[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 Themes and Apps] TingTingin:
GUIDES

1.Making ur Status Bar Transparent

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=37188838

2.Changing App Icons

MORE TO COME IF U WANT A PARTICULAR 1 JUST ASK!! :)

I realized that most people just wanna change 1 thing and don't wanna read a whole guide so ill be adding separate stand alone tutorials in those posts i reserved below also if u want me to add something just ask and i will i just comment on this thread with a full guide an place a link to that post in the OP (this post) like so Making ur Status Bar Transparenthttp://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=37188838

-On the agenda-

GUIDES

1.Making ur Status Bar Transparent

(DONE:))

2.Changing notification toggle's icons (PENDING)

3.Changing battery icons -requested by kuulbhaskar (PENDING)

4.Changing App Icons

(DONE:))

MORE TO COME IF U WANT A PARTICULAR 1 JUST ASK!! :)

K guys this as the title suggests this is a guide on theming your phone with well your phone to illustrate this I'll be theming my status bar

Status bar start

Status bar finish

the same process will apply for any app that you wish to theme first off an apk is simply a compressed package containing different files in order to get to any of these files u need to decompile the apk

How good this turns out will depend heavily on the apps you use so anyways here's what u need I'm listing the reason y u need any particular app so if u have another app that does the same function u can use that instead

WHAT YOU NEED

Root access

Deodexed stock Rom or a custom Rom

Ninjamorph

Used for decompiling and recompiling the apk and also for reinstalling it

Busy box

Ninjamorph needs it

Image search

Used for easily finding images to use in editing

Quikpic

Used for resizing images to exact dimensions

Picsay

Used for image editing

Picsplay

Used for image editing (yes another 1)

Canvas

Used for changing image transparency

Es file explorer

Used for properly seeing image transparency and some other file manager related stuff

K now that you got that down let's begin

Open Ninjamorph and tap new project

Now navigate to the system folder then the app folder

This folder contains the system apps you have installed the one you want is your status bar which is named SystemUI.apk

Now select it and Ninjamorph will start decompiling

After that u will be taken to the decompiled apk which is on your sd card in Android themes/workspace/SystemUIapk

Now that that's done in Ninjamorph in the decompiled app go into /res/drawable-ldpi the reason your doing this is to locate your status bar background which is most likely going to renamed by your rom dev my rom had it named as chobits.png (I can't remember the stock name otherwise I'd list it if any1 knows please tell) it's a big image so just skim through with Ninjamorph and memorize it or go into es file explorer into sdcard/android themes/workspace/SystemUIapk/res/drawable-ldpi hit icons and search like that (top right corner)

Once you have found the image remember it's name

Now it's time to create ur background image I'll show you how I did mine I first I went into image search

And enabled those settings and searched for android what I downloaded was this

I then opened pic say pro and started a new image (by pressing menu then new) and placed the resolution and shown background colour as shown

I then inserted my new image and cropped it as shown

I then resized and placed the cropped image into position

After that I exported the image into picsplay pro added the sketch effect and then the hdr drama+ effect

I then saved that image and reopened in pic say pro and added my name (just hit sticker then title)

Then placed it in position and saved it if u want to make this image transparent u can open it in canvas hit layers then layer1 then adjust the opacity make sure to export the image as a png or you'll lose the transparency (I'll put a separate post below on making status bar transparent with ur phone) k now u have your status bar background

After that rename the image to whatever.png the png part is important

Now enter Ninjamorph go to the image who's name u remembered earlier and select it Ninjamorph will now ask u to select the image u wish to replace it with select the image u made earlier (if it doesn't come up it's because u didn't rename the image to .png) k now your done with the background

Now search for this image here

just like u did earlier my rom has it named as status_bar_close_on.png

How I created mine was after finding the image I opened it in quikpic and took note of the resolution in the bottom left corner

After that I created a new image in Picsay with the above resolution in a white background

I then added the black top lens filter effect

And then flipped the image

I then added in a square (hit sticker then basic shapes)

And resized

After that I saved the image as a png and and then replaced status_bar_close_on.png with it in Ninjamorph just like I did with chobits.png

K now time for that image there

to do that I located the image like I did earlier my rom has it named as statusbar_background.png and statusbar_background2.png I assume 1 is for landscape and 1 is for portrait but I used the same image for both and it looked good both ways so anyways

How I created this image was I checked the resolution of the original just as I did b4 and created a new image in Picsay in that resolution with a white background

And simply painted the pattern on

I then saved and replaced just as b4

K now your done with

SystemUI.apk but not done with your status bar apparently not all images related to the status bar are stored in the status bar apk but anyways tap finish project then SystemUIapk Ninjamorph will now start compiling it says extracting for some reason :confused: lol when that is finished it will tell u it about to overwrite your SystemUI.apk and if your absolutely sure u wanna do blah blah just hit yes then it'll ask if u wanna zip align the apk from what I gather this is a process of arranging files in the apk to make the app faster....you can thank deadly for that detailed explanation lol just hit no then it will overwrite the apk now reboot and walla you'll see your changes anyways now it's time for the status bar toggles

These status bar toggles are stored in lidroid-res.apk which can be found in system/framework

K so now open Ninjamorph tap New project then then navigate to and select lidroid-res.apk and it'll decompile

Now in Ninjamorph search for the status bar toggles images there in res/drawable-hdpi

(these are already changed)

It has images for off and a image for on for all of these toggles I did all the editing with Ninjamorph like so

Tap and hold on the image u want to edit then hit edit image this will take u to another screen where you'll see the image

Scroll down and you'll see this

For all the of the off images (dark blue) I place the RGB (red green blue) at -137

and all the on one's (light blue) I placed the RGB at -255

I did the same for the buttons those 3 there stat_bg

k now your done with those toggles u now need to change the toggles background stat_power_bg.png it's a huge rectangle how I edited was I simply placed the RGB at +255

k now we're done with lidroid-res.apk finish the project as u did b4 and reboot and walla now ur almost done

When I ended up here there was a problem see there

(this is how my status bar looked b4 it was the only pic i could find with the notifications like that)

My rom didn't have a background for notifications to change I simply edited my framework-res.apk

How I did this was decompile as I did b4 then open this image in quikpic status_bar_item_background.9.png checked the resolution and made a new image in Picsay with the EXACT same resolution with a black background and saved it

I then opened said image in canvas and adjusted the opacity by simply tapping layers then holding layer 1 and changing the opacity I then saved that image as a png (important or u will lose transparency)

Make sure to check the image's resolution with quikpic again to make sure its the same after cuz my resolution changed and i had to change back using quikpic

Hit edit then edit again then crop then customize

And place the resolution of the original pic and save

Now that that's done replace status_bar_item_background.9.png with it the edited image there are 2 I used the same image for both and

K now your done *exhales*

Obviously your process will vary at points I was just showing u what I did and how to use to use the various apps

K now that ur finish make sure to thank the devs of your rom

Thank deadly for that very detailed zip alignment explanation lol

Thank d3ms (I think that's his name) he gave me the name of the toggles background which was very hard to find for crying out loud it wasn't even shaped like the toggles background

Thank someone else I can't remember the guys name but it was the guy who told me the name of the notifications background was status_bar_item_background.9.png I could not find that image for anything

Oh and thank me for being kind enough for making this guide :) lol

Thank God

K am kidding now lol but u can thank God if u like

-DISCLAMER-

I NOR XDA ARE RESPOSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR PHONE PLEASE FOLLOW INSTUCTIONS CAREFULLY ESPECIALLY WHEN EDITING FRAMEWORK-RES

-FOLLOW THIS GUIDE AT YOUR OWN RISK-​