yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Desire Themes and Apps] basthet:
So far so good. However, after restart my skinned app is gone :(

Using metamorphic, do I need to create a whole apk to avoid the vanish? Can you please tell, how

to create such an apk?

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire Themes and Apps] cybermessiah:
I really wouldn't recommend using matamorph to skin this app.. its temperamental at best.

Rather, I would get ur original apk and resign it. with these steps:

1. get the original apk

2. rename the extension to zip and open with winzip

3. replace any png/xml with the one you have created into their original folders (be careful to make sure u do this without compression)

4. delete the META_INF folder from the zip

5. return extension to apk

6. Use the Signing tool below to resign.

7. place the new apk onto ur phone and install.

Cheers :)
[Desire Themes and Apps] bernyfur:
good, thanks.
[Desire Themes and Apps] coverall:
Asking for upgrade

HI all,

This is really cool aplication. But I installed what is on first page (version 2.6.5493) and after a while it keep asking for upgrade to newest version everytime i open whatsapp.

Will You upgrade this theme to the newest version?

Thanks guys..
[Desire Themes and Apps] cybermessiah:
Latest version is in the thread. Go to previous page. ;)
[Desire Themes and Apps] falbala84:
Hello, cybermessiah, thanks for the instructions but your method does not work for me (or may be I don't know how to make it work). When I open Sign.bat, I get:

"Auto-sign Created By Dave Da illest 1

Update.zip is now being signed and will be renamed to update_signed.zip"

And so does, not even mention Whatsapp.apk. Does that mean that I must install that update.zip from recovery?

EDIT: I deleted everything and tried again, and now it's done... I guess, I still haven't installed it, but at least there's a "your_app_signed.apk" in my folder.

Thanks again!
[Desire Themes and Apps] falbala84:
Hello again!

Well, I need some help, if you (or anyone) could bring it to me.. I followed your instructions to make my own whatsapp mod, I'm trying to make a violet version, but when I install it I find that chat bubbles aren't shown the right way.. I can't see what I write. I'll show you:

I've modified green_bubble.9.png, but I must ask, is there anything else I need to change to make this work fine? Any xml?

Thanks in advance :)

PS: In case I need to edit any xml... which program do you use to do it? Thanks again
[Desire Themes and Apps] basthet:
No, obviously you did not read the instruction. Your answer is within the thread.

I finally found some time for my skin - thanx a lot!
[Desire Themes and Apps] falbala84:
Ok, this is quite embarrasing.. I'm very sorry, I don't know why I didn't look back at the thread before I asked.

I guess this answers my question. So my problem must be the patch editor. Well, I'll try it.

Thanks anyway, and sorry once more.
[Desire Themes and Apps] sydbarrett55:
Great job, thanks a lot !!!
[Desire Themes and Apps] steve81uk:
Does this work on miui? I seem to he having troubles installing it.

Thanks in advance
[Desire Themes and Apps] MatDrOiD:
Which troubles do you have? Describe in more details please.

SwiftKeyed from CyanogenMod with Transparent XDA App
[Desire Themes and Apps] Bluebriz:
Very nice. When will there be updates for 2.6.8881?
[Desire Themes and Apps] cybermessiah:
Updated to 2.6.8881. Signed. If fail to update... back up your settings and uninstall old version. Reinstall this version and all should be OK.

Cheers. :D
[Desire Themes and Apps] Bluebriz:
Wow, you are on the ball my man!
[Desire Themes and Apps] iceanger:
For those who have attempted changing the colors of speech bubbles and all, mind posting your apk files? :D would love more variations of whatsapp, even if it is not the most updated version~~ :)
[Desire Themes and Apps] tedhan89:
Thank you! I'll give a try this !
[Desire Themes and Apps] iceanger:
Hi cybermessiah, can you post the 2 themes updated to the latest whatsapp version 2.6.8990? thanks :)
[Desire Themes and Apps] MatDrOiD:
Yep, this would be nice. :)

SwiftKeyed from dGB with Transparent XDA App
[Desire Themes and Apps] cybermessiah:
WhatsApp__v2.6.8990 Blue and Green ..Signed :D
[Desire Themes and Apps] MatDrOiD:
Perfect, works. :)
[Desire Themes and Apps] taam:
it looks nice, downloading now. thanks
[Desire Themes and Apps] MatDrOiD:
It would be nice if you update soon. :-)

Sent from dGB with Transparent XDA App
[Desire Themes and Apps] h4kql3:
Thanks , nice theme
[Desire Themes and Apps] iceanger:
latest updated themes, please.
[Desire Themes and Apps] yabadabadooo:
could you make an update please? :)
[Desire Themes and Apps] cybermessiah:
Been a bit busy with work lately and my new SG Note.:cool:

Here are the updates.
[Desire Themes and Apps] MatDrOiD:
Works perfect, thanks. :-)

Sent from ICS with Transparent XDA App
[Desire Themes and Apps] ywk:
Working great on Galaxy Note too ! Thx !

