yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] crayonyes:
22000 is not fully transparent in calculation but my navbar becomes fully transparent.,,

and 0 is fully transparent in calculation but makes my navbar fully black opaque.

so I'm still lost here..
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] MarkerBeanXDA:
Can you show your transparent navbar inside other apps like gmail?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] crayonyes:
you can't / hard to see the icons because I'm using always white navbar icon lol.

hey, using overlay can work for your case. attach your overlay apk on that thread and I'll try to make it for you.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] haksancan:
22000 is 0:alpha, 0: red, 85:green and 240:blue. So it is fully transparent.

0 is acting strange as already mentioned. I don't know the reason. As a workaround you can use anything close but not 0 (such as 1).
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] crayonyes:
Thanks, got it.

so just put anything with 00 prefix and you'll get transparent navbar, except 0 ( 00000000 )

I see that you've update the first post, nice! :good:
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] MarkerBeanXDA:
Is it possible to set a navbar background color only to a specific app/package like GBoard?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] thedicemaster:
use tasker to trigger a custom secure settings value through autotools.

this will not work with transparency though, as apps determine whether or not to draw under the nav bar before tasker can trigger the change.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] zingibertea:
THANK YOU!

Cannot Thank you enough.. This was literally ruining the phone for me. Lightweight hate that I have to issue an adb command to achieve this, but leagues better than running some glitchy Nav Bar app.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] haksancan:
Thanks!

Yes, you can put 00 prefix to hex value of the color and then convert to decimal and it makes that color fully transparent.

I'm glad you find it useful, thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] koko115:
How make semi transparent navbar in all apps, like in bixby app ?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] gabrielgon:
Hi guys. Everything you've said works great, but whatever color I set won't stick with other apps, and i'm not talking about transparency. If I set it to blue, it becomes blue on the gallery and settings, but if I go to whatsapp, swiftkey, twitter... it goes to the color those apps want! Then when I go back to gallery it's blue again.

How do I make it stick? I tried everything on this thread as far as I know. Exynos S8+ here with the first software. Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] leolawliet:
I'm so grateful for this solution. You helped me eliminate the most annoying detail of the navbar. That annoying solid white is gone!!
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Secceron:
Color reverts to stock after reboot, try overlay-APK?

Nice work so far!:good:

For me this method doesn't make the new color stick after rebooting. Why is that?

I stumbled across an .APK Overlay, which should turn the navigation bar black.

up2.cache.kouploader.jp/koups20763.zip (add http before, download, unzip, install the .APK, then reboot)

Unfortunately this doesn't work for me either.

Can anybody help?:eek:

Cheers!

(S8, newest update, SwiftBlack Overlays via Substratum installed)
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Mr6P:
My S8+ got updated yesterday with an 750MB big update, now the changed color (to pitch black) sticks even after reboot :)

I hope you have or will get the update and it will stick for you, too. I'm super happy with the black navbar all the time and the Substratum theme, (almost) everything is black, this looks so ridiculously awesome :D
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Secceron:
What theme do you use and what is not black? :D
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Mr6P:
Swift Black, which works way too good, most stuff is black and works great, it even themes stuff like file picker, WhatsApp and Spotify :3

I would love to have my most used app Todoist themed too. Else the background of notifications is still white.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Secceron:
Me too, so I'm looking forward to the update!
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] xdauser'17:
This is just what I'm looking for, and the '-16777216' is my choice. THANK YOU!!!
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Secceron:
I received the update today and it sticks! Amazing:o
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] awionetka:
Hi,

the method from post #1 works for me but only in non-Samsung apps.

In Contacts, Phone, Messanger, Settings etc I have white nav bar.

I use theme Material_Black by MINU, if that mathers.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] leeyuzhang:
:) thx
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Shorty88jr:
Thanks worked for me though I used the values -16777209 for black it seemed to be closer to what it was before, the buttons seemed brighter :)
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] drfsupercenter:
Hey guys

This is amazing. Verizon finally got the update and it screwed me over, this got me back up and running with a black navbar

Just wondering though... has anyone here used the Navbar Apps app from the Play Store? I was using this before now - it has the color change option, but ALSO the option to force a color change to stick on apps that change the color on their own. I was emailing the developer about this but he's stopped responding so I figured I'd ask here...

OK, so from the get-go, I noticed this weird thing where certain apps (TeamViewer is a good example of one you install from the Play Store, not a built-in system app) will ignore the custom color you set. BUT, Navbar Apps also had this option to overlay a picture on top of the navigation bar, regardless what color was set. The defaults included stuff like a Nyan Cat and other incredibly obnoxious ones I can't imagine anyone using besides as a joke. However - whatever method he used to overlay the picture would still apply, even if the app changed the bar's color. So TeamViewer would change it from black to white, but I'd still see the Nyan Cat. This gave me a brilliant idea... what if I just make a black rectangle PNG and set that as the image?

