[ROM][KK 4.4] Avatar ROM for Samsung Galaxy SIII(i9300) - Updated [Feb 17, 2014]

Details:

• Android JB - 4.2.2
• CM10.1

Instructions:

If it's the first time flashing avatarrom or coming from another ROM

Our Changes:

• The platform for avatarrom as of now is CM10.1. The following components are changed on top CM10.1.
  
• Status Bar
  • Fixed memory leaks
• Theme Chooser
  • Google playstore like theme chooser - head here and download cool MIUI converted themes and CM themes.
• Bazooka Launcher (market link)
  • Own launcher which is an enhanced version of Trebuchet (you can download this at the end of this post)
  • Enhanced theming by adding dockbar
  • Preview mode to edit workspaces
  • Many new Customization options.
  • Different gestures like swipe-up, swipe-down, double-tap, home-button press are added.
  • Added "edit workspace" option in menu button.
• Messaging App
  • Changed message thread to make them themeable
  • Themeable Emoticons
• Boot Animation
  • Themeable boot animation - the only CM ROM to do so.
• Font Theming
  • Only ROM to support change of font without a reboot.
  • Tons of themes which change font - Eg: Buff, Simpsons, Mi_Xmas, European Gorgeous etc
• Settings
  • Changed statistics to point to Avatar statistics server
  • OTA updater - you can check for updates to Avatar right from your device
  • Changed to support Avatar ROMs
  • Support for Gapps - download latest Gapps package as an OTA update
• Framework
  • Integrated with ACRA Error Reporter for system wide crashes
• Lockscreen
  • Changed to make them themeable
  • Support for complex unlock gestures
• Weebo
  • A smart tasker kind of app which can help you to automate your device.
  • You can use exisiting rules or create your own customized rules for your needs.
  • More info - Link
• Layout Theming
  • Themes not only change images, colors but it also can change the size, shape and position of any UI element.
  • More info - Link
• Theme Editor
  • A tool to insulate you from all the complex operations involved in theming.
  • More info - Link
  • usage - Link

Recent Changelog

23/10/2013 - 3.1.7 Nightly changelog

• Launcher
  • Fixed a crash that would occasionally occur while scrolling in the apps drawer
• ThemeChooser
  • Fixed an issue with WallpaperActivity
  • Fixed an issue with ThemeMix Manager reset
  • Fixed Font UI
  • Added Countly support
  • Changed the font display
• Updated to the latest CM changes i.e midnight, 22nd Oct.

Oct 19th 2013 - 3.1.6 nightly changelog

• Launcher:
  • Fix for Market Launcher UPDATE issue in our Avatar Rom
  • Fix for double tapped on Home button where animation was stopped in between
  • Minor fix for seekbar paddin
• ThemeChooser:
  • Tone stop issue fix
  • null check for appcount display in store tab View
  • Feature: play tone on clicking tone select item in ThemeMixManager (Missed file added back)
  • Default Image changed
  • Boot animation and font renderer added in theme Mix
  • Feature: play tone on clicking tone select item in ThemeMixManager
  • ThemeMixmanager enabled

Oct 4th 2013 - 4.0.4 and 3.1.4 nightly changelog
-> Updated to the latest CM changes i.e midnight, 1st october.
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Sep 29 2013 - 3.1.3 Nightly changelog

• Launcher
  • Fixed double tap Widget issue
  • Preview image fix
• ThemeChooser
  • Fix a gap with breadcrumb text gaps
  • Fix an issue with search
• Updated to the latest CM changes i.e midnight, 27th Septmeber.

Sep 29 2013 - 4.0.3 nightly changelog
->CM merges till Sep 26, 2013.
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Sep 26, 2013 - Nightly changelog 3.1.2

• Sending Network operator Country code and Carrier id to config server Network operator
• country code and Carrier id addded for config server
• Theme downloaded to internal memory
• Some issues fix
• CM Merges Sep 23 Mid night

13/09/2013 - 3.1.1 Nightly changelog

• ThemeChooser
  • Fix store names
  • Feature: Show notifications for new themes
• Updated to the latest CM changes i.e midnight, 13th Septmeber.

