Hi there,
I'm slowly coming to grips with some of Android's inner workings.
I have inserted new icons into Framework-res.apk (the ones that you see when you press menu on your home screen) to add some colour. These work file with the Default android loader. But with ADW launcher, the 'notification' icon is grey, like it was before i put the coloured ones in the framework-res file. I pulled the adw apk and looked inside and found that it uses a couple of its own icons, and the notification icon is the default grey one. So i inserted the coloured one into the apk (using the same method i did with the framework-res.apk, winrar and store) and pushed it back. ADW was, after the reboot, non existant. I navigated to the data/app directory and attempted to manually installed it, but it said 'application not installed'.
So I gather that there is something wrong with the way i am editing the APK.
I know that some of the themes out there change the icons in these applications, i just wonder how.
Thanks for reading!
Josh.
Take a look at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=724778
Want to have my widgets (GenieWidget, Twitter etc.) transparent.
Any suggestions?
Exchange the graphics inside the APKs.
Indeed. There's no easy way to do it. You need to open apk file and change the graphic files inside it.
There are some themes like UltraLinx's Minimalistic and Minimal Matte Grey that have the widgets modified already including GenieWidget.
Does anyone know how to change your icons to the ones like MIUI ? Lowriders themes had them but it doesnt work with MYN 5. Im currently usingin riptide,like the folders look but want MIUI icons
You could replace each .apk icon yourself.
Just find the .png for the icon in each ROM and replace them.
Havent done this myself but you could prolly use Desktop Visualizer and make your own icons... I've made a bunch of them and it's really not that hard, esp once you get one made... I use GIMP
KommyDroid said:
You could replace each .apk icon yourself.
Just find the .png for the icon in each ROM and replace them.
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Where are those Icons located on my phone?
I have been using Nils Gingersense for two days now and love it. One problem I have is the notification icons are ugly. I used to have Riptide's status bar Mod on Chingy's Incredibly Reengineered ROM and love those icons. Is there a way to get those on Gingersense? I have tried to Metamorph like in Inc Reen. but it didn't work. Any help is greatly appreciated.
You'd have to get the icons you want, and use a program like 7zip to open the framework-res.apk and com.htc.resources.apk to add the icons, as that's where they live. I haven't seen any mods for this really as far as full blown themes go, but that'd be how you'd do it.
You could use ADB to pull the framework-res and com.htc.resources apk's from your phone to see if the icon names match. If not, you'd have to rename the icons you want to the names of the icons that exist in the apks already. If you simply just replace the icons with new ones and they are named something different, it won't work. Make sense?
Anyone knows if we can modify themes via the phone files or maybe even create one ? The theme market s*cks so bad and wich i could implant an icon pack. (I miss nova launcher for that feature)
Thanks ?
You would think they have some kind of theme maker since they have a theme store on the Chinese version. If you look at .NubiaTheme/theme_infos/using/icons the icons file is just a zip file with the icons in it. Maybe they can be changed in there. And also take a look at description.xml I would but don't have time at the moment.
Icons seems to be packaged in a root file. Cant open. Description xml is empty ??*
Rename icons and add the .zip extension then you can look what's inside. Also use a note editor of some sort to read the xml files.
I use the theme apk and downloaded one of the free themes. It put the them in .NubiaThemes/theme_infos I was able to change the wallpaper and icons and went back into the theme app and was able to apply the theme with the new wallpapers and icons. So by doing this you can make your own custom themes.
I found out you can change other things like the background of the dialer, messages, etc... But need the xml config file from a theme that has the items listed so I know what I can change. And you can preset your fonts in the xml also. I've tried all the free ones they have so far and there pretty much the same, different main background and icons. There has to be a default file that has that info in it. I will try and guess what the config is maybe I will get somewhere.
Ok cuz even my friend who creates themes for android is baffled.... xD
Download activity launcher and search Nubia theme within the application. That allows you to change to nubias provided themes
Here is an idea of what you can change
Im not talking about simply changing or mixing themes. Talking about edit the xml file to be able to change every color,menus or icon the way you want.
