I am having problems with gimp.
I can pull a png out of apk and replace it without editing and apk will install.
I pull png out of apk, open with gimp and save (without any actual editing) and apk WONT install.
So I have a good idea something is going wrong when I save the png. I have tried a variation of save settings (but not all). I've read gimp defaults should be fine, but this is not the case.
I have themed in the past and never encountered any problems of this sort..This was always the easy part!
Advice anyone?
edit: from comparing 2 images. one extracted, opened, and saved and one extracted there is a 50 byte difference. Although this might not be important
is it one of those .9.pngs that are supposed to stretch or whatever?
No. Standard png. I've tried the same process with photoshop and got the same results. I'm gonna try Linux and see if that fixes my problems
What exactly are you trying to edit? Are you editing an image form a rom? Or are you trying to edit something from a third party program?
Logcat says something like "no certificates at entry raw-hdpi/image-name.png"... if that's useful for anyone. I did a thorough search but couldn't find anything that helped much.
@N-force, it's a third party app that I have successfully themed many times on my old computer (windows 7 32b).
I'm starting to wonder if it doesn't have something to do my windows 7 64b OS. To test this hypothesis I tried the entire process in Linux, but this didn't work either. This could be flawed however because I used wubi to install a 64b version of Ubuntu. I should probably retry with a live version of Linux.
Also I failed installing apk themed from my brothers computer, which has the same OS as mine.
Anyone else had problems themeing on 64 bit OS?
Edit: I've successfully edited the apk's smali and recompiled. It's just these damn PNGs
Make sure you resign the apk after editing the pngs.
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I haven't signed the apk after I just dropped edited PNGs into 7zip; but I have decompiled, switched out PNGs, recompiled, and signed. This gave me same end result. I'll try sign apk after 7zip modification, but I'm skeptical. Thanks for the advice tho, I'll let you know if it's the ticket
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I haven't signed the apk after I just dropped edited PNGs into 7zip; but I have decompiled, switched out PNGs, recompiled, and signed. This gave me same end result. I'll try sign apk after 7zip modification, but I'm skeptical. Thanks for the advice tho, I'll let you know if it's the ticket
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ok. are you deleting the png from the apk before adding your modded one?
if not then you are doing it right.
is this an apk from market or from system?
Hey synisterwolf, good to hear from you. I definitely just replaced old PNGs when I drop them into 7zip, which is what I've always done. When I was monkeying around with decompiling and recompiling I think I just replaced old PNGs. May have deleted them though.
It's shapewriter. Not really from market anymore but not a system. Me and my brother (Funkencool) made dozens of themes for it a couple summers ago. Then I got busy for awhile and bought a new computer and now nothing works.
I got the tracer ICS blue, recompiled, signed, installed. It's purely PNG problem
Would it help if I uploaded one of these broken APKs...I got more than enough on my desktop
Edit: Not one .9 in the entire APK
Yeah. Some none system apks are signed with a different key. If the 7zip trick doesn't work you will need to deconpile it once. Then resign it. Then you will be able to do the trick from there on out.
Upload the file if the decompile trick doesn't work. Ill look at it for you.
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Another thing to add is once decompiled, delete the public.XML the one that gives the id's to the png. Apk tool should give them new keys.
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Didn't quite get her for me...here's my steps
1)decompile
2)delete res/values/public.xml
3)recompile (system apk? N)
4)sign
This apk installed fine and worked...except one weird thing I noticed is the keyboard works fine, but the cute little instructions you get when clicking the app in the app drawer would cause a force close.
5)replace qwerty.png by dropping it into apk (res/raw-hdpi) (7zip)
Install fails
here is my result as of step 4
here is my result as of step 5
Edit: After talking to my bro (funkencool) tonight I'm getting real convinced it's OS related. We have the identical PB cracked OS and both are encountering this same issue (with much different hardware specs).I know it doesn't seem logical but it doesn't seem to be happening to anyone else. I'm just hitting my head against a wall now. By the way thanks for the help Synisterwolf, I know your a master of the trade. Next I'll try all editing on a live version of linux, and if that doesn't work...I don't know
Edit2: Or like N-forced said, resign apk after the nifty 7zip drop... regular PNGs have never been an issue... I can edit smali and install but PNGs ruin everything, I dont get it
luke1987 said:
Didn't quite get her for me...here's my steps
1)decompile
2)delete res/values/public.xml
3)recompile (system apk? N)
4)sign
This apk installed fine and worked...except one weird thing I noticed is the keyboard works fine, but the cute little instructions you get when clicking the app in the app drawer would cause a force close.
5)replace qwerty.png by dropping it into apk (res/raw-hdpi) (7zip)
Install fails
here is my result as of step 4
here is my result as of step 5
Edit: After talking to my bro (funkencool) tonight I'm getting real convinced it's OS related. We have the identical PB cracked OS and both are encountering this same issue (with much different hardware specs).I know it doesn't seem logical but it doesn't seem to be happening to anyone else. I'm just hitting my head against a wall now. By the way thanks for the help Synisterwolf, I know your a master of the trade. Next I'll try all editing on a live version of linux, and if that doesn't work...I don't know
Edit2: Or like N-forced said, resign apk after the nifty 7zip drop... regular PNGs have never been an issue... I can edit smali and install but PNGs ruin everything, I dont get it
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dont hate me. but it worked for me. decompile replace the png compile and sign.
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i am getting an fc when trying to go into settings. dont know what is causing that. i need my home pc to figure that out
Fixed the FC problem. so use mine and try to change a png with 7zip. it should be good to go for you.
Edit: nvm fc is back after a reboot.
