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Make dock icons transparent

hi guys.. i need some help..
cause i didnt get an answer at Q/A ill give it a try here..
looking for the answer the hole evening, but i dont find it..
you probably can see my problem when looking at the screen..
the background of the icons at my dock is not transparent..
and i dont know how to make them transparent...
tried everything..
googled for it for hours ....

try using transparent background icons?

It depends on what launcher you are using.
If you are using LauncherPro its in the display->dock settings
If you are using Touchwiz then you will need to change the dock background ping in TWFramework.apk, there's tutorials on here for changing themes in TW
I can't advise on ADW as I've not used it for about a year

Im using adw ex ...
When I take icons from gingerbread theme they are transparent... But when I take different ones ( I.e. the ones from launcher pro ) they are not transparent
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Download gimp from internet. Open your icons with gimp then select transparency on the right top in the layer toolbox. Save your image. Your icons done transparent

gomek111222 said:
Download gimp from internet. Open your icons with gimp then select transparency on the right top in the layer toolbox. Save your image. Your icons done transparent
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^ This ^
You'll probably find the icons you are using don't have transparency set in them, you'll ned to edit the .png files

I already tried with transparent mode at my draw program.. Using mac, I don't have photo shop or sth like that... Guesd it's called " don't show background " ... But it just affect the drawing program and not the png file ...
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Ah. I just saw, gimp is also available for mac, il give it a try tomorrow,
Thanks
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I tried the launcher pro icon pack app .... Still not working, and those icons should be transparent, shouldn't they?
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ok i downloaded gimp .. made icons transparent .. saved the png ...still not transparent on my phone

[Q] red sliding tabs, loading bars, and volume bar....

Bear with me guys....I know this is a question and would be better suited in Q&A but Idt anyone in there would no the answer.....I want a red themes phone.....I was able to do the keyboard with HTC IME and I used uot kitchen for the status bar and icons. But I want more than just this....I want to make my sliding tabs on my lockscreen red with red icons. I also want red loading bars and status bars.....pretty much anything that was white I want to make red.....is there any way I can do this?
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You need to edit images if your using cm7 or a Gingerbread Tom its in framework-res in the framework folder and in SystemUI on the app folder as for sense you will need to edit files in the HTC resources apk its in the framework folder if its a sense 2.0 Tom then inside of the I believe customize folder find an apk to edit(that is if your wanting to be able to resourt to stock theme) and edit that or just edit the HTC resource file like mentioned for sense sorry if there are any mistakes in this I'm on my phone and can't check for proper names of the locations.
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Ok thanks for the info....what programs are out there that are good for editing these apks? I'm sorry I'm new to editing apks and this is my learning experience!
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Well to edit the images in the apk just change the .apk to .zip and look through it for the files you want to edit they will be images as for the txt you will need to edit the services.jar there is a guide on here somewhere that tells you how to do it just Google changing txt color in android notification bar.
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I'm not worried about text color I already did the notification bar I'm more concerned with the lock tabs and loading bars....the small green accents here and there
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Those are in framework-res if your on an aosp rom so just open it up and play around.
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Also what program should I use to edit xml documents?
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That's something I'm not exactly sure of you will need to decompile the apk first if I remember correctly then u edit never took the time to research how to decompile bit after its decompiled you should be able to use several programs just Google for one
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Well I changed apk to zip and then extracted....there weren't a lot of images but there were a lot of xml documents that had titles that looked like they were for what I needed to edit so now I just need to figure out how to edit them....I know a lot of html and basic javascript so from my understanding it should be easy but my version of visual studio won't let me edit xml.....I need another program....recommendations?
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Go into it and look for the hdpi folders there should be about 600 images if your in framework-res
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Found it....looks like quite a job! Any idea where I could find replacement icons without having to re edit all of these?
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Just edit the hue in Photoshop or paint.net its real easy I use paint.net plus its free and lightweight only 3 megs and does a great job
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So I'm using paint.net to work my way through the hdpi images....when I'm done do I just rezip the framework file with the stuff set to store and then change extension to .apk and then rezip the Rom and flash it? Idk how to apply my changes
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Yup
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sick i just finished editing com.htc.resources.apk and framework-res.apk.....i changed anything that was green to red and im letting my phone build a bit of a charge before i flash it....wish me luck

elixir911911 said:
sick i just finished editing com.htc.resources.apk and framework-res.apk.....i changed anything that was green to red and im letting my phone build a bit of a charge before i flash it....wish me luck
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Flash it? Did you make an updater for it or did you replace the files in a ROM that you're going to flash? I personally just push the .apk via ADB shell.

