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[Nexus One Themes and Apps] popophobia:
I wonder you can mod the skin so that it has some space between the keys so we don't make too many mistakes. Iphone design is a good one to copy. The spacing between keys are amble, minimizing mistakes.

Thanks!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
The most I could do via a skin directly would be to make it look like there is more space between the keys, it wouldn't actually change anything. That would take some pretty hardcore hacks to the code to tweak the layout. Not something I'm interested in doing.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] martin0285:
Interesting some had no problems un-themed.... I would use root explorer (just a personal choice).... Anything that will give you access to /system/app just to check if theres an old version there.....
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] jsomething:
just for the heck of it, i made a nandroid backup of what i had. wiped 3 times and installed the clean froyo file i had started with. then did nothing but installed root explorer and used it to installed v27 for froyo, the unmodded one. and tried that. it still forced closed when opening the keyboard while in a text field.

i used it to look in /system/app folder but i found nothing about htc in there. oddly enough i didn't even see anything when the apk was installed either. weird. but oh well.

one or 2 force closed pre use is still worth it lol. the stock keyboard is soooo bad. i love the compact qwerty. thanks for the ideas.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] martin0285:
Very odd.... Well, sadly you'll have to deal with those FC's till atleast Monday for gIMpSTa to look at.... Could def get a few logcat for him to help speed the process?? Thanks for the input!!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] awdlexusis:
any plans on theming more semi transparent colors?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
Back from an AMAZING vacation with 30+ miles of hiking including the 5200 foot summit of Mt Katahdin :)

I will be resting today and back to work tomorrow, I have a pile of requests and few features to add which I will be working on in the next couple of nights! Glad to see the number of users still climbing!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] majikdragoon:
What about an Android version of Dinik's Anastasia keyboard?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] hayer:
???

where can i find a link to the pre-themed keyboards?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] moo2min:
Thank you so much, you are the man :D
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Dwoid:
Hello guys, I'm new here at the board!

This site was a great find for me looking for the "legendary" HTC mod keyboard :-). Props to jonasl for sharing this with us and gimpsta for coming up with great skins.

BTW, I hope the keyboard skin site will get better over time. Also hope that the transparent backgrounds would also be good on other applications in the future, not just the home screens :-).

Cheers!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
Yes, just been busy, but hopefully some big things coming in next couple of days :)

You mean a skin/theme like that or the whole keyboard? Porting the whole keyboard would likely not be possible. I can try to replicate the skin tho if that's what you meant?

First post has links to the kitchen where you can create your own, or any of the "presets" from the second post in this thread. This is currently the only way to access my themed keyboards. It's worth it, trust me :)

And thank you :)

Welcome and thanks!

The site is a work in progress. I'm currently beta testing some fairly big changes to the site that I hope to roll out in next few days, but it will always be a work in progress and will be improved as I have time/ideas/suggestions!

As far as the transparency thing, not much I can do on that. Some apps will show it transparent (handcent sms comes to mind, for example). It's not just the homescreen, but rather a handful of apps that for whatever reason draw their own background (or container) behind the keyboard. Some apps make it white, some black, it's really annoying but I think would take modifying each individual app to remove that behavior.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] :
AWESOME Kitchen Bro!!! Thank you!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] spigget:
t9 in url bar?

so, is there any way to ENABLE t9 in the url bar so you can search easier and enter some url's easier?

that would be AMAZING
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] spigget:
url T9

oh man, figured it out.

just enable the predict in URL's and ignore autocomplete flag

or one of those, and it works

YAY
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Bryanarby:
Awesome! made a post about it on Cronos forum:

http://www.cronosproject.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=130&p=3563

Please do tell if there's anything missing or you want something changed!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] spigget:
Redraw issue

Indeed, will do.

I did notice a possible redraw issue. I don't know if it has something to do with transparency or what, but the .png's are here

it looks like when text is suggested and then chosen, it doesn't properly redraw and move content down.

HTC INCREDIBLE, stock ROM with Root. I did have to go into recovery to unlock the NAND and remove the stock HTC_IME.apk for it to properly activate. It wouldn't use it even if it was chosen as the default input option.

It would also be nice to have custom keyboard layouts like Dvorak.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Old MuckenMire:
oops the keyboard I made for 2.2 on my Tmobile Nexus isn't working on my ATT 2.2 Nexus.

I sure hope this gets updated as I love this keyboard.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
Hmmm that doesn't make any sense at all.... tmo/att doesn't change anything. Perhaps it's a newer froyo rom and causing issues or something, but if you made a froyo one for the tmo one it should work just the same on the att one.

In what way is it not working?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Old MuckenMire:
Hi! First, thanks for all of your hard work!

