yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] effluent:
Thanks for the help.. So I do step two and it says no such file exists. I followed the normal instructions previously and it appeared to work, got no errors anywhere..it just didn't "take." The widget is there on my home screen doing it's job..but it's not transparent.

Also pulled the list via shell as you mentioned at the bottom and I see nothing showing any -1 or -2 for any app. Also don't see com.smartandroidapps.audiowidgetpro listed but I do see all the themes such as com.smartandroidapps.audiowidgetpro.themes.redhot.apk.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] irishrally:
Sorry for the OT, but XxDaLoWeSt1xX, how did you get white dots underneath the Switchpro widget?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] foreign_legion:
Works with Froyo?

Can I get these transparencies to work on Froyo? I tried applying the power control one with no luck... do I need HelixLaucher 2, which doesn't work on Froyo. Any help? Thanks!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] XxDaLoWeSt1xX:
Ok what you need to do then is pull that com.smartandriodapps.audiowidgetpro.themes.redhot.apk file from your data/apps and try to endanger it as com.audiowidgetpro.apk bc that's the only way the morph will apply to it. I'm on a rooted Evo using froyo 2.2 so maybe its different for you if your not rooted if you don't see -1/-2 good the easier it is then. Let me know if this works.

Sent from your moms via Swype.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] XxDaLoWeSt1xX:
Switchpro just recently updated so update it and it gives you plenty of options even tho it only shows white for transparency I think they'll update it again for different colors pretty soon.

Sent from your moms via Swype.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] XxDaLoWeSt1xX:
I'm on froyo and it works fine just follow the steps and you should be good.

Sent from your moms via Swype.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gessin64:
OMG I SPENT 2 LONG DAYS TRYING TO GET THIS TO WORK AGAIN... I wiped flashed to DC ROM 3.2.3 and now metamorph doesnt apply anything i moved the apk pandora, sportstap to the system/app section i tried adb push and pull keep getting cross link error. metamorph seems to apply the theme but nothing changes rebooted restore reflashed nothing am about to lose it .... any suggestions or can someone post the updated apk and i can just install them

Thanks
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] britoso:
Morphing is a pain on froyo.

Try:

Pull apk from /data

uninstall

Push apk to system

Morph

pull morphed apk from system

Push apk to system
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] lolz mclollerson:
Engadget isn't working for some reason. I moved the apk from /data/app to /system/app went into metamorph, selected the xml and it gives me an error stating com.aol.mobile.engadget.apk does not exist in this theme

However, the file exists and the name matches the filename in the .xml.

Any suggestions?

Thanks for your hardwork!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] effluent:
Ah well, none of that works, thanks for trying though.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] snotf:
can we see a lastfm widget?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] jhenson496:
Not sure if this is the "correct" way to go about applying the Morphs, but after alot of help from guys on here (Britoso & ogdobber) I have been able to get all of my transparent widgets working sans audiomanagerpro. Basically what I did was:

First off root explorer is amazing and aloud me to not worry about using my computer to have to pull or push anything.

Download the morphs you want and place them into a folder on your sd card.

Using root explorer move the apps from data/app to system/app

Rename the .apk once it's in system/app to whatever the metamorph shows it to be (ie.. instead of com.aol.mobile.engadget-1.apk, change it to com.aol.mobile.engadget.apk)

Apply morph

Reboot phone

Should work like a charm.

Hope this helps a few people.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] irishrally:
Deleted. Figured it out.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] britoso:
almost replied in time...
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] musashiken:
Hi this is my first time applying morphs.

I tried apply the morph for the Genie (News and Weather Widget) but without any fiddling with adb as there were no instructions in the post for the Genie widget.

Then I rebooted the phone and tried the widget. It sorta works as it now has a translucent background but the thing is whenever I select the widget, either using trackball or pressing it, the translucent background turns back to the original black bubble and it changes back to translucent if I deselect the widget... Is that supposed to happen?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] britoso:
Thats due to my lazyness at the time. The "pressed' background was not made transparent.

