Its really ugly. But aside from being ugly its confusing, my text, whatsapp, voicemail, missed call, update and whatever else all have grey icons in the notification bar and don't stand out like they did on every past phone. Ive never had this with any past android (also never had an android with 4.0 or higher).
Is this just the way the nexus looks?
It looks like this on both ICS and JB
It's just the design aesthetic that Google is going for on Android 4.0 and 4.1, and its pretty easy to see how it fits in with the whole design of the OS. I think it looks sleek and streamlined.
The icons aren't all the same though... they actually look different lol. Just because they're gray doesn't mean they are the same. I'm not confused when I see a GMail and a Google Voice message in my status bar.
Some people are just never happy...
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Zeinzu said:
Some people are just never happy...
Sent from my Stock AOSP Android 4.1.1 Galaxy Nexus.
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I second that. Don't see how anyone could possibly find notifications confusing... I think it's sleek looking as well... Oh well.
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I'm sorry but what???
Goggle is actually TRYING to make it simple. So they made it simple and cleaner. Gary & white.
And I like it.
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Its really ugly. But aside from being ugly its confusing, my text, whatsapp, voicemail, missed call, update and whatever else all have grey icons in the notification bar and don't stand out like they did on every past phone. Ive never had this with any past android (also never had an android with 4.0 or higher).
Is this just the way the nexus looks?
It looks like this on both ICS and JB
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It's a matter of taste. I actually prefer it, instead of a row of colorful notifiation icons.
Okay so its a google thing. Good to know it was done on purpose.
I never said they were all the same icon or that I couldnt tell the difference, just that they blend in together at a glance.
But hey to each their own, if people love this then they thought the old way was ugly I guess.
More importantly, does anyone know of a rom or something that lets you change it?
thanks
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Okay so its a google thing. Good to know it was done on purpose.
I never said they were all the same icon or that I couldnt tell the difference, just that they blend in together at a glance.
But hey to each their own, if people love this then they thought the old way was ugly I guess.
More importantly, does anyone know of a rom or something that lets you change it?
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I do this edit for myself all the time, like OP I find it hard (that's what she said) to see what specific icon it is in daylight.
Decompile systemUI.apk
Navigate to SystemUI.apk\res\values
Open dimens.xml
change from:
Code:
<item type="dimen" name="status_bar_icon_drawing_alpha">65.0%</item>
change to:
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<item type="dimen" name="status_bar_icon_drawing_alpha">100.0%</item>
compile and enjoy bright icons.
good day.
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I do this edit for myself all the time, like OP I find it hard (that's what she said) to see what specific icon it is in daylight.
Decompile systemUI.apk
Navigate to SystemUI.apk\res\values
Open dimens.xml
change from:
Code:
<item type="dimen" name="status_bar_icon_drawing_alpha">65.0%</item>
change to:
Code:
<item type="dimen" name="status_bar_icon_drawing_alpha">100.0%</item>
compile and enjoy bright icons.
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I know this post is kind of old, but what if I wanted to brighten/change the color of the vibrate icon or the alarm icon? I implemented the change you mentioned but it only brightened the icons on the left side of the status bar. Thanks
mrpink10 said:
I know this post is kind of old, but what if I wanted to brighten/change the color of the vibrate icon or the alarm icon? I implemented the change you mentioned but it only brightened the icons on the left side of the status bar. Thanks
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Those are images in systemUI/res/drawable-xhdpi. stat_sys_alarm, stat_sys_ringer_silent, stat_sys_ringer_vibrate.
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chopper the dog said:
Those are images in systemUI/res/drawable-xhdpi. stat_sys_alarm, stat_sys_ringer_silent, stat_sys_ringer_vibrate.
good day.
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Hmm, yeah those images are already white in the systemUI/res/drawable-xhdpi folder, but in the status bar of the phone they look grey. I didn't know if there was some kind of "resolution" thing going on, similar to the other icons you mentioned before. Anyways, thanks for your help.
