What is Reddit's opinion of ThemeX: Extract Launcher Theme?

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I used this app ThemeX that lets you extract icons from any pack and save them as .png files. When I had those saved I edited them in paint.net and put them into KLWP as image files with touch shortcuts.

After you managed to download an icon pack, download Themex, it's probably the most used app to extract icons. And then edit them in photoshop as you do with other stuff. Or search xda forums for a tutorial.

Download this icon pack: http://tatosxl.deviantart.com/art/Compacticons-HD-for-Android-586892801 (it's not on the Google Play Store)

And then download this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.redphx.themex

Use the app to extract all the icons from the icon pack. Hope I helped.

Probably not exactly what you're looking for but you could use ThemeX to extract the icons and save wherever you want. I wouldn't know how to convert them to fonticon format from there though.

You're on the right track. I also use ThemeX to extract the icons. That app will save each icon in png format into seperate folders for each icon pack. You just have to go into your phones storage and change the name of the icon pack file to whatever you want after you save from within ThemeX.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.redphx.themex

I thought about the same thing as I wanted to be able to securly save my work somewhere else besides the app itself as well. What I came up with is an app called ThemeX. After I installed the icon pack that I made using Icon Pack Studio onto my phone I'll open up ThemeX. Then I'll find the icon pack that I want, open it up and then save it. Then I go into my file manager and look up the ThemeX folder, then find the folder of the icon pack I just saved, rename the icon pack and save it in Drive/Dropbox etc. Hope this helps. (◦‿◦)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.redphx.themex

Best place is google play store for android apps. If you have an android phone, install any one or more icon packs. Now install themex app which will let you extract icons from the icon pack as pngs. You can transfer them to PC and use.

The advantage of the app I linked above is it allows you to extract multiple icons at a time. I couldn't find many who could do that.

The easiest way to do this would be to share the style that you made and then have others import the style.

There isn't really a great way to get the individual icon files besides using something like Themex to rip the icons from the generated icon pack.

Yes, and it's awesome.

Together with the app ThemeX I can install my favourite Icon Packs and extract them with ThemeX and then apply them with this stock launcher feature.

This way I don't need to install third party launchers to change the look of my homescreen.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.redphx.themex

In the image element check the box next to the "bitmap" thing and then choose the calculator looking icon. Than tap the new calculator looking icon and paste the text to the formula.

Themex might be easier though: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.redphx.themex

I extracted them with ThemeX and then used Photo Editor to invert the color (white to black), like this:

Photo Editor main screen > Batch > click + sign > choose ThemeX Glyphsy directory and select all > click Task > choose Effect, then Invert (no preset necessary) and save as PNG to your desired folder.

Then just add the regular icons to the homescreen, and long press on each of them, select the icon, choose Gallery Apps, and pick the corresponding app from a gallery or file explorer, where Nova, Apex, etc. Will prompt you to crop, but I just click OK. It does kind of suck to have to manually apply them all, but I just have 7 app icons, one for the drawer, and one folder, so it's not that bad.

ThemeX is awesome, as the other commenter said, but the process can be even easier! Many icon packs are set up to work with the Android image picker. If you don't have a default gallery app set, when picking a bitmap inside Zooper, you'll be prompted to choose from various apps (gallery, camera, etc.) As well as any icon packs that support this feature. Depending on the dashboard the icon pack uses, you will hopefully be able to set your bitmap image directly from the icon pack. I've had success with this method with quite a few packs, but I've never used Coconut, so I can't comment on that one specifically. Give it a try, though.

This is mine! Wow, that was a whole year ago.

Anyway, I made the button in Zooper, but if you use Nova Launcher (Not sure about others) it can be whatever you want, a zooper Widget, an icon, a gesture, etc.

I'm not good at explaining stuff, but I'll try. Let me know if you don't understand something.

First make the popup widget, go to the app, select the + and choose zooper Widget, then choose a size (you can always resize it so just go with something like 2x2). Scroll down and resize the box to make a little bigger, however big you want, again you can always resize it more.

