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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] butters789:
Mix3d, I don't know if it's any of your concern, but there's a problem with the emulator Retroarch. I attached a picture, the 'STAND BACK' is my background showing through the emulator. Let me know if there's any other info you need.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mix3d:
Give me the installed APK filename... (com.somethingsomething.retroarch etc), and I should be able to patch that up no probs. It is also in teh URL of the play store website.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] butters789:
org.retroarch-1.apk

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mix3d:
Dag nabbit

So, in an attempt to fix the contacts stuff at sw-580 resolution, (Nexus 7's, PA, etc), I accidently broke the entire Phone/Contacts thing. :mad:

Now I have no idea what I did, and I can't get it back, so I'm redoing it AGAIN.... hopefully it will be right and proper this time.

To anyone that was hoping for an update, or Swype on the Beta... sorry guys, I'm stuck fixing things for a while. :angel:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] derPianist:
Take your time.

Meanwhile we do enjoy the joy of your work. :)

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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jpen:
Love it man. Looks awesome and yea take your time.

One suggestion if possible....on the Swype midnight theme is there maybe a way to put a little shadow or something behind the letters and preview words just to make them stand out a little bit better? Also maybe darken the secondary characters.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] wastedlife:
No, I meant the second time around that was darker. I agree that the nearly completely transparent one was difficult to use at some times.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] derPianist:
Any plans to theme swift key ?

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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] karol1981:
+1

Always after update my donate version from playgoogle my phone getting self reboot .is this normal??

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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jaibar:
Same here, but I don't see any harm, you need to restart anyway...

I just installed Swype out of curiosity to see the themes-could be nice if stock keyboard had same transparency levels...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dSlice:
Bought it. I'm loving this theme!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] GamaX320:
That's an awesome idea.... I'd use it for sure :laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mix3d:
Which of the two themes did you like better? For swype, the Midnight theme is essentially what I released first, but it was "too transparent", (though this time on swype the key assets were a little more opaque), whereas the Night theme is basically what I tried to do the second time around for the stock keyboard. Finding the good middleground was REALLY hard, and I havent found it yet >.<

Overall though, swype is not very easily themeable, but I think I can do it. There are some rather uncharted things I think I can do with theme chooser, but I don't know, so we'll see. The text colors and a lot of other things are written directly into the styles.xml, whereas an easily themeable one uses color references like [MENTION=403934]Color[/MENTION]/secondaryText. The latter is what the ThemeChooser is best at redirecting; you basically say "when the app asks for [MENTION=403934]Color[/MENTION]/secondaryText, you give it this value instead", instead of "when teh app asks for this giant style, give it this one instead", and I don't know if I can actually get it to compile with custom attribute stuff. I think I can, and I have been able to make tweaks that make it compile, but I haven't actually seen a result or pursued this avenue.

In other news, any experienced themers want to help me with the Contacts page?

I have NO idea how to get the 580dp resolution to have a transparent background, and I don't know what I am missing... and a lot of nexus 7 / PA users like that view.

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And for swiftkey users, you're on the backburner for now, sorry :rolleyes:, there are more pressing apps to do, like gTalk, maybe even Gmail, etc.

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And for the international guys who tried to buy the donate version but got a message saying it was incompatable... that was my bad for not selecting all the countries in the play store settings. Remedied.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dSlice:
I'm using 'Night,' 'Midnight' was too transparent.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jaibar:
Yep, night is great. Midnight is also great, but readability varies too much according to background.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jaydubbs:
FWIW, Swiftkey is unthemeable via Theme Chooser and can only be themed via the apk itself which is very touchy because it's a paid app :(
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jaibar:
what about Slideit? Not sure how popular it is vs. Swype or Swift, but it's got similar capabilities and the good news it *has* a theme/skin maker.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Zetok:
If you finish the status bar icons can you share them via flashable zip plz?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jpen:
+1

Midnight in the messaging app is awesome, but then in google now or gmail it is hard to read the letters. Thats why I mentioned a shadow behind the letters may make it usable. Either way Night is what I am using and it looks awesome!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] idle0095:
Wish the main theme icons were themed. Would love the theme if that was so.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] artvandelay440:
Swift key is themable, it just requires a different package name in the redirection.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mix3d:
Ooh! Care to share more? Also, Mr experienced themer: how about my question on contacts app in 580dp mode?

