Quite good question Nathan. I am also modifying themes.XML recently. The inconsistency after modification quite annoying me and make UI designer understood how to design following android pattern is not an easy job. I use API demo to test my modification since you can almost find every usage of almost all widget in here. And try to make your image has the same width and height as the corresponding images in framework will reduce a lot issues. 在 2012-2-12 上午5:05，"Nathan" <critter...@crittermap.com>写道：
> I've been sold on how you can create a theme and create a visually > branded experience for your UI, look more professional, and all that > stuff. > > However, I don't know how to get it done. > > I know the wrong way. That would be me going into a copy of themes.xml > and changing whatever looks good to me. I can guess that I will come > up with something that looks awful to the end users and breaks in > unexpected ways as I create new layouts. And I don't know that I could > test it without having every possible layout on every possible > emulator. > > What I'd like to know is how to get my graphic artist, who already has > great talent in CSS, Illustrator, and other graphic tools, to create a > theme for me. > > Even if he installs eclipse and all the SDK tools, I don't think there > is anything specifically for editing themes, just for layouts. > > Perhaps I am overcomplicating it, but if there are thousands of lines > of code in > android-sdk-windows\platforms\android-9\data\res\values > between colors.xml.,attrs.xml,dimensions.xml, styles.xml, it doesn't > look small. > > Yes, I know you can inherit from a theme and change only the > attributes you want. But for those who have successfully created their > own theme, how many attributes (of the 1500 or so) did you have to > change? If there is any attribute you don't override, you are still > subject to the whims of the device theme, correct? > > Who has created a theme successfully and what process did you follow? > How many engineering hours (or graphics hours) did it take? > > Incidentally, if you are already good at creating a theme, I will hire > you on an hourly basis. > > Nathan > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
