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[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] Spannaa:
apktool 2.0.0rc2 didn't work on my N7 Android 5.0 apks but the one from [MENTION=2126467]djdarkknight96[/MENTION]'s post here (which I assume is the one you used) does :good:

I just pulled the apktool.jar from the zip, installed the framework-res.apk from my rom and batch decompiled a pile of apks including framework-res.apk

Didn't need the aapt.exe from the zip as the one built into apktool.jar works.
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] Vivek_Neel:
That compiles all apps of 5.0.

Sorry for not sharing it here . I thought u were using the latest one already.:)
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] Spannaa:
No problem mate - I didn't even know it existed until XDA search pulled it up ;)
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] Raymond Ebertt:
Do you have a screenshot of your issue? I've been handling .9 png's for a long time and possibly could help you out if I had an idea on what you are trying to achieve visually.
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] gabesir:
[MENTION=5056266]lacoursiere18[/MENTION]

What would i do with out you... Lol

ok on the dialer topic. The only SecContact I find is called SecContacts_0Sup.apk

I was able to decompile and changed the png files but during recompiling i get this error :

\res\layout\dialtacts_activity_no_fragment.xml:28: error: Error: No resource found that matches the given name (at 'layout' with value '@layout/log_detail_favorite_container')

\res\layout\dialtacts_activity_no_fragment.xml:29: error: Error: No resource found that matches the given name (at 'layout' with value '@layout/log_detail_favorite_container_land')

any idea?:good:
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] lacoursiere18:
Lol you would get it.. some options for you.. change the bottom text white.. move the call duration up to center between those two lines..

Great job though man!
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] Vivek_Neel:
Hey mate.

Your phone number is visible in your screenshot.;)
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] sibinn:
Thanks a lot for this tip since Im planing to do Air command for N4 :highfive:
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] gabesir:
I dont care is not my # .. call it:victory:
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] Raymond Ebertt:
The log reads that there is an error in the dialtacts_activity_no_fragment.xml, line 28 in reference to the log_detail_favorite_container that you edited. As well as line 29. Are you adding custom png's?
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] gabesir:
no thats the crazy part , so i even decompile the stock didnt change anythign and tried to recompile and it gave the same error

:confused::confused::confused:

I hope you all dont hate me for picking your brains a bit.
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] lacoursiere18:
Yea thats weird.. but just add those two layouts that it says you do not have and compile should work
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] kevinoliva113:
Yeah, you can give that a try, or you can do like [MENTION=4412122]Bubbajoe40356[/MENTION] and finally take the update and start all over again. :D:D:D[/QUOTE]

What update ? I have a note 3 AT&T[/QUOTE]

You'd have to ask him. I don't know if he went to 4.4.4 out just from jb to kitkat.

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On the S4 I used to get this " SecContacts_OSup\res\layout\photo_selector_vi ew_popup.xml:9: error: Error: No resource found that matches the given name (at 'layout' with value '@layout/photo_updates_header'"

I just deleted that one line of code in the layout (Thanks to Davey) and it recompiled run ran fine. You can give it a try.
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] hello00:
hey guys this is my 1st time theming tw..it is pretty much the same as stock android but im having an issue with something that i have never deal with..apps like whatsapp, google+, youtube, google translator are using the system font colors instead of their own..im making a blacked out ui and obviously the system color fonts gotta be white so apps that are using white backgrounds and use the system font is a problem..is there any way they could use their own system font? or do they have to be inverted? thanks for your time