14/09/2013 - 4.0.2 Nightly changelog

• Launcher
  • Fix an issue with icon scaling
  • Fix an issue with transparency in drawers
• ThemeChooser
  • Fix store names
  • Feature: Show notifications for new themes
  • Feature: Automatically install scheduled themes when wifi is connected
  • Fixed a bug with featured page not loading correctly
  • Fixed a bug with pause button not displaying
  • Fixed a bug with the search icon
  • Fixed a bug with the keyboard not hiding
• Updated to the latest CM changes i.e midnight, 13th Sept.

Nightly release 4.0[JB43] - Sep 10, 2013
Reddit (r/android) users had problem with the voulme slider coming in the middle of screen. We had the same problem too.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1ja6dg/can_we_get_the_main_volume_slider_to_not_be_in/

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1l0g3o/i_made_a_mockup_of_volume_controls_that_i_would/

• Added option in settings -> Sound -> Volume Panel Positioning to move the volume slider.
• Volume slider can be moved to Top, offset from top, center, offset from bottom, bottom.

04/09/2013 - 3.1 Nightly changelog

• Launcher
  • Fix an issue with icon scaling
  • Fix an issue with transparency in drawers
• Updated to the latest CM changes i.e midnight, 3rd August.

29/08/2013 - 3.1 Nightly changelog

• ThemeChooser
  • Feature: Automatically install scheduled themes when wifi is connected
  • Fixed a bug with featured page not loading correctly
  • Fixed a bug with pause button not displaying
  • Fixed a bug with the search icon
  • Fixed a bug with the keyboard not hiding
• Updated to the latest CM changes i.e midnight, 28th August.

24/08/2013 - 3.1 Nightly changelog

• Launcher
  • Fixed a bug with folders not working correctly
• ThemeChooser
  • Bug fix: download themes when wifi is on
  • Fixed a bug Theme Engine Versioning
  • Fixed a bug with System Theme
• Updated to the latest CM changes i.e midnight, 22st August.

19/08/2013 - 3.1 Nightly changelog

• Launcher
  • Fixed a bug with an extra gallery icon appearing at times
• Updated to the latest CM changes i.e midnight, 16th August.

14/08/2013 - 3.1 Nightly changelog

• Launcher
  • Fixed a bug with hot set for landscape
  • Fixed a bug with dock disappearing in Landscape mode
• Theme Engine
  • Fixed a Launch Crash
  • Added support for MIN_THEME_ENGINE_VERSION
• Updated to the latest CM changes i.e midnight, 13th August.

08/10/2013 - 3.1 Nightly changelog

• Launcher
  • Black shadow in Landscape
  • Drawer default transition -Cube In and out
• Removed icon showing for themes in installed tab and showing default gray image
• Updated to the latest CM changes i.e midnight, 8th August.

08/07/2013 - Nightly release 3.0.4 changelog

• Launcher
  • Fixed the background now showing correctly for dock bar
  • Fixed menu button crashing
• ThemeChooser
  • Added Progress bar for Installed View.
  • Bug Fixes.
  • Removal of unwanted file downloads.
  • Sorting of Store tabs
• Theming Engine: Fix crashes in some themes.
• CM merges till Aug 5th.

Nightly 3.0.3 Changelog Aug 04 2013

• Bazooka Launcher - support for themeable drop shadow
• Lockscreen - support for virtual screen tag
• Theme chooser - support for min themes engine version
• Theme chooser - support for community themes
• CM merges till 1st August

07/28/2012 - Nightly release 3.0.2 changelog

• CyanogenMod merges till July 25th 2013
• Lockscreen crash fixes due to incorrect lockscreen manifest.
• Fix contact crashes
  • T9SearchCache : Fix NPE when number is null after stripping separators.
    http://errorreporter.avatarrom.com:3000/report?type=release&id=51ef5ffcdca167a60500eb58
  • T9SearchCache : Fix NPE in T9Adapter.getView when mPrevInput is null.
    http://errorreporter.avatarrom.com:3000/report?type=release&id=51ef4e09dca167a60500eb44
• Apollo crash fixes
  • ImageCache: Fix NPE when there is no external storage available.
    http://errorreporter.avatarrom.com:3000/report?type=release&id=51f2643edca167a60500f50e
  • ShortcutActivity : Fix NPE when there are no extras in intent.
    http://errorreporter.avatarrom.com:3000/report?type=release&id=51ef37b9dca167a60500eb03
• Toggle GCM push notifications in settings.
  
