Fixing User Interface for MDPI in MIUI ROM - Optimus One, P500, V Themes and Apps

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In this screenshot you may see that notification bar icons are just scaled down icons made for HDPI devices, not for MDPI. Same for app icons in theme, scaled down HDPI icons. What I want to do is to fix these graphics for our device so it will look properly.
Who can help me to do this? I am nice in graphics editing and UI design, but just a random user of Android, not a developer or pro...

Tataarujin said:
In this screenshot you may see that notification bar icons are just scaled down icons made for HDPI devices, not for MDPI. Same for app icons in theme, scaled down HDPI icons. What I want to do is to fix these graphics for our device so it will look properly.
Who can help me to do this? I am nice in graphics editing and UI design, but just a random user of Android, not a developer or pro...
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Actually, MIUI was never made for any mdpi device, so all the pngs used in it are hdpi ones, the mdpi devices hv got it working by directly resizing the hdpi pngs to mdpi. You would have been able to do so by using originally made PNGs for any mdpi device by MIUI team, in your ROM, but unfortunately they didn't do so!!
The only way now is to improve those mdpi PNGs to some extent by using some graphics designing softwares, by adjusting sharpness, hue, saturation, etc. May be adobe Photoshop or similar ones can do this work.................
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1 - Download FastStone Photo Resizer
2 - Extract images from desired APK
3 - Put the folder address where you extracted the images on the address bar on the left of the program
4 - Click on "Add All ==>"
5 - Check "Use advanced options..." and click on "Advanced Options"
6 - Check "Resize" and "In Percentage"
7 - Set the Percentage to 66.67, leave the filter as Lanczos3
8 - Click OK and set an Output Folder
9 - Click on "Convert" and wait
10 - Profit

h3nr1qu3 said:
1 - Download FastStone Photo Resizer
2 - Extract images from desired APK
3 - Put the folder address where you extracted the images on the address bar on the left of the program
4 - Click on "Add All ==>"
5 - Check "Use advanced options..." and click on "Advanced Options"
6 - Check "Resize" and "In Percentage"
7 - Set the Percentage to 66.67, leave the filter as Lanczos3
8 - Click OK and set an Output Folder
9 - Click on "Convert" and wait
10 - Profit
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About 2nd: how to do it? And I won't resize it, I'll redraw it to make pixel perfect.

Tataarujin said:
About 2nd: how to do it? And I won't resize it, I'll redraw it to make pixel perfect.
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It's simple, just open it with 7zip or any program like that. As for putting them back together on the APK you'll need help from someone else.

D3oDex3D_AyusH said:
Actually, MIUI was never made for any mdpi device, so all the pngs used in it are hdpi ones, the mdpi devices hv got it working by directly resizing the hdpi pngs to mdpi. You would have been able to do so by using originally made PNGs for any mdpi device by MIUI team, in your ROM, but unfortunately they didn't do so!!
The only way now is to improve those mdpi PNGs to some extent by using some graphics designing softwares, by adjusting sharpness, hue, saturation, etc. May be adobe Photoshop or similar ones can do this work.................
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Basically you said what I wrote, but rephrased it a bit.
I want to know how to extract these PNGs.
And another bug here, this time related to MiHome. Look at the cropped photo frame on attached screenshot. This is not how things done! That's bad! And some other widgets gets cropped too. I want to fix it, if somebody have any suggestions about how to do it, please, post them here.

h3nr1qu3 said:
It's simple, just open it with 7zip or any program like that. As for putting them back together on the APK you'll need help from someone else.
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I wanted to make things alone, but thanks for help. Any help appreciated.

Oops, sorry, totally forgot. How to extract APKs from phone? Are these resources all in APKs? If not, how to extract?

Use apktool to decompile apk's

fundoozzz said:
Use apktool to decompile apk's
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Alright, but which APKs? And how to extract them from phone?