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Hmm, yeah those images are already white in the systemUI/res/drawable-xhdpi folder, but in the status bar of the phone they look grey. I didn't know if there was some kind of "resolution" thing going on, similar to the other icons you mentioned before. Anyways, thanks for your help.
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That's because those images have transparency to them that makes them appear grey. In the screen cap on the left is the stock icon compared to a solid white icon.
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That's because those images have transparency to them that makes them appear grey. In the screen cap on the left is the stock icon compared to a solid white icon.
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Yep, I just discovered that messing around in Paint.net. Thanks for your quick responses.
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BUILD YOUR OWN THEME
Ok folks, here it is, a change to make your own theme. As cool as I think I am, I bet you guys have some pretty good ideas for themes so Im making this a cooking thread for your own person recipes.
These are the ingredients I need:
- Build type, RC30 and ADP1 are preferred but I can make RC8 as well
- Icon pack, you can find any group of icons to use in an size, this means application icons, status bar icons, just anything you want but you have to supply it
- Image for the status bar in portrait and landscape.
So ya, I am kinda figuring this out as I go so post what you want made into a theme and I will see what I can do.
You rock!! I gather a list for ya and post it soon.
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Ok folks, here it is, a change to make your own theme. As cool as I think I am, I bet you guys have some pretty good ideas for themes so Im making this a cooking thread for your own person recipes.
These are the ingredients I need:
- Build type, RC30 and ADP1 are preferred but I can make RC8 as well
- Icon pack, you can find any group of icons to use in an size, this means application icons, status bar icons, just anything you want but you have to supply it
- Image for the status bar in portrait and landscape.
So ya, I am kinda figuring this out as I go so post what you want made into a theme and I will see what I can do.
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This is a pretty cool idea, though I suspect you're gonna get absolutely flooded with requests
If you need files sizes or types let me know or ask and Im sure a bunch of people can answer.
You do know there are requests for themes here.
You can start with a few of those
gucci theme
i dont really have any real ingredients as you put it jus diff icons and use the gucci colors
Well I was hoping it would be more for the people who know exactly what they want and dont know how to put it together than just the people coming up with new ideas. So if you know you you want my carbon fiber status bar, with the silver status icons from Blue Star 5 and defaults icons with one of your own, I could take those things and make a theme out of them in like 30 minutes.
Just close this thread if you would rather me pick it up in the other thread.
What you stated is exactly what i had in mind. Ill pm with my "wishlist and icons" and we can go from there.
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Nah but i do request you change the title to "you will create the theme for them" lol
Could you the blackberrry bold or blackberry storm themes.. with the new bb icons and everything
swaney said:
Could you the blackberrry bold or blackberry storm themes.. with the new bb icons and everything
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If you find me the icons I can throw it together for you no problem.
I really like your Karbon theme, id like the status bar just grey like deep black, your status icons , and this battery meter. is this possible?
http://www.filehosting.org/file/deta...parannoyed.rar
Not sure but i think i saw that icon set on deviant art. might want to take a look.
The status icons from Karbon are great, just the batt meter change.
here are a few icons id like included:
D3ath star=settings
Kerry King guitar=my music
internet=browser
email=email
not sure if you are changing the settings context (menu key menu) with pics
craniac=dialer
flame=messaging
book=contacts
I have an idea....this is gonna get carried away lol
Place all pics in a zip folder with a text file directing what should get done and upload a zip ONLY.
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I really like your Karbon theme, id like the status bar just grey like deep black, your status icons , and this battery meter. is this possible?
http://www.filehosting.org/file/deta...parannoyed.rar
Not sure but i think i saw that icon set on deviant art. might want to take a look.
The status icons from Karbon are great, just the batt meter change.
here are a few icons id like included:
D3ath star=settings
Kerry King guitar=my music
internet=browser
email=email
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Im building it now, I assume you want RC30 right? And if you can get those icons as PNG files with transparent backgrounds it would be best, if not I can see what I can do.
And just to confirm, the status bar in a dark color will make it so you cant see the text, if thats fine its fine with me.
