I'm sorry to do this. I'm just burnt out on searching today. The icon on my MyFaves panel (the five circles icon) decided to go AWOL today. All the icons appear to be intact in the Windows directory. What do I have to edit to get rid of the damned red "X"?
Only thing I've done differently was update CHome Configurator and CHome Weather. I'm not blaming them since they really don't deal with the icon. I just can't think of anything else I've done.
Go to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\CHome\MyFaves and edit the iconpaths location to where your pic is. The first pic in iconpaths is when your window is active and the second pic location is when your window is inactive. Your pic is probably in your \Windows directory. Hope this helps
(just in case I wasn't clear, here's a capture)
I gotta get off this thing for the night.
the iconpaths key has the value "4605;4604".
What does that translate to?
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the iconpaths key has the value "4605;4604".
What does that translate to?
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Do you have the My Fav icons in your windows folder?
if yes, then change the link in the iconpaths to the MAIN "my fav" icon in both reg address'
In the brozeres.dll, the picture files for iconpaths are predefined (meaning they are preloaded, so you don't have to do jack to have your screen be complete).
You can change their paths to whatever you want and that image will replace what the bronzeres.dll days that iconpath should be.
So if you want your active icon to be a color image of My faves icon , and your inactive to be a black and white image of the same, then it would look something like this:
iconpaths:
\Windows\youractiveimagename.png;\Windows\yourinactiveimagename.png
Just make sure whatever image you replace IS located in the place you entered in your registry. It's that easy. Takes like 5 minutes, just type in location drop pics in location (if not already there) and reboot or run your weather update and reload homescreen (might have to change layout, not sure about that). That's it.
I owe you a beer.
One day, my friend.
Oh sure he gets the beer but i dont?
Fine next time ill write a page long way of fixing your issue. lol
Hell, get us all together and the first round's on me.
A clue, perhaps?
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I'm sorry to do this. I'm just burnt out on searching today. The icon on my MyFaves panel (the five circles icon) decided to go AWOL today. All the icons appear to be intact in the Windows directory. What do I have to edit to get rid of the damned red "X"?
Only thing I've done differently was update CHome Configurator and CHome Weather. I'm not blaming them since they really don't deal with the icon. I just can't think of anything else I've done.
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Okay, the MyFaves pics on the collapsed panel are now X's on my phone.
The pics/icons in the expanded panel are fine.
I believe I have found a clue:
Thinking it might reset the collapsed MyFaves pics/icons panel, I
thought I would change the home screen to something else, reboot, then
change it back and reboot again.
But the home screen layout wouldn't change! So I scrolled through the
home screen settings and discovered duplicate fields on the settings
page for "Home screen layout" and a couple of other fields.
If I changed the layout in the second occurrence (or both occurrences) of
the "Home screen layout" field then the change would occur, but not if
I changed it only in the first occurrence of the field.
Oddly enough, sometime over the weekend the duplicate fields
disappeared but collapsed My Faves panel still displays the X's
rather than miniature pics/icons MOST of the time. Occasionally a
single mini-pic will appear, not always the same one.
Obviously something about the Home Screen settings has become
corrupted.
Here's where maybe XDA developers can help. I'm thinking that the various
home screen layouts must be templates into which a user's unique
settings are imported.
For example, you and I (and everyone else) have identical templates
for, say, the "T-Mobile default" layout. Our unique settings (My
Faves people and icons/pics, Weather app city, etc) are properties imported into the template before (or as) it is displayed in the panel. If someone could find out what file(s) comprise the "T-Mobile default" template, someone
might be able to either tell us how to fix the corruption or post the uncorrupted template file(s) copied from another Dash phone.
Now, while online with my Dash to Tmo this past weekend through Web2Go
I came across a support screen that listed support for "missing
MyFaves app". Unfortunately that link led nowhere (dead). Now I can't even find the page, but obviously T-mo does recognize a missing MyFaves app as an issue, so it may be possible to restore our missing icons/pics to the collapsed MyFaves panel by reinstalling the MyFaves app.
I'm not sure this is relevant, but this occurred after a couple of aborted attempts to install Opera, then Mini Opera. Eventually I got Mini Opera installed.
Distinguished XDA developers, I know many of you think the MyFaves app is useless but some people like having it, so any help that you can provide is greatly appreciated!
