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To change Homescreen colour theme to Transparant? Just for the Icons to exist but no color. Any ideas on how?
Thanks,

newbie26 said:
To change Homescreen colour theme to Transparant? Just for the Icons to exist but no color. Any ideas on how?
Thanks,
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The softkeys cant be transparent..but the icon bar can be..
Change it in the homescreens xml

Would I be able to find this xml in the Windows folder?

Nevermind, I googled it, got all the info I needed. Prolly should have just done that from the start. Sorry

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Nevermind, I googled it, got all the info I needed. Prolly should have just done that from the start. Sorry
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Provide the info you found please always helpful for others reading post

I sure can. actually it's pretty simple. Go to application data/home folder (example-whatever.home) file you want to tweak. email or what ever method you choose to get the file to your PC (I emailed it from my phone to myself). Open on PC and tweak using Notepad. Save your new version under a different name or same name and Autosync back to phone and put back in same folder and away you go with your new personalized homescreen. Let me know if this works for you as well. I will mess with it tonite and post before and after pics when done.

newbie26 said:
I sure can. actually it's pretty simple. Go to application data/home folder (example-whatever.home) file you want to tweak. email or what ever method you choose to get the file to your PC (I emailed it from my phone to myself). Open on PC and tweak using Notepad. Save your new version under a different name or same name and Autosync back to phone and put back in same folder and away you go with your new personalized homescreen. Let me know if this works for you as well. I will mess with it tonite and post before and after pics when done.
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Kinda the same as what did to alter the colour of text

I think pretty much exactly.

[Q] Status bar dimensions

Hey all, I have a quick question for you.
I am running cm6.1 on a Htc Evo, have a gingerbread theme, and have applied a density of 180. At this density, everything looks awesome - besides the status bar. Is it at all possible to adjust the density, change the size of the graphic, change some code to make the status bar and icon appear larger while still keeping the overall density setting?
Adam

anaglich said:
Hey all, I have a quick question for you.
I am running cm6.1 on a Htc Evo, have a gingerbread theme, and have applied a density of 180. At this density, everything looks awesome - besides the status bar. Is it at all possible to adjust the density, change the size of the graphic, change some code to make the status bar and icon appear larger while still keeping the overall density setting?
Adam
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u can... if u know how to decompile the framework and change sizes in the specific xml... its doable.
i never checked... but from what u saying the size is pre-set, at least i would think so cuz the status bar image is usually a png 9 image that gets stretched to the pre set size.
i dont have time to try and help u find it and/or much more... but decompliling the framework-res apk and looking at the xmls that have something to do with the status bar (they r named with "status_bar..." usually) should set u in the right direction atleast.

About that, I am not sure how to decompile an apk, although I feel comfortable searching for and adjusting the xml. Thanks for your help.

anaglich said:
About that, I am not sure how to decompile an apk, although I feel comfortable searching for and adjusting the xml. Thanks for your help.
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i've been making animations for the past 2 hours... so ill look real quick.. i'd bet the framework for u dont look much different when it comes to that... ill let u know where it is.

That would be amazing! Thanks again.

anaglich said:
That would be amazing! Thanks again.
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ok... 180 would mean smaller things on the screen right?
anyways... i thought of something u can try without decompiling the apk.
do this.
pull the framework-res out from your /system/framework folder...
keep a backup just in case also.
then... open the apk with 7 zip and extract the "status_bar.xml" from the /res/layout folder.
then take the file u just pulled out and put it inside the res/layout-hdpi/ folder and overwrite the existing one.
that will give u lower sizes/values and such...
now... im not sure if that would help or make it worse... but if u feel like trying it.. knock yourself out... just keep a backup of the original framework so that u can revert.
btw... if it will work... than u would want to basically do the same with the layout-land and layout-land-hdpi folders to take care of landscape also.
there are more file that i might need to move around and such... but if that will work for u... i might be on the right track to helping u do it without decompiling anything.
keep in mind that i never tried it... and i also dont know how the whole changing the dpi even looks like.... so until i really see it and try for myself... im just guessing here.
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oops... just saw u want them bigger...
my bad.
igonre what i just said.
anyways... look inside res/layout-hdpi folder of the decompiled apk.... any files that has to do with "status_bar....xml" u can edit icons sizes and text sizes in it.
i dont have your framework res file and i cant really change things up for u without having it... not to mention that i will need to try different sizes until it looks right.
for me it is set to 38 pixels... so u might wanna go bigger.
i also saw that it basically determine the sizes by the actual icon size... so im not 100% sure here about what to do exactly cuz im obviously not using the same thing as u, so i cant test it out right.
anyways... i would assume it shouldn't be hard to do if u play with some value a little bit.