Tataarujin said:
Alright, but which APKs? And how to extract them from phone?
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Just get them from the ROM u downloaded or use any root explorer in phone and copy those from phone to your sd card..
required apks
system/apps/systemui.apk
system/ framework/framework-res.apk
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Tataarujin said:
Basically you said what I wrote, but rephrased it a bit.
I want to know how to extract these PNGs.
And another bug here, this time related to MiHome. Look at the cropped photo frame on attached screenshot. This is not how things done! That's bad! And some other widgets gets cropped too. I want to fix it, if somebody have any suggestions about how to do it, please, post them here.
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Lol!! You were right!! But i also told that there's no option of taking them from other mdpi ROMS,---- if you had that in your mind.............
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Alright, but which APKs? And how to extract them from phone?
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There are two apks responsible for notifications and other UI elements-
SystemUI.apk, which is in /system/app/ and framework-res.apk, which is in /system/framework.
Extract(decompile) these apks with apk manager or any same tool. You'll find a "Res" folder in there. Inside it, there will be a drawable-mdpi folder. Here are most of the PNGs, which you can edit and correct. For both the apks, case is same. When you'll open them, you'll come to know which PNG is used where and how......
Hope that helps now!!......
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pain
It's simple, just open it with 7zip or any

how to convert hdpi apk to mdpi ....
other than png .. what i have to edit...?

Related

rltoday like this

I wanna know can someone make rltoday skin like this?
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It will get better if it has profile in one row.
i join the question. really cool.
kiyfhns said:
I wanna know can someone make rltoday skin like this?
It will get better if it has profile in one row.
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RLToday is really easy to skin... just take a look at the xml file... it's almost self-documenting. I made something similar for my phone:
(note the bar with numbers above the bottom row of icons...)
(No flaming for using an iphone-style theme... I like it)
Did you post this theme on the rlToday forums? Looks good!
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(No flaming for using an iphone-style theme... I like it)
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iphone - I remember them, of course they're so yesterday now
Mike
This ide belongs to Dr J in this forum. I just wanna have it to.
RLToday is really easy to skin... just take a look at the xml file... it's almost self-documenting. I made something similar for my phone:
(note the bar with numbers above the bottom row of icons...)
(No flaming for using an iphone-style theme... I like it)
Yesterday 10:06 PM
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Actually, i'm not good at programming
kiyfhns said:
Actually, i'm not good at programming
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This isn't really programming. Just take a look at the skin.xml file that you get with any generic rlToday theme.
In there, you'll see tags like "text" and "image". In these, you'll see the content of the text, or the name of the image file, as well as the location of where to place this image file.
Just change these to the locations of where you'd prefer the images to be, and replace the images with whatever images you'd like (just look around these forums, or search around on the internet... or make your own if you're artistic-enough).
Please, can someone give use this theme for rltoday??