When I originally updated my tmobile N1 to 2.2 weeks ago, the keyboard didn't work with 2.2 but you updated the kitchen and I made a new one and it worked great. I just tried moving that keyboard from my tmobile Nexus to my ATT Nexus(just updated to 2.2) but it keeps force closing on the ATT Nexus. So I decided to just go to the kitchen and make a new one but when I installed it it keeps force closing as well. I figured maybe this latest version of 2.2 is somehow not playing nice with your latest keyboards.

edit: just to be clear: I can use your keyboards just fine on FRF72 but cannot seem to get them to work on FRF85B.

Maybe it's something I'm doing wrong?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Old MuckenMire:
Man I'm sorry.

After updating my ATT N1 to 2.2 I'd been having issues with some of my apps. I ended up doing a factory reset and that fixed my issues so I thought I'd try and make a keyboard again, and sure enough, it works great now. Sorry I posted bad info.:o

I guess that's what I get for having over a hundred apps installed when I did the update.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] kyle25:
Good work there :D

The kitchen is very easy to use but I'm having a problem with it, after I install the skin, it will reset back to default after I reboot the device, any solutions for that?

____________________

nvm, got it fixed :P
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] barbiedollish:
You did an AWESOME job creating the kitchen. It's very simple and functional. Any chance of releasing a kitchen for Evo keyboard that has the arrows at the bottom?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pexon:
Thank you gIMpSTa.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] dsims91:
Thank you this is awesome
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] :
This shiz is amazing!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] suzed:
This looks amazing, downloaded Jonasl HTC_IME yesterday and have been playing with it ever since. Stumbled across this, not sure how but thought it looked great.

Selected the skin I wanted and hit create keyboard and waited patiently like you told me to.... and it just timed out on me. What am I doing wrong, bit of a noob at this stuff having just got my first smart phone.

Suze
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
No worries and welcome to the forums!

What is your username on my site? I'll take a look and see what is going on!

And to everyone else, sorry for my absence from updates past couple of weeks, been busy/enjoying the summer while it's here (i give it 2 weeks ;) ) But I do have a whole bunch of new images/upgrades that should be in place soon!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] suzed:
Wow you're fast!!!

Its suze on there I think. I needed an extra letter on here for some reason!

Thanks very much.

Suze x
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
I think it may have something to do with your particular computer/browser setup. Not 100% sure on that but just a guess. I took a look and I can see where you tried to make several this morning, and they went into your history, but that's as far as they went (never generated, never got added to the tally of "total keyboards made" etc).

I just went through and made one under your account first try with no problems. This is the link to the one I made (identical to the ones you were trying to make earlier, except for possibly the version) for v27 high res (non froyo, if you have cm6 or a froyo rom this won't work for you, cm5/eclair/2.1 or less will be fine, tho.

Keyboard is right here -> link to keyboard but will be automatically deleted within the hour, 2 tops. If you have a non froyo rom, feel free to download this and try it.

In the meantime, are you on a mac/pc and what internet browser are you using, and could you try something else (eg, instead of internet explorer try firefox or instead of safari try chrome, etc etc).
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] suzed:
Oh thank you so much. I had a few 'dry' runs shall we say as I was playing with the colours a bit but I did two that I tried to generate. I am on my Samsung NC10 netbook connected via our wi-fi thingy so it could be that this is having a bad day.

I have downloaded it. Assume I just unzip it and copy it across.

I have downloaded Linda as I had Astro on there and I believe I read earlier in the thread that Astro doesn't support reinstalling it? Being a bit on the thick side do I have to uninstall Astro and just have Linda on there?

Anyway, thanks again. I really appreciate you help.

Suze
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
Yup, just copy the apk file to your sdcard (the file within the zip file you downloaded) and then install it. No need to uninstall astro! I have astro, root explorer, and linda all installed as they are all better at some things then others. As far as I know, astro still does not correctly support reinstalling an app, so your best bet is to use linda or something to install it in the future, but if you do not currently have it installed, any file manager will work fine (since it's not installed currently, there is nothing for it to reinstall over :) ).
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] suzed:
Thanks very much! Sent from my Sony X10 using my beautiful new skin. Yay gimpsta!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
yayyyy!

:)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] fitsnugly:
I said it before & I'll say it again, you sir, are a baller.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] martin0285:
^^^^

Lying, no update coming.... :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
hahahah! maybe after this heatwave is over!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] suzed:
I've put a cold tinny in your 'kegerator' Gimpsta, can't have you dehydrating in this heat.

Thanks for the help yesterday and the great little app.

Suze x
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
Saw it this morning, thanks so much!!!

No problem, glad to help!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] spigget:
Suggestion box

any luck with the glitchy suggestion redraw issue?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
I'm not 100% sure I understood it, to be honest. Were you talking about the content behind the keyboard (since you mentioned transparency) or content above it?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] spigget:
did you check out post #595?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
Yeah I re-read it, just went back and looked at the screenshots and duh makes sense now haha.

