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[Android Themes] pendo:
Sorry for the late reply. I was half hoping someone with a little more knowledge than me might chime in....

I'm not an expert on android signatures, but I think that this wouldn't work as it is because I have not actually resigned the apk. And I believe that PackageManager does look at the file hashes which if it indeed does, then we'll have a problem.

Now, I can fix that by resigning the apk. BUT, that opens up a different can of worms. In 2.3.6 I DID resign the apk, and it worked for many people but not all.

I would LOVE to be able to have it install like you suggest, but I'm afraid that it probably just won't be that feasible....especially with the depth of changes made.:o
[Android Themes] chris6278:
Hey pendo i just now noticed u gave me some credit on the first page an i really appreciate that but even tho these were my ideas u are the one who brought it to life an made it look as badass as it does an that i thank u for, especially for doing some of the other crazy ideas i came up with lol. In my opinion an im sure alot of other ppl as well ur the best themer out there. Keep up the awesome work an sorry for the sleepless nights i caused lol
[Android Themes] pendo:
Blue trimmed version is back live. Sorry for the delay in fixing it.

Please report if there are any other troubles.
[Android Themes] Treatcon:
Working great om my Nexus One! Many thanks!!
[Android Themes] austrie:
Market updated to V3.1.5, blame google for so many updates with little fix to it. =/
[Android Themes] Towboat_man:
Yea they're not the greatest at it by far..
[Android Themes] pendo:
I've been working on it the last day or so. Hopefully not too much longer....
[Android Themes] pendo:
Now at version 3.1.5. OP has been updated. :)
[Android Themes] adude247:
What do you use to decompile the market what version of apk tool if that's what you use....
[Android Themes] pendo:
It says I have v1.4.2.269870b.

But I modified it when 3.1.3 was released since I kept having "could not decode resource" problems. I'm still not sure why/what caused that since apktool is supposed to have resources all the way through api 13 I believe.
[Android Themes] greenmuggy:
Hey I have market resources if anyone needs em...

Sent from the Trans-Epic Express
[Android Themes] adude247:
Yes please...
[Android Themes] greenmuggy:
http://db.tt/OAPPJmlY

Sent from the Trans-Epic Express
[Android Themes] esk02k:
Whoa! Pendo how did this slip by me unoticed!? I thought we had a deal! LOL!

How you doing tho mate? Long time.

It just so happens I was looking for a new market for my theme because I was just forced to update from your previous blue market.

This is just what I need! Looking forward to trying this masterpiece out.

Thanks man.
[Android Themes] Grondinm:
pendo. thank you again for you hard work. Now that i have my phone back i am glad to have your transparent market again.
[Android Themes] abrandes09:
Looks amazing as always. Thank you.
[Android Themes] sugar 7:
working with CM7 galaxy s ?

Thanks
[Android Themes] EdinM30:
Transparent Market?

Why would you rename it to Transparent Market and add an icon to it? we know it's transparent, at first i couldn't find it under M section i thought it wasn't signed properly and wasn't installed until i looked more down by accident.

Great work otherwise i am too a blue fan ;)
[Android Themes] pendo:
Hey thanks man. Yep, I got OTA'd too. GS2 is *finally* available on my carrier, but jeeze they waited so damn long I'm not so sure I'll be getting it. Depends on what we find out on the 11th.

Thanks guys!

Yep. Well...I should say I don't have any reason to think it won't. I'm using in on CM7 on my N1.

Yes, I'm familiar with this process. It is my preference not to do it, though.

Honestly, you are the first to suggest that I do it. That said, if there were some more folks request it, I would reconsider.
[Android Themes] Grondinm:
for some reason this does not seem to stick with the latest MIUI. I noticed that MIUI 1.10.7 come with market version 3.1.3 which is fine it gets pushed updated to 3.1.5 so i have to go uninstall updates after i copy your transparent market to /system/app which works fine once. then the 2nd time i try to use the transparent market it has been replaced by a non transparent one again. i go look at the market app in the app list and it is still version 3.1.5 but has an update again....

edit:I have fixed it by integrating the 3.1.5 update into the rom using Titanium backup...could this have been solved some other way??
[Android Themes] pendo:
hm, that does seem a little strange.

The only thing I can think of is that perhaps there's some mechanism that's still reporting 3.1.3. You mention that you are 'copying' my market...if you don't mind going through the procedure again, could you try to repeat the steps, but this time do a full reboot after you copy my market?