[/QUOTE]
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] zelendel:
Welcome to the world of themeing. You will have to edit the apps them selves. You will see that sometimes the apps will use a verity of colors for text and normally you get what we call Bob issues. (black on black) only way to fix it is to hope the app can be edited. Some can not be decompiled
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] hello00:
thanks for ur quick response..one more question, do you know where to look for the xml to change the font color on popups like when changing the ringtones, sound mode, notifications, screen timeout, touch key duration? is it within the settings apk itself or in the framework? i have looked every where and no dice..stock android is much easier to theme
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] zelendel:
It is indeed. I am not sure where those are as it has been a long time since I used Samsung. Bubba might be a better set to answer this. Or one of the others.
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] Raymond Ebertt:
More than likely those will be in framework styles, theme dial alert holo or something similar to that. There will be a few. Check for colour hex codes.
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] Raymond Ebertt:
[/QUOTE]

You need to be careful with 3rd part apks as many use

<style name="Theme.Holo" parent="@style/Theme">

and some use the

<style name="Theme.Holo.Light" parent="@style/Theme.Light">

If the apk is using a light background with dark font, then search the styles of that particular apk and change the specific Dialog, AlertDialog, and anything else (popup's and what not). In the past when theming an inverted dark apk, I had to change a few apks to suit my theme.

That's the problem with some apks. Some apks have their own specific and independent colors, but because they are often associated with the Playstore, it needs to be compatible with Android framework; reason why a lot of inverting issues occur.
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] hello00:
oh i see, so instead of Theme.Holo.Light..i just gotta delete the "light"? now, do i do that in the framework or in the apps apk? there are too many theme.holo.light's in the framework.. and no, there is no xml that says anything about dialog or alertdialog..it is called something else..i dont think it is in the framework 'cause i've looked every where unless im blind..ive looked into tw popup menu, tw option menu, tw action bar menu, tertiary text, etc. and nothing..i think it might be in the settings apk. thanks for your response :good:
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] lacoursiere18:
It's not a xml and yes it is framework-res. It will be in styles.xml under values and there is a AlertDialog
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] gabesir:
[MENTION=5056266]lacoursiere18[/MENTION]

Best teacher EVER!!! Lmao

I found the elapsetimetittle and it had a marginTop:5dp. I test changing that to 10 , -15 and nothing didnt move. than I changed it to marginBottom:10dp nothing... Ill keep testing later. :)
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] Vivek_Neel:
Theme.Holo.Light refers to the light theme.

Theme.Holo refers to the dark theme.
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] lacoursiere18:
That may not be it.. I do know it is in that layout though.. Sorry =(

Ps: make sure you don't have it in layout-360dp-xxhdpi
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] hello00:
here is the xml..i tried changing them to dark.holo and it is still there
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] lacoursiere18:
Ok.. What are you trying to do first? The setting bg (background) or the Alertdialogs?
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] kevandang:
Weird question. I recompiled my APK but I installed it and rebooted buy none of the images I edited showed up. Just the original ones. Any idea why?
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] kevinoliva113:
Did you edit them first, then copy them into the decompliled folder?
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] lacoursiere18:
Did you erase the build folder?
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] kevandang:
Yes. I did the edits them added them back. Then recompiled. During recompiling the apktool said to delete edited files or something. Is that we're I went wrong?

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Yes.
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] hello00:
the alertdialongs..like the ringtones, notifications, screen timeout
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] lacoursiere18:
If your referring to this, what you posted:

Yes that is a AlertDialog

BTW your signature is killing me hahaha
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] hello00:
there is no text colors to change just a bunch of drawables

i get that a lot :D
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] lacoursiere18:
Ah I knew you were going to say that.. How about add your own =)
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] hello00:
haa one more question..does the note 4 have a lockscreen apk? which one is it?
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] carl1961:
I think it is Keyguard.apk, thats where I see people moding it
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] kevandang:
I tried it again and now I'm getting fc. When I recompiled do you take the original META and resource.arsc file back in it. I think I'm missing something in doing this. Can someone please explain. All I'm doing is editing images.
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] Spannaa:
If all you're doing is editing images, you don't need to bother decompiling.

Just open the apk with 7-Zip and drop your edited pngs into their folders.

Sent by Bacon...
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] kevandang:
even the .9 images
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] Spannaa:
No, they need decompiling, editing and then recompiling before you drop them in.

