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Hi folks
I am thinking about skinning the Android, and I am starting to understand how to do it as we speak
I have discovered the correct files, and the only problem I am having at the moment, is lack of creativity >.<
Does anyone have bright ideas on how it should be?
Best regards,
Zappza
Quite like the original skin with Android. The 3 screens allows me to add anycuts to the apps grouped by personal stuff, daily apps and then browser/net stuff.
Skin ideas
Look for the thread that talks about the G2... some interesting pictures there.
--M
Basically the only things I can to currently to get it to look a like the mockups, is to change the icons to be more shiny.
That could work out
Will try to get some work done next week, I have lots of homework at the moment >.<
Zappza said:
Basically the only things I can to currently to get it to look a like the mockups, is to change the icons to be more shiny.
That could work out
Will try to get some work done next week, I have lots of homework at the moment >.<
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Looking forward to your results g/l on the homework... I have lots of work-work .
--M
make it look like a wii or xbox 360
mcfly015 said:
make it look like a wii or xbox 360
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Think I'll pass on this one.
I don't like the design on the X360 dash.
Perhaps the Wii though, I'll have to check it out when I get my Wii
I think it would be cool to have three tabs at the bottom for file shortcuts.
That way instead of having to put custom folders on the desktop one could just swipe up one of the three tabs.
Granted you can store many shortcuts on the side desktop screens. But, I like the swipe motion from the bottom better.
Also, I would love to see some different color themes. Maybe reverse the black/white of the window shade and made the app slider a darker grey.
What about making the icons transparent; like the blackberry storm.
please dont copy the iphone or xbox or whatever..i mean the color schemes are alright
but just make something pure eyecandy please..show us your creativity!!!
shaneaus said:
I think it would be cool to have three tabs at the bottom for file shortcuts.
That way instead of having to put custom folders on the desktop one could just swipe up one of the three tabs.
Granted you can store many shortcuts on the side desktop screens. But, I like the swipe motion from the bottom better.
Also, I would love to see some different color themes. Maybe reverse the black/white of the window shade and made the app slider a darker grey.
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I'll have to pass on this one for the moment.
I haven't read so much in the Android Documentation yet, but my logic senses that this is some pretty heavy modding of both the graphics and the .xml files that control how things are setup.
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What about making the icons transparent; like the blackberry storm.
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This could be possible without any big fuss.
Transparent icons when inactive, and if pressed they become opaque.
twistkill said:
please dont copy the iphone or xbox or whatever..i mean the color schemes are alright
but just make something pure eyecandy please..show us your creativity!!!
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That's my problem.
Creativity >.<
I will try to sketch something while at school, and we'll see how it goes
Perhaps I will start something simple, such as just changing the icons and some of the buttons with some other icons. Just to get a grip of it
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That's my problem.
Creativity >.<
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you know, something black and shiny like the diamond interface always looks cool
black, dark grey will always be slick..look at HTC Manilla interface for good examples..
let me kow if you need any photoshop help...i am good with the pixels (or so i think ) not with scripting though
twistkill said:
please dont copy the iphone or xbox or whatever..i mean the color schemes are alright
but just make something pure eyecandy please..show us your creativity!!!
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Something with a wireframe / Tron / Neon look to it, with icons that look like japanese writing, but really have english text.
twistkill said:
you know, something black and shiny like the diamond interface always looks cool
black, dark grey will always be slick..look at HTC Manilla interface for good examples..
let me kow if you need any photoshop help...i am good with the pixels (or so i think ) not with scripting though
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Yeah, I like black but I prefer dull black, especially since I have the Black G1 ^^
Some Photoshop help would've been great
A starter could've been just to make the standard android a lot darker, just to familiarise with how we can edit the settings
Will start on Tuesday probably, my girlfriend is visiting me from Norway, so I'll probably have other stuff to do this weekend
What's the news on this?
And would this require root? =/
Currently nothing yet, but I will hopefully get started tomorrow
This will require root yes, as the only way I know of is to replace the files in question in the modified RC8 or RC30 image from JesusFreke.
could someone get me the source graphics... pdspatrick AT gmail DOT com.....I am rather good with fireworks, and I wanna make a skin for all of ya, but I don't have the capability to sign the update.zip's
Cheers!
pdspatrick said:
could someone get me the source graphics... [email protected].....I am rather good with fireworks, and I wanna make a skin for all of ya, but I don't have the capability to sign the update.zip's
Cheers!
