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[Android Themes] [] AL []:
Just a different theme as I wrote and line numbers are not the same...

find the (id:"baseStyle") first.
[Android Themes] murlidhar85:
okay found it. where is that color being used mentioned in the picture below. sorry for troubling you. tried to do it myself like the other two changes but couldn't find what i was looking for.

maybe i should add a line color " black" after line number 67
[Android Themes] [] AL []:
line 67: "text_main_top" style must be defined as a light text color.

So you could replace that with "text_popup" and add something like this between 2 text styles higher up:

{

"id": "text_popup",

"color": "#aaaaaa"

},

don't forget the last ", " at the end if there are more text styles after.

Set "aaaaaa" to the color you want and add attributes for shadow, bold or other things you may want...

Ok, that will be it for now...
[Android Themes] TONY6669:
That might help me out I'm doing this and just need to change the write to green...
[Android Themes] [] AL []:
hopefully this quickly scribbled cheat sheet would help you even further...

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[Android Themes] TONY6669:
Awesome man I'll try it out tonight appreciate the help
[Android Themes] IronTechmonkey:
SlowTechMonkey hangs his muzzle and drags his knuckles in shame. Had all this ready yesterday but let it sit. Sorry.

OK, it should be noted that I'm so minimal that the main reason I play with themes is to look for something that really tricks out the interface but that I only use as an occasional toy or like dressing up to go out once in a while. This is why I like this green keyboard theme. Here are a few observations:

- Alt key indicators are dim but this is something I find in most SK/SSK themes (except Holo) and keyboards in general. This is in large part caused by my low brightness setting of 4% (which is 4% lower than the default of 8% for this phone). BTW The ability to use lower brightness and still get reasonable contrast is a less often mentioned aspect of using dark backgrounds to save power. It's not just that rendering no color uses less juice but it's also that you can lower brightness overall.

- Some stutter/lag in app opening animation. This may be due to increased resource usage of SK over native keyboard. Coincidentally I was playing with AFWall+ firewall at the time and realized that Swiftkey phones home a lot.

- Nice handling across light and dark backgrounds with an exception; An optical effect between top and bottom of buttons when in white background mode. A visually busy "trippy" effect a bit like the optical illusion of motion that occurs in certain vivid green & red patterns. I think it is caused in part by the black top border and white lower border around the keys in white background mode. Might look better if both top and bottom are black but I know that would sacrifice the sculpted look. Having seen how this effect works in the black theme I think it works really well amongst the black and grey colors there but not as much in the Green with grey background.

Default CM11 Theme - Native People app (This picture also somewhat shows the effect between the rows of keys that I mention earlier):

- Looks totally awesome with my Matrix background and Hologlass CM11 theme (which I wont use full time due to a bit of lag opening apps themed by it) For comparison here is [ AL ]'s transparent green keyboard in the native CM11 People app, in both the Default theme and in Hologlass theme.

Hologlass theme in Native People app and editing a Homescreen folder name (Nova 3.3;)):

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- Looks good in Default CM11 theme in 8SMS (which does not use transparency here but does have black background) and in my beloved Wordweb offf-line dictionary:

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- Natural fit for green Dolphin Browser in default CM11 theme but not sure why Firefox uses keyboard without grey background as is case in other light apps.

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[Android Themes] [] AL []:
[MENTION=5119654]IronTechmonkey[/MENTION]:

First: thanks for the illustrated theme review. I didn't see too many "please fix this"; so I guess is a good thing/start...

Making a theme that will fit well every screen/bg situation encountered on a phone is almost impossible; even more so if the theme uses a semi-transparent background like it is the case here. [And btw, that is why you see that gray bg in Dolphin: the theme makes that - not them.] I think that you've put it best by saying that with SSK, we have the luxury of changing theme easily depending on what we do.

I'll also admit that I try to stay away from white bgs apps as much as I can, so it was nice to a few ss of such a thing.

I see what you mean about in-between rows and I'll try to circumvent or reduce the effect with some shading eventually. I think that there's even some grid effect going on as well... Not exactly the same illusion, but you see black dots appearing here in intersections here?:

Anyhow, it is V1 after all and as I use it more, I'll most likely bring tiny changes to improve the look - hopefully. If there are things you'd like to change/try before then and you need help modding it, please feel free to PM me.

Thanks again for the feedback.