Going to try without the tracer edit. Maybe that's the cause.
what tools are you using to decompile the apk?
also i was wondering if you would share how you edited the tracer for another memeber.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1438135
we couldnt figure that out for the life of us. if you could do that. that would be most excellent.
edit: looks like your brother already did. -_- to early here i need coffee.
ok so this is a fresh shapewriter with only the png change. no FC or anything. works just fine. take this and try your tracer edit. let me know what you come up with.
Well I kinda feel like a fool after all the struggling, but you got me thru it synister, thanks alot. I was using apk manager, but this time around I used MultiTool. I must have been deleting the images before replacing and compiling last time, or something. I gave up on 7zip trick. But here's what I have so far. I still need to fine tune.
ICSshapewriter
BTW, the tracer color is in SWI_KeyboardViewTrace.smali ... we were stuck with red green or blue for awhile, but funkencool had a stroke of genius and added a few variables to give us any color we want.
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Well I kinda feel like a fool after all the struggling, but you got me thru it synister, thanks alot. I was using apk manager, but this time around I used MultiTool. I must have been deleting the images before replacing and compiling last time, or something. I gave up on 7zip trick. But here's what I have so far. I still need to fine tune.
ICSshapewriter
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i was using apk manager for the png swap. do you get an fc when going into settings?
Seems to be running fine so far. Rebooted once
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Seems to be running fine so far. Rebooted once
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wonder what i did to break it lol but anyways im glad you got it working.
Noticed this today, gonna take some serious digging to find the culprit. Atleast the tracer was half identifiable by the filename. I don't know what you'd call this, or even why it happens. I'll find her though
Edit: Think I found where key (character) color and that green highlight are defined. Wish I didn't have a mountain of homework to start so I could test!
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has anyone successfully edited the .9 images and got them working in their themes ?
Plz reply the poll too...
check out teknotiq, he explained some of the information to me about his work with editting .9 pngs... also most themes such as BUUF, Fadte to Blue, Stericson's themes, all have .9 pngs edited... you can check with them as well
I too have got them successfully edited...
i have made this thread just to know wheather .9.png images are changed widely ?
so thanks on your reply....
want more people reply....
They can be changed but they always break, I have never had one loop me at the boot screen. Some look ok and others dont, its just trial and error.
I've noticed the best way to change these .9.pngs is to give them a 1 pixel border. The buttons for instance, the inside is one color and the border should be a 1 pixel black or whatever color of the theme. You have to erase the corners to, if not they stretch weirdly.
hey pud, try editing the clear notifications button and change its color, without it breaking. Then send me a pic. I was stuck on this forever....
damnitpud said:
I've noticed the best way to change these .9.pngs is to give them a 1 pixel border. The buttons for instance, the inside is one color and the border should be a 1 pixel black or whatever color of the theme. You have to erase the corners to, if not they stretch weirdly.
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i do it the same way
Stericson said:
hey pud, try editing the clear notifications button and change its color, without it breaking. Then send me a pic. I was stuck on this forever....
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I ll try doin that and give it to u...
I figured out the .9.pngs! The procedure is here! Updated: 02/13/09
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If you have downloaded the SDK and Eclipse, you have all the tools you need, If not you should grab them and follow Google's guide.
This process is somewhat a pain in the butt, but worth it. You need to take the .9 off of the file name that you want to change, then drag it into the draw9patch tool from the Android SDK(in the tools folder) Here is some info about draw9patch. Pay attention to the Note in the middle of the page. Once you have your 9patch file edited and saved you need to compile it, the lines will remain on this .9 image until it is compiled with eclipse. you need to open a project, or create one in eclipse, drag the .9.png into the drawable folder, then right click your project folder and choose android tools/export unsigned application package. Once this is done, you want to open the apk with WinRar and pull your .9.png files out. you will notice the lines are gone! That is all, I am sure people who have not downloaded the SDK and Eclipse yet might have problems understand this process, but I will try to help you. I am not a guru with Eclipse but i know enough to get by.
Good luck and happy stretching =)
Playing with the SDK today, i found in "SDK\tools\lib\res\default\drawable" all of the .9.pngs have the black lines intact. These could be good for learning the best way to stretch these images. Also the xmls have not been converted to binary, so it might make for some interesting hacks for themes.
Here is a screen shot of the draw9patch tool. The bottom and right sets the content area and the left and top set the stretch area.
I am not sure if i am going to disclose this info just yet (because of the competition) but i wanted to let everyone know its been figured out and we will all know very soon!
i am uploading some screen shots now with some perfect buttons! Anyone who has used my theme knows the buttons looked somewhat messy, well no longer will they be.
damnitpud said:
I am not sure if i am going to disclose this info just yet but i wanted to let everyone know its been figured out and we will all know very soon!
i am uploading some screen shots now!
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way to go! excited to see some sshots!
looks amazing man! I've been using this theme for the last week and i must say its totally grown on me. Thanks for putting out some kick ass updates
Great to hear.
To tell you the truth, I loved your theme. The only reason I uninstalled it was because of the .9.pngs stretched out and looked bad.
After seeing these pics though I will reinstall =)
That's cool but this theme competitions is starting to suck, no one want to share any info due to fear of losing. I'm fearing this comp.. my be counter productive.
are some .9's harder to edit than others? never tried editing the buttons and such but the ones i've tried editing (the notifications bar etc.) seem not to mess up, no matter what i do to them. are some of them just really temperamental?
Not me if i had info like that i would share it because for me i don't care if i win or lose one this not my first comp and second i have been doing this to long.
@Damnitpud
Good work bro.
For the few .9 pngs I have modified so far I just used the layer blending properties to apply an overlay with some opacity and saw no ill effects. I haven't done many yet, but if I am just changing colors, I don't see why this shouldn't work for all fo them. Since it preserves the original shapes and layouts, just adds a tint to the image.