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In other news, HoloGlass is number 492 in the app stores top new free app! ! ! Wooooo!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jaydubbs:
Thanks for straightening me out, Art :D I've read in so many theme threads that it just isn't possible that I took it as fact. Glad to see that it can be done!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Shponglized:
The theme is quite beautiful, Thrown on Paranoid Android it would be immaculate. with true transparent bars.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] arief347:
Re: [WIP/IDEA] HoloGlass - Thoughts?

I think option 2 is good choice...please do it...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mix3d:
HOORAY!

PROGRESS!

I think I'm finally starting to get it. Still have TONS to tidy up and a mountain to climb, but this is certainly a great first step!

Still looking for how to theme the notification and quick settings areas tho...

EDIT: These are real screenshots, with the live background showing through!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] -Jesco-:
good progress ! nice to see this coming true :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] vicino:
Re: [WIP/IDEA] HoloGlass - Thoughts?

Is this a mockup? Because i know you can't make transparent dialer or MMS application .. Anyway look really nice!

If you need any help please PM me.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mix3d:
Did you see my last post? Screenshots of a working transparent dialer, with live background animating through, lol :D

Any pointers on the everything in the pulldown notifications & JB quick settings?

Do you know if theme manager themes can override layout xml's as well?

Hooray!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] vicino:
Well done! .. nice work bro :good:

I'm afraid you can't modify layout folder with theme engine.

tell me what do you need to change with quick settings? if you want to use stock background for quick settings toggles just go to SystemUI.apk\res\drawable\qs_tile_background.xml

and replace everything with this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="@drawable/qs_tile_background_pressed" />
<item android:drawable="@drawable/qs_tile_background_normal" />
</selector>

then make a 128x128 dimensions pngs and place them in drawable-xhdpi, this will be quick settings toggles background.

And for transparent recent apps window, SystemUI\res\drawable\status_bar_recents_background.xml

change it from:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<gradient android:startColor="#e0000000" android:endColor="#99000000" android:angle="@integer/status_bar_recents_bg_gradient_degrees" name="status_bar_recents_background" />
</shape>

To:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<gradient android:startColor="#00000000" android:endColor="#00000000" android:angle="@integer/status_bar_recents_bg_gradient_degrees" name="status_bar_recents_background" />
</shape>
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mix3d:
Thanks! I'm trying to stay away from apk changes, but this certainly gives me a good place to start. I've seen them changed in other themes, so that's what I'm shooting for :D

EDIT: I think I see how to copy these from the systemUI.apk and add it to the theme. THANKS!

PS: I'm assuming no @string changes either, huh. Oh well! figured I'd try. To get my full theme idea a reality, it look's like I'm going to have to either build a few apk's from source, or go as far as an entire OS build (like for some of my drop shadows and smaller user icons / more padding), but I have to start somewhere, eh?

EDIT2: posting screenshot of the implemented quick settings, using AOKP to set a notification wallpaper. (Airplane mode is in it's tapped state; it doesn't have a tap-hold state, so I could screengrab me holding it)

This isn't perfect, since you can see a discord between the transparent navbar on the homescreen and the bg image. Still, it's something!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jakis39:
This looks sick! Revolutionary stuff man, I'm looking forward to trying out the finished theme.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kevdliu:
Re: [WIP/IDEA] HoloGlass - Thoughts?

Dude I have been waiting for a minimal glassy theme since forever. I forgot where I saw it but I think you can make dialog bg semitransparent too. Anyway can't wait for this if you need any help compiling or modifying framework feel free to ask me
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] trdspectacoma:
Re: [WIP/IDEA] HoloGlass - Thoughts?

