Substratum Overlay/Theme Location - Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers

Hi,
I didn't find an answer to this - I'm looking for the location on my phone where I can find the substratum themes I've download.
I'm guessing I need to be rooted to see the .substratum folder? Any where else they would be saved that I could access with a non-rooted phone?
I'm looking at taking certain parts of my substratum themes and combining them into my Coffee theme.
Thanks.

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Hi I thought id start a new thread as there may be other members who wouldn't see it in the k8 post that may be able to help. I have managed to decompile the stock k8 smartwatch launcher called launcher2.apk and have found the folder with the watch faces however I have no idea how to add more clocks to this so have tried using photoshop to amend the ones already there. I have recompiled the apks and put it in the original launchers folder but it wont let me install and wont load when replacing the original. Although watchmakeer is a great app I kinds prefer the way the stock launcher works and being able to hold and switch through faces. If anyone can give advice or compile a modded apk with extra faces or advise me how to make the watch recognise this as an alternative launcher so i can choose between original stock launcher and modded launcher It would be a big help.
soulclaimed said:
Hi I thought id start a new thread as there may be other members who wouldn't see it in the k8 post that may be able to help. I have managed to decompile the stock k8 smartwatch launcher called launcher2.apk and have found the folder with the watch faces however I have no idea how to add more clocks to this so have tried using photoshop to amend the ones already there. I have recompiled the apks and put it in the original launchers folder but it wont let me install and wont load when replacing the original. Although watchmakeer is a great app I kinds prefer the way the stock launcher works and being able to hold and switch through faces. If anyone can give advice or compile a modded apk with extra faces or advise me how to make the watch recognise this as an alternative launcher so i can choose between original stock launcher and modded launcher It would be a big help.
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Ok so ive figured out now how to decompile, amend watch faces in apk with photoshop, recompile and sign the apk and now it works in my phone just need to work out how to add extra watchfaces as opposed to amending the existing ones...
so I decompiled and added extra watch faces in the folder and amended the code file that lists all the image files I expected this might add them as extras but this didn't work, what have I missed?
Odex file?
Buddy how do I do it I want to change my watch faces using the stock launcher I'm just bored of the current ones

Mod icons with CSCAppResource.apk under /sytem/CSC folder?

Hello,
Under MM, it was possible to mod icons with CSCAppResource.apk, see [GUIDE] [Advanced] How to make an IconPack for Samsung Touchwiz [JellyBean].
Since Nougat, I do not find the way to make that it works.
Any idea please?
Thanks
PS : rooted phone of course.
Yep, struggling here too with nougat ...
I guess it has to do with what Samsung made with touchwiz with nougat as they re-branded the launcher as Samsung Experience. Something happened where the new version of the launcher does not pick up the apk/xml we use.
Hello
Thanks ahmed_ais for your feedback.
Hope someone could find the tip to make it back, maybe modded Touchwiz Launcher.
Does someone know if it is possible to add 3rd apps in Samsung Theme?
It seems that it only works with Samsung app ones.
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Found a solution !!
Hey, I just wanted to update you guys about a solution I have found: Substratum
It's a very big and deep theme engine worth checking out. I was able to theme apps icons throughout the whole system (including Touchwiz Experience launcher) without touching any apk so it's as clean as CSCAppResource approach.
Substratum can do a hell lot more of course, thanks to everyone contributed to this project. I have attached some screenshots from my setup using an icon pack found online (take a look at 3rd party apps icons)
Hello,
Can U provide us please more details how to proceed?
Thx
peyronnx said:
Hello,
Can U provide us please more details how to proceed?
Thx
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Yea sure ...
First of all one would need to download the substratum theme template from here. We need to pay attention to step 3 from the description of that template as this is what we will be doing. Knowing that any app should have an icon either in one or more of /res/drawable folders or one or more of /res/mipmap folders, we need to put our themed icon in that location in assets folder within the substratum them.
Let's take an example of Facebook app. The launcher icon for that app is located at: com.facebook.katana/res/mipmap-xxxhdpi-v4/icon_katana.png (and perhaps other mipmap folders as well, I didn't check). Therefore, I should include the same hierarchy in my substratum theme like this: MySubstratumTheme/app/src/main/assets/overlays/com.facebook.katana/res/mipmap-xxxhdpi-v4 and there I put the new icon with the same name icon_katana.png (the name is defined in the app's manifest file so it should be exactly the same).
Once done, we build the theme and we push and install it to the phone then proceed with Substratum app.

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Download substratum theme engine and apply a black theme
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=projekt.substratum&hl=en
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