There's a few tools that'll do this for you to save decompiling the whole apk.

Post #2 has a link for 9patchPngSuite which should do the job nicely.

Sent by Bacon...
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] kevandang:
I used 9patchsuite after creating the image and add the stretch data to the image and saved it to .9. In apkmultitool do I only decompile resource folder? If so what's needed to recompile as far as the steps involved.

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Also the first 2 times I recompiled I got no errors.
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] kevandang:
So I just recompiled again with no errors. This time after install selecting mms icon doesn't cause force close but opens the message list view. But now when selecting a conversation it force closes. I think it might be the .9 images but not sure. Some of the changes were applied but the backgrounds and conversation bubbles didn't at least not sure cause of the force close.
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] Vivek_Neel:
Conversation bubbles are .9.pngs.

And yes you are right.
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] Raymond Ebertt:
It might be your images. If you're using custom 9 png's, you can try adding just a custom png but name it 9.png in your theme. Sometimes you can get away without having to patch it. This works if it has minimal theming. I know in the past the bubble png's gave me issues but managed to solve it by using a regular png named 9.png
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] paarkhi:
Can someone please guide me how to make Dialer buttons transparent, screenshot attached for reference. This is note 4 incallui,

Do I only need to edit xml or also to replace png files.

Thank you
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] Raymond Ebertt:
They look like an overlay and if that is the case, the edits will probably come in the styles and well as the layout. Depending on the theme your doing, it may entail a lot of editing. I'm not familiar with your device but I'm sure it's similar to other Android devices meaning Royal pain
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] Spannaa:
You don't need to decompile/recompile the apk!

If you're editing existing .9.pngs, open the apk with 7-Zip, drag them from the apk into the compiled folder of 9PatchSuite, decompile them, edit the pngs in the decompiled folder, check that they're OK, recompile them again and drop the pngs from the compiled folder back into the apk.

If you're creating new .9.pngs to replace existing ones, create the pngs, add the patches, put them in the decompiled folder of 9PatchSuite, check that they're OK, compile them, open the apk with 7-Zip and drop the pngs from the compiled folder into the the apk.

Sent by Bacon...
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] Raymond Ebertt:
No, you don't want to change the framework style. If you did that, it would affect the entire ROM. You would need to search through the apks that are causing issues and adjust accordingly. Yes, you would search for theme.holo.light in that apk and change what you need changed. I would start with the common ones like AlertDialog and so on and only change one at a time to see if you get the issue fixed. Sometimes you only need to change a couple.
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] Raymond Ebertt:
Here is an example from the Facebook.apk

<style name="TextAppearance.FacebookHolo.Light.Inverse" parent="@style/TextAppearance.FacebookHolo.Light">
<item name="android:textColor">?android:textColorPrimaryInverse</item>
<item name="android:textColorHint">?android:textColorHintInverse</item>
<item name="android:textColorLink">?android:textColorLinkInverse</item>

and this

<style name="Theme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Light.NoTitleBar" />
<style name="Theme.Dash" parent="@style/Theme" />
<style name="Theme.Dash.Preferences" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Dialog.NoActionBar">
<item name="android:windowBackground">@android:color/transparent</item>
<item name="android:preferenceCategoryStyle">@style/Theme.Dash.Preference.Category</item>
<item name="android:preferenceStyle">@style/Theme.Dash.Preference</item>
<item name="android:checkBoxPreferenceStyle">@style/Theme.Dash.Preference.CheckBoxPreference</item>
<item name="android:dialogPreferenceStyle">@style/Theme.Dash.Preference.DialogPreference</item>
<item name="android:windowAnimationStyle">@style/Theme.Dash.Preferences.Animations</item>
<item name="android:backgroundDimEnabled">false</item>
<item name="android:switchPreferenceStyle">@style/Theme.Dash.Preference.SwitchPreference</item>
</style>