anaglich said:
About that, I am not sure how to decompile an apk, although I feel comfortable searching for and adjusting the xml. Thanks for your help.
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the statusbar_background.png is the file you are looking for for your status bar and many files for your icons like(stat_sys_wifi_signal_1, stat_sys_wifi_signal_2, 3 , and 4 are all for your wifi signal. They are normal png files not .9.png files so they should not be streched. I dont know if changing the size would do anything for you but you can try. The Apk Manager 4.9 will help you with decompileing and recompileing you apks, here is the link you will find it at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695701 good luck and let us know if it works.

After a change has been made, is it as simple as copy and pasting on to my phone? I have a mac so I am unable to use the Apk Manager. Additionally, it appears every .xml file is in a code unknown to me, and is not editable by changing a figure as there are no numbers visible to change.

I must be doing something wrong or not seeing something. Whenever I edit a .xml file, it loads a bunch of gibberish, rather than code. Or maybe I just don't know what code looks like lol

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I must be doing something wrong or not seeing something. Whenever I edit a .xml file, it loads a bunch of gibberish, rather than code. Or maybe I just don't know what code looks like lol
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I believe your problem with not being able to view/edit the xml's is because straight off the phone, they are binary xml files. If you want to edit them that way you will need a hex editor. Unfortunately, the only way that I know to decompile them is through APK manager. I realize you are on a mac so if you would like, I can decompile your apk and send it back to you.

[Q] how to change system app icons

okay i have searched endlessly both thru here and Google have managed to find a program to do it for you apk edit works great for market apps not so great for system apps tried the way described in the icon thread and that also failed get errors like icon disappears or just doesn't perform its function i.e not making phone calls,opening settings etc... if any one is willing to shed some light on how i can accomplish this please help me

djnarcotics said:
okay i have searched endlessly both thru here and Google have managed to find a program to do it for you apk edit works great for market apps not so great for system apps tried the way described in the icon thread and that also failed get errors like icon disappears or just doesn't perform its function i.e not making phone calls,opening settings etc... if any one is willing to shed some light on how i can accomplish this please help me
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If the only reason you're wanting to change the Icon is for how it appears on your homescreen, then I'd say the easiest way is to use Desktop Visualizer, available in the Market. You can alter/edit/change how the icons are on your homescreen, but the icon will still be the original from within your app drawer, if you use that method. But yea, if it's just for homescreen appearance, that's the easiest way. If that's not what you're after, and you want to change the icon completely, then I beleive you could use 7zip to open up the .apk, find the png for the icon, and replace/alter/edit. I did it that way once, but it was just for a couple of icons, and I was more or less just messing around with things. But it worked fine. Then I learned of Desktop Visualizer and said forget about it.

Also, if you're using a rom that supports easy theming - CM7 with the theme chooser, or MIUI with the theme manager - you could build a quick theme with all of the icons you want to change. I did this with the Aelous HD theme for MIUI by adding the icons that weren't already themed. You put the icons in the "icons" folder with the format packagename.png - it usually looks something like com.something.something.png. I'm sure there's a similar way with CM7 themes.

Easy Way
I use ADW EX. It lets you easily change any app icon. It's a paid app but is really worth it for all the extras. Be aware though, that if you're using a sense rom, ADW will also replace your rosie. Another cool thing about ADW is that there are a ton of icon packs available or you can just dowload pngs from the web and use those.
I'm not 100% sure but I think Launcher Pro also lets you change icons in a similar way.

