stock calendar app - going beyond basic inversion - if you're interested

[B-boy™]

Yeah perhaps try with an app... and what you're describing about your Venom loackscreen idea does sound pretty slick bro... hopefully you'll get it eventually... not sure if even the ROM Devs know this one, unless they're a full software developer.....

one thing I did seem to show in the few I tried...is that regardless of which tags I use, animation-list or transition, it always only displays that first background_anim png of the <items> list, so it appears you'll need to set some more code somewhere to trigger the sequence and not have it only show that first image

That's the same outcome I get too... but I noticed I don't have the <animation-list android:id="selected" androidneshot="false"> (in red).. meaning it's not reading the id's I think?... that's how it's set up on the tut you found...

only the android:id= and android oneshot= should be in red, not all of it.. you using notepad++

I added the red once I pasted it in here.. no I use xml marker. On that tut it said this. " The simplest way to create a frame-by-frame animation is to define the animation in an XML file, placed in the res/drawable/ folder, and set it as the background to a View object. Then, call run() to start the animation " .... where exactly do I call run() at?... cause everything else sounds like what I/we have done....

[Alastrionia]

so I'm about as late to the party as can be, lmao
been busy trying to learn enough code to get my custombackgrounds working on different apps I forgot to post some of my successes.

calendar you've already seen.
mms comes up looking like this:



phone and contacts


and when viewing a contact I changed it up a little


so that's where I'm at right now.
still working on gallery3d as it looks like the only way to get it to have a permanent background is to make your own custom xml file and point to it

so whadda think? and hope that you're able to crack your problem B-Boy, sounds like you are getting really close

[B-boy™]

Looks very good man!.... and actngrezy is looking into it. He said it might need code written into smali but not sure... the tutorial Mbk found basically says to tell it to "run()" the cycle somewhere.. so we're either very close.. or very far off.... I'm hoping for the first..

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[Mbk]

Barry......you should remove the phone number from your screenshot.... and as always, nice work bro...
I kinda had a feeling that most devs might not know exactly where to code in a trigger for that background animation to launch... and it more than likely does need to be written onto a smali file. Const-01 yada tada....lol j/k

[B-boy™]

We'll get it....might not be easy, but we'll get it.... I got a feelin.....

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[Mbk]

I won't bet against it...

[B-boy™]

After the game i'm gonna do some reading and and try my hand once again at writing some code for it....

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[Mbk]

After the game i'm gonna do some reading and and try my hand once again at writing some code for it....

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yeah watching the game now as well in between some stuff.... great game!!...

figuring out what to write is one thing, because then you'd need to know where to put that smali file, which file and then which folder... just seems like a very very long journey...unless someone specifies things step by step...

[B-boy™]

Yeah.. so hopefully actngrezy or cvpcs can help.... but until then I wanna read that tut you linked and try to understand it.... it sounds very tough but if I can grasp how it's done, it might not be as hard as it sounds to me now... but we'll see.... I have a few people I can ask that know java.. I was just hoping we could figure it out as themes...

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