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[Nexus S Themes and Apps] mattycuss:
this is how i got this to work.

1. Download the themed

2. Extract the downloaded zip.

3. Open Root Explorer and navigate to the extracted folders and copy the vending.apk

file from the system/app folder

4. Navigate back to the phones System\app folder and paste the Vending.apk file into

the folder (after you have set it to R/W mode of course and yes overwrite the

current one). Be sure to set the permissions as well to match what others are in the

folder

5. After setting permisison copy the Vending.apk file again and this time paste it in the

phones data/app folder.

6. Look in the data/app folder and see if you see a file named

com.android.vending-1.apk. If you do copy the name of that file and then delete it; If

you don't see it that is ok just proceed to step 7

7.Then rename the vending.apk that you copied into in data/app to

com.android.vending-1.apk; the permissions on that one were already set after I

renamed it so I did not set any permissions on that file but if you do Be sure to set the permissions as well to match what others are in the folder; Exit from Root Explorer

8. Use CWM to Reboot to recovery.

9. In Recovery, select Advanced and choose wipe Dalvik Cache

10. Reboot, and your market should be back and themed

The reboot may take a few minutes and that is expected so don't be nervous if it takes up to 10 minutes as it will reboot it is just working and this as worked for me everytime without fail.

and yes pendo your theme does rock
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] pendo:
Thanks :)

Thanks for the compliments. :)

Flashing the zip should put you at the same place as the end of your #4. The copying of the apk into the data directory really shouldn't be required, since it's the same version anyway. If you do have a vending in your data/app/ directory, then it's an update to what was just in system. So by uninstalling updates in settings, it should just leave you with the one Vending in system.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] jayzfan1:
Sorry for the silly question but does this work with any rom?
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] theimpaler747:
Yes, it will :)
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] saltorio:
I'm curious if anyone's got this working well on the X10? I finally got it installed and working somewhat through the above manual installation instructions. The featured apps load OK, but when I got to 'My Apps' it seems to get stuck while loading and eventually offers the FC dialog. If I choose wait, it just sits at loading. After rebooting again, the market simply FCs as soon as I try to load it.

As listed in my signature, I'm running Wolfbreak's TW 007 ROM on baseband 54.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I would really like to get Market 2.3.6 installed so I have access to in-app purchases.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Shermer321:
I am wondering if you can make a blue one like you have that isn't transparent. And just black?
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] pendo:
I'll leave that to someone else to make a black background. :)

Just updated the op with a new revision of TransBlue it's H.O.T.!! :cool:
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] pendo:
updated op with alternate versions for those with fc issues. A lot of folks are having fc's, but not everyone (which gives me hope that sometime when/if I get some spare time I can get it working right) so I'm leaving the other versions up as well.

If you had fc's with the newest releases, please download the versions that have "og_manifest" at the end of their file name. They use the original manifest, and are 100% stable, but I do lose the transparent background on the comments page (this is how it's always been in my releases anyway)

Sorry :o
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] pendo:
6/26 UPDATE

After quite a bit of reading/testing and a whole bunch of experimenting, I'm fairly confident I've got the kinks worked out of this. And the good news is that I have now successfully edited the manifest without any ill effects from GoogleServicesFramework or GTalk. Updater works fine, too. All page views (except for initial TOS which is a webview) now have transparent backgrounds.

Updated link is in the op. Nothing different theme wise except for the additional page views that are transparent. (Comments page, and the Flag as inappropriate page are 2 that I can think of)

Oh, I guess I did add a new progressbar I've been working on. Let me know if you like it :)
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] dazednconfused:
Nice, like it a lot. Thanks for all of your hard work.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] keltsi95:
I just flashed the green one, it looks nice!! Thanks!!
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Shermer321:
2.3.6 FC's on Project-V

The BT version loads for a second then crashes
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] pendo:
Unfortunately I can't cite the exact technical reasons this is happening. I thought that I had this all fixed, and it does indeed seem so....when I was running cyanogen. I installed MIUI a few days ago just to see what all has changed in the few months since I've had it, and I instantly had fc's.