Its not too big of an issue right :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] musashiken:
Lol, yeah its no biggie. Thanks britoso!

Now I gotta figure out how to apply other morphs that require adb like 3g watchdog widget. Got stuck in adb as it could not find the apk file in data/app/ to rename...
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] boldfilter:
Any plans to make a clear google search widget?

Edit: Nvm, I didnt realize it would be such a pain in the ass
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] britoso:
Check the op. Yes it can be that.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Xsoldier2000:
Opinion only

britoso, I was wondering if I could get your opinion on something, as you seem pretty knowledgeable on Morphing widgets.

I'm using a new ROM and it comes pre-themed, as do some of the widgets. But as you can guess, not all the widgets match. (Yes of course that irks the heck out of me. :o))

If you can see from the screenshots, the Pandora, Facebook, and News widgets all match. How would I go about matching the rest of my widgets. I believe there are three options:

1. Go into your metamorph files and replace the transparent image with the semi-trans. black image. (Now that I think about it, that may not work if you set up your morph files to just make the original widget background transparent...not entirely sure how metamorph works, as you can tell.

2. Use Ninja Morph to replace the widget backgrounds with the semi-trans. black one? (Is ninja morph capable of that?)

3. unpack the ____.apk and replace the background image, resign the ____.apk and reinstall?

Thanks for your opinion on this. (I'm attaching the Pandora.apk pulled from system/app as I can't seem to find the semi-trans. black background.)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] plisk3n:
I just wanted to say thanks for all your work. It's amazing.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] britoso:
All 3 methods should work. I've never done that with ninja morph though.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] notxel21:
@britoso, is your transparent Widgets zip updated with this power control widget? (see attached)

I love your transparent widgets and thanks for all the hard work. :cool:
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] britoso:
Looks like ' extended controls', I may have a morph(will check)....but personally just use a modded apk.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Xsoldier2000:
Just wanted to update you, #3 was the easiest. Now everything is uniform again. (Extended Controls was a bit of a pain, but finally got it...)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] britoso:
Congrats. Yes modding the apk is the most painless
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] joeyweaver:
Love your work. I would like to request a transparent double twist widget!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] britoso:
sure, attached both .apk and morph.

Use the apk: (not useful after the next version is released)

simply uninstall what you have and install this version

To Morph:

Make sure com.doubleTwist.androidPlayer-1.apk exists in /system/app/
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] joeyweaver:
If com.doubleTwist.androidPlayer-1.apk is not in /system/app/ can I just move it there using Root Explorer? Or is there something else I have to do?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] kelkey:
can you make one for the maket widget.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] joeyweaver:
I used the commands above and moved the .apk to /system/app/ but then I start getting force close errors for doubleTwist. Is there something else I need to do? Thanks in advance!

Edit: I'm using cm6 rc2
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] britoso:
For now you can just try the included apk, I'll test the morph this weekend
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] han.azuki:
nm figured it out
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] vineet.rox:
Thanks!! looking damn good on my galaxy spica!!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] The_Rouge:
Can you get handcents widget 50 or 100% transparent?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] craigmack:
bristo: is there anyway to apply these without metamorph?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] britoso:
yes, you mod the apk yourself.

unzip, copy new files in, zip, sign...wont get updates though.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Nandorian:
Bristo:

Any chance we can get the transparent facebook updated for the new v.1.3?

BTW is there a thread out here that shows how to do this so we don't have to bug you. I'm not really experienced, but I'm willing to try if there are any directions.

thanks
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Xsoldier2000:
+1 I've managed to skin the widget, but can't get the text white. I keep trying to edit the .xml files but every XML editor I've tried gives me an error.

Help?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] britoso:
The problem I encountered is that apktool would get stuck building it back even with no changes...will try again.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] britoso:
For the white text:The textColor needs to be changed to "solid-white" in 4 xml files.