I would so use this for the att sg3
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mix3d:
Thanks @kevdliu! I think I'm right on track for framework mods at this point, it is mostly a matter of finding the right style or set of XMLs that modify what I am looking for. The existing "templates" that I was able to scrounge up are stuffed with unnecessary extra images and duplicated styles, (or empty png's that I am replacing with @color's), and now that I actually understand how themeing works, with hierarchies and stuff, I'm really streamlining this theme by putting in line by line only what I want. Slow? Sure, but I will have a much easier time making new themes in the future when I'm done, and it should run better on our phones too :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jpnestel:
Re: [WIP/IDEA] HoloGlass - Thoughts?

REALLY like this!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kklijer:
waiting for some relases.

very pleased off your ideas.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Rapydax:
This looks way too awesome.

But what wallpapers are you using in the first post? Mind sharing?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] gulrez2000:
that looks really clean and elegant , its just go with the holo glass layout and besides the transparency level is at its finest point around like 20-40% overlay . when are you releasing it ? is it flashable through recovery or via theme chooser ?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mix3d:
They are some that I found a while back... but unfortunately I forgot where, and they are iPhone5 wallpapers... they don't have the resolution needed for Android >.<

(Except for one, the one with the blue sky and traffic lights... that one is just a pic I took with my phone ^^)

Feel free to suggest a wallpapers, however, I'd love to have a good list with urls for anyone who wants to install this. PM me!

I agree, many themes available are really over the top. I wanted this to be super low key, unobtrusive, and above all else, totally AWESOME.

Right now I'm shooting for a Theme Chooser release, unless a seasoned dev wants to get involved as well and help me flesh out my ideal scenario with customizable transparency settings.

Still have a LOT to go through, though...

Does anyone know how to remove/theme the horizontal black line that divides the phone dialpad with from the call button?

I think the theming world could REALLY use a visual guide... or is there a tool like the chrome F12 developer tools, that lets you see the elements that make up a view, on the fly?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] altimax98:
Re: [WIP/IDEA] HoloGlass - Thoughts?

The ChromeOS wallpapers are right in line with your theming... I love the Glass look
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mix3d:
lol, I think I just broke Android by setting a redirect on the Theme style... to a theme that is parented by the android:style/Theme

Kind of figured that would happen, but I wanted to see. You never know!

fun times!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mix3d:
Who wants more sexy??? ;)

Also, 2 Q's for the experienced themers:

Why is the "Frequently Called" section's alternate text color not the same variable as the rest of the contact list? I can't figure out how to change it from the grey to the transparent white...

Where is the sub-section header defined? (the # and underline on the second attachment). Can't seem to find this either.

Getting closerrrrrr!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mix3d:
SWEET!

Definitely holding on to this. Now all I need is the res folder from a swiftkey APK.

Also, I think I may be on to something for the Contacts thing; I've just about reconstructed it from the original apk's themes, and also found the only difference between mine and another theme in terms of making the contact app work in 580 mode :D It's a need to override PeopleTheme, which uses PeopleTheme1 as it's parent for regular mode, but in large DPI's it switches to Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar as it's parent. (I had figured I wouldn't need to override it since it used PeopleTheme1, but I guess I was wrong)

Boom.

EDIT: Hmmmmmmm NOPE. still now working right... now Contacts forcecloses. Derpa Derp Derp.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] karol1981:
Here you go, res folder from my SwiftKey

http://db.tt/g6zXbKTb

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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Kameirus:
any plans to mod the new playstore
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lovegambler:
havin a lil bug

white txt on white background in Contacts

m using ROM written in my signature
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] xHoLyx:
I guess he can, but there are plenty other alternatives for transparent play store, assuming you are looking for a transparent one.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1231787
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Jimlarck:
Bought donate version like 2 times, one for my phone and the other for my tablet, yep, that's how awesome this theme is :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] KOP1230:
Monday mbonetr

realy good work :good:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Znomon:
Absolutely love the theme. Please keep it up. I will be donating soon.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] robollama:
I'm not getting the transparent style kb?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] fullmetal509:
What gapps are you using? Or maybe a modded version?