Btw, version 2.7.950 just released. Looking for the new updates.

Thx in advance.
[Desire Themes and Apps] cybermessiah:
Quick off the ball on this one. :)
[Desire Themes and Apps] ywk:
You are damn fast for the updates !!!! Thousand thx !
[Desire Themes and Apps] seimu:
great job, you know how to change the font and font color?

THX! :)
[Desire Themes and Apps] amcolian:
lol, there is a new update 1320 on the market
[Desire Themes and Apps] miketwn:
nice job bro....(cool in the same vicinity as you ;))
[Desire Themes and Apps] cybermessiah:
whatsapp 2.7.1528 Signed Green and Blue:D
[Desire Themes and Apps] rodlane:
Thank you so much for this... The lite look is just awful!
[Desire Themes and Apps] ywk:
Thanks for the updates !!
[Desire Themes and Apps] littlenano:
great job! thanks
[Desire Themes and Apps] Brotkruemel:
I've just found your theme and love it! Great work! Thank you!
[Desire Themes and Apps] ProfHEX:
Many thanks! Excellent job!
[Desire Themes and Apps] blesal:
Woooaaaooo, nice theme ;)
[Desire Themes and Apps] Yorzua:
whatsapp ICS mod updated

Current version 2.7.2334
[Desire Themes and Apps] lufc:
If it has nothing to do with the Development of this thread then do not post.

If you wish to throw insults at each other then do it on another site as we do not want to read it.

Next time i have to clean this crap up i shall give out Holidays from xda
[Desire Themes and Apps] cybermessiah:
More Mods

Much appreciated lufc for cleaning up the thread by request.;)

I have re-uped my older themes and a few new ones because the guys at WhatsApp nicely contacted me and asked me to do some new colors. So here they are: RED GREEN BLUE GOLD CHROME and MAGENTA. Apks are signed. Downloads are at bottom of the page;)

I am most happy for any more color requests.

Enjoy:D
[Desire Themes and Apps] Brotkruemel:
Does that mean Whatsapp will get build-in themes in future? Cool new colors!
[Desire Themes and Apps] ynkamat:
I wonder why my post was deleted.

Cybermessiah can you make something like this. Dark black, just the corners blue.
[Desire Themes and Apps] Stranger43:
Thankyou for this thems. Can you make the orange?
[Desire Themes and Apps] cybermessiah:
@ Brotkruemel

I am not part of the WhattsApp development team. They just asked me to make some more colors as they like my theme. I really do hope that in the future Whatsapp could have an inbuilt theming engine :cool:.. but I haven't any idea if they will do that.

@ynkamat

Regarding the message bubble design you requested. In order tho have light text on a dark bubble requires decompiling/recompiling the Whattsapp apk and editing the xmls to change the text color. I have tried that in the past, but with little success .. as Whattsapp doestnt seem to be able to recompile properly with the conventional decompiling methods.:( That is why you will see most mods have only black text on lighter bubbles. Not so easy to do an inverse design.

@Stranger43

Try the GOLD theme. It is very close to orange.;)
[Desire Themes and Apps] Glammyz:
its cool!! but the version is too old i just update?
[Desire Themes and Apps] Yorzua:
decompiling/recompiling Whattsapp apk

Congratulations for your mods, great work !

If i can help you in decompiling/recompiling whatsapp.apk :

You decompile/recompile whatsapp with apktool, hope it helps you :rolleyes:
[Desire Themes and Apps] cybermessiah:
@Glammyz

If you install any modded apk you need to wait for that mod to be updated here. If you try to reinstall an 'official' update from the market you may encounter either of 2 errors:

1. The market update may install, but you will loose the theme included here, as it will overwite the last version with the 'official' unmodded version.

2. You may encounter an 'Application not Installed' error, as the official market version has a different verification signature from the ones modded here.

If you want to install the latest updated theme, you must wait for it to be updated within this thread.

I will do my best to update all themes as quicly as possible upon new oficiall market releases.:D

@Yorzua

I am well aware of how to decompile and recompile apks.

