[How to] Make your own animated battery [TW] [mod] [beginner]

How to make your own animated battery
A Beginner's Guide
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You can do this for MK3 stock-based builds ~ i.e. the MK3 builds of MOAR or Wicked Sensations
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For example, this animated gif shows the battery charging animation from the one I made for myself. It uses my own app icon plus a google-like cube I drew. The animation I made looks like this (view in browser or click image). Fun for me...


This is actually very easy once you see what you have to do. The time-consuming part is editing 203 tiny images. Okay? Check it out.

Update: You can also make a huge animated battery - more space for more detail. Be creative! You could make all sorts of different animations with more space. I have ideas. I'm sure you can be creative. I made one with my google-ish theme. It looks like what you see here. If you want to make a gigantic animated battery, follow these same steps in this OP and just use the correct template file below. See also here for more info on the gigantic animated battery.


First get these things:


Once you have your two base images at the correct size for your desired animated battery sequence, let’s get you started on the little bit tedious part…

Do these things:



Or if you are a visual person, I recorded making one that I wanted to make for myself. Not my best video, don’t judge, but a quick thing if you need to see it happen. I had a robot voice do the talking in the video too, for no particular reason other than it’s funny to me. The video refers to the regular sized animated battery. Making the gigantic animated battery is the same process. Just use bigger images.

Video Walk-through:
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Please do not quote the OP in a reply.
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Hope this is helpful. Here are the four I have made up to share:
New! Giant Animated Google-ish (as shown in the larger gif of the OP): http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23329332407576520
Seahawks: http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23329332407568579
Red Sox: http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23329332407566593
Sigma and Cube (as shown in the top gif of the OP): http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23329332407569004

If you make some good stuff, take screenshots and share the zip file on this thread!
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I made a new, oversized animated battery for my own phone. I'm into this google-ish theme I've been working on, so here is another fun animated battery if anyone wants it. It has a sort of flickering lightning bolt for under 30, and then four google-color cubes that fill in from left to right. Unplugged images are the same in this one but you can always make them different if you want for your own.

This is an animated gif. If viewing on mobile, click thru to view animation:

Download here: http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23329332407576520

This works on Wicked Sensations MK3 to add some goggley color variety to your theme.

My screenshot shows it on MOAR MK3. To use this oversized animated battery as your stock battery in MOAR:
Go into Settings -> My Device -> MOAR Mod control - Battery Settings -> change color to white and uncheck alpha.

Backup first in case you don't like it. I like it. :good:

If you want to make a huge animated battery image set for yourself, follow the steps in the OP. Instead of using the template ZIP in the OP, just use my flashable zip fle from this post. Replace all of my images with your own of the same size, one by one. The little video in the OP walks you through how to do that. Enjoy.

I see some downloads and video views. Anyone have a screenshot to show off your creations for animated batteries?

New Question...

Any interest in a tutorial for how to create your own custom toggles? Not talking about just replacing the image behind them but actually drawing the individual toggles out how you want? Let me know. Lots of creativity around here and I'm glad to support that. And newbies don't need to sit back and not take part in things like this kind of basic theming. I'll set ya' up.

Such as this example.


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Okay, right on. I'll put it together in a few days. I think I don't need to start a new thread for a new tutorial of this nature. I will just keep it in this thread and change the title when I add the tutorial on drawing and replacing toggle images. I hope people will notice it's here!

I'll use the same format - explaining in steps plus making up a video demo with the robot-voice, same as what I put in the OP here. I'll do that unless someone has a suggestion for a different format. No need to reply unless you have a request or suggestion for how to make the toggles tutorial better than like what you see in the OP for the animated battery tutorial...

Otherwise, stay tuned.

Hey! I just noticed while searching for something else that my guide here was featured on the portal! Thank you to whomever recommended it.
P.S. Future reference, I like to know when my stuff is on the portal, so... feel free to mention to me.