Xylon | Toro | Lean Kernel
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] robollama:
I'm using gapps-jb-20130301-signed.zip
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] fullmetal509:
Weird should take affect, I also am using official gapps, and it works for me.

Only thing I can think of is that maybe you have a dark background (wallpaper) on, and it maybe hard to notice the transparency, try a really light background?

Xylon | Toro | Lean Kernel
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] NutellaBanane:
Finally finished with creatung an uccw theme for the lockdcreen widget mockup in the op

EDIT : Will upload some pics later, seems like the one above are broken
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mix3d:
Haha dude... if you looked on the same thread page, you'd see that I am already trying to fix that one :eek:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=40459520&postcount=582

Unfortunately... I havent been very successful yet, bvt I know it is possible.... I dunno. I'm trying man.

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Also, I've had some requests from someone wanting to port to the Xtheme engine, and someone making a ROM out of it... I feel like I should say no... What is proper etiquette here? I've never done this before >.<
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] NutellaBanane:
here are some pics :

For now using this uccw skin on the android 4.2 lockscreen only works if the widget is expanded otherwhise it will be crapped <.<.

For now i have to use it with widgetlocker , still figuering out how to use it properly on our android 4.2 lockscreen without expanding the widget..
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jaydubbs:
Nice! Have you posted the Uzip yet?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] NutellaBanane:
Nope not yet, since i have to finish some minor things.

ALSO FOR EVERYONE:

If you have question regarding the uccw theme above, please pm me and don't ask stuff about it inside this thread
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Gafanhotz:
It depends, if you win money with it: Say nope.

Buuuut, if you're kind and would like to spread your work, ask the guy to give te proper credits to you and if possible, to post an link of your donation page, so users can donate to you if they want. :good:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bacamarte70:
After the updates (4/15: B1.4)

Mix3d

Congratulations on the job one of the best themes I have installed. :good:

I have the donate version.

after the updates (4/15: B1.4)

not working on my Galaxy Tab

CM Jellybean 4.2.2

please check why not work
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Gafanhotz:
Resolution maybe? It didn't worked for me on may Galaxy Tab too. I'm using the Paranoid Android 3 (yep, the one maintained by psicodelico and me) and I'm having that "compiled wrong" error.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jaibar:
Same here with galaxy tab 10.1 running aokp 4.2.2, i just assumed it's resolution problem.

Anyway, one can usually bypass this error by applying system theme, reboot and then change to the desired theme, reboot again.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kain72:
That's actually a very common theme engine error. Most themes in the play store have that warning and fix posted in the description. There's also a way to avoid a double reboot. Apply system theme, go to settings/apps/themesprovider.apk and clear data, then apply theme of choice and reboot.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mix3d:
So, is it just not working on the Galaxy Tabs, or does the reboot / clear themechooser data work? I know at least one Nexus 10 guy is using it... so I dunno if its a resolution thing.

In other news, I have re-fixed the Contacts / dialer, but I STILL can't figure out what the heck is up with the white background in 580dp sizes.

I'm pretty tired of banging my head against it, so I'm going to move on for now. I want to get a couple more commonly used apps before making the colored ones.

Anything I'm missing?

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I also want to get a list of all the apps that have a black flash when opening or exiting, so please PM me with whatever you know; the app name, the scenario, and the ROM you use.

The only one I can do consistently is by pressing the back button to exit the dialer.

Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jaibar:
I tried both workarounds and none seems to work with tablet. Maybe with different pixel density?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] baySF:
Love the theme! Do you plan on replacing the toggles in the system settings?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mix3d:
Hmm.... I have no idea, I don't own an android tablet nor have any experience with themes outside of making HoloGlass.... XDA? any help? lol.

Don't follow. Email me a screenshot of the thing you're talking about? The answer is probably, but I dunno.