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the source is online you can get them from the git repo
unfortunately my mac os x is using non case sensitive file system so i cant git with android (adobe cs4 wants noncase sensitive for some reason...hmmm)...and my other computer is a windows box
can somebody help me out here? It'd be appreciated
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unfortunately my mac os x is using non case sensitive file system so i cant git with android (adobe cs4 wants noncase sensitive for some reason...hmmm)...and my other computer is a windows box
can somebody help me out here? It'd be appreciated
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if I can I will run git tomorrow and upload the zip for you.
Available at www.swampthing.net
You draw these themes in Photoshop first and than rebuild them in WAD2?
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You draw these themes in Photoshop first and than rebuild them in WAD2?
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no, just find of get an idea and wing it actually. for this one I just took screenshots of vista and doctored them in photoshop
if you could change this start button to more like Vista one.
something like this http://files.ithink.pl/Image/1-vista.jpg
Looking forward to this one... seen this in WAD2 for qvga devices but never HD's higher resolution... I'll be buying WAD2 and donating the moment you have this one up and running! (Please take this as encouragement to continue)
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if you could change this start button to more like Vista one.
something like this http://files.ithink.pl/Image/1-vista.jpg
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good advice, just put it in, looks great
abeery said:
Looking forward to this one... seen this in WAD2 for qvga devices but never HD's higher resolution... I'll be buying WAD2 and donating the moment you have this one up and running! (Please take this as encouragement to continue)
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awesome!! donations are always encouraging It will be coming out pretty soon. Not having any real problems with it. Just keep getting new ideas lol
mallman! keep your brilliant thinking! eager to get your update!
Now THAT will cool !!
Keep up the good work man
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mallman! keep your brilliant thinking! eager to get your update!
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woohoo thanks Hoping to get it posted tonight for all to enjoy
theme released in post #1. Enjoy and donate if you love it!!!
Woa, you're ultra fast with these things, I still have to finish my first theme
It looks outstanding, definitely going to give this a try soon..keep up the good work man!
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Woa, you're ultra fast with these things, I still have to finish my first theme
It looks outstanding, definitely going to give this a try soon..keep up the good work man!
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thanks for the ultra kind words my friend. Gathering ideas for the next mallman creation
Thank you for your time and great job mallman!!
This theme made me switch from TouchFlo3D to WAD2. I did some corrections to better suit my needs. For example startmenu panel wasn't fading out when certain icons were tapped.
I managed to redirect messaging icon into sms/mms folder instead of main messaging screen but I have a problem with other icon. You designed My computer icon to open file explorer. I would like it to open programs directory just like windows start menu->programs link does. I can open /windows/start menu/programs in fexplorer by passing path as a parameter but it's not how I would like it to be. Do you know what command should be issued to achieve that? I googled for answer and searched xda forums but without any results. Something tells me it has something to do with shell32.exe but I'm a noob in WM world and I don't even know where to start.
Thanks in advance.
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Thank you for your time and great job mallman!!
This theme made me switch from TouchFlo3D to WAD2. I did some corrections to better suit my needs. For example startmenu panel wasn't fading out when certain icons were tapped.
I managed to redirect messaging icon into sms/mms folder instead of main messaging screen but I have a problem with other icon. You designed My computer icon to open file explorer. I would like it to open programs directory just like windows start menu->programs link does. I can open /windows/start menu/programs in fexplorer by passing path as a parameter but it's not how I would like it to be. Do you know what command should be issued to achieve that? I googled for answer and searched xda forums but without any results. Something tells me it has something to do with shell32.exe but I'm a noob in WM world and I don't even know where to start.
Thanks in advance.
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thank you very much for your kind words Side!!
Don't make the "my computer" change you desire more complex then it has to be Just go into author mode, delete the my computer icon. Next just click and hold where the icon used to be and select new>shortcut Navigate to the folder you wan to open. Select the button images you want (note my computer icon is in the \storage card\WAD_Icons\MALLMAN\Mallman_vista folder) You can select both images to be the same if you want or make it different on a press. THat should work for you
bug fix coming today guys. Hold out on installing this for a few until I post it.
Bugs:
1. launching windows media player from start menu closes the sidebar and it should be fading the start menu.
2. Launching My Computer from start menu doesnt hide the start menu
3. Launching Camera from start menu doesnt hide the start menu
4. Launching control panel from start menu doesnt hide the start menu
Thanks for the tip to the bugs Sidewinder
Woot! A theme! .