-GoJ
I recently saw images in the themes section, that I loved and subsequently now use for my phone. Shown:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=781455
and
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=783946
Now, how do I resize the images properly? Scale, resize? Differences? What program to use (free, I'd prefer)? How to add that black bar so lovely at the bottom of the images and the text there? I tried figuring it out, but I couldn't figure out how to search how to do that specific thing.
Any help would be great! I want to start making images in that fashion for other applications, as those are very limited.
When I had my Hero, you could download Desktop Visualizer - this will allow you to associate certain pictures to the icons you want. It will also allow you yo resize them....my suggestion is start with a big icon and resize it smaller - smaller to big makes it look grainy...as for the dock bar....I used (use) LauncherPro - under LauncherPro setting you can change the dockbar....hope this helps!!
The black bar at the bottom looks to be a custom dock for LauncherPro. I've seen it in collections of LP Docks before (I'm unfortunately not immediately able to find it, but google it and spend a few minutes, and you ought to find it no prob).
As for the icons, Simi Folder would be one way to do it if what you're linking to is a folder. Not sure for just an icon that links directly to an app -- you can certainly resize icons in LPP, but I'm not sure off the top of my head how to do it and maintain the scale. You could probably compress it using Photoshop such that when it gets stretched, it looks correct? I dunno, someone else may have better ideas...
I believe people are misunderstanding what I'm asking.
I know how to get it all set up on my homescreen and such. I have the setup like that currently, no problem, using DesktopVisualizer and LPP.
I'm more asking about how they placed those bars on the image and the writing. See, they have an image that they got from wherever on the internet, put that minimalistic black transparent bar on the bottom and wrote "Texts" there, so that one would use it as a tile of sorts (as the theme they're going for is an "Android Phone 7" sort of thing"). I want to basically get images from wherever in the internet as well and use them for other applications. Like, create a, say, "Market" one, where the image I found will represent in some form, a market, and then put that black transparent bar in the image and type "Market" in some font in the corner like they did so that I can then use DesktopVisualizer to use the image as the icon in the manner shown in those posts. I'm assuming you can't just go and place a huge image (####x###) as the icon and hope it fits right. They resized theirs down to like 355x115 or something. Every time I try to resize something like that, though, it does not like it in the least. So, I'm wondering how they did that, too.
In a sense, they're like icon sets, if you will, and I want to then expand their offerings, as they only offer "icons" for a few applications or needs.
God, what a text wall. Sorry!
I wouldn't mind knowing myself, I'm all for customizing my Evo, and the more I learn the better I can do so.
I'm sure it's a relatively simple process, I just simply don't know how and wouldn't even know how to search for it. Like, what, "black bar on image?" Ha!
Hundreds of views, hardly any replies! You'd think this wise community would know!
totalanonymity said:
I believe people are misunderstanding what I'm asking.
I know how to get it all set up on my homescreen and such. I have the setup like that currently, no problem, using DesktopVisualizer and LPP.
I'm more asking about how they placed those bars on the image and the writing. See, they have an image that they got from wherever on the internet, put that minimalistic black transparent bar on the bottom and wrote "Texts" there, so that one would use it as a tile of sorts (as the theme they're going for is an "Android Phone 7" sort of thing"). I want to basically get images from wherever in the internet as well and use them for other applications. Like, create a, say, "Market" one, where the image I found will represent in some form, a market, and then put that black transparent bar in the image and type "Market" in some font in the corner like they did so that I can then use DesktopVisualizer to use the image as the icon in the manner shown in those posts. I'm assuming you can't just go and place a huge image (####x###) as the icon and hope it fits right. They resized theirs down to like 355x115 or something. Every time I try to resize something like that, though, it does not like it in the least. So, I'm wondering how they did that, too.
In a sense, they're like icon sets, if you will, and I want to then expand their offerings, as they only offer "icons" for a few applications or needs.
God, what a text wall. Sorry!
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The text is just in the image, it isn't some magical add-on. It is probably just a black rectangle and then transparency adjusted to taste.
There are a handful of win7 style icon packs like that. You could use one of those as a template (for size) and use your own images and text. Minimal PS or GIMP experience needed. Just keep the aspect ratio of the images when you are resizing them and provided they aren't absurdly larger than the ~355x115 or whatever size you are aiming for they should still look fine.