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i replaced most of the icons and renamed them to match the apps and all but a few worked I did about 30so far Im still needing the names to a few like the playstore etc...
So what i did was took the icon folder renamed it to icon.zip then uncompressed it removed all the icons so I could get an idea of the names of them and one by one replaced them.
Then I zipped the res folder thats inside of icons and named it icons.zip , renamed it to just icons remove the .zip and copy back in the theme folder where it came from. Change to that theme and your icons will be changed.
So here is an example I wanted to change chrome's icon. I found the icon I wanted to use and named it com.android.chrome.png put that in the icon folder and your done now you have to go in and replace each and find the names of them.
Here is a screen shot of mine changed but the playstore and some google apps I havent worked on yet.
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i replaced most of the icons and renamed them to match the apps and all but a few worked I did about 30so far Im still needing the names to a few like the playstore etc...
So what i did was took the icon folder renamed it to icon.zip then uncompressed it removed all the icons so I could get an idea of the names of them and one by one replaced them.
Then I zipped the res folder thats inside of icons and named it icons.zip , renamed it to just icons remove the .zip and copy back in the theme folder where it came from. Change to that theme and your icons will be changed.
So here is an example I wanted to change chrome's icon. I found the icon I wanted to use and named it com.android.chrome.png put that in the icon folder and your done now you have to go in and replace each and find the names of them.
Here is a screen shot of mine changed but the playstore and some google apps I havent worked on yet.
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What was the source folder of the icons ? Ive tried using the icon folder from sdcard/.nubiatheme/ theme_mix/using but didnt work
Sorry about that, input the wrong folder in my previous post. It's actually theme_infos I just now saw it and went back and corrected it.
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Sorry about that, input the wrong folder in my previous post. It's actually theme_infos I just now saw it and went back and corrected it.
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That folder is empty for me ?
Make sure you have the theme.apk from the Chinese phone version installed. Then go into the theme store and pick a free thrme down load it and it will show up in theme_infos then you'll see a folder with a bunch of numbers and letters. Just pick one and that will be your theme you will make the changes in . When you change the preview wallpaper it will show like that in the store also of themes you own.
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Make sure you have the theme.apk from the Chinese phone version installed. Then go into the theme store and pick a free thrme down load it and it will show up in theme_infos then you'll see a folder with a bunch of numbers and letters. Just pick one and that will be your theme you will make the changes in . When you change the preview wallpaper it will show like that in the store also of themes you own.
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Alright. It worked. Like you said some app will not work but most of em does.
But we now miss matching icons for other apps ? guess i can extract icons from an icon pack and pick from there.
On the other hand, i really like the dark grey and red themed international defaut icons. (Someone who have so time could create an extra alternate edition international icon pack that includes more designs for other apps, hey we can dream, right??)
Thanks for the know how ! Its appreciated.
Almost every icon can be changed, but somehow some of them just wont work. (Calendar, Clock, Pool Break Pro and Textra) All the other ive tested works. (104/108apps)
That looks good.
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That looks good.
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Tx. (Blacker icon pack)
Im not searching for a way to replace the settings menu icons.. ive found the signal icons (wifi, blutooth, data etc) from memubar but nothing else about the menu icons.
usergentoo said:
i replaced most of the icons and renamed them to match the apps and all but a few worked I did about 30so far Im still needing the names to a few like the playstore etc...
So what i did was took the icon folder renamed it to icon.zip then uncompressed it removed all the icons so I could get an idea of the names of them and one by one replaced them.
Then I zipped the res folder thats inside of icons and named it icons.zip , renamed it to just icons remove the .zip and copy back in the theme folder where it came from. Change to that theme and your icons will be changed.
So here is an example I wanted to change chrome's icon. I found the icon I wanted to use and named it com.android.chrome.png put that in the icon folder and your done now you have to go in and replace each and find the names of them.
Here is a screen shot of mine changed but the playstore and some google apps I havent worked on yet.
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Where can I find this animated wallpaper of rm5g? It was on 4.06 but lost in 4.09.
Thank