skatsev said:
RLToday is really easy to skin... just take a look at the xml file... it's almost self-documenting. I made something similar for my phone:
(note the bar with numbers above the bottom row of icons...)
(No flaming for using an iphone-style theme... I like it)
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Did I see 4 (FOUR!!!) soft key???
How can I have too?
glaucos said:
Did I see 4 (FOUR!!!) soft key???
How can I have too?
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haha You didn't!
Are Icon's labels!
fasgiu said:
haha You didn't!
Are Icon's labels!
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I' d think it 'cause in the screenshot is visible the topbar but not the "classical" softkey... so my idea was that there is a way to have 4 soft key, even if I did not hope it a lot
skatsev said:
RLToday is really easy to skin... just take a look at the xml file... it's almost self-documenting. I made something similar for my phone:
(note the bar with numbers above the bottom row of icons...)
(No flaming for using an iphone-style theme... I like it)
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Great job on the skin...
Did you use wisbar? and if so is there a way to do it with out wisbar?
The top (the taskbar) is Wisbar 3...
The rest of it is a skin for RLToday... I'll attach the skin.xml and rltoday.ini files...
If you put the .ini file in your /program files/RLToday directory and the .xml file in your skin directory, they should work.
The skin.xml file assumes that icons are in the same folder as the xml file.
As far the "four soft buttons" (which they are not), you need to create a background image and replace the tdywater_<size>.gif files in your /windows/ directory, and then suppress the display of the actual soft buttons. That way, you can use the whole screen for your background.
... by the way, to give credit where credit's due, I started with the iPhone theme by Wajk from the rltoday skins forum...
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As far the "four soft buttons" (which they are not), you need to create a background image and replace the tdywater_<size>.gif files in your /windows/ directory, and then suppress the display of the actual soft buttons. That way, you can use the whole screen for your background.
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This sound like a good workaround, but... in my /windows/ directory I have only a file called tdywater.gif, and his size is 640x480 (note that I have a QVGA screen, not VGA).
So... I don't understand what I have to do to make the soft buttons disappear.
P.S. I hope you understand me, my english is so rusted and I have to explain me with simple phrases
There are a couple of alternatives for actually getting rid of the softbuttons -- do one of those first, *after* that you can substitute the tdywater_240_320.gif file with your version.
I believe that the two main options are VJToggle (search the forums) or Wisbar Advance 3 (I *think* this has the option... I'm using VJToggle).
skatsev said:
There are a couple of alternatives for actually getting rid of the softbuttons -- do one of those first, *after* that you can substitute the tdywater_240_320.gif file with your version.
I believe that the two main options are VJToggle (search the forums) or Wisbar Advance 3 (I *think* this has the option... I'm using VJToggle).
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Many thanks, VJToggle (even if I have made hard work to find the right version for my use) is the solution that I was searching for
mikechannon said:
iphone - I remember them, of course they're so yesterday now
Mike
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Indeed...obviously from the past during the time before MMS, and 3mpix was new and hot..
BTW - Mike thanks for all the hard work gathering the service manuals.
Martin