The second link says it comes with photoshop templates. You could always just download the 30 day free trial of photoshop.
looks like a simple photoshop job to me, just add a second layer above the background, rectangle marquee the section you want to be the transparent bar, then paint bucket the area with a black (or any color) at 50% opacity, then add text.
jstalford said:
The second link says it comes with photoshop templates. You could always just download the 30 day free trial of photoshop.
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Wow, can't believe I missed that. Oops!
Those are pretty cool looking layouts nice find.
This first post is about using Adobe Illustrator
I figured I would share a little knowlege of my designing and how when i came to android it helped out in making theming my rom so much quicker
ATTACHED AT THE BOTTOM IS A STARTER LAYOUT TO HELP MAKE LIFE EASIER FOR YOU!!!!!! :fingers-crossed:
THEME/DESIGN CHEAT SHEET
INDEX1. Tools..........................................................................
2. Begin.........................................................
3. The Setup...........................................
4. The Artboards.........................................................
5. Adding And Modifying Multiple Artboards.....................
6. Saving your Icons.................................
7. Layers, Colors, And Strokes................................................
8. SELECTING MULTIPLE LAYERS AND ICONS TO CHANGE COLOR AT ONCE.
9. TRACING TOOL...................................................
10. Keyboard shortcuts coming soon
1.TOOLS
First remove Adobe Photoshop and Fireworks from your playlist. To me these tools are crap or for short cuts. lol but short cuts coming soon
"Adobe Illustrator" and some quick learning or know how.
I'm not going to go over every single tool because if anyone knows illustrator lol its just way to many. Im just going to get to the main ones in this case in point.
2. BEGIN
Adobe Illustrator is one of the best graphic design tool I've ever used Ever. Your images would no longer start of as just a pic anymore. Now its time to learn vector.
Vector graphics is the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and shapes or polygon(s), which are all based on mathematical expressions, to represent images in computer graphics. "Vector", in this context, implies more than a straight line.
Vector graphics is based on images made up of vectors (also called paths, or strokes) which lead through locations called control points. Each of these points has a definite position on the x and y axes of the work plan. Each point, as well, is a variety of database, including the location of the point in the work space and the direction of the vector (which is what defines the direction of the track). Each track can be assigned a color, a shape, a thickness and also a fill. This does not affect the size of the files in a substantial way because all information resides in the structure; it describes how to draw the vector.
WIKI^^^^^ thanks
In short this means that all the res you would lose resizing images in Photoshop or Fireworks wouldn't be lost in Adobe illustrator because it use the vector format
When designing in vector you have so many capabilities that any format doesn't, like proper shading, 3D effects and the easiest way to change the color of multiple vec's at once on the same artboard.
The art board is the space and area in which your design would be held on. It's the only part that would be use to create the png, jpeg, etc. Anything on the edge or off of the artboard wouldn't come up at all in the image. This is convenient to me because I like to have almost the entire framework or system res themed perfectly. Meaning all color and tints and shade all match to the T. You also can line up anything to the artboard or to an object perfectly, so no more miss shaped png's lol.
There's also some tools there that you also seen in Photoshop and Fireworks.
My favorite part of adobe illustrator is the Effects section. This is how to avoid messing up when trying to make your own shading, shadows, 3D effects, glows and more. Trust me, when you get a taste of the effects your going to be trying anything!!!!!!
3. THE SETUP
Now it's time to prepare.
First you need to start a new project. Go to file and select new. Give your project a name. i prefer the name of the rom.
New documents profile - Don't change this because it going to change to custom by itself.
Number Of Art Boards - Keep this at 1 (im going to tell you how to add more)
Size - don't touch anything after size, just make sure Units Say Pixels
Advanced(drop down the menu) - There are 2 color mode RGB - and CMYK. Rgb modes give your stage for the artboards a white background as if it was on paper. Cmyk leave it empty or transparent like in a PNG. It's your choice on which you want.
Raster Effects - Make sure it's at High 300 PPI
4. THE ARTBOARDS
THERE IS A STARTER KIT FOR ARTBOARDS ATTACHED
The Artboard is pretty much a stage. This is where all the magic happens.
Now when your designing any icon you should make sure you know the sizes. Knowing all the sizes can be a hassle right, but this is where it gets really easy. Say you have 30 icons that are 72x72 if you have a project set up with multiple art boards you would be fine. because once you have made all the icons the save size is just a drag and click away.
5. ADDING AND MODIFYING MULTIPLE ART BOARDS
If you noticed which I'm sure everyone has, that some images match the size of other. This is where it gets very easy to make save and do it in a quick fashion.