To respond to Mikey1022, would it also be ok to host them on a site like photobucket and link the pic in the post or would you prefer zip files?
Theme ic iconsons
I have alot of icons and themes that im working on, im also working on my old theme but my question is when is released do we both take credit or do u take credit?
Btw i have blackberry storm icons i was gon work on that by my self but some help will be great.
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I have alot of icons and themes that im working on, im also working on my old theme but my question is when is released do we both take credit or do u take credit?
Btw i have blackberry storm icons i was gon work on that by my self but some help will be great.
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I would just say use your own judgement. If someone will look at the theme and be instantly reminded of another one you pulled from you might want to give a lot of credit to it, but if it was just a platform to start with and its mostly your own creation I would just mention who the theme came from. Just think about it as if it was your theme being used by someone else. Personally its a huge compliment.
you are right perhaps the light grey status bar from macdroid would be better.
Yes RC30, sorry for the lack of info.
I am really contemplating dual booting fedora or mandriva, to better acquaint myself with this stuff.
Ya, I was going to do it with this one but it was way too dark until we can change font colors.
good call, i hope you guys will have access to changing font color soon.
Thanx for doin this, til i force myself to figure it out on my own.
Just for everyone's knowledge, these icons are not my creation. I have collected them over the last year or so from different icon packs mainly downloaded from deviantart. this is mainly a personal theme, that i find appealing for me to look at.
Working on a making a theme for myself, but I've realized that I will have to change the color of the text in the pull down notification tray. Anyone know how in the heck I would do this?
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Working on a making a theme for myself, but I've realized that I will have to change the color of the text in the pull down notification tray. Anyone know how in the heck I would do this?
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Read here
You need a services.jar edit and then a png edit. Pretty easy.
SteelH said:
Read here
You need a services.jar edit and then a png edit. Pretty easy.
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That is for the background. Reading through the other links on that tread, I still can't find the line in any or the services.jar areas.
jlechner said:
That is for the background. Reading through the other links on that tread, I still can't find the line in any or the services.jar areas.
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Here you go my friend life made very simple for all of us... I use this all the time to change up things
http://circle.glx.nl/
playya said:
Here you go my friend life made very simple for all of us... I use this all the time to change up things
http://circle.glx.nl/
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That is a really good site. Sadly, it doesn't change all the icons on the factory rom. Dang, I'm so close to being done with this theme, only a few things standing in my way.
I was just reading a tutorial on this. I think it was in the droid x forum.
Sent from your mom's phone.
Well I made the rest of the icons, now I'm back to needing to change the clock and date color in the bar.
If you ever get bored with the black background in Android, now you can change it by making a few small edits to framework-res.apk/res/values/styles.xml
This will affect MOST of the black background you see in Android (e.g. settings, contacts, mms, installer etc.) with the exception of certain apps that use their on backgrounds (e.g. contacts logs, email etc.).
Difficulty level: Medium
1. Decompile framework-res.apk
2. Navigate to res/values and open styles.xml
3. Locate <style name="Theme">
4. Replace
<item name="colorBackground">@color/background_dark</item>
with
<item name="colorBackground">@color/transparent</item>
5. Replace
<item name="windowBackground">@drawable/screen_background_dark</item>
with
<item name="windowBackground">@drawable/mybackground</item>
6. Locate <style name="Theme.Black" parent="@style/Theme">
7. Replace
<item name="colorBackground">@color/black</item>
with
<item name="colorBackground">@color/transparent</item>
8. Replace
<item name="windowBackground">@color/black</item>
with
<item name="windowBackground">@drawable/mybackground</item>
9. Create a 480x800 png to your liking, name it mybackground.png and place it in drawable-hdpi folder
9. Recompile framework-res.apk
DONE!
Always create a backup before making any modifications!!!
Great job. I wished i had the confidence to do this lol. bu thank you for the info
smccall said:
Great job. I wished i had the confidence to do this lol. bu thank you for the info
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I think it's more intimidating for most people than anything else.
