Help me finish this theme

[jonnybueno]

Sorry for new thread, but I need somewhere for people to report things for me to fix for this theme to be used with Skyraider 2.x

Do not post things like:

Nice theme/work

Where do I get that wallpaper/icons?

______ app isn't themed

Doesn't work on ______ rom

The copy/paste field/grid outlines in rosie is still green  ---I can't change that unless you can tell me how

You should make the notification icons red  ---- i'm not gonna do that unless someone edits services.jar to give us red text on the bar
etc.

or I promise I'll stop working on it. I need to have serious feedback only so i can maintain a steady workpace. I've been working on this for about 8 hours now and I don't get paid to do this, so please show some respect. Now that you've read at least most of this post, feel free to download a test release

I'm looking for suggestions that I can work with... include screenshots if possible and feel free to submit images if you can





Examples of good suggestions:

titlebar_portrait.9.png is a little too dark the gradient makes the light effect look unbalanced

hue on xxxx.png is a bit lighter than on xxx.png

_______ doesn't stretch correctly

Progress so far:

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[jdkoreclipse]

It looks good. Nice theme... sorry i couldnt resist.

But seriously:

The shading on numbers on the clock look a little discolored on the bottom (i guess the hue is too bright)


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[jonnybueno]

It looks good. Nice theme... sorry i couldnt resist.

But seriously:

The numbers on the clock look a little uneven


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How so? I need articulate feedback. uneven in what way? spacing? I didn't alter the size of the images from stock. Maybe you should at least wait till you can flash the test and then tell me how it looks.

 

[jdkoreclipse]

Sorry...uneven wasnt the right word to use...look at my updated post.

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[jonnybueno]

Sorry...uneven wasnt the right word to use...look at my updated post.

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maybe try flashing it first since you're not really testing anything but the quality of the screenshots ddms takes. Link is up on the op.

Done for the day will resume tomorrow maybe.

 

[Hanneman101101]

Installing...

EDIT: Looks really good, I personally like the darker red on the battery. Would like to see it spread out more through the theme. And I didn't have trouble with the theme But would like to See Two things changed. (I think you are going to add your fonts to this, I would REALLY love that.) And seen from the picture below. The rating stars seem to be a little lighter than everything else. (Meaning that the red used is lighter than all others, would like to see darker.) Other than that. GREAT JOB!!! I hope this helps. Sorry if it does not.

EDIT EDIT: Ine the picture below, Is that little red line supposed to be right below the Verizon Wireless? It is just enough to see but not enough to really matter. Just wanted to point that out. trying to help.

 

[jonnybueno]

Installing...

EDIT: Looks really good, I personally like the darker red on the battery. Would like to see it spread out more through the theme. And I didn't have trouble with the theme But would like to See Two things changed. (I think you are going to add your fonts to this, I would REALLY love that.) And seen from the picture below. The rating stars seem to be a little lighter than everything else. (Meaning that the red used is lighter than all others, would like to see darker.) Other than that. GREAT JOB!!! I hope this helps. Sorry if it does not.

Perfect example of constructive criticism, thank you. I'm thinking that as soon I hop back on this I should theme the market next. Ironically, those stars are in framework. They should be darker though.

EDIT EDIT: Ine the picture below, Is that little red line supposed to be right below the Verizon Wireless? It is just enough to see but not enough to really matter. Just wanted to point that out. trying to help.

Yup that line is supposed to be there... originally I was going to make the title bar (where the ongoing/notifications text is) red, but in practice it looked a bit tacky. I want to emphasize as much red as possible without overdoing it.

As far as the dark red goes, its one of those things that I've played with but didn't like too much. It could look good, but sometimes ends up looking kind of washed out or brownish.

 

[SoCalMiles]

Looks Great bro...If you ever figure out or get in touch with anyone who can edit services.jar, PM me if you could. I've got a couple things i need done. Great work so far...threw in a little something for ya!

 

[jonnybueno]

Looks Great bro...If you ever figure out or get in touch with anyone who can edit services.jar, PM me if you could. I've got a couple things i need done. Great work so far...threw in a little something for ya!

Thank you sir, every little bit helps.

I haven't looked around too hard yet, but I'm sure we can get that text color edited eventually. I just don't wanna get hung up on that when I could be making progress toward completion of this theme. I got some stuff to do today, but when I get home I'm gonna iron out some issues and try to get more apps themed.

 

[santana11981]

It may be a stretch...but what about making the drop down notifications transparent. Not sure what kind of work goes into this but maybe android pic can stay but be blended into transparent notifications or be removed (your choice). Just wondering what that might look like....over all I love all the red dude....thanks again.

 

[SerialKilla]

Hey man,love it! My request would be to have the dock bar outlined with red-like you did with the click widget,maybe even have the the 3 labels red also.(arrow,phone,and + buttons) Otherwise I love it. Been using all your red themes for the different ROMs I've been using.
Thanks for all your hard work bro.

 

[slygeist]

It may be a stretch...but what about making the drop down notifications transparent. Not sure what kind of work goes into this but maybe android pic can stay but be blended into transparent notifications or be removed (your choice). Just wondering what that might look like....over all I love all the red dude....thanks again.

no dont remove it. its badass! i love this theme so far! best one ive seen yet.

