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[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] asdfasdfvful:
The old build has a built in icon pack, so you can apply it just like any normal one. It just also supported cm but you don't have to worry about it. I've chosen not to keep the icons because I have no plans on updating it (or any of my other packs), and leaving them in their is just going to have more people complain as there are only ~600 icons.

In regards to overlays, they can all be found here. The play store should combine all of them together. Gmail is black because parts of it are through webviews. There are ways to improve the theme but it also makes it more prone to crashing whenever there is an update. Whatsapp should be transparent, and it's an example of an app with more theming and less stability. The message section is currently crashing on the latest stable build and I was working on it.

It's been increasingly harder for me to work on theming, because I've had enough soft bricks on my main phone to never try it again (Oxygen based), and I still need to reboot my secondary phone with every overlay attempt I make despite having an OMS supporting rom. On top of that, I think substratum still doesn't support automatically resizing drawables, something which existed in CM, so it may look different to some users as most of my icons are for xxhdpi (the higher res drawables).

Differences aside, the new variant was a port from my original CM theme, so you're supposed to have the same results if not better than before. Unfortunately, given some stability issues and even greater issues with non OMS roms, it's difficult to say what is going wrong.

I have a subreddit for frost. Most of my communications with testers are through email and github though, so I don't plan on having too much activity on forums until I actually publicly release it. It is one of my main projects though so it's progressing much faster than Material Glass.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] madagascaradam:
Sorry for the late reply - I've been traveling a lot and unable to try this out. Thanks also for all the extra info! I do think Frost seems to be getting better and more responsive.

Back to the icon packs: I downloaded the legacy one, but when I try to install it, it won't let me because it's older than my current version. If I uninstall my current version, install the legacy, apply its icon pack, then reinstall the newer version (so I can have whatever fixes it has in it)... will I lose the icons with that, or what will happen? Let me know how you think I should do this. Thanks for your help!
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] asdfasdfvful:
If you look here you can see xda builds I used to make. They have a different package name and can be installed alongside the theme. It's not very often devs say this, but I'd recommend you actually have a look at other icon packs with consistent support. The one in Material Glass has fewer than 1000 icons, and I've removed all of my other icon packs which had around 3k because I no longer plan on updating them. Icon design was my first dive into Android "development", and I've since gone past that stage into actual coding.

Edit: For any other prospective icon developers, I have open sourced all my icons that were previously saved on Github.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Infy_AsiX:
I gave one of the recent test builds a test. The Android System accent was changed from dark to white? It doesn’t look as nice to me when it contrasts too strongly with any dark backgrounds. The fixed Gmail and Play Store are nice :).

Here are the bugs I’ve noticed. The volume pop up panel still has the full screen home wallpaper effect bug. Google Drive’s submenu is unusable as all white with white text. Play Music still crashes when opening it’s settings. Play Services still crashes when it pops up to select a google account, I get it when I try to login to Meetup app.

I noticed when apps update I can still use them on MG. However with Swift Black’s when an app that has an overlay applied updates it will crash on start until the overlay is deleted or reapplied. What’s the reason there?

Thanks for your continued work and updates!
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] asdfasdfvful:
What do you mean by dark accent to white? Given that the backgrounds are dark, all foreground colors should be white.

The full screen bug is present in some roms, and seems to be related to the system theme base. Again, roms based in oms seem to be fine.

I'll have to look at those apps as they haven't been reported to me.

I have no idea for those overlays. If you have an oms rom, it technically should update naturally without crashing. You may need to force close the app to apply changes. Regardless, I don't think the difference is intentional.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Infy_AsiX:
I remembered incorrectly. The updated theme accent went from white to grey. Making it hard to see outdoors. I've attached images for comparison

Another bug is Instagram seems unthemed. But using an old apk version it is themed properly. Thanks
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] asdfasdfvful:
Oh. That was intentional given that more components are hard coded. It's a color chosen to be visible over both a black and a white background. I may choose to make it a bit lighter but it probably won't be fully white due to compatibility reasons.

I'll add instagram to my list. It may have been an app that was only themable by cm and not by Substratum until recently.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Infy_AsiX:
Thanks. I was probably unclear. I meant an older Instagram version not MG.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] scissorscrush:
so I tried it and no matter what I do, notification panel is not going transparent. Everything else from settings to other apps are getting transparent but not the quick settings and notification panel. And the notification and unreadable.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] asdfasdfvful:
Hello everyone.

Unfortunately, the day has come where I am officially terminating my development for Substratum themes. I no longer have the time to work on it, and I don't want to keep you all waiting for another potential update. A few things I'd like to note:

This was my first major project which I started 4 years ago, well before I knew how to program. For those of you who are interested, there are plenty of guides online, namely from Team BlackOut, which helped me get started. The learning curve is not steep, but it is a very time consuming project. You are essentially reverse engineering dozens of apps, and need to fix them every time they update. Especially with newer Substratum changes which allow access to layout res, incompatibilities will be even more common.

