hybrid between dave's theme making for dummies & stericsions

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So I've kinda blended the two ideas together to make themes.... I really didn't wanna set up linux on my windows machine to make a freaking theme. So what I have been doing is using daves east 10 step guide with the signing tool that jesusfreke put together for stericson. I extract the res directory and then edit the files I wish to theme it... you have to be very catious when editing .9 files to make sure that they are the same pixel size,DPI, And bit rate. I haven't had any problems yet editiong any files I wish. I resign each .apk that I change and then I resign the update! Works like a charm!




Just thought I would share with everyone here! It is really quite easy!

I am throwing this out one more time...don't mess with the .9's...someone I already spoke with had to reflash dreaming.nbh because he edited the .9's and messed up his phone....they can screw things up for you...Be extremely careful if you are still going to though...

Stericson

Yes same here .. i will only edit some .9 files and you have to do it soo carefully or boom .. hard work with no return =/

yeah i have been extremely careful when editing these and haven't had any problems yet.... i have mostly just been changing the colors of them.... what i have been doing i s looking at the prioperties of the files before i edit them to make sure that they are the same size, dpi and saved in the same bit rate... some are 24 bit some 32 bit and some are 120 dpi and dome 70 dpi... you just have to be extremely careful....

if u do anything involving paste .. instead of pasting into it .. just select all .. then paste into .. then when ur done editing .. change the trapsparency in the bottom layer to 0 ..then merge it down .. then close it out or just click save.. if it ask you to save as a .psd then you did something wrong if it just closes out then you did it right lol

Is there any tool or IDE /program to do this theme, you recommend?

everything is in my how to theme develop for windows post .. i recommend photoshop to do the graphics tho