Then click the save button (don't worry you'll go back to fix the settings in a bit). Now you'll have the zooper Widget file in popup widgets main screen. Click on it and it'll ask you if you want to make a shortcut on your desktop, click OK.

Now there's a generic popup widget icon on your homescreen that has your zooper popup. Put that icon wherever you want your popup to be. Click on it then click the popup to take you to zooper's configuration screen and click empty. From here make your icons or whatever you want your popup to be.

If you want icons like on mine, download an app called themex https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.redphx.themex

Then in Zooper click layout > add > bitmap, scroll down to "select bitmap from device gallery" on the side bar of the window that pops up select themex and then go to the icon pack you want and click the icon you want. Do this for each icon you want, but after you select the icon you have to map it to the app, after you select it click "module on tap" and pick the app the icon belongs to.

Arrange all the icons how you want them to be when you click the popup.

When you're done click save and return to your popup shortcut on your homescreen. Now make the button whatever you want. Do you want it to be an icon? If you have Nova Launcher long click > edit > click the icon box and pick whatever icon you want.

You want it to be a gesture? Then you can delete the icon, go to Nova settings > gestures > select a gesture > shortcut > popup widget > your zooper Widget should be listed there, click it and it will be assigned to the gesture.

If you want it to be a zooper Widget, delete the icon, and you can do the same thing you did with the bitmaps (it doesn't have to be a bitmap, it can be text, a shape, a picture, the whole widget itself) except instead of mapping it to an app you're gonna map it to your popup widget, so when you select "module ontap action" swipe to where it says shortcut at the top and select popup widget, again your zooper Widget should be listed there, just click it will be mapped.

Once you have all that you can go back to the popup widget app, select the 3 dots at the right of your zooper Widget and click configure. Here you can change the animation, speed, background color, etc, just mess around with it.

Okay, I'm sure I made tons of mistakes so if you need any help or didn't understand something let me know, I'm here!

THEMEX can also do this. And batch download too

Long-press the icon you wish to change on your homescreen or in your app drawer then follow these steps. Not all icon packs let you do this so you may have to extract the icons to your memory first.

If you want to be able to change the icon system-wide (homescreen, drawer, share menu, etc), you will need to create your own icon pack. Icondy and Adapticons can do this, but I would recommend Adapticons. I think it costs a dollar?

I replaced the icons for the LG apps like phone, messages, settings etc with the stock android ones while keeping the LG app drawer launcher.

First download ThemeX. This will let you rip icons from icon packs and save them as regular images in the gallery. Then download whatever icon pack you want, I used this one for stock marshmallow icons. Then open ThemeX and you will see the icon pack you downloaded, tap on it, then either tap on each icon you want or to get all of them tap on the icon of squares in the top right to select all and then tap the floppy disc icon

After that on your home screen touch and hold a icon then release it and you will see a purple paint brush appear on it, tap that and then you will get this screen. Tap the + sign and then you will see a album with the icons in it.

That's a great question that I honestly should start including the answer to in my main comment, as it's important to know and not exactly intuitive. So I'm going to step by step how to change an app in the "most used" section of the start menu, as that has a couple extra steps, but the process is relatively the same for changing the taskbar apps.

So starting off we need to get to where the "icon" is. So for that we'll go to Windows Menu>Most Used Apps> App 1. This brings us into the icon group for the top most app in the most used section.

Changing where the icon goes when tapped

From here the most important thing is to change the "touch action" which is what the group will do if it's tapped. To do this we go under the 'Touch' tab and click on the action that says "Launch App" in the grey box. Then we'll tap on the app, which in this case is Memrise. This will give us a menu where you'll select what app you want the icon to open.

Changing the icon itself

To change the icon go back to the 'Items' tab and tap on the Overlap group. The overlap group contains two things: a shape, which is the blue background, and an image, which is the icon itself. To change the icon tap on the image, and then tap on "Pick Image". This will bring a page where you can select the image you want. It should open up a sidebar and say "Open from" at the top. If you see this then you can just scroll down until you see the icon pack you want to use and tap on it, which will open the icon pack's app and you can pick the exact icon you want from there. If you don't see the icon pack you want don't worry. It does make the process a lot more annoying but I'll explain it below under "Turning icons into images".