Well I use go launcher which does basically everything the other launchers do but I want to change the app drawer icons themselves o tried the 7zip method but no avail either the app icon completely disappears or it won't open at all. I.e. browser and system.changing the phone.apk makes the my phone go into FC mania.any other way or is there something I'm missing or just not doing right
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djnarcotics said:
Well I use go launcher which does basically everything the other launchers do but I want to change the app drawer icons themselves o tried the 7zip method but no avail either the app icon completely disappears or it won't open at all. I.e. browser and system.changing the phone.apk makes the my phone go into FC mania.any other way or is there something I'm missing or just not doing right
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The way I do it may seem like the hard way but this is what I do!
I use a program called App Manager 4.9 (google it or search for it on here)
I extract the apk I want to MOD from my EVO using root explorer or if you're on windows and you got ADB working properly, I use the program called DroidExplorer
Anyways, assuming that you got App Manager 4.9 up and running....I place the .apk into the modding folder...bring up App Manager 4.9 and hit 22...select my project, hit 9 for decompile....once that's done, I go into the project folder and find the folder drawable-hdpi....sometimes is called drawable-hdpi-v4 depending on what rom you're using.....I then find the icon I want to change...change it!....and then run up app manager again, press 22...select my project....then hit 11 for compile...once that's done....I either use droidexplorer once again and place it in the correct folder it came from or connect the device to the computer, open up usb storage and place it in a folder...use root explorer to then move it to the correct folder....reboot the device once everything is said and done, and BOOM!...is done!!
Like I said, this is too much work for some people BUT I rather do it this way because I know is done right and I don't have to settle for temporary half ass apps trying do it!

Changing Icon
k2buckley said:
If the only reason you're wanting to change the Icon is for how it appears on your homescreen, then I'd say the easiest way is to use Desktop Visualizer, available in the Market. You can alter/edit/change how the icons are on your homescreen, but the icon will still be the original from within your app drawer, if you use that method. But yea, if it's just for homescreen appearance, that's the easiest way. If that's not what you're after, and you want to change the icon completely, then I beleive you could use 7zip to open up the .apk, find the png for the icon, and replace/alter/edit. I did it that way once, but it was just for a couple of icons, and I was more or less just messing around with things. But it worked fine. Then I learned of Desktop Visualizer and said forget about it.
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Hello,
I have a Samsung Galaxy Young GT-S6312 Dual sim, rooted, deodexed, working cwm.
I used root explorer and extracted secsettings.apk and opened the folder which I extracted. In that I went to res/drawable-hdpi and replaced ic_system_settings.png wit my own icon. I archived the folder and renamed it to .apk and pushed it to system/app and replaced the original apk. I rebooted my phone and got a boot loop. Next time I extracted systemui.apk and went to folder, opened res/drawable-mdpi and replaced the settings icon whith my own icon. After the phone rebooted there was no change in the icon. I actually wanted to change the settings icon fully like on the home screen, app drawer and once I open settings also. Please suggest a method for doing it thanks in advance.
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[REQUEST] How to edit app-drawer background

I really love the new graphic style in Android ICS, especially for the blue fades that replaced those horrible plain black backgrounds in almost every list/app/screen. However, the app drawer background is still completely dark, and I was wondering...is there a .png or a file in the android framework, that lets us customizing the app drawer background opacity or better, the entire drawer background image?
The settings blue fade background would be a lot better of plain black, for example. Can you at least point me to the right direction? Thanks in advance!

The app drawer is part of the launcher, I believe, so poking around inside the launcher's .apk file would probably be a good place to start. That said, I probably know less about modding Android than you do, so I could be dead wrong...

Actually, I think this too - despite I talked about the 'framework'. The problem is, that a common android application is made up by a res folder, full of .pngs and pictures, and a lot of other folders that contain all the .xmls for the app itself, that I never achieved to edit in any way. And because I'm sure the drawer background is part of a style .xml, probably being defined by a string such as "background_color=0,0,0/transparency=0" (example taken by some .xmls edited on PC, I actually have no idea of how these things are written in android), it could be useful to know where to find something like that or how to edit this kind of values ;P

C'mon, I can't believe everyone actually never tought of changing the drawer background! I mean...this is one of the first feature that you -devs of several alt. launchers- will have to add, and so far (think to ADW) it has not been so difficoult! So...please, if you know something on that, point me to the right file or config!
I downloaded Launcher2.apk, extracted it, and gone through each single file inside. And "Drawer Layout" or "Drawer Background" aren't there. What could I do next?

