Tutorial Needed...How to create a Theme Chooser Theme

Since the new theme chooser was released, I am wondering how to create themes for theme chooser, I'm pretty sure it has something to do with Eclipse and I have that installed aswell as android SDK and apktool but where to go from here, I'm not looking for making a flashable theme...

so do I still edit the SystemUI and framework-res or do I edit themechooser.apk? And how would I get it to a format the theme chooser would read, obviously it needs to be an apk to install it?

stanleyyork11 said:

Could you post the link?

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I think I found it: [GUIDE] T-Mobile Theme Engine

DaXmax said:

No. You will just have to make an apk. A templatebread can be found in nhnt11's thread... See that thread, its very useful...

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I might be mistaken, but I believe you (or someone else) said the holo series of themes should be used as the template???

stanleyyork11 said:

Might have me confused with someone else mate, I'm new to theming

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Not you, DaXmaX

I edited a theme chooser theme that was already available and I'm ready to recompile it after batch editing several hundered PNG files in multiple drawable files and edited the androidmanifest.xml aswell as /values/strings.xml and /values/styles.xml and made sure the names matched now I'm getting the following when recompiling, have tried several aapt.exe files and apktool.jar files, still not working...

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Kristy>cd C:\Users\Kristy\Desktop\Eric

C:\Users\Kristy\Desktop\Eric>apktool b unglued unglued.apk
I: Checking whether sources has changed...
I: Checking whether resources has changed...
I: Building resources...
and just hangs then says 6 errors

the1dynasty said:

what are the errors? copy and paste it in code

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I tried to copy and paste it but all it would copy is that 1st part and my gf is on the PC right now but the error said something bout apktool in temporary directory and something about aapt and android manifest but it decompiled just fine, maybe I'm not allowed to modify a theme apk?


Any ideas?
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the1dynasty said:

I'm on my phone and it's hard to see that... but if you copy the text from the log.txt you should be able to paste it here...

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Where is the log.txt located?

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I: Checking whether sources has changed...
I: Smaling...
I: Checking whether resources has changed...
I: Building resources...
C:\Users\Kristy\Downloads\Apk_Manager_5.0.2\other\..\projects\unglued.apk\AndroidManifest.xml:8: error: Error: No resource found that matches the given name (at 'styleId' with value '@style/Unglued').
Exception in thread "main" brut.androlib.AndrolibException: brut.common.BrutException: could not exec command: [aapt, p, -F, C:\Users\Kristy\AppData\Local\Temp\APKTOOL6226631244967728402.tmp, -x, -I, C:\Users\Kristy\apktool\framework\1.apk, -S, C:\Users\Kristy\Downloads\Apk_Manager_5.0.2\other\..\projects\unglued.apk\res, -M, C:\Users\Kristy\Downloads\Apk_Manager_5.0.2\other\..\projects\unglued.apk\AndroidManifest.xml]
at brut.androlib.res.AndrolibResources.aaptPackage(AndrolibResources.java:193)
at brut.androlib.Androlib.buildResourcesFull(Androlib.java:301)
at brut.androlib.Androlib.buildResources(Androlib.java:248)
at brut.androlib.Androlib.build(Androlib.java:171)
at brut.androlib.Androlib.build(Androlib.java:154)
at brut.apktool.Main.cmdBuild(Main.java:174)
at brut.apktool.Main.main(Main.java:59)
Caused by: brut.common.BrutException: could not exec command: [aapt, p, -F, C:\Users\Kristy\AppData\Local\Temp\APKTOOL6226631244967728402.tmp, -x, -I, C:\Users\Kristy\apktool\framework\1.apk, -S, C:\Users\Kristy\Downloads\Apk_Manager_5.0.2\other\..\projects\unglued.apk\res, -M, C:\Users\Kristy\Downloads\Apk_Manager_5.0.2\other\..\projects\unglued.apk\AndroidManifest.xml]
at brut.util.OS.exec(OS.java:83)
at brut.androlib.res.AndrolibResources.aaptPackage(AndrolibResources.java:191)
... 6 more
The system cannot find the file specified.

I figured out in the Styles.xml it wasn't the same style name that I had put into the androidmanifest.xml and strings.xml, attempting to recompile again to see if that works...it didnt work apparently you can't edit an already themed apk because when you try to change the string name it calls for the original name given so I guess start from the holo series next...

the1dynasty said:

dunno man... i suck with diagnosing stuff lol

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I know what it is lol and I found an alternative imagemagick with a GUI to see what the hell I'm changing my themes are gonna be sweet

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