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[Q] Wanting to change the google search widget background to black. Where's the apk?

Title's pretty on it. I had gotten a black google search from somewhere, but I don't remember where, and now that I'm 2.2, I figured I'd jsut edit it myself.
Can someone tell me the apk that I need to look in to edit the background PNG? Any help would be appreciated.

Have you tried:
GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk
or
QuickLookup.apk

nebenezer said:
Have you tried:
GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk
or
QuickLookup.apk
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Tried Googlequicksearch. Will try the other in a second. Right now I'm tricking out the radio lol.

Nope, not quick search either

Just use the search softly and use the screen space for something else. Hint - tap to open search window. Long press to use voice search. No need to be redundant.
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TJDuckett said:
Tried Googlequicksearch. Will try the other in a second. Right now I'm tricking out the radio lol.
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Its in the GoogleQuickSearch.apk
Look at the search_floater.9.png that is the background... it just expands across (I changed mine to glass)
Is this what you are talking about? Manup456's is Black just check his apk
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Bugless Beast 0.4 had the translucent black search box, and I thought the mod was part of his launcher2.apk. The previous post seems to prove me wrong.
It also had a translucent version of the power switch, which i think is in settings.apk, but it might be part of the framework.
I'd love to see something like that, it was really slick.
Let me know if you throw something together.
Edit: attached the BB 0.4 Launcher2.apk.
Edit2: Riptide, thats badass.

Riptide9 said:
Its in the GoogleQuickSearch.apk
Look at the search_floater.9.png that is the background... it just expands across (I changed mine to glass)
Is this what you are talking about? Manup456's is Black just check his apk
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I think that's the ticket. And naw, I don't want it to look like manups. I don't even want it transparent. Thanks for the heads up rip! You the man!

Ok, here it goes: I wanted it to flow with my top taskbar, and got the result I was looking for:

Came out nice. Great job!

Riptide9 said:
Its in the GoogleQuickSearch.apk
Look at the search_floater.9.png that is the background... it just expands across (I changed mine to glass)
Is this what you are talking about? Manup456's is Black just check his apk
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Could you share you transparent one with the icons on it?
Thanks

Here you go...

Riptide9 said:
Here you go...
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Thank you very much.

Unable to install the transparent one. Ideas? Looked in data/app and system/app but dint find the previous one installed. I have the updated search and voice.
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You don't install system apps, you adb push them.

TJDuckett said:
You don't install system apps, you adb push them.
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Got it, but I currently have the latest Google search installed, so theoretically this should overwrite the exiting file right?
The problem is I don't see the existing Google search in the /system/app folder. I pushed the above Google search, but no change. I can't tell if it even overwrote the previous. I also dont know which existing APK file I need to remove to uninstall the existing Google search).
Not sure if all that made sense.

is it possible to install this without root?

[PHONE] Cool Themed PHONE Application!!

Hi guys,
Just as I was saying in the threat with the Modded DialerTabActivity, I modded a bit the phone. I hope you like it.
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"lightbox_download": "Download",
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is it transparent? or does it always have the clouds background? looks pretty sweet to me....

unfortunately it has clouds background. I will make a few more variants.
I don;t know at the moment how could I make it transparent

this app are wonderfull...

To make it transparent you will have to use photoshop or gimp

trust me mate, I tried. But it's not that. If I make it transparent, it will show a black background.... I don;t know how to make it

you can do a version without that dialer image?

Works nice but force closes phone.apk when ending a call. I googled this problem but solution didn't work.still,it works and looks good

Hmmmm... Very nice butt of this Tati... LoL

) this is the default image for contacts without an image allocated.
@RobZarzecki if you have problems, PM me with your phone's original Phone.apk and I will mod it for you

Crysis21 said:
trust me mate, I tried. But it's not that. If I make it transparent, it will show a black background.... I don;t know how to make it
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I was trying to modify my stock dialer on my droid x a while back and gave up. I remember seeing a thread about it for the motorola phones though, the color had nothing to do with photoshop. Instead, it was color codes that needed edited in a hex file. I am brand new to samsung, so I'm not sure if that helps you at all. But you got further than I did on the X. Good luck

I am trying to install but no luck, am getting a "not installed" after trying.
Is anyone else experiencing this ?
Cheers, LL-

You use root explorer in market, have copy and paste in system/app
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Xperia x8 not working
The apk file whose link you give is not recognised as an apk file by the astro file manager

I take it this won't work on CM7? In that case, could a dev kindly port it over, if possible?