Great work Mallman, you rock.
Hmph, I still want a theme with shades of brown/greenish with a bit of a comical touch to it and playfull buttons with slightly round edges... I'm brambling.
I tried to make a theme with the background I attached but I just massively fail at WAD.
Anyyyways! Great job mate!
P.s. with the fix your gonna make, will it be a complete new WAD folder thing or will it be an additional small file?
Solution you suggested gave me the same results as opening fexplorer.exe with path to folder parameter but your way is more elegant, thanks . Nevertheless I treat it as a temporary solution. If I find out how to create link like start->programs has I'll share with it of course.
Speaking of bugs let me add one more:
Hiding startmenu panel doesn't hide shutdownmenu panel.
antrak said:
Woot! A theme! .
Great work Mallman, you rock.
Hmph, I still want a theme with shades of brown/greenish with a bit of a comical touch to it and playfull buttons with slightly round edges... I'm brambling.
I tried to make a theme with the background I attached but I just massively fail at WAD.
Anyyyways! Great job mate!
P.s. with the fix your gonna make, will it be a complete new WAD folder thing or will it be an additional small file?
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its released and is the full folder. thanks for the kind words bro!!
Your idea sounds good and unique
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Solution you suggested gave me the same results as opening fexplorer.exe with path to folder parameter but your way is more elegant, thanks . Nevertheless I treat it as a temporary solution. If I find out how to create link like start->programs has I'll share with it of course.
Speaking of bugs let me add one more:
Hiding startmenu panel doesn't hide shutdownmenu panel.
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Yes I noticed that as well when I was adding some sounds to the theme. I will put another version out soon with sounds and that fix. thank you for your testing!!!
Since android was disponible, this community did a great job on creating theme for this platform. Although android is not defaultly skinnable, themers had to create custom updates for change icons and other graphical things.
On another side we saw many people involved in modifying google open source apps such as launcher, browser and so on.
Why don't we put the two sides together?
Consider that someone modifies, for example, launcher app to be allowet for changing icons. Themeing would be better and simpler. No compatibility problems because images would be loaded directly from the operating system, directly from the app to be skinned. Such as open home or such as every other app that is skinnable.
Don't you like the idea?
You should contact the developer of the launcher. He will be able to make the modifications to allow for this (because yes, as of currently, its not really skinnable [at least to my knowledge]).
But yes, good idea.
You wouldn't be able to change the status bar for example. .
Maybe just personal opinion but only 2 or 3 of the themes look good at all, a lot of them look terrible!
While I admire the hardwork , I wish someone would make more black/dark themes. And nothing too over the top.
Kill off the "hero" look, Make the bottom pull tab transparent.
Enoch is about the only decent theme here.
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You wouldn't be able to change the status bar for example. .
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Cannot we modify source of each apk we want to theme?
Well because each app that google owns and we can't distribute, we can't even include a custom icon which would be modifying copyrighted contend.
digitallysick said:
Maybe just personal opinion but only 2 or 3 of the themes look good at all, a lot of them look terrible!
While I admire the hardwork , I wish someone would make more black/dark themes. And nothing too over the top.
Kill off the "hero" look, Make the bottom pull tab transparent.
Enoch is about the only decent theme here.
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I totally agree, and also don't create anything for the community to use.
digitallysick said:
Maybe just personal opinion but only 2 or 3 of the themes look good at all, a lot of them look terrible!
While I admire the hardwork , I wish someone would make more black/dark themes. And nothing too over the top.
Kill off the "hero" look, Make the bottom pull tab transparent.
Enoch is about the only decent theme here.
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Sine mianosm has seconded this, i will third it. Stupid themers can't create some iamges that look good. I mean it must not be hard at all since we have all of these ugly themes, so why doesn't someone make a good looking one for once. Can we get a good theme finally!!!!
digitallysick said:
Maybe just personal opinion but only 2 or 3 of the themes look good at all, a lot of them look terrible!
While I admire the hardwork , I wish someone would make more black/dark themes. And nothing too over the top.
Kill off the "hero" look, Make the bottom pull tab transparent.
Enoch is about the only decent theme here.
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I don't think it is the right thread for commenting themes.