Material Glass was the first theme ever to exist after Lollipop was released. It had really fast development in the beginning, because I was in high school and quite literally spent 6 to even 10 hours in a given day working on it. To put this to perspective, icon pack devs typically theme ~ 3000 icons to make a very big pack. MG not only has hundreds of launcher icons, but has thousands and thousands of other png files. And that's not considering the xml. Recently, I have written numerous scripts to make this process a lot more streamlined, but it also occurred while I was transitioning into a much bigger workload, which meant no more time for MG.

I have always been an advocate of open source projects, so MG has been open sourced from the very beginning. The sources can be found here: https://github.com/PitchedApps/Material-Glass-Substratum along with everything else you may need. I'm allowing everyone to freely use the content for their own base or updates. Just consider using a different name, as Material Glass reflects the work of this theme in its current state. You do not need any dev knowledge to work on the theming portion. In fact, with the scripts and Travis, I didn't have to use Android Studio at all to work on themes.

I'm now at a time where I only have a few hours a week that I can truly allot to my own projects. You guys may have seen that Frost for Facebook is my new focus. It offers the glass theme that you are all accustomed to (which substratum can't replicate), so if that interests you, please check it out here!

I am going to keep this thread opened for now if anyone has any questions in regards to theming. Hopefully MG has made you enjoy UI just a bit more, and I wish you all the best in the world of themes.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Infy_AsiX:
Tremendous thanks for the best quality theme ahead of it's time. I've just moved to Nougat with OMS and I find Material Glass is still the preferred transparent overlay over alternatives where it works, even despite being legacy. Haven't found anything that matches the quality of shading and transparency choices you applied.

The MG SystemUI overlays aren't transparent in the notifications anymore after moving from legacy Marshmallow I found. Using Archangel's Translucent Substratum for it's SystemUI combined with Material Glass's Android System works really well. I still prefer the older 3.2 version for the white text all around. Legacy overlays still get the benefit of OMS too, setting up, building much faster and not requiring a reboot. I'll keep using MG overlays until they break! :good:

It's interesting to hear the backstory to the development. That's a lot of time and painstaking effort you put into this and I can say the end result clearly shows it. Thanks for your work
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Death Mask Salesman:
Kudos to you for being such a generous themer, [MENTION=5230774]asdfasdfvful[/MENTION]. On these Substratum days, there are not so many themers that behave the same as you do.

Good luck for your life projects, and I hope that someone else, someday, may pick up your legacy and build on the foundations you laid, whilst maintaining the very philosophy that made Material Glass unique.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] mustu__piplod:
My whtaspp gets crash whenever I try to open whtsapp settings....pls fix that..
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] bigo72:
From RRO Layers/Substratum moment, the development slowed down in a serious way, due to the developer private life priorities. I'm happy with Translucent Substratum Theme, quite perfect, if you allow me to advice.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Mr. Clown:
We will not tolerate your rudeness on these forums, OK?

You been warned.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] asdfasdfvful:
[MENTION=1380421]Mr. Clown[/MENTION], do you mind locking this thread? I don't review that often (as noted by this reply), and I don't seem to have that option myself anymore.

My previous post sums up most of what I have to say, but I'd also like to note that theming is a very volatile field, as your product is entirely dependent on each external app you support. Any change there will break your current theme, and any fix made will break backwards compatibility. As a result, any theme that has not been updated recently is unlikely to work anymore. Best of luck to those who wish to give it a go.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Mr. Clown:
Thread closed per your request.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] asdfasdfvful:
Hm. Log didn't show anything in particular. Sure send me the rom I guess or at least the settings apk
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] my95z34:
Damn. =\ Alright, gimme a few and I'll send you a PM. It's uploading.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] asdfasdfvful:
Did you try the free version on the play store? It worked fine for me. I added the rom as a secondary but that shouldn't make a difference. The xda version also has nothing additional for settings, so it should work too. Either way, I'll keep this in mind for the future.