So I did just that. I bought the donate version (which is required to use your own images), and set the overlay image to that. Voila! Every app was black 100% of the time. Keyboard open or closed, didn't matter, this overrode all other settings. No more annoying eyebleed white!

OK, so with the newest update, that stopped working. The custom color still did work (basically, I'm pretty sure his app does exactly the same as what OP mentioned in the first post, he has a color wheel just like Samsung used to), but apps could once again change the bar's color.

So I reset everything - removed the app, reinstalled it, gave it permissions again, so on and so forth. Toggled the overlay pic. Set it to Nyan Cat. Open TeamViewer, bar is white with no cat. BAH!

Now that I know the neat adb trick to just do the color change without needing a third-party app, I've removed the app again and just set the bar to black that way. It sticks around as it should, except on those pesky apps that change the bar's color.

Does anyone have any idea how the app developer was doing those overlay images? I'd ask him but he hasn't responded to me in a few months. :(
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Xealot42:
Thanks for this thread. I recently got this update on Verizon and the white navbar on the home screen was driving me crazy!

I had trouble getting the adb stuff installed from the sdk tools, but I found a thread here on xda with everything packaged in an auto installer. The 1.4 version did not work for me but 1.3 seemed to work fine.

After installing I ran the "adb devices" command and my phone was showing as unauthorized. I guess there was some popup when first connecting that I failed to accept. I found a post on StackOverflow with a solution:

It's likely that the device is no longer authorized on ADB for whatever reason.

1. Check if authorized:

<ANDROID_SDK_HOME>\platform-tools>adb devices

List of devices attached

4df798d76f98cf6d unauthorized

2. Revoke USB Debugging on phone

If the device is shown as unauthorized, go to the developer options on the phone and click "Revoke USB debugging authorization" (tested with JellyBean & Samsung GalaxyIII).

3. Restart ADB Server:

Then restarted adb server

adb kill-server

adb start-server

4. Reconnect the device

The device will ask if you are agree to connect the computer id. You need to confirm it.

5. Now Check the device

It is now authorized!

adb devices

<ANDROID_SDK_HOME>\platform-tools>adb devices

List of devices attached

4df798d76f98cf6d device

After all of that I was able to use the commands mentioned earlier to make the bar opaque black:

adb shell settings put global navigationbar_color -16777216

adb shell settings put global navigationbar_current_color -16777216

This fix + "Navbar Apps" set to black seems to keep the navbar black on the home screen and in most apps.

Slightly related question:

Are there any commands to make the status bar at the top stay black with white text all the time (not transparent)? The transparency toggle in Nova Launcher appears to do nothing on my S8+.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] hshaikh:
Hi guys.

This trick is awesome and definitely works and stays after reboot. Why would Samsung take out true black. How can you burn in with black, that means the pixels are off.

Just one issue I've noticed. When setting the color to black with this hack, on the stock color picker it select the brown/orange one. So if I open a new app for a split second it is the orange then quickly changes to my color of black.

Any ways to fix this.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] thedicemaster:
burn in isn't entirely accurate with oled screens, and black is the biggest cause.

all pixels decay as they're used, black pixels aren't lit so they don't decay.

this causes the black pixels to be brighter than the rest when not showing black.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] cyborgium:
How to I change the colour of the buttons then? For example, I have the background color set as black. But whenever I open the keyboard, the color of the buttons change to grey instead of white. I'd like them to be solid white instead. Any idea how to do this?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Commugon:
Just to confirm,this won't trip Knox right ?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Secceron:
No, it won't!
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Zoide_:
Simply setting the colors to 1 seems to do the trick for getting a nearly black navbar. No need for fiddling with calculators.

Does anyone see a difference between using 1 and using -16777216?

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] xdauser'17:
set to -16777216, in chrome nav keys are darker than some apps else , and 1 will get a white bar in many apps.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Zoide_:
Interesting, you're right. What I like about using 1 though, is that for those apps where it doesn't go black, the navbar matches the overall color of the app better.

Plus, the fact that it has different colors in some apps means that there is a lower risk of screen burn-in for that part of the screen.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] RuggedHunter:
Regarding apps that override the system settings that this command sets, does anyone know which lines I could modify in one of those app's? For example, the newest update of tapatalk overrides the setting and no longer appears transparent. I am a little bit familiar with modifying xml files using TMA and/or apktoolx.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] dugryce:
Worked for me!