The issue is with the Whattsapp apk recompiling after editing the Styles.xml within the res values folder. As many themers have found, there is an issue with recompiling WhatsApp apk after performing such edits. No one seems as yet able to successfully recompile the apk and alter the message bubble text color. You are doing well if you can change the text to inverse using ApkTool.;)

I myself prefer APK Manager than ApkTool as its command line structure is much better laid out and has more options.:D

http://apkmultitool.com/node/2
[Desire Themes and Apps] Yorzua:
compile whatsapp

I am at work being very busy but in between short breaks, i played a bit with only xml just to show you that is perfectly possible to

decompile

edit

recompile

it works for me :rolleyes:

Apktool is more easy with this UI but it will not allow you to compile whatsapp.apk [ openssl permissions ]

I made a TUTO for those interested :

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=21980621#post21980621

ps : i am glad we can finally work in peace for the best of us ;)
[Desire Themes and Apps] cybermessiah:
@ Youzua

Are you able to change the black bubble text to white (within the speech bubbles)....?

The trouble lays in that part of the modifications.

I have yet to see anyone successfully recompile the Whatsapp.apk (myself included) and have the changes (black text to white) actually work after finalization.

Many have tried editing both the Style.xml and Color.xml.. but the it just don't take after recompiling. The person who cracks this is going to make everyone happy.:p

Off to have another crack at it.:D

Have a suspicion that the actal xmls that need adjusting are in the res>layout> 'conversation_text_row_right.xml' and 'conversation_text_row_left.xml'

:o
[Desire Themes and Apps] Yorzua:
New Whatsapp mods coming

My name is @Yorzua and yes, i am able to change the black bubble text to white.

Both answering and replying text colors can me modded as you want :rolleyes:

Just playing around, working on new bubbles :cool:

Hard to concentrate at work .... but hey, no one will claim this is not mine ;)
[Desire Themes and Apps] cybermessiah:
Good work.

Did you edit res>layout> 'conversation_text_row_right.xml' and 'conversation_text_row_left.xml ?

looks like they are the xmls.
[Desire Themes and Apps] cybermessiah:
FINALLY.

I was correct about it being those xmls!:)

Used APKtool to decompile and recompile with edits to those two xmls I suspected.:D

Note: You can actually use another tool called AutoSign as a simpler way to sign the apk without use of Open SSL to generate the key.p8 and certificate.pem files and without having to use SignApk.jar.Auto-sign generates the key.pk8 and certificate.pem files automatically and applies them automatically to the apk, hence eliminating the necessity for Openssl and SignApk.jar... basically saves an extra step.:D
[Desire Themes and Apps] cybermessiah:
Fantastic.:D

Time for the Dark Mods. Im thinking total black and cyan texting.:D
[Desire Themes and Apps] ynkamat:
Thank you both of you. I am expecting the dark theme with just blue letters and borders soon from you. Best wishes.
[Desire Themes and Apps] cybermessiah:
Nice going.

However, I will politely request that you keep this thread related to the theming and development of the themes related to this thread and not to available work located outside the thread (you have your own thread in this forum for that now;)) or to work outside of XDA itself.

Satisying to be be on more amicable terms with eachother, but please follow the above request.;)
[Desire Themes and Apps] cybermessiah:
@ Morrancos ... maybe read the actual posts prior to his comment.

One

screenshot of the decompiling tool he uses and

one

screenshot of a successfuul modification AFTER I told him exactly what xmls needed modifying make him responsibile for me gaining a deeper comprehension of theming? :rolleyes:

Sure, we both may have commented on the issue and praised each others efforts, but that doesn't mean we are engaged to be married... so he needs to stop acting like an hysterical girlfriend when I make an OP request that he stop spamming my thread with links to alternative themes that are not created by the OP himself.:rolleyes:

Your opinion might well be reversed if you were to read the other posts that I requested be removed not that much earlier.

Enough said.:cool:
[Desire Themes and Apps] Stranger43:
Actualy cybermesiah do post xml befrore you posting your them changings.See post #97

So you aer not right there.

cybermessiah not need to be so tender to other people insulting. Plese keep on the good thems and wishing best to both your excellent theming.hoping more colors coming soon.
[Desire Themes and Apps] Stranger43:
I am sympathise your side of situation. but its look like he only asking you to stopping your thems advertising here. I even find those self-promotion as distract me from can find the informations directly in relation to the OP thems hereabouts. Why I cannot find your them in your thread here? Only having one them in your thread and you have days ago promising to be update shortly herabouts with new thems. Sorry my bad English.:)
[Desire Themes and Apps] cybermessiah:
@ Stranger43. I apologize about the difficulty in finding OP posts. That is excacly the reason I made such a request.

