Rockdroid - 720x1280 touch screen theme

[zzw83]

I am not using a phone with a 768x1280 display. Can I just edit the theme files for the 720 theme to work with the 768 resolution?

Sure.

The lazy route, the absolute minimum you could get away with, is kludging 48px of empty space onto the bottom of the sbs and wps backdrops because the backdrop images must match the device's framebuffer exactly. That would 'Just Work' with zero additional changes but would leave a large-ish area of empty space on the bottom of the theme.

The slightly more technical route if you wanted to even that empty space out slightly, and what I would probably do with this, is to add 24px to the bottom of each backdrop image and 24px to the top of each backdrop image (but underneath the status bar strip), and then to drop the y axis down 24px for all the affected viewports and touch areas. Effectively distributing the 48px of additional empty space across two areas half the size.

However, honestly I don't think that taking the 'lazy route' described above would look that bad at all or even be particularly noticeable.

Looking at the theme source just now, either are very simple tasks.


[Saint]

EDIT: looking at it again, the album art could probably be adjusted to absorb the additional 24px of 'extra' space, it could even be adjusted to absorb the entire 48px of extra space, but that does two things. It worsens the memory requirements, and makes adjusting the theme to suit a bit more complex than simply pushing everything down 24px.

Wow. Thanks for that quick and detailed reply.
I will definitely give this a try.
I would have to add the space on the sides of the image not the bottom.

EDIT: It worked!
I just extended the two backgrounds to 768 and it works perfectly. The theme is shifted towards the top left but it's barely noticeable with only 48 extra pixels.

Thank you so much and you too ZincAlloy for this!
Rockbox is absolutely the best player for android (especially sound wise). I flat out refuse to use anything else.

[ZincAlloy]

Interesting. On my Galaxy S3 playback stops after a couple of seconds when I have album art enabled.

I was using a galaxy nexus and playback was fine although some albumart did not load.
I am not using a phone with a 768x1280 display. Can I just edit the theme files for the 720 theme to work with the 768 resolution?

I updated Rockbox and it works for me as well. Funny. I don't think this issue was supposed to be fixed 
I've updated my first post. Album art is enabled now.

[JapaneseDrunkard]

I would like to make the rockbox rockdroid bundle.

It is a single apk file that consists of:

1. latest rockbox
2. rockdroid 720x1280 (your excellent theme!)
3. japanese font

Is it OK?

[ZincAlloy]

Sure.
Do you have a suitable antialiased font in the correct sizes?

[JapaneseDrunkard]

Thanks.

Yes, I have one.
Take a look at the screen shots.

Letter 'g' has a problem under the baseline,
but it is not a big problem for us Japanese :-)

[[Saint]]

JapaneseDrunkard,

Am I to understand that you are a fluent native speaker of Japanese?

If so, how would you feel about me asking you to help to complete the string translations for the Japanese lang file and get rid of the few remaining English strings?

If you would like to be a part of this, please head on over to the Japanese language section of our string translator and submit the remaining entries, if you are willing and able to.

No pressure, do what you can, when you can, if you can.

Help us make Rockbox a better place for our international users.

After completing the translation wizard to the best of your ability or the state of your willingness, hit the "Finish translating" button at the bottom of the page at which point you will be given a patch to upload to either our Flyspray bug/patch tracker or (preferably) our Gerrit instance.

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[Saint]

[ZincAlloy]

Thanks.

Yes, I have one.
Take a look at the screen shots.

Letter 'g' has a problem under the baseline,
but it is not a big problem for us Japanese :-)

It's not antialiased. And that "g" sure is a size issue..
Also you've only replaced the larger of the two fonts. Ideally you'd want to replace both with something that has japanese characters.

[[Saint]]

Just looks like someone forgot about or didn't know about the ascent/descent (in particular, the latter) flags when generating the font.


[Saint]

[JapaneseDrunkard]

how would you feel about me asking you to help to complete the string translations for the Japanese lang file and get rid of the few remaining English strings?

Sorry for the late reply.
I will try gerrit http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/UsingGit#Setting_up_Gerrit again tomorrow.
I made my account for Flyspray,
but I cannot log in and I don't know why.

It's not antialiased. And that "g" sure is a size issue..
Also you've only replaced the larger of the two fonts. Ideally you'd want to replace both with something that has japanese characters.

I understood that I didn't understand what the antialias is.
Please let me make corrections.
I don't have a pre-antialiased bitmap Japanese font.

I can replace the smaller font with Japanese one the next time.

Just looks like someone forgot about or didn't know about the ascent/descent (in particular, the latter) flags when generating the font.

I have never cared about the ascent/descent flags
when I generated the bitmap font from the truetype font.

There is a still long way to go.

[JapaneseDrunkard]

how would you feel about me asking you to help to complete the string translations for the Japanese lang file and get rid of the few remaining English strings?

Done.
My first change to be reviewed is now on top of gerrit :-)

[[Saint]]

Hi JapaneseDrunkard,

Just wanted to say how much I appreciate your contribution! Thank you for helping to provide a better experience for our international user base.

 

Rockbox, in a sense, is a holistic project. Many small parts, which when combined make a whole that is greater than the sum of those parts.


[Saint]

[JapaneseDrunkard]

Hi ZincAlloy,

It's not antialiased. And that "g" sure is a size issue..
Also you've only replaced the larger of the two fonts. Ideally you'd want to replace both with something that has japanese characters.

[problems]
1. The font is not antialiased.
2. The descent part of 'g' is not displayed properly.
3. The smaller font is not replaced with the Japanese one.

2 & 3 are solved.
Please find attached the new screenshots.

I don't have a solution of 1 now,
so I will keep it in mind :-)

Thank you for pointing it out.

[JapaneseDrunkard]

It's not antialiased.

Now the both fonts are antialiased.
Thanks a lot :-)

[ZincAlloy]

Much better! That will make a nice bundle for japanese speaking users.

[JapaneseDrunkard]

ZincAlloy,

I converted your theme to 480 x 854 resolution.
And I would like to upload rockdroid_480x854 to http://themes.rockbox.org/ .
Is it OK with you?