Create your own skins

[Haloruler64]

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]

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

[Haloruler64]

Here it is.

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

[cyril]

So it's normal it doesn't work, as the images you used for the prediction bar (at least the background image is not a valid 9-patch image, it doesn't even have a 1-pixel border)

[Haloruler64]

Right, they're .9 :/ why don't colors work in that field instead of a filename? I tried putting in a hex color but it didn't work either.

[cyril]

I didn't try actually, but colors instead of an image should work exactly like for the keyboard background (it's exactly the same code handling both)

[meyergre]

i confirm. i updated my honeycomb skin with a gradient for the prediction bar, it works like a charm

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[Haloruler64]

I tried colors, it didn't work. Could you take a look at the skin.xml? See what I did wrong? It'd be SO appreciated!

[meyergre]

Got it... your picture is not a 9patch (.9.png), it's a simple PNG file with 1x1px size.
If you want to use a colour, try this way :

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<color-top>#FF1b1b1b</color-top>
<color-bottom>#FF1b1b1b</color-bottom>

instead of your picture. It should solve your problem.

Calling your file .9.png is not enough. Have a look at this page for more explanations

[Haloruler64]

I know, the .9 was a stupid mistake :/ thanks though!

I tried to fix the xml, but it still doesn't work. Attached.