@ynkamat

You asked for a dark theme with just blue letters and borders. I quickly did this one... I hope its the kind of thing you are looking for.;)

Available in the update post here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=21963135&postcount=88

Sleep time as I'm off to Singapore for a week long phone convention. Hopefully get a glimpse/preview of this year's roadmaps from our favorite companies.

Enjoy.:D
[Desire Themes and Apps] Yorzua:
I have only one word !

Thanks for your post here and in my thread, much appreciated.

Far from self promotion and promises >

OP updated with direct links to DARK and ICS MODs

For @cybermessiah >

This will be my last post in your thread - you posted in my tuto as well, fair enough so let me to take the oportunity to congratulate you for your work and enjoy your travel.

Peace on my side :D
[Desire Themes and Apps] ynkamat:
cybermessiah : You rock man. Ultimate. This was the one I was looking for. Perfectly captured my imagination. All the best for future.

Can I ask which keyboard you are using. :p Its tempting too with ur dark mod.
[Desire Themes and Apps] LordNickerchen:
Thanks for these great themes!

What happens if i install this one and an update for Whatsapp is avilable via market- may i install it or will i have to wait until you updated the themed version?
[Desire Themes and Apps] cybermessiah:
@ ynkamat

You are welcome. Glad you like it. The keyboard I use is Thum Keyboard (modded of course). But its one of the most customizable keyboard around with quite a few themes.:D

@ LordNickerchen

You will need to wait for updates to the themes , as installing stock version will revert back to default theme. I will always try to update asap.

Heres a preview of my developing ICS update. Just playing around while I sit in my hotel room in Singapore.
[Desire Themes and Apps] cybermessiah:
@ Morrancos..

Definately not.

These are a readjustment to my 'origina'l pngs I made from scratch for ynkamat @ post115 [see above].. timestamp posting at 4:43pm... well before Yorzua's change to screenshot on post #113 (timestamp modification @10:40pm). Check the timestamps if you want to be pedantic. Completely my own work mate.

As they are my own work, Morrancos, I reserve the right to mod them however I like, without it being inferred that I have copied from elsewhere ;)

If you need proof that these are my own work (via image posting timestamps) then just use your browser to check the dates of the uploaded images [also when I uploaded the corresponding apk here for all to download]... the confirmation is quite easy to do...;)
[Desire Themes and Apps] cybermessiah:
LOL!!!:D

Your playing with my head!! :p Evil!
[Desire Themes and Apps] cybermessiah:
Yes! So it must follow that if Z were before A then it follows that S would have to precede J when ice cream doesn't have bones just as much as the sum equivalent of any given Friday will be equal to the square root of lunacy. ;):D;)
[Desire Themes and Apps] Morrancos:
please update your themes cyber please

Banned puppy is banned. Nothing to see here.
[Desire Themes and Apps] oyebto:
lastest version of whatsapp just launched! 2.7.3346. =) btw, thanks so much for the effort!
[Desire Themes and Apps] cybermessiah:
@ oyebto,

Thanks for the kind words, mate. Wow.. more than 2000 downloads of my themes for the last version.. I'm truly humbled.:o

I always wait for official Market releases of the latest versions before updating and just saw that the latest version is out via the Market.

Just got back from Singapore so I will get cracking on updating to the latest official release.

Cheers.:)
[Desire Themes and Apps] ~WindzStriker~:
hey cybermessiah, saying Hi from Singapore, been using your whatsapp mod ;)

are you able to do a Iron Man Theme for whatsapp ? =p, Gold + Red
[Desire Themes and Apps] oyebto:
haha saying hi too from singapore. =) by the way, izzit possible to make the bubble look more 3d like in the case of the app line? really love the higher contrast bubbles in that app... rather than the faded look on whatsapp..
[Desire Themes and Apps] cybermessiah:
Version v2.7.3346

Updated to latest [version v2.7.3346]. Minor changes to some icons and changes to the About pages... but not too much as busy with work post Chinese New Year. Off to Shanghai today.

Enjoy:D

BTW.. from Kevin at Whatsapp..

enjoy;)
[Desire Themes and Apps] Anonymouser:
thank you but whatsapp page indicates current version is 2.7.3543 :(
[Desire Themes and Apps] MatDrOiD:
Newest version works without any problem. :)
[Desire Themes and Apps] cybermessiah:
Just in case anyone is wondering... i only ever update my mods to the latest official Market Release rather than the latest Whatsapp site releases.. as I consider these 'pre-releases'.

