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[Q] where is the color for the text on a rom located?

I am running ee1.29...I am loving the look except the text in the menus is stilll the ugly aqua...I am curious how I can mod the rom to make it the blue used in froyo? Thanks

Ok...so no suggestions...how about could someone mod it for me?

The text is aqua or the text is highlighted with an aqua backgroud when you press it? I do not use the same rom you do so could you supply a screen shot?

Sub text in menus is aqua

suzook said:
Sub text in menus is aqua
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I'm guessing its in the Settings.apk file. You have to use apktool to decompile the .apk file and then you can read the xml and look for the color (ie FF000000 for white) and change it to what you are looking for.
I'll see if I can figure it out and attach the modified Settings.apk. Do you have a specific color you were wanting?

jprocha101 said:
I'm guessing its in the Settings.apk file. You have to use apktool to decompile the .apk file and then you can read the xml and look for the color (ie FF000000 for white) and change it to what you are looking for.
I'll see if I can figure it out and attach the modified Settings.apk. Do you have a specific color you were wanting?
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I appreciate your help, but I have moved on too froyo...thanks anyway

Gmail skins

Hello guys!
So I wanted to start a thread for all the possible gmail skins out there, so I converted this thread!!!
Anyone with a custom Gmail app can post it here and if anyone has a How-To to mod our gmail skin please share!!!
Original:
So here's my question: is it possible to change the colours of my gmail app?
And more importantly, is it possible to see the actual colours I give my "labels" on gmail? That is, each group has it's own colour on my pc, I would like the same thing on my phone...
Thank you very much guys 'n gals!!
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Black Gmail App: here

Not that I know but that would be cool. Maybe one could make a flash zip like this colored Android Market zip...

Here you go.
Black gmail...
Put it in system/app make a backup of your origional gmail apk and delete it prior or rename the origional apk to gmail.bak.
Enjoy

Could you post a screenshot? In the said Market app there is a problem with the text being white against a white background. Would be nice to know if there's the same issue with this one...
Thanks in advance!

Yeah baby that's what I'm talking about!
One question, I wanna theme it how do I do it? Ps I still can't see the label colors I have chosen on my pc... Will I always have plain white labels? Thanks a lot man!
@phandroid no problem with this app, it's perfectly readable!
Sent from my GT-I9000

@ Zolah
Thank you for this gmail version. Is it correct that only the inbox has a black background and the mail view still has a white background?

zolah said:
Here you go.
Black gmail...
Put it in system/app make a backup of your origional gmail apk and delete it prior or rename the origional apk to gmail.bak.
Enjoy
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didn't work on my tmo s4 alpha rom

Help with Mms theme. I am calling upon talent.

I'm looking to have this .9 png change to a slightly darker color. I have tried to do it with apktool and apk manager, but both always have errors when I decompile the Mms.apk and once I change the .9 png, I can never recompile it.
Here is the old .9
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/718/messageconversationothe.png/
and here is the .9 in the new color as I would like it to be, but has been messed up, because it wasn't "saved" properly in the true .9 format (in GIMP) and is now screwy on my app.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/594/messageconversationothe.png/
If anyone could help me out with that, I'd be greatful!! Making it a darker blue, helps stand out the two parties in the convo.
oh, and if someone can find the .png to the background of the Mms app, it would be a lot nicer in BLACK. Would make the white bubble (us), and the Darker blue bubble (them) stand out much better then white!

First of all if ur just changing PNG and 9 files there is no need to decompile the apk. Pull the Res file out of the apk and make ur changes. Then put it back in the apk. I use 7zip to open my zips and apks.
Next if editing 9 files then u can edit them in gimp or Photoshop. Save them and then use draw9patch that is found in the tools folder of ur android sdk and then fix the 9 file. If u don't know how to use it just let me know ill explain. Its real easy. Then u can use a program called xultimate. Google it. There is a thread here on xda somewhere about it. It explains how to use it. It will recompile the 9 file and make it usable.
If ur editing XML or smali file that's cool. Decompile the apk and do ur edits. U can replace the individual PNG and 9 files afterwards. Just don't forget that the XML files r kept in the Res folder as well so don't replace them if uve already edited them.

jonfitch said:
I'm looking to have this .9 png change to a slightly darker color. I have tried to do it with apktool and apk manager, but both always have errors when I decompile the Mms.apk and once I change the .9 png, I can never recompile it.
Here is the old .9
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/718/messageconversationothe.png/
and here is the .9 in the new color as I would like it to be, but has been messed up, because it wasn't "saved" properly in the true .9 format (in GIMP) and is now screwy on my app.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/594/messageconversationothe.png/
If anyone could help me out with that, I'd be greatful!! Making it a darker blue, helps stand out the two parties in the convo.
oh, and if someone can find the .png to the background of the Mms app, it would be a lot nicer in BLACK. Would make the white bubble (us), and the Darker blue bubble (them) stand out much better then white!
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ok.... so ...when you de-compile .9 files expand the pic as far out as you can when your working on them . you will see black borders on them. do not break them black lines. that means colorizing them too. just isolate everything inside the black lines of the .9 png's and change the color. once againg make sure the black lines stay black.any mis hap, one pixel or oops into the black lines will throw errors. let me know if this helps . just pm me or just post on here . ill check back.
EDIT did you install your resorces for apktool?