[THE] Nice Clock

Can be made a clock like this ? i would love !!
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and i have some numbers for a clock...i hope someone want to do it ...beacuse i can't
no one ??? plsss
i could give it a shot when i get back home (i guess about 2-3 hours from now).
no promises but we will see
Giannis86 said:
i could give it a shot when i get back home (i guess about 2-3 hours from now).
no promises but we will see
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Ok ...very thanks
If anyone other want to do that it's the welcome xD
alfoalfo said:
Can be made a clock like this ? i would love !!
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where's this clock from? it's very nice, i'd have a go at a diamond version
i gave it a shot given the time i had available..
its not perfect but its not as easy to work with a jpeg as compared to png icons
anyway in the screenshot below i dont have a background for the clock, so thats why only the numbers can be seen
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Download the zip file. There are 2 folders. "Numbers" contains ONLY the numbers in the screenshot. "Transparant Clock Background" has the files required to make it look just like in the screenshot
1. Deactivate TF3D
2. Open total commander (or anything that can modify system files)
3. Copy the manila files to the Windows directory on your phone.
4. Reactivate TF3D
I cant make cabs at the moment so in case you cant do this maybe someone can pack it...
Giannis86 said:
i gave it a shot given the time i had available..
its not perfect but its not as easy to work with a jpeg as compared to png icons
anyway in the screenshot below i dont have a background for the clock, so thats why only the numbers can be seen
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Download the zip file. There are 2 folders. "Numbers" contains ONLY the numbers in the screenshot. "Transparant Clock Background" has the files required to make it look just like in the screenshot
1. Deactivate TF3D
2. Open total commander (or anything that can modify system files)
3. Copy the manila files to the Windows directory on your phone.
4. Reactivate TF3D
I cant make cabs at the moment so in case you cant do this maybe someone can pack it...
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Great Work man !!! ...i like it also without the background ...very thanks...
Are you able to do the second one ? ...i think it have to be a sprint clock...
skilty said:
where's this clock from? it's very nice, i'd have a go at a diamond version
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I take it form here http://www.desktopsidebar.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5292&st=0&p=45229&#entry45229
it's for PC I think in the forum are talkin' about a "yahoo widget" but i don't understand very well 'cause I only take the image ...I think it look like a sprint clock ..it's right ?
i think thats a bit beyond my power
Giannis86 said:
i gave it a shot given the time i had available..
its not perfect but its not as easy to work with a jpeg as compared to png icons
anyway in the screenshot below i dont have a background for the clock, so thats why only the numbers can be seen
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Download the zip file. There are 2 folders. "Numbers" contains ONLY the numbers in the screenshot. "Transparant Clock Background" has the files required to make it look just like in the screenshot
1. Deactivate TF3D
2. Open total commander (or anything that can modify system files)
3. Copy the manila files to the Windows directory on your phone.
4. Reactivate TF3D
I cant make cabs at the moment so in case you cant do this maybe someone can pack it...
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Giannis86,
Which theme is this? Looks very cute.... Also do you have some other engine wall papers?
Take a look at this, it might be close enough to what you want:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2773288&highlight=digital#post2773288
Or type digital clock on search, you will get plenty of colors on digital clocks, i have seen a red digy clock that looked really cool.
emre_aachen said:
Giannis86,
Which theme is this? Looks very cute.... Also do you have some other engine wall papers?
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its the old school icon theme that i made.search for old school and you will find it
HandCalendar can support such clock.
alfoalfo said:
Can be made a clock like this ? i would love !!
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so...as someone able to do this ?