I am going to type up the steps to getting the .9s working properly. I am going to end up sharing the info, i'm not one to usually hoard info. There is still some learning to do with the draw9patch tool, but at least we can get rid of those damn lines after messing with it in in the draw9 tool.
I will add it to the first post of this thread.
Meltus said:
are some .9's harder to edit than others? never tried editing the buttons and such but the ones i've tried editing (the notifications bar etc.) seem not to mess up, no matter what i do to them. are some of them just really temperamental?
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Yes some are very hard and only distort at larger sizes. The buttons are very difficult, even opening them up and saving the file will break it. you don't even have to change anything. Try changing the btn_default_normal.9.png and use the stock btn_default_pressed.9.png. you will see a big difference when you press that button.
That's cool but this theme competitions is starting to suck, no one want to share any info due to fear of losing. I'm fearing this comp.. my be counter productive.
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I agree, that is why i am going to release the info, its pretty simple but very tedious. Not as bad as compressing the images like i figured out before. But that's only because there is not as many.
Not me if i had info like that i would share it because for me i don't care if i win or lose one this not my first comp and second i have been doing this to long.
@Damnitpud
Good work bro.
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This is the first time...well second time i have found something the community was looking for answers to, i am normally one of the herd waiting for the relases...not doing the release myself. i would love to win the competition, but i doubt perfect buttons will give me that much of an edge. =)
And thank you!
manup456 said:
Not me if i had info like that i would share it because for me i don't care if i win or lose one this not my first comp and second i have been doing this to long.
@Damnitpud
Good work bro.
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I agree. I want to get into the comp but it's not for the money. I'm doing it because it's fun to see what people can come up with and I enjoy a challenge. Besides isn't the comp about who's theme is most aesthetically pleasing, since none of us are releasing the themes to the public until after the comp no one will see those things anyway unless you post up 100 screens shots that is.
I gave away my secret in the first post =)
Sweet jesus.
You've opened a whole new can of worms.
The world is in our hands, now.
I successfully edited my first .png and ported it as a theme!
Colored Vibrating Phone!!
I want to appologize for being impatient to all the current theme developers specifically Manup. After spending an hour how to get the .png to save in the archive file, I can see that editing each individual icon could take hours and hours if you want it to look right.
Time for me to try at some more difficult stuff.
Hope to be posting my first theme within the next few months.
um..what did you do that took so long?
well....
Remember that this is my first self attempt at this.
I was having trouble getting it to save to the archive. The pop up was behind other applications I was running, so I didn't see it prompting me to save to the archive.
Next is just the editing of the .png itself. If I was just copying and pasting it wouldn't have taken any time. I had to find the icon I wanted to put there, then change the colors just right. It isn't really hard, just time consuming, but you already know that. This is why I was apologizing. Its my first time, give me a break.
Ok I went to edit the first android boot screen.
and of course it hung on boot screen in a loop. My file went from around 3k to 31k so obviously the file is too big. I can't seem to find an option to compress or deflate the file using 7zip.
Can any give me some suggestions?
You don't the .png images with 7zip you do it with Photoshop or whatever graphic design program. There is a post some where explaining how to compress the .png images i just don't know it of hand.
Yeah you want to save the file in photoshop using the save for web & devices...or the pngout program. read thru this here. has my way and the pngout way in the posts.
Ill give ya a tip, this is how i do it at least. i extract the update.zip then extract all the apks that i am going to change. I start editing all the files in framework-res, then move to Launcher, contacts and phone. After these are done i normally import them into the update.zip, sign it and test it.
When i import the images i just open the update.zip in WinRar, then double click the apk i need to import images into. It opens the apk in a new WinRar window, i browse tot he folder i need then just drag the images into it. Do that for each apk then sign it and test it.
Hope this helps.
I was using 7zip for extraction and paintshop pro for editing
I was doing fine. I was just excited to get that far. One of the problems I ran into was when I edited an image file it went from 3k to 30k when. I even used png crush and it only compressed to 24k. Not sure if it is even important yet.
I was only:
A) apologizing for expecting so much when it is so much work.
B) proud that I figured it out and am on my way to editing/creating my own theme.
I only ask one thing of some of the more senior devs. Please don't be so critical. All of us are at several different levels. What may seem juvenile to you might be a huge hurdle to others. This is why we are dependant on you for themes.
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I was doing fine. I was just excited to get that far. One of the problems I ran into was when I edited an image file it went from 3k to 30k when. I even used png crush and it only compressed to 24k. Not sure if it is even important yet.
I was only:
A) apologizing for expecting so much when it is so much work.
B) proud that I figured it out and am on my way to editing/creating my own theme.
I only ask one thing of some of the more senior devs. Please don't be so critical. All of us are at several different levels. What may seem juvenile to you might be a huge hurdle to others. This is why we are dependant on you for themes.
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Good job on getting going, im getting ready to make a go of it as well. I dont think they are criticizing you just being helpful. Have you seen how critical people are in the theme makers posts, cant believe half the theme makers still do it lol.
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I was doing fine. I was just excited to get that far. One of the problems I ran into was when I edited an image file it went from 3k to 30k when. I even used png crush and it only compressed to 24k. Not sure if it is even important yet.
I was only:
A) apologizing for expecting so much when it is so much work.
B) proud that I figured it out and am on my way to editing/creating my own theme.
I only ask one thing of some of the more senior devs. Please don't be so critical. All of us are at several different levels. What may seem juvenile to you might be a huge hurdle to others. This is why we are dependant on you for themes.
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Hope i didn't come off that way...i was just trying to help. no ill intenet in that post at all =)
Thank you.
