Monochorome version of Ameixa

I really like your icon theme Ameixa. I use it on Cyanogen Mod OS and handpick icons for launchers to maximally customize them.

Ideally, I would like to have a theme for which all background colors in the icons are set to the same color, preferably #363b40 (which is the background color of the system menu's) or another gray color from the material design palette.

I have heard other users that would like to have a minimal look and feel on their phone and they don't like all the brightly colored launcher either. Most of them use dark themes for the apps they use.

Looking at the repo, it is fairly easy to produce such an monochrone icon set for Ameixa. I have made a script that does the work for you no the SVG files. Please, see the http://pastebin.com/FxEyxxkE for a script called monochrome.sh

Would you please consider offering a branch or fork called Ameixa Monochrome via F-Droid?

monochrome.sh

Below is an impression. note that the color in the SVG and resulting PNG will be more soft than in the quick rendering.

I like a lot the monochrome version. Thanks for the script. Definitely I will create a monochrome fork.

Regarding how to distribute it, I have some doubts: I do not know if uploading a new version of the icon pack to F-droid would be annoying for some users... Possible solutions: upload the apks to the Gitlab repo, set up my own F-Droid repository (my time is limited, and do not have a server to do the job), or upload it to F-Droid directly... Maybe Onze and TwelF could be retired, as Ameixa can be installed in Cyanogenmod devices and no problems was reported in such systems...

Reassigned to @xphnx

Did you get it working? The stuff printed to command line is for development purposes only.

As there would be only one monochrome icon pack, and not a all pink, all blue et cetera, I think this can be offered to F-Droid as a separate app to install without users complaining. It would be an alternative to the standard. Calling it "Monochorome Ameixa" would make clear what it is. You could maintain it under a separate branch or fork, whatever seems practical for you. I am willing to maintain the script if you like.

With F-Droid, the users are not monitored at all, so we cannot contact them and ask them. I think putting it out there and watch the reaction and maybe the number of downloads, would indicate if it is highly wanted. From a design point of view, this might be worth some small articles in blogs on minimal design and user experience on Android.

The scritp works fine, just a question of time xD. I have created a new fork. https://gitlab.com/xphnx/ameixa-monochrome/. Feel free to push the merge requests you want. An apk is provided too. Maybe the grey background should be a little more light in order to match better with black wallpapers...

Thanks. I will do some testing. I get a 404 by the way. :(

Sorry, by default was set as a private repo.

Works very good, also on a dark background, see

I have noticed some tiny red edges for some icons. Need to investigate and send an updated version of the monochrome.sh script.

The icons have some more layers (but blocked) https://material-design.storage.googleapis.com/publish/material_v_8/material_ext_publish/0Bx4BSt6jniD7UzdCZ0MtOEpybGM/style_logos_product_anatomy_edges_tinted.png https://material-design.storage.googleapis.com/publish/material_v_8/material_ext_publish/0Bx4BSt6jniD7RW5GbWN2Z2pNcGc/style_logos_product_anatomy_edges_shaded.png and https://material-design.storage.googleapis.com/publish/material_v_8/material_ext_publish/0Bx4BSt6jniD7MEtzZUxkM0tzeGs/style_logos_product_lighting_shadow.png

Tint and shadow values here https://material.google.com/style/icons.html#icons-product-icons

Hope this project gets reactivated and the monochrome theme can get an update.

Hi! I havent the time and motivation for keeping the Ameixa project up to date... I could add you as a developer inside this repo if you want to do it by yourself. Anyway you can fork it. In other hand, the task of adding the app to F-droid is simple: just to add some lines into fdroiddata. Feel free to ask me if you have any doub with updating the app of adding it to F-droid.

I won't be able to run it by myself. So if there are one or two other people are willing to contribute, then I am game. Perhaps you could do a build and post a request in the app for finding a new maintainer.

mentioned in issue twelf_cm12_theme#131

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Here is the lastest apk https://my.owndrive.com/index.php/s/Hup2lsdm0SvsPHh

I will try to reactivate Ameixa and Ameixa-Monochrome. Soon on fdroid... Could you take a look to: "I have noticed some tiny red edges for some icons. Need to investigate and send an updated version of the monochrome.sh script."?

I noticed there are some masks actually unused that could be used to create a monochrome version. Dont know if works in all launchers or only in CMTE. I have to investigate it.

<!-- Set deafult scale factor for the icons -->
<scale factor="1" />
<iconback img1="iconback" />
<iconmask img1="iconmask" />
<iconupon img1="iconupon" />

Inside https://gitlab.com/xphnx/ameixa/blob/master/app/src/main/res/xml/appfilter.xml

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I have a few commits which I haven't pushed yet. Will do that this weekend.

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Great!. I will upgrade to v3.0.7 today and request the inclusion into f-droid

I also have some changes for the colored version. In that way, the script to make the monochrome version can be much simplified.

Ok ok. Colored is tagged v3.0.7 so F-droid must build a new release today-tomorrow. Monochrome is upgrade to 307 but I cannot make the script to work ... ;(. Some tasks needed to release: turn the svgs grey and raster the svgs to its pngs folders (now empty). Could you update the script and run it? Then I can raster the images and tag for releasing. I Will request the inclusion in Fdroid forum, in the meanwhile I will upload an apk.

I have the script but haven't pushed it. Will do that tomorrow.

Submitted to Fdroid https://gitlab.com/fdroid/rfp/issues/337

closed with https://gitlab.com/xphnx/ameixa-monochrome/merge_requests/6. tagged v3.0.7. Waiting for F-droid to include it. Thanks a lot!

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As you will see in the generated icons, there are some error for about six icons. We can fix theese later too, they need fixing in the normal project. I could fix a log (convert stroke to path is your friend) but could not save the .svg file in the correct format. Any ideas?

Hmmm the icons with the most dirty solutions make errors... I am trying to fix them, and will see if the script works well then.

You can email them to me in Inkscape SVG and I can do some too.

Sent by mail and uploaded to https://gitlab.com/xphnx/ameixa/tree/master/todo/wip

Working on them... :-)

Hmmm, it appears that they are all already fixed.