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how to make a "light" theme

i really like how the people app looks in ics
can i edit framework to change the settings menu background to the white color in the people apk? as well as change the text to black so i can actually see it? maybe even make the dialer have a white background as well. thanks for any help i would love to make ics more of a "light" theme.
EDIT: is it possible to change the image in frame work labeled (not sure on the name) holo_background_dark.png, if i did replace this how to i change the font to be dark as well

a lot of text issues arise when making a white theme. more so than just changing the text color in framework and sysui

It's possible, of course, but the fact that you are asking those questions warrants the answer 'but not advisable for YOU to mess with it'.
It's not simple as 'changing one background/text color'.
Edit: if you are really determined to do it, take a look at this: https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AcdxIJRSH9ypZGZzc2pxNDlfMjdnazk4OHNxZA&hl=en&pli=1

MilkPudding said:
It's possible, of course, but the fact that you are asking those questions warrants the answer 'but not advisable for YOU to mess with it'.
It's not simple as 'changing one background/text color'.
Edit: if you are really determined to do it, take a look at this: https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AcdxIJRSH9ypZGZzc2pxNDlfMjdnazk4OHNxZA&hl=en&pli=1
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thank you for the guide.
my title isn't really clear on what im doing, its not necessarily a whole theme, i still want to keep all apks the same as well as the status bar and stuff, but more or less changing the background image of the settings menu to white by extracting the frame work and replacing the gradient grey png with a white one and then changing the font in the settings menu to a dark grey. which works in root explorer alone. i just need to find out how to change the font color. which could probably be done by putting in a hex code to a system file right?
if not o well atleast i tried lol, hopefully there will be a light theme soon.

andrewlax120 said:
thank you for the guide.
my title isn't really clear on what im doing, its not necessarily a whole theme, i still want to keep all apks the same as well as the status bar and stuff, but more or less changing the background image of the settings menu to white by extracting the frame work and replacing the gradient grey png with a white one and then changing the font in the settings menu to a dark grey. which works in root explorer alone. i just need to find out how to change the font color. which could probably be done by putting in a hex code to a system file right?
if not o well atleast i tried lol, hopefully there will be a light theme soon.
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framework-res.apk in no-dpi folder, is the gradient background png.

[Q] To themers: name of an image

Trying to theme my status bar dropdown, and it's driving me insane.
I replaced the quicksettings and clear notifications icons, but when pressing them they get a green overlay.
Right now I'm trying to find out where this is controlled. Must be one of the .xmls or in smali, but so far I had no luck finding anything.
Anyone else know where to look?

KamikaZeeFu said:
Trying to theme my status bar dropdown, and it's driving me insane.
I replaced the quicksettings and clear notifications icons, but when pressing them they get a green overlay.
Right now I'm trying to find out where this is controlled. Must be one of the .xmls or in smali, but so far I had no luck finding anything.
Anyone else know where to look?
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I'm facing the same dillema. I bet it's in smali somewhere... if we're lucky it calls the RGB value from an XML we can change somewhere.

NRGZ28 said:
I'm facing the same dillema. I bet it's in smali somewhere... if we're lucky it calls the RGB value from an XML we can change somewhere.
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I checked most of the xmls in systemui and had no luck finding anything. If it calls an xml, then it most likely sits in com.htc.resources.apk which would suck :/
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KamikaZeeFu said:
Trying to theme my status bar dropdown, and it's driving me insane.
I replaced the quicksettings and clear notifications icons, but when pressing them they get a green overlay.
Right now I'm trying to find out where this is controlled. Must be one of the .xmls or in smali, but so far I had no luck finding anything.
Anyone else know where to look?
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It's skinned blue in our Rom so its not in resources. I'm pretty sure it's in framework-res.apk values/colors.xml. holo_green_light & holo_green_dark
But to be sure I'll ask our lead dev sergio tomorrow.

