Okay I want to make the status bar transparent and the pull down tray as well.
I want something like the transparency the top bar in OSX 10.6. I hate hiding my background and since I'm going for a minimal look, it's awfully distracting.
I tried to make the edits myself in photoshop and went ahead and resigned the .9.png files too. But when I pushed the framework-res.apk file back...only the notification bar had changed. and the pull down bar stayed solid.
Can anyone list for me which files specifically I need to change so I can make the notification bar and pull down tray transparent?
I would go ahead and make the changes myself.
I'm currently on FreshEvo, anyone think it would look better on cm6? or easier?
I found that 85% opacity seemed to work well enough but the black bar on sense was less than ideal, but acceptable. There was a problem with that too, the icons for mail notifications, cell signal, etc had their own black background that showed like black squares, I'd need to know which files to edit for that too.
I'm thinking that the aosp top bar, or if anyone knows of a white/aosp theme for senseroms, would work better.
P.S. The first time I edited my framework-res, I had to re-add all my accounts on the phone? what happened?? lol
All help appreciated
overthinkingme said:
Okay I want to make the status bar transparent and the pull down tray as well.
I want something like the transparency the top bar in OSX 10.6. I hate hiding my background and since I'm going for a minimal look, it's awfully distracting.
I tried to make the edits myself in photoshop and went ahead and resigned the .9.png files too. But when I pushed the framework-res.apk file back...only the notification bar had changed. and the pull down bar stayed solid.
Can anyone list for me which files specifically I need to change so I can make the notification bar and pull down tray transparent?
I would go ahead and make the changes myself.
I'm currently on FreshEvo, anyone think it would look better on cm6? or easier?
I found that 85% opacity seemed to work well enough but the black bar on sense was less than ideal, but acceptable. There was a problem with that too, the icons for mail notifications, cell signal, etc had their own black background that showed like black squares, I'd need to know which files to edit for that too.
I'm thinking that the aosp top bar, or if anyone knows of a white/aosp theme for senseroms, would work better.
P.S. The first time I edited my framework-res, I had to re-add all my accounts on the phone? what happened?? lol
All help appreciated
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in launcher pro, making the status bar transparent wont matter becuase there needs to be a wallpaper hack i believe, unless you use a live wallpaper, the transparency will show. All the files are in the framework-res.apk that you need to change i believe, aside from the pulldown tray, that is the services.jar. i could post my theme for ya, but it changes everything.
What is your theme? Maybe there's a framework-res in it I could take a peek at to compare your edits.
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brock1909 said:
in launcher pro, making the status bar transparent wont matter becuase there needs to be a wallpaper hack i believe, unless you use a live wallpaper, the transparency will show. All the files are in the framework-res.apk that you need to change i believe, aside from the pulldown tray, that is the services.jar. i could post my theme for ya, but it changes everything.
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What do you edit in services.jar? I cant find the reference to it... the pulldown tray, that is, making it transparent.
The bars in your bottom picture are in framework-res/drawable-hdpi/
-status_bar_background.png
-status_bar_header_background.9.png
-statusbar_background.png
-status_bar_close_on.9.png
In that order
You need to edit all of the status bar icons also they have black blocks behind all of them. Like stat_notify_disk_full.png there are some in framework-res and some in com.htc.resources
The white part can only be made transparent with services.jar. I know there are downloads of it on here just do a search for services.jar.
Manup has a bunch for download that make it transparent and remove the clock and stuff.
Here is a guide on how to make your own
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7739623&postcount=53
Thank you, answered my question fully.
Would I be correct to assume that in cm6, all the status bar icons have white blocks begins them?
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i came across this in the "post your galaxy nexus homescreen" thread - http://zomx.deviantart.com/art/Galaxy-Nexus-v1-273157433?offset=10#comments
and i really like how smooth it looks. i particularly like how the colors for the icons in the notification bar (wifi, 3g, time) are a darker shade of blue.
can someone help me change the colors of the icons to match these?
thanks!
Hey i working on some nav bar icons but i cant seem to make them different colors, as in they always come out as only one color. Is there a way to get more than one color for them? ignore me i realized i had a particular color picked in rom control wow i feel silly
bethanensinger said:
Hey i working on some nav bar icons but i cant seem to make them different colors, as in they always come out as only one color. Is there a way to get more than one color for them? ignore me i realized i had a particular color picked in rom control wow i feel silly
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I had this same issue for a while. For me I found a way around it, maybe it will work for you. I ended up making the nav bar an image and the different colored icons part of the nav bar image. Then I made the actual icons transparent. As long as the icon order is the same as the order of the icons in the nav bar image, you would be good to go. You can see some examples here http://www.galaxynexusmods.com/nav-status-bars
Hope that helped. Let me know if you have any questions
kgunderson said:
I had this same issue for a while. For me I found a way around it, maybe it will work for you. I ended up making the nav bar an image and the different colored icons part of the nav bar image. Then I made the actual icons transparent. As long as the icon order is the same as the order of the icons in the nav bar image, you would be good to go. You can see some examples here http://www.galaxynexusmods.com/nav-status-bars
Hope that helped. Let me know if you have any questions
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for me i just had to reset my nav bar so that i had un selected a color
I would like to ask on how to change the status bar from Gingerbread to Froyo theme? Is this possible on a Stock S5360 Rom?
I've been searching for a mod through google and I can't find any.
What I want to do is to make a white statusbar with black text and icons. I used UOT Kitchen and flashed the zip. What happened was the notification area changed but the status bar remained the same. So I opened the framework-res.apk and edited the .png files.
My dilemma is I can't read some of the icons since they are still white in color. Then I found the Froyo statusbar which is an easier alternative for my project.
Thanks
You can do that with UOT Kitchen, just set the status bar background colour to #FFFFFF and the text #000000. Use the previews!
I've done some searching and I haven't seen any tips on how, if possible, to create a solid gradient progress bar. I'm not talking about changing colors or having sections, I mean for the entire bar's foreground color. Unfortunately, I can't post an example as a new user, so you'll have to look up "gradient progress bar". And I should clarify that I don't mean from 1 color to another, but from multiple colors. I've figured out the best way, for now, is to have multiple gradient bars that are connected and have the same beginning/ending color, but that fails when curving the bars because it's impossible to match ends exactly.