Root Help with customization "morph"

[HackADevice]

I just wanted to know what exactly pertains to the framework res. Apk and the systemui. Apk because I wanted to get the ICS elite status bar into UOT but have Tagged everything else, any help?

 

[Artine]

I just wanted to know what exactly pertains to the framework res. Apk and the systemui. Apk because I wanted to get the ICS elite status bar into UOT but have Tagged everything else, any help?

I hope this is what you're looking for:

When you open either .apk, what you're looking for is stored under (for both) res -> drawable-mdpi

For SystemUI, for the status bar, you're looking for the files "status_bar_background.png" through (meaning, in alphabetical order, every file from that one until the following) "title_bar_shadow.9.png".

More specifically:

status_bar_background.png
status_bar_close_on.9.png
status_bar_header_background.9.png
status_bar_header_background.png
status_bar_item_app_background_normal.9.png
status_bar_item_app_background_normal.png
status_bar_item_background_focus.9.png
status_bar_item_background_focus.png
status_bar_item_background_normal.9.png
status_bar_item_background_normal.png
status_bar_item_background_pressed.9.png
status_bar_item_background_pressed.png
status_bar_tab_off.9.png
status_bar_tab_on.9.png
statusbar_background.9.png
statusbar_background.png
title_bar_portrait.9
title_bar_shadow.9.png

And for framework-res.apk:

status_bar_background.png
status_bar_header_background.9.png
status_bar_item_app_background_normal.9.png
status_bar_item_background_focus.9.png
status_bar_item_background_normal.9.png
status_bar_item_background_pressed.9.png

 

[HackADevice]

So I just replace tagged 's bar with the files from ICS elite?

 

[sneaky_1]

Hashtag also released a theme chooser. The ics theme has the ics roms notification bar.


http://androidforums.com/5232959-post176.html

 

[Artine]

So I just replace tagged 's bar with the files from ICS elite?

You open up each respective .apk in WinRAR (default compression level set to Normal or you'll break the file and the OE won't boot), navigate to those directories and literally drag and drop the ICS elite files into those directories, and it should automatically overwrite the pre-existing images with the same filenames from the Tagged status bar to the ICS one. Provided those images are the same in dimensions (and are mdpi, which is the same thing), you should be good to go after that. Hashtag also has his Theme Chooser up so you don't have to do this, either.

 

[HackADevice]

Hashtag also released a theme chooser. The ics theme has the ics roms notification bar.


http://androidforums.com/5232959-post176.html

I know that but it just replaces everything I want a mix of the two

 

[Artine]

I know that but it just replaces everything I want a mix of the two

Sleipnir has a mix of both.

 

[HackADevice]

Sleipnir has a mix of both.

yeah i've used your Rom, it's very good, but i've envisioned another mix to try out

 

[HackADevice]

I was wondering do you know the file names that control the highlight when selecting something (they are stick yellow but I want to change them) and the over scroll highlight (also stock yellow)

 

[Artine]

I was wondering do you know the file names that control the highlight when selecting something (they are stick yellow but I want to change them) and the over scroll highlight (also stock yellow)

There are a ton of different ones for highlighting/selecting, and I'm not sure which one specifically correlates to what (like, for example, highlighting a system settings menu entry upon press). But overscroll is easy:

overscroll_edge.png
overscroll_glow.png

Here's how I do it: Open up framework-res.apk, navigate to res -> drawable-mdpi

Extract all of those files in that directory to a new folder, name it whatever you like. You can see the thumbnail for each image and be able to find what you're looking for much easier that way. Once you've replaced the images you like, Ctrl A to select all of the images and drag them back into framework-res.apk -> res -> drawable-mdpi, and the images from the folder will overwrite those in the .apk, then you can test it/them.

 

[HackADevice]

There are a ton of different ones for highlighting/selecting, and I'm not sure which one specifically correlates to what (like, for example, highlighting a system settings menu entry upon press).

Yes that exact one

 

[sneaky_1]

I have a little side question in the area of apk modifiying. What settings do you use with 7zip or winrar when recompressing apks or ROMs/zips.

 

[Artine]

I have a little side question in the area of apk modifiying. What settings do you use with 7zip or winrar when recompressing apks or ROMs/zips.

Set their default compression level to Normal, and you don't have to do any manual saving either - just drag in and drag out stuff from the ROM .zip file. If it's not set to Normal, the ROM file will be compressed differently than it should and it won't flash or boot.

 

[wuzdat]

Hashtag also released a theme chooser. The ics theme has the ics roms notification bar.

http://androidforums.com/5232959-post176.html

You mention that hashtag released a theme chooser...is there somewhere we can download this theme chooser to try it out? The link in your post goes to some other thread not related to. Or do we have to wait and install his next rom update to get the theme chooser?

 

[Artine]

You mention that hashtag released a theme chooser...is there somewhere we can download this theme chooser to try it out? The link in your post goes to some other thread not related to. Or do we have to wait and install his next rom update to get the theme chooser?

He released it within that thread, try looking through the posts on the last page. He will be creating a thread later specifically for it as well. The post linked to in the post your quoted has a link to the theme chooser.

 

[wuzdat]

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction, i was able to find the download link just like you said I would and I will now install this and see what it can do.