Two in layout-port\ and two in layout-land\

Since apktool may not work you can use Axmlprinter. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=514412
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Xsoldier2000:
Thanks britoso, going to try it today sometime.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] joe.kerwin:
+1. I'd like to see an update too.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] flexte:
my pandora.apk is named "com.pandora.android.apk-1"

any suggestions?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] XxDaLoWeSt1xX:
Run metamorph for Pandora so you phone will recognize the path. Take the -1 off your Pandora (in your tools folder assuming its there) and push the apk to /system/app/. REAPPLY THE METAMORPH FOR PANDORA THEN REBOOT YOUR PHONE IT SHOULD WORK.

sent from your moms via swype.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] flexte:
Rename worked. Thanks
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] XxDaLoWeSt1xX:
You're welcome bro glad I could help.

sent from your moms via swype.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Xsoldier2000:
Here you go, you can install this (I have signed it.)

Updated to 1.3.1 (see link below)

britoso, if you want to update with your images/xml files...go for it.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] joe.kerwin:
Dude, you did a great job with this. I put this on my vibrant and the tweaks you did with the images are really nice. Thanks! You didn't by chance theme a twitter apk by chance did you?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] britoso:
Good job Xsoldier2000. Added to the Facebook topic.

Any chance of re-creating this for 1.3.1 ?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] joe.kerwin:
Yeah we need the .1 update because of the horrible battery drain issue on 1.3
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Xsoldier2000:
Nope, I don't use twitter, sorry. This was such a PITA to do this one, I don't think I will go thru it for twitter though, sorry.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] britoso:
try this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=708461
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Xsoldier2000:
Facebook 1.3.1

I found it over here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=6974858

All credit goes to rori~. I'm going to update with my images and backgrounds. http://www.mediafire.com/?e2k5x27748x3frl
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] sylvienc:
the link mediafire doesn't work

please helppp
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Xsoldier2000:
works for me...try copy/pasting it into your browser.

Sorry britoso, didn't mean to hijack your thread, this will be the end of it. If you wanted to take this file and edit the images/xml file for your transparent widgets, it's all yours.

...and thanks for all your help.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] fredxclaus:
Request FML widget..FMyLife Official
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] britoso:
feel free to post any new transparent mods, I'll add them to the op.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] illumina0:
britoso,

Thanks for all the wonderful transparent morphs so far!

I was wondering if there was a transparent Genie widget with black text. I've only come across ones in white.

Also, I think the link for the new transparent facebook was removed as I was redirected to a post that didn't have a link. Can you reupload the file?

Thanks!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] MrCDWJR:
can someone make a transparent metamorph of "weather and toggle widgets" and "weather widgets (yr. no)"

thanks
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] illumina0:
I'd also like to request a transparent widget with white text for the stock name for google finance. Thanks!

EDIT: I got the transparency down, I just have trouble figuring out how to change text colors.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Simon5558:
Could anyone be able to make the grooveshark widget fully transparent (no background)?

Thanks
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] britoso:
Is it out for the public? I thought its only for paying subscribers.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] jhenson496:
+1 Got all transparent widgets except for Facebook on Leofroyo 2.0 :D
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Simon5558:
Here is a completely transparent facebook 1.3 widget and a working mint.com transparent widget
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Simon5558:
Here i made it transparent ;)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] jhenson496:
Thank you very much. :D
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] mothy:
Any chance you can make a transparent widget for "The Weather Channel"?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] fredxclaus:
thx........morphing as i type.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Simon5558:
Sure ;) Changed the icon too to a transparent one
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] jhenson496:
Facebook widget works awesome. Not sure how hard it is, if it's not to hard could I ask a favor? Any chance of a transparent FB with white text?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ogdobber:
this is rori's (white text) that i made transparent

**edit whoops. this is not a morph, flash it from recovery
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] jhenson496:
Appreciate the help ogdobber, but I'm on Leofroyo and flashables do not work, only morphs. No biggie, one will come along soon :D
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] mothy:
That is awesome, I have an incredible with s-off finally would this metamorph work for me?

Thanks
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Simon5558:
I don't really know anything about s-off or the incredible but i don't see why it wouldn't work..
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] mothy:
It says it cant find specific files. I do have the app installed. It says targer files /system/app/<xxxxx>.apk not found. Do I need to move files around?