Black notification bar with blue battery and %/blue icons

i added % to the battery so i look like this,
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it's only work on DeFrost " i haven't test any other" if someone want it for some other rom just say to me and i make
the settings are new icons too
thanks to Fightspit for the xml files
hmm when you use beatiful widget is dosen't look good when you have a black notification bar, but i change so now it look like this
if you like the app buy it
it work with latest defrost
Download?
2.1 Ready? With Battery Drain fix?
Add dowload link, please.
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shud i make it for 2.1 too? but for what rom? and what do you mean with Battery Drain fix???
i uploaded it i frogot that
jullejul said:
shud i make it for 2.1 too? but for what rom? and what do you mean with Battery Drain fix???
i uploaded it i frogot that
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i mean 2.1 deFrost! with Kernel Battery Fixes^^
Ye it Work with 2.1 battery fix. Flash. 2.1 defrost and then the kenel and then this
you can flash the kenel after you flash the battery .zip to be 100% sure
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this one is awesome! but could you please make the notification background more transparent, then it would be perfekt!
woehrl said:
this one is awesome! but could you please make the notification background more transparent, then it would be perfekt!
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ye i will fix that
is it possible to show the numbers while charging too?
maybe change the battery icon to red repersenting charging
and white while discharging, but the numbers will always be there.
bradputt said:
is it possible to show the numbers while charging too?
maybe change the battery icon to red repersenting charging
and white while discharging, but the numbers will always be there.
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hmm i don't know how to fix that beacuse i took a theme from another guy with 100% and change the pics to mine i don't know how to fix that i nly have 20 chargin pics . it's hard to explane but i diden't steal his work i made all by my self i just copy the service.jar
I find this theme absolutely georgeous, thanks a lot for the effort!
I think it is the best standard battery mod Maybe, you can make a mod with only this battery available for a lot of ROM
Obviously, I prefer my circle one but I know some people prefer the battery symbol so I recommend them to take this mod.
Anyway, good job
jullejul said:
hmm i don't know how to fix that beacuse i took a theme from another guy with 100% and change the pics to mine i don't know how to fix that i nly have 20 chargin pics . it's hard to explane but i diden't steal his work i made all by my self i just copy the service.jar
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Well, I know you use my xml files to make this nice mod and don't worry ! it is not a steal, you can use it as you want . Also, the only way to make a battery charging animation 1% by 1% is to change a xml file. If you have decompiled the framework, look in the drawable folder and you can find and edit a xml file "stat_sys_battery_charge.xml."
At least, you give me a good idea for my circle battery for a future version (B or C or ... ^^)
I love it. This theme is really good.
Very nice.
I use this with Flipclock Ahman Blue from the market. The blue looks the same shade
Fightspit said:
Well, I know you use my xml files to make this nice mod and don't worry ! it is not a steal, you can use it as you want . Also, the only way to make a battery charging animation 1% by 1% is to change a xml file. If you have decompiled the framework, look in the drawable folder and you can find and edit a xml file "stat_sys_battery_charge.xml."
At least, you give me a good idea for my circle battery for a future version (B or C or ... ^^)
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what program do you use to change xml files?
Theme is simply amazing, however I have found some space for improvemetns
Inside zip you will find 3 folders:
transparent-can you make those (zoom)pngs that are inside more transparent ?
Smileys-I really hate those android smileys, they are so ugly, do you maybe have some other "normal" smileys that are nicer so you can replace them
res-drawable-another "ugly" smiley that will be nice to replace, this smimley is located in framework-res\res\drawable
And where are located settings icons(location and security, wireless...)?
jullejul said:
what program do you use to change xml files?
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If you have decompiled (not unzipped) the framework-res.apk, you can open the xml files with a simple text editor. Otherwise, I use the Apk Manager to decompile the framework-res.apk .
Ye but i just get strange squares and question marks :-(
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
do you think you can make a theme to change the green buttons to blue to go with this?