Go to "File", scroll down to Document Setup and click on it. A window will appear don' worry about anything it the window unless you want to change things yourself. Just go to Edit artboard. You will notice that the screen has turned grey and now you artboard is the only thing thats white. If you hover over the grey you will see that your drag symbol has turned into a square. Us this to add more artboards. Click and hold on to the grey area and drag your mouse. You will see that you just added another artboard. To resize the artboard the Width which is labeled W and the Height which is labeled H will be in the upper right hand corner. Click on the artboard you want and start to reshape it according to the size you need. You can also drag the artboards to which ever place you want it to sit. Once done just click on the mouse pointer icon on the right and everything will be back to normal.
6. SAVING YOUR ICONS
When saving your icons make sure that where ever your project is you have it as the target location when saving. On your first save you should locate the folder and where the original file is and replace and save it. No need to type in the name. If you know where it is alphabetically, then just scroll to it, click on it and the name should appear in the File name box. If it tell you the file already exist, Do you want to replace? click Yes, but make sure you have a backup copy of the folder just in case. Also make sure you are on the right art board when saving. All it takes is a click on the artboard and you would be just fine.
7. ANCHORS, LAYERS, COLORS, AND STROKES
You ever find it a very long task to make all your icons the same or correct color. Or in short make them match. Well in vector format you can change all of the icons color at once. It has to be selected though. I know you wondered what the white arrow was for, well wonder no more. The white arrow it to select a layer, stroke, or any anchor on the vector image.
ANCHOR - this is single or multiple dots on a vector image that controls the path, line and/or stroke.
Layer is a section of the image thats either below, side by side, or on top of another image. You can change positions by right clicking on the image and use arrange to move its position.
Colors well you know what these are, But Illustrator has three different kind Grey Scale, RGB and CMYK (will be explained later)
Strokes are pretty much a line. It can be around the image, by itself or combined to create an image.( Will Be explained on how to manipulate a stroke in a image.)
To make it short grab the white pointer and have at it lol.
8. SELECTING MULTIPLE LAYERS AND ICONS TO CHANGE COLOR AT ONCE.
We all know images have layers but say you have several vector images that are 2 colored icons or more colors just stick with 2 for a sec. If you go to the image with the white pointer, You can click on the one color on the image and change it without making a mistake and turning the whole icon one color. Now to select more than one of the icons, say all of them where blue and green. Click on the green part of the icon. Now go to the top and click on "Select" scroll down to same. When the menu pop out, you will see that there are many ways to select multiple types of images. For right now click the one that says "Fill Color". All of the icons will be selected that has that same shade or ton of green. (note you must have them already colored in to match in order to select same). Now when you change the color they all will adjust together to make them Perfect.
9. TRACING TOOL.
This tool i would recommend that you stay away from and just design your stuff from scratch. Now I'm about to contradict myself lol but this tool is so f'ing handy if used right.
When tracing and image your pretty much turning it into a vector image with paths, strokes, and anchors. Its pretty much a conversion tool but difficult to use. If you have a colorful image that's when it gets hard. But if you have like a solid color shape its kinda easy.
Say like you have a picture of a solid black triangle in .png and .jpeg because you didn't feel like drawing one. Drag it to the artboard. You will see a button up top that wasn't there b4 called "Live Trace". Click on it and you will see your triangle go from a rough .png/.jpeg image to a smooth vector format triangle.
Now it gets hard.
If you have a multiple color image there are ways to trace it to a vector but not all get it the way you want. Just play around with it a little and you will see what i mean. The traces I'm talking about are in the drop down menu right next to the "Live Trace" button. You will see a slim button with a down pointing arrow.
10. Keyboard short Cuts(coming Soon)
To Be Continued - meaning im Sleepy lol
Photoshop Short Cuts
Photoshop Short Cuts
Adobe Fireworks Shortcuts
Adobe Fireworks Shortcuts
Using Adobe Flash To Make Bootanimations, Banners, and Sigs
Using Adobe Flash To Make Bootanimations, Banners, and Sigs
lorjay589 said:
Using Adobe Flash To Make Bootanimations, Banners, and Sigs
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This is damn near the best post for theming I've ever seen! Simply awesome!. Please put this in the theming section for other young devs and themers alike. This should be a sticky!