Hmmm so it doesn't do this on stock htcime? how about on jonasl's keyboard unthemed (this same thing just without a skin)?

I'll look around and see what I can find.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] spigget:
I'm pretty sure that it doesn't do it on the stock htcime. When I had it on there originally, it didn't do it, from what I remember. I do have an Incredible, don't know if that makes a difference.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
Ya I was curious if it did it on this one -> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=624416 rather then true stock (if that's what you meant) as this is what the kitchen is skinning.

Can you recreate it every time or is it just random?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] thesparky007:
hey gimpsta, can you upload a black symbol set if you can? thanks!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] spigget:
it does it on http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=624416 as well, and it happens every time after you have a suggested word and select it, or follow it with punctuation, or anything that chooses the word from the dictionary. The text for the suggestion goes away, but the blank area remains underneath where the suggestions were.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] RinTinTigger:
EDIT:

just found out my self. me dumb, pls ignore ;)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] thesparky007:
go into the settings>user interface> disable candidates bar
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] HolyGrail:
Hi gIMpSTa, have a question. Was wondering if there was a way change the color highlight of the keyboard. Editing the .apk just gives can't install error. I had it working on the Moto Droid by copying over 2 .apk files to system and data using root explorer, but can't get it working on Incredible. Seems the same steps just don't apply. :( Been starting on a theme for the incredible but stuck on getting the keyboard highlight like the old Droid theme. Thanks if you can help.

Here is the keyboard with blue highlight I had working on the Droid.

Blue theme I just started working on for the Incredible.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] spigget:
Thanks!

You rock
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
After you edit it, it needs to be resigned in order to be able to install it on something without root (with root you could adb push it to /system/app technically). Honestly, I'm getting the highlight colors into the kitchen in addition to several other things. Soon as I have enough free time to sit down and merge all my changes that will be an option. The weather has just been too nice, and my schedule quite full (work/enjoying the weather while it's here :) ) but I will, with any luck, find some time soon(ish)! hahah.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] HolyGrail:
Sweet, thanks for the response. I'll try pushing it.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] thesparky007:
you are very welcome!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] tintobrass:
Superb work.... thanks a lot.!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] MusicMan374:
When will the low res site be updated to work with froyo? It was recently updated to fix a force close issue but my themed keyboard still force closes, and I rather like my themed keyboard.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
Just use a low res version for "1.5 only" for now. It has the voice input stripped out (that's what broken/change between 2.1 and 2.2 in regards to this keyboard). No ETA, but i'm working on getting a "proper" 2.2 for low res done up.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] amazinglarry311:
Glad to hear you're working on the fc issue with froyo.

If it helps, the voicesearch issues in general with froyo on low res devices (dream/sapphire) were due to a bad libspeech file circulating around in some of the gapps zips available.

Is this causing the force close? even after getting the correct libspeech pushed, i get the force close as well. I have no problem using the 1.5 apk until a fix is up, just wondering for my own knowledge/curiosity is causing the FC, logs and such were giving me no accurate clues.

I did notice one thing, i themed a keyboard a few months back and donut/eclair had no issues with the install, but upon moving to froyo it kept complaining about certificates so i had to resign the apk to get it to install. are you using signapk in the kitchen when outputting the themed ime?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] MrNameless:
how can i install the htc ime themed keyboard? i only get a .zip file
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] shmigao:
Unzip. Install the apk
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] MrNameless:
where is the .apk ? i only see folder like res,meta-inf,lib...
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] xxmonsterx:
im having trouble with this on cm6. worked perfect on cm5xx on n1, however endless fc loop on cm6
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] shmigao:
Then it sounds like a flashable update zip
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] xxmonsterx:
using v27 froyo btw
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] martin0285:
No problems here, I'm on v27 CM-6-RC1 and haven't had a single FC on HTC_IME..... Thats gIMpSTa's daily driver to so, I know it works for him as well.... Maybe post a logcat for him??
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
Then your on a MAC, and its auto unzipping the apk file too. Either use a different archiving program on the mac or copy the whole zip to sdcard and extract there with a file manager.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Tempestrs4:
Froyo Low Res?

