📱 Android Themes

🖼 Screenshots

Android 3.1	Android 95/NT 4.0	Android 98
Android ME Professional (2000/ME) with IE6	Android XP	Android 7
Android iOS 6	MacOS	OS/2
	potentially	is that even a good idea?

ℹ️ Intro

• Lawnchair Legacy 2.0-2589 is the least worst launcher recommended. Newer versions lack support for changing icons using images. Also, other launchers have ads or are painful to customise/use. It also supports custom fonts!
• Backup/Restore - Lawnchair backups store the icons, layout and wallpapers ✅
• Lawnchair backups do NOT contain custom fonts. You'll need both the .shed file and .ttf files to the device

How to

From the github theme folder(s)

• Download the .shed file (Lawnchair theme file) if you want a head start
• Download the wallpaper file
• Download the font (.ttf) file
• Download the icon pack (I'm working on creating these at the momemnt)

On your phone

• Install Lawnchair Legacy
• Open the .shed file in Lawnchair Legacy
• (If required) set the global font in Lawnchair to the .ttf file (Theme, Fonts, Change, Add Fonts etc)
• Set the wallpaper
• Unzip the icons to a suitable folder
• You may have to remove the "dead" home screen icons

Customising the icons

1. In the app drawer, long press the app, Customise
2. Tap the app's icon
3. Tap Open Photos
4. Browse to your icon folder and choose an icon, then OK
5. Now you can drag the app to the homescreen

Theming Tips

• Lawnchair supports .gif files as wallpaper (non-animated), which is ideal for stock Windows backgrounds which use GIF colours
• Note: set the icons in the app drawer first - the change will flow down to the home screen icons
• You can use GIF Live Wallpaper by Awesome Robot to set an animated .GIF as wallpaper, for example setting a Windows loading screen on the lock screen!
• Futo keyboard v0.1.27 now supports themes (eg background image)
• Notification Shortcuts app also supports custom (.png) icons!

Icon tips

• Icons can be extracted from Windows files using wrestool, which supports all Windows DLLs, EXEs etc since Windows 3.0!
• VirtualBox hard drive .vdi files can be opened/extracted with 7Zip (eg so you can install a legacy OS then extract the icons from it)
• .ICO files can be converted to .PNG (with transparency!) using imagemagick
• Fun icons can be found in MORICONS.DLL and PIFMGR.DLL
• Win95/NT 4.0 have the same vibe, likewise with Win2k/ME. Icons/wallpaper colour are the same. WinME and Win2k do have different wallpaper though
• Nova launcher works, but it has its bugs. Wallpaper placement can be hard to get right. It has ads. It's also not fun to pick custom icons, although others I've tried are worse. It also doesn't support custom fonts

🖌️ Themes!

Windows 3.1 Theme

• Font: MS Sans Serif 8pt.ttf
• Lawnchair .SHED file
• Icons
• Text colour: Black
• Original Win31 wallpapers
• Issues: Wallpaper is dark (should be pure white, but Lawnchair has made it grey-ish)

Windows 95/NT 4.0 Theme

• Sample Lawnchair .shed
• Font: MS Sans Serif 8pt.ttf or https://www.dafont.com/w95fa.font
• Font colour: White
• Wallpaper colour: 008484
• Win95 grey: C6C6C6
• Win95 Icon "pack"
• Original Win95 icons: https://archive.org/details/windows-95-c-icons
• Original Win95 wallpapers: https://archive.org/details/sc-wall
• Issues: I couldn't find any Win95-type icons for Camera so I had to use the older style one from PROGMAN.EXE 🙁

Windows 98 Theme

• Sample Lawnchair .shed
• Font: MS Sans Serif (Western), size 8. SSERIFE.FON - Here's the .TTF version https://github.com/MARTYR-X-LTD/ms-w98-ui/tree/main/TTF
• Wallpaper colour: 000080
• Wallpaper with the Windows 98 logo: the logo is a .gif stored in MEMBG.DLL (extracted with Resource Hacker)
• Original Win98 wallpapers: https://archive.org/details/underw1
• Windows 98 SE VDI: https://archive.org/details/windows-98-32-bit
• Issues: Font doesn't look right

Windows 2000/Me Theme

• Reference pic: https://winworldpc.com/res/img/screenshots/final-3e8aaaa2b1c65587e5249551445642da-w2kfilebrowser.png
• Windows 2000 font: TAHOMA.TTF, size 8. Note that modern Tahoma is different - so here's a conversion of the original Win2k Tahoma: https://github.com/SpitFire-666/AndroidThemes/blob/main/Tahoma-Win2k.ttf
• Original Win2k Wallpapers: https://archive.org/details/windows-2000_202502/
• Windows Me VDI: https://archive.org/details/win_me_archive_vdi/
• Wallpaper (Win2k Blue) colour: 3B6EA5
• Windows 2000 grey: D4D0C8 / R212, G208, B200

Windows XP Theme

Finally, an OS that has most of the icons I need, out of the box!

• Font: TAHOMA.TTF, size 8. Note that modern Tahoma is different - so here's a conversion of the original Win2k Tahoma: https://github.com/SpitFire-666/AndroidThemes/blob/main/Tahoma-Win2k.ttf
• Wallpaper: BLISS.JPG
• WinXP "Grey": FBFBFC
• WinXP Grey (classic theme):
• WinXP Blue: 235EDC
• Notes: I had to hunt down a Windows Messenger (remember that!?) .exe, because it's missing from newer versions of WinXP 🤔 It took a lot of digging to even find the name of the .exe wmsmsgs.exe which is here. Then I had to expand.exe the file 🙃

Windows 7 Theme - also has crossover with Vista

• Wallpaper:
• Font:

Apple iOS 6 theme

The irony of theming your device like an OS that won't let you customise it 🙃

• Icons: https://www.deviantart.com/alternatecontent/art/Classic-IOS-6-Icons-Pack-1287853974
• Wallpaper: https://cdn.wallpapersafari.com/3/68/fHe1yV.jpg
• Font:

OS/2 Warp Theme

• Icons: warpicon***

Mac OS 9

• Icons: https://github.com/bearz314/MacOS9-icons
• MacOS 9 grey: ADACAD
• Wallpaper colour: 63639C
• Wallpaper
• Font

Quikmenu III Theme

• if i can be bothered

Windows 3.1 Nova Launcher theme (old info coz I hate Nova Launcher)

Windows 3.1 Nova Launcher theme

• First attempt at theming. Took forever. Use Lawnchair instead!

Theme

• Icon text: black
• Theme file: https://github.com/SpitFire-666/AndroidThemes/blob/main/Win31.novabackup
• Wallpaper:
• Home screen settings, Advanced, Disable Wallpaper Zoom Effects

Wallpaper

• Screenshot taken from Windows 3.1 via DOSBOX-X, with 3x scaling enabled
• Photoshopped into a .GIF (jpeg is fine too)
• Nova Launcher sucks at aligning/setting the wallpaper