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Giant
Giant

Reputation: 1649

making customized theme for android phone

I'm a new mobile developer and i know how to put theme on an application i was able to make 2 mobile application as of now but i wanted to try to make a customized theme for phones. I'm wondering if anyone out there has idea on the following.

1.how to make a customized theme for phone.
2.what is the format of the theme.
3.is it possible to make it in eclipse.
4.what are the things needed to consider to make a theme for phone.
5.how to implement customized theme on phone.
6.available tutorial on making a customized phone theme.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 5144

Answers (1)

AliSh
AliSh

Reputation: 10619

If you want to change theme of a specific theme application like GO Launcher or aHome you can find a link on their site, see this question for more information Themes in Android?

but you can also write your launcher application, if you want to do this, you can see this links: Build An Application Launcher For Android

But if you want to change theme of your application, so you can read these documents and tutorials:

  1. developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/themes.html

  2. Android Styles and Themes - Tutorial

Another way that i think you must know for building several themes is building an apk for every theme of your application, this solution make your app size smaller. like this function:

public static Resources getResource() {
        resourcePackageName = "com.mine.MyApp";
        PackageManager packageManager = mContext.getPackageManager();
        Resources resources = null, resources2 = null;
        try {
            resources = mContext.getResources();
            resources2 = packageManager
                    .getResourcesForApplication("com.mine.MyAppTheme");
            resourcePackageName = "com.mine.MyAppTheme";
        } catch (Exception e) {
            Log.d("ss", e.toString());
        }

        if (resources2 != null)
            mResource = resources2;
        else
            mResource = resources;
        return mResource;
    }

In this code, your app name is com.mine.MyApp and you have a app with all of resources in the com.mine.MyApp that is your theme, name of theme apk app is com.mine.MyAppTheme. you can use several apk as several theme. just put your resources on theme apk file. you can see this question: Writing themed applications in Android

Upvotes: 3

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