REVIEWJT Inverted Productions Inverted Gapps
Verizon Galaxy Nexus (Toro)
ROM: Codename Android 10/6 nightly
Kernel: Faux -jb-021
RECOVERY: TWRP 2.3.0
GAPPS version: 3.2.2 (4.2 Gmail)
I'm reviewing (as made obvious) Justin's Inverted Gapps 3.2.2
First, the people.
Justin will be the first to tell you that “JusTun Bean Inverted Gapps” is somewhat of a misnomer. The three members of the team that I'm familiar with are Justin860, Tun_SD, and cajunflavoredbob, all here on XDA.
Tun_SD is the themer. And he is GOOD. His apps are second to none, that I've seen. Clean, black, and fully functional
Justin860 is the modder of Aroma, for this package, and the brain behind all of this (as far as I can tell). Aroma installer, is seamless, and well designed.
The most recent to join the trio is cajunflavoredbob. He took up the duties of creating the quickflash zip when, due to time constraints, Justin pulled back from it. Now, to be honest, I have not used the qiuckflash version, personally. So, this review will concentrate on the Aroma installer, and on the apps themselves.
Justin expects you to read the forums, before you ask questions. An art that is quickly becoming lost on XDA. But, if you are the first to post up about an issue, he and Tun_SD are on it QUICKLY. By the time this review is posted up, it will be a version behind. Not due to major bug fixes, but due to additions to the package, fine tuning, and tweaks that these three insist upon. This has been especially true lately, with the arrival of Jellybean on the scene, the update to 4.1.2, and the impending arrival of 4.2. The version coming out this weekend has been hinted to include instagram, and (if I saw the screenshots right) facebook. As I said, these people are not satisfied with putting out a package and sitting back.
Aroma.
Aroma, on the surface can seem to be confusing, until you use it. It's nothing to do with the flash package itself. But more due to the fact that it is a format that is rarely used. I had never heard of it before using it.
That being said, you enter it in recovery, same as you do with any other flashable zip. You select it, and a couple of seconds later, a clean new interface pops up.
All you do, is click next, agree to the terms (which are essentially a disclaimer, and a statement that you agree that you know what you are doing. No, he doesn't collect any information), click next again, and a third time after you read the changelog. Then you get to the meat of Aroma. You will have two options. Aroma file manager, and the installer. You click on the installer, and you are presented with a list of options. The first section involves wiping options. The second offers whether or not to install regular Gapps, the third involves whether to install inverted gapps, and finally the last section asks if you want extras.
Once you go through those, you are presented with a list of all gapps, and several system apps that have been themed (People, Calendar, Email, MMS, and contacts), By default, all Gapps, and system apps are selected for you. You simply deselect any that you don't want inverted. Click next
If you choose extras, you get another list, which includes Apex and Nova launchers, Apollo Music, ES file, Dropbox, MIUI music, and RomToobox lite. In the third section, you get a trio of sample themes that TUN_SD created as well, and are known to work well with the inverts, and the option for the GNEX boot animation. Of these, the only things checked are MIUI music, and the themes.
Two Caveats, before we get into the apps.
1. If you are fond of themes, some of them may not work well with these apps. Not a detriment to either the themes or the apps, just a fact of the way frameworks and various '[email protected] work.
2. The GNEX boot animation is hit or miss on some devices. If you select it, and it doesn't work, there is no harm to your system, it just won't overwrite whichever animation you have in place.
Once you click 'install', you are given a live actions list, which tells you everything that is going on, and a bar down at the bottom, which gives you a running completion percentage. Obviously, I have to assume that the percentages are accurate, but it is enough to make me wish thaat flashing ROM's and other recovery installs were that precise in letting me know what is going on. It would be a great troubleshooting tool.
Once the installs are finished, you click next one more time, then "finish". At this point, it boots you back out into your recovery, and the phone reboots with no other prompting from you. Since you (at the minimum) wiped dalvik, in aroma, boot will take the standard extended time.
Justin states in the OP that you need to do a full wipe, before flashing the inverts the first time. The reasons are the same as for any other full wipe. You are altering, deleting, and replacing system files. just do it.
Apps.
General. When you first boot your phone, you will be prompted with a slew of permission requests. It's the way Google is doing Gapps now. Go through, and accept them. There are some with multiple aspects to approve, and in those cases, you will be prompted with multiple requests on the app (Search and G+ come to mind). It also doesn't always seem to take the first time, in my experience. G+ required a couple of attempts, before sign in was successful. No big deal. Just don't panic if it doesn't sign in the first time, every time.
