Team Black Out Presents...The Dark Side of the Source...Black and Clear Apps

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fly4awhtgye

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Haha. Touche'

Two of my favorite few lines I still use to this day are, "It's all ball bearings these day." and when we are out to dinner, I ask to charge it to the Underhill Account. No one gets it, but I laugh on the inside.
"Can I use your towel? I just hit a water buffalo?"
Fletch...Classic. I DVR'd it last month.
 
Short delay in updates, Google App update 6 won't be included. Has Issues we need time to figure out, so we will upload what we have now.....

To explain what's changing....we are no longer going to do bulk updates...YAY you say? Yes sir YAY! That means once it passes testing it will be uploaded right away...like hangouts 10 has been done for weeks..my bad! Been a busy month but now all devs will be trained to update. Also send notifications of said update...you might see beta versions so they can get your reaction. Kinda mass testing and way more releases..might have a few fix it updates but better then waiting. You can always revert if too broken and report to us the issue. This will help us better and get you guys more involved on seeing why we take so long to release updates...it's a lot of work just testing so you can help us now! B_boytm was a fan of BOOM SHAKALAKA updates with huge releases...I was too but change is good!

So with a new updater coming and more frequent releases I'll have more time for training. TBO-Academy was on a long break but it's going full force soon then we will start class 2 for those who wanna learn how to maintain and update apps for us. The 6 we have now are leaning so much but we are leaning too, getting organized and creating a curriculum so next class shouldn't take as long.

My personal things: As you all might not know my son is a cancer survivor now 3 years but now my mother is facing cancer at 73 years old so I moved back to assume her house since its being too much for her...I'm busier then I thought I'd be after moving back to Chicago but with these changes I'll get more time back for the team.

Don't let what's going on in my life get you down, it is what it is and I'm already a pro at this cancer fighting stuff...old hat now so fear not Android is why I don't go postal..it's my way to escape the world and have peace in my mind...I thank you all for supporting us thru the years and I'll tell you this...until the dark is gone from the knight TBO will never die!

So let's celebrate a new chapter in TeamBlackOut with hopefully New apps and revival of old keeping what we have fresh and new for our awesome users!

Thank you!

DJ
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Strange that it hasn't happened to me.. I turn off auto update on the store - I almost daily flash an update for the Rom that I'm running (Factory Reset etc Flash) Don't know if that's why... But Play Store is as Black as TBO's work is Golden ?



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Teufel Hunden

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Strange that it hasn't happened to me.. I turn off auto update on the store - I almost daily flash an update for the Rom that I'm running (Factory Reset etc Flash) Don't know if that's why... But Play Store is as Black as TBO's work is Golden ?



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Turning off auto updates is for app not THE store app. I also have I turned off.
I have to go into manage applications and uninstall updates every time it does it.
 

NLBeev

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would it work, to sign Playstore with Zipsigner
I don't expect this will work.
Reading the TBO posts regularly gave me the impression that Google does a lot to make it difficult or impossible to kill the white ui.

When I am positive I think it's for security.
When I am negative I think G forces us to use that ugly light material.
But the work of TBO keeps me positive ?.
 

triathlete66

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I don't expect this will work.
Reading the TBO posts regularly gave me the impression that Google does a lot to make it difficult or impossible to kill the white ui.

When I am positive I think it's for security.
When I am negative I think G forces us to use that ugly light material.
But the work of TBO keeps me positive .
i have signed the Playstore-app for testing and it seems to work.
My Apps and Updates are listet in beautifull black UI and it's possible to buy.
But I will restore my Nandroid to prevent possible problems.
Thanks TBO for all the work :good:
 
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ar59

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Hello
I like your Clear telegram.
But I try to change the text color in colors.xml but it doesn`t work.
Can you tell me how I can do this?
would be very nice.
Regards
OpaJogi
 

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Hello
I like your Clear telegram.
But I try to change the text color in colors.xml but it doesn`t work.
Can you tell me how I can do this?
would be very nice.
Regards
OpaJogi
Hi there, all the text colours (and background colours and icon colours) are hard coded in smali. colors.xml controls nothing unfortunately.

#WhiteUIMustDie #ThemesMatter
 
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ar59

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Hi there, all the text colours (and background colours and icon colours) are hard coded in smali. colors.xml controls nothing unfortunately.

#WhiteUIMustDie #ThemesMatter
Thank you.
I will try it

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Hi there, all the text colours (and background colours and icon colours) are hard coded in smali. colors.xml controls nothing unfortunately.

#WhiteUIMustDie #ThemesMatter

After decompiling, were I can found smali.colors.xml
Thanks for answer
 

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Thank you.
I will try it

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After decompiling, were I can found smali.colors.xml
Thanks for answer
No it's not like that, smali is a different language and also a folder. It contains a lot (read: thousands) of files that have .smali at the end of their name. Each file contains different code which is very difficult to read. You need to search for things like setTextColor and getColor but there is a lot of different variations of the code. Smali is very different to normal xmls, when xml has a colour set as #ff555555 smali has it set as -0xaaaaab. Yer its about as easy to understand as that language from The Gods Must Be Crazy movies. I suggest doing a little research into smali, there is a great thread here: http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s2/deve...de-understanding-creating-smali-mods-t2488033

Have fun!

#WhiteUIMustDie #ThemesMatter
 
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ar59

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No it's not like that, smali is a different language and also a folder. It contains a lot (read: thousands) of files that have .smali at the end of their name. Each file contains different code which is very difficult to read. You need to search for things like setTextColor and getColor but there is a lot of different variations of the code. Smali is very different to normal xmls, when xml has a colour set as #ff555555 smali has it set as -0xaaaaab. Yer its about as easy to understand as that language from The Gods Must Be Crazy movies. I suggest doing a little research into smali, there is a great thread here: http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s2/deve...de-understanding-creating-smali-mods-t2488033

Have fun!

#WhiteUIMustDie #ThemesMatter

That what I see it`s to hard for me.
Tough I better keep the white color.
Thanks alot
 

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