It always helps with reassuring words while trying something this complicated.
Thank you damnitpud.
I have been following the forums very closely since October. I have even followed your posts and tutorials. I am just trying to ride the wave crest and not fall in, because getting out is a *****. I have had to not only pick up the 'ol writing computer
Read through my post here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3339701&postcount=6
It tells you how to edit the update.zip without extracting anything but the drawables folder. After a lot of time and effort I have streamlined the process as much as possible so maybe you can pick up a few tricks with that walkthrough. And I use gimp, I dont mess wtih compression or saving file for web. I take big images, save them as a png, resize them to 48x48 using the XP power toys resizing tool and drag-and-drop them into my update.zip. I dont know what is happening but everyone keeps thinking its way harder than it really is.
Then when I swap themes from ADP to RC33 or vice versa I open up my theme in 7zip and a blank theme in the version I want to convert too. I got to each apk and drag-and-drop the drawables folder straight into the other update.zip replacing the existing drawables folder. If you do it my way you can convert a theme in minutes or if you have all the artwork you can turn it into a theme in about 15-20 mins TOPS.
My biggest suggestion is to experiment with trial and error, use your nandroid backup and make mistakes, its the best way to learn and there is nothing that compares to hands on experience, that way you know what works and you can tell people from experience instead of hearsay.
7Zip is the best tip you gave B, I tried using WinRar but it wasnt as user friendly for this stuff. Especially as 7Zip saves as you swap and move up the file tree.
I am using your tutorial B.
I don't have photoshop, so I am using Paintshop pro PhotoX2 which works fine for me.
I was using 7zip, but I am used to using Winzip. I am currently using Winzip12 so thats serving my needs nicely.
What I was referring too isn't so much difficult in moving files around, it is more or less knowing WHICH files you can mess with. I have seen posted that don't mess with .9.png files at them moment as that can cause problems. I also do not know what size a theme is aloud to be in the update.zip. I also wanted to know If i have to include ever single file or if it is just neccessary to do just the things you want to change.
It isn't hard to actually do the file changing and such, the "HARD" part is more Time consuming then hard, and thats the artwork required to actually change the look of the component.
More questions will pop-up I am sure, but I am in the Trial and Error Stage right now.
Another question if anyone reads this, Where is the Clock Widget located? I see that every theme maker edits this, and lets be honest, If you use this widget, it is the center focal point of every theme. Just changing this gives the whole desktop another feel.
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...Where is the Clock Widget located? I see that every theme maker edits this, and lets be honest, If you use this widget, it is the center focal point of every theme. Just changing this gives the whole desktop another feel.
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It's in the Launcher.apk.
All your questions are in the tutorials, if you drag the drawable folder onto your desktop you can see the pics when you doubleclick the folder.
Just my thought,
The clock is something that most people change, but I dont use the clock, that is why the time is in the corner constantly. I feel the clock just eats up space on my desktop. Of course I like it with as few icons as possible.
Thanx for the replies.
I had also found the clock in the Launcher.apk file, but for some reason, when I try and edit it and put it back into the folder it causes my phone stop at the boot screen. I just wanted to make sure I was trying to edit the right file.
I somehow expected it to be in a completely different place.
Yes a lot of my questions may seem to be repeats, but I had initially started this thread as just a Eureka thread. But as long as people who are in the know are reading it, I am glad to ask questions. Sometimes the Main threads and stickies are 150 pages deep and after not reading them for two days you kind of get behind.
well if we are asking questions....then can someone help me
when I go to update my phone with the update zip i get
E:Wrong digest
system/app/Launcher.apk
E:Verification failed
and yes I am new at this...
Have you rooted with RC29 yet?
Looks like what happens before you root.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442480
Read this first.
I had the exact same "wohoo" feeling when I made my first theme mod and it was a success.
Hey guys!
First of, I am NOT the maker of this and don't deserve any credit for it.
Just thought I'd share this with all of you.
You will need Wisbar Advance Desktop 2 for this to work.
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Hi there!
First of all I would like to thank destri for designing an awesome theme for WAD2 and giving me permission to release a modded wvga version of his. You really brought the "wow" effect to a whole new level ^^
You can find the original "Concept" by destri over here.
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INSTALL
- Unrar the concept wvga file to your desktop.
- You'll see 1 map and 1 wadesktop file.
- Inside the theme-folder you'll find the following folders: weather big and weather small.
- Copy these 2 folders onto your phone (It doesn't matter where, since you can assign these by going to your settings in WAD2)
- Install concept.wadesktop as you usally do with wad2 themes.
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Link to original thread here : http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=15250
[Download link] : http://www.filedropper.com/conceptwvga
Youtube preview vid (apologies for quality!) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cKBpPKBhxA
hehe
Thanks for sparing me to make a thread here at xda
Atm working on a landscape mode of this one though ^^
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Have fun!
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Thanks for sparing me to make a thread here at xda
Atm working on a landscape mode of this one though ^^
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Have fun!
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Heh no problem, thought you didn't mind. I also mirrored it as most people don't really like the rapidshare links, you could add the mirror to your original post aswell if you want. Yeah I read that in the original post, really waited a long time for the WVGA version of the concept theme as it just looks awesome. Flashing my device now to a very stripped ROM and gonna install it. , how are interface transitions and such at the moment?
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Heh no problem, thought you didn't mind. I also mirrored it as most people don't really like the rapidshare links, you could add the mirror to your original post aswell if you want. Yeah I read that in the original post, really waited a long time for the WVGA version of the concept theme as it just looks awesome. Flashing my device now to a very stripped ROM and gonna install it. , how are interface transitions and such at the moment?
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Everything is pretty responsive. Although not as fast as the original for the omnia...but still fast enough for me.