Secondly, Paranoid Android seems to have some compatability issues, due to the fact that DPI can be altered on the app level. Not a deal breaker, to be sure. But the first trouble shooting step should be to check your app settings in ROM control, for anyone using PA
Google Plus
This one, like all of the apps is a standard inversion. Where it excels is how deep the inversions go. It's not just on the surface, but all of your menus options and text are inverted, as well, while retaining the stock feel. The icon is stock, while the status bar notifications are grey, as opposed to the stock white. Obviously, a theme will alter this aspect of it.
When you open the app, after set up, all of your icons in the menu are stock, but the background for both the sidebar menu and notifications are black, with white text. No surprises, there. On the sock app, the bacground is grey. So, there are no major changes, as far as color.
On the stream, though, Major color difference. Instead of the blinding white, you have a completely black background. And, obviously, the text is white on the invert.
The overflow menu, on the standard app is white with black text. On the invert, it is a slightly lighter shade of grey, just short of black to help differentiate between the menu and the underlying stream.
All of the menus and sidebar options (find people, profile, hangout, etc..) carry this through.
The nicest thing about this app, and all of the others is the complete lack of lag or glitchiness that accompany some of the inverts from other themers. I'm not sure what causes it, but it is definitely missing here.
Gmail
This is the leaked 4.2 that came out last week. Yeah. Didn't take them long at all. Again, stock icon and greyed notification. Opening it up, you have full inverted white/ grey text for unread/read messages, on black background. Anyone else noticing the trend? The icon's down below are all greyed. Swipe away functions are fully intact, as is automatic zoom out, when you open a message. Pinch to zoom also works flawlessly, with no glitching or lag.
The compose mail screen carries the theming through, with greyed text on black background. Same with the menus that accompany it. On the labels screen, custom labels are differentiated with a white header above the checkbox. Again, advocates of multicolor themes may find this slightly stark. But, it gets the job done, without any undo complications. On the message itself, if you chose to move it to a different label, you do get a touch of color, with a holo blue checkmark in the box. Beyond that, the only real dose of color comes from retaining the stock icon in the upper left.
Play Music
Opening up play music, you get more of the same. The icon in upper left is intact, and the only other real dose of color is the holo blue separator between the search/playstore/and overflow icons and the content listings. The indexing tab on the right of lists is also a holo blue. Understated, and it fits very well. Beyond that, the background is black, text white, and album art is left intact, as well. Hitting the overfow menu, you do have the nice blue check mark on the “on device only” box. Yes, this app review is a little less “comprehensive”, but redundancy has it's limits. There are no missed png files here, and erverything just works. Tapping on the play store icon will take you to the next app in our journey
Play store.
This one, along with currents, is a slightly different case. It was actually themed by a member named Kufikugel, as oppsoed to Tun_sd.
Once you open up the app, the background is black, with white primary text for each of the subsections. Here is where the expertise comes in. All of the featured headers (Travel -today- , Games, books, music, and apps) retain their stock coloring on the header text... except “Recommended for you” and a couple of the games that are on the front page. Those have been turned from black text to white. That, ladies and gents, equates to hours of poring through xml's to find which ones to alter. Be appreciative. The same thing carries throughout each of the subsections.
Here is where a little delineation from Play Music crops up, though. And, to be honest, if I hadn't gone straight from one to the other, I wouldn't have noticed it. Instead of the holo blue separator, you get the greyed out bar, with a white highlight under whichever section you are in. The name of the section (I.E. Featured) is also a pure white, as opposed to the greyed out text for the sections to each side.
However the front page of the subsection still retains stock header colors, with the aforementioned exceptions. Swipe over to the listings, and you get stock app icons with white text on black background. The star rating is opposite from what I would expect, however. The filled stars are a grey, with the final star(s) being white. I would've thought that the themer would have filled with white, and left empty stars grey.
Clicking on the app itself, to go into description, the only thing I would like to see different is more separators, between sections. You have a thick white bar between the app icon, and the install/purchase button, and the screenshots, but nothing between screenshots, download count, description, and the rating chart. Once you get into the reviews, and everything below, you have thin grey separators. That is the one part of this package that I have found, so far, that seems unfinished.
