How To Make A Theme??

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Im new to the whole idea of having a rooted phone. Just let me say its pretty cool! Ive messed around with some rom cooking but nothing serious. Can anyone point me in the direction of creating a theme for my eris?
Thanks
-paperweight

sure, but ur gonna need the following first:

1. photoshop skills
2. linux
3. patience
4. an idea

one u have all of those, ill show u the thousands of pngs u need to edit

I got the skills to pay the bills... Time is what Im lacking, My family takes up most of my time. Maybe fathers day I can sit down and dink around.
Thanks for your help
-paperweight

Originally Posted by SoCalSpecialist

sure, but ur gonna need the following first:

1. photoshop skills
2. linux
3. patience
4. an idea

one u have all of those, ill show u the thousands of pngs u need to edit

yup not to mention hex editing etc...I am working on a theme now and let me tell you after being a 8 year Blackberry user its a whole different thing...dont get me wrong creating and editing svg's and layering theme for blackberry wasnt the easiest thing to learn this is just "different".

So not to be long winded any noobs or anyone for that matter interested in starting a theme there are some fantastic tutorials and loads of helpful fellows over in the heroc forum. Hopefully in the not so distant future we as the Eris community will have our own talented group of themers instead of just porting or simply being able to flash a hero theme. Good Luck and be patient.

Re: How To Make A Theme??

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yup not to mention hex editing etc...I am working on a theme now and let me tell you after being a 8 year Blackberry user its a whole different thing...dont get me wrong creating and editing svg's and layering theme for blackberry wasnt the easiest thing to learn this is just "different".

So!? Have you thought about cooking up a blackberry-esque or bbstorm-esque theme theme. That, would be such a wonderful idea! :D (i was a former bb storm user btw)

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what are some of the other files to edit png's in other than framework-res.apk and com.htc.resources.apk? the wifi, gps, etc. on and off widget/icon and the dialer keypad in particular. using the leakbase rom jcase posted if it matters. thanks.

iflip : a blackberry theme already exists via marketplace for GDE

magnum : the way i started was via windows. i was grab each apk .. edit the extension to .zip extract it and dive in the MDPI folder ( thats the folder ur gonna want to get into to edit themes.)

if ur using linux just jump in the apk and check out the icon_launcher's. thats gonna be a great starting point..since at least 22 icons need to be changed for a theme LOL

i kno i kno..its a p.i.a. but u asked ...

Originally Posted by SoCalSpecialist

magnum : the way i started was via windows. i was grab each apk .. edit the extension to .zip extract it and dive in the MDPI folder ( thats the folder ur gonna want to get into to edit themes.)

Thanks, yea i'm on windows, takes a little time going through all the png's lol.

HtcDialer.apk and Phone.apk will contain the png's to change the phone dialer.

I was looking into making a theme or at least just changing some things around in the one ROM I'm running now. The two questions I have is how do I re-zip the ROM and how do I sign it so it will work? I'm running snow leopard on a macbook pro just as an fyi.