Looking at the Launcher2 source, it is a xml file in the drawables folder named wallpaper_gallery_background.xml.
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wallpaper_gallery_background.xml - it was one of my search result for "backgound" keyword. But I went over it, since I think is related to the wallpaper picker (the little gallery of wallpapers at the bottom of the wallpaper selection screen...). Any other ideas?
p.s.: Happy that finally someone is paying attention to this topic... xda doesn't help people with a few posts or subscribed only some months ago (and that doesn't implies that they're newbie or dumb è_é) in ANY WAY... ;D I think this would be a very appreciated feature, this thread has a lot of views in just 1 day and a half!

I will play around with the source and get back with you.
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Only thing I could find in Launcher2 is in drawable-xhdpi. The first PNG is apps_customize_bg.png and its a black image. Didn't see any XML files related to app drawer, which leads me to think its all hidden in smali code or another apk.
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@AndHel Great! That's the answer I was waiting for! Thank you so much...I hope we'll be able to find something relatively easy to handle ;D
BTW, it would be very interesting knowing a bit more about Android decompiling and modding...if you want, explain me (even very quickly) how will you reach certain files/configurations, if you'll do, when you'll do.
@mb02 Thank you for your efforts too, I hope you're wrong but I fear you're right...absolutely not even a single word that remembers the "app drawer"! Maybe with your patience, we'll find out more!
...and I keep searching around /system for any kind of thing graphic-related to this damned drawer ;P

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@AndHel Great! That's the answer I was waiting for! Thank you so much...I hope we'll be able to find something relatively easy to handle ;D
BTW, it would be very interesting knowing a bit more about Android decompiling and modding...if you want, explain me (even very quickly) how will you reach certain files/configurations, if you'll do, when you'll do.
@mb02 Thank you for your efforts too, I hope you're wrong but I fear you're right...absolutely not even a single word that remembers the "app drawer"! Maybe with your patience, we'll find out more!
...and I keep searching around /system for any kind of thing graphic-related to this damned drawer ;P
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In every iteration of Android prior, including skinned versions (Sense, TW, blur) the app drawer coding and images resided in the launcher (Rosie, Launcher, etc). The naming, however, wasn't ever "app drawer" but "all apps" as drawer was never he official term for the all apps view. Rosie launcher had multiple XML files in the Rosie.apk res/layout folder that dealt with this "all apps" as well as related images. With the absence of anything related to apps in this Launcher2.apk, I feel as though everything was moved to smali or in another apk, unless they cleverly hid it in another XML in Launcher2.
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It's within /res/layout in Launcher2. The file is called apps_customize_pane.xml
Just change the 2 values ff000000 into something else, i.e. bb000000 to make them slightly transparent.

It sounds promising...i thought that file was for a screen called "apps customization"
...may I ask which other letters could I use to increase/decrease opacity? AFAIK, numbers are for color and letters are for alpha...right?
Anyway, thanks so much for this solution! - I'll give it a try as far as I can. BTW, no way to replace a colour with something better, like a .png? Maybe just removing that string, and replacing it with something slightly different...
Edit: I'm having troubles in editing that .xml. Apktool fails decompiling Launcer2.apk probably because I'm using an old version of the android SDK, and this means...that I'm stuck at unreadable .xmls. I'm waiting for the SDK manager to have all updates installed, and then I might be able to finally "undress" this damned drawer ;P

This is likely harder than you expect. A few technical notes (and yes it's possible this will be a Nova feature in the future but it's not officially planned at this time).
1) App drawer is indeed called "AppsCustomizePagedView"
2) When viewing the app drawer, the launcher disables the wallpaper from showing (I believe as an optimization). I think if you made the drawer fully transparent you would see (in order from top to bottom):
Drawer
Smaller sized home screens
Black background
If you're editing source you can prevent the black background by changing updateWallpaperVisibility(). To hide the home screens you'd probably have to change the animation code in showAppsCustomizeHelper which could be a bit tricky.