If you are installing using the update zips, then that throws that theory out the window, as well as any guesses I have of what might cause that. :-/
[Android Themes] Grondinm:
i normally use the copy to /system/app myself...maybe i was not rebooting afterwards this time...either way by integrating the update into the rom i no longer have the option to try any other fix...if it is not happening to anyone else then it was somehow my doing or an issues with MIUI 1.10.7...it was odd anyways because 1.9.26 came with market 3.1.5.

Also a heads up the next version has been leaked...

http://www.magnam0d.com/blog/?p=788
[Android Themes] pendo:
No problem. And no, I haven't had any other reports of it reverting to the stock version, but that doesn't stop me from wanting to help even if you're the only one. ;)

Thanks for the link...I'm a little gun-shy now though after the controversy with 3.1.6. I'll most likely wait until it's pushed to my device, to reasonably assure it's authenticity.
[Android Themes] pendo:
There's something strange about this one, too. The signatures verify fine, but the dates on the files are earlier than 3.1.5. Additionally, there seem to be missing drawable directories (no drawable-large folders).

But perhaps the most obvious reason to be a little suspicious of this is line 251 of styles.xml.

<item type="style" name="APKTOOL_DUMMY_0027">false</item>
[Android Themes] Grondinm:
Then I am glad I did not try it. Not that I really understand what that last line does...lol very odd tho.
[Android Themes] pendo:
Here's basically what's happening with APKTOOL_DUMMY....

All resources (images, xml text files, compiled code, etc.) are basically "inventoried." This happens during compile time, and are assigned an inventory number, which is it's Resource ID. These ID's are assigned in a sequential, ascending manner grouped with alike resources. Just as a basic example let's say drawables would be assigned id's starting with 1000, while layout resources would start at 2000. (In reality it's done in hexadecimal).

Sometimes when theming, we might want to remove a resource. Now imagine that the resource you remove is in the middle of that section consecutively numbered id's.... You now have a gap in the numeration, and you won't be able to recompile. Often times we actually are replacing the removed file with something else and it can fill the "hole" thus restoring the consecutive numbering. But sometimes you really need to just remove a file. To fill that inventory void, we just make up a "dummy entry" and it's common practice to call those APKTOOL_DUMMY. It's simply a placeholder so the id sequence can continue.

Kind of a long explanation for a relatively simple concept, but hopefully it gives you an idea of what that meant. I have no idea what all was changed, but it most definitely isn't stock. Google would never have to employ this little tactic, as they don't need to decompile it to begin with.
[Android Themes] Grondinm:
My God that was a better explanation then I could have hopped for. Thank you that makes sense. Definitely not using that now.
[Android Themes] pendo:
lol, thanks.
[Android Themes] Grondinm:
I recently discovered a lovely red theme i was wondering if you would consider doing a red version of the market?
[Android Themes] Treatcon:
Red market has already been done in the above post ;)
[Android Themes] pendo:
Yeah, as was mentioned pauldiddy has a red themed market. I was involved a small bit, but it was behind the scenes and mostly all in an advisory capacity. He did all thedesign work and such.

As for me, with the current design of the market I don't anticipate doing much in the way of a targeted color theme. I prefer to keep the category color codings they have in place.

I have dabbled a little bit with "trimming it out" in different colors....like coordinating rating stars, progressbars, buttons, placeholder icons, update notifications, etc. But it doesn't alter the look real distinctively like in prior cases.
[Android Themes] Grondinm:
thanx for that reply only just saw it today. I went back to a blue theme anyways red got on my nerves after a few days.

i am sorry to do this again but have you seen this?

http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/1...te-update-over-wi-fi-only-shortcuts-and-more/
[Android Themes] pendo:
Yes I saw it earlier. I spent quite a while on it, but was never able to decompile. I will probably try to work with it some more later, but based on my first couple hours experimenting, I don't have high hopes that *I* will be able to get it decompiled. But there are many, many others here at xda (and elsewhere) that have the chops to get it done I think.
[Android Themes] mikshepard:
Is there anyway to keep your version on my phone? The new one keeps getting pushed through. I've deleted the marketupdater apk, yet it still updates. I delete the updated version and it auto-updates as soon as I launch your version again. I thought the marketupdater apk was how it did this. Thanks for any thoughts

-Mike
[Android Themes] KotDroid:
Try this:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=18083707&postcount=25

the only method that works for me.
[Android Themes] pendo:
Yes, I noticed that too. It had been a loooong time since I tried that but I remember it worked. But this new market is particularly stubborn. You can barely get a minute or two with the old one before 3.3.11 auto updates.

