[GO Widget Theme Maker] Instructions (all 14 widgets) and Themes

jsmccabe78 · Nov 17, 2011

Are you a fan of GO Widgets? Me too. Interested in making some skins/ themes for them? So am I.

Section 1: Theme Maker and Instructions
The GO Team has put together a theme maker and some instructions from this thread:
v1 Template
v1 Instructions
v1 Template Mirror - Mediafire

Section 2: Adding Additional Widgets
The Widget theme maker v1 contains the following widgets: Bookmark, Caldendar, Contacts, Facebook, SMS, Switch, Task Manager, Twitter and Weibo.

But as you know, there are more GO widgets. Here is how to include them in your theme (basically, I decompiled their transparent theme and Frankensteined it all together). Note: I don't know how to skin the clock yet - anyeone else???

DOWNLOAD ALL THE NECESSARY FILES HERE.

YOU MUST KEEP THE FOLDER ARCHITECTURE INTACT FOR THIS TO WORK! Edit the pngs, xmls as per ususal.

GO Store
a- add widget_gostorewidget.xml to assets
b- add the images to your drawable folder
c- add the following line to strings.xml in res/values

Code:

<string name="gostore_theme">YOUR THEME NAME</string>

News - is this even a released widget yet???
a- add widget_newswidget.xml to assets
b- add the images to your drawable folder
c- add the following line to strings.xml in res/values

Code:

<string name="news3g44themetitle">YOUR THEME NAME</string>

Note (4x3 only)
a- add widget_notewidget.xml to assets
b- add the images to your drawable folder
c- add the following line to strings.xml in res/values

Code:

<string name="note_theme_43_title">YOUR THEME NAME</string>

QQWeibo
a- add widget_qqweibowidget.xml to assets
b- add the images to your drawable folder
c- add the following lines to strings.xml in res/values

Code:

<string name="qqweibo44themetitle">YOUR THEME NAME</string>
<string name="qqweibo41themetitle">YOUR THEME NAME</string>

Search
a- add widget_searchwidget.xml to assets
b- add the images to your drawable folder
c- add the following line to strings.xml in res/values

Code:

<string name="search1">YOUR THEME NAME</string>

My entire strings.xml looks like:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<resources>
    <string name="hello">Hello World, TestGoTheme2!</string>
    <string name="app_name">RBW</string>
    <string name="dialogtitle">Checking GO Launcher EX</string>
    <string name="dialogcontent">GO Launcher EX is not installed in your phone, please press OK to download it</string>
    <string name="dialogok">OK</string>
    <string name="contact1">RBW</string>
    <string name="contact2">RBW</string>
    <string name="search1">RBW</string>
    <string name="sms42title">RBW</string>
    <string name="sms44title">RBW</string>
    <string name="sms44sessiontitle">RBW</string>
    <string name="task11title">RBW</string>
    <string name="task22title">RBW</string>
    <string name="task42title">RBW</string>
    <string name="tasknews41title">RBW</string>
    <string name="fb44title">RBW</string>
    <string name="twitter44themetitle">RBW</string>
    <string name="twitter41themetitle">RBW</string>
    <string name="weibo44themetitle">RBW</string>
    <string name="weibo41themetitle">RBW</string>
    <string name="qqweibo44themetitle">RBW</string>
    <string name="qqweibo41themetitle">RBW</string>
    <string name="news3g44themetitle">RBW</string>
    <string name="theme_43_title">RBW</string>
    <string name="theme_22_title">RBW</string>
    <string name="gostore_RBW_theme">RBW</string>
    <string name="bookmark_theme_title">RBW</string>
    <string name="switch_black">RBW</string>
    <string name="note_theme_43_title">RBW</string>
</resources>

Now on to the themes...If you make one, post it here - let's share!

jsmccabe78 · Nov 17, 2011

Section 3: XDA User Themes
Below is simply some themes and links...enjoy!

RBW

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Link_of_Hyrule · Nov 18, 2011

The "News" Widget is released it is a china only news Widget for 3G.cn but maybe someone can translate it and make it something more useful.

jsmccabe78 · Nov 19, 2011

Link_of_Hyrule said:
The "News" Widget is released it is a china only news Widget for 3G.cn but maybe someone can translate it and make it something more useful.

ahh...got it. thanks!

mindseed · Nov 21, 2011

Compilation errors - please help

Good day, I've been trying to get the Widget Template thing working and after a week of trying to sort out these errors I've come to post a query on it. Perhaps one of you professional theme editors can give me a hand. Please.