Any of the older versions prior to themed version 2.2.3 (that's theme version, not the app version) should work for you.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] CB620:
giving this a go.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] tomasitoc:
hello pendo,

Do plan in making a transparent version of the new market app?
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] opss:
+1 ;)
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] pendo:
Not at the moment. I just installed it yesterday and my initial thoughts are that I can't really envision how that would work right with the tiled layout that it has. I might play with some of the other page views like the individual app pages, but there's not really any room for transparency on the main pages I don't think. Just uncertain at this point how it would really work, but I'll likely do some experimenting to see if I can come up with something.

Overall, so far I'm missin my old market :-/
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] TheSceptile493:
I downloaded it from my Nexus S, extracted it, installed it then cleared cache but it isn't blue. I've also turned my Nexus S on and off. I'm not good with rooting and all that stuff when it comes to smartphones...Can anyone tell me what to do next?
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] snoopy1e11:
My market version is 2.3.7
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] NYYFan325:
I can't stand this new market. Main reason is that comments are completely missorted making it almost useless
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] pendo:
I'm not that big of a fan of it either. In some ways I am, and I do understand the need to progress to incorporate movies/book/etc. But I don't like the "tiled" look of the first few pages. It looks way too much like the new windows phone.

I've been playing with it a bit the last couple days though. I can't fix some of my biggest complaints with it, but I've been able to get most parts transparent like before. It still hase lots of issues though...like the full screen loading progress_indeterminate spinner is always showing in the background. Not so good if your background is transparent.

One thing I do like about the new market is the color coorination: green for apps/games, red for movies, and blue for books. I definitely would like to keep that convention....it just means I have a lot more work to do.

Ultimately, I still can't say for sure if it will ever get to the point that I will release it.

Another thing I've considered doing is just re-versioning 2.3.6 so that the auto-update won't force 3.0.27 down my throat ;)
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] pendo:
Which version do you have now? Most likely you are on the version you are on now because of a silent auto update. In which case the market app that you're really using would be /data/app/com.android.vending-1.apk (could also be -2 or higher number)

You can try to uninstall updates in settings>applications>manage applications>all apps but eventually you'll be upgraded again to this new market.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] decalex:
If I can help-- let me know. I had someone's transparent mod when it came out, and had the persistent loading progress spinner, and with the more refined version now, it doesn't seem to be happening. I could send it to you if you wanna pull it apart or compare.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] pendo:
Well, I haven't looked at it much yet but I'm pretty sure that I can get rid of it by removing lines similar to this

<include android:id="@id/placeholder_loading" layout="@layout/page_loading_indicator" />

of various layout xml. The problem with that is that I don't want to totally get rid of it. I just want it to be hidden once the view get's loaded (if that makes sense)

It would be easy if I could use the windowShowWallpaper attribute, but window attributes can only be applied as a theme in the manifest. They have zero effect when placed in layout xml.

When I get a chance to investigate it a bit, I'll hit you up if I run into problems though.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] cnwms03:
I wouldn't mind if u just re-versioned 2.3.6 to stop the auto update because I hate 3.0.27
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] pendo:
Alpha theme build

lol...I haven't tried to yet, but I suspect it should work just fine. I will try that a little later after dinner and a movie :)

BUT....I do have an "alpha" theme build for 3.0.26. Didn't realize we were on 3.0.27. So, if anyone is willing to try it out and let me know what you think so far, I've attached it to this post. In my opinion, it's no where near as nice as my previous theme job on 2.3.6. The layout/UI of the last series for the Market just seemed to lend itself to theming much better. I've integrated some elements from the last market where I could.

NOTE: This has been resigned with aosp platform certificate. I have tested it on my aosp build (obviously no issues there) as well as CoreDroid 7 (a Sense 3.0 build) on an HTC Inspire. I've just been doing "adb remount" and "adb push" Discovered that I don't even need to stop core like I used to.