If the free one doesn't work for you, you may have to clean flash your rom. Cm theme is still in alpha and naturally has stability issues
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] my95z34:
I'm using the version from the Play Store. But weird.... I installed a few other themes I found on XDA and those work fine. Weird..... Lmao
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] asdfasdfvful:
Not sure what is happening but it's working on my side
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] my95z34:
Wtf.... Now it's working on my end too.... ?
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] zige:
It's called magic! ;)
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] miroid:
Best theme for my taste. Keep up the good work. Like some other guys settings is white and share popup. All others look fine so far. I did need a reboot to get theme more integrated. I use resurrection remix 5.3.1 on samsung i9505 :) theme v7
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] asdfasdfvful:
Glad you guys like this. As you might have seen, rro layering is starting to get implemented, so I might hop on that soon. Cm theme choosers will still get support, but layers is getting updated much quicker so you may expect to use that primarily. Again, I can only update when the roms are compatible.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] miroid:
I think its called reboot hehe
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] my95z34:
No. I had rebooted a few times.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] asdfasdfvful:
Just wondering, what keyboard and launcher do you guys use? I have plans for the aosp trébuchet or google launcher if it's themeable, but I'm not sure about the rest
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] zige:
Nova Launcher and Super Swiftkey (themed version from here XDA). I think that Nova Launcher settings is themeable because i saw one theme (dont remimber which one) which changed also look of Nova settings.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] asdfasdfvful:
Lol would that be mine? I themed Nova. Yeah I know super SwiftKey exists which is why I'm not sure if I want to theme that, but I'll see. Maybe something so that we can still get instant updates with the official SwiftKey
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] zige:
Oh what? Lol it was you (just tested!).

Do you know is it settings problemn fixed by CM? I remember that you said it is theme engine problem that settings is looking white?
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] asdfasdfvful:
It's not exactly a bug, so it has low priority, but it the Color is basically hardcoded in a place the theme chooser can't modify. You've probably seen a lot of themes out there that have changed it, but they basically create their own items that butcher the rest of the layouts (ripples are all off or inexistant, etc).

I'll tend to only change things if they work the way they should. Otherwise I wait until there is proper support
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] zige:
I see, maybe on beautiful day:p

Have you planning to theme gmail, Play Store and dialer?
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] asdfasdfvful:
Didn't try Gmail yet, but it isn't my priority.

Tried play store and as some colors account for both text and background, it can't be perfected. I may Re add it, but you'll get some black text

I looked at dialer and there are layouts that will stay white, so I haven't themed it yet. If you know someone who has themed it perfectly (I don't mean just 90% with unreadable text in places), then I'll gladly do it.

Lastly, note that code will come soon that will add a lot more support. I'm still waiting on that
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] asdfasdfvful:
Xda v8.1 is uploading. Reboot and check your dialer app. Still wip
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Rycon33:
This sounds great. Take your time mate, we can wait.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Sabyn:
It needs to be black or transparent? I know i had it white, but now is black, that`s why am i asking
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] asdfasdfvful:
It's black. Transparency never worked with contacts and dialer, even wut vrtheming. I'll keep trying eventually though
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Sabyn:
Neah, this black on dialler is very nice, gz for your work ;)

PS : Maybe something on meniu too? At least black if no transparency? ( the white is killing me, and on settings too, i mean on the list, cuz i saw in each setting option it is transparency)
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] zige:
Maybe RRO will change that, or what you think? You maybe know better than me because i'm just noobie who is enjoying othres great work! :p
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] asdfasdfvful:
I highly doubt rro will add extra support for theming is direct recompiling doesn't work properly. But who knows, I still need to read more on it
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] zige:
Oh nice my Root Explorer is also themed... :p
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] CallumMarks77:
Hello, I tried a search but no results..... There's a bug with the cm theme engine where you can't select a custom lockscreen image, does this them make the lockscreen transparent so it matches my homescreen wallpaper?

Again sorry if this has been mentioned before.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] zige:
You have applied lockscreen wallpaper shen you was applying theme. Read this post so you know how to fix that you can see again your homescreen wallpaper on lockscreen. http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=58419742&postcount=861
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] scoobyjenkins:
It's not a bug, you just can't use gallery to choose a lockscreen wallpaper yet. If you want a custom lockscreen wallpaper, you can search the thread for lockscreen wallpaper...

Tapatalked that shiznit.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] CallumMarks77:
Like I said I did try a search....

Thank you to the guy above this :)
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] scoobyjenkins:
Ok, someone kindly posted that you could swap the "keyguard_wallpaper" file for your file of choice but that didn't work for me. What I did was:

1. Take a theme apk

2. Use ZArchiver to view the apk as an archive

3. Navigate to assets/ lockscreen

4. Choose "add file" and add a pre-prepared png file named "wallpaper1", overwriting the original

5. Back out of ZArchiver

6. Use Signapktic to resign the apk

7. Install the apk

8. Use theme manager to choose your modified theme as lockscreen wallpaper

9. Enjoy!

Tapatalked that shiznit.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] asdfasdfvful:
Right now the lockscreen image I use is the same as the wallpaper. I'll consider changing it since it makes little difference
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] zige:
As far as i understanded that guy wanted that he has his home screen wallpaper on his lockscreen also, my guided did that. My guide did not help if you want use custom wallpaper on lockscreen (different than what you have applien on home screen). Also i want to reminder that if you enable lockscreen wallpaper from theme it will stay until you remove those files from my post.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] scoobyjenkins:
Ah, I see that now! I'm quite happy to keep my lockscreen wallpaper but can confirm your guide works for removing so it can be same as home. A similar guide was posted that said you could swap the file for a custom image, but that didn't work for me.