Here is the screenshot of my CMD window - please shout if you need any other info - this is driving me nuts.

thanks in advance

donhu · Nov 21, 2011

why is it that i can never load any of the go for android webpages?

jsmccabe78 · Nov 21, 2011

mindseed said:
Good day, I've been trying to get the Widget Template thing working and after a week of trying to sort out these errors I've come to post a query on it. Perhaps one of you professional theme editors can give me a hand. Please.
Here is the screenshot of my CMD window - please shout if you need any other info - this is driving me nuts.
thanks in advance

i am not well versed in all of this. but it seems like your pathways are not all set up. (at work, don't have the word doc with me) - but if i recall, it seems there was a lot of set up in the beginning of the packet and at the end. the most important being the pathway to your java (which is different than previous theme makers). i see two triage ways to handle this
1- start from the beginning and check all pathways (i am sure you have done this...). i will try to pull out every pathway i changed when i get home. maybe tell me what changes you have done and i can double check with what i have done.
2- share your project with me and i can take a look - am happy to do this (once you figure it out, second time is no problem.) share a dropbox? i realize you may want to keep your icons private, but i have no interest in stealing work. or your could replace them with original icons and i'll just look at the pathways.

donhu said:
why is it that i can never load any of the go for android webpages?

sorry, mate, am not really following you. what webpages are you looking at? widgets or links in the OP?

donhu · Nov 21, 2011

jsmccabe78 said:
sorry, mate, am not really following you. what webpages are you looking at? widgets or links in the OP?

Links to the go pages... ive never been able to load any of them connection times out every time

jsmccabe78 · Nov 22, 2011

donhu said:
Links to the go pages... ive never been able to load any of them connection times out every time

oh that...beats me, mate. this thread was really to share how to add in more widgets. i don't know why you can't see there webpages...email the actual go team?

TheKucho · Nov 22, 2011

Jsm, i love your RBW widget theme! But sadly it doesn't match my ics theme. So can i request an ICS widget theme? I mainly use the switch widget, so that's pretty much all I'm requesting but if you find it a hobby, by all means. It's alright if you can't or your busy, i understand.

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mindseed · Nov 22, 2011

jsmccabe78 said:
i am not well versed in all of this. but it seems like your pathways are not all set up. (at work, don't have the word doc with me) - but if i recall, it seems there was a lot of set up in the beginning of the packet and at the end. the most important being the pathway to your java (which is different than previous theme makers). i see two triage ways to handle this
1- start from the beginning and check all pathways (i am sure you have done this...). i will try to pull out every pathway i changed when i get home. maybe tell me what changes you have done and i can double check with what i have done.
2- share your project with me and i can take a look - am happy to do this (once you figure it out, second time is no problem.) share a dropbox? i realize you may want to keep your icons private, but i have no interest in stealing work. or your could replace them with original icons and i'll just look at the pathways.

Thanks... very much. I may do that. Will go through instructions again to ensure I've followed everything to the T - I may have missed something that's creating these hassles. I did go through each batch command seperately but couldn't really work out why the errors were popping up -though I'm not a cmd.exe professional by any stretch of the imagination

dos scares the hell outta me

Thanks for always responding so fast and your willingness to help. It's greatly appreciated. I may send you my source file later. I have no problem with you "stealing" my icons - the thought never even crossed my mind. All my themes are free anyway so no harm done. Maybe one day when South Africa is allowed to sell paid apps I'll be a little more careful

thanks again bro.

jsmccabe78 · Nov 22, 2011

TheKucho said:
Jsm, i love your RBW widget theme! But sadly it doesn't match my ics theme. So can i request an ICS widget theme? I mainly use the switch widget, so that's pretty much all I'm requesting but if you find it a hobby, by all means. It's alright if you can't or your busy, i understand.
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greetings. thanks for the support! understand the need to keep it consistent. ICS would be fun...but you are right. the amount of time i am not sure i have (thought many are redudant, there are ~600 icons..)