I will only ever update to the release that is currently available on the Android Market itself.

Cheers and enjoy.:D
[Desire Themes and Apps] Anonymouser:
weird O.o i can t find cybermessiah posts i wanted to read but i received in my @

someone can inform moderators please or bug ?

OP : please any consideration on my previous wish to get your ICS link ?

How i can do same effects of Yorzua whatsapp ? do u know ?

please help :)
[Desire Themes and Apps] cybermessiah:
No worries. As for the ICs theme... I will release it once it is ready... just got a bit more work to do on the xmls. Glad you are eager to see it.. but I am quite busy at work and guess it will be released when its ready.;)

In response to your other question... I really have no idea about that and, unfortunately, can not assist you there.

Cheers.:D
[Desire Themes and Apps] Anonymouser:
thank you, whatsapp market indicates current version is 2.7.3581

more work on xmls ? wtaht will you implement ?

maybe a valentine version for me ? :)
[Desire Themes and Apps] cybermessiah:
Just noticed the udate an hour ago. Will update my themes asap. I will impliment perhaps a few more xml.edits..

A valentines version for you? :D

Not unless ur my girlfriend;)

Cheers.
[Desire Themes and Apps] Anonymouser:
thank you man

do you know how to change the color of the names in contact list ?

they keep to be black watever i do change everywere :/

waiting for the updates fast fast

please a valentine whatsap man ♥
[Desire Themes and Apps] cybermessiah:
Quickly took a look at the contacts_picker_row.xml where the xml values for that particular line lay. The Textview values can change the the size and padding.. but not the text color, even when being directed to another sub-style or substituting a direct hex color. Most probably, that the value for that id is being controlled by some smali code. I would advise looking through the smalis in smaili>com>whatsapp... using the id code for that value [0x7f0d0080] as your search field. The smali code color for black is probably something like "const/high16 v0, -0x100 or const v#, -0x1000000 [black text in smali]. You need to find that value and change it to a smali white text value ["const/16 v0, -0x1" or "const/4 v1, -0x1"] or another smali color such as "const V1, 0xff3795b1"(light blue).

Everyone, I will hopefully update the themes tomorrow as I am really busy at work and got almost no spare time on my hands recently.:(
[Desire Themes and Apps] Anonymouser:
thank yu bro but i got my answer 2 days ago from yorzua

it is a diferent reply but tank to try to help me

waiting waiting your app, please valentine teme as well ?
[Desire Themes and Apps] an430:
It looks cool man! Thank for sharing!
[Desire Themes and Apps] ilikecokethree:
Mark. thanks for sharing
[Desire Themes and Apps] cybermessiah:
@ virganda

You might need to uninstall your old version first as this version is signed with a different key from the official market version. In Shanghai now and off to Hong Kong tomorrow so wont be back to my main computer till next week to update and do more stuff.

But great news!! Log into XDA after a week away and find ICS for my Galaxy Note!!:D:D
[Desire Themes and Apps] bragih:
I have the problem that in group chats sometimes there's black text on black background.. sometimes the messages of the same person is written in black text, but on a silverish/whiteish background... anyone else having that problem?
[Desire Themes and Apps] Anonymouser:
idea

I have the XL version of this guy @Yorzua and he is a genius to have fixed so imposible tings for me i asking in messages

he is sharin the whatsapp versions at

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1524990

he told me hat black text on group chats is needed to made a change in a smali and change a line but i am a nob so he do for me >D

cybermessia is out for so many time, nobody update here .............. >*

***

it is in XDA main page >)

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/heavily-themed-whatsapp-released/

please work team togeter for good whatsapp temes !
[Desire Themes and Apps] rafalense:
Ey guys, I'm the one who made that fix :)

The "sometimes black text in grupo chats" fix it is posted here (spanish but self-explanatory)

http://www.htcmania.com/showpost.php?p=3938544&postcount=437

"contactpicker_row_name" in contacts list remains black, fixed here:

http://www.htcmania.com/showpost.php?p=3928421&postcount=426

And another one maybe any of you likes, contacts name color in group chat:

http://www.htcmania.com/showpost.php?p=3938888&postcount=438

I made those fixes for Yorzua and other spanish guys. Feel free to ask anything related, maybe I can help you ;)
[Desire Themes and Apps] cybermessiah:
v274106

Updated all themes to 274106 and added Dark ICS Theme. All versions signed.

Enjoy.;)