You dont like the eyepiercingly bright white icons in KitKat's system status area? You don't like them either in quicksetting and you hate the new pale orange that can be seen there? You want back some good old Android Holo Blue?
Here's the solution:
This Theme Chooser theme brings back some of our beloved Holo Blue to CM11 (should also work for the other major KitKat Custom ROMs as far as they implement Theme Chooser. The specific icons are already included in my theme!).
It's a minimalistic theme. It only themes the system status area and the quicksettings and doesn't disturb the pure AOSP look.
Back to holo blue are:
All bright white icons in these areas where reduced in brightness to the standard Jellybean level #CCCCCC.
All icons stay original KitKat. They only got carefully color and alpha channel tuned by me.
The new scheme in quicksettings with outlined dark grey icons when inactive and bright filled icons when active stays untouched.
"Plus" versions also revert the overscroll glow back to JB holo blue color and style.
Contains icon sets for MDPI, HDPI, XHDPI and XXHDPI devices.
Icons for RTL languages (Hebrew, Arabic etc.) are also included.
Knowns issues:
This doesn't install on devices running ART instead of Dalvik. ART doesn't accept modded APKs that are not buillt from source. Any help on this topic will be much appreciated.
Edit: I got a report that it keeps working when you install under Dalvik and then switch back to ART.
Battery and clock color only get changed in newer nighlies of cm11. There is a bug in CM11 regarding the circle battery. The grey (in fact it's translucent white) full ring is actually drawn over the indicator ring segment instead as an underlay. This makes the color of the ring look brighter and less saturated. I already opened an issue on CM11 bugtracker. Hope they fix it soon.
Installation: Download and install the APK. Go to Settings/Themes and activate it - voilà - you get back some Holo Blue.
Tools used for creating this theme:
- Virtuous Ten Studio (includes APKtool)
- ImageMagick (command line image manipulation)
- win-bash (GNU Bash Shell for Windows)
- Greenfish Icon Editor Pro
- WinMerge
- Notepad++
Update 13th Feb 14: Added the new CM11 Quicksettings Volume Control Icons.
Update 28th Feb 14: Added "Plus" versions that also revert the overscroll glow to holo blue JB style
You also don't like the grayish and red look of the deskclock? Check out this mod I made: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=51067709 Originally posted in the Nexus 7 2013 forums, but should work on all Devices running Android 4.2 and up.
Here's the solution:
This Theme Chooser theme brings back some of our beloved Holo Blue to CM11 (should also work for the other major KitKat Custom ROMs as far as they implement Theme Chooser. The specific icons are already included in my theme!).
It's a minimalistic theme. It only themes the system status area and the quicksettings and doesn't disturb the pure AOSP look.
Back to holo blue are:
- Signal, WiFi, Bluetooth (when connected), Clock and Battery icon in system status area. Here I use the brightest possible version #39CAFF for better contrast on the transparent status bar and because the icons get reduced in brightness by the system when displayed on a black status bar.
- BringBackSomeHoloBlue.apk: Signal, WiFi, Bluetooth and Cast in Quicksettings. Here they turn to standard Holo Blue #33B5E5, when fully connected.
- BringBackMoreHoloBlue.apk: Everything that was blue in Quicksettings on 4.3 Jellybean is blue again.
All bright white icons in these areas where reduced in brightness to the standard Jellybean level #CCCCCC.
All icons stay original KitKat. They only got carefully color and alpha channel tuned by me.
The new scheme in quicksettings with outlined dark grey icons when inactive and bright filled icons when active stays untouched.
"Plus" versions also revert the overscroll glow back to JB holo blue color and style.
Contains icon sets for MDPI, HDPI, XHDPI and XXHDPI devices.
Icons for RTL languages (Hebrew, Arabic etc.) are also included.
Knowns issues:
This doesn't install on devices running ART instead of Dalvik. ART doesn't accept modded APKs that are not buillt from source. Any help on this topic will be much appreciated.
Edit: I got a report that it keeps working when you install under Dalvik and then switch back to ART.
Battery and clock color only get changed in newer nighlies of cm11. There is a bug in CM11 regarding the circle battery. The grey (in fact it's translucent white) full ring is actually drawn over the indicator ring segment instead as an underlay. This makes the color of the ring look brighter and less saturated. I already opened an issue on CM11 bugtracker. Hope they fix it soon.
Installation: Download and install the APK. Go to Settings/Themes and activate it - voilà - you get back some Holo Blue.
Tools used for creating this theme:
- Virtuous Ten Studio (includes APKtool)
- ImageMagick (command line image manipulation)
- win-bash (GNU Bash Shell for Windows)
- Greenfish Icon Editor Pro
- WinMerge
- Notepad++
Update 13th Feb 14: Added the new CM11 Quicksettings Volume Control Icons.
Update 28th Feb 14: Added "Plus" versions that also revert the overscroll glow to holo blue JB style
You also don't like the grayish and red look of the deskclock? Check out this mod I made: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=51067709 Originally posted in the Nexus 7 2013 forums, but should work on all Devices running Android 4.2 and up.
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