rayford85 said:
It's skinned blue in our Rom so its not in resources. I'm pretty sure it's in framework-res.apk values/colors.xml. holo_green_light & holo_green_dark
But to be sure I'll ask our lead dev sergio tomorrow.
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Thanks I'll give it a try
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since it will be changed if one applies a HTC Sense theme, and the Matte theme for instance has a blue on pressed color i did a quick apktool d Matte.apk
i found no graphics file inside but i found this inside /res/values/colors.xml
Code:
<color name="overlay_color">#ff0087b4</color>

endursa said:
since it will be changed if one applies a HTC Sense theme, and the Matte theme for instance has a blue on pressed color i did a quick apktool d Matte.apk
i found no graphics file inside but i found this inside /res/values/colors.xml
Code:
<color name="overlay_color">#ff0087b4</color>
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Yeah it doesn't do what we want it to do though
I found it's easier to just put all your changes in a skin that's already got blue highlights, such as aluminum or matte. Now if I could only get rid of the black clock in the Matte theme I'd be golden!

endursa said:
since it will be changed if one applies a HTC Sense theme, and the Matte theme for instance has a blue on pressed color i did a quick apktool d Matte.apk
i found no graphics file inside but i found this inside /res/values/colors.xml
Code:
<color name="overlay_color">#ff0087b4</color>
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Nice catch, too bad that the default skin is com.htc.resources.apk, which can't really be edited atm until apktool is updated.
Edit: with your hint I think it's "<color name="multiply_color">#ff00beff</color>" under values/colors.xml. for stock HTC theme, I think it's in SystemUI.apk, trying it out now.
Edit2: yup, that's the value that colors the icon on press . Editing SystemUI.apk is enough. Bear in mind that the color gets overlaid as a multiply layer (think Photoshop)

Yeah that makes sense with the multiply overlay
It was late yesterday when i posted my findings :-D
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White Power Control Widget.

Could anyone please help me out?
I'd really like a white power control widget if it's possible, I've searched around but I really can't find anything for the ICS, I looked up Extended Controls, but I'd rather use the stock controls.
Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!

I have just decompiled the HtcPowerStripWidget.apk and searched through the image and xml files nothing has color values, but there are 2 m10 files. But as of now it is not possible to edit the m10 images yet.

Would it be possible to remove the Indicator, background and the dividers of the Power Control widget so it just shows the buttons?

D3VICE said:
Would it be possible to remove the Indicator, background and the dividers of the Power Control widget so it just shows the buttons?
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toolhas4degrees said:
I have just decompiled the HtcPowerStripWidget.apk and searched through the image and xml files nothing has color values, but there are 2 m10 files. But as of now it is not possible to edit the m10 images yet.
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Quiksilver78 said:
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure he stated ''COLOR VALUES''.
And I'm also kind of sure that the indicators, dividers and the background do not fall under the color values, or do they?

D3VICE said:
Would it be possible to remove the Indicator, background and the dividers of the Power Control widget so it just shows the buttons?
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This is exactly what I too am looking for. Anybody have any idea where and how to install this?
Running stock everything.

D3VICE said:
Yeah, I'm pretty sure he stated ''COLOR VALUES''.
And I'm also kind of sure that the indicators, dividers and the background do not fall under the color values, or do they?
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The key sentence was that, at the moment, you cannot edit m10 files. Therefore, this cannot be done
I'd love to be able to edit the dock myself, but alas I cannot.

Sorry for off topic but White Power Control Widget made me laugh so much.As long as you can control them just shut them down please

[Q][SOLVED!] How to make transparent pulldown background ?

Hi guys
I'am wondering how to make transparent pulldown background on 4.0.4 Samsung ics roms for our GS3 ?
I managed to do it properly on GS2 but tried many things from GS2 and it didn't worked, it's all black.
I'am pretty sure that it's a line code color to modify somewhere in SystemUI.apk, but can't find it, unfortunately.
Saw some themes in this section which was included it, so this feature is possible :laugh:
Any advice or small tutorial is welcomed !
If I find the solution before, I will post it here on this post.
Many thanks! :good:

Try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766566
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vicky4slayer said:
Try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766566
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Thanks for your answer, but the guys answer on your thread don't tell where is exactly the value of the background he modified
Nobody has an idea ?

AndroidGX said:
Thanks for your answer, but the guys answer on your thread don't tell where is exactly the value of the background he modified
Nobody has an idea ?
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Just search "android:background" in that xml file.