if i were to think about it is there a repository for ICS icons? ICS colors? i don't use the theme so do not know really how it looks...which you can imagine is key for this sort of thing.

mindseed said:
Thanks... very much. I may do that. Will go through instructions again to ensure I've followed everything to the T - I may have missed something that's creating these hassles. I did go through each batch command seperately but couldn't really work out why the errors were popping up -though I'm not a cmd.exe professional by any stretch of the imagination dos scares the hell outta me

Thanks for always responding so fast and your willingness to help. It's greatly appreciated. I may send you my source file later. I have no problem with you "stealing" my icons - the thought never even crossed my mind. All my themes are free anyway so no harm done. Maybe one day when South Africa is allowed to sell paid apps I'll be a little more careful thanks again bro.

willing to help...just paying it forward. frustrating when you do everything right and it doesn't work. let me know! no promises...i got lucky and it worked. still have no idea half the time what i am doing....

(and hope no offense taken about the "stealing" - just old conversations...rather accusations....influencing a current conversation.)

cheers.

TheKucho · Nov 22, 2011

jsmccabe78 said:
greetings. thanks for the support! understand the need to keep it consistent. ICS would be fun...but you are right. the amount of time i am not sure i have (thought many are redudant, there are ~600 icons..)

if i were to think about it is there a repository for ICS icons? ICS colors? i don't use the theme so do not know really how it looks...which you can imagine is key for this sort of thing.

willing to help...just paying it forward. frustrating when you do everything right and it doesn't work. let me know! no promises...i got lucky and it worked. still have no idea half the time what i am doing....

(and hope no offense taken about the "stealing" - just old conversations...rather accusations....influencing a current conversation.)

cheers.

All is well man! If anything, you can just make those icons white, just plain white. And are the borders of your widgets hard to replace? I have a color code that is a close replica of the ics color, which is "#FF26A1FF". Thanks for your time!

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jsmccabe78 · Nov 23, 2011

TheKucho said:
All is well man! If anything, you can just make those icons white, just plain white. And are the borders of your widgets hard to replace? I have a color code that is a close replica of the ics color, which is "#FF26A1FF". Thanks for your time!

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sorry, but what you said just amounted to "hey, just redo the whole thing." ha! making icons just white and replacing the border - well that is making a theme.

when i asked for a repository i mean a repository - icons, borders, (and more than one color, but one is a start), etc. then i'll look if i can do it. i do not feel like making any icons for another theme (again a complete theme is >600 icons...not an simple task...) i know there is a cm7 theme...maybe i'll take a look.

let me know what you find.

TheKucho · Nov 23, 2011

jsmccabe78 said:
sorry, but what you said just amounted to "hey, just redo the whole thing." ha! making icons just white and replacing the border - well that is making a theme. when i asked for a repository i mean a repository - icons, borders, (and more than one color, but one is a start), etc. then i'll look if i can do it. i do not feel like making any icons for another theme (again a complete theme is >600 icons...not an simple task...) i know there is a cm7 theme...maybe i'll take a look.

let me know what you find.

Haha, my bad man. If it's too much of a hassle, don't sweat it. I don't need it like i need food and water. I'll keep looking for stuff though.

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Ryangyear · Nov 23, 2011

Keep getting the same too

taqri85 · Nov 25, 2011

nicee

Nice work mate. Your rbw theme is super cool. Thanks a lot for sharing.

jsmccabe78 · Nov 25, 2011

Ryangyear said:
Keep getting the same too

huh. again if someone wants to share their work i can look at it. but other than that i can't really help. sorry.

taqri85 said:
Nice work mate. Your rbw theme is super cool. Thanks a lot for sharing.

very kind. thanks!

Markyyyyyyyyy · Nov 26, 2011

Go--- Themes

Towards the bottom of the 1st post is the gowidgets screen shots i thought i'd share... please let me have your feedback..

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1360416

thanks

jsmccabe78 · Nov 26, 2011

Markyyyyyyyyy said:
Towards the bottom of the 1st post is the gowidgets screen shots i thought i'd share... please let me have your feedback..

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1360416

thanks

quite an honor you asking me for my opinion. steelblue looks great! a lot of work, no? redundant, but a lot of work. post when you release (will try and keep some kind of repository going...)

i got email widget going too...need to update the OP.

cheers.

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