brotherswing
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I've been reverse engineering a theme called Elegant Steel I found on XDA. I've already learned a tremendous amount from my experiment, and once I have a proper Linux installation on my new laptop work will continue. 
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Root Lost root..no recovery..Backside ROM
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JerryScript
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UOT Kitchen themes, and those found on the market are two different beasts.
Market themes work on the default Android theme system. They use what's already built into the system, and are limited by that system.
UOT Kitchen themes are basically hacking the frameworks-res and SystemUI apks. People have been doing this manually using apkmanager before UOT Kitchen was established. (btw- UOT Kitchen uses apkmanager as a back-end).
Since UOT Kitchen themes are built from the specific ROM's files, they will only work with that ROM and most often only the build they were made for (so long as no changes were made to frameworks-res or SystemUI, they will work across builds, but almost every build of BACKside has changes to those files
).
Market themes work on the default Android theme system. They use what's already built into the system, and are limited by that system.
UOT Kitchen themes are basically hacking the frameworks-res and SystemUI apks. People have been doing this manually using apkmanager before UOT Kitchen was established. (btw- UOT Kitchen uses apkmanager as a back-end).
Since UOT Kitchen themes are built from the specific ROM's files, they will only work with that ROM and most often only the build they were made for (so long as no changes were made to frameworks-res or SystemUI, they will work across builds, but almost every build of BACKside has changes to those files
).