You're going to need to go through the styles of that apk and basically see what needs to be changed to just holo (removing the light)

Good luck
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] kevinoliva113:
They are. 9 pngs. There are 2 different ones. They can be erased if you know how to mod .9s or you can make your own transparent ones.
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] paarkhi:
Thanks, Can you point me to the names of those .9 png files?
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] kevinoliva113:
Look in res/drawable-sw360dp-xxhdpi. I don't remember the names. The one for end call is call_red_(something ) you will have to search for the other one. There are 3 buttons, normal, focused and pressed. Do them all.
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] kevandang:
ok. That makes sense. If I wanted to use a .9 image from another theme can I just unzip the APK, rename the image and copy it to the the unzipped APK or does it still need to be decompliled. If I decompile it can I still do the the same copying of the. 9 image and then recompile. Hope this makes sense.
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] mikeymopar:
for the most part, yes. you either have a decompiled or you have a self-made image with the 1px patch borders that needs to be somehow compiled. either place this raw image in your decompiled apk and then use apktool when you recompile everything OR use a .9png compiler which will also compile your raw image with the 1px patch which you then could put directly into a compiled apk. you don't compile a .9png twice; one way or the other

so technically you could pull a compiled .9png from one apk an push it into another compiled apk but i've actually never tried that to know if it works or not. i would think that it should :p i've always made my own .9pngs

i reluctantly link you to a flow chart i posted which might be a bit confusing but maybe you can see how to treat your .9png....maybe......possibly........ionno
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] Raymond Ebertt:
Once you decompile the apk, the 9.png's will need to be compiled again and taken from the apk, if that's what you want to do.

Reason being is, once you decompile an apk, the patching code is visible and editable. If you look at a 9.png from a compiled apk that you pulled out, you will not see the 1 pixel patching because it's been coded. If you want to use the exact same 9.png from another theme and add that to your new theme, then yes, all you would need to do is archive the apk via 7zip or Winrar and pull that image out.

There are times however, if you wanted to use a custom image, you can do so but you will need to add patching to it by some sort of patching tool. I use Draw9 Patch from the SDK tool folder. There are times as well that you can just use a custom PNG but name it 9.png before adding it to a theme. For example, this PNG below was a tiny 3x3 pixel image that I made into a custom. Though it's not called a 9.png, it still works. You'll need to explore or options and play around a bit. Android has a lot of leeway if you know where to look.
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] lacoursiere18:
Worlds smallest png lmao!
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] Raymond Ebertt:
Ah, it's 4x4 pixel and yeah, they get tiny.... LOL

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kxkl1nri0czasmt/Screenshot 2014-11-17 09.58.08.png?dl=0
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] kevandang:
In the SecMms APK can someone tell me what the folder name is for the text input box and the top image that has the name and phone number with the recycle and phone icon?
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] kevinoliva113:
On the note 4 it is in styles
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] kevandang:
note 3. Is it in the same.
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] kevinoliva113:
Probably, the action bar set up is usually done in styles.
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] kevandang:
Ok. Thanks. I'll look in there and look. Thank you for the quick response.

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ok I must be missing something cause I can not find the styles folder any where. Can you tell me where it would be on the note 3
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] Bubba:
res/values (or values360)/styles
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] kevandang:
Is it an X ml? I thought it was an image that could be edited
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] Bubba:
Yup .. styles will be an xml
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] kevinoliva113:
It is an xml. You said you wanted to change the text color didn't you?
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] kevandang:
I actually thought it was an image that I could change for a different on. Sorry for the noobish thought process.

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Is the text entry box also just a color change or is it an image. If it's just an xml color change can I change the blue box image to make it one image instead of just black.

