[Android Themes] zHk3R:
- Settings and custom sliders

- How-to create a theme [UPDATE SOON]

- Future updates and wishes

The thread is full of answers and questions. If you do a quick search you might find the answer you were looking for. If you can't

find it, don't hesitate to ask. There are other users here willing to help you. Feel free to comment in this thread or send me a PM

if you feel the thread needs an update on any of the steps.

After initial setup you can personalize your settings some more. The first thing you're going to wanna edit is the Layout

- The grid size: If you're familiar with LauncherPro or ADW you should know that grid sizes determines how the screen will look.

WidgetLocker allows for up to 10x10 grid. Try it out and see what you like best. The grid size also changes the way themes look.

You can think of it like changing your density, unless you use the anchor. It will automatically resize the theme to the appropriate

size. It doesn't work in landscape mode, though.

- The wallpaper: The issue is that the system can only have one wallpaper and it's shared globally. So WidgetLocker's custom

wallpapers are just images that WidgetLocker displays as a background. The best fix for this might be for WidgetLocker to let you select

a file, using gallery or astro or whatever, and then have WidgetLocker do the cropping itself. This way it gets the actual image and can still

crop it or scale it down (sanely) to avoid using so much memory, but can be done without banding. If you want to do it manually in the mean

time and are rooted you can replace WidgetLocker's /data/data/com.teslacoilsw.widgetlocker/files/wallpaper.png with your own. Just make

sure the resolution matches your phones. Then disable/reenable WidgetLocker to get it to reload.

- Installing a custom slider: Since WidgetLocker 2.0 custom themes are supported and come in the .wltheme.zip format. This means you can

open it and your phone will prompt you to Install and Add the theme. The themes are saved on your SD card (/data/com.widgetlocker.teslacoilsw/themes).

You can also copy the theme.wltheme.zip to the folder on your SD card. Naturally the theme will be unavailable once your SD card is mounted to a

computer or something similar. It will return to normal once you unmount it again. You add the themes you've installed by longpressing the screen and

choose Custom Slider. There you can do even further settings, like slide from right to left. If not you simply press "Add".

- Advanced settings: You can use Root Helper to avoid seeing the standard Android lockscreen if you have root. This is not something the developer of

WidgetLocker can do anything about. Check the information found in the application regarding root and standard lockscreen. An alternative is downloading

NoLock from the Market. If you've got root and a custom ROM loaded you can probably disable the lockscreen under Power Settings.

1) Create a new document.

The height of the slider is 150 - but we're going to add two extra pixels. WidgetLocker uses _3.png which allows for up and downsizing of the sliders. That means the

themes can be used with basically any device, ranging from HTC Wildfire to the Motorola Xoom. It's still not a hundred percent - but it's a hell of a lot better than the

old way of theming. More on _3.png in the next step

2) The black pixel (_3.png)

As you can see in the image below I've added a 1x1 pixel on the very top of my image. You can either zoom in a couple of times or create a smallest box you possibly

can in full view. The pixel has to be 1x1 if not it'll be shown in the theme. Which doesn't look good. In the picture below I'm zoomed in at 200 % (I think).

Continue making your design.

3) The slider

The actual size of the slider you can change around just as much as the background. I usually go with the same height, that way aligning the slider and background seems

easier. This is pretty self explanatory, see the below image.

Continue making your design.

This is what you want your themes folder to look like. The slider_right is fully transparent. There's no need to actually make it transparent. If your background doesn't contain

any text you can include a second arrow (like above) but the other way so other users can choose themselves if the want to slide left or right. (Protip)

Then finally .zip the themes-folder!

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