By editing the color scheme of your smartphone you can change the colors of all the menu text, buttons and other navigation structures on your smartphone homescreen (and on the rest of your phone as well) and doing so is quite simple actually.
Everything that has to be done is to create a XML document which needs to have a “.scheme” extension in front of the usual “.xml” file extension (which makes it “.scheme.xml”). You will need to move this file to the “Storage/Application Data/Home”-folder on your smartphone by syncing it with your Computer and after that you can simply select it in the “Settings” menu of your smartphone instead the default color scheme.
The “.scheme” file of your new homescreen’s color theme has to look like this:
View Example Scheme (or download it by right clicking and selecting “Save Target As”)
As you can see, to edit the default colors, you simply have to change the hex-color codes under “value=x” to the color you need. The only hard part is to figure out which of the color options (like COLOR_TRAYTEXT) changes which color on your smartphone.
Color Scheme Creation Made Easy
You should use the image provided below to make the creating of custom color schemes for your smartphone homescreens less of a guessing game.
The picture shows all the different color values/names you can edit in your .scheme XML file and what exactly the effect of those changes will be on your cell phone. This way you can for example notice that changing the values for “COLOR_BTNTEXT” will effect the color of the start-menu buttons on your homescreen at the first glance, without trying it.
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