[VRTheme] Johns Themes for SHOstock3 & XWL Base

[sykoj82]

I will not be able to do any more updates until Wed Night.
Have a Merry Christmas!

That's cool, plus blue theme works on 1.6...the only thing I see different is the clock is on the right side...other than that Thanks for all of your themes and hard work. Happy Holiday's!

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[JohnMcW]

Updated for 1.6.1

Updated for 1.6.1
Get it quick before another update is released

 

[electroau]

No rest for the wicked....)

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[shoman94]

Updated for 1.6.1
Get it quick before another update is released

Lol....sorry about that. It will get longer as wet go I'm sure. Ss2 was the same way.

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[JohnMcW]

updated 1.6.5

updated 1.6.5

 

[JohnMcW]

Updated to 1.7

Updated to 1.7

 

[JohnMcW]

Purple Added

Purple has been added to post 1

 

[dominuce00]

John, any way a chrome theme can be made?

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[JohnMcW]

John, any way a chrome theme can be made?

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Due to the length of time it takes to create a theme, I do not plan to work on that at this time.

 

[cbb77]

Had this installed with 1.65 and then now need to reinstall since upgrading to 1.7. However, I think I only want some of the items. Thus question, can I simply remove some of the apks that I am not interested in themeing from the zip file? Or does a zip need to be "built" per say with the desired apks in it? Sorry new to themeing thus not sure exactly how the packages are created / requirements.

 

[JohnMcW]

Had this installed with 1.65 and then now need to reinstall since upgrading to 1.7. However, I think I only want some of the items. Thus question, can I simply remove some of the apks that I am not interested in themeing from the zip file? Or does a zip need to be "built" per say with the desired apks in it? Sorry new to themeing thus not sure exactly how the packages are created / requirements.

Yes, you can remove the complete apk from the zip file and then rezip it, just make sure you zip it with Store to be safe.
IE: in 7zip choose add to archive from your browser,
archive format: zip
compression level: Store

You can NOT take out individual items from inside an APK though.
You can change png's that do not end in .9.apk if you want to modify individual graphics.

You can also delete items from the Media folder.

 

[cbb77]

Yes, you can remove the complete apk from the zip file and then rezip it, just make sure you zip it with Store to be safe.
IE: in 7zip choose add to archive from your browser,
archive format: zip
compression level: Store

You can NOT take out individual items from inside an APK though.
You can change png's that do not end in .9.apk if you want to modify individual graphics.

You can also delete items from the Media folder.

Thanks! Your comment on replacing png's graphics. Is it as simple as extracting the desired APK, replacing the png (assuming same resolution and size) and then re-zipping the files with 7zip?

 

[JohnMcW]

Thanks! Your comment on replacing png's graphics. Is it as simple as extracting the desired APK, replacing the png (assuming same resolution and size) and then re-zipping the files with 7zip?

Pretty much,
7-zip will unzip the apk's
then you zip them back as described above after modifying the pngs that you want to,
then rename the file back to .apk from .zip.

Watch out for .9.pngs, if you change these they will not work properly in most cases.
to modify .9.pngs's the apk must be decompiled first and afterward recompiled,
using something like xdaAutoTool_V4.0.3,
but there are also steps to load frameworks and such.
there are also threads in xda about .9 pngs.

 

[cbb77]

Pretty much,
7-zip will unzip the apk's
then you zip them back as described above after modifying the pngs that you want to,
then rename the file back to .apk from .zip.

Watch out for .9.pngs, if you change these they will not work properly in most cases.
to modify .9.pngs's the apk must be decompiled first and afterward recompiled,
using something like xdaAutoTool_V4.0.3,
but there are also steps to load frameworks and such.
there are also threads in xda about .9 pngs.

Cool! Thank you so much. Going to give this a try tonight.

Thanks again.:good:

 

[cbb77]

Yes, you can remove the complete apk from the zip file and then rezip it, just make sure you zip it with Store to be safe.
IE: in 7zip choose add to archive from your browser,
archive format: zip
compression level: Store

You can NOT take out individual items from inside an APK though.
You can change png's that do not end in .9.apk if you want to modify individual graphics.

You can also delete items from the Media folder.

Hmm, is there another step that I may have to do? Just tried this and it didn't work. Install aborts. I simply extracted your zip, deleted the apks that I didn't want from preload directory and zipped it back up as you instructed but it doesn't seem to like it. Deleted all except the SystemUI.apk but again no go. Thoughts?

 

[JohnMcW]

Hmm, is there another step that I may have to do? Just tried this and it didn't work. Install aborts. I simply extracted your zip, deleted the apks that I didn't want from preload directory and zipped it back up as you instructed but it doesn't seem to like it. Deleted all except the SystemUI.apk but again no go. Thoughts?

When you zipped it did you highlight the
META-INF
preload
and
system
folders
And then Right clicked and chose 7-zip (add to archive)?

Other than that, if it still doesn't work for you, let me know what theme you are trying to do this to
and I can zip it up for you.
John

 

[cbb77]

When you zipped it did you highlight the
META-INF
preload
and
system
folders
And then Right clicked and chose 7-zip (add to archive)?

Other than that, if it still doesn't work for you, let me know what theme you are trying to do this to
and I can zip it up for you.
John

Sorry my bad. Just realized what I was doing wrong. I had extracted your zip to a specific directory and then when I re-zipped it I did it at the top level directory that I unzipped it to. I re-created the zip with the file one level down and reapplied. Worked!! Thus am all set for now. Tomorrow will take a stab at changing some of the additional graphics in one of the other apks. Thanks again for your help. If all goes well, I will grab some pictures of my modified theme and provide for all here. Will give you credit of course.

 

[murirtin]

thanks.................................

 

[JohnMcW]

Updated 1.8

Updated for 1.8

 

[clay101eve]

Just started using the blue theme,I love it! I do have a request but will hold off until you give me the go ahead to ask. Some devs and themers don't take them.

Clay

Team Pirate
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