Here's the reason why; you're completely forgetting about variety. Asking devs to prepare a rom a certain way is roughly equivalent to ramming a particular theme down your way, but not everybody will like it. Whichever theme it is you like, there will be 30 more people here that find it either dull or tacky (let's face it, the Theme's subforum is full with examples of both), but hey, that's their taste. When we make builds, we like putting out a known base, in this case, the default Android look. Cyanogen resisted theming his builds because of this, and if he did add variations to visuals, they were very, very minimal, and very tactful. What comes to mind is the horrible (in my mind) bootscreen for tehseano's Hero theme. Though the screen was nice, my phone is my phone, not advertisment space, so having "a theme by tehseano & Moonspoon" in there, even if it was only during boot, I felt was horribly inappropriate and tacky. Or there's the horrible rom King-something-or-other made with the stupid bootscreen. Many people don't agree, and that's great, because there's variety and diversity, and that's where themers come in.
You're asking for a reduction of choice, but choice tends to be a personal issue. Whatever it is you like, I assure you, there's going to be plenty of people that don't like it.
Let devs do instead what we do, develop, and let themers do their job, and let people have the ability to make choices.
this is actually a really good idea, however people would definitely need to coordinate thoughts and idea's better, but on that sense it would provide a much closer knit community.
would be interesting to see what develops from this.
The simplest way is for the themer to include the png's when he creates the theme and have the end user repack and sign, or use better cut if they don't care about the app drawer icon.
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I totally agree, and also don't create anything for the community to use.
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LOL
Some people just don't get it.
I have seen many of you guys demanding a way to pin certain connectivity settings like WLAN or bluetooth to your homescreen. Well, take a look at a recent WP Central article. I tried the app and it really works very well.
This is nice! Thanks!
Actually, on Mango I had installed from homebrew individual "applications" for each of these functions. With ConnectivityShortcuts app I removed my old shortcuts from the apps list and only have one that will handle all.
Man, those are some ugly icons. I think I'm gonna have to change them...
Anyway, nice to have this finally available.
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Man, those are some ugly icons. I think I'm gonna have to change them...
Anyway, nice to have this finally available.
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They're hideous. But thank god for this app until MS build something better. I like the drop down on the touchpad.
The dev will change them - look over there: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17376375
I couldn't wait so I just modified them on my own... haha... much better now... better icons and use of accent colors.
Much thanks to the original developer for all the main work.
Nice application, but for those who are interested in how it was made - ConnectionSettingsTask is the answer (h ttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.phone.tasks.connectionsettingstask%28v=vs.92%29.aspx).
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I couldn't wait so I just modified them on my own... haha... much better now... better icons and use of accent colors.
Much thanks to the original developer for all the main work.
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could u post it ?
Hi.sony is working on a theme creator program.making themes will get alot easier hopefully.get it from here
http://developer.sonymobile.com/201...devices-with-the-new-theme-creator-beta-tool/
Great minds think alike!
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josephnero said:
Hi.sony is working on a theme creator program.making themes will get alot easier hopefully.get it from here
http://developer.sonymobile.com/201...devices-with-the-new-theme-creator-beta-tool/
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There is zip file but How to install it,i mean startup
TIA
It is a Java-app and i just had to double click to start it.
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I have problem with this program, can't export any images to theme this option is off, some1 now how turn on?
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Hi.sony is working on a theme creator program.making themes will get alot easier hopefully.get it from here
http://developer.sonymobile.com/201...devices-with-the-new-theme-creator-beta-tool/
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Don't have Xperia device but I'll check that as soon as I can...
If we could add our own assets and program will build 9.png that will be great...
This program could be awesome in a future if Sony continue improving and working on it...
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Don't have Xperia device but I'll check that as soon as I can...
If we could add our own assets and program will build 9.png that will be great...
This program could be awesome in a future if Sony continue improving and working on it...
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we might see some awesome themes flowing around soon.maybe some of your awesome works too
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we might see some awesome themes flowing around soon.maybe some of your awesome works too
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Thank you for your kind words...
You can put your money in that statement
See ya guys soon
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Don't have Xperia device but I'll check that as soon as I can...
If we could add our own assets and program will build 9.png that will be great...
This program could be awesome in a future if Sony continue improving and working on it...
