[Smart Keyboard Skin] Ice Cream Sandwich [hdpi-only] [Update 02/18/2012]

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I posted this in Smart Keyboard's forum, but I thought others who don't go to that forum may like the skin I put together.

If you look in this thread, meyergre made an ICS skin. This is great, but I wanted to mimic the look of the official ICS keyboard as much as possible. I started with meyergre's ICS-SDK skin for colors and symbol key images, then took button images from cyril's Gingerbread skin and recolored them to look like ICS keys (more flat and monotone).

In my efforts to mimic the official ICS keyboard as much as possible, these are the changes I made compared to meyergre's:

• Different key appearance. Specifically, the corners are more sharp and the top highlight is thinner to make the button look flatter.
• Colors of words in the candidate bar look exactly like that in the ICS keyboard instead of being mostly white.
• There is now a subtle but apparent divider between candidate words.
• Keyboard font changed from regular Roboto to bold Roboto.

This is how it turned out (Note: I set my key height to be smaller than default, that's why the keys may look short).



UPDATE 02/18/2012
A few things have been bugging me for some time. Well, I finally became not lazy and decided to fix it. I made the following changes in ICS Copy 2

• Changed background color of normal keys to be lighter and closer resemble the actual ICS keyboard
• Changed the appearance of the bottom left and right corners of normal keys to look better shaped

See screenshot below for a comparison.



Also, I made this specifically for hdpi. I do not know enough about image editing to know how to efficiently resize what I have to display properly on mdpi. This skin will still work on mdpi devices, but it still has meyergre's images for those. Sorry!

Many thanks to cyril for making the Gingerbread skin available for customization, and thanks to meyergre for releasing the first ICS theme and helping me along the way.

Great work.I was looking for similar skin for smart Keyboard

Originally Posted by kiarichiki

Great work.I was looking for similar skin for smart Keyboard

If you find, tell me too


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This is what i've been looking for! Thank you so much! =]

Originally Posted by smnsnt

This is what i've been looking for! Thank you so much! =]

No problem! Now if only the Smart Keyboard developer would allow skinning of the key popup...

how to install this skin for Smart Keyboard? Thanks!

Originally Posted by squall_kay

how to install this skin for Smart Keyboard? Thanks!

Make a folder in your sdcard named Skins and put the zip file in there. Do not extract the zip file, just download it and copy it there as is. Then go to your smart keyboard settings > general settings > select skin.

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Updated the post with an improved version of the skin.

Will there be anymore updates? This theme is just great, just like the keyboard itself

Thanks for the great skin!