Integrating Theme switcher

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I was wondering if anyone thought about integrating a theme switcher with modified firmwares. I wonder if its possible without having to reboot to install a different skin.

possible!!

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i wud thnk its possible bcuz its the same concept as the jf updater!! it wud just bring up a list of themes to choose from and u pic 1 thn it just does the auto reboot and the name change!! in theory it makes since but im not tht good of a dev. so i cud b wrong!! just gotta wait n c i guess!!

Originally Posted by acejoker25000

i wud thnk its possible bcuz its the same concept as the jf updater!! it wud just bring up a list of themes to choose from and u pic 1 thn it just does the auto reboot and the name change!! in theory it makes since but im not tht good of a dev. so i cud b wrong!! just gotta wait n c i guess!!

Ouch...my head. Your keyboard seems to be missing some letters.

For the OP, you would need to reboot to apply the update.zip, I don't believe it can be applied without the phone rebooting, even if an application was to do the "switching" for you.

it would be like winterboard in the iphone/ipod touch restart every time you change themes. But i dont mind if an app could do the hole process for me :P

why not?!?

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why is it not possible without a reboot?
as far as i know the themes are only images overwriting the original images...
now only some one has to try it ^^

i found the "framework-res.apk" on my phone (ADP1) in /system/framework
now just cp "NEW-Themed-framework-res.apk" to /system/framework
and restart the home app...
or the app that uses these images .. i dont know when there are loaded ... if they are loaded already on boot we need a reboot!

is anyone brave enough to just force cp the theme file
shouldn't do any harm its linux so what ....

lad

ps probably i will -.-

sounds great in theory, and i like the last post about it being linux so who cares, we can always fix it. but personally i would prefer an app similar to the JFupdater app. the main problem with that is that someone (not me) would have to make sure that the server the app reads from always has the most updated themes, and with our devs posting 10 new themes a day and only getting more since RandumAccess has posted 10 himself in the last two days it would get to be quite a headache. i like both ideas, the app seems like the better one, but please let up know if you get the force cp to work, it might get us on our way

ok
dont try it !!!!!
i did it thru the terminal app and after copying i pressed the home button to see i f anything happend...
well yes ... it rebooted ... and it stuck at booting ...
fixing my phone now ....

JUST DONT TRY IT! ....

Doesent it work like openHome and Bettercut ?
just relink the icons with an app?

I liked a themes icons here but hated what they did with the bars so I just copied the /system/app/ apks to mine and it worked without a reboot. I guess you could just make a program that copies apks around but I'm thinking having themes stored in /data/themes and symlinking the apks would work better. What do you guys think?

Originally Posted by DeadBody79

Doesent it work like openHome and Bettercut ?
just relink the icons with an app?

i thought so...too
thats why i tried to overwrite them ... but it seems that ii's more complex...

but mabye if we place symlink / hardlinks into the theme package..
and link to a location with the new image (so we can change this image)
something like /data/framework/framework-res.apk/res/drawable

ok i played a little with symlinks and hardlinks
what we need are symlinks with an absolute path
we can copy (with cp -d ) these into the package...

i'll try that ...but it may take a while since i never singed a package...

lad