Thanks
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] britoso:
The apk name may have changed. If you have the new name (may have -1, -2, -3 in the name for froyo) open the morph zip and fix the apk name in the xml control file.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] mothy:
Do I need to change the .thm file to as it is looking for the specific apk name?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] britoso:
Yes you need to edit the control file.

The control file used to be .thm, but new Metamorph versions require it be a .xml instead.

you can use this drag and drop solution to convert the .thm to .xml
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Simon5558:
Don't forget to move the apk from /data/app to /system/app before applying it
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] illumina0:
transparent facebook widget with white text
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] mothy:
sorry to be a pain in the ass. When i try to move it, it says:

failed on: 'data/app/com.weather.Weather-1.apk' - Cross-Device Link.

Any ideas

Thanks
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] somebully:
Request: Pure Messenger

or any other widget that can provide facebook and twitter updates in the same widget.

Thanks in advance.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] sydtrakked:
when i try to apply the morph for the the Touiteur app i get this message:

"The target /system/app/com.levelup.touiteur.apk Does not exist. Skipping..."
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Simon5558:
Did you move the touiter app from /data/app to /system/app? Or maybe look if the name of the file is really com.levelup.touiteur.apk and not com.levelup.touiteur-1.apk.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] MrCDWJR:
request

can someone please make a transparent "android and me widget" and also a transparent "horoscope widget" by swiis codemonkeys. thanks
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] SendMaster:
request

is there a transparent version of last.fm widget? if not, a humble request from me...
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] fubaya:
I have two requests. First is for Scanner Radio by Gordon Edwards. I'm really only interested in the 1x2 widget.

Second, a transparent Tapatalk Pro widget.

And also, how do you make these? I'm not against doing it myself.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] cloversis:
awesome!:D:D
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] snapa55:
Can someone make a Latitude Widget with white text?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] MrCDWJR:
there have been a few requests made but no responses...... abandoned or what?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] britoso:
Morphs are a pain to apply, and need to be redone if there are updates.

Personally I don't use any morphed third party widgets.

You can try creating it yourself, ask if you need help. All you need is 7zip/other-unzip and the gimp for image edits.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] kevdawg:
Do these morphs not work with Launcher Pro? Using a G1 with 2.1 installed (superE)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] E_man5112:
Any hope for a mixzing transparent widget? The smallest one?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] erikiksaz:
Here's a 100% transparent News and Weather morph. There was another one in this forum, but something didn't look right about the transparency.

Just drop it in sd/AndroidThemes/ and morph away. Just restart for the widget to show.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] FormelLMS:
Yes, reinstall your ROM. You don't have to wipe. All looks stock after that.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] britoso:
Or get CalendarProvider.apk from the ROM distribution you use and put it in /system/app
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] senorbuck:
Gotcha. Worked like a charm, thanks :D
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] codito:
Just FYI anyone else who's super anal might have realized that the GenieWidget.apk still has the dark background when selected/moved, so I recommend editing that png as well. I did it myself and it's much nicer IMO.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] britoso:
yeah, knew that, will update later.

So.. do you keep moving around your widgets and admiring them while doing so? :p
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] codito:
Only a little LOL

I also edited my Beautiful Home skin to be transparent, and set the transparency for my Pure Calendar skin to 100% so it looks nicer :D

That's my current setup and I have you to thank :P Also requesting a transparent buzz widget morph because I'm lazy and other people want it too, and I'm not real good with this stuff.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] britoso:
You could make that music widget transparent, I've posted a morph. Tried morphing the buzz widget twice and failed. Maybe third times the charm...

edit: it works... fine tuning now... :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] codito:
That's Mixzing, not the default music player.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] britoso:
added a transparent buzz morph here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=6080718&postcount=13
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] myn:
I wish these worked on Donut :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] doodarazumas:
You're missing a slash at the end of the Genie line in your .thm
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] britoso:
thanks, fixed
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] legolas.w:
Can you please share the metamorph applicaton file?

