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I wrote this for the Droid X running any version of MIUI... But I'm pretty sure it will work on any phone using MIUI. Either way if you try it, it can't break anything.
Disclaimer: This is my first ever venture into any sort of android scripting so please go easy on me. This is amateur at best but I find this script very useful and I thought others might as well so I decided to share.
That said, here is what this script does:
If you are like me, you love MIUI. More specifically the big beautiful icons of the MIUI launcher. But you also miss all the features of a third party launcher such as GoLauncher or LauncherPro. So you start to investigate ways you can get the best of both worlds and you find desktop visualizer. Then to your dismay, you realize that desktop visualizer does not use MIUI's themed icons... Well, this script solves that problem. Unfortunatly not in a very elegant way but it gets the job done.
This script was written in python completely on my phone =)
I'm not going to lie to you, the innitial setup process is a HUGE pain, but once you have everything up and running, it's as easy as a few clicks to apply your MIUI themed icons to your desktop visualizer widgets whenever you change your theme! If your a nerd, you might actually get some strange sense of enjoyment out of getting this working lol
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SCRIPT ONLY WORKS WITH THEMES THAT DO NOT HAVE CHINESE CHARACTERS IN THEIR NAMES
Setup (Part 1)
Part one of the setup will setup everything you need to run the script on your phone.
1. First you'll need the script located here: http://db.tt/2O345zOV
--Once downloaded, place the script somewhere convenient on your sd card
2. Next you'll need the SL4A app (Scripting Language for Android) to be able to run the script
--Located Here: http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/
3. Once you have SL4A downloaded and installed, you'll need to add python as an interpreter
--Open SL4A, press the menu hard key, select view, then interpreters, press menu again, select add, and lastely python
--This will open your browser and start the download of the python apk
--Once downloaded, install python and it should now show as an interpreter in SL4A
4. Ok now place my script in; sdcard/sl4a/scripts
5. Add a shortcut to your desktop and select scripts then MIUI_TI-2-TV.py. (I use a transparent icon for the shortcut)
Setup (Part 2)
Part 2 of the setup is exactly what the script does for you. You just have to manually perform the operation one time.
1. Alright so in case you haven't already done this, you will need to decide what apps you want on your desktop.
2. Create a new directory on your sdcard called "MIUI_TI-2-DV" The directory name must match exactly
3. Open up root explorer and navigate to data/system/customized_icons_1
4. Here you will select all the app icons you want to use with your desktop visualizer widgets and copy them
5. Paste them into the sdcard/MIUI_TI-2-DV directory. Do not change the names of the files.
6. Not sure if you noticed in the last step, but not all the system app icons are in the customized_icons_1 directory. The ones that are not there are a bit trickier to get unfortunately...
7. Navigate to sdcard/miui/themes and locate the mtz file for the icon theme you currently have applied and copy it
8. Paste the mtz file somewhere it will be easy to work with. (I use sdcard/extracted)
9. Change the extension on the file from mtz to zip by long pressing on it and clicking rename
10. Long press on the file again and extract it
10. Inside the extracted file you will find a file named "icons" Rename that file to icons.zip and extract it.
11. You can now copy the rest of the icons you need to the sdcard/MIUI_TI-2-DV directory. Once that's done, feel free to delete all the extra files you have laying around from extracting the icons from the mtz file.
12. Alright we're almost done... Next you will want to create all your desktop visualizer widgets and link the icons for each widget to the icons you copied into the TI-2-DV directory
--Create a new widget
--Click select icon, image file, and select the icon in your MIUI_TI-2-DV directory
----NOTE: You CAN use icons from other apps on shortcuts or apps that are not for that icon. For instance, I pair the stock music launcher icon with the player pro app. Icon pairings will be persistent. In other words the next time you change your theme and run the script, player pro will still be using the new themes stock music player icon not the player pro icon.
--Click select action and select the shortcut or app you wish to launch
So... After 10 hours of setup time, you are ready to actually use the script lol
Daily Use
1. Apply icon theme in theme manager
2. Navigate to sdcard/miui/theme, find the mtz file for the icon theme you applied and copy the entire name of the file (including the mtz extension)
3. Tap the shortcut you created on your desktop
4. My script will start to run and it will ask you for the mtz file name in a popup box. Simply paste and click ok
5. The script will now replace all the icons in the sdcard/MIUI_TI-2-DV directory with the new theme's icons
6. After the script is done running, all you need to do is refresh your widgets by opening desktop visualizer, pressing the hard menu key, and clicking refresh widgets.
To add more widgets later on, all you need to do is extract the icon you wish to use, throw it in the MIUI_TI-2-DV directory, and link a widget to it
it's a pain in the ass I know, maybe 1 day I'll get around to Updating it lol
HAVE FUN!!
