[Q] Need help with inverting colours on htcdialer buttons - Solved it myself...

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Guys - this is driving me nuts. After exploring stock Android inside out with the Milestone, there is a new and great learning curve with Sense, which is fine. In any case after investigating it is pretty clear what to do, if I want to change htcdialer to a black background and in this case certainly white (or another bright) font colour for the dialer buttons. After decompiling and checking the layout folders everything directly aims to style.xml - so I edited the corresponding values:

<style name="text_style_dialer_button_number">
<item name="android:textSize">27.0sp</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#ffffffff</item>
<item name="android:layout_gravity">center_horizontal</item>
<item name="android:layout_width">wrap_content</item>
<item name="android:layout_height">wrap_content</item>
<item name="android:shadowColor">@color/color_255_255_255</item>
<item name="android:shadowDx">2.0</item>
<item name="android:shadowDy">2.0</item>
<item name="android:shadowRadius">1.0</item>
</style>
<style name="text_style_dialer_button_alphabet">
<item name="android:textSize">14.0sp</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#ff777777</item>
<item name="android:layout_gravity">center_horizontal</item>
<item name="android:layout_width">wrap_content</item>
<item name="android:layout_height">wrap_content</item>
<item name="android:layout_marginTop">42.0px</item>
</style>
<style name="text_style_dialer_button_zero_number">
<item name="android:textSize">27.0sp</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#ffffffff</item>
<item name="android:layout_gravity">center</item>
<item name="android:layout_width">wrap_content</item>
<item name="android:layout_height">wrap_content</item>
<item name="android:shadowColor">@color/color_255_255_255</item>
<item name="android:shadowDx">2.0</item>
<item name="android:shadowDy">2.0</item>
<item name="android:shadowRadius">1.0</item>

Unforunately no success - I also tried several layout xml despite knowing it will not work, just to double check. I also looked into EVO threads (since there was nothing here) and found out, that this style.xml and my values are right (certainly knowing that HTC changed something for DHD).

I also checked htcframework - besides a few pngs which I certainly found and edited no corresponding xml. So the answer seems to be in the smali code.

Anyone else tried this and succeeded? Any help would be greatly appreciated - Thx

solved it myself - see Revolution theme thread

Originally Posted by he_stheone64

solved it myself - see Revolution theme thread

Would you mind sharing how you did it? I spent over an hour editing each PNG one by one to find out it doesnt work! Now that got me a bit pissed grrrrr

That is certainly not png related, you need to decompile the apk first and then need to edity styles.xml in values-hdpi folder.I was so used to AOSP (had a Milestone before, never had values-hdpi), that I started editing everything in values folder and with all the language value folders was not looking at the obvious...

Thanks. Last question, how would I go about making the buttons plain black, instead of having a sort of gradient around it/button around it? I'm trying to match my keyboard.

1. Use my themed htcdialer from Revolution Theme (which is already compiled for inverted use - credit is always nice, if you release it)
2. Make htc_pin_asset_rest.png in htcdialer 100% transparent
3. You should at least have a little glow or whatever effect for htc_pin_asset_pressed.png in order to have feedback for input
4. Make phone_keypad_background.png in com.htcresources.apk as dark as you like it

whaaa!!! almost a week looking at those files.... and indeed never looked between those language folders....H

Much appreciated and I will make sure to credit you if I release

can you install the dialer as an apk file? if you could please pass it over it would would go well with my screen setup at the moment

You only need to download the Revolution Theme and flash only the htcdialer (delete anything in the update.zip, which you don`t need -certainly not the Meta-INF...)