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I think it's more intimidating for most people than anything else.
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Any way you can make a video or maybe qbking77 could im more of a visual learner. i would love to learn how Do do this
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Great job. I wished i had the confidence to do this lol. bu thank you for the info
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Its really not that hard.... Its time consuming in the beginning with trial and error and nandroid recoveres. But its worth it in the end and the selfsatisfaction feels great. "yes, I figured it out" or "I really can do this". Try and see.
As longa you doa back up you really can't screw it up.
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Its really not that hard.... Its time consuming in the beginning with trial and error and nandroid recoveres. But its worth it in the end and the selfsatisfaction feels great. "yes, I figured it out" or "I really can do this". Try and see.
As longa you doa back up you really can't screw it up.
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I will give it a whirl.
Mind posting screenies? I'll try if I like what it turns into.
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Updated OP with screenshots.
You might wanna enlarge the ppics too see better as my background is more subtle. I am using the Ice Cream Sandwich texture.
I'd like to know how to successfully make the font color white in the bubbles of mms and change all of the white background images to black and invert it's color so it's white font on black background. The white background with black font is ugly.
And this is definitely nice! I'll give this a shot, too!
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I'd like to know how to successfully make the font color white in the bubbles of mms and change all of the white background images to black and invert it's color so it's white font on black background. The white background with black font is ugly.
And this is definitely nice! I'll give this a shot, too!
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There is no white background in mms.
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There is no white background in mms.
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Oops. I meant black font in mms. I was wanting to make the bubble backgrounds black and make the font white.
Great guide. Thanks for taking the time to do this.
Tiffany84 said:
Great guide. Thanks for taking the time to do this.
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Speaking of guides, Tiffany how does one change the tab colors at the top of the phone and contacts apk.? I've tried swapping out nearly every PNG I can think of in the framework res.apk, system ui, phone, and contacts apps and still can't get my phone off the stock Samsung blue. Thanks.
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Speaking of guides, Tiffany how does one change the tab colors at the top of the phone and contacts apk.? I've tried swapping out nearly every PNG I can think of in the framework res.apk, system ui, phone, and contacts apps and still can't get my phone off the stock Samsung blue. Thanks.
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I've never even looked. My theme is blue so I've always kept it. I'll look and get back to you if someone doesn't give you your answer before hand.
The tabs are located in twframework-res.apk. They are called tw_tab_focused.png and so on.
Thank you, that probably explains why nothing happens when I switch out the PNG's in system UI.
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The tabs are located in twframework-res.apk. They are called tw_tab_focused.png and so on.
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Your information was spot on got most everything swapped out, thanks again.
If I could borrow your expertise again would you know where the files are located in the attached photo. They mostly show up in contacts even though I swapped out the dialer and contacts apps from Crysis21's SensatioN ROM?
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Your information was spot on got most everything swapped out, thanks again.
If I could borrow your expertise again would you know where the files are located in the attached photo. They mostly show up in contacts even though I swapped out the dialer and contacts apps from Crysis21's SensatioN ROM?
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framework-res
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framework-res
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Thank you, I must be overlooking something I'll just go through it more carefully.
For the life of me I can't get the Framework to recompile successfully. Even if I don't make any changes. I used this guide. Is there a better way to do it?
anybody willing to take this clock widget
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.icecreamsandwichclock.clock&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5pY2VjcmVhbXNhbmR3aWNoY2xvY2suY2xvY2siXQ..
and change the color of the hands to the stock ics blue?
Also, change the color and transparency of the background to look more like the stock calendar widget or maybe the gradient of the settings background or the gradient found in the stock call log.
I dunno if this is possible, not too knowledgeable in app theming.
Thanks.
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anybody willing to take this clock widget
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.icecreamsandwichclock.clock&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5pY2VjcmVhbXNhbmR3aWNoY2xvY2suY2xvY2siXQ..
and change the color of the hands to the stock ics blue?
Also, change the color and transparency of the background to look more like the stock calendar widget or maybe the gradient of the settings background or the gradient found in the stock call log.