I can not download it from market because the market application does not work anymore on my nexus one.

If you can, please share metamorph 1 apk file for me.

thanks.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Xsoldier2000:
if you could make a pandora and slacker widget, i would definitely throw a donation your way.

:)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] britoso:
Re: [Morph] Transparent Widgets [3/26/10]

let me take a look.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Xsoldier2000:
That's all i can ask for... THANKS
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] britoso:
Heres pandora.

Run this before applying the morph:

if you have apps2sd enabled:

adb remount
adb shell mv /sd-ext/app/com.pandora.android.apk /system/app

otherwise

adb remount
adb shell mv /data/app/com.pandora.android.apk /system/app

Screenshot and morph attached.

update added a 100% transparent version. (no background/border)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] britoso:
And heres slacker.

Run this before applying the morph:

if you have apps2sd enabled:

adb remount
adb shell mv /sd-ext/app/com.slacker.radio.apk /system/app

otherwise

adb remount
adb shell mv /data/app/com.slacker.radio.apk /system/app

Screenshot and morph attached.

update: added a 100% transparent version. (no background/border)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Xsoldier2000:
HOLY CR*P you're fast?

Where's that donation button?

Edit: I don't have adb, can I do it manually with root explorer? from the commands, it looks like moving the _____.apk from /data/app to /system/app, do I need to fix the .apk's properties in /system/app?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] britoso:
Dont need to fix any properties, just move the file.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] britoso:
updated op.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Dallas Johnson:
thanks just what i was looking for :]
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] kmoore11:
Is there any way you could make a 50% background for Touiteur? It would be very much appreciated
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ajd6c8:
I keep trying to do this with pandora-1, but it keeps force closing when I run the program after the Morph is applied.

I am using Root Explorer to move the .apk to system/app then running the modified Morph .zip. It's all successful, but then I can't use the program without it force closing. I try to reboot and reinstall using the modified .apk, and the installation fails.

Is there something else I'm supposed to do after the Morph is applied?

EDIT:

resolved. I reinstalled the .apk after moving it to system/app before I applied the Morph, and that worked. PS. Had to reboot the phone to get the widget transparency to kick in.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ajd6c8:
Britoso,

Any chance for a stock android music widget morph on a Sense device?

I'm using LauncherPro which isn't allowed to access the HTC music widget (fine by me). It is, however, allowed to use what appears to be the stock andoid music widget. I assume this stock widget is embedded in the com.htc.MusicWidget.apk or the HtcMusic.apk. There is no Music.apk on my phone anywhere.

Anyway, if I sent you these .apk's could you tear them down and make a transparency morph for the stock android widget assuming you can find it?

PS. I've already tried running your Music morph (after editing the XML files accordingly) on these apk's to no avail.

Thx
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] britoso:
There are a few modded apks as separate threads. (music mod). It also comes with the kang-o-rama rom. Try getting the Music.apk from there and pushing it to /system/app
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ajd6c8:
haha, yeah i tried Music Mod already. Left the dev a comment:

"I like this app but it needs lock-screen display/controls before I replace the stock EVO music player with it."

I'll see if I can track down the .apk from a ROM or something, but I'm not really into the ROM scene - I'm currently running stock OTA 2.2 EVO via Unrevoked/Clockworkmod

EDIT: eh, screw it. Most of my music navigation is via lockscreen or the full player anyway. I'm really just looking for one more nice "Entertainment" type widget to throw on my home screen. I'll find something else, thx.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] roberto188:
New Sportstap update

The new sportstap update has rendered the transparent widget morph useless. Everytime I apply the morph the widget fails to load after I reboot. Previously, when sportstap updated, I would just reapply the morph and bingo it would work. Perhaps they changed something this time. Can you please take a look and let me know? Thanks!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] m4co:
I must be missing something.

After morphing the files, the widget (Geanie) says "Problem loading widget"

I restart and still with the problem message.

So I delete and add again and it's still the old black one!

What am I missing?

EDIT: using Froyo