[HTC EVO 3D] fernando sor:
for white text color on transparent background

this is just adding to what freeza has already written

decompile systemui. go to res/values/colors

<color name="white">#ffffffff</color>

<color name="black">#ffffffff</color>

<color name="half_white">#7fffffff</color>

<color name="half_black">#7fffffff</color>

<color name="primary_text_color">#ffffffff</color>

<color name="secondary_text_color">#ffffffff</color>

this is what you want

then to res/values/drawables

<item type="drawable" name="notification_header_text_color">#ffffffff</item>

<item type="drawable" name="notification_number_text_color">#ffffffff</item>

<item type="drawable" name="list_item_background">#00000000</item>

<item type="drawable" name="list_item_background_gray">#00000000</item>

this is what you want

go to res/colors/bright_text_dark_focused

make sure all colors are ffffffff

go to res/color/list_item_primary_text and change ff888888 to ffffffff

go to res/color/list_item_secondary_text and change ffb8b8b8 to ffffffff

also cant remember if this was covered but status_bar_item_background_normal.9 needs to be made transparent.

go to res/layout/status_bar

where you see this and it appears twice

android:textAppearance="@android:style/TextAppearance.StatusBar.Icon

change to android:textColor="#ffffffff"

where you see this and it appears twice

android:textAppearance="@android:style/TextAppearance.StatusBar.Ticker"

change to android:textColor="#ffffffff"

also any textcolor in the xml in html should be android:textColor="#ffffffff"

go to status_bar_expanded

make sure all android:textColor= is ffffffff we do not need to change the style

android:textAppearance="@style/TextAppearance.StatusBar.Title"

because we have already referenced this in values/drawables

i status_bar_icon there is one text color reference. make sure it is white

in status_bar_tracking as i believe was mentioned change text color values from ff000000 to ffffffff

decompile framework-res

go to res/layout/status_bar_latest_event_content

change all text color from ff000000 to ffffffff

go to res/drawable-hdpi and make status_bar_item_app_background_normal.9 transparent

do the same with

status_bar_item_background_normal.9

decompile DownloadProvider.apk

go to res/layout/status_bar_ongoing_event_progress_bar

change all ff000000 to ffffffff

decompile DownloadProviderUI.apk

go to res/layout/download_list_item

where you see

android:textAppearance="?android:textAppearanceSmall"

make

android:textAppearance="?android:textAppearanceSmall" android:textColor="#ffffffff"

there are five instances of this. you are adding a text color value after the refernced text appearence. make sure your syntax and spacing are right

go to res/layout/list_group_header

where you see

android:textAppearance="?android:textAppearanceMedium"

add at the end as before

android:textAppearance="?android:textAppearanceMedium" android:textColor="#ffffffff"

that is it

Cool thing about this is you can now easily change the color to blue or cyan or red much more easily. You can open the whole res folder by highlighting res and an xml like the manifest. I use notepad ++. Then under search/ replace look for ffffffff and change with whatever color value you want. BAM instant color change!

example with blue text