Root Making a custom theme myself for all!

[Afteraffekt]

Hows it going everybody? I've been working in Photoshop since 2001, and now Ive been in Android for nearly a year and I figure, hey?! Why not? I have themed Windows XP, my Blackberry Curve, even my PSP 1001 Fat. Time to make it Android.

If anybody has requests, or ideas - I would heavily consider them - please be descriptive though. I prefer designing clean designs, and elegant details. I am rusty on icons if anybody wants to help there, thanks all - lets make something good!

 

[DJAlmix]

Something, minimalistic, and glassy.

Sorta like this:

But not so ugly.

Maybe gingerbread crossed with aero?

 

[Afteraffekt]

I was thinking glossy/glassy with a mix of minimalism, ill have a preview up in a min.

First Preview:

So far the entire top bar is all my work from scratch, but i hate making icons lol, but oh well, wallpaper is from interfacelift.

 

[flyinjoe13]

If you could make a simple theme that adds nothing more than a transparent notification window to a stock ROM, i'll kiss ya. That's the one thing I really miss by not running one of the custom ROMs is that transparent window. Don't ask me why, but really do love the transparent window.

 

[Afteraffekt]

If you could make a simple theme that adds nothing more than a transparent notification window to a stock ROM, i'll kiss ya. That's the one thing I really miss by not running one of the custom ROMs is that transparent window. Don't ask me why, but really do love the transparent window.

Get me the stock theme, and a Screen shot of it and ill make one up.

Got it - this is fun haha!

I can open apks with winrar, but how do i recompress them back to apks - then sign the zip for flashing?

 

[mattgaitan]

I can open apks with winrar, but how do i recompress them back to apks - then sign the zip for flashing?

if you open the apk with winrar, all you have to do is drop the file/ files you want back into the apk while opened in winrar, to have it replace them. not too sure about the signing though

 

[Afteraffekt]

oK, i have a theme where the bg to the notification area is transparent, but the bg to any notifications is still the normal - getting closer though.

Edit: I had it basically done, but all Google Apps would FC upon starting them - so had to go back to stock.

EDIT: For some reason when I change more than just one or two pics it causes most apps to FC upon starting them. Any idea why this is?

 

[mattgaitan]

did you clear cache and dalvik cache before you flashed it?

 

[Afteraffekt]

did you clear cache and dalvik cache before you flashed it?

I think the zip must have gotten corrupted, i started over and it appears to be working fine - not sure what happened. I have my theme coming along nicely, but i cant seem to find all the images i need, i dont think my theme pack has them all, does anybody have the full stock theme?

 

[mattgaitan]

Android Ally

at the bottom
thank you to savoxis for his site

 

[Afteraffekt]

Oh wow! i forgot all about that site! lol - now i feel smart lol, but I have my theme done to the Battery icon, and the top notification bar BG, but now that i have the full theme, i should be able to get both done fairly quickly!

 

[mattgaitan]

alright man sweet will be looking forward to the finished product! good luck

 

[Afteraffekt]

I cant get the 9 images to stretch properly, and ive done that method before, i believe im forgetting to do something, but not sure what - theming is easy - the transparency part is a pain due to the need to edit the xml files. (the notification area has a bg color that is solid, so the images just get dimmer, while there is still a strong color presence under them....bah lol

 

[Afteraffekt]

Making decent progress, am now able to sign the update.zip with great big thanks to Stericson and Fnorder - great assets to our community!


If anybody has designed a theme and would like it actually made into a theme just let me know, and get me the files and I'll set it up for an update.zip.

 

[death2all110]

best if you use 7zip and dont convert the apk to zip. and with the framework-res if you re-sign it you're asking for trouble.. just dont re-sign system apks and you should be good. if you need help with the update-script hit me up. ive done plenty of those.