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so i guess theres no way i can use this on stock 4.0.1. I dont yet have my ubuntu rig setup yet to compile myself. And i was looking to make my status bar and soft buttons transparent so the wallpaper was visible beneath.
Did systemUI apk change that much from 4.0.1 to 4.0.3 so that it wouldnt be compatible?
Awesome thread btw. Love anything to do with compiling aosp code changes
roger! a familiar face from the good old nexus one
yes sadly, the systemui is different betwwen .1 .2 and .3, too much change
. What a coincidence i just was browsing your github just taking a look thru the source thinking of forking for fun. Guess i'll have to wait on the status bar till then and when i upgrade to 4.0.3. This galaxy nexus reminds me of good old n1 days in terms of how great of a device i thought it was. I skipped over the nexus s but the GN is def worth it!That gradient is part of Launcher2.apk. So I tried to match bottom of that gradient to use as the background for the softkey area.
Thanks for the added notes. Helps a ton with a place to start. Decompiling to .java with windows is a no no, it wont compile correctly so i have read...
I got the status bar transparent and half of the notification bar transparent. The top half is transparent and the bottom half is solild black. Ugh.
I think there are some more smali edits. Changing the gradient color on the dock isn't working either. The status bar does look great tho. Thanks again.
Hello guys,
First, thanks for the compliments some have said. They are appreciated for sure.
As you might be able to guess from my less than rapid replies, I really just cannot support constantly updating this with all the various rom builds that are out there. I have not looked into doing this as a smali only edit recently but if I get some time I will try.
I will NOT be spending anymore time trying to replicate Paul's softkey mod though so I will most likely just try to do it to a SystemUI that already has that in place. *If possible*, I'll try to update the OP with some sort of universal instructions for a smali edit.
Here's an early screenshot from when I was initially trying the mod. Sorry, it's the only one I personally have. That said, I would not flash what was posted earlier in this thread unless you are on an aosp 4.0.3 build only. It does not contain any softkey mod. If you flash this on an incompatible rom, your statusbar will fc as well as your menu keys.
See the above caution....in other words, no it won't work.
Yes, and in fact that is the initial way I did this mod. There's a couple ways to do this....you could either remove the entry for status_bar_background in drawables.xml. Then you'd place the png you wanted in drawables-xhdpi and name it status_bar_background (you could use a 9 patch if you like). The other way would be to add your png but name it whatever you wanted. Then you'd need to change the background in res/layout/statusbar.xml to whatever you named your png in drawable-xhdpi.
This is very interesting....thank you. The reason I say this is that it is the exact same result that happened when I attempted to help another rom dev recently.I got the status bar transparent and half of the notification bar transparent. The top half is transparent and the bottom half is solild black. Ugh.
I think there are some more smali edits. Changing the gradient color on the dock isn't working either. The status bar does look great tho. Thanks again.
The smali edit should be the same for you on 4.0.1. Actually this one that I did in the other thread should work. *note it also has my circle battery mod.
). Hopefully there’s another beginning android hobbyist that finds this useful and/or inspires him to try some new things. What we need to change is the PixelFormat for the statusbar. In froyo and gingerbread this was done in StatusBarService. It’s been changed a little in ics, although the edits remain in SystemUI. The two files I changed were StatusBar and PhoneStatusBar. 
frameworks/base/packages/SystemUI/src/com/android/systemui/statusbar/StatusBar.java(opaque ? PixelFormat.OPAQUE : PixelFormat.TRANSLUCENT)PixelFormat.TRANSLUCENTcd device/samsung/maguro/
./extract-files.sh. build/envsetup.shpendo:master pendo$ lunch
You're building on Darwin
Lunch menu... pick a combo:
1. full-eng
2. full_x86-eng
3. vbox_x86-eng
4. full_stingray-userdebug
5. full_wingray-userdebug
6. full_crespo-userdebug
7. full_crespo4g-userdebug
8. full_maguro-userdebug
9. full_toro-userdebug
10. full_panda-eng
Which would you like? [full-eng]make SystemUILandroid/view/WindowManager$LayoutParams;-><init>(IIIII)Vconst v4, 0x4800068const/4 v5, -0x3
move v2, v1Lcom/android/systemui/statusbar/phone/PhoneStatusBar;->mPixelFormat:IMy bad, I left out one VERY IMPORTANT detail. Whether or not you build your own or use the one I compiled it is a deodexed SystemUI.apk. If you previously had an odexed SystemUI then you MUST delete SystemUI.odexI've been wanting a smooth circle battery mod! Only problem is, on Roman's AOKP rom flashing it makes the statusbar and virtual buttons disappear
Please see above note.
This is built purely from aosp sources, not CM. I would not expect what I compiled to work on anything other than aosp 4.0.3. However, the information in the first post should help you make a translucent statusbar if the CM9 source code is available somewhere.
Yes, I actually had some information regarding that in the first draft I had made, however I was getting concerned with the length as it was so I trimmed it down a bit.
Obviously when aapt compiles it doesn't store the code as TRANSLUCENT....but here's some of the values that it does store of what you'll most commonly see: mind of small but not a problem at all. 