See pic

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ads02ewnmcw38o4/Textbox.png
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] lacoursiere18:
You can make whatever you want..image, different color..
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] kevandang:
ok but want is the image name or how do I change it to an image if it an xml? Sorry for the noobish questions. I just started messing with theming a few weeks ago and this is my first full fledged project since.learning the basics .
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] Morningstar:
If you want to replace a color in XML with an image, find where the color is defined (ie. #xxxxxxxx), and change it to "@drawable/yourimagename", then just drop your image in the drawable-xxhdpi folder. Depending on what it is, you may have to play around with getting the image sized correctly.

~★astra petas★~
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] kevandang:
Thanks for everyone's help. Have another question. I want to change the color of the text in the conversation bubbles in mms. Can someone direct me were I can find it?

Thanks
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] Bubba:
Try in res values colours ... possibly values 360. That's a guess. [emoji12]

Koffed from my Big Ass Outlaw Phone
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] mikeymopar:
what the.....you convert you....adding "u" to your words now....sheeesh...i s'pose you're drinkin' tea now too
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] Bubba:
The swipe in this stock keyboard like the extra vowels. .. lol. .i blame Sparx b
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] mikeymopar:
heh...he's used to it. i've blamed him for stuff too :D:D:D:D
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] Bubba:
[emoji23] [emoji23]

Koffed from my Big Ass Outlaw Phone
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] kevandang:
Not yet. Lol. But learning some of this stuff is going to cause me to.

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Also the text color for the conversation bubbles would that be "msg_bubble_list_for_default".
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] Kamy:
Hey everyone I need some help here: first thing I cannot find everywhere is progress bar and its background in auto brightness mode, already searched in framework, twframework and no luck, second one is brightness animation within the brightness icon.
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] Spannaa:
On the S3/4.4.2 ArchiPort, the progress bar is tw_progress_primary_holo_dark.9.png and it's in twframework-res.apk

There are three in mine so I changed them all (drawable-sw360dp-hdpi, drawable-sw480dp-hdpi & drawable-xhdpi)

The animated brightness icon animation colour is in SystemUI.apk\res\values\colors.xml

<color name="animated_brightness_icon_color">#ffffffff</color>
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] Kamy:
Thanks a lot mate it did the trick :good: both sorted
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] Breakcore_Rush:
Hi ALL

Please help me find string and file to change the color of these numbers

THX
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] kevinoliva113:
What device?
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] Breakcore_Rush:
N900

I will be grateful for tips other models, if not on the n900
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] kevinoliva113:
Look on page 63 of this thread. [MENTION=5117949]SICKMADE[/MENTION] has a tutorial for custom backgrounds . You change text color on the same XML's he mentions
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] Breakcore_Rush:
my goodness

I have no words to express how much I appreciate you!

Thanks - turned out!
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] kevinoliva113:
This is a great thread...:thumbup:
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] kevandang:
What to first thank everyone who helped me out with my first project. I finally was able to got the .9 images correct and was able to successfully recompile and install without any force closures. So again thank you. I have a couple of questions still.

1. I'm looking for the the line to edit the conversation bubble text in the res/colors folder for the note 3.

2. This maybe the wrong place for this but I want to add an icon and edit the xml to get power off screen using the status bar icon. Wondering if anyone can direct me in right direction for a guide or tutorial for it. I know there are a few note 3 rooms that have this built in and I did do a search for it on xda but couldn't find anything. Any advice would be great.

Again I'm pretty excited about being able to create something that just a few weeks ago I had no idea what the heck I was doing. So thanks for everyone's help and guidance.
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] lacoursiere18:
This look like a good place to look

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2685606

It says invisible but you can just replace the png with a lock image. Not sure how that smali referenced is used or if your device has it..might want to look into that..

KeyButtonView.smali
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] Bubba:
never mind .. I didn't finish reading lol
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] gabesir:
Wow I have learned a huge amount of appreciation to all of you themers and to the devs and their great roms... Theming is not as easy.

But I love learning new thing and this is awesome!!!!

I'm working on the dialer now but i have a few things that one of you may be able to point me in the right direction...
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] lacoursiere18:
Contacts..