If you go into an app that you already have installed, you have a more complete scheme, with bold separators between the app name/icon, and the uninstall and open/update buttons. Then another between those and the screenshots. Again, nothing between download count and the allow auto update checkbox (which gives you that blue checkmark, for a touch of color), a thin one between that and rate/review, but not between rate/review and whats new or description, or reviews. Once again, everything below that has the separator.
If you click on the stars to rate the app, your selection of stars is holo blue, with a grey for any stars you don't highlight. And there is a blue separator between the title and comment section, but a grey one between comments and your cancel/ok selections.
Again, let me say that this is probably the most difficult app to theme, in the package. The separators aside, I think that Kufikugel did an excellent job.
Docs/Drive (pick a name).
On this one, there aren't a ton of mods to do, so the interface is a pretty basic invert. White text, greyed icons and grey separators on a black background. The menu is a dark grey, with light grey separators.
If you go into “My Drive” you have the same. Any starring you do will show up a dark blue, in the star. Not quite as light as the holo blue you see elsewhere. The indexing tab on the right is the holo blue that you have read about, so far. The separators are still the light grey, and text a vibrant white. When you click the arrow to the right of an object, and go into the sharing section, the top bar is a greyish blue, with the hue covering over the icons. The separator goes back to holo blue, as well. Text is either white, or greyish white. And the separators go back to the same ight grey thin line. It seems to fit a little more, in this UI, making the blue one up top more of a primary separator, and the rest secondary. If you have contact pictures for those you have shared with, they show up intact, as well. Beyond that, the theme carries through all of your menus, and settings. Holo blue top separator, and grey after that, with blue check marks.
Google Reader.
I'm bypassing this app, because I'm not even sure HOW to use it. I signed in, but I don't have any content synced to it. So, I will forgo this review in favor of someone with experience with the app.
Google Talk.
Not nearly as many layers as Play Store. But, I think the success in this one is in how well everything still works. The ***** about Gtalk/Messenger is how they tie into Google Plus. With this one, the UI is complete. Profile pics are intact, grey separators are all there, along with the color coded circles to indicate friend status.
I just jumped on video chat with my wife (she's a convenient guinea pig), and the theming carried over to me receiving the call, and it popping up on my screen as a regular call would, black background, and vibrant greens/reds for the answer/ignore options. Once on the call, the background behind the images remained black, as well.
Again, the app just works. That is all.
Google Voice.
This is the other app that I'm going to forgo. The reason, to be blunt, is that Gvoice irritates the hell out of me. And i'm not going to go through the hassle of setting it up. Suffice it to say, all of the other apps are 99% flawless. What are the chances that this one is screwed up? If you use Gvoice, install it.
Google Now
Swipe up from your lock screen, or home screen, and you are presented with Google Now. The underlying background is the same dark grey you get for your menu in the other apps, with the cards being completely blacked out. I would have liked to see some kind of border here, on the bottom, if not completely wrapped around. It would have made it a little easier for me to tell the individual cards at a glance.
Your primary text on the card is white, with secondary being grey. And the icons for sports teams, system apps, and weather remain stock. Tapping the mic on the black search bar brings up the obligatory black screen, with the read soundwave, or whatever you'd like to call it, surrounding the icon in the upper right. Voice functions are as good as they have been, with no lag. One thing I did notice, sending a test text to my wife, after I pressed send, a white screen popped up for a second. It was web results. I think I would have liked to see that themed to black, as well. But, I'm pretty sure that doing so would require theming google search itself. Something, as of yet, not included in the package.
Google Currents
This is the other app that was themed by someone other than Tun_sd. This one goes to Sn1per.
Opening up the app, you have your black background, along with the icons for each of your feeds, and white text. Switching over to trending, you wind up with the black background with white text and holo blue subtext.
Hitting a feed in your library, I noticed the background to be hit or miss. The Verge came up with a white background, as did The Daily Beast. Whereas Space.com and 500px both had black backrounds... Not sure if that is feed based, or what is going on there. I tend to believe that it is feed based, since it seems to depend on the content itself, more than the general app layout.
OK. Now the nonGapps
People.