/AL
[Android Themes] HAVOK83:
Hey everyone, I'm on lollipop rooted .always used theme but now that I changed dpi thru app settings xposed I can't get it to look normal even after changing dpi for swiftkey to stock 640 it looks jumbo size and lobsided towards the right even playing worth dpi sizes keyboard is still aligned towards right. Thanks
[Android Themes] greyhd:
That's a question for the xposed thread. Look into your DPI changes.
[Android Themes] [] AL []:
I should stop watching movies w the kids, it gives me strange theme ideas...

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[Android Themes] calexchelse:
My wife would love that
[Android Themes] [] AL []:
Well, unfortunately base keys are one; i.e. : we can't make them all different. So the same minion on 26 keys looks a bit trippy.

I saw that [MENTION=247843]theBear[/MENTION]jkoss is back on-line: welcome back!

And here:

(on black bg)

(on white)
[Android Themes] Thebear j koss:
I like that keyboard. 1 suggestion as i know you appreciate feedback. I would use the same png you use for numbers as the png for your secondary keys. Like my kb here- i just think it would look better on that kb. Nice work on it.
[Android Themes] TONY6669:
Find the white keys bear lol I can theme full roms and invert and theme full apps but can't find that stupid text on your bear 2 keyboard lol
[Android Themes] Thebear j koss:
I'm done with ssk for a while. I think it has to be added somewhere as it is pulling from another kbs resources.
[Android Themes] migueldbr:
Dont know why android swiftkey themes still continue to suck while on iOS they even make animated themes...its just like they dont give a f*ck about android users.

http://venturebeat.com/2015/05/20/s...to-help-monetize-its-predictive-keyboard-app/

Gladly we have you guys to give us good themes!
[Android Themes] MitoTakatori:
They stick where the profit is. :silly:
[Android Themes] syverman:
Or maybe they know the themes that you people made are far more beautiful, or they realize that we don't need them if we use this themes
[Android Themes] MitoTakatori:
Latest SK beta 5.3.0.116 has a new them called Carbon, and theme version is 3. I am on it now, applied the custom themes from the last Super SK beta. It's really good.
[Android Themes] djdarkknight96:
Nice, I might update beta when I get some time.
[Android Themes] MitoTakatori:
Looking forward to that! :good:
[Android Themes] djdarkknight96:
Look closer at your creation, did you see the spacebar's are gone again?

Official

Beta

Not sure I wanna mess with it until it's official but I'll see why it's broken.
[Android Themes] Phrodini:
Do you know the name of the font used on this theme?
[Android Themes] Thebear j koss:
Lol. Nobody knows that font, but everyone loves it. It's called Ultima or Ultima Mod. I asked the same question last week.
[Android Themes] Phrodini:
It is a nice font. On the hunt to find it. Thank you
[Android Themes] cop1976:
SSwiftKey is getting better and better...

Thank you

N5 Euphoria @ ElementalX
[Android Themes] djdarkknight96:
Oops...wrong thread
[Android Themes] Thebear j koss:
Wrong thread. Lol
[Android Themes] djdarkknight96:
Dag Nabbit "old man disease" lol
[Android Themes] Thebear j koss:
I blame it on i smoked too much good stuff before i went to bed and my coffee hasn't kicked in yet. Lol
[Android Themes] plunetfunk:
I've noticed that last beta update has introduced a new icon for the caps lock, this causes a not-change of icon in all our modded themes when uppercase is active. Updating "icon_shift.xml" with new strings (shift_state_unshifted - item shift_state_shifted - item shift_state_capslocked) seems not work.

I'm trying to figure out the issue.
[MENTION=2126467]djdarkknight96[/MENTION] when you update the apk, can you check it too?
[Android Themes] djdarkknight96:
Yep will do, I'm thinking this will be another redo with the spacebar missing again too. I noticed the new theme has a slightly different format and they changed the resources again so beta is another nightmare waiting to happen lol
[Android Themes] Pariahnoble:
Dumb question here... Do they (SwiftKey themselves) play games with the space bar on beta? Like sometimes it has it sometimes it doesn't? Messes me up ALOT not having the color block for the space bar. But the sounds are at least alot better than sk on beta... Just curious. Thanks in advanced!
[Android Themes] PatrickMac:
Can someone tell me how to hide the new Swiftkey logo on the spacebar, introduced in the latest beta versions? I am not sure which resource file controls this.
[Android Themes] Dzepar:
[MENTION=5558549]Pariahnoble[/MENTION]

Search this thread (it's some png that you'll have to make transparent) , it's been answered by [Al].