(see below)

jnr21 said:
Just search "android:background" in that xml file.
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Thanks for your message.
I replaced 8 matches of "android:background" by #00000000 code color as said in the thread, in "tw_status_bar_expanded.xml" file, and it's still not working, everything is still black.
By the way, why choosing #00000000 color code instead of #00FFFFFF ? this last one is the color code of full transparency.

Just made a new test.
In "res/values/drawable.xml" I changed all "background" and "_bg" values to #00FFFFFF which is the color code of 100% transparent.
Made 2 test flashable zips :
test1 : stock png's = still no transparency
test2 : with my modified transparent png's = still no transparency
I remarked something interesting.
When device comes to homescreen, before it finish loading some widgets, when I try to pulldown notification bar, this one comes transparent like I want at the first centimeters I try to open it, and before coming to the bottom, came black again, and stay black then.
Maybe the source of the problem is somewhere else. I'am using Go Launcher EX, and remember one tips : using high quality drawings can help to get transparency in some cases : not mine. Tried to activate the transparency notification bar : not working.
Any other help would be appreciated.

AndroidGX said:
Just made a new test.
In "res/values/drawable.xml" I changed all "background" and "_bg" values to #00FFFFFF which is the color code of 100% transparent.
Made 2 test flashable zips :
test1 : stock png's = still no transparency
test2 : with my modified transparent png's = still no transparency
I remarked something interesting.
When device comes to homescreen, before it finish loading some widgets, when I try to pulldown notification bar, this one comes transparent like I want at the first centimeters I try to open it, and before coming to the bottom, came black again, and stay black then.
Maybe the source of the problem is somewhere else. I'am using Go Launcher EX, and remember one tips : using high quality drawings can help to get transparency in some cases : not mine. Tried to activate the transparency notification bar : not working.
Any other help would be appreciated.
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You have to look in drawable/layout/tw_status_bar.xml in the 2line look for android:background
and tw_status_bar_expandet.xml in the same line
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pepi1234 said:
You have to look in drawable/layout/tw_status_bar.xml in the 2line look for android:background
and tw_status_bar_expandet.xml in the same line
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Solved my problem this afternoon, but yes you were right, it was in "tw_status_bar.xml" that I found my solution
Thanks for watching :good:

Closed per the OP's request as solved

[Q] How to get 3 color gradient

When defining the Fill Mode of a Gradient progress bar, the FG color and Additional Color options seem to define beginning and end gradient colors. How would you get a 3rd color if you wanted to create an effect similar to UCCW "Hollow with gradient" style for a battery gauge?

Anybody?
Anyidea?

Crickets Crickets...... does anybody have any idea on this OP?

Why not create two seperate progressbars (1st from 0-50, 2nd from 51-100, second progressbar beginning with the colour the first one ends with)?

mmediaman said:
When defining the Fill Mode of a Gradient progress bar, the FG color and Additional Color options seem to define beginning and end gradient colors. How would you get a 3rd color if you wanted to create an effect similar to UCCW "Hollow with gradient" style for a battery gauge?
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Is this what you wanted?
Just unzip...

zephyr1100 said:
Is this what you wanted?
Just unzip...
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Very nice zephyr1100, I think that is what I was after.... never thought about doing it in 2 parts. Will take a look at what you zipped up. Thanks again.

Here's a screen of it in a circle.

Very nice @Sandman.

I would settle for gradients to work properly for two colors. So much more we could do if they worked.
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brizey said:
I would settle for gradients to work properly for two colors. So much more we could do if they worked.
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?????
The easiest way is to make multiples of the same thing with different gradients, or make images in photoshop touch for phone, then pull into ZW.

sandman7793 said:
?????
The easiest way is to make multiples of the same thing with different gradients, or make images in photoshop touch for phone, then pull into ZW.
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Gradient IS broken, at least the way it renders on my phone. The color never actually converges to the second color. If you have a pure black object and set the gradient color to pure white it never actually gets to pure white. Same when setting to transparent...it never actually becomes transparent at the edge of the gradient field.
The problem with using Gimp (not going to spend $100 to make widgets, and have no other use for Photoshop) is its kind of a pain to go back and forth. If gradients worked it would cover a ton of my use cases.

I agree. But I was talking about the 4.99 app from the app store.
Check out "Photoshop Touch for phone"
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.adobe.pstouchphone
It works wonders. ..