I can't speak on the Package Manager method mentioned in the post above me, but I know of another way that should stop it, and that would be to resign it. I'd give it a higher version code too.

I have started porting my theme to 3.3.11, but it's a chore....particularly if I want to get all aspects in there.
[Android Themes] tazlooney89:
for MDPI there something similar?
[Android Themes] pendo:
I would like to include mdpi support with this version, but no promises. I put in a few hours with it yesterday, and I'm still not done. Assuming I can get it all together the way I like, I will be releasing a non-mdpi version first, though.

There's been a bit more work for me this time. For instance, there's 3 different styles.xml...the additional ones are sdk specific but I need to get into each of them to insure that the theme remains coherent no matter if your on android 2.2 up through 2.4. :-/
[Android Themes] pendo:
updated op
[Android Themes] panyongs73:
thank you pendo:)
[Android Themes] pendo:
Updated the op due to a problem that I've discovered with the market that, as of right now, I'm not sure how/when I can fix it. The market fc's when trying to view some apps, but not all. The vast majority of apps seem to be unaffected. Anyone is obviously free to continue to use it if you aren't experiencing any issues, but I like to be upfront about things and at least give everyone a heads up.

Hopefully the problem can be identified soon.
[Android Themes] movie1ten:
now everthing goes to transparent. first is status bar, now market. maybe next time, fb? haha... thanks btw!
[Android Themes] EdinM30:
It's not you brother in use non transparent market from someone else themed and also fc at random on some apps
[Android Themes] pendo:
Op updated to 3.3.12.

Enjoy!
[Android Themes] fernando sor:
pendo is the man behind the man
[Android Themes] qualnd:
:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

this is AWESOME!!! i love it the only thing that would make it better is if you made a red version it would b better n really fit with my theme the since its mostly(99.99%) red and black...but still really cool wish i found this sooner
[Android Themes] pendo:
Thanks :) Always nice to find a new user.

I've been doing these for a little while and they've become pretty popular. Now there's actually several themers here that use my market theme as a base, then they tweak it a little for their use. PaulDiddy is one that I know for sure has a red version. Here's a link.

Oh...and make sure you give him a hard time, and tell him I told you to lol. :)
[Android Themes] qualnd:
Awesome man thanks for the info i got to get out the Infuse thread and search around i fell so late on all of this :)
[Android Themes] wrathraven:
Hello sir, just for info, newest android market is available now, v 3.4.4, maybe you can make a new one for us :).

Btw trans market is so cool!

thx alot....
[Android Themes] pendo:
3.4.4 is up

Apologies for the tardiness in the update...aside from the usual distractions this time of year I've been working on a small project for Galaxy Nexus.

But I did manage to make it before Christmas, lol. Hopefully this one can last a little longer than 3.3.12 did. (fat chance, I know...)
[Android Themes] EXV:
took me a while to install it, forgot that i had to change permissions. thanks, it looks amazing!!
[Android Themes] baliriot:
Tried flash zip but flashing failed & aborted... managed to paste vending.apk to system/app then change permission... thanks for themed market :) LG P990 CM7...
[Android Themes] yyz71:
How am I supposed to search for apps? search menu not working
[Android Themes] pendo:
Sorry about that. I know that some devices have different mount commands that are used in updater-scripts.

Thanks for the post, though....it reminded me to add the raw apk as an attachment to the op, as well as update the 2nd post with the stock versions. :)

:confused: I've never heard of this problem before. I can use both the magnifying glass search icon in the upper right corner as well as the phone hard button.

What is happening when you press one of these?
[Android Themes] Kayant:
Thank you for the update pendo..... continue your amazing work :)
[Android Themes] max-555:
could I just instal vending app ? or must I flash ?

What's about MIUI. Does this work on all roms?

Thanks
[Android Themes] pendo:
@Kayant,

Thanks :)

This cannot be installed the "normal" way by copying to your sdcard and selecting the apk. It won't pass signature checks because I don't resign it. The reason for that is that it prevents the possibility of permission problems. I have resigned it before and know that some others still do, but by not resigning I have a 0% rejection rate.

