S
I'd like it to be 512 width and 256 in height.
But other than that it looks good. If possible add some android in there doing something humourous ( not necessary but would be greatly appreciated )

[REQ] Star trek theme...

Wondering if anyone has any info. I'm looking for a star trek look/feel but more like the actual interface they use on the show. Not just a wallpaper and some colors...
More like a launcher.
But here's what I've found so far. A good font goes a long way.
I was using fluxed/adw theme, adw ex with a bunch of setting tweaks and metamorphed theme, then blew it up with a kernal flash, bad nandroid.
But alas with a dead pc and nothing but a netbook not much I can modify other than what already exists.
See pics for inspiring...
Any ideas? Not looking for free labor, just ideas... ie: star trek font prolly not practical...
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Funny story, I was actually thinking about doing something like this yesterday. But I realized its way over my head. Too many xml edits
Sent from my S-off'd, Synergised Evo 3D

I'll upload the final frontier font I use later today
sent from my fully armed and operational space phone

readingkeeper said:
Funny story, I was actually thinking about doing something like this yesterday. But I realized its way over my head. Too many xml edits
Sent from my S-off'd, Synergised Evo 3D
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Can get it to look pretty good without much hacking....
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SwimDrewid said:
I'll upload the final frontier font I use later today
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The ones I've tried were not so great. Found one called the boldly go, but on small stuff it was no good. many thanks if yours will work!
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Hmmm...I'd be interested in something like that too. Have you tried requesting this in the Themes sub-forum? A lot of themers spend all their time there instead of in Q&A.

Etrick said:
The ones I've tried were not so great. Found one called the boldly go, but on small stuff it was no good. many thanks if yours will work!
{etrickery}
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Here you go.

kennyglass123 said:
Hmmm...I'd be interested in something like that too. Have you tried requesting this in the Themes sub-forum? A lot of themers spend all their time there instead of in Q&A.
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Someone requested it a couple weeks ago, and DreamsForgotten and Shane talked about it and said it would be extremely difficult to attempt.
If anyone were to attempt it, it would have to be very small steps to start with. Maybe the Starfleet logo for the vertical unlock icon, and the Enterprise for horizontal. A themed Swype would be doable. And maybe the little spinning hub things on the engines as loading icons. Thats all I can think of off the top of my head.

readingkeeper said:
Someone requested it a couple weeks ago, and DreamsForgotten and Shane talked about it and said it would be extremely difficult to attempt.
If anyone were to attempt it, it would have to be very small steps to start with. Maybe the Starfleet logo for the vertical unlock icon, and the Enterprise for horizontal. A themed Swype would be doable. And maybe the little spinning hub things on the engines as loading icons. Thats all I can think of off the top of my head.
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Yes, extremely difficult. Why we say that is because you will have to create lots of images out side of just editing the images in the apk (I would think this would be better done as a launcher than a framework theme), then layering the buttons, text, and other images within the xml, as well as repositioning all of it. The last issue is the 4x4 grid that the phone uses. Those I don't see that as a deal breaker, it is another obstacle.

shane6374 said:
Yes, extremely difficult. Why we say that is because you will have to create lots of images out side of just editing the images in the apk (I would think this would be better done as a launcher than a framework theme), then layering the buttons, text, and other images within the xml, as well as repositioning all of it. The last issue is the 4x4 grid that the phone uses. Those I don't see that as a deal breaker, it is another obstacle.
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That's kinda what I thought... launcher rather than framework hack. Perhaps butchering adw or something.
The pulldown animations really have potential too... something simple like glowing conduits that are very opaque and dark...
And it might not be so difficult to rob some architecture from a winblows theme as the huge icon widgets would make a better base. Widgets may be a direction to take. I have a copy of creative suite 2 on my mac but the hdd is soooo slow I hate using it. I could do some graphic work. Anyone got any links of a video showing the computer in action on a screen that would be a cool port? I've googled youtube to little avail...
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SwimDrewid said:
Here you go.
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Thanks!
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L Bootanimation(FULL)

OK. So got the right one to work.
Download the .zip. Go to system/media and rename original bootanimation.zip to bootanimation.zip. Copy/paste the one you downloaded to system/media, change permissions to RW-R-R. Reboot and enjoy.
Preview image attached

Can you by chance give us a preview of the boot animation or if it is a stock animation let us know?

Missed what was posted.

I tried this animation a while ago myself.
I thought it was kind of cool.
But due to it being made for android wear devices, I didn't care for how large the images appear.(resolution)
(ie: sun dial looking thing representing a watch/clock/time)
Definitely an alternative some folks may enjoy though, so thanks for sharing. :good:

santod040 said:
I tried this animation a while ago myself.
I thought it was kind of cool.
But due to it being made for android wear devices, I didn't care for how large the images appear.(resolution)
(ie: sun dial looking thing representing a watch/clock/time)
Definitely an alternative some folks may enjoy though, so thanks for sharing. :good:
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It is large. I tried it after changing desc.txt to 1080*[email protected] instead of 1080*[email protected](is now) but just a soft glow black screen.

aaronpw0621 said:
It is large. I tried it after changing desc.txt to 1080*[email protected] instead of 1080*[email protected](is now) but just a soft glow black screen.
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Yeah, I considered scaling them at one point by dropping them onto a larger canvas, but never did.
If there's interest in that, I could do it if I get some "bored" time. haha

santod040 said:
Yeah, I considered scaling them at one point by dropping them onto a larger canvas, but never did.
If there's interest in that, I could do it if I get some "bored" time. haha
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LMFAO. You are definitely busy right now. I think there is always interest but I feel for some things they just need to be announced to the public by the right backers.