Still not quite sure if this one is worth devoting much more time to. :-/
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] cnwms03:
Thx so much for looking into my request! The apk in this post didn't install for me. I'm running cm7.1rc
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] pendo:
I have completed my transparent theme build. This looks best on a darker wallpaper as my previous version.

The op has been updated with the new one
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Jasonhunterx:
Just wondering about the transition when you open market is it possible to implement in all opening of apps?
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] theimpaler747:
Yes it is. You'll need to edit the anim folder of your framework-res.apk.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] pendo:
OP updated with 3.1.3 :)
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] cnwms03:
Thx so much! Ur awesome!
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Tankrat:
Works great with simply honey 5.1beta
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] avvgopal:
Though it seems to have been themed for hdpi devices only,

it is working great on my Galaxy 5. I didn't notice any conflicts.

Thanks. Waiting for blue theme.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] pendo:
Blue trim is back up. Please report if you find any other issues.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] chris6278:
Pendo market updated again. Have fun updating yours lol
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] pendo:
yes, yes.....just need to find some time to dig into it. :o
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] pendo:
Sorry for the delay. OP has been updated with 3.1.5
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] al_madd:
If I want to go back to old market..what should i do??

using CM7 nighties
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] theimpaler747:
adb push the market from the CM7 zip.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] al_madd:
Ok master...

you are Phd level and I in kindergarten level..

Can we use more simple explaination here??dont understand what are saying...
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] pendo:
This is why I also include the stock version as well. At the bottom of the update section, you'll see a link for stock market 3.1.5.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] al_madd:
yes..I know that..is it the market compatible with CM7??
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] pendo:
At the risk of revealing my true ignorance....I was not ever aware of a "CM" version. I seem to recall a ways back there used to be a gapps package for cwm recoveries and then one for amon_ra, though.

In any case, I'm pretty sure that it works with CM since that's what I'm running myself (still rockin the good 'ol N1 )
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] theimpaler747:
Yeah, there is no CM7 market, the market is the same all around
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] bush2088:
using this with simply honey revolution and it works beautifully. thanks dev.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] JohnCorleone:
What's up Impaler!
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] pendo:
Hey, off topic but any of you Sprint folks had Google Wallet pushed out yet?
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] lilflip21:
3.1.6 update?

3.1.6 out..

http://www.multiupload.com/ZDSQ1JXBCO

can't wait for updates :)
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] treezy26:
Whats new in the 316 update?
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] KMDonlon:
Any chance of a blue version of 3.2.0?
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] pendo:
I'm not theming 3.1.6 nor 3.2.0.

The dubious circumstances surrounding 3.1.6 are fairly well known I think. I was linked to 3.2.0 last week, but I found some irregularities with it as well. Admittedly, those irregularities aren't quite as scary as what was seen in 3.1.6, but the fact it's been altered at all is enough reason for me to not touch it.

Just to be specific, here's the things that bother me:

The large format device resources have been removed. We can tell this was done AFTER it was originally compiled because of the APKTOOL_DUMMY entry in styles.xml.

When verifying the apk, the dates are from April 15 yet the dates in 3.1.5 are from August 21.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Enki2011:
Hi guys !

I'm looking for the 2.3.6 Transgreen version but all links are dead.

Thank you
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] pendo:
sorry I missed this, but iirc I replied to you in another thread...
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] XxSilent22xX:
How can i stop my market from updating? I uninstalled "market update" thinking that might help but it didn't.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] pendo:
Not sure....I noticed this same thing.

I do have an initial build of the new market you can try. I posted a link in the N1 section a couple days ago as a beta realease but I'll link it here too. I'm not 100% confident it though so...... "caveat emptor

" ;)

TransMarket-3.3.11bl-beta2-signed.zip
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] pendo:
Getting a little closer now, I think:

TransMarket-3.3.11bl-beta3-signed.zip
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] XxSilent22xX:
Been running beta 2 for a few days all seems well, had to reboot once because a app wouldn't install but working now going to try beta 3 thanks!