There's a couple of "rules" to use my markets...you should have had a working market before you use mine. And it needs to be pushed. You can do this one of 3 ways.

1) install with a recovery zip

2) adb

3) copy to /system/app using a root explorer. You will have to reset permissions to 644 (rw, r, r) if you use a root explorer.

Hope that helps.
[Android Themes] [SIC]:
Wow it looked really nice but I got fc every 15-60sec :( well well I will definitely be keeping an eye on this thread :)
[Android Themes] Treatcon:
If you have rom toolbox run zip align all apk's and fix permissions. I got a few at first, but then ran the two commands with rom toolbox. Fixed it right up.
[Android Themes] pendo:
Fixed a couple (very) small text color errors, and updated the link in the op.

Wow...and here I was boasting about how there shouldn't be any fc's. Which version of the Market were you coming from? Was it themed by chance?
[Android Themes] Treatcon:
This SkyRocket is a bit pickier than my N1 was. I've been progressing through the updates as you put them out, in order.
[Android Themes] mike2nl:
@pendo:

I have to say Thank You for your very good work. I have used now the TransMarket-3.4.4bl-v2-signed.zip version on my Galaxy Tab P 1000 and it is working very good without any issue in the last 15 minutes test.

Next test will be on the sgt10.1 3G (not tested) and the HD2 NAND CoreDroid (working).
[Android Themes] DozenMadder:
Looks great and works flawlessly on my Infuse running Zues rom.

You wouldn't by any chance consider a red version?

Of course I realise there's a zillion colors in the rainbow...
[Android Themes] tomasitoc:
play store transparent

Hello Pendo,

somehow, and I do't when but my market has been chnaged to play store, it seems google has chnaged the market app to play store.

Do you have plans in making a transparent theme for play store

thanks in advance,
[Android Themes] tomasitoc:
Hello Pendo,

Do you plan to make a transparent play store theme?
[Android Themes] pendo:
Updated op with 3.4.7
[Android Themes] si_bolang:
please update 3.5.15 version

:D
[Android Themes] pendo:
updated op with 3.5.15
[Android Themes] hellcop.:
good job :D
[Android Themes] bchon:
Looks great.. thanks!

SGSII T989 | Juggernaut5/Darkside X v1
[Android Themes] avvgopal:
Looks cool, as usual.
[Android Themes] Towboat_man:
Thanks man just installed and it looks great:D:D:D:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
[Android Themes] bchon:
Can we get an update to the new version?

Sent from my SGSII T989 | Juggernaut5/Darkside X v1
[Android Themes] damngood98:
top of the op.....3.5.15 is the latest play store and was updated nearly 2 weeks ago ;)
[Android Themes] MopheusDG:
for Chinese Android TV ?

Hi, first congrats for the apk, it looks awesome ! Now, to my questions..

1) Do you think I can install this baby on a Chinese Android TV ? I already have an old Market there, but it does not look like this one and I had to install it with an specific update made by someone on DX forums... so, should I try this one ?

2) Do this include the posibility of viewing ALL apps ? I had to trick my device to show me more apps because the original install of Market on that device, didn't show anything (no touchscreen, etc was a killer).

Thanks !
[Android Themes] bchon:
A new version of the play store is out.. :/

Sent from my SGSII T989 | Juggernaut5/Darkside X v1
[Android Themes] damngood98:
lol, yeah, now i see that. didn't know anything about it until yesterday. you were on that pretty damn quick :)
[Android Themes] TheArc:
Brilliant may I be able to post this mod to my Rom users

G360 Gravity Rom Developer.
[Android Themes] pendo:
updated to 3.5.16 :)
[Android Themes] tomasitoc:
Hello Pendo,

the 3.5.16 did not work for me. I am running warfare.

how do I fix this?
[Android Themes] damngood98:
using tuesdays rom myself. no problems. what isn't working? couldn't flash? isn't transparent? a little more detail perhaps..
[Android Themes] pendo:
I'm not familiar with warfare, but most likely the reason is that you haven't actually replaced the market that is in use on your device.