However when going from the lock screen to the home screen, wad 2 might not respond for like 1 or 2 seconds (dnno why )
So please have a bit patience so you won't be tapping around your screen (and so opening apps or tabs you don't want to open )
Mirror added btw
dgen said:
Everything is pretty responsive. Although not as fast as the original for the omnia...but still fast enough for me.
However when going from the lock screen to the home screen, wad 2 might not respond for like 1 or 2 seconds (dnno why )
So please have a bit patience so you won't be tapping around your screen (and so opening apps or tabs you don't want to open )
Mirror added btw
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Alright great. Well the looks alone will make it worthwhile . Currently at hard-resetting my device and then I'll get to installing the tens of cabs that I have x.x.
Whats the res for the Manga and FMRadio pictures btw? Want to put something else there.
You done a really great job mate, looks superb!
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Okay... I just got out of bed to say this... this is officialy the most AWESOME theme I ever used. I get completely smooth transitions so it might just be your HD or rom you have (have the stock rom?). It's just superb, now I'm off to bed again to map all the buttons to the correct programs but really... this is just insane, I'm speechless. It's beautifull!
A thousand times thanks dgen, if you ever need anything just send a PM, I feel like I'm in your debt.
Can someone please direct me how to install this theme for WAD2? For some reason it is not showing up in my themes when I go into WAD. It's been a while since I've used this application, but after seeing this theme I'm dying to give it a try!
Thanks for any help I may get!
Go to the .wadesktop file and run it, this will install the theme, then when you go back to the themes page scan for themes and it should show up.
Hope that works, don't have wad on my phone at th moment, but will be for this!
Looks great, thanks to all those involved.
Youtube vid added in first post!
I same this theme....only one word for it: awesome. But i have never used wad before. I already purshaded it and i installed the theme, but when i tap something i get: error loading shortcut or lacating the target filename. This happens when i play music, try to open manga, open callender and probebly even more.
An other question: how can i change some things? since i also dont use manga or fm radio. What i understood so far is that i should change the picture and create a shortcut to the right application????? Would be really nice if someone could explain to a newby
holy sh** thx for sharing I was waiting for this theme
look so cool!! ^-^
@ antrak
i see in your youtube movie that you have the big weather icons to show the weather when you tap the on the little weather pad. how did you get that to work? im trying different things with mapping pictures etc. but no luck, any pointers? thnx
cb8rwh said:
Go to the .wadesktop file and run it, this will install the theme, then when you go back to the themes page scan for themes and it should show up.
Hope that works, don't have wad on my phone at th moment, but will be for this!
Looks great, thanks to all those involved.
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Thank you very much for your help here, it worked perfectly!
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@ antrak
i see in your youtube movie that you have the big weather icons to show the weather when you tap the on the little weather pad. how did you get that to work? im trying different things with mapping pictures etc. but no luck, any pointers? thnx
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Did you copy the 2 folders onto your phone named, weather big and weather small? If you did, go into your settings in WAD2 and under the icons tab you can browse to where you put those files for both large icons and the small icons.
Hope this helps!
sjoerd_t_B said:
I same this theme....only one word for it: awesome. But i have never used wad before. I already purshaded it and i installed the theme, but when i tap something i get: error loading shortcut or lacating the target filename. This happens when i play music, try to open manga, open callender and probebly even more.
An other question: how can i change some things? since i also dont use manga or fm radio. What i understood so far is that i should change the picture and create a shortcut to the right application????? Would be really nice if someone could explain to a newby
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You are getting the error because you need to assign your own apps to the links. You can do this by holding your finger (or stylus) down until you get a drop down menu. On this menu chose "Author Mode".
Once you're in author mode, be careful because it is very easy to mess up the position of the pictures and text. You can move everything around when you're in author mode. I would advise taping and holding down again to bring the drop down menu up so you can chose the "Lock Items" option.
So now you can tap and hold on a link you would like to change and go into the properties of the link. Then go to the "Script" tab. You can change what program is launched here by choosing your own app.
Once you've played with WAD for a while you'll get the hang of it. It is extremely customizable so have some fun with it....as you can see with this beautiful theme!
The customization is overwhelming... it's driving me a bit nuts. But that's a good thing.
For some reason for me the weather forecast thing doesn't work at all, the dock doesn't show up. There's no script to bring it up. So I added the script myself to show page_forcast, but it just shows numbers and no images, even though I already specified the weather big/small in the options, I copied the weather big/small folders both to mem stick and phone mem and tried both locations in options, both don't work. Any help?
p.s. what's with all the extra folders included in the theme folder? are you supposed to do anything with them?
EDIT: Nvm I re-installed it all and it works great now... customability is crazy, you and pretty much make any GUI possible. Only dream now is to make phone faster overall, but for that HTC needs to use better touch screens and hardware.
Hi all,
what a great Theme!
I made another image for Photos, instead of the Manga image.
I just do not use anything of Manga...
I hope you like it....i do:
i guess you all know how to change it...otherwise let me know.
I also changed the Manga text in the following:
It looks like this then:
i edited my own text here...so if you apply the image above you get 'Show some Photos'. You can make it you want in CS3
Hope you enjoy.....
See it as an addon... not a replacment...all the credits for Dgen
greetz
Demazelen
Well done! I was hoping to change some pictures as well so thanks!
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well done! I was hoping to change some pictures as well so thanks!
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looking forward seeing them here...
gr
Hey,
does anyone know how to use the mp3, under Music image.
I know you can assign WMP, what results in opening WMP.
But i want to use the Music pic as a mp3 player.
i want the mp3 number in this red cirlce........so i can use the play forward keys!