Sent from my Nexus S
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] pendo:
Updated op. Nothing changed from beta 3. :)
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] manan001:
2.3.6 market is best till now
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] pendo:
Updated the op due to a problem that I've discovered with the market that, as of right now, I'm not sure how/when I can fix it. The market fc's when trying to view some apps, but not all. The vast majority of apps seem to be unaffected. Anyone is obviously free to continue to use it if you aren't experiencing any issues, but I like to be upfront about things and at least give everyone a heads up.

Hopefully the problem can be identified soon.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] RotesMeerJogger:
your market looks like great! is there a way to handle this fc's?
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] pendo:
Oops...I guess I didn't update the op in this forum. Yes, I discovered the cause of the fc's were caused by a decompiling error with apktool. And actually it's been updated a couple versions to 4.3.3. I'll update the op right now.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] JohnCorleone:
So am I holding on downloading the market right now? Are you updating the apk or just the OP? EDIT...Nevermind..looks,great! Pending, do you have any other transparent apps? I used to use your transparent XDA app on my OG Epic. Love the transparent stuff!!! Thanks
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] pendo:
Thanks.

With the transparent xda app, I was only a collaborator with my main responsibility being the transparency stuff. Impaler was overall responsible, as well as the publisher. This is the only themed apk I publish myself at this time, and most of the other transparent markets (that I know of) are at least partially based on my original design. The only other transparency item I've recently worked on is enabling transparency in ICS for the galaxy nexus.

Most of my activity these days is just via pm's with helping other themers with specific questions.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] JohnCorleone:
OK, thanks for responding. The Market looks and works great. I put it on my Epic Touch as well. Thanks again!
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] pendo:
Updated op with a *very* small text color correction. :-)
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] bnitty:
is there a red trim bkuz I saw a pic of it in the OP?

courtesy of my Red Shogun theme'd with dy-NASTY "Hot Cream Sandwich" sprinkled GummyNex 0.7.2 Nexus S 4G using Tapatalk
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] XxSilent22xX:
There is no top search bar and pressing search in menu doesn't work either but everything else works great

EDIT: Search started to work now but it wasnt before so i had to use the softey search, might be something to look into.

Sent from my Nexus S
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] pendo:
Hey, nice one! Didn't think about trying that. Thanks!

I'm probably my own worst critic, and I'm usually never fully satisfied with things, but I have no desire to change anything with this

...until I compiled Gingerbread a couple days ago. Lol....now I know why they made it green. I do plan on adjusting the colors in the big banner, as well as the pressed and focused highlights with the intention of matching better with default aosp. While 2.3 aosp has a green motif, it's not that ugly green that in in the stock market.

Have no idea when I'll get to this, but hopefully soon :)

I don't really have an entire theme. It's kind of a long story how this has evolved but it started from my super circles. A member asked about combining aspects of the Galaxy stuff with Manup's work. It actually turned out to be very popular (by my stats anyway), and I even made a metamorph that themed ~20 different apks to match the framework-res. That wasn't quite as popular, but what metamorph really is? lol.

Fast forward and this member now has a NS. I've tried a couple different times for him, but I've had mixed results...one looked ok at first, but had text/background color mismatches in a few places and the other bootlooped. Framework-res is noticeably different with 2.3...much more so that 2.0-2.2. BUT I just compiled gb and now have it running (mostly, lol) on my N1 so now that I have this in hand, I should be able to more properly "port" this over. Getting the pendo-blue :D frame-res on gingerbread is a priority for sure.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] chris6278:
Its ok pendo u can give me credit for coming up with the pendo blue idea lol just kidding, anyways text me when u want me to test another one for you
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] pendo:
lol.