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This is likely harder than you expect. A few technical notes (and yes it's possible this will be a Nova feature in the future but it's not officially planned at this time).
1) App drawer is indeed called "AppsCustomizePagedView"
2) When viewing the app drawer, the launcher disables the wallpaper from showing (I believe as an optimization). I think if you made the drawer fully transparent you would see (in order from top to bottom):
Drawer
Smaller sized home screens
Black background
If you're editing source you can prevent the black background by changing updateWallpaperVisibility(). To hide the home screens you'd probably have to change the animation code in showAppsCustomizeHelper which could be a bit tricky.
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i managed to get the app drawer transparent and indeed a black background..
but cant find updatewallpapervisibility anywhere
where can it be found? is it a xml or in a xml ?
thnx!

For that you have to edit source files and recompile, it's not just an XML edit.
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Milamber33 said:
For that you have to edit source files and recompile, it's not just an XML edit.
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ok!thnx!
i found the trebuchet source on gethub
i managed to change the source so the black screen and all is gone and the drawer is transparent.. but i cant test it because i dont know how to compile it
can you tell me ? thnx

There are plenty of tutorials on setting up an Android build environment and compiling the source floating around. They will be far more detailed and useful than I could be.
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I did it
I made it transparent its on a thread i started

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I did it
I made it transparent its on a thread i started
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Where is the thread?

Im gonna play around with this a bit when I have the chance....
But, using APKtool to decompile or recompile is very similar....
If you already have apktool all setup with your Roms framework file, and you already decompiled the file...... to recompile, all you have to do is use the command "apktool b foldername"
where folder name is the folder that it decompiled the apk to (likely Launcher2)

Font Change

How do I add a font style to the font section in personalize.

Download a font I am HTC themes app.

I figured someone would answer that.
I meant custom font. One the store doesn't have. I want a font I've been using elsewhere that condensed and bold that maximizes visibility and the amount you see on screen. All the stock fonts I. The store are just too big.

I have not done it on this phone, but on previous phones, it was just a matter of copying the fonts over to system/fonts and setting permissions using a file manager with root access. I assume on this one you don't need to rename the new font to replace the system fonts.

I think flip fonts work. If you search for HTC flip font apks or just search for flip font I think it will work.
I'm pretty sure there is a thread for them. If I find it I will add a link.
All of these work. Well, they should. I tested 2 and they showed up.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2721009
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I'd like to use this font. How do I convert it to work.

Well, copy-pasting to /system/fonts didn't work. There must be some additional file(s) that need to be modified to install them on the M9. I'm going to keep looking and see if I can figure it out.

I think you do need to rename them to take place of the default font, unless you make them a flip font apk. But IDK how to do it. I thought there were instructions in the thread I linked but I couldn't find any. Probably wasn't searching very well though haha
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I think you do need to rename them to take place of the default font, unless you make them a flip font apk. But IDK how to do it. I thought there were instructions in the thread I linked but I couldn't find any. Probably wasn't searching very well though haha
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I know how to do it that way, actually, as it's how you had to do it on the M7. That seems like unnecessary brute force for this phone, since it can accommodate other fonts. Just need to figure out how to install them. I tried unpacking one of those apks but couldn't find the instructions for what it was doing.
I pm'd the OP for help. Maybe he can explain.

There's an XDA-Power-Fonts.apk floating around somewhere here on XDA.... It has like 200 different fonts to choose from? You might search for that and see if your font is in that list?
You just install the .apk and then set it like normal fonts on HTC ROM's.

Wasn't in the apk pack. That's a shame.
https://developer.blackberry.com/design/bb10/typography.html

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Wasn't in the apk pack. That's a shame.
https://developer.blackberry.com/design/bb10/typography.html
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With some help from @cbrown245, I figured out how to do it. I had the location wrong.
Whatever font you want to add has to be renamed DroidSans.ttf and dropped into data/data/HTCFonts/fontFolderName_x (the "x" is a number that may be 1 or 2 or something else).
Replace what's in there wth your font, set permissions to rw-r-r, and reboot. Your system may act up while you're doing this, since you're messing with an active system file.
Alternatively, drop the font into one of the zips in this thread.