Can anyone port this Theme to Desire!!

Hi people,
I know there are a lot of clever themers out here, unfortunatley I don't have a clue how to do this. But please please (I'm begging lol) can someone port this theme to the desire for LeDrOiDs 1.8 ROM.
I found it at MODACO:
http://android.modaco.com/content/t...me-orange-pulse-v1-3-16-07-2010/#entry1346562
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Really nice theme.
You can take a look a this thread :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=723193
There is NexTang that is similar this theme, i think you can like too.
Thanks, I guess NexTang is the closest I'll get to this one.
I'm am going to see if I can port this one myself, wish me luck
I have done a bit of reasearch but still not that sure on how to do this,
Are there any Photoshop PSD templates for themes, or a tutorial.
Can anyone please point me in the right direction for creating this theme.
Thanks.
Finally figured it out managed to port it to Desire, still not perfect needs a bit of tweaking as the ringer and media volume slide still shows green. WIP
Please NOTE Credit goes to the original developer of the theme ogiogi at Modaco
http://android.modaco.com/content/t...me-orange-pulse-v1-3-16-07-2010/#entry1346562
ogiogi is from Macedonia ex YU
Port looks good. I may take a look tomorrow to see about that slider still being green. Also i'd definitely change lock screen icons to orange too.
ephumuris said:
Port looks good. I may take a look tomorrow to see about that slider still being green. Also i'd definitely change lock screen icons to orange too.
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Hi,
Thanks, I still need to figure the other bits out where its still green.
Also if you look at the last picture on the first post, the popup with Ringer Volume and incoming call volume etc is not right in the port it is still black title bar and green sliders.
Have a go and see if you can sort it, I'm going to try as well will let you know how I get on. When it's done I'm hoping to upload an update.zip for everyone who wants it.
Yeah I've just had a look and can't find the colour for the volume slider. Only reason it is orange in first screen shots is it is a stock rom and it is orange in stock roms. Htc sense roms have green sliders.
It probably is possible to change it however I'm not sure where the image is or if its in some other file.
Really nice work.
Mbc2010 can you upload your framework-res.apk? Think I may have a lead on changing volume bars and progress bars.
ephumuris said:
Mbc2010 can you upload your framework-res.apk? Think I may have a lead on changing volume bars and progress bars.
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Hi mate,
I've figured it out somewhat, it is xml that controls it, I replaced the following files and it worked (see image) however as you can see on the pop up title bar where it says "Volume" the background is black it should be orange, still working on it. Also look at the third image the one that says "scanning", that little grey rectangle should be a spinning circle (don't know what happened there
I have PMed you check your messages. Cheers
Right I'm off...........
Beppemi said:
Really nice work.
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Thanks, I tried
My theme looks nice in Hdpi I did post it here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734339&highlight=orange+pulse. Maybe some one ported it for hdpi devices.
ephumuris said:
Yeah I've just had a look and can't find the colour for the volume slider. Only reason it is orange in first screen shots is it is a stock rom and it is orange in stock roms. Htc sense roms have green sliders.
It probably is possible to change it however I'm not sure where the image is or if its in some other file.
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The green progress is in progress_horizontal.xml in drawable. You can just take that file from ANY theme and replace it. Even from a MDPI theme, meaning ogiogi's original theme that has orange progress bars. Cheers!
igor_anta said:
The green progress is in progress_horizontal.xml in drawable. You can just take that file from ANY theme and replace it. Even from a MDPI theme, meaning ogiogi's original theme that has orange progress bars. Cheers!
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Thanks, I kind of figured it would be one of those files but didn't know which one. Thanks for clearing that up.
Any idea on why the settings backgroud might still be blackand the wrong spinning animation.
As the theme is from a non sense rom i have a feeling some files need to be edited in com.htc.resources.apk also for your sense version. There is however a ton of image files in there. Can't get my head around it i'm pretty new to this stuff.
@igor Yeah i found that out last night. Already managed to put any colour i want in the xml now. Changed to blue and looks great for BluFrost rom.
ephumuris said:
As the theme is from a non sense rom i have a feeling some files need to be edited in com.htc.resources.apk also for your sense version. There is however a ton of image files in there. Can't get my head around it i'm pretty new to this stuff.
@igor Yeah i found that out last night. Already managed to put any colour i want in the xml now. Changed to blue and looks great for BluFrost rom.
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How do you edit your xml's as I can't figure that out, I'm from a web design background. But I take it that Android xml need to be decompiled. I tried to follow Apktool but had no joy.
Any ideas?
Apktool worked for me. Once decompiled edit with notepad then re compile. The result apk didn't work for me however extracting the edited recompiled xml from the new apk then adding it to the old apk works. No idea why but its the method that works for me.
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Apktool worked for me. Once decompiled edit with notepad then re compile. The result apk didn't work for me however extracting the edited recompiled xml from the new apk then adding it to the old apk works. No idea why but its the method that works for me.
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Thanks for that, could please do me a favour and give me a step by step instructions on using apktool for compiling and decompiling. Cheers