  Note: Please don't use iPhone theme as it is causes crashes in latest ROM. We are looking in to the issue, by monday it will be fine.

Nightly release 3.0.2 - Jul 24, 2013

• Cyanogenmod fixes till july 22
• Fix crash in input method (keyboard ) BinaryDictionaryFileDumper - http://errorreporter.avatarrom.com:3000/report?type=release&id=51ee2c71dca167a60500e823

We have changed our detault theme. Please check avatar of our new theme here.

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06/08/2013 - AvatarROM 2.14b release

• Cyanogen Mod RC4
• OTA Updater app can now flash with Gapps( This time also they need to do manual flashing of gapps. From next time it will be automatic if correct recovery is installed.) TWRP and unlocked clockworkmod is supported. Official locked clockworkmod recovery is not supported.
• Lot of Theme chooser crash fixes.
• Theme chooser gets updates from server, when the theme changes.
• Notification for theme updates.
• Fix for lock screen not showing music status for some themes.
  Launcher
  • Crashes reported in error reporter have been fixed.
  • Some performance optimizations have been made when scrolling the workspace.

06/01/2013 - AvatarROM 2.13b release

• CM merges till 28-05-2013
• Bazooka --Custom grid size fix. Bug fixes.
• Weebo -- UX/UI changes for location screen. Improved UI for mapping location screens.
• Nova Launcher fix
• Lockscreen support for new MIUI tag
• Theme Chooser - some bug fixes
  • Service unregister crash
  • Notification added to show theme installing and installed

Previous releases

Download Avatar ROM Samsung Galaxy SIII(i9300):


Videos:

Sample Video - checkout our MIUI style lockscreens, statusbar, messaging, etc and the smooth transition of themes:


Review by Phone tech kid


All Videos

Credits:

• Cyanogen Team
• Trebuchet launcher
• MiUi Theme creators

If there are any errors let us know in the comments or file the bug at http://issues.avatarrom.com

You can find more information at http://www.avatarrom.com

Feature request page - https://avatarrom.uservoice.com/forums/193652-avatarrom-feature-request

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XDA:DevDB Information
[ROM][KK 4.4] Avatar ROM for Samsung Galaxy SIII(i9300) - Updated [Feb 17, 2014], a ROM for the Samsung Galaxy S III I9300

Contributors
bippi79
ROM OS Version: 4.4.x KitKat
Based On: CyanogenMod

Version Information
Status: Testing

Created 2014-02-10
Last Updated 2014-02-20

Find out about which apps can run in ART (Android Run Time), the easy way

A quick little post for something we have been working on lately.

Quite a few of you people would have heard about Android Kitkat and the bag of goodies that it brings along with it. One of those important changes though, is very much under the hood. It is called ART or Android Runtime. So what is it, and why is it important to us?

As described by Google, ART is a new Android runtime being introduced experimentally in the 4.4 release. This is a preview of work in progress in KitKat that can be turned on in Settings > developer options. Before this, all these days, every Android application used to run in its own process, with its own instance of the Dalvik virtual machine. Dalvik has been written so that a device can run multiple VMs efficiently. The Dalvik VM executed files in the Dalvik Executable (.dex) format which is optimized for minimal memory footprint. Now, with Android 4.4, Google has revealed that the Dalvik replacement, called Android Runtime (ART), should improve the performance of Android apps by a huge margin. The early version of ART in Android 4.4 already has been reported to have sped up apps by around 100%, though it is too early to know the whole truth. It might as well be a placebo till then.

ART straddles an interesting mid-ground between compiled and interpreted code, called ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation. Currently with Android apps, they are interpreted at runtime every time you open them up. This is slow. (iOS apps, by comparison, are compiled in native code, which is much faster.) With ART enabled, each Android app is compiled to native code when you install it. Then, when it’s time to run the app, it performs with all the speed and responsiveness of a native app.

Now, a lot of developers as well as enthusiasts will be really interested in this thing. It allows Android developers to continue writing the exact same code, and having their apps work across a wide range of hardware specs and form factors — but now their apps will now run significantly faster, feel more responsive, and your device’s battery life should improve.

