My company downloaded the SmartJobBoard app for Android and iPhone (https://www.smartjobboard.com/android_app/). This app came with it's own styling (i.e. orange color). We are looking to make a few changes to the color.
I am from a web development background, and was wondering how would I go about stylizing the colors? Do I have to download the entire APK, change the colors, then re-upload it? Or is there a way to do it by changing the style document and having it go live immediately?
Apologies for being so new at this. I did a lot of reading but my situation seems pretty specific since I already have the app developed!
Thank you!
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So the question is, is it possible to change the font opacity in specific apps like Telegram or WhatsApp with a self-developed app? I don't need to get any personal data related to privacy, just changing the design of the interface.
If yes, which direction to look into? I don't have any background in programming android app, but would be really glad if there are some reference tutorials or android documentation.
I don't believe that is possible. Of course, the operating system can do some UI changes, for example, if you are using contrast or dark mode or some other accessibility feature. But there is no way you can directly change the opacity of a specific application that you don't own the code to.
I have recently pushed a React Native app to playstore and used an Icon to represent in playstore.When Dark Mode is enabled my app's playstore Icon's background turns black which makes Icon ugly. Now my doubt is
Do I have to use white background for Icon for all the future apps?
OR
Is there any way to make our Icon to be flexible in both Normal Mode and Dark Mode?
regarding your first question if the issue is only inside of playstore I think light background will not hurt. I dont think google play store offers a way to make this adaptive on their website.
regarding the second one, yes! inside your android project you can place alternative versions of your launcher icon inside of /res/mipmap-night-** resource folder btw it is possible you will need to create it. And also I recommend you actually create /res/mipmap-night-hdpi, /res/mipmap-night-xhdpi etc. to take into account the different screen resolutions. Since you are developing with react you would have to dive into your android project to find the res folder, or alternatively open your project in android studio and you will see it right away. this should change how your app looks on your users home screen
UPDATE
by mistake I had pointed to the drawable-night-** folders in my answer but Launcher icons in android are actually saved in the mipmap folders. I have now corrected this. I also tryed it out and it works (however I had to restart my device for it to take effect. asuming your users dont switch constantly between day and night mode they will always se the right icon for them)
Play Store icon it is a different image that you upload.
Make a complete white (or whatever) background to that image. In the official guidelines, Google says that you shouldn't make a partial background.
There is no "dark" icon in the Google Play Store; if you leave it transparent, it will display the default background color for each state (normal-dark).
I want to be able to change Android's system color from full color to monochromatic. I know this can be done by hand using the developer mode options link but I need to do it programmatically so that it changes for example with the time of the day.
This is different from simply changing an app's color theme, I'm referring to system wide color change, if you change to say monochrome then everything in the phone will display in monochrome.
For anyone still looking for this, there is an open-source project called Red Moon which allows you to do exactly this.
I have not tested this app neither have I checked out the code but if you know some Kotlin you may be able to extract what you need from their source code.
Also, there is BlackBulb which is also an open-source android project but it was last updated two years ago.
I found both of them in alternativeto.net by searching for open-source alternative to f.lux which I have used for the last two years in osX
I recently designed an icon pack for Android and I've got the icons finished. I am now looking to start designing the app to actually apply them. I've looked around and most of the material I've found seems to be out of date or for Eclipse (I'm using Android Studio). I don't want anything fancy, just a button to auto apply my icons to a user's phone. Can anyone help me out or point me in the direction of more information on this? Thanks.
EDIT: For instance here are some of the icons I made myself and manually applied them to my phone http://i.imgur.com/EBc1o05.png
I'm looking to do that, except in an app and at the push of a button rather than manually setting ~200 app icons.
Try this: http://arnab.ch/blog/2013/08/how-to-write-custom-launcher-app-in-android
I haven't tested it myself but it looks promising.
I have an idea to create Themes for Android Mobile. But I have no knowledge of how to do this. I would need to know about the following things:
What is the file format of a theme for Android?
What kind of things I want to handle to change the themes (i.e background, directory window, wallpaper, icon selector style, etc.)
How to start to learn about this
Sites and tutorials for beginners
Sample applications and code
If you passed by information about anything above, please share with me. It would be helpful.
Thanks.
I would start with Google's page on Styles and Themes. Many of your questions are answered there.
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/themes.html
Here's a simple tutorial:
http://developerlife.com/tutorials/?p=309
EDIT:
If you are talking about themes for the phone instead of the app, you can create themes for specific home screen replacements such as aHome. I'm sure if you look around their site you can see how to create a theme for their app.
There are also sites like Android Themes, but they require that you have rooted your phone and have installed a custom ROM such as those by Cyanogen.
Perhaps you could also write your own custom home screen.