I dunno if this is possible, not too knowledgeable in app theming.
Thanks.
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Anything is possible
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Anything is possible
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Sooo, you think you can hook that up for a fellow Seinfeld fan?
Ya man no problem. I'll do a semi transparent background with a slight blue gradient and ICS hands.
Done I liked it a lot, so i also made one that matches my theme.
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Done I liked it a lot, so i also made one that matches my theme.
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Good stuff man, that looks awesome.
Since this seems like cake to you, u mind cookin up 1 more?
I was thinkin same ics blue hands but with the background looking identical to the space where it says "No upcoming calendar events":
No problem it will be late tonight after the kids are in bed
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artvandelay440 said:
No problem it will be late tonight after the kids are in bed
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2
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Cool, thanks again.
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Cool, thanks again.
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I added that version to the post with the other clocks. I put it at the bottom of the screen to demonstrate transparency.
Hey art, i don't want to impose but you seem like a nice dude so ill take my chances lol. Would you mind touching up a widget for me, just want the border transparent and the white text a light ics blue color
Even better, can you make a quick tutorial of how you do it.
Thanx
shawnn218 said:
Hey art, i don't want to impose but you seem like a nice dude so ill take my chances lol. Would you mind touching up a widget for me, just want the border transparent and the white text a light ics blue color
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Border is no problem. Widget text is usually dependent on an xml code, but if it's easy to find, i'll take a stab at it quickly.
Thanks so much man for the reply! Here's the link. I hate white on the black and blue ics theme. If this XML code is easy to find, I wouldn't kill you of you made the red and white on the popcorn blue and black
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.flixster.android&hl=en
Also your sig is beautiful. Do you have different color themes?
shawnn218 said:
Thanks so much man for the reply! Here's the link. I hate white on the black and blue ics theme. If this XML code is easy to find, I wouldn't kill you of you made the red and white on the popcorn blue and black
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.flixster.android&hl=en
Also your sig is beautiful. Do you have different color themes?
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Been wanting to do a different color scheme, then i realize there are over 10,000 images total to be redone and then i go play Mass Effect lol. On the flixster widget, do you want the blue bg removed entirely, or just the black drop shadow gone? I don't see a proper border per say.
Yes that massive big blue thing
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Yes that massive big blue thing
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I'll remove it and sexify the bg instead. Should be done in 2 min.
Ohai there flixster
Thanks so much man! Looks great!
artvandelay440 said:
I added that version to the post with the other clocks. I put it at the bottom of the screen to demonstrate transparency.
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You sir, are what many refer to as a gentleman and a scholar.
lol thanks guys
Specifically I mean the little arrow when selecting text, the bar on the brightness bar, your profile picture in the drop down menu, the phone app, contacts app, etc.
I'm trying to build a themed home screen and I need the exact code to make matching colors if possible please. Thank you.
I found this
Want to share you creation after? I love that blue color and have been trying to think of ideas for theming some more stuff but I'm still learning
I have always liked this blue playstore!
aholeinthewor1d said:
I found this
Want to share you creation after? I love that blue color and have been trying to think of ideas for theming some more stuff but I'm still learning
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Archangel said:
I have always liked this blue playstore!
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Blueish settings
Very nice! I like it!
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Blueish settings
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I've always been partial to the old ICS blue for trim on a dark theme.
Hey man, just doenload the pic of pixel pulldown on pc and go to google, type hex code and a program will show that allows u to scan the pic
aholeinthewor1d said:
I found this
Want to share you creation after? I love that blue color and have been trying to think of ideas for theming some more stuff but I'm still learning
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Thanks! I may share it if I have some new idea but for now my theme is just for the calendar widget. My old idea is no longer good (one I used on ICS) since I had day, time, and weather on my home screen which is now in a built in widget.
If you're looking for the Pixel specific blue then the hex is #4885ED. If it's just the blue in Nougat then I'm not sure. Pixels got a different shade of blue than everyone else.