Tutorial - Transparent Statusbar

This tutorial is HOW to make your gingerbread's statusbar transparent

lets get the tutorial begin

First step "if you already knew HOW to decompile and recompile *.apk files, you should be able to do this"

• Do adb pull or extract SystemUI.apk file from /system/app of your ROM
• Decompile your SystemUI.apk
• Go inside to directory "SystemUI\smali\com\android\systemui\statusbar\"
• look for a file named StatusBarService.smali
• Open it with Notepad++
• look for line 2218 number and make exac value as follow
•  const/4 v5, -0x3
• done and save it.

NEXT

• Go to "SystemUI/res/layout" directory
• Look for a file "status_bar.xml"
• Open it using Notepad++
• Go to the line number 37, and make same value as folow
• <com.android.systemui.statusbar.DateView android:textAppearance="@android:style/TextAppearance.StatusBar.Icon" android:gravity="left|center" android:id="@id/date" android:background="@drawable/statusbar_background" android:paddingLeft="6.0px" android:paddingRight="6.0px" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:singleLine="true" />

• done and save it.

Second step "if you already knew how to deal with *.9.png files, you should be able to do this"

• Go to "SystemUI/res/drawable_mdpi" directory
• Search for a file "statusbar_background.9.png, status_bar_background.9.png, and shade_bg.png"
• Open it using Adobe photoshop or other image editing program
• Make it transparent 60% - 80% as you wish
• done and save it

LAST STEP IS RECOMPILE YOUR APK

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