[THEME]6/26-TransBlue Market update! (fixes for those with fc's)

6/26 FIXED
FC issues resolved, and tested for stability. Short update note in this post.

6/21-For those who have fc's, I've added a second link for each of the new TransBlue Markets. The only change is that I use the original, unedited Manifest. The downside is that the comments page will have a white background, but ALL of the other updates are still in play. 100% stable, guaranteed These versions have "og_manifest" at the end of their file names.

6/18

I've recently made a revision to TransBlue (the most popular by far) At first the changes may seem minor, and visually they may not be the first things that pop out, but underneath there's actually quite a few changes. What I've strived for this time was to reduce the usage of public resources a little. I had already pretty much themed all that I could otherwise, so I started to edit the layout xml and (and a couple places in smali) to instead call new local resources I've added. Kind of a long process as it's a bit of trial and error for me (never done anything like it before really), but I think I've come to a decent point where I can release it.

This grew out of another project I'm working on for SGS2.
Screenshots courtesy of esk02k. Thank you! Also, thanks to fernando sor, who's pm exchanges instigated much of the research that led me to this revision.

And here's one showing the widget:

FLASH IN RECOVERY

Market2.3.6-TransBlue_v2.2.3BT.zip




Thanks everyone for your support, and a very special THANK YOU to those who've passed me a drink or two

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4/18-Added TransGreen

4/16
Found the problem some had with the boxes in the app listings. The parent of one of the styles I use has a different id in froyo vs gingerbread. All is well now. I will endeavor to add trans-green and the regular blue as I can.

TransBlue has been updated just a bit to include some of the changes I introduced in TransRed so now both of these included my latest theming efforts

TransBlue_v2.1_Market-2.3.6.zip





TransRed_v2.1_Market-2.3.6.zip





TransGreen_v2.1-Market2.3.6.zip




The original non-transparent Blue version (pic below in 2nd post): BlueMarket2.3.6_v2.1.zip

If you feel inclined please use either the "Thanks" button below, or the "special" thanks button right above my avatar

Thanks everyone for your comments and a special thanks to those who've passed me a drink or two

Docmjldds said:

Hi Guy,
Downloading now. Don't know where everyone else is today Have always preferred Blue to green

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Hey Doc, nice to see you again. Yeah, it's a little quiet but I'm not complaining I'm my own worst critic by far, but I'm actually pretty happy with this one. Don't think I'll make to many more changes, if any at all.

gcng said:

hmm, still green...

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Might want to try wiping your caches. Most of the big green header is not a drawable, but is constructed in smali believe it or not.

First off, thanks, as always for the compliments. Feel like I've kinda been in a rut lately on a few projects so it's definitely nice to hear

As far as why some are not getting build to take, I suspect that you may have a second market installation. I have no idea what causes this but I did notice that I had a vending and a vending-1 install on one of the roms that I've had on my device over the holidays. (been trying to show off all the versatility to the iphone family members ). I just checked the manifest, and it is 2.2.6 so that could be an issue. This market originally came from one of the first few that were floating around a little while back. I'll try to get 2.2.7 up here right quick. I've been running this for quite some time now, but I'm not getting the update for some reason. For those of you who aren't seeing the change, if you have root explorer go see what you have in /system/app, also *possibly* in /data/app. Of course you can run ls in shell as well.

I wish I could remember all that I've done to this, code wise, but that was almost 3 weeks ago and I've seen too much else since then. Hopefully I can jog my memory when I get a chance with 2.2.7.

Docmjldds said:

Ugg..hate wiping caches but will try since mine is also green, but some stuff is blue. Weird.... Was about to install MicroMods V11 Gingerbread since I was getting bored again
Was happy to dig up a working GB Keyboard for him to use on the Desire-HD ROM. Seems all the prior GB Keyboards floating around caused FC's or some other weirdness. Found a post from a russian developer that said it would work on Sense Roms....and it did

PS...it's so nice not having memory issues anymore, sonce having my N1 replaced.

EDIT: No Go. I am using MicroMods Desire-HD ROM. New market works fine. I just wiped cache, and Dalvik-Cache, reflashed your file and the market is still green. Any thoughts?

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Man, once again...I'm not sure what's causing this. This shouldn't make a darn bit of difference, but you could try pushing it to the phone either in recovery, or by stopping core with adb shell stop, adb push Vending.apk, then adb shell start.

Also ran into something different with the nexus s that I've worked on. When you flash in recovery, you have to go and mount the system partition first. Now I've always had to do this if I was pushing into it, but flashing a zip, no. Still shouldn't make a difference with this zip though as I've included a mount command in the script.

Oh, and you reminded me....I also have a lightly themed blue gingerbread keyboard. Fairly subtle, but I prefer it to stock. I posted it in enom's thread a while ago as well. I'll add it to the op as well.

Chosen_on184 said:

can you make this into a metamorph so i can just apply it like that


Also anyone find those wallpaper sub categories i have yet to see them

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No, this cannot be applied via metamorph unfortunately. Many of the changes are located in what becomes resources.arsc when it's compiled.

Lightning N1 said:

Hey Pendo,
Nice work on this Blue Market, not sure why mine looks cut off on the bottom part of the top display?
Here is a screen shot so you can see what I mean, I am only reporting this because it is different than the shot in the first post.

Thanks for you work, I would turn everything GB Green into blue if I could

Edit: Actually now that I look at it closer it seems that the spacing is off in the bottom part with all the apps being to far apart also???
Edit 2: Looks good in landscape view, is that new, Landscape for market?

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yeah, I think it is new. I saw this on a rom I flashed over the weekend as well but it wasn't there when I went back to cm and enom. Let's hope that what this guy below says fixes it.

Bloodflame said:

The screenshots look great! but I would also like to know which version it is? If it's 2.2.7, I'm flashing right away!

edit: It looks like the post above answers my question. Looks like it's 2.2.6 - the updated 2.2.7 fixed the spacing problem. If you could update this for 2.2.7, I'm sure a lot of people would be happy!

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Thanks. OK....now I just need to find a good copy of 2.2.7 to decompile and start working on. Where did you get yours?

OK, everybody..

I found a 2.2.7 version of the market. I think I managed to get everything over that matters. I had to run a diff to make sure I didn't miss any theme work that I did...one thing I noticed was there were some changes in the layout xml affecting padding and a couple other changes. Hopefully that fixes the layout issues.

So far this was tested on cm 6.1.1 however, I mounted the system and pushed. I did not remove anything prior, but I did wipe cache and dalvik to be safe. So I'm not sure if you'll need to or not. Also, I had reinstalled an older version of the market and booted into the phone, navigated around in the market before I did this to try to create a typical scenario.

So far all is well.

Formel-LMS said:

Hey Pendo
this is absolutely, what I'm searching for.
can I use it with my own MIUI ROM?
Everything there is blue and I've searched for a blue Market.

Is it possible to tell me, which things are changed, that are not in drawable-hdpi?
It sounds a bit weird, but I wanna make this changes in "my" market...

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Unknown if you can use with miui. Most everything is blue, or meant to go well with the blue theme, as there are teal highlights you can see in the header.

The changes are all in hex and in colors.xml. However you need to find out where the colors are being used and that's in com/android/vending/velvet. You'll find the various id's in ArcPaintingUtils.smali, ArcView.smali, SlimArcView.smali, and SlimArcViewWithTabs.smali. (I think that's most of them) Then you can reference the id's back to public.xml to find out what it's actual name is.

Like I said, it's a bit different than what you'd run into for theming (or at least it is to me )