[App+Magisk Module]ACC - Custom accent colour creator [Android 8+]

Akilesh_15 · Nov 29, 2019

ACC - Accent Colour Creator

Introduction

Android 10 introduces an option to change the system accent colour. In pure AOSP, it is limited to certain preset colours(Custom ROMs may have more colours). What if you want to set your own accent colour? That's where this app comes into play. The app gets your choice of colours (You can select from presets, wallpaper colours or create a custom colour) and creates an overlay targeting android (framework-res). A Magisk module is created by the app, which injects the created overlay to the system (Read: Systemless :angel.

Features

You can select colours from your wallpaper, presets in the app or set your own custom colour.

Multiple accents can be created.

Separate accents for dark & light theme [Android 10 only].

Adjust Hue, saturation & lightness of the chosen colours to your liking. Android 10 users can use this to create desaturated dark theme accent.

Enable/disable accents.

Remove created accents (swipe from sides).

Disclaimer

As of now, this is untested on OEM skins(OOS, OneUI, MiUI etc). But should work on custom ROMs, if they don't block overlays.

If something goes wrong, remove the module created by the app in /data/adb/modules/ using TWRP or adb shell with root access.

Uninstalling the app won't remove the custom accent colour.

Requirements

Android 8+

Magisk.

References

For setting custom colours

Material Color Tool

W3Schools

Instructions

Grant root access when prompted.

Pick your new accent via wallpaper colours, presets or a custom colour.

Set a name for your accent colour. This is the name will be shown in system settings.

Once the new accent colour is created, a snackbar will be shown with an option to reboot.

After a reboot, you should see the new accent colour, either in developer options or the custom ROM's setting. If not manually enable it from the app.

To create a new accent, repeat the above steps. You can create multiple accents in one go and reboot once.

To remove a particular accent, swipe from the sides and reboot.

To remove all the custom accent colours, remove the Magisk module and reboot.

Downloads

Find the latest release here

TODO

~~[*]Allow creating multiple accent colours.~~
~~[*]Include some preset colours in the app.~~

Thanks to/Credits

@topjohnwu for Magisk(#include <signing>) and libsu.

The Lawnchair team for their fork of Chroma.

Substratum for aapt & zipalign
~~[*] @zackptg5 & james34602 @Github for xmlstarlet.~~

AOSP

AEX for preset colours

Everyone who tested the app

Alternate method

XDA:DevDB Information
Accent Colour Creator, App for all devices (see above for details)

Contributors
Akilesh_15
Source Code: https://github.com/Akilesh-T/QACC

Version Information
Status: Stable
Current Stable Version: v1.51
Stable Release Date: 2020-1-18

Created 2019-11-29
Last Updated 2020-1-18

Akilesh_15 · Nov 29, 2019

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bluedog220 · Nov 30, 2019

Android 10 rooted . I installed the app and created some test colors , granted permission, rebooted but nothing changed ? . Did I miss a step ??

Edit : nevermind , tried rebooting again and it works perfectly. Thank you
Maybe with future updates we can test to see how the colors look with light and dark prior to rebooting?

thecoolkid · Nov 30, 2019

Can you get it working for Android 8+? I'm using swift installer now, it works quite the same way but you can't create multiple colors to switch between them using run shell in Tasker.

Akilesh_15 · Dec 2, 2019

bluedog220 said:
Android 10 rooted . I installed the app and created some test colors , granted permission, rebooted but nothing changed ? . Did I miss a step ??

Edit : nevermind , tried rebooting again and it works perfectly. Thank you
Maybe with future updates we can test to see how the colors look with light and dark prior to rebooting?

Can't preview directly on the UI, but maybe a generic template can be created to show the changes. Will try to add in a future update.

Akilesh_15 · Dec 2, 2019

thecoolkid said:
Can you get it working for Android 8+? I'm using swift installer now, it works quite the same way but you can't create multiple colors to switch between them using run shell in Tasker.

I'm checking it. It didn't work on 7 plus running Pie, unfortunately. Will have to test on some other device.

Tanner1294 · Dec 5, 2019

Unfortunately on the Essential Phone the developers decided to remove the option to pick a different color entirely from the developer settings. I was hoping this would just be applied without needing a system option but as it is it doesn't work.

Akilesh_15 · Dec 6, 2019

Tanner1294 said:
Unfortunately on the Essential Phone the developers decided to remove the option to pick a different color entirely from the developer settings. I was hoping this would just be applied without needing a system option but as it is it doesn't work.

Try v1.10. It has an option to manually enable it.

Akilesh_15 · Dec 7, 2019

Update v1.20

Changelog

Make wallpaper colours selectable.
Add preset colours from AEX.
Support Android Oreo & above. (Tested only on Pie and 10 atm)
UI enhancements to manually enable custom accent.
Minor UI & UX improvements.

Download
@thecoolkid, can you test it on Oreo?

thecoolkid · Dec 12, 2019

Akilesh_15 said:
Changelog

Make wallpaper colours selectable.
Add preset colours from AEX.
Support Android Oreo & above. (Tested only on Pie and 10 atm)
UI enhancements to manually enable custom accent.
Minor UI & UX improvements.

Download

@thecoolkid, can you test it on Oreo?

Sure, I did. Unfortunately it force-closes when I tap "create accent colour" button.

Punarvpawade · Dec 12, 2019

Great app thanks dev

thecoolkid · Dec 13, 2019

Akilesh_15 said:
Changelog

Make wallpaper colours selectable.

Add preset colours from AEX.

Support Android Oreo & above. (Tested only on Pie and 10 atm)

UI enhancements to manually enable custom accent.

Minor UI & UX improvements.

Download

@thecoolkid, can you test it on Oreo?

Here's a log you asked for. Does that help?

Akilesh_15 · Dec 13, 2019

thecoolkid said:
Here's a log you asked for. Does that help?

Yeah, I got a similar log on a different device. Please try the apk attached below. If it crashes again, share the logs.

thecoolkid · Dec 13, 2019

Akilesh_15 said:
Yeah, I got a similar log on a different device. Please try the apk attached below. If it crashes again, share the logs.

Still crashes.

thecoolkid · Dec 14, 2019

Crash with the test version you PM'ed me.

Akilesh_15 · Dec 17, 2019

Update v1.30

What's new:

Add both arm & arm64 binaries (credits: Substratum)
Add an option to manually toggle app's dark theme
Allow creating multiple accents
Enable/disable accents
Remove created accents (swipe left)
Refactor Text Input EditText

Download v1.30

Akilesh_15 · Dec 18, 2019

thecoolkid said:
Crash with the test version you PM'ed me.

This one should work. Thanks for testing!

emincangencer · Dec 18, 2019

It says not installed on accents. This is on HavocOS A9. Is it because of the rom?

chasemyass · Dec 18, 2019

Tested on OOS 10.0.1 OP 6T doesn't change the color... tried on dark/white default theme too....

Akilesh_15 · Dec 18, 2019

emincangencer said:
It says not installed on accents. This is on HavocOS A9. Is it because of the rom?

Did you reboot after creating an accent? The changes are applied only after a reboot.

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