How did it go
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I did the xml editing for all the status bars, vol bars etc on my old Eris to change them to blue. Wasn't too bad, just extracted the XML where the current colors were all listed then edited the raw xml with a hex editor and put the new colors in (backwards) then applied, was pretty cool....

edited alll the files that I wanted and re packed them into my rom (skyraider) then just flashed the rom as if it were a nightly update (no wipe data/factory reset).....It worked great! I mucked a few things up here and there but overall it looks very slick....I've officially made my first theme for skyraider 4.0! Wasn't too hard at all....But now that I've done all this work there's a few images I can't seem to find that I want to change the color of....Mainly the highlights press color on the select a connection type dropdown and more importantly the volume popup bar when you increase the phone volume. Also I'm interested in trying to edit some apps like the market and the messages list......and my keyboard so I can get rid of the green in the candidates bar but unfortunately I think these apps are "signed" or something.....Does anyone have information on editing apks like that? when I try to edit them it seems to work correctly until I try to install it on my phone....Input on how to change these apps and the volume bar and everything else stated would be greatly appreciated.....And many thanks to odst for being as helpful as he has been with all of this. This has been a great learning experience

x2kjosh said:
I did the xml editing for all the status bars, vol bars etc on my old Eris to change them to blue. Wasn't too bad, just extracted the XML where the current colors were all listed then edited the raw xml with a hex editor and put the new colors in (backwards) then applied, was pretty cool....
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Sorry I didn''t realize you had posted the answer to my question about vol. bars.....Where do I find this xml and more importantly how the hell do I open and edit it? I can't figure out how to open these xml's for the life of me

Theme help?

How would I go about changing the color of the battery icon, 3g icon and everything else in the notification bar and notification area in a theme I didn't build?
Or change the entire color scheme of a finished theme?
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theduce102 said:
How would I go about changing the color of the battery icon, 3g icon and everything else in the notification bar and notification area in a theme I didn't build?
Or change the entire color scheme of a finished theme?
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You'll need the framework-res.apk. Open it with winrar or 7zip, navigate to /res, and drag the folder drawable-hdpi to your desktop or wherever. Inside there you'll find a lot of images that you may or may not want to alter. Once altered, go back to that framework-res.apk that you have opened but not altered, delete the matching .png, and simply drag your altered .png into the archive. That's the simplest way to make changes, as decompiling/recompiling a themed framework usually yields issues.

Edit....
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Thank you.... I changed the color of the regular icons for the dock and homescreen so I guess its about the same
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I DID IT although I must say I am no graphic designer lol it looks like a 5year old took a crayon to this theme lol ill practice my new found skills
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Just so you know, the notification icons for messaging and email and stuff are in the apks themselves. If you need any help let me know.

Yeah it took me a little while and then I was like oh wait you can look inside apks with winrar and I found the res folder so im coloring everything right now.... so .... many..... files.... its gonna take a while.... could I take maddoggin's 6 lock screen mod and just drop it in the theme or is there some files I would have to change first to accomplish this
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How do you make the edges of an icon clear... I changed the lockscreen sliders icon and the edge of the icon is hanging over the slider
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SYSTEMUI

Who has been able to decompile and compile CM9 ICS Beta1 SystemUI.APK? My status bar messes up when I compile. It will work but I must get a notification first. Help out if you have done! My theme wont be complete without it!
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I have been able to decompile and compile with APK Manager 5. However I did notice that I was no longer able to restore the nandroid without it messing up. So I pulled the modded xmls out of the compiled modded systemui and placed them into the stock systemui then did my png edits and swaps and it works. Maybe that is similiar to the trouble you are having.

I have tried that before but my status bar will work. It will only work after I get a notification. Then every notification after that I it shows slanted black lines next to the notification. In other words it goes black
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joe_d08_17 said:
I have tried that before but my status bar will work. It will only work after I get a notification. Then every notification after that I it shows slanted black lines next to the notification. In other words it goes black
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What files are you tring to edit? Just pngs or xml?
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.9.png's.
But both cus I want the center clock mod
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I followed Shane's xml edit and did not have to edit any 9.pngs. works petfectly in my KGNlues theme for CM9.
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[Q] Change images in a Cm10 Theme?

How do I change images out of themes for cm10? Like lets say I want a black pulldown bar or black settings background how would I do this? I tried opening up the png in photoshop and making it black, saving it as the same exact name and put it back in the .apk but when I try to install it doesn't work. Would appreciate any help, Thanks.

You need to recompile the theme
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You need to recompile the theme
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How would I do that?

You would need to decompile it first, the pulldown background is a .9.png so you would have to make whatever is inside the .9 border, if you screw up the border by the slightest it wont compile correctly. So i would suggest you keep you work area selected within the border. Then once you've made the corrections recompile and sign the apk. Otherwise it wont install.
You'll have to google how to decompile and signing apk's.. its relatively easy.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10965186&postcount=3
good day.

Just extract the theme, edit/replace what you want, then zip it and flash.