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RE: Contacts issue: I figured out the problem, but it is a much bigger can of worms: To fix the white issue on larger screen modes, I have to override the system defaults for Theme.Holo.Light and Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar... the problem is that if I do that now, without testing and making redirects for tons of apps, I will most likely inadvertently mess up many other apps that depend on them for correct colors and stuffs.

I have one idea left to try, but if it doesnt work, then we're going to have to wait a while, while I sort things out on a larger scale. EDIT: it didn't work, nor did one other thing I tried. Hmm...

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Fun statistics: We've averaged around 450 downloads EVERY DAY since the play store launch two weeks ago. Isn't that EXCITING?! And to think that you all helped shape it :D (Also, the #2 download country is South Korea. RANDOM!)

Thanks guys.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Lesicnik1:
He probably means these On/Off switches in the settings.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mix3d:
Hmm, I didn't really think about it yet, since they're already transparent, and are with the holo theme which was my original intention. I can look into it if you guys want me to though
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Vicious Von:
I would suggest keeping the stock look but make it translucent to go with the theme

From me to you thru my Gnex
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] baySF:
Yes, he is correct. I was talking about those toggles.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mix3d:
So I have narrowed this thing down to a T; I will be releasing a custom apk here soon for you guys to try out and tell me which apps it breaks.

Otherwise, I think I found a fix that would solve this problem for all themers everywhere, but I would either need to make a downloadable custom contacts app, or submit a patch to CM10, PA, AOKP, etc. Anyone know how to do that? It is basically a very small change to the styles.xml in the values-sw580dp and values-sw600dp folders.

Are the existing ones not "themed" / transparent enough? Or are you looking for a little more Mix3d flair? lol.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] derPianist:
Submit it to their Gerrits. They just have to approve and merge your change. Dunno though if they would do it. Most likely they won't.

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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jameshmiller:
Try contacting [MENTION=3489905]Nitroz[/MENTION]K on twitter. He is a themer and AOKP icon guy. He could probably help, or at least get you going in the right direction.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mix3d:
Oh sure, because I totally know how to do that XP. Yeah, I need to learn how to use Git.

I'll do that as soon as I'm stateside again. Spent the last 3 months working behind firewalls in China... headed back TOMORROW WHOOO!

So uhh, yeah, I'll be offline for a couple days.

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Can anyone point me towards a how-to on modifying Google's system apps? I've decompiled, made changes, and rebuilt, all of which went smoothly, but getting it (Contacts.apk) to re-install has proven fruitless. I remember reading about NOT signing them, somewhere, but even not signing it didnt work.

Help?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jameshmiller:
Did you change permissions to match original permissions after pushing to the system/app folder?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mix3d:
Sure did... tried both the "fix permissions" script in TWRP, and manually setting permissions via the CM filemanager app that was included in AOSPA. The only thing that fixed it was pushing the original back in.

Anyways, I'll figure it out later. Bed time, then a LOOOONG flight. Whoo!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jameshmiller:
Ida Know

I always use ES File explorer to change permissions for system apps, but that shouldn't matter as long as you mount system RW.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Argumentation:
Can you fix the CM10.1 circle battery? It's not themed at the moment.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] slashshek:
Status icon

I'm using CM 10.1, I would like to ask could you change the signal "H" icon as pure white instead of grey color?

I'm not sure it's the CM default icon or not, the "H" icon is too undertone to see even my status bar in black

attached a jpg for your reference, thanks for your great work anyways
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bsbabcock:
This theme was worth the donate. Appears to work pretty well on a GS3 running liquidsmooth which is my go-to AOSP rom. Anxious to see how far you can take it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] artvandelay440:
Hey man, sorry I just now got this, glad ya got contacts working. What is the code you need changed in source? If you could post it I can see about getting it changed as long as it doesn't affect anything else.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rak_ark:
Awesome theme... Need to report a small glitch though...

Device... Galaxy nexus

Rom....... Cm 10.1 m 3

The dialer app background gets black for a moment before closing....

Not much of a problem.. Apart from that... Its flawless
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Vicious Von:
That might be a ROM specific issue

From me to you thru my Gnex