Downloaded the zip, opened, installed the apk, reboot. Go into settings for the nav bar, black is there, choose it. Perfect.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] haksancan:
Try using opaque colors (alpha 255). Transparent colors will change based on app color.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] gabrielgon:
It didn't help :c

I'm thinking about updating the software to see if it sticks
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] haksancan:
That's right I tested with Whatsapp and it overrides system colors. Update won't affect it because I'm on latest version already.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] gabrielgon:
Do you know why the selected colors stick with some people and it doesn't with us? What could we try? The "Navbar App" works perfectly, but Android keeps closing its service and when that happens the new color is gone.

Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] haksancan:
Some apps override colors. This is app specific and applies to everyone. Color changes when the app is opened and returned to default colour when a different app is opened.

Navbar app uses a different method for overriding navbar. This method just changes the default colour (It is the same mechanism used in the settings page)
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] ashokmor007:
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[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Tigerhoods:
Hey i posted an apk in my thread for dark navigation when typing and stuff this plagued me for the longest time i would get a white nav bar ..so if your looking for black nav background only all the time its in the dark overlays thread..its only 5.2 kb also
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] ipred:
For those who use the Material Black theme by Minu and want the navigation bar to be always black everywhere :

1. Run the adb commands :

adb shell settings put global navigationbar_color -16777216

adb shell settings put global navigationbar_current_color -16777216

After this you will have totally black navigation bar but not in all applications ( for example not in the settings of the phone or in the Samsung internet browser ). So :

2. Install Navbar apps and choose black from the color pallet and none animation.

3. In the settings of the phone go to the settings of the navigation bar and disable the "apply current theme".
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] elrosid:
This works. Thanks a lot! Really love to have back the black navbar.

Combine black navbar and substratum swift black theme will make your phone really cool. Trust me give it a try :D

Install the apk, reboot, and choose the very last color option in settings. It might cant be seen, just tap the very last color option.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Secceron:
You might want to give this a try as well.

It's an overlay for a black keyboard, which (unfortunately) only works with the stock keyboard version, so you have to uninstall the latest update.

https://www.google.de/amp/s/xdaforu...transparent-overlay-s6-keyboard-t3248990/amp/
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] elrosid:
i prefer use gboard for my default keyboard. there is full black theme also :)
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] drfsupercenter:
Same here.

So I tried out this APK, it basically does the same thing as the ADB trick anyway, except it adds black as a selectable option.

However, some apps like the default web browser still override the color! Navbar Apps too, it makes it orange. I know that app is supposed to do that, but I'm just making a point that nonprivileged user apps can do it too.

Have you found a fix for that part? When you mention Substratum, I assume you're rooted? I don't want to trip Knox, so if there's a way of doing this without it... (I don't think there are any engboots for S8 yet like there were for S7 where it didn't trip Knox)

---------- Post added at 05:28 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:04 PM ----------

So apparently, Navbar Apps updated to work with this. The developer never actually did respond to my email, but I guess he quietly figured out how to make it work again!

For anyone else who wants your navbar black 100% of the time, you don't even need that APK... just do this.

Install Navbar Apps, and buy the premium version (unless someone wants to share a black navbar for free users to download)

Then do -

Both "Static Color", set that to black, and the important part:

"Show image under Navigation Bar" under Navigation Bar widgets. Click the gear, and import a custom picture.

For this, I just used MS Paint to make a 10x10 pixel black square. Imported that and applied it.

That way the navigation bar will stay black 100% of the time, both in system apps like the web browser and in user-installed apps. Doing it without the custom image workaround makes it so MOST apps will be the custom color, but not all. (You might also get a brief flickering when switching between the browser/others and another app that does not override the color)

Thank you Navbar Apps developer! This adb trick is neat anyway, and certainly nice to know, but if your goal is a persistent color that cannot be overridden by other apps, just use my steps and you won't need the other method.

EDIT 2:

OK, it appears I spoke too soon.

While the overlay does work, if you delete the adb-set color (or using that custom .apk which does the same thing) and choose one of the default lighter colors, you will still see a brief transition when going between Immersive Mode apps and normal ones. Navbar Apps dev could possibly fix this too, but for now the most seamless way is to combine these - use the adb trick posted in page 1 with the color of your choice, and ALSO use Navbar Apps with the "overlay image" option.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] masonbella97:
this is so tough but i will do this.....
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] bravo_alpha1:
Thanks. This worked on my AT&T S8 with the latest August update. It sticks after reboot too. Keeps it dark in most apps too.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] thedicemaster:
I've decided to go fully transparent.

it's not actually transparent in most apps because they don't draw under the navigation bar, but at least it gives me matching navigation bar colors in most apps as it'll use the app's background colour if the app doesn't set a navigation bar colour.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] bravo_alpha1:
What value did you use? Here's two pics showing the black nav bar.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] thedicemaster:
-0

had to type that one twice, for some reason the text box did the math and concluded i wanted to type nothing.