What are the options for this. Plz help
gtz
Demazelen
Demazelen said:
Hey,
does anyone know how to use the mp3, under Music image.
I know you can assign WMP, what results in opening WMP.
But i want to use the Music pic as a mp3 player.
i want the mp3 number in this red cirlce........so i can use the play forward keys!
What are the options for this. Plz help
gtz
Demazelen
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same here...i have customized the whole theme to my needs...but am unable to get mp3 player running...
this is what i do...
1. i first click on the power sort of an icon (right end) to start wmpcontrol...it says use one of the following parameters...volup,down,next or prev
2. then i click on next or previous and then i get this error:
the file 'wmpcontrol.exe cannot be opened ..either its not signed with trusted cert or one of its components cant be found'
pls help me....once i get this mp3 player running...i wud succeed in having a complete theme...
also, pls someone let me know which is the executable to get allprograms list show up
pls help
*I made this before any of these new roms came out and as such it was meant for and has been tested on only the stock Gingerbread rom that comes with the phone. I doubt it will be compatible with the new roms.*
*Must have root access and root explorer!*
Let me preface this by saying I am NOT by any stretch of the imagination a pro at this stuff. I'm just a guy who was SO annoyed by the AT&T logo in the notification bar, I had to figure out a way to get rid of it and save my precious real estate up there for notification icons, etc (I understand how unhealthy it is to be that anal). So that said, take everything I say with a grain of salt, and for the love of god, please don't hold me responsible if you get different results or you brick your phone!! I'm just sharing my experiences since threads in general seem really limited for this phone right now. If you're feeling dangerous and want to give it a whirl, do so at your own risk. I'm smart enough to play with it, but not smart enough to fix it if disaster strikes =)
Now! That aside, after messing with the colors (I HATE android green! Switched all the icons with that green to a nice blue instead) and getting rid of the lock pattern buttons so they don't cover my wallpaper when my phone is locked, I just had to do something about the AT&T logo in the upper left corner!
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It pushes notification icons over and takes up just too much space. I'm aware I'm on AT&T. I don't need to be reminded. Anyway, after a lot of work (for me. I'm a total noob at this) I managed to decompile SystemUI.apk, change the status_bar.xml to shrink the carrier logo font and width down to 0, and reinstall it, and voila! No more carrier logo!
And plenty of room for icons!
So if you want to just give the edited status_bar.xml a try, feel free at your own risk! Just make sure you back up your original SystemUI.apk!! I'm attaching the edited one. The ONLY thing I changed was the font size and width of the carrier logo so that it would be 0. Everything else in that xml should be the same. Swap it out with the one in SystemUI.apk (in res/layout) (*Edit: I can confirm from my experience and another user's that ninjamorph, for whatever reason, CAN'T shove the xml into SystemUI.apk, so it WON'T WORK.) The way I know how is to copy SystemUI.apk from your phone onto your computer, open archive (DON'T EXTRACT/UNZIP) SystemUI.apk with 7zip, and just drag and drop the modified status_bar.xml into res/layout of the SystemUI.apk you got from your phone (let it overwrite the original). Then you can put SystemUI.apk with the new status_bar.xml in it back onto your phone's sdcard, copy it to system folder on the root of your phone, using root explorer CHANGE THE PERMISSIONS TO THOSE MATCHING THE ORIGINAL SystemUI.apk!!! (owner: read write, group: read, others: read), and then move it into system/app on your phone and let it overwrite your first SystemUI.apk. Then restart your phone! If you're a rookie like me, I know it sounds like a lot of work, but it's nothing compared to figuring out how to decompile and recompile the damned SystemUI.apk, which took me forEVER.
So anyway, you brave ones (and ones who know how to backup your SystemUI.apk and revert back to it in case this one screws up your phone) let me know how it goes if you try it! I don't know if it's common knowledge already or not that everyone knows how to decompile/recompile system apks in the Nitro, so I won't go into detail, but if someone wants to know so they can play with the xml's on the phone as well, let me know and I'll be glad to explain what I did in gross detail! Now to play with the other xml's...
*edit, Fyi, for those having difficulty finding it, the full path is:
system/app/SystemUI.apk/res/layout/status_bar.xml
If you're anal for not liking that AT&T crap taking up screen estate that could (and SHOULD!) be used for actual notifications...Then I'm just as anal!
And so a 'Thanks' for you for doing this!
You would think with a 720p screen we would be ok with AT&T plastering their name on our phone, but that is not the case... I will also be trying out your version shortly.
dang, nice work, thanks!
i am the same, besides, ATT is written on the phone about a 1/2" from the spot on the notification bar, irritating to say the least.
WE HAVE OUR FIRST DEV!!! well....somewat roflmao!!
Haha, oh dear god, no. I'm just obsessive =)
Anyone actually try it? Have any problems? The only problem I can envision is not putting the proper permissions on the new SystemUI.apk or someone trying to unzip SystemUI.apk instead of just dragging and dropping status_bar.xml into the layout folder of the unzipped archive. Otherwise, I tested it a bunch and had no problems on my phone! Someone please let me know I'm not sabotaging phones all over the world right now =)
can you also replace the stupid annoying battery icon with "% battery".
WTF is google thinking?? that stupid stock battery icon doesn't do anything but take up spaces!
WARNING! you might brick your phone, i tried it, and my freaking phone wont boot! and freaking LG is not putting the recovery rom on their "LG software updater"!
Well, crap. Sorry dude. I can't change the battery icon to individual single percentages yet. The best I can do is replace it with images that will show % at 5% intervals (there's a different png for every 5% charge of the battery in the framework already).
