[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] PineappleOwl:
Good day XDA and who are here in this thread. I brought to you a guide. As the thread title says, it is floating systemui. Yes you read it right its a floating systemui but its kinda different from the guide made by our recognized themer petruk.grinder. Since his floating systemui uses a drawable as the floating mine was uses the layout itself, we will play with it :P

Since I had experience in sir petruk.grinder's guide, the lidroid and some other stuffs are not properly align and some are kinda cropped and sure I'll share it here what's in my treasure box.

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Disclaimer: Back up first :D You know what to do :)

What we will be needing in this modification

Notepad++

Apktool

SystemUI.apk (statusbar_expanded and statusbar_tracking)

Brain.apk

Determination

Steps:

1. Decompile the SystemUI.

2. Now go to res/layout/status_bar_expanded.xml

3. Add the coded line below after xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

<LinearLayout android:background="#00000000" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:orientation="vertical" [COLOR="Red"]android:paddingLeft="30dip" android:paddingTop="15dip" android:paddingBottom="20dip" android:paddingRight="15dip"[/COLOR]>
<LinearLayout android:background="#ff8e979f" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:orientation="vertical">

4. And add the coded line below before </com.android.systemui.statusbar.ExpandedView>

</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>

It will be like this for example (BTW this is my SystemUI)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<com.android.systemui.statusbar.ExpandedView android:orientation="vertical" android:focusable="true" android:descendantFocusability="afterDescendants"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
[COLOR="Red"]	<LinearLayout android:background="#00000000" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:orientation="vertical" android:paddingLeft="30dip" android:paddingTop="15dip" android:paddingBottom="20dip" android:paddingRight="15dip">
<LinearLayout android:background="#ff8e979f" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:orientation="vertical">[/COLOR]
<RelativeLayout android:background="@drawable/quickpanel_plmn_background" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="50.0dip">
<ppl.SystemUI.Header android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="fill_parent" />
<ppl.SystemUI.SettingsButton android:paddingTop="6.0dip" android:paddingBottom="6.0dip" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:src="@drawable/ic_settings" android:layout_alignParentRight="true" />
</RelativeLayout>
<ppl.SystemUI.toggles.PowerWidget android:background="@drawable/quickpanel_plmn_background" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="75.0dip" />
<LinearLayout android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<FrameLayout android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<com.android.systemui.statusbar.NotificationLinearLayout android:orientation="vertical" android:id="@id/notificationLinearLayout" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<ScrollView android:id="@id/scroll" android:scrollbars="none" android:fadingEdge="none" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:overScrollMode="never">
<LinearLayout android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<TextView android:textSize="17.0sp" android:textStyle="normal" android:textColor="#ffffffff" android:id="@id/noNotificationsTitle" android:background="@drawable/quickpanel_title_background" android:paddingLeft="5.0dip" android:visibility="gone" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="26.0dip" android:text="@string/status_bar_no_notifications_title" />
<TextView android:textSize="17.0sp" android:textStyle="normal" android:textColor="#ffffffff" android:id="@id/ongoingTitle" android:background="@drawable/quickpanel_title_background" android:paddingLeft="5.0dip" android:visibility="gone" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="26.0dip" android:text="@string/status_bar_ongoing_events_title" />
<LinearLayout android:orientation="vertical" android:id="@id/ongoingItems" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
<TextView android:textSize="17.0sp" android:textStyle="normal" android:textColor="#ffffffff" android:id="@id/latestTitle" android:background="@drawable/quickpanel_title_background" android:paddingLeft="5.0dip" android:visibility="gone" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="26.0dip" android:text="@string/status_bar_latest_events_title" />
<LinearLayout android:orientation="vertical" android:id="@id/latestItems" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
<Button android:textSize="13.0sp" android:gravity="center" android:layout_gravity="center" android:id="@id/clear_all_button" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_marginTop="5.0dip" android:layout_marginBottom="3.0dip" android:text="@string/status_bar_clear_all_button" style="?android:attr/buttonStyleSmall" />
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
</com.android.systemui.statusbar.NotificationLinearLayout>
</FrameLayout>
</LinearLayout>
[COLOR="Red"]</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>[/COLOR]
</com.android.systemui.statusbar.ExpandedView>

5. Lets move on to your status_bar_tracking.xml

Now make the View background into transparent, like this

<View android:background="#[COLOR="Red"]00000000[/COLOR]" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_weight="1.0" />

6. Then below

<com.android.systemui.statusbar.CloseDragHandle .....

You can see an imageview, delete the "android:src" and adjust the "android:layout_height" to digit.dip, mine was I used "15dip"

My status_bar_tracking.xml is something like this if you want to compare

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<com.android.systemui.statusbar.TrackingView android:orientation="vertical" android:paddingLeft="0.0px" android:paddingRight="0.0px" android:paddingBottom="0.0px" android:focusable="true" android:visibility="gone" android:descendantFocusability="afterDescendants"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
[COLOR="Red"]<View android:background="#00000000" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_weight="1.0" />[/COLOR]
<com.android.systemui.statusbar.CloseDragHandle android:orientation="vertical" android:id="@id/close" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content">
[COLOR="Red"]<ImageView android:layout_gravity="bottom" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="15dip" android:scaleType="fitXY" />[/COLOR]
</com.android.systemui.statusbar.CloseDragHandle>
</com.android.systemui.statusbar.TrackingView>

7. Save the status_bar_expanded.xml and status_bar_tracking.xml

8. Compile your SystemUI

9. Flash/Push

10. And never forget to smile, and make your day happy.

Some tips:

Bugs:

Credits:

Greets,

PineappleOwl​