Any chance for a Froyo version for low res devices? ie Dream/Magic?:confused:
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] MrNameless:
thanks!:):)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Zephyron:
Im getting constant FC on the v27 hi res whenever I try to bring up the keyboard to type, im on CM6-RC1. Could someone try this out to see if it works on other CM6? The regular stock v27 works fine
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
This is v27 high res and not v27-froyo high res, isn't it? If so, that's why it's FC-ing.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Zephyron:
Ah! duh! Dont I feel stupid now, I thought the site was only hi res froyo. thanks for the heads up!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] 5thAgent:
I really really hope we can get a Low-res froyo version with working voice input. I want my voice input! I'm stuck on Froyo's built in android keyboard. It's not that grand.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] TailsNeon556:
loving the online kitchen! great work! froyo v27 working perfectly
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] chtamina:
thanks, great idea !
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] naguz:
This is amazing! Donation coming you way, now that I have finally got around to installing this on my Desire (had it on my Dream previously). Switching languages with the stock HTC keyboard is just too time consuming. :P

BUT: Could I PLEASE be allowed to upload custom images for keys and function keys too?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
Thanks! I wish that were possible :-( the keys are .9 png files (nine patch) which require special formatting/processing that cannot be automated at this time. If you are comfortable making ninepatch images feel free to send me some and if they are properly formatted I can add them.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] howie2179:
can anyone help a newbie??

i have the htc desire i have downloaded the skin i wanted from the kitchen online and extracted using astro but my keyboard aint changed v27

any advice would be good:-)

ta much

howie
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] naguz:
Wouldn't it be possible to have an "advanced mode" or something availible and make people aware that .9-files are required?

Another (maybe wild idea):

-Define "standard" button with a certain size stretch lines in apropriate places

-Define a couple of different "fades" (sorry, can't remember the proper english word right now), and enabling you to select fade from and fade to colour for those.

-When a user has selected coclor fade type (like this: or this:

and the two different colour: Place the made colour fade inside the predefined button-"template" with alredy-done .9-markings

Maybe more simplified: Make a .9 button without colour fill, and then overwrite the pixels inside the border/edge with the users selcted colour fade.

I know you can use java image manipulation classes/tools to accomplish something like this (In fact, I have, as an assignment four years ago, but remember squat), and I would think some cli tools like imagemagick could accomplish the same task.

Now, I have no idea what your server setup is, what you can run on it, and how much work you want to put into it, but it sure as hell would be great to be able to make your own buttons by selecting two colours and a fade option!

Of course, this wouldnt enable people to put in whatever graphic they want to on their buttons, but just having fine control over the colours would be great for most people, I imagine. Alas one COULD repeat the procedure, and make a different finction for different button designs too, Bu that would be more work.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
I wrote some code doing exactly what you are describing (overlaying the stretch lines with a fill, etc) originally. The problem is, at least as far as I know, using Eclipse or any IDE/android sdk is the only way to "compile" (for lack of better word?) the images. After the stretch/content lines are in place, generally .9 images have to be imported into an android project, then that android project built and exported as apk, then the .9 images extracted from it. That part is the only part I can't automate.

Perhaps it is possible to take an already "compiled" .9 image and apply image effects to it without screwing up the .9 patching? If there is, I would love to know how. When I first got into "themeing" I tried a few different ways and always ended up causing distorted buttons due to losing the .9 info.

I'm completely open to ideas/suggestions if there is a way to do that.

The suggestion for an advanced mode and some of the stuff about color gradients etc are good ideas and things that I'm trying to do as I have time (which seems to be pretty infrequent lately!)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] naguz:
I imagined that your server compiled the apk after the user made their selection, sorry about that. I guess then the images are just replaced and the .apk resigned?

I would assume there isn't a widespread need for auto"compiling" .9s or apks, as these things are mostly handled by skins in other apps.

If you did automate the color/gradient automation already, I'd guess you could use that to make buttons with the two different gradients in all of the colours from your your text colour table /or another similar table, and then manually compile all these .9s in an app. At least that way you'd get a whole lot of button colours in one manual run.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
Yup that is exactly what happens. My server baksmali's classes.dex, makes required changes, smali's classes.dex and copies it and the new images into a folder and then added to the APK via zip, the apk is zipaligned/signed then packed for download.

That's actually a REALLY good idea. I'm big on code automation and can't believe I didn't think of that! I'll see what I can do, just been short on time lately! :)

Thanks for the input!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] naguz:
Thank you for the app and skinmaking tool. ;) If I can give some iadeas back, that's just great.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Edward64:
Gimpsta,

I am unable to install this on my Desire. I have Lee Droids Rom Version 1.4c, This Roma has Froyo with Sense. I have successfully installed jonas mod v.27. Astro, Linda or Appinstaller wont let me install, it gives an error message installation not successful. Astro gives message upon launch. Activity not found Jonas.ime. Any help will be appreciated.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] lakeside00:
hey..nice work on the themer..i just wanted to know if it would be possible to implement a way to change the green color
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] luhjay:
:'(

Is it possible to the a keyboard for my Eris which is a low res device. I'm running froyo & I tried the high res but it was to big. There is no option for froyo in low res & when I try ver. 27 low res & install it just force closes so i'm stuck. Any suggestions?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
Heh, it's been reported in here a few times that a Lowres version for 1.5 works just fine on lowres + froyo. I'd use that for now.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] luhjay:
Thanks for the reply. I will try that.