Don't know how much you know about this so forgive me if you already know, but here's a little info on how apps are installed/stored. Inside each apk theres a compiled xml file called AndroidManifest. As the name implies it contains information about what is in the apk. One of the first things is the package name of the app. We see "Google Play Store" but that's just a string entry that changes depending on what language you're running. The package name for this apk is com.android.vending. It has always been this. The actual naming of the apk is irrelavent. I could name it Pendo.apk and it would work just fine.....and here's the key...as long as I remove the apk that's currently being used. During boot, the package manager will update packages.xml to show that the package "com.android.vending" now has an absolute path of /system/app/Pendo.apk.

Now, so what does this mean to you? Well, sometimes rom dev's will install the market in different ways. I learned it as a system app /system/app/Vending.apk. But I've also seen it stored by it's package name as a system app, /system/app/com.android.vending.apk. When you get updated, those will always be stored in /data/app and be appended with a hypenated number, like com.android.vending-1.apk or com.android.vending-2.apk. The original apk will still be in place but packages.xml is updated to use the absolute path of the /data/app version. Now, I've recently seen that they are using a different name....Phonesky.apk. (Or at least it's new to me).

Install Dev Tools by PandaDev (I'm sure there's many others that can do the same) and select Package Browser. It will list all your apps...see what it says for Source.....that's what you need to delete.
[Android Themes] tomasitoc:
Hello Pendo,

thanks for the in depth explaination.

I will follow your instructions.

thanks

---------- Post added 10th April 2012 at 12:00 AM ---------- Previous post was 9th April 2012 at 11:54 PM ----------

Hello Pendo,

the dev tool app

says the source of the google play store = com.android.vending

is this what I need to delete?

---------- Post added at 12:28 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:00 AM ----------

The root explorer showed com.android.vending-1.apk, I deleted this. Then installed the transparent google play store zip.

I do not have transparency, still the same play store
[Android Themes] pendo:
Can you please attach your packages.xml file? It's in /data/system
[Android Themes] batibot:
thanks. my market was transparent then, wanna try this. :D

edit: cant flash it thru cwm. it says installation aborted.
[Android Themes] tomasitoc:
hello Pendo,

here you go, I compress it to a rar file.

I wasn't able to attach it as a xml file.

thanks
[Android Themes] avvgopal:
Thanks Pendo. Just waiting for the update by you. It is working fine.:):)
[Android Themes] omar.abbas:
No trasparency?

ok i have the market modded in black and works properly, but it doesnt have the transparency effect, instead its black opaque (see attached image)

where as it should look like this
[Android Themes] pendo:
Yeah, apparently I've really mucked something up trying to fix the "my apps" page. Everything is working great on my AT&T Note running the ics leak. And nandroiding back to 2.3 takes too damn long with the size of these roms....so I've been kinda going on faith...

It's gonna be a while before I can really dig into it though...I guess I'll pull the link for now. :(
[Android Themes] omar.abbas:
waiting

:D till when can we get the latest version fully working? cant wait to have those looks back, the stock looks suck compared to yours ;)
[Android Themes] pendo:
OK...my market is back live again....but that's mostly due to the fact that I still haven't had any time to properly investigate (which involves reloading a 2.3 rom)

Also, I've had at least a couple people say they aren't having issues with it. I know transparency is fine for the higher api thmes. Anyway, since it's at least half working, lol, I wanted to make it avialable again. I'm working this weekend, too, and I'm not going to have the time to even say Android, let alone working on anything.
[Android Themes] damngood98:
saw a complaint about it not working on warfare. there's a warfare rom on tmobile gs2, maybe the same, maybe not. either way, i had no problems flashing it on my gs2. looks great pendo, thank you :cool:
[Android Themes] JPHCCFC:
Thanks for your great mod. I have managed to get it to install following your instructions however I still have an issue with device not compatible based on my tomorrow being set to 192dpi. Here are some screenshots that may help in determining my issue I think it may have some reference to your data XML post:-
[Android Themes] mike2nl:
Hi pendo,

a big thank you for that work for the transparent market/google play.

Good and running stable on the HD2 (sergio) and SGT7 (overcome).

Next will be the SGT10.1 3G.

That looks so cool and the icons are very clean. Thanks again, pendo
[Android Themes] Hi-Fi Camp:
How to close googleplay update ?

I flash v.3.5.16 but when I conect to googlepla store it will update to v.3.5.19
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ferasalsubhi:
Hi everybody

After complete the ota update:), I observed that when take a pic there is abnormal sound not like on the 1.83v.

Is there any idea about this issue?

Thank you