Tapatalked that shiznit.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] dustinraditya:
is it just me or is the settings isnt themed?

i'm using latest euphoria, and the theme is works fine, except for the settings it is still white with green icon, but if a i go to submenu like battery for example, the theme works fine
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] billsky83:
I have this problem with Euphoria 26/01 nexus 4 as well.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] ZDeuce2:
It's the theme engine,,, still buggy, especially with transparency... Give them time, they know.

Common sense isn't all that common
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] asdfasdfvful:
^yes. To reiterate, I have all the icons themed as white and I'm just waiting for support for the dashboard. The colour is located in layouts and I can't touch that. Same goes for the battery stats. And no I will not half theme the app and affect all the good parts to add partial support for the minor ones
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] my95z34:
Just wanted to let you know that I found a theme that is able to theme the entire settings app. Not sure how they're doing it, lol

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.siddheshpatil.blackhand.dragonfly

http://i.imgur.com/azAxUjT

//edit// Holy cow! Don't embed screenshots, lol. They're huge!
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] asdfasdfvful:
I am well aware of how they do it. They modify the base theme and define their own background color. However, that ruins the ripple effects. If you look at mine, they still exist.

The reason the dashboard has no ripples is because it's dark based, so it's white ripples on white.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo Accessories] gordonzhao:
Because of the sides of the screen being curved, many glass screen protectors on the market don't address this and are flawed. I'm going to keep a list of the ones that I have tried and will keep updating the thread with any progress. As the title reads this is for the tempered glass screen protector, not film, not 'flexible glass.' Tempered glass is the only I use.

Tried:

EzGuardz

Edges did not adhere.

Ghostek

A bit wider than the EzGuardz, covers more of the glass, and cutouts are better...but edges don't adhere once again.

I suspect the reason why none of these adhere is because they haven't addressed the fact that the edges of the screen are curved downward. They can easily fix this by have the edges of the screen protector end where the glass begins to curve.

All these are on my Moto Maxx which is equivalent to the Droid Turbo.

If anyone orders other ones please feel free to chime in and I'll update the first thread with the info.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo Accessories] poncespr:
So, EZGuard also does not adhere to the edges of the screen.

Other than that is pretty good.

Feels like it has some kind of oleophobic coating.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo Accessories] wingdo:
With a Gorilla Glass screen, and a 1 use free screen replacement from Verizon, are screen protectors really needed?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo Accessories] gordonzhao:
Yes, it's just too much for me to look at.

Gorilla glass does not equal scratch resistant, I work in the mobile industry and every one of our demo phones have scratches on it, also it definitely doesn't mean it's shatter resistant. The screen replacement applies to the droid turbo if you have Verizon, a good number of people are using it outside of Verizon's network. And I personally have the moto maxx so again, doesn't apply. I've had screen protectors on every one of my phone's that were touch screen.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo Accessories] Tunameltsalad:
From my understanding, yes they replace the glass, but not the digitizer. I like the added protection
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo Accessories] wingdo:
Wow, I've been using Phones with Gorilla Glass since I moved to Verizon with the D1 and never scratched the screen, but I also never carry it in the same pocket as my keys. To each their own, my wife has used glass screen protectors sold to her by the rep and the one time the protector shattered, when they removed the protector at Verizon they scratched the screen removing the shattered glass. Of course a new protector and she never noticed.

The digitizer isn't built into the screen? Huh always kinda figured they were.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo Accessories] gordonzhao:
I've had people come in saying the same as you, but they never look closely until it's pointed out. I bet you there are hair line scratches on the screen. Anything from bits of sand to fibers that are just the right hardness will leave a mark on the glass
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo Accessories] thegrants82:
But if these people don't notice then who cares?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo Accessories] gordonzhao:
But they notice after its been pointed out, which in turn they always get a screen protector. A small scratch may not appear to be much but it still reduces the integrity of the screen. Besides a $10-$20 screen protector which protecting a $200 screen... You do the math.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo Accessories] gordonzhao:
Got the mime in a week or so ago went on nice, though it was defective, tried contacting them for a replacement. Customer service is non existent so beware
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo Accessories] jwort93:
I'm looking at getting the MIME screen protector as well, since it seems to be getting the best reviews. What was defective about it?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo Accessories] gordonzhao:
There was a white spot on the top near headset and parts of the edges (on all 4 edges) didn't stick, small enough to call them 'slivers' of bad adhesive.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo Accessories] wadamean:
Thanks for the heads up. I ordered the screen protector yesterday and hopefully all is well with the installation
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo Accessories] Leraeniesh:
Looking into a glass screen protector as well.

Got any recommendations?