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Right now theme creator it's kinda slow, buggy and not friendly to use, theme creator does not offer much customization, otherwise you can do magic through photoshop, but they did not offer any template other then stock one. I would like to see templates with examples of which part is used for which asset, they made one huge file (over 120 mb) and put every system part that could be themed, if they separate every different part that would be really awesome, now you got to edit everything inside one file, it's not that hard to do that, but its really confusing, you need to visit their tutorial for every part, i don't really like that, it would took me ages to make one theme that i really like. It's good to see that Sony actually cares about users of their smartphones and i really really hope they will make more improvements while it's still in beta phase. Or they should make theme creator as standard application not completely java based with more options inside app or make more templates with less content, just to be easier to overview, edit and generally clearly.
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Right now theme creator it's kinda slow, buggy and not friendly to use, theme creator does not offer much customization, otherwise you can do magic through photoshop, but they did not offer any template other then stock one. I would like to see templates with examples of which part is used for which asset, they made one huge file (over 120 mb) and put every system part that could be themed, if they separate every different part that would be really awesome, now you got to edit everything inside one file, it's not that hard to do that, but its really confusing, you need to visit their tutorial for every part, i don't really like that, it would took me ages to make one theme that i really like. It's good to see that Sony actually cares about users of their smartphones and i really really hope they will make more improvements while it's still in beta phase. Or they should make theme creator as standard application not completely java based with more options inside app or make more templates with less content, just to be easier to overview, edit and generally clearly.
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Actually, I planned to use it one as a converter and compiler... nothing more.
I built many themes and I don't need program for theming...
But...
It could make themers life little easier...
Actually, I wrote first tutorial "how to built themes and theme Sony UI" when Sony released their first theme engine...so I really believe we'll find our way to get maximum from this program.
We know which asset is for what and I'm sure this program could only save few min or hour of boring merging and compiling...
Sony will continue to polish this app, I'm sure...
I'm also sure we'll have great app/program soon...
One awesome thing that I would like to see in the future is implementation of this app into ROM and theming OS in a real time..
I own E3, and I replaced nav buttons , but they stays the same old... There's no way to change some bckgrnds, too...
Xperia Theme Creator
I don't know if everyone is understanding the nature of the Xperia Theme Creator, ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS6 IS REQUIRED. Without Adobe Photoshop CS6 this application will not work - period. I have earlier versions of Adobe Creative Suite and I can confirm 100% that XTC v0.0.1 BETA will NOT function at all.
I stand corrected in advance if you have Adobe Photoshop CS6 which in turn would allow XTC v0.0.1 BETA to properly function.
Just my 2 cents!
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I don't know if everyone is understanding the nature of the Xperia Theme Creator, ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS6 IS REQUIRED. Without Adobe Photoshop CS6 this application will not work - period. I have earlier versions of Adobe Creative Suite and I can confirm 100% that XTC v0.0.1 BETA will NOT function at all.
I stand corrected in advance if you have Adobe Photoshop CS6 which in turn would allow XTC v0.0.1 BETA to properly function.
Just my 2 cents!
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yeah.i tried with my old photoshop CS3 and as you said it requires cs6
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yeah.i tried with my old photoshop CS3 and as you said it requires cs6
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Just take a look at my tutorial, you have there resources package for theme creator, just unpack to theme folder and edit with GIMP
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Just take a look at my tutorial, you have there resources package for theme creator, just unpack to theme folder and edit with GIMP
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thank you.i just downloaded gimp
Hi,
I'm glad to have found this discussion forum.
I'm using a MacBook 10.9. I find that, every time I add a new image, it'll take ages to load the preview. If I click on other sections, it'll again take ages to load. Anyone else having this problem? In the end, I had to quit the Creator and launch it again. It's so much faster this way.
Thanks for any help rendered!
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yeah.i tried with my old photoshop CS3 and as you said it requires cs6
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beta 2 is out and its working fine with S5 tho.the main question is does it support lollipop ??? i dont think so .
Arrowblue said:
beta 2 is out and its working fine with S5 tho.the main question is does it support lollipop ??? i dont think so .
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hey, what does it mean by "support lollipop"? my phone is using 5.0.2. I had the back/home/overview buttons images in the theme creator, however, they don't show up when I installed it on my phone. Is that related to "support lollipop"?
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ive use sony themes creator but when i create some navigation bar. i change back button, home , and overview but the back button got zoom idk why. i insert the same resolution image but only the back button got zoom. and another problem that i ve is in background. its said we should insert 2 image 1 for landscape and 1 for port but when i rotate my phone the image still on the same position but got zoom again. idk why so many bug.