 

[djkms]

First of all I want to say that I love this theme. With a bit of tweaking it will be perfect IMO. Below are some suggestions and just my opinion

My default home with this theme:

I think the notification bar is too busy looking.
Here is how it looks now:

And here is my suggestion:

Change the bars to black with white text and remove the droid on the edges. Also add about a 25% transparency to the black on the default shade around the droid to the right.

Next suggestion:
Here is the screen now:

And here is my suggestion:

Obviously the background is black with a bit of transparency with white/gray text.

These are the only areas I really noticed. I don't use the default sense home so there might be more.

Basically my suggestion is to have a overall black theme with red and white highlights only. I think this will give it a more crisp and professional look.

Thanks for your hard work and time making themes for us!

 

[jonnybueno]

First of all I want to say that I love this theme. With a bit of tweaking it will be perfect IMO. Below are some suggestions and just my opinion

My default home with this theme:

I think the notification bar is too busy looking.
Here is how it looks now:

And here is my suggestion:

Change the bars to black with white text and remove the droid on the edges. Also add about a 25% transparency to the black on the default shade around the droid to the right.

This looks like a modified screenshot...

The issue with this is that 3rd party apps sometimes use their own resources for notifications text. You'd have many apps where the text is visible but anything that uses black text would be invisible

Next suggestion:
Here is the screen now:

And here is my suggestion:

Obviously the background is black with a bit of transparency with white/gray text.

It looks like you modified a screenshot in this one as well. If someone can spend some time digging around through source to find a xml file to hexedit, then I know how to change "textAppearance". I'm really not sure if this is something deeper than that though.

Good suggestions, but there are some limitations to overcome. I'm open to improving things and your ideas are definitely things that I have already considered but I am only one guy with a ****ty laptop and a baby. After I finish graphics, I can look into hacking some of the resources to achieve the desired effects but without help from you guys its not likely that I'll find the time to do so.

We must find a balance between functionality and aesthetics... I don't like putting stuff out that only works sometimes.

Edit: BTW, you can view source for AOSP here: http://github.com/android
You can't view source for Sense

 

[djkms]

Yeah all I did was modify screenshots. I have no idea how to code anything but I am pretty knowledgeable when it comes to graphic design, let me see if I can help you in any way...

 

[jonnybueno]

More on editing the text for the menu...

From AOSP:

<!-- Panel attributes -->
        <item name="panelBackground">@android:drawable/menu_background</item>
        <item name="panelFullBackground">@android:drawable/menu_background_fill_parent_width</item>
        <item name="panelColorBackground">#fff</item>
        <item name="panelColorForeground">?android:attr/textColorPrimaryInverse</item>
        <item name="panelTextAppearance">?android:attr/textAppearanceInverse</item>

from: http://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/blob/master/core/res/res/values/themes.xml

I'm no developer, but from my experience(i have compiled apks from existing source in eclipse) the values dir is not accessible after the fact. I'm really not aware of what actually happens with this, but it is most likely a smali edit to change this. That's our major hurdle, as I have absolutely no java knowledge (have owned a computer for about two years now) and doing smali edits without very specific instructions is difficult for me.

 

[djkms]

I just unzipped the apks to poke around a bit and WOW! There are a lot of xml files involved. I have edited xml files for websites and such (joomla if your familiar). The problem I faced when editing xml is that changing a property in one place could potentially break attributes in another. I dont know if the same would hold true with the android platform but I would imagine so.

When I get some free time I will do a little research and see if I can help out.

Edit: in the com.htc.resources there are 1,367 png files in just that 1 apk, you have really put a lot of work into these themes!

 

[jonnybueno]

I just unzipped the apks to poke around a bit and WOW! There are a lot of xml files involved. I have edited xml files for websites and such (joomla if your familiar). The problem I faced when editing xml is that changing a property in one place could potentially break attributes in another. I dont know if the same would hold true with the android platform but I would imagine so.

When I get some free time I will do a little research and see if I can help out.

I think this xml file actually becomes hard coded into java after being compiled... i could be very wrong as I am a super novice noob lame-o wanna-be developer type, but prior to compiling, dir is there, after compiling, poof! gone. It would actually be super easy and quick for me to hexedit the xml if it was possible

public static final int textAppearanceInverse
Since: API Level 1

Default appearance of text against an inverted background: color, typeface, size, and style.

Must be a reference to another resource, in the form "@[+][package:]type:name" or to a theme attribute in the form "?[package:][type:]name".
Constant Value: 16842805 (0x01010035)

would simply become

public static final int textAppearance
Since: API Level 1

Default appearance of text: color, typeface, size, and style.

Must be a reference to another resource, in the form "@[+][package:]type:name" or to a theme attribute in the form "?[package:][type:]name".
Constant Value: 16842804 (0x01010034)

Literally just change one number

 

[djkms]

Ok I found this:
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/jrummy/52130-notification-font-colors.html

Reading up on it now to see if it helps us in anyway

 

[ilinfinityil]

hey johnny did you get the PM i sent you?