irish22022 wrote:I'll attach the zip too I guess. I'm not worrying about design at all, just want to see if I can get the damn skins to show up before I spend some time on them, so they aren't anything at all worth looking at unless you're trying to help (please help!)
First, the name of the zip needs to be the same name you want the skin to be called. Second, the directories in the zip need to be drawable and drawable-hdpi and nothing else. Third, the xml needs to be names skin.xml. In the xml the name= has to match the skin name of the zip.
I didn't check your images but they need to have the draw9patch area around the image that is only 1 pixel border and is only black and transparent. No other shades or colors. HDPI images need to be 50x77 and standard images need to be 34x52 including the draw9patch border.
All else fails, start with a new file and you know works and start making changes until you find out what broke it.
Renamed zip to match the name of the file within the xml "MinimalKey"
click on minimalkey directory and see three things: "drawable" "drawable-hdpi" and "skin.xml" )as per the sample skin provided.
The d9p is applied to all images, one pixel border black in some parts, transparent in others. 34x52.
I guess I'm just having a hard time because I'm literally mirroring exactly what was done in the sample and can't seem to get anything to work.
Irish22022... I followed your exact steps and my skin keeps coming up as all black (meaning there's an error). I'm pretty frustrated. I don't feel like there are good enough, solid enough directions on how to create one's own skins.
I wish there were a more detailed guide or something. I thought maybe that I was making the mistake of not keeping the .zip file name consistent with the name in the .xml file, but when I checked that they are exactly the same, I became even more frustrated. I didn't change anything on my skin except the drawable-hdpi images from having a green shift button to a blue shift button (not what I wanted in the end, but I was doing it merely for testing purposes to see if I could get the skin to work BEFORE dumping hours into editing a skin to my own liking).
It's a cool feature idea, but clearly there is something short in the instructions. There aren't really even that many skins users have made (compared to better keyboard which has 100's or user skins).
All I can do is mimic the exact other xml files, and after that I'm at a loss. Guess this is for super users who know coding. LPP has a feature where you can write your own code to customize shortcuts, and it was hard, but it was really well supported so after a while I got the hang of it.
Hello, I have created a GingerBread keyboard skin (hdpi only - I am too lazy ). Is there any way I could use mod-key-background for the space and comma buttons (so every button on the lowest line would have the same background)? Without that option it looks a bit weird...
martinpelant wrote:Hello, I have created a GingerBread keyboard skin (hdpi only - I am too lazy ). Is there any way I could use mod-key-background for the space and comma buttons (so every button on the lowest line would have the same background)? Without that option it looks a bit weird...
Hi, I have added this into my skins folder many times and it doesn't show up as a skin previewer.
Confused how this works? Is this where u can change the color and spacing of the keys thru background. Like ultra keyboard has u can make ur own skins with color changes and spacing between keys thick or wide. Is this something that this does. I don't use ultra keyboard anymore due 88 developers unresponsiveness to fix bugs but this was a feature that was nice he u don't find any skins on via Market to use. This option also had fading for the keys and background shading. Could u look at his and copy it to use with ur app
I need some help here.. (sorry for my english)
I had the idea to apply some effects to the images provide with the ''Android sample skin'' without change size or name.
But when I add the .zip to the skin folder I had a full black skin with white letters like the ''Black'' default one, without any of my images...
What else must change of what must do for make this skin funzional???
Thanks
). Is there any way I could use mod-key-background for the space and comma buttons (so every button on the lowest line would have the same background)? Without that option it looks a bit weird...