[GUIDE] How To Theme Your Xoom

[ChelseaBlue]

Never mind. I got it. I just had to reboot the Xoom before it would see the change.

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[NewAge]

How are you doing the uastring mod?

This is an aweesome thread btw! Thanks!

[Droid-Xer]

Awesome job man.

[camblue]

I am a bit confused here,,,,
When it says this,,,
Take the APKtool.jar you downloaded and place it in APKtool/others (you’ll have to rename the original apktool.jar first, make it apktoolOLD.jar). This will allow you to correctly decompile Honeycomb APKs.

What apktools/other???? I do not see a file named apktools/other to place the apktool.jar file in? I see a folder labeled other in the apk manager file and see the apktool.jar there and i renamed the one in there to apktoolOLD and placed the new apktool.jar file in there and when i go to apk manager and hit 22 then 1 then 9 it gives me an error to see 21 and when i do it give some other errors something about could not decode attr value,,,?????

[Bazar6]

Never mind. I got it. I just had to reboot the Xoom before it would see the change.

Good to hear you got it working. Sometimes it just as simple as a reboot (and sometimes the last thing we think of lol)

How are you doing the uastring mod?

This is an aweesome thread btw! Thanks!

Thanks! And the UAstring mod I'm grabbing from Sangreal06 on XDA, I'm not sure how he did it, I know it's somewhere in a XML tho (official thread is here: CRT Anim + Desktop UA String + SIP + SMS + Langs (Updated 5/12) - xda-developers )

I am a bit confused here,,,,
When it says this,,,
Take the APKtool.jar you downloaded and place it in APKtool/others (you’ll have to rename the original apktool.jar first, make it apktoolOLD.jar). This will allow you to correctly decompile Honeycomb APKs.

What apktools/other???? I do not see a file named apktools/other to place the apktool.jar file in? I see a folder labeled other in the apk manager file and see the apktool.jar there and i renamed the one in there to apktoolOLD and placed the new apktool.jar file in there and when i go to apk manager and hit 22 then 1 then 9 it gives me an error to see 21 and when i do it give some other errors something about could not decode attr value,,,?????

I apologize, you were supposed to copy apktool.jar in to apkmanager/others (like you said you ended up doing), not apktool/others; I've fixed the OP (thanks for bringing it up) .. Would you be able to paste the error code? I don't recall seeing that before. Also, try doing this same thing with the framework-res.apk from (on your Xoom) /system/framework. Every file has dependencies to the framework, but I just cleared it out of my system and was still able to decompile, so I'm not sure if this is the problem. Another possibility, are you decompiling a themed SystemUI, or your bone stock SystemUI, because I have seen problems with that before.

[Bazar6]

OP Post # 3 UPDATED

I believe I'm finished with the three separate guides... just in time for y'all to dive in over the weekend. I hope they're clear enough and don't get you in to any trouble. I may end up taking down the APKmanager method (method 1) because I do not use, I've gotten too used to the CMD method with APKtool, and it has not given me any problems; if you guys are trying out the APKmanager route, please let me know if it works for you or not.

Any questions you have I'll try to answer as soon as I can. Good luck!

[bignasty407]

what file would i modify to change the bottom bar from black??? by the way this write up is AMAZING! i am using ti to start themeing for the acer a500.

[Bazar6]

what file would i modify to change the bottom bar from black??? by the way this write up is AMAZING! i am using ti to start themeing for the acer a500.

Lol nice, I guess it can work for any honeycomb tablet...

I have only been able to partly modify the bottom black bar. The place I was able to add code was in SystemUI.apk/res/layout-xlarge/status-bar.xml and I think I added like android:color="#xxxxxxxx" .. I can't remember exactly where it was, and this isn't the proper way to do it, because it's being called from somewhere else, I just haven't found it yet :/ That's at least a work-around for now I believe.

If you find it please let me know

[bignasty407]

thanks man for the work around im gunna test it out, and ill look around and see if i can find where its pulling from.

youre the man!!!

[bignasty407]

hmm im not finding the proper line, i must have to add it, just where!

UPDATE:

okay, i found the line in the XML, changed it from FF000000 to 05000000 and it broke the .apk lol. dont think i can mod the transparency but maybe the color. gunna try and let you know.