Disclaimer: This is my first ever venture into any sort of android scripting so please go easy on me. This is amateur at best but I find this script very useful and I thought others might as well so I decided to share.
That said, here is what this script does:
If you are like me, you love MIUI. More specifically the big beautiful icons of the MIUI launcher. But you also miss all the features of a third party launcher such as GoLauncher or LauncherPro. So you start to investigate ways you can get the best of both worlds and you find desktop visualizer. Then to your dismay, you realize that desktop visualizer does not use MIUI's themed icons... Well, this script solves that problem. Unfortunatly not in a very elegant way but it gets the job done.
This script was written in python completely on my phone =)
I'm not going to lie to you, the innitial setup process is a HUGE pain, but once you have everything up and running, it's as easy as a few clicks to apply your MIUI themed icons to your desktop visualizer widgets whenever you change your theme! If your a nerd, you might actually get some strange sense of enjoyment out of getting this working lol
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SCRIPT ONLY WORKS WITH THEMES THAT DO NOT HAVE CHINESE CHARACTERS IN THEIR NAMES
Setup (Part 1)
Part one of the setup will setup everything you need to run the script on your phone.
1. First you'll need the script located here: http://db.tt/2O345zOV
--Once downloaded, place the script somewhere convenient on your sd card
2. Next you'll need the SL4A app (Scripting Language for Android) to be able to run the script
--Located Here: http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/
3. Once you have SL4A downloaded and installed, you'll need to add python as an interpreter
--Open SL4A, press the menu hard key, select view, then interpreters, press menu again, select add, and lastely python
--This will open your browser and start the download of the python apk
--Once downloaded, install python and it should now show as an interpreter in SL4A
4. Ok now place my script in; sdcard/sl4a/scripts
5. Add a shortcut to your desktop and select scripts then MIUI_TI-2-TV.py. (I use a transparent icon for the shortcut)
Setup (Part 2)
Part 2 of the setup is exactly what the script does for you. You just have to manually perform the operation one time.
1. Alright so in case you haven't already done this, you will need to decide what apps you want on your desktop.
2. Create a new directory on your sdcard called "MIUI_TI-2-DV" The directory name must match exactly
3. Open up root explorer and navigate to data/system/customized_icons_1
4. Here you will select all the app icons you want to use with your desktop visualizer widgets and copy them
5. Paste them into the sdcard/MIUI_TI-2-DV directory. Do not change the names of the files.
6. Not sure if you noticed in the last step, but not all the system app icons are in the customized_icons_1 directory. The ones that are not there are a bit trickier to get unfortunately...
7. Navigate to sdcard/miui/themes and locate the mtz file for the icon theme you currently have applied and copy it
8. Paste the mtz file somewhere it will be easy to work with. (I use sdcard/extracted)
9. Change the extension on the file from mtz to zip by long pressing on it and clicking rename
10. Long press on the file again and extract it
10. Inside the extracted file you will find a file named "icons" Rename that file to icons.zip and extract it.
11. You can now copy the rest of the icons you need to the sdcard/MIUI_TI-2-DV directory. Once that's done, feel free to delete all the extra files you have laying around from extracting the icons from the mtz file.
12. Alright we're almost done... Next you will want to create all your desktop visualizer widgets and link the icons for each widget to the icons you copied into the TI-2-DV directory
--Create a new widget
--Click select icon, image file, and select the icon in your MIUI_TI-2-DV directory
----NOTE: You CAN use icons from other apps on shortcuts or apps that are not for that icon. For instance, I pair the stock music launcher icon with the player pro app. Icon pairings will be persistent. In other words the next time you change your theme and run the script, player pro will still be using the new themes stock music player icon not the player pro icon.
--Click select action and select the shortcut or app you wish to launch
So... After 10 hours of setup time, you are ready to actually use the script lol
Daily Use
1. Apply icon theme in theme manager
2. Navigate to sdcard/miui/theme, find the mtz file for the icon theme you applied and copy the entire name of the file (including the mtz extension)
3. Tap the shortcut you created on your desktop
4. My script will start to run and it will ask you for the mtz file name in a popup box. Simply paste and click ok
5. The script will now replace all the icons in the sdcard/MIUI_TI-2-DV directory with the new theme's icons
6. After the script is done running, all you need to do is refresh your widgets by opening desktop visualizer, pressing the hard menu key, and clicking refresh widgets.
To add more widgets later on, all you need to do is extract the icon you wish to use, throw it in the MIUI_TI-2-DV directory, and link a widget to it
it's a pain in the ass I know, maybe 1 day I'll get around to Updating it lol
HAVE FUN!!
