So thought i'd plunge into theming our galaxy s, I downloaded apk manager, decompiled framewrok-res & systemUI , opend up photoshop started colouring a few png's, but the images are nice and smooth before i edit them, but after i i recolour them and save their all blocky and look very pixelated... should i use a different photo editor? Ive tried Paint.Net also but same effect..
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Hi, it's just that i want to change the font colour of my rom (it's still is in beta mode and i haven't post it, but it'll soon come). My rom is based on the framework of the nexus s and its systemui.apk so everything is the same, but when im at any place and i press the button left to the home button, and it displays the extra options, the extra options are in the same colour as the font (black) and i can't see it. I would just copy the xml files on the nexus s framework (i suppose it's located there), but its far better if i learn how to change it myself. I'm a bit noob at rom cooking, and i know the basics, how to edit the framework, edditing apk's appearance, cooking it, making it into a flasheable zip, but the thing i don't know is how to this.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks
If I'correct then in twframework in /res/values should be xml file color.xml and in there should be color hex code with most colors used in theme or in /res/drawable is quite few xml files for some menus. You edit xml with some better editor. Hope this can jelp a little rrst will theme modders add
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00.ante said:
If I'correct then in twframework in /res/values should be xml file color.xml and in there should be color hex code with most colors used in theme or in /res/drawable is quite few xml files for some menus. You edit xml with some better editor. Hope this can jelp a little rrst will theme modders add
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Thanks a lot
Going to try it tomorrow, will post results
No success...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=9664604#post9664604
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?
I'm trying to theme some images from mms.apk, stat_notify_sms.png, I've decompiled the apk using apktool and they come out .png some 9.png. I load it into photoshop this is what I get
http://i42.tinypic.com/35isq3t.jpg
In every tutorial I've read on editing 9.png's or png's from an apk they just say there's a simple black line on either side and to not touch them but this has them all around and there's extra white pixels there too that when colored and essentially going around the black borders on the sides it looks like there's a colored border around the image and the overall image just looks like crap after saving. The image comes out looking pixelated.
How do I fix this? obviously I'm not doing it right and I can't find an in-depth tutorial that wasn't written for someone who already knows what they're doing.
Its only 9.png's that have that border. It just marks up which parts of the image can be stretched and which can't. If the image size is changed to fit a different size space.
You dont need to decompile to change normal .png's in the apk's. Just unzip to get the images then drag and drop the modded images into the apk with winrar etc..
Are your png's still bad if you open them with gimp?
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Welp I just downloaded GIMP and it opens up the png without all the black borders so now I can edit them just fine. I always use photoshop and I wish it would have worked in it but this will have to do. Thank you.
no problem
when i used to theme my desire, photoshop used to do some strange things to my png's. gimp or paintshop pro work fine though.
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Welp I just downloaded GIMP and it opens up the png without all the black borders so now I can edit them just fine. I always use photoshop and I wish it would have worked in it but this will have to do. Thank you.
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If you decompile and edit .9 pngs, you need to run them through draw9patch before recompiling, else they will look rubbish when stretched. draw9patch is included in the sdk.
I've been playing around with the theme engine on CM9 nightlies and want to tweak one of the existing theme apks from the market for my own use, specifically the purple holo. I've been trying to integrate yellow into it for a schnazy purple/yellow theme starting with the dialer.
So here's the snag: I have no errors nor problems decompiling the theme apk. I go into the drawable file(s) (hdpi, mdpi and I believe xhdpi) and copy the dialer icons and proceed to edit them in gimp, changing them to yellow. I save them as .pngs. and then drop them back into their respected drawable folders.
Now I recompile, again, no errors or problems. Sign the apk and then push it to my phone. It installs just fine. HOWEVER when I go to switch to the theme via the integrated theme engine I states that it was not compiled properly and to contact the author.
So what am I missing? Do I actually need to edit an XML or something? I never changed any names or locations of any of the files. I'm new to themeing and trying to started on personal projects, maybe one day create my own from scratch. Any help from all you masters out there would be appreciated.
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Edited to include a market link of the theme I'm trying to alter:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.cerqueira.theme.Purple
I hate pngs since there's no datecreated support and it ****s up my galleries when sorting pngs out. Is there anyway to change screenshots to be jpg rather than png?