Is the best!
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Does anyone implement this in JVS 2.3.5 ??
Really nice phone theme, I like it.

Crysis21 said:
Hi guys,
Just as I was saying in the threat with the Modded DialerTabActivity, I modded a bit the phone. I hope you like it.
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Hi,
It looks beautiful. But can u make a version with default image diferent then this? Cause i got a lady and young sister/brothers that often play in Galaxy S, so as u imagine this kind of image will get me in trouble
Thanks

Is this compatible with any gingerbread rom?

Do you know how to change the transparency of the dialer?.. if yes.. can you pm me the "how to?"...

[Q] How do I theme this part of the status bar? *top left*

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"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
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I installed liquid rom v1.1 and that part was different, the icons were, I don't know, less transparent. The icons on the left were all solid colors. Never seen that before. Now, it has changed back on its own, for no reason I can think of and I want to change it back.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I can decomplie, edit, and compile apk and framework just fine. Hopefully it's easy tho.

Oh yeah its a breeze. All you have to do is decomopile the systemUI.apk and find those .png's that you want to edit. Finish the changes with Photoshop or whatever you're using and recompile, and push it back into the system. I noticed that one of the icons was from titanium backup. You will have to actually go inti that .apk and edit those as well if you want to make them all uniform-which would probably take a million years haha
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Actually some of those might be in the framework apk just decompile both haha

seanyuan62 said:
Oh yeah its a breeze. All you have to do is decomopile the systemUI.apk and find those .png's that you want to edit. Finish the changes with Photoshop or whatever you're using and recompile, and push it back into the system. I noticed that one of the icons was from titanium backup. You will have to actually go inti that .apk and edit those as well if you want to make them all uniform-which would probably take a million years haha
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Actually some of those might be in the framework apk just decompile both haha
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I doubt this is the case. Why would ALL the developers use the same ugly greyish color. I'm sure its just a transparency thing.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23474072&postcount=4
good day.

chopper the dog said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23474072&postcount=4
good day.
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Do you decompile with 1.4.3 and recompile with 1.4.2 (apktool)?

anton2009 said:
Do you decompile with 1.4.3 and recompile with 1.4.2 (apktool)?
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I've been using Apk_Multi-Tool_Alpha_02 with the github experimental builds addon. Not sure which version of apktool is in the "other" folder though. It has handled everything I throw at (except contacts & phone) without having to play one jar to decompile and another to recompile game.
good day.

Black or dark ICS MMS?

I'm running Chicago Remix rom, ICS 4.0.4 and i'm looking for a dark MMS.
I've decompiled the MMS.APK through APKTool but i'm no expert user. I don't know how to change the background color or txt color and such.
If anyone can help me I will take the time to attempt to do it myself... I don't mind some trial and error it can always be fun.
Thank you anyone.

I'm not sure if these will work i dont see why they wouldn't but i'm no dev i just saw these the other day and figured i would share
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/23960-bubble-themed-mmsapks-various-styles-updated-5-2/

these won't work, have already tried a few so I just wanted to try and theme one myself... Anyone? I'd like to basically change the background color to black, txt to white, possibly make the bubbles look different if thats not too challenging, and making silly smiles.

this is what i'm trying to do basically:
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"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
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jwleonhart said:
this is what i'm trying to do basically:
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If you manage to whip all that together would you mind and sharing with me and or the community! It looks absolutely amazing.

That is my plan to share it of course. I just need to figure out how in gods name to do it. I tried decompiling that apk but it's signed and I can't get to it. I was simply going to try and a little copy and paste on certain things.