-0 draws no background at all(giving you the app's background instead) and gives you grey buttons, unless an app specifies otherwise.

this works really well in the gallery app.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] bravo_alpha1:
Just the "-0"??
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] osuki9x:
Are there any overlays apk change the color of navigation bar?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] bravo_alpha1:
Ah, thanks dude! This is what I was looking for. It's like a transparent grey but it looks better than a solid black or the hideous white.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Spacemonkie4207:
How do you reset to factory colors?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] thedicemaster:
choose the 1st color option in the navbar options in the settings app.

the trick explained here doesn't really override anything, it just sets the color to a hidden value instead of 1 of the "recommended" colors.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] partcyborg:
huh weird, mine does not actually go transparent...
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] amk:
hi,

can we do it without laptop? like apk or zip or adb running on s8+?

every time i change my settings/themes from samsung themes it changes back to white navbar, then i had to open laptop again to run adb...
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] thedicemaster:
using autotools and tasker you only need to give permission to autotools through a PC once, and then you can use the secure settings custom setting option whenever you want through tasker.

using tasker you can even automate it so the color changes depending on the time or app, or make a shortcut on your home screen to set a specific color.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] haksancan:
Can you please confirm if color is kept after theme change if you also set navigationbar_theme_color to the color you want and set navigationbar_use_theme_default to 0?

Otherwise if you still want to set colors without PC

1. Install "Settings Database Editor" - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=by4a.setedit22

2. Grant permissions to it as explained in app description (one time only)

3. Afterwards you can find and change the same setting in global tab of the app
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] amk:
i have installed SDE and found in global, but is says as attached photo, what should i do now?

thank you master.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] haksancan:
Do what it says
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] DroidEater1028:
im getting an ADB command not found error?

---------- Post added at 04:27 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:17 PM ----------

nvm i got it
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] yycDAAN:
I'm stuck where amk is stuck at the ADB shell part

I've installed the adb from here

https://wiki.lineageos.org/adb_fastboot_guide.html#on-macos

Universal ADB Drivers from here

https://adb.clockworkmod.com/

Cannot proceed as the shell gives me an error : : The term ':' is not recognized
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] xdauser'17:
what are the commands you typed?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] yycDAAN:
adb shell settings put global navigationbar_color -1291845632

I am getting a combination of a see - through / black on most apps. Strange outcome :)
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] xdauser'17:
what will happen if you type

adb shell
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] yycDAAN:
dream2qltecan:/ $ is the outcome
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] xdauser'17:
ok, try to type

settings put global navigationbar_color -1291845632
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] yycDAAN:
You took the time to help and it is very much appreciated

The problem is solved.

Now time to read more forums to see if there is a way to increase the time that Edge Lightning is diplayed for during notifications
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] xdauser'17:
if your phone is rooted, you can actually do like this in terminal emulator on your phone:

su shell
settings put global navigationbar_color <THE_VALUE>
settings put global navigationbar_current_color <THE_VALUE>
settings put global navigationbar_use_theme_default 0
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Joakin2k:
Is there a way to change the icons colors? i mean i want a black background and red icons...
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] vvdjxa:
Nice! [emoji41]

ツ
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] mannequin:
is there a way to make "adb shell settings put global navigationbar_theme_color -xxx" to stick after a reboot?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] hinnn:
Thanks, this color is the best one.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Mich2Ga:
Glad I found this..
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] thedicemaster:
careful with this.

a while ago my note 8 got thrown into a bootloop a few seconds after changing the navigation bar color.

I had to do a factory reset to get it working again.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] cyborgium:
Well, then you clearly did something wrong as I've done it a dozens of times without any troubles
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] thedicemaster:
I used tasker to save the commands, so I could change color with the press of a button.

this worked fine for over a dozen times as well(I've even had automated changes based on day/night for a while).

the color was changed using the exact same method every time, so what could I have done wrong that last time?

on the other hand some bits of Samsung's sofware are pretty unstable, like the AOD software crashing(and continuously re-crashing until reboot) randomly when using a clear view cover.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] garuskar:
what is the code for a full transparent navbar? but the white buttons should still be seeable.