I use two languages so i never had seen a SwiftKey logo on spacebar. ;)

Xperia M2 D2303 on K.K. 4.4.4
[Android Themes] Thebear j koss:
I think it is a png in the app itself. All dpi drawable folders should have 1, i think.
[Android Themes] djdarkknight96:
Lmao, answer was right above your post lol
[Android Themes] EXV:
Thanks for what you guys do. I have very little free time (and patience) so I can't imagine using that to work on Android apps. You guys work hard for little reward and I just wanted to acknowledge that.
[Android Themes] Pariahnoble:
That's why I was asking. I don't have the ability to do theme or alter stuff right now myself. No pc, so I was curious if it would change in a later update (back to a color bar instead of the sk logo) as I only really use one theme (sprite), so at that update I could stop updating if it goes back to the logo.

I'm sure I can make my own apk on my android, I've just been super busy recently, and haven't the time to research how to do it without a pc. Sorry for the confusion.
[Android Themes] djdarkknight96:
We only do beta for research so don't expect us to do each beta update especially now it's broken our themes. You'll have to wait till we fix it or deal with it...lol
[Android Themes] MitoTakatori:
Yeah. I just noticed it on some themes. I was using white ios theme when I installed it. Another thing to adjust in the themes.
[Android Themes] [] AL []:
Done with []AL[] 3D Light!

I've spent quite some time trying to use color filters to make candidate text to change color when pressed, but everything failed. So I don't know if that's even possible afterall...

I followed Bear's suggestion regarding function keys as it saved me the trouble of remarking them (my original plan). It removes some transparency, but it's for a good cause because I think it does look pretty good.

Anyhow, @DJ: will send you files later on today. Please ignore the last zip as I now added a dedicated al_3d_resources folder.

Cheers

/A
[Android Themes] TONY6669:
Looks good man
[Android Themes] Thebear j koss:
Definitely looks better with the matching keys IMO, looks good. If i wers to use a light kb that would be the way i'd go.
[Android Themes] [] AL []:
Sorry, I'm having problems with my vpn atm, so I can't upload anything for you. But I did have a look and you were almost there.

Two things:

1- you have 3 color code entered as "00ff00" >>> missing the # in front

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2- there was a text color entered as text_base that should be text_main

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And btw, all your dpi folders have the exact same (size) pngs! Not a real problem on its own, but might make the theme look funny on some phones.

Cheers

/AL
[Android Themes] TONY6669:
Awesome I'll try it and I know about the folders figured I would fix that once I got my text figured out.. Apricate the help thanks again

---------- Post added at 02:56 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:43 AM ----------

Got it thanks again I figured it was something simple I was missing appreciate your help and time!!!
[Android Themes] djdarkknight96:
Looks great, if you want PM me the files once done and I'll add it to SSK next update. Please create a name for it if you do. Thanks!
[Android Themes] TONY6669:
Will do thanks guys you are all great guys and I appreciate all your hard work
[Android Themes] [] AL []:
OK, I've just figured out that we can put [ H I D E ] and [ / H I D E] around pics to change them to the spoiler button without havong to go on the PC to do so (thing O rarely have time to do...).

So [MENTION=4595448]TONY6669[/MENTION]: could you please edit your last quote of my last post?

Big pics quotes bug me, but two times in same post is a new level of disturbance...

Thanks
[Android Themes] TONY6669:
done
[Android Themes] [] AL []:
Thanks, although I meant in the quoting part, not your pic.

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I actually like to see people's screenshots. It's just seing mine reposted over and over that I find less pleasing.

Cheers
[Android Themes] [] AL []:
...

np, my pleasure

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..
[Android Themes] danishdish:
That is sick!
[Android Themes] [] AL []:
Pimp my keyboard.

I could do like SwiftKey and start selling aftermarket keyboard parts.

Lol [emoji13]

Carbon fiber spacebar anyone?

Later edit:

.. and before Bear ask, we've got other custom parts too.

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[Android Themes] [] AL []:
Wow!

13 hours without any reply on the thread. Time for more spoilers...

After []AL[] Green, []AL[] 3D and []AL[] 3D Light, soon to be yours, introducing the latest of the []AL[] 3D series*:

(*: end result may vary)

So let's see in a few days but I did spend on it already... This is a tricky one: matching the look of a spacebar that is some 5 times (and sometimes less) the width of a base key...
[Android Themes] stanlin salu:
Which one is the latest version??