Illuminatiii_X said:
If you manage to whip all that together would you mind and sharing with me and or the community! It looks absolutely amazing.
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That's my Mms theme pictured. You can find it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1461540. Sorry to hijack jwleon
jwleonhart said:
That is my plan to share it of course. I just need to figure out how in gods name to do it. I tried decompiling that apk but it's signed and I can't get to it. I was simply going to try and a little copy and paste on certain things.
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Here is a great guide I found at rootzwiki that gives a step by step tutorial on how to edit the Mms apk: http://rootzwiki.com/topic/19845-how-to-theme-your-mms-a-step-by-step-guide/. I found that after I had some help and figured it out. My best advice is to decompile my theme and take a look at it. Most of what you're looking for will be in the layout folder.
If you'd like further help and information you can contact me on GTalk. my email address is nbe[email protected]

Thank you NBeebe24 for all your help and continued support. Here is the first release of my MMS for ChicagoRom and should also work on any UCLE2 rom as well... not tested on them though so i'm not sure..
Here is link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26450151#post26450151

Try this file tell me is it works

Good work!

Flashable zips for changing status bar battery icon?

I was just wondering if there is an easy way to change the battery icon in the status bar, like a flashable zip or something. I was using the below icon but that involved using xposed and xposed seems to mess things up sometimes so I'd rather not use it if I don't have to. Thanks for your help!
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fatmando2 said:
I was just wondering if there is an easy way to change the battery icon in the status bar, like a flashable zip or something. I was using the below icon but that involved using xposed and xposed seems to mess things up sometimes so I'd rather not use it if I don't have to. Thanks for your help!
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It's actually VERY easy once you do it once.
First, you need to know what file to edit.
The battery .png images are kept in system/app/SystemUI.apk
now, you could just change the battery images, but there are only about 10 of them.
If you want the MOD where the battery actually tells you what number the battery is at, that requires knowledge of decompiling the application.
The best way for someone to do this would be for the ROM developer, or themer, or anyone who knows how, set up the SystemUI.apk with the 1-100% battery MOD already in the SystemUI.apk, then you just edit the .png images (all 200 of them, 1-100 for phone, 1-100 for charging)
VR theme would be the best system for changing batteries.
If you want I can edit your SystemUI.apk to allow the 200 batteries, or if you just want to change the one thats there, they are in res/drawable-xxhdpi folder, you can only edit the images that are there, so basically you could say, change the stock green battery to, res orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, you get it.
Google is your best friend for learning these things.
was for me anyway, and still is, I Google all the time, usually if you have a question, someone before you had the same one and you can find your answer that way.
these are some good threads, tells you where to find images for other apps as well.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2421834
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=916814

andybones said:
It's actually VERY easy once you do it once.
First, you need to know what file to edit.
The battery .png images are kept in system/app/SystemUI.apk
now, you could just change the battery images, but there are only about 10 of them.
If you want the MOD where the battery actually tells you what number the battery is at, that requires knowledge of decompiling the application.
The best way for someone to do this would be for the ROM developer, or themer, or anyone who knows how, set up the SystemUI.apk with the 1-100% battery MOD already in the SystemUI.apk, then you just edit the .png images (all 200 of them, 1-100 for phone, 1-100 for charging)
VR theme would be the best system for changing batteries.
If you want I can edit your SystemUI.apk to allow the 200 batteries, or if you just want to change the one thats there, they are in res/drawable-xxhdpi folder, you can only edit the images that are there, so basically you could say, change the stock green battery to, res orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, you get it.
Google is your best friend for learning these things.
was for me anyway, and still is, I Google all the time, usually if you have a question, someone before you had the same one and you can find your answer that way.
these are some good threads, tells you where to find images for other apps as well.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2421834
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=916814
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Thanks Andy, that helps!

I'm surprised you've had problems with Xposed. It makes like so easy. especially with the Sense 5 Toolbox module..