Originally Posted by BRKotucs

Hey dude! Have you thought about making the status bar transparent? It would be really cool if you could do that...

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hi brkotucs..
i do have some transparent status bar mods in my mods thread. there are a few issues with it though, which may or may not have a fix:

1) depending on which launcher you use, the wallpaper may or may not bleed through like towle mentioned. for instance, with touchwiz, when displaying the home screen(s), it calculates the wallpaper height/top by subtracting the height of the status bar, so it will always be black behind the status bar with touchwiz. zeam launcher does not do this, so you will see the wallpaper behind the status bar. I have tried editing the wallpapercanvasview.smali class in the touchwiz apk so that it subtracts 0 instead of the height of the statusbar, but it has no effect. that is something i am continuing to work on.. i have a list of launchers that work the best with the mod in the thread.
2) every app deals with the status bar differently. some apps cover it completely, some apps extend a solid color all the way to the top of the screen (which would show up behind a transparent status bar) , and some apps consider the bottom of the status bar as the top of their screen (so the wallpaper would show up in this case, again depending on which launcher you use)
3) when you make the statusbar transparent, notifications can overlap making a mess up there. for example, when you pull down the notification menu, the date appears in the upper left, but the status bar icons behind the date show right through. the way i fix this in my mods is that i make the background of the date black with a kind of glowing color gradient that matches the color of the theme.

BRKOTUCS :
here's your custom color mod (with 50% transparency) with 50% transparency on the status bar too.. see if you like it!

BRKOTUC'S Custom clear pulldown/statusbar mod with swipe and ICS animations

let me know what you think..

frescoraja

Thanks for replying dude.. I'm running ADW EX Launcher at the moment.

This is my Home Screen with the status bar hidden.


It shows the status bar as it did before in black.


Transparent pull down bar (still looks good Imo). The status bar doesn't look transparent, It still looks black. I would suggest to leave the color behind the date out.


For some reason Tapatalk wouldn't let me upload another picture at full size. .. So just click on the link to see picture #4.
Using the browser the status bar looks gray..

http://db.tt/qJxq2t1Q

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Originally Posted by bmw2105

I installed the swipe away feature and it some times glitches when i swipe it away it doesnt go away it will come back. It'll take about 3 trys for it to finally swipe away any thoughts to as why?

it's weird i didn't notice this until i had it installed for a few days. its like the novelty wore off so i started swiping more "nonchalantly" and you're right.. it feels kind of sticky. my mod interprets a swipe as when the x-coordinate of the touch event changes by +50% of the screen (right) or -50% of the screen (left) within a specific amount of time, which is a constant of 17694721 (0x010e0001) .. This comes out to about 300.ms.. i will try messing around with some values to improve it.

i did try changing the percentage to higher and lower values, and 50 just seemed to be the most responsive to me.

i will keep you posted on progress.
thanks for the feedback everyone

frescoraja

yeah, adw launcher was one that didn't seem to be friendly with the clear status bar mod..

here's the same mod with no color behind the date:

download here

i never tested adw launcher with the clear status bar, but someone told me that it worked.. after messing around with the preferences. zeam launcher is the only one i got it to work in flawlessly. and one thing i like about zeam launcher is that you can specify the transparency of the background of the app drawer to match the status bar.

thanks for testing that out..

Could I request a version for BLUE.CLEAR.STATUS.AOSP?

Thank you!

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Sure I'll make that for you tonight

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Now that I think about it, I'll understand if you want to wait until tdj releases 2.6. I'd feel bad if I were begging for an update in a few days. ;)

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here it is jesamyn:

download here

from what i understand, there won't be any major framework changes in 2.6 so this should work when it comes out anyways!

if it doesn't i don't mind making a new one either... only takes me a few minutes.

let me know if there are any issues!

thanks
frescoraja

I flashed this on top of 2.6 as well and haven't had any issues. Thanks again!

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