I am so confused :(
[Android Themes] Tylog:
The latest you can find in the Op
[Android Themes] [] AL []:
OK, I don't want to spam the thread, but I've just sent the files to DJ. So this is just to an official sign off on the release..

Cheers,

/A

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Edit:

Thanks at [MENTION=1015941]dafoxs[/MENTION] for the (cropped on the above pics, but stil ) very nice wallpaper - btw

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[Android Themes] Phrodini:
All look great, can't wait to get them
[Android Themes] -=W1S3=-:
Material Design anyone?
[Android Themes] Thebear j koss:
?????????

Police in this country are literally getting away with murder... The brutality and violence must be stopped.
[Android Themes] [] AL []:
Not for me, thanks. I'm tryin' to quit.

- -

Ok this one is spamming a little, but sonce I've mentioned dafoxs' wp... might as well show it off more:
[Android Themes] TONY6669:
Looks awesome man
[Android Themes] BrewBaker:
Yes please
[Android Themes] laoruga:
The carbon fiber one! In love with it! AL great job with that one. And to djdarkknight awesome, next level job. In love with the app since the first day I got not!
[Android Themes] djdarkknight96:
I'll be back on this next week, got some CM theme stuff to finish first then I'll start fixing a spacebars on the beta so it's ready for prime time. I'll post the fix unless [] AL [] or Bear or anyone else finds it first like usual lol :)

I'm very grateful every time btw..it's hard to research and test a keyboard you don't use lo

Any Who, just wanted to give a status report...I'm still here lol
[Android Themes] [] AL []:
Well, I don't want to slow DJ down with his other projects, but I had a quick peek at beta v5.3.0.116 and couldn't find anything new different in themes in this regard(spacebar).

I haven't tried the app on the phone yet, but I wonder if the spacebar issue was with all our ssk themes or just a few? If the later, could you guys tell me a theme name or share a link if is not included in last ssk version? That would help me with the eventual deeper digging...

Quickly a couple more pointers:

Caplocks:

I've noticed (as it has been reported already) that most themes have now switched to a 3 states shift icon. So I don't remember what the issue reported was, but it seems pretty straight forward: 3 pngs for off/shift on/capslock on - simply defined with this:

I've also seen at least one theme using a one state/static png as well btw.

Logo on Spacebar:

Again, I haven't tried this on the phone yet, but I believe that the logo can be removed following DJ's rules (just in our themes - w/o modding the apk[emoji6] ). We just need to make sure that we have the attribute shown here at line 100 under the spaceStyle id:

and the corresponding filter xml:

which we'd replace the 2 filter colors with "#00ffffff"

[OR, if you have it in, point to your "transparent.xml"). That should theoretically do it.

OK, that's it for now.

Cheers

/A
[Android Themes] porkyhontas:
LMAO!

Sent from my SGS3 using AnaKonda Tapatalk

AnaKonda Theme

eREDicate Theme
[Android Themes] egospawn:
[] AL [], I just made my own themed swiftkey with the latest version (5.3.0.124) and the beta version is now the official version :( . For example,I can see DJ's sprite x and sprite with the missing spacebar.
[Android Themes] [] AL []:
OK thanks, I will look into those 2 themes later on. Although, I'd trust that DJ made them properly and I will probably find nothing wrong with them...

Regarding beta becoming the official: I was hoping that this will not come too fast. But I just went to check, and for me, the last version is still not beta style - phew!

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Maybe my final SSK update.... hopefully not.

= = = = =

OK, I just had a look and to my surprise, it is DJ's themes that are missing a spacebar style. They just have a static spacebar icon entered at the end of the style.json file:

"icons_parent": "sprite_resources",
"icons": [
{
"name": "SpaceKey",
"icon": "spacekey.png"

So the problematic themes will 'just' need a spaceStyle added in like I've mentioned way back (yes that was a lot of going through my old posts to find this :silly:) here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=58584992&postcount=2972

So the good news is that there is nothing new or wrong regarding the spacebar with the latest beta versions.

Now, if they could just fix the keyboard showing behind the Chinese expanded candidates screen so that we can keep using transparent background, that would make me really happy... How to ask them this is the tricky part though...

Anyhow, problems solved!

