Get that Dirt off your Shoulders.

Without going into to much detail, this is how you theme most of the UI and Icons for i OS 4. If you’ve done a 3.0 theme already, you probably want to update your theme, and this will help you do that. If you have never made a theme before, this guide isn’t that complicated, and should be fairly easy for anyone to pickup. Whatever brought you here, you’re probably ready to get started. Simply Download the Starter Pack and we’ll get going on those instructions:

Theme Layout

BUNDLES: The biggest difference is what goes into com.apple.springboard. There are a few new additions, such as the music controller buttons for the built in multitasking. However there are a few new exclusions also, like the wifi bars no longer go there. Also, if you have a custom battery, it STILL goes into com.apple.springboard, I just didnt include a template in the starter pack. Another interesting bundle is com.apple.mobileicons.framework. Make sure you put your icon mask and overlay in here. Also there are two bundles related to themeing the music player.

DOCK.PNG: Some people are saying their dock didnt work in the new themes or whatever. IDK whats going on there, but the png is basically the same size. The starter pack theme has a blank one, because it wanted a transparent dock. But any image you put in there will be used as the dock.

ICONS: This is still the same. Infact, you can copy your old icons folder into your new theme no problemo.

INFO.PLIST: This little file has a few changes. For instance, if you want to remove icon labels, you need to set ” opacity:0 ”

UIImages: This folder gains alot of images in 4.0. The Airport and 3G signal bars now go in this folder, along with having fancy new names. (Note even the style of airport bars (going from a increasing rectangle style to the 3 rounded airport style bars) I also put another copy of the Icon mask, overlay and shadow in this folder.

Room For Improvement:

UIImages should also get a matching set of Silver_0_WifiBar.png set of files, however, Winterboard does not apply them, even if you put them in the folder. This will likely be fixed at a later date, but for now, I was unable to apply any themes to the silver menubar.

Wallpaper: With the 3.2 on the iPad and now 4.0 on the iPhone, its becoming really hard to give the end user your wallpaper. Im currently trying to find a way to store it in their saved photos or something atleast. Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

-  @JohnnyFortune