And this is where our new website, www.androidruntime.com comes in. Right now, in these initial stages, people are still confused as to which apps can run in ART and which cannot. Our website solves this tiny issue by letting you search for any app, and see if ART supports it or not. Missing an app but you know the answer to the question? You can even contribute and add to the supported app list. We will do a quick verification and update the search results.

Now the website is still in its infancy, but we are sure that a lot of people might be interested in it. So spread the word and do what you guys really do best.

Oh, and have a great weekend!

Avatar Theme Creator Tool

Avatar Team is proud to present the first beta release of Theme creator tool. It is a QT based desktop application to edit themes.

Themes created using this tool are compatible with Avatar ROM and Cyanogen ROM. Similarly you can edit both Avatar Themes and Cyanogen themes.

Download the theme apk and open it using the theme creator tool. You will see a screen to edit the resources. After editing the resources, save the apk and install on the device.

What you can do with this tool ?

1. There are 1000's of resources that can be themed in Android. We change only a small set of them and if you want to theme more resources you can use this tool.

2. We make some mistakes when creating a theme. Eg: SMS time stamp color was not proper in some of our themes. You can now use this tool to fix it.

3. We cannot satify all the users with a theme. Eg: If you want to have a darker orange shade in denim theme you can now do it using this tool.

4. You can import an existing theme, change some of the resources we modified and you have a brand new theme.

Upcoming features:

1. Ability to create a new theme from scratch.

2. Import MiUi mtz theme file and convert it to theme apk which is compatible with AvatarROM and CyanogenROM.

3. Upload your new themes to our server so it can be used by other AvatarROM users.

4. Html5 based new theme creator tool which is more elegant and user friendly.

Download links

Windows - Link

Linux - Link

Mac - Link

As always we love to hear your feedbacks and comments. You might feel little lost with all the resources that are in Android world and we are on standby to help.

If you create a new theme and want to upload to our server, send us a PM and we will give access for you to upload the theme.

ChangeLog (Feb 24, 2013)

02/24/2013

• 50 new themes
• OTA Fixes
• Lockscreen fix - time not coming along with unlocker
• Launcher updated with profiles
• Weebo app (Tasker like application - Beta). Currently supported only in 4.1.2.
• Latest merge with CM code base
• Bug fixes, Performace improvements and many more

Issues: (only in 4.2.2)

When lockscreen is set to slide and if the phone goes to landscape mode, the graphics are distorted and sometimes phone cannot be unlocked. We are working on the FIX.

Work around

1. If the issue occurs, pull down the statusbar, go to settings and you will have access to you phone.
2. Don't set lockscreen to slide and instead choose any other security mechanism.
3. Disable phone rotation.

2.10b release - change log

05/11/2013 - Avatar team is proud to present the 2.10b version based on the latest CM 10.1 RC base (Stable build).

• Merged with CM 10.1 RC1 tag (May 8th, 2013)
• Added more space between wifi and signal icons in status bar
• Added gapps version in Error Reporter
• Message Bubbles - Reset the bubbles similar to stock version bubble when not themed.
• Theme Chooser - Themes now display the size of the apk.
• Theme Chooser - Fixed memory leaks
• Theme Chooser - Fixed download problems with some themes - cobalt blue, cobalt inferno etc
• Bazooka --> Fixed Widget scolling issue when Widgets are placed on Home screen.
• Bazooka --> Fixed the dockbar pages issue. You can select number of pages in Settings screen of Bazooka launcher.
• Bazooka --> Other minor bug fixes.
• Weebo --> Fixing the issue where files cannot be read from /mnt/sdcard/weebo folder.
• Weebo --> Contact picker to make it simpler to select the contacts you want to call/send message to.
• Weebo --> New categories in "All rules" callled Enabled and Disabled. This shows currently enabled/disabled rules.
• Weebo --> Location exit condition bug fixed. You can now trigger actions when you leave a particular location.

Existing Avatar ROM Users - Hit the refresh button from "settings -> About Phone -> Avatar ROM Updates" for download via OTA
AvatarROM is now available for download via ROM Toolbox lite and pro versions. Thanks jrummy.

Checkout the below video, it gives glimpse of Avatar ROM