:highfive:
[Android Themes] [] AL []:
I thought I was done with SSK designing for a while... but that talk about spacebar got me wondering.

Should I change this language selection popup from blue (as for base key popups) :

to this black version (again change only for the language selection and not for regular keys) :

as it makes the arrows show more and it does also make the "setting" popup stand out from a normal key hit...

Any preference anyone?

And btw, I've noticed that there is a beta default theme called Carbon. So I think that I will change mine that was []AL[] 3D Carbon to just []AL[] Carbon Fiber (no 3D so that the name fit one one line here:)
[Android Themes] anshumangoyal:
New release looks like is up from swiftkey, when and where can we download the official release? Latest one is 5.3.0.124.
[Android Themes] Tylog:
You can download the latest build from the op. When? When the Dev have time, asking for ETA is a big fail, we all have a life outside from xda and not anything can be done few hours after a release, but maybe you look a few posts back, i am sure you can find the answer there.
[Android Themes] egospawn:
Actually, Ross' Mnml Lollipop Light has the spacestyle added but still the space bar is missing in that as well. Could you please check that theme as well ?
[Android Themes] [] AL []:
Ok, I did and that one doesn't show the spacebar because its spaceStyle calls for the base key which when unpressed, is the same color as the kb background.

I bet you can see it when pressed - no?

If you want to try a fix, make the spaceStyle (and the lssbStyle also I guess) like this:

{
"id": "spaceStyle",
"parent": "baseStyle",
"background": "spacebar.xml"
},

And add a spacebar.xml file that would be like this:

<selector>
<item state_pressed="true" drawable="key_base_pressed.xml" />
<item state_pressed="false" drawable="spacekey.png" />
</selector>

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Edit:

but that would just make a big light gray box and make the bar disappear when pressed. So in the end, might as well and a png or xml for a pressed sb state in that xml (replace the key_base_pressed.xml)

--

So it seems that the beta is just ignoring the spacebar pngs for unpressed state after all.

So this brings me back to when I've mentioned that spacebar will have to be a case by case fix and painful job to do. DJ has started all that, but it's hard to go in and try/verify what has been fixed or not. People will have to keep reporting those until every theme is correctly set.
[Android Themes] Dzepar:
For me black is better, or you can make blue one to be darker :D

It's up to you, whatever you do it's beauti. ;)

Xperia M2 D2303 on K.K. 4.4.4
[Android Themes] gtrs36:
New update and theme.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/0...fault-theme-redesigned-swiftkey-hub-and-more/
[Android Themes] Thebear j koss:
Groan....

Edit- from the OP....

FOLLOW XDA RULES...do not ask for ETA or post links to updates asking us to update...we can check apk mirror too.

LEGALIZE IT.
[Android Themes] greyhd:
Please follow the rules clearly stated in the OP. Providing links to updates is not necessary, SSK will be updated when the developer gets the update and time. You can go ahead and make your own, search for the thread on how to.
[Android Themes] driftinganomaly:
Wait a couple days before fixing all of the spacebar issues. Things have changed a couple of times on the SwiftKey side from what I have seen. The newest release version only had the branding on the Carbon theme while a day ago, it was on all free themes.
[Android Themes] bigbad614:
I concur; Carbon is the only theme with branding in the new 5.3.0.124 release.
[Android Themes] Thebear j koss:
Did they add the hamburger menu and hub center is now light themed?

LEGALIZE IT.

Mattias Duarte ruined android. Material design sucks.
[Android Themes] Cliff1:
I wish I knew the name handle of the xda user who made the ross mnml ios dark and grey themes. I would love a white version. SwiftKey should just make an option to show/not show the accents on all the keys. Looks so much cleaner imo. Thanks for everyone's work!
[Android Themes] [] AL []:
Thanks.

It must be a love at first sight kind of thing then; you've never even laid a finger on that thing!! Lol.

Name change, language selection popup change, slight mods to the spacebar and the upper characters now set to blue...

I hope that I'm not messing up too much with your feelings.

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So @DJ: yet another PM to come your way eventually.. Please flag me in case of an eminent SSK release if you didn't hear from me 'till then.

Cheers
[Android Themes] demonrr:
Where I can get carbon keyboard love
[Android Themes] [] AL []:
Only in your wildest dreams for now - lol

I've chosen not to share publicly the 4 news themes I've just finished this time because, as you can see, I'm still trying and changing things here and there.

Just hang around and love will find a way

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