has anyone successfully edited the .9 images

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has anyone successfully edited the .9 images and got them working in their themes ?

Plz reply the poll too...

check out teknotiq, he explained some of the information to me about his work with editting .9 pngs... also most themes such as BUUF, Fadte to Blue, Stericson's themes, all have .9 pngs edited... you can check with them as well

I too have got them successfully edited...
i have made this thread just to know wheather .9.png images are changed widely ?

so thanks on your reply....

want more people reply....

They can be changed but they always break, I have never had one loop me at the boot screen. Some look ok and others dont, its just trial and error.

I've noticed the best way to change these .9.pngs is to give them a 1 pixel border. The buttons for instance, the inside is one color and the border should be a 1 pixel black or whatever color of the theme. You have to erase the corners to, if not they stretch weirdly.

hey pud, try editing the clear notifications button and change its color, without it breaking. Then send me a pic. I was stuck on this forever....

Originally Posted by damnitpud

I've noticed the best way to change these .9.pngs is to give them a 1 pixel border. The buttons for instance, the inside is one color and the border should be a 1 pixel black or whatever color of the theme. You have to erase the corners to, if not they stretch weirdly.

i do it the same way

Originally Posted by Stericson

hey pud, try editing the clear notifications button and change its color, without it breaking. Then send me a pic. I was stuck on this forever....

I ll try doin that and give it to u...

I figured out the .9.pngs! The procedure is here! Updated: 02/13/09

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If you have downloaded the SDK and Eclipse, you have all the tools you need, If not you should grab them and follow Google's guide.

This process is somewhat a pain in the butt, but worth it. You need to take the .9 off of the file name that you want to change, then drag it into the draw9patch tool from the Android SDK(in the tools folder) Here is some info about draw9patch. Pay attention to the Note in the middle of the page. Once you have your 9patch file edited and saved you need to compile it, the lines will remain on this .9 image until it is compiled with eclipse. you need to open a project, or create one in eclipse, drag the .9.png into the drawable folder, then right click your project folder and choose android tools/export unsigned application package. Once this is done, you want to open the apk with WinRar and pull your .9.png files out. you will notice the lines are gone! That is all, I am sure people who have not downloaded the SDK and Eclipse yet might have problems understand this process, but I will try to help you. I am not a guru with Eclipse but i know enough to get by.

Good luck and happy stretching =)

Playing with the SDK today, i found in "SDK\tools\lib\res\default\drawable" all of the .9.pngs have the black lines intact. These could be good for learning the best way to stretch these images. Also the xmls have not been converted to binary, so it might make for some interesting hacks for themes.

Here is a screen shot of the draw9patch tool. The bottom and right sets the content area and the left and top set the stretch area.



I am not sure if i am going to disclose this info just yet (because of the competition) but i wanted to let everyone know its been figured out and we will all know very soon!

i am uploading some screen shots now with some perfect buttons! Anyone who has used my theme knows the buttons looked somewhat messy, well no longer will they be.

Originally Posted by damnitpud

I am not sure if i am going to disclose this info just yet but i wanted to let everyone know its been figured out and we will all know very soon!

i am uploading some screen shots now!

way to go! excited to see some sshots!