Changing the text

This is super simple. Just go back to the 'Items' tab for App 1 and tap on the text item. Then tap on the text, which in this case is Memrise, and type what you want the text to say. Super simple.

Edit: Here's the last part, sorry it took so long!

Turning icons into images

So as stated previously, this process is a bit annoying and a bit involved, but once you get the hang of it it's not too bad. To start off with you're going to need ThemeX. This app is going to do all the legwork to actually turn the icons into images. Once you've installed and opened ThemeX you'll see a whole bunch of different cards, all with the different icon packs you currently have installed. From here tap on whatever icon pack you want to use and it will open up a page with all of the icons from that theme. Then comes a choice. You can either:

1) Click the icon at the top right that's a box with 4 boxes inside. This will ask what you want to select. Check "Icons" and it will select all the icons in the icon pack. Then just hit the save button and it will convert all of the icons into images.

2) Scroll through the entire icon pack on that page and manually select the icons you want. Once you've selected all the ones you want you can hit save and it will convert only the selected icons into images.

Option 2 is by far the better option if the icon pack has more than like 50 icons. I made the mistake of using option 1 a couple nights ago with Polycons and converted 700+ icons. Trust me you do not want to search through 700+ icons every time you need to find one.

After saving the icons you want go back to the "Changing the icon itself" section and follow those steps. The only difference is instead of finding the icon pack in the "Open from" you'll tap out of that menu and the icons will be right there under "recent".

I hope this made sense! If you have any questions feel free to ask, I'll try to answer as many as I can!

Yes. I haven't used it myself but I've seen people talk about ThemeX Extractor. Based on the description it should do what you want

Try using the app ThemeX.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.redphx.themex

I used to use ThemeX but it hasn't been updated in ages so I'm not sure it still works.

You'll need an app like ThemeX to extract them to your gallery, I believe.

Yes! The app ThemeX can extract icons as usable files.

I think they might get included because I used ThemeX Extract to get the icons in as an image (bitmap).

You can use ThemeX to save icons as pictures.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.redphx.themex&hl=en

I'll try to get to each of your questions one at a time, but I haven't used all those options so I won't be able to get to everything.

>Grid Size

I also use Nova Pro, and the icon size doesn't change for me when I change the size of the grid. As far as I can tell it stays the same size but gives you less options on where to place it.

FYI, Nova has an option to place icons in between spots on the grid, so if you choose that option the largest possible grid (for example) becomes 23×23 instead of 12×12.

As far as widgets, I think some change in size and some don't. Some also allow you to manually resize them after you place them.

>KLWP

I'm going to echo the developer here. If you know how to use it properly, you'll never need anything else. I don't even use traditional icons anymore. I find an icon pack I like, and use the icon I want as an image. The advantages are the endless possibilities of what you could do with an image in Kustom. You can't do anything with an icon aside from slightly changing the size.

The problem is that only some icon packs allow you to do use the icons as images. For the rest, use an app like Themex, which allows you to turn icons into images (among other things).

Also, I'd highly recommend the Pro Version for two reasons. First of all, the best way to figure out how to use Kustom and get the most out of it is by importing some themes (such as the ones you see in this sub made with Kustom) and playing around with them to get a hang of it.

Secondly, at some point you're going to want to try something different but you won't want to lose your current setup. The only way to do that without losing everything is by exporting it so you could just re-import it if you don't like your new idea.

>UCCW and Zooper

I've never used UCCW and only briefly used Zooper before discovering the wonders of KLWP, so I can't really help you there.

>Dynamic wallpapers in KLWP

I've never used this myself, but I'm 90% sure you could change things in KLWP based on the temperature or a bunch of other things. If you ask this in /r/kustom there should be a lot of people there that could tell you the best way to do it.