I'm hoping to get one later today. Now that I've got gb on my N1, it should help me a bit. I can already see where the text colors were a problem.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] MAMBO04:
loool sounds good mate, glad you changed your mind ;) look forward to it! Cheers.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] 2FR35H:
Awesome do you think you can make a Red Version or if you already have point me in that direction? :)​
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] pendo:
No, but here's a red one I found earlier. It doesn't have themed icons below the banner....don't know about any other differences. I've replace or modded just about every png that is is the high density drawables folder.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=880967
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] chris6278:
Im sorry but that red one is horrendous! Ill stick wit the blue lol
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] pendo:
yeah, it wasn't my cup of tea either, but it was cool to finally see someone else who got rid of big green banner, lol

BUT disregard that comment, because I have finally taken a little bit of time and played with the market again. Like I said earlier....I love my blue market, but it doesn't fit well with a stockish gingerbread. So I've went back to green :D But it's pendo-green, and not quite as fugly as the stock version.

I wasn't going to post until I got further along, but I've come to a good checkpoint where it doesn't look too bad--although it's still not done--so I wanted to post to get a little feedback from those interested in the green if they liked the progress. The icons are all the same. But all different colors. No wait....I did put some new menu icons in. There's one button I haven't found the code to change yet...the more button. It uses ic_menu_more.png from framwork-res, but I haven't found the xml to change it yet. I have an icon ready to drop in as soon as I do.....always gotta be at least one file that trips me up.

I've been stopping core, pushing to /system/app, then restarting core. Done it a good 4-5 maybe 6 times at least, no problems here. But here's a flash.zip for recovery, as well as the apk in the attachment:

Market-2.2.7_pendo-green_wip1-signed.zip
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] chris6278:
Pendo just tried your green one an it looks good but again ill stick with the blue. It just works with what i got goin on
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] pendo:
Hey Chris thanks,

Did you install with the link or did you push the attachment? If it was the link, I'm guessing you didn't have any issues?
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] LORD JUNIOR:
How did you get it to work with root explorer?

Sent From My HTC GLACIER 4G S-OFF ROOTED.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] pendo:
Guys for what it's worth here's my exact commands I use when testing out my edits:

adb shell stop
adb remount
adb push Vending.apk /system/app
adb shell start

Obviously this is assuming you're in the directory that the new Vending.apk. Works every time for me. Doesn't matter if I'm on CM 6.1.1 or my current rom, aosp gingerbread. :)
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] racerboy3801:
hey pendo

is it cool if i also can share the green market in sgs forums, blue is a fantastic hit

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=889475
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] stevo1006:
i also had to mount system in recovery so that the flash zips would take affect. but all up and running now.

good work mate keep it up.

whats next on the themeing list????
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] MAMBO04:
Woop! Cheers mate :) do you mind if i use this in my GingerMix theme @ the Galaxy S themes sub forum? I'll credit you, of course.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] mikeinessex:
Bring on the black market :P :) i know there are some out there but none of them seem to work. your blue one works great on the galaxy s :)
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] pendo:
Updated the op with screenhots of the green theme. I didn't really change much from the wip version earlier. The new download links are flash.zips just like before, and I've included updated attachments at the bottom of the op as well :)

Yup, sure thing

Hmm...what font size do you mention my name??? Lol sure thing. Appreciate the compliment

Haha...you know I actually thought about this for a second....but for only about a second, lol.

Thanks again everybody for the compliments. Mucho appreciated :D
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] chris6278:
Pendo u seem to be gettin popular over here in my neck of the woods so just suck it up an get urself a NS u know u want one lol
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] mindnumbinglyfun:
hey pendo, i am trying to add to a blue accented gingerbread keyboard, and i would like to borrow from you. the blue in the suggested text box, which file did you edit to change the color? im pretty new to any kind of modding or theming but im trying to learn. i decompiled your apk and looked through the xmls but couldnt seem to find anything..
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] pendo:
The suggested text colors are in /values/colors.xml and are referred to as: candidate_normal, candidate_recommended, and candidate_other

Thanks, and be sure to credit me if you post your theme ;)
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] ryan562:
thanks to the OP. this matches my currently blue theme going on my NS. i installed the bluevendor.apk through root explorer quite easily.