How did you try to put the status_bar.xml into your SystemUI.apk? I'm sorry it's doing that! Is your systemui otherwise stock?
itiskonrad said:
How did you try to put the status_bar.xml into your SystemUI.apk? I'm sorry it's doing that! Is your systemui otherwise stock?
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i didnt try your status_bar.xml cus i'm scare! haha
i used uot kitchen to cook % battery and i replaced the files, and my phone wont boot up.
Ohhh, thank god. I thought I ruined your phone! Yeah, you can't use uot kitchen right now. If whatever it produces doesn't bootloop your phone, it still won't work. Most of the image files are in xhdpi folders (for 720p screens), and since kitchen only supports up to qhd, it'll change the files in the hdpi folders, most of which are useless to us. But it will still screw with the xml's causing disaster. Can you do anything with your phone now? Can you push files or anything? Kitchen uot will only screw with framework-res.apk and SystemUI.apk. If you could at least still push files to your phone through your computer, I could give you the original two system files to put back onto your phone and overwrite the kitchen uot crap...
i already exchanged for another new one from att! good thing it' within my 30 days.
Haha, yay for 30 days! So do you have any interest in switching the battery icons? As I said, I can make the battery show 5% intervals, (ie 5%, 10%, 15%, etc), but I can't show any higher resolution than that yet (still working on it! I'm new to this, remember =)). Let me know if that's something you'd be interested in/willing to risk your replacement phone for within these first 30 days =)
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Haha, yay for 30 days! So do you have any interest in switching the battery icons? As I said, I can make the battery show 5% intervals, (ie 5%, 10%, 15%, etc), but I can't show any higher resolution than that yet (still working on it! I'm new to this, remember =)). Let me know if that's something you'd be interested in/willing to risk your replacement phone for within these first 30 days =)
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i'm not touching this phone until there' a recovery rom available. doesnt look good keep exchanging the phone.
Haha, that probably is the prudent thing to do...
ola, i am trying to switch the files via ninjamorph but i cannot find the apk, could you please provide the full path to the file?
thank you in advance.
Off topic question here....well while we are talking about bricking phones lol....
Has anybody tried returning a bricked phone, beyond the 30 day exchange window (with warranty as well as insurance)? I'm thinking of bricking my lovely atrix n exchanging it with the nitro. Does AT&T question the hell out of you to figure out what happened?
So sorry for the slow response! Went to bed early =) Full path is:
system/app/SystemUI.apk/res/layout/status_bar.xml
Let me know if everything goes smoothly! It really should, I tried it a million times, I'm just super paranoid about ruining someone's phone.
thank you, i swapped the files via ninjamorph and restarted, ATT is still there. :-(
You're kidding! Can you copy your status_bar.xml from your phone (the one that should be the modified one that ninjamorph put on your phone) and post it on here or something so I can look at it? The only thing I can imagine is that ninjamorph failed to actually swap it out. With the width and font size being 0, it's quite impossible for it to still show AT&T. Have you tried the manual way, copying SystemUI.apk to computer, dragging and dropping XML into res/layout, moving back to phone, copying to system, changing permissions, then replacing SystemUI.apk on phone with new one (which I prefer anyway), or is it too complicated?
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You're kidding! Can you copy your status_bar.xml from your phone (the one that should be the modified one that ninjamorph put on your phone) and post it on here or something so I can look at it? The only thing I can imagine is that ninjamorph failed to actually swap it out. With the width and font size being 0, it's quite impossible for it to still show AT&T. Have you tried the manual way, copying SystemUI.apk to computer, dragging and dropping XML into res/layout, moving back to phone, copying to system, changing permissions, then replacing SystemUI.apk on phone with new one (which I prefer anyway), or is it too complicated?
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HI, I would be happy to copy that file, but I am not sure how to do that. It very well could be that nm is not swapping the files, am i to see a confirmation after it does? Because I do not.
I've read the manual way many times and have decided I am not comfortable going that route, although I appreciate your posting that method.
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OK, i figured out that I was not finishing the nm switch project. so now that I am finishing, it is asking if i want to zipalign the switch.
do I want to zipalign?
thanks in advance.
What is it:
This is a quick extension I coded up to turn XDA threads into an image gallery. The extension button will enable when you're on a topic that it is able to translate, clicking it will open a new tab that dynamically fetches images as your scroll down. Keep in mind this is an Alpha, did it in one day, so it may ( read "most likely" ) will have problems. Its great on those "Post your screenshots" ( wallpapers, cases, whatever ) type threads.
Permissions:
- "Access your data on forum.xda-developers.com" - This is to fetch images from the forum, I haven't messed around with removing it since I was just using this personally but decided to release to you. Promise I don't care, nor gather, anything about what you do on XDA.
- "Access your tabs and browsing activity" - This is to detect when you switch between tabs and enable/disable the extension button. Also I do have this hooked into Google Analytics now, but I only gather extension page views to see what's being used. In the future I'll be hooking it into events as I add features( if it's popular enough ) to decide where to put my efforts. No personal information is collected.
- "Storage": Allow extension to save Extension Settings.
How to Install:
New: Added to official Chrome store now just add via https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/xda-gallery-beta/bohmnlfnbncjhpjagccfgblhcdgicdnp
Reporting Bugs:
If you'd like to report bugs then please give me the thread you had an issue with, and if you can narrow it down to an image then link to the post containing that image ( if it's working, there is a link under each image to bring you to the post. ).
What's Next:
Currently the extension will start showing images from the forum page you launched it from. Going to implement a way to jump to the beginning or specific page.
Implement scrolling upwards to load the previous pages images, this is needed for the next item.
Lots more ideas for "community" type features But gotta get the basics hammered down first!
