Change Navigation bar colors without root or extra apps/themes

Roobwz

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If I change the nav to be completely black, does it stay black on the home screen or does it remain transparent as before ?
 

Tigerhoods

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Hey cool thread I've been putting in work trying to get notifications with white text I've done way past everything I should have to done to get them white with no luck do you think there maybe a solution to that with this type of workaround.
 

RuggedHunter

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Hey cool thread I've been putting in work trying to get notifications with white text I've done way past everything I should have to done to get them white with no luck do you think there maybe a solution to that with this type of workaround.
You need to decompile and modify the line "notification_text_color" in /system/framework/framework.apk/res/values/colors.xml

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haksancan

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I'm still a bit confused! I am rooted - what is the best way to make the nav bar transparent?
If you are rooted you can run the same command (without the adb shell part) in your phone using a terminal emulator.

For transparent try 0 for transparent black and 16777215 for transparent white.
 
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poczynek

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If you are rooted you can run the same command (without the adb shell part) in your phone using a terminal emulator.

For transparent try 0 for transparent black and 16777215 for transparent white.
Cool thanks. So get to su in terminal emulator and then this?

adb shell settings put global navigationbar_color 0
adb shell settings put global navigationbar_current_color 0
 

thedicemaster

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transparency only works in a few apps, and you'll need to reopen the current app if it supports it.
apps don't actually draw under the navigation bar normally, only a few apps support it and will only actually draw there if the navigation bar is transparent when the app is opened.
 

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is there an ADB command to increase auto hide time? Because now I think it hides after 3 seconds but I would like to increase this time.. I know there are ADB commands to change color of navbar so I hope there is some way to change this too..
 

Pastorelli's

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I now have the fully opaque black navbar −16777216 using the adb commands. I discovered that icons appear to be grey. Depending on the app you use, it is more or less grey or closer to white if you look close enough. All since the last june software update. I like the icons to be totally white again how it was before.