Font getting clipped on incallui

I find with almost all fonts (even included ones from Samsung) that there is clipping of the font where it says "dialing" etc. when I am making or receiving a call. I am currently using a segoewp flipfont that looks great everywhere else and works fine on the incallui of my S3 that is also using KitKat. I'm guessing it's a long shot but has anyone figured out a way around this or am I stuck trying to find another font that works? I really don't want to change from the segoewp font. I have tried a different version of segoewp and have tried different font sizes and tried adjusting DPI and font scale for incallui using xposed app settings mod but no dice.
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Reechings said:
Font getting clipped on incallui
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That is a pretty minor flaw that would not concern most people very much. My point being, even if Google or Samsung are aware of it, it would be a very low priority for them to fix.
Choices? You could search and see if a Themer has noticed and corrected it already. Submit a bug report and wait for Google to eventually update it. Find a different font that doesn't clip or ignore the clipping. Or find a tutorial on theming and fix it yourself. Or buy me a kilo of decent coffee and I'll correct it for you.
You'd need to decompile the package and edit the cell spacing or padding. Probably in the xxhdpi drawable dimens.xml file.
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That is a pretty minor flaw that would not concern most people very much. My point being, even if Google or Samsung are aware of it, it would be a very low priority for them to fix.
Choices? You could search and see if a Themer has noticed and corrected it already. Submit a bug report and wait for Google to eventually update it. Find a different font that doesn't clip or ignore the clipping. Or find a tutorial on theming and fix it yourself. Or buy me a kilo of decent coffee and I'll correct it for you.
You'd need to decompile the package and edit the cell spacing or padding. Probably in the xxhdpi drawable dimens.xml file.
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Yeah it's probably something I will have to live with for now. My OCD can drive me nuts sometimes. Kills me that the exact same font works perfectly fine on my work S3. Bad enough that it spells dialing with two "L" s. First world problems I guess.
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I ended up using a ttf editor called font forge to reduce the size of the font contained in the ttf file then used ifont from the play store to create a font apk from that ttf so now I have a segoewp font that looks how I want and is a bit smaller so it doesn't get clipped anymore. Nothing like a solution born out of pure nitpickiness.
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fffft said:
That is a pretty minor flaw that would not concern most people very much. My point being, even if Google or Samsung are aware of it, it would be a very low priority for them to fix.
Choices? You could search and see if a Themer has noticed and corrected it already. Submit a bug report and wait for Google to eventually update it. Find a different font that doesn't clip or ignore the clipping. Or find a tutorial on theming and fix it yourself. Or buy me a kilo of decent coffee and I'll correct it for you.
You'd need to decompile the package and edit the cell spacing or padding. Probably in the xxhdpi drawable dimens.xml file.
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I wasn't able to find that XML file but I found a file called "primary_call_info.xml" in the layout folder and was wondering if it might be the one to tweak. Any thoughts you can give would be greatly appreciated ?
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Did you decompile the app? If not, that is why you didn't find the file.
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Did you decompile the app? If not, that is why you didn't find the file.
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Yes I am opening the incallui.apk with ES Explorer and opened the XML file in question with Axel editor and see a lot of references to padding and such. I was hoping you might be able to take a look at the XML file that I quoted to you and shed some insight about whether you thought that might be the right spot to edit.
Thank you SO much for your attitude though, very helpful.
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Yes I am opening the incallui.apk with ES Explorer and opened the XML file in question with Axel editor
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It doesn't sound like you are decompiling the system app.
If you don't decompile it with a tool such as apktool first, you will not see the xml in question with a file browser like ES explorer.
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It doesn't sound like you are decompiling the system app.
If you don't decompile it with a tool such as apktool first, you will not see the xml in question with a file browser like ES explorer.
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I am exploring inside the incallui.apk with ES explorer which let's me see all the files. I went through the folders and did not see an xml file name like the one you mentioned. I did find the one I mentioned in the res/layout folder which I thought looked promising. If I can find the right XML file to edit I can use zarchiver to insert the edited file into the APK and can also use zipsigner to sign the APK if needed (at least that's my plan).
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Reechings said:
I am exploring inside the incallui.apk with ES explorer which let's me see all the files.
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Someone else said:
The sky is blue.
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Only one of the statements above is correct. Believe what you wish.
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Only one of the statements above is correct. Believe what you wish.
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My apologies for my ignorance. I have to say it is a little confusing how you can partially extract the contents with a file explorer and not realize there is more that you aren't seeing.
I do wish that you were able to ease off on the smartass throttle just a little because it seems like you do have some good knowledge to share and could be a great help to a lot of us users here on XDA.
Anyways thanks I think.
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Reechings said:
I find with almost all fonts (even included ones from Samsung) that there is clipping of the font where it says "dialing" etc. when I am making or receiving a call. I am currently using a segoewp flipfont that looks great everywhere else and works fine on the incallui of my S3 that is also using KitKat. I'm guessing it's a long shot but has anyone figured out a way around this or am I stuck trying to find another font that works? I really don't want to change from the segoewp font. I have tried a different version of segoewp and have tried different font sizes and tried adjusting DPI and font scale for incallui using xposed app settings mod but no dice.
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can you send me you InCallUI.apk for me note 3?

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