Change Log:
3/15/2013
Added an "Advanced" options section allowing you to override the number of images and fetch all of them. ( If it doesn't work correctly on some thread blame mon5trum, he requested it )
Some bug fixes
3/9/2013
Now when viewing images in the popup you can click to view prev and next, or just use the arrow keys to navigate!
New Extension Settings page, styled to blend in and match chromes style for settings.
Setting to adjust the minimum number of images to fetch( Careful here as it wont render any images until it finds at least this number, could take awhile if you try and use on a thread that doesn't have many images ).
Setting to turn on debug mode ( Will show logging in the Chrome console. NOTE: I'd leave this disabled unless you need to troubleshoot an issue as it could slow down logic a bit )
3/7/2013
Lots of fixes and enhancements in this one.
First off, thanks to Pooley! He is an awesome guy, and very talented. Thanks to him with have a great, professional looking icon!
Aspect ratio is now respected
Added image zoom capability
Now identify images with broken links and shows in small window( as to not break scrolling functionality for now )
Images should also layout nicely in a column format
Fixed quite a few bugs( hopefully without creating new ones )
Hmmm... seems like there should be more, but I'm too lazy to look at my commit log, so just check it out
3/2/2013
NEW: Now on the official Chrome Web Store
Starting to work on the look a bit, its still pretty ugly lol... What can I say, graphic design isn't my thing, but it'll get better
1/27/2013
Pretty much a complete rewrite
Fixed loading duplicate issues
Better error handling( Will tell you when it's reached the end of the thread )
Asynchronous loading should now be working correctly
Do you find this useful? Click the Thanks button to send me some encouragement... Or if you're feeling really generous buy me a redbull to keep me going at the keyboard ( If not, no worries, it's hardly expected )
Great idea mate, thanks
Thanks great idea.. For me attached thumbnails never used to show from a month or so.. thats y i felt relieved when i saw your thread here..
but, unfortunately.. its not showing anything to me yet.. when it opens in new tab.. all it shows is these.. on all threads page which has images .. same result for me yet..
as its still first build/alpha.. i know it will get fixed when you get time.. so, waiting for that.. thanks for this nice initiative..
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"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
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Deadly. said:
Thanks great idea.. For me attached thumbnails never used to show from a month or so.. thats y i felt relieved when i saw your thread here..
but, unfortunately.. its not showing anything to me yet.. when it opens in new tab.. all it shows is these.. on all threads page which has images .. same result for me yet..
as its still first build/alpha.. i know it will get fixed when you get time.. so, waiting for that.. thanks for this nice initiative..
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Like I stated in the OP, it's really hard for me to help you unless you give me the forum topic URL that you tried to open with the extension. Get me that and I can take a look at what's going on.
RubenRybnik said:
Like I stated in the OP, it's really hard for me to help you unless you give me the forum topic URL that you tried to open with the extension. Get me that and I can take a look at what's going on.
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I got it man.. it didn't work with any off topic section threads...
Does it by any chance only supposed to work with windows chrome version?
I use Ubuntu 11.10 with latest chrome version...
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Deadly. said:
I got it man.. it didn't work with any off topic section threads...
Does it by any chance only supposed to work with windows chrome version?
I use Ubuntu 11.10 with latest chrome version...
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Didn't use anything that would exclude Linux, I'll have to look into that.
Been awhile since I updated this, but did a complete rewrite of the extension, should now be working much better. Replaced attachment with new extension and added changelog in the OP.
Now in the official Chrome Web Store Click here to install
That's an awesome feature mate !
If you want I can made an active/inactive icon suggestions for your extension
Awesome !
Definetly Cool!
The first thing you should fix is to show the pictures in the correct ratio cause at the moment it looks like this:
Hope I voted correct in the poll
Greets Alex
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That's an awesome feature mate !
If you want I can made an active/inactive icon suggestions for your extension
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Glad you like it... New icons would be great, I just don't have much time to work on icon stuff, unfortunately because I'd like to get better at it PM me if you need any info from me. Thanks!
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Definetly Cool!
The first thing you should fix is to show the pictures in the correct ratio cause at the moment it looks like this:
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Hope I voted correct in the poll
Greets Alex
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I actually spent quite a bit of time on the photo grid last night, hopefully an update in a couple days
Thanks RubenRybnik, it's awesome!
The OT Images thread just got even more awesome, thanks to you. :good: Looking forward to the updates.
RubenRybnik said:
Glad you like it... New icons would be great, I just don't have much time to work on icon stuff, unfortunately because I'd like to get better at it PM me if you need any info from me. Thanks!
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Ok I'm on it
Will be happy to help on IU rendering.
This is great! Thanks dev! Pretty awesome idea. Hope the Android Chrome gets to ability (support for extensions) to use this one day..
Sent from the Mars Rover.
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This is great! Thanks dev! Pretty awesome idea. Hope the Android Chrome gets to ability (support for extensions) to use this one day..
Sent from the Mars Rover.
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Yea, that would be awesome... I'm sure it'll come eventually( *fingers crossed* )
It doesn't work if the page contains a gif. But gifs are shown in the gallery though.
Example: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38762538#post38762538. And i think sometimes it also happens if a gif is present in a user's signature.
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It's working now. Seems to be haphazard.
Chrome store just told me Android not supported...
Sent from my SGH-I777 using xda app-developers app
Ok here is the icon. first attempt. zip contains psd + png (512, 38, 19).
Will try another way as I don't see clearly the pic on 19x19 res. But it's a first try, tell me more about color, about shapes what do you eventually like to see in the icon.
FYI no active/inactive as the inactive will be the greyscaled version of the active one
OK second try
I like this one (minimalist and easely recognizable even in 19x19) what do you think ?
Also attach a zip with psd + png (512, 38, 19) ON/OFF mode