Open it up, and the first thing you see is the bright blue header. I want to say it's holo, but it seems a little bright for that. I will say I would probably like that one to be toned down, just a touch. Night time viewing still makes it a little glaring on the eyes. That aside, the hue carries over to the icons in that section, with a white underlining (a la Play store) to indicate which subheader you are working with. Going down, Primary dividers are separated with the same holo blue (real holo, instead of the superbright version) text and separators. Secondaries retain the light grey. Text is bright white. Under the alphabetized listings, this translates to the letter breaks are in blue, and individual names are in grey, with white text and icon photos. You maintain the blue indexing tab, and the pop up letters that come up as you scroll are on a translucesnt grey background with white text.
Open up the contact, and you have the same bright header up top. If the contact is starred, it is white. If not, the star is a slightly darker shade of blue.
The headers for each section are also the holo blue, with blue text. The text in the section remains white. The overall background isn't black, so much as a VERY dark grey.
MIUI Music
Having not used MIUI before, I'm going to be doing this review without any comparisons to the non themed version.
The UI seems to be similar to Play Music, in the way it's set up, if not in the graphics, themselves. In the upper left, you have the total number of songs on your Sdcard, and a large graphic (a musical note, in my case) taking up the upper half of the screen. Below that, you have a breakdown of your music, all of which are black background under white text, with the barely noticeable separators. Clicking on one of them (artists, for this example) shows the content, with an overall count of that section in the upper left. If you use the right side alphabetical scroll tab, it shows a toast box that is holo blue, with the letter in white text. One thing I did notice was that the indexing tab didn't seem to move, along with the scrolling. It stayed on “A” the entire time for me. Bringing up a song, brings up the album art, and controls, along with the song title. No separators here, but a slight difference in color between the 5 icons that control the info, playlist toggle, eq, loop toggle, and shuffle toggle, and the back, play/pause and forward controls. Right below that, where there is a separator, there seems to be a repeat of the title. But it is so dark that it is pretty much useless. I'm not sure if that is something to do with the app, or the way the theme was made.
Calculator
Not a whole lot to talk about here. The buttons are outlined in greyish white, with a nice fade to disappearing at the bottom. The characters are holo blue, and nice and large. The menu is the same slightly lighter grey with separator and white text. Functional, basic, quick to use.
Calendar
The initial display still defaults to weekly view, which I haven't bothered to change. But, instead of the glaring white/grey, you get a solid black grid with the days separated by holo blue grid lines. The top text, including month/year, calendar icon, and overflow menu are all in a muted grey. The days of the week are a little different, from what I was expecting, with the weekdays being in white, and the weekend in holo blue. I guess Tun is excited for the weekend. Either way, if you have a mon-fri job, it makes for a nice differentiation at a glance.
Swapping to month view, holidays are color coded to a brown bar. Not my personal favorite, but that can obviously be changed in settings. And the day you are on is highlighted in holo blue. Clicking on the day, and the event (holiday in this case) is also highlighted in the same brown, with white text. The hour separators are the same holo blue.
Adding an event, your default email address is selected in a darker blue, almost purple, and whatever line you are editing is underlined in holo. Beyond that, the text is either grey or white, depending on the section. Pop up menus for each section is the same slightly lighter shade of grey, with white text
Messaging
Completely black background here. Holo separator, at the top, then the grey ones throughout the rest of the theme. Clicking on the icon brings up the individual's message history, with the same separator layout.
This version of messaging is the CM10 version that has the pop up option. Again, theme conflicts can cause an issue, here. There have been a few instances of the messages running off the side, on the pop up. If that happens to you, check the theme.
As for the pop up, itself, you get two holo separators. One on top, just below the contact info, and one on bottom, just above the close and view buttons. Clicking on the reply section underlines it in the same holo, and pops your keyboard up. Once again, no glitches or hangs on either aspect of the app, save for the aforementioned text overflow.
I'm pretty sure that covers all of the apps.
I'm also very sure you will enjoy them, thoroughly. Aside from a few minor inconsistencies, they are outstanding. And, in this user's opinion, the best out there.
In summary, you have this:
A group of people who are very receptive to bugs, and not shy about admitting the few that do crop up. Once they know about them, they are very aggressive in fixing them.
You have a very well themed set of apps, that are clean and pretty consistent across the board.
And you have a set of apps that just work. No glitches, or performance issues.
Wow thorough
Great write up
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Nice review thanks for taking the time to write it.Next time I update my rom gonna give this a go.Thanks to Justin860, Tun_SD, and cajunflavoredbob, for there time making Inverted Gapps :good:
Good Write up.
Think I got it now. always wondered about Aroma. Thanks:good: