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-- Boring Intro/Background --
When I first started rooting and hacking with Android I was informed of a website called UOT theme kitchen. I was amazed at all of the things I could do from within UOT to customize my device after installing (at the time) CM7. UOT had a great feel to it and was easy to navigate, but I felt it often took too long (up to a hour) to receive my finished package.
From that moment on I had decided to find a way to create a UOT-like application to allow a local build rather than having to wait for a server to build all of the packages before mine.
It was honestly a very long journey, first learning the basics of how Android works and then early last year, when I received a new, RootzWiki branded Galaxy Nexus, I began learning the language of Java. Even learning Java wasn't going to be the end of it, I needed help to learn more about the Android infrastructure. JRummy16 (developer of many root required applications) was very willing to help teach me and even provided the building blocks for what is now my installation system.
Fast forward to now. MasturMods is no longer a theory or a dream, it has become a reality. There aren't nearly as many options as UOT, but every day MasturMods gets closer.
-- What This Application Does --
MasturMods can install new battery, signal cluster and navigation icons to your SystemUI.apkor currently installed Theme Chooser theme as well as installing any COMPATIBLE ZipThemer theme without the need to reboot (in most cases), or boot into recovery (Theme Chooser support has been removed due to incompatibility for the moment).
'Premium users' can change icon colors from within the app
'Premium users' can change battery types If the icon set contains battery icons (ie. stat_sys_battery, stat_sys_battery_gear, etc.)
'Premium users' can add or remove overlays
-- Requirements --
-- Downloads --
BETA COMMUNITY (Google+)
Both beta and market bases should react to having the premium key installed
- NOTE -
You must have the free version of MasturMods installed along side of the premium key unless you only want a few wallpapers
-- CHANGE LOG --
-- 20131027-1539 --
-- 20131014-2227 --
-- 20131010-2023 --
-- 20131010-0402 --
-- 20130914-0947 --
-- 20130913-1929 --
-- 20130905-2306 --
When I first started rooting and hacking with Android I was informed of a website called UOT theme kitchen. I was amazed at all of the things I could do from within UOT to customize my device after installing (at the time) CM7. UOT had a great feel to it and was easy to navigate, but I felt it often took too long (up to a hour) to receive my finished package.
From that moment on I had decided to find a way to create a UOT-like application to allow a local build rather than having to wait for a server to build all of the packages before mine.
It was honestly a very long journey, first learning the basics of how Android works and then early last year, when I received a new, RootzWiki branded Galaxy Nexus, I began learning the language of Java. Even learning Java wasn't going to be the end of it, I needed help to learn more about the Android infrastructure. JRummy16 (developer of many root required applications) was very willing to help teach me and even provided the building blocks for what is now my installation system.
Fast forward to now. MasturMods is no longer a theory or a dream, it has become a reality. There aren't nearly as many options as UOT, but every day MasturMods gets closer.
-- What This Application Does --
MasturMods can install new battery, signal cluster and navigation icons to your SystemUI.apk
'Premium users' can change icon colors from within the app
- Battery - based on percent (with up to 5 adjustable sliders to allow even more end user customization)
- Signal cluster - based on whether the device is fully connected or not
- Navigation buttons - with a background (primary color) and foreground (Accent Color)
- Overlays - before install and independent between overlays
'Premium users' can change battery types If the icon set contains battery icons (ie. stat_sys_battery, stat_sys_battery_gear, etc.)
'Premium users' can add or remove overlays
-- Requirements --
- Android 4.0 - 4.3 (Currently 4.4 is unsupported due to new structure of system files)
- AOSP based ROM
- Root Access
-- Downloads --
BETA COMMUNITY (Google+)
- Base - BETA (Direct Link)
- Base - MARKET (Removed until current beta session is complete)
- Premium Key - MARKET
Both beta and market bases should react to having the premium key installed
- NOTE -
You must have the free version of MasturMods installed along side of the premium key unless you only want a few wallpapers
-- CHANGE LOG --
-- 20131027-1539 --
- Added ZipThemer support
- Moved to cloud based loading to:
- Eliminate as much of a footprint on the sdcard as possible
- Allow for easier updating of themes
- Added "restart applications" back to the finalize dialog
-- 20131014-2227 --
- Added color preferences for the following:
- Data indicator
- Data arrows
- Fixed the issue with checking the server at start up
-- 20131010-2023 --
- Clean and build to fix application force closing on start up
-- 20131010-0402 --
- Updated entire installation process
- Added icons for notifications
- Remapped/reformatted all icon packs
- Added preview screen and overlays
- UI touch ups
- Leak prevention
- Removed 'Restart Applications' option (causing too many crashes)
- Cleaning
- THIS BEGINS A THOROUGH TESTING CYCLE! EVERYTHING WILL BE WIPED WITH EACH UPDATE FROM NOW ON
-- 20130914-0947 --
- Added support for high res icon packs.
- To update your icon packs you must manually delete them until I add system to check for icon pack updates
-- 20130913-1929 --
- New hybrid java/shell installation confirmed working on nearly every Android version
- Updated UI for new Installation
- Minor touch ups to get rid of memory leaks
-- 20130905-2306 --
- Initial beta release
- Seems that theme chooser installation support slipped through. Gonna make it a part of the base (ie. free)