[Q] XML File to change Text Color??

Does ANYONE know what XML file I would have to edit in the Facebook for android apk to make the text color of the app widget white?
-Meaning if you have the FB widget on your homescreen, usually the background is white and the text is black..ish. My background is now black and I want the text to be white instead of black...ish.
I can read the text, but it's quite annoying. And no, I do not want to go back to a white background if that was your solution = )
Thanks!

edgarzonjr said:
Does ANYONE know what XML file I would have to edit in the Facebook for android apk to make the text color of the app widget white?
-Meaning if you have the FB widget on your homescreen, usually the background is white and the text is black..ish. My background is now black and I want the text to be white instead of black...ish.
I can read the text, but it's quite annoying. And no, I do not want to go back to a white background if that was your solution = )
Thanks!
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There are many xmls to look for. Check the values folder under color or drawable. Or it could be in layout under appwidget
free the dirk

Papa Smurf151 said:
There are many xmls to look for. Check the values folder under color or drawable. Or it could be in layout under appwidget
free the dirk
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Yep, well I looked in there, but I wasn't sure it was the right spot to change the color since I kept seeing #ff000000 instead of #000000 which after extensive googling, I found out the ff is the transparency and the rest is hex. Ok so that makes sense now.
So for ANYONE who may want to know this... first decompile the apk so you can edit the xml color in values\drawable.xml and then compile apk AND THEN edit your res\hdpi files. Otherwise it doesnt work. This was the case for me anyway. I could be 101% incorrect, but this is the way it worked for me

edgarzonjr said:
Yep, well I looked in there, but I wasn't sure it was the right spot to change the color since I kept seeing #ff000000 instead of #000000 which after extensive googling, I found out the ff is the transparency and the rest is hex. Ok so that makes sense now.
So for ANYONE who may want to know this... first decompile the apk so you can edit the xml color in values\drawable.xml and then compile apk AND THEN edit your res\hdpi files. Otherwise it doesnt work. This was the case for me anyway. I could be 101% incorrect, but this is the way it worked for me
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Yeah that is correct. The ff is transparency and also correct that u can decompile apk do ur XML/smali edits then recompile and do ur PNG edits.
free the dirk

7 Colorful Keyboards ( att on your eyes ;) )

Hello,
I themed 7 keyboards...
copy the SamsungIME.apk in : /system/app ( permission rw-r-r )
All inverted base Value theming Credit Goes to foreverloco
Credit to EMSpilot for converting some apks to png for theming
BlackYellow
BlueWhite
GreenWhite
RedWhite
[URL="https://www.dropbox.com/s/ssmwy3w02o7g4v0/SamsungIME.apk?dl=0"]Pink[/URL]
GreyTurquoise
Trasparent bg + dark red keys

Awesome!! +1

Nice

Hey these are great! Just beautiful and have an awesome material feel to it. Please also do a darker mayerial black version when you get time! It would look amazing.

thanks.i will later or 2morrow...

raza89 said:
Hey these are great! Just beautiful and have an awesome material feel to it. Please also do a darker mayerial black version when you get time! It would look amazing.
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hey, im sorry i told you max tomorrow i will be uploading one.
Well i did it. it didnt look at all Material ( it looked like a Blackberry Keyboard wanna be )

So I downloaded the apk, copied and pasted in the system app folder. Do I overwrite or rename it and have it in the folder as a second apk?
Also, whats the possibility of having an material design grey background with blue letters?

KRHairston said:
So I downloaded the apk, copied and pasted in the system app folder. Do I overwrite or rename it and have it in the folder as a second apk?
Also, whats the possibility of having an material design grey background with blue letters?
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The main one rename it as samsungime.bak
Dont 4get to reboot.
For the material grey bg and blue l.
When i have sometime i'll do it...

Yorgo1982 said:
Hello,
I themed 7 keyboards...
copy the SamsungIME.apk in : /system/app ( permission rw-r-r )
All inverted base Value theming Credit Goes to foreverloco
Credit to EMSpilot for converting some apks to png for theming
BlackYellow
BlueWhite
GreenWhite
RedWhite
[URL="https://www.dropbox.com/s/ssmwy3w02o7g4v0/SamsungIME.apk?dl=0"]Pink[/URL]
GreyTurquoise
Trasparent bg + dark red keys
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please, release the original samsung keyboard because the version of Yorgo1982, I have a problem I can see is correct but not the entire keyboard and I have not really want to reset my phone

Nice themed keyboards. Thank you my canadian fellow for your work and time. :good:

Thanks a lot for this. I also love the Samsung keyboard, but it's damn hideous. Like offensively ugly.