Create your own skins

Kirara Young · Post by **Kirara Young** » Wed May 25, 2011 8:37 pm

Link wrote:Another version a little more glossy and removed the shift light.

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I like this one, can you do a pink one? C :<3

schrochem · Post by **schrochem** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 1:42 am

I'd be up for giving this a try. anyway the iphone.zip could be posted? I'd like to build off of it (different colors,etc)
Easy start.

meyergre · Post by **meyergre** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 8:32 pm

For those who are interested in : I just uploaded an illustrated step-by-step "How To" guide to create a SKP theme HERE

(see 'Tutorial' tab).

It does not (at all!) replace the Cyril's indications from the 1st post, but I think it's a good complement, especially for beginners.

enjoy

schrochem · Post by **schrochem** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 12:12 pm

excellent meyergre.
I'm a visual learner so this really helps.
I downloaded the android sdk which asked me to download the java sdk and it just bogged down my pc (work one too.....)
So I had to uninstall so I could get some work down....

Is draw9patch possible to have standalone?
If not, can designating where to expand be done in photoshop?
I messed with just changing some colors and it didn't come out right at all......

meyergre · Post by **meyergre** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 1:00 pm

yes, you can draw expandable zones in photoshop. it's just some black pixels on each extremity. it's easier with the draw9patch, 'cause you can see the different areas, but it can be done with photoshop too. just take care to use a pure black with 100% opacity.

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cyril · Post by **cyril** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 2:54 pm

For information it will be possible in version 4.2.0 to also skin the prediction bar (see this topic). Skin makers can already use this feature and let me know if it works (the extra tags will be ignored by older versions of the keyboard).

schrochem · Post by **schrochem** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 4:41 pm

is the iphone.zip file proprietary or similar?

Haloruler64 · Post by **Haloruler64** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 8:04 am

I'm trying to edit an existing theme, 3DKey, and I cannot get it to work after adding in the part to get the prediction bar to change. Every time I edit the xml, the skin becomes all black. Can anyone help?

cyril · Post by **cyril** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 8:12 am

Can you post your new skin? If it becomes black it means you made a mistake with images, or you found a bug

Haloruler64 · Post by **Haloruler64** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 8:36 am

Here it is.

It also did the same thing when I changed the file names to colors, the same colors of the background.

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