Learn to create your own themes and upload them to Cydia

Upload your creations to Cydia seems a taboo subject, not named, and few people know it, but after reading this post we have learned to create a theme and hang himself in the " apple maggot "for the rest of the community.

If you do well this design you can sell your themes, that after all set out more cost effective than a "little success app" and also learn, so do not lose detail than I have.

Sincerely, customization of the device is an issue to be addressed seriously. It is considered one of the strongest pillars of the jailbreak for the large number of designs that contains Cydia or the ideas introduced, and it is here where we start. No one is born knowing how and who wants to learn, first copy!

From the Cydia is a way to know something basic to the preparation of a package (either a theme, tweak, app, etc) to upload to any repository: the structure of folders and files. "Deb". To prove just click on an already installed package and then on the System or System Content Content. This feature is especially useful in locating the problematic files.

The best practice, once we ease with SSH access , would be able to download various themes to be different from each other to learn through "reverse engineering" but comfortable from the computer. It's simple, do not look at me with that face. The most important thing when creating a theme is to have the names of our images and others are correct, otherwise we will never change takes effect. Applying that standard, the rest is a breeze.

Today should not be either a graphic designer or an expert in Photoshop, for those who do have the means, there are plenty of free programs like GIMP than enough fulfills its mission.

You know how to make a theme and prepare a package for uploading to Cydia is not at all difficult. Perhaps we complicate things if we upload a repository of ours, but hey, you can rely on large repos as ModMyi that will make us save part of the process.

If we follow what has been said so far, you send them a zip file of your idea / contribution they take care of the rest, and why not?, Will remain permanently available in Cydia until you decide to remove or update from the developer portal ModMyi, linked above.

As shown in the image we create our package indicating the name, type of package, version, add screenshots, a description bilingual and the package itself. A little further down, you can choose whether we want to pay or not. If the first option would take 3 to 5 days to process the request and if we do not care and want to be free, the process does not take more than 48 hours, at least that was our experience.

From the time has come EsferaiPhone theme by Cydia, hope you like and you learn with him. What you can see the video in this post, I lock the screen is a modification of its own in a pay package, so it is not included in the "official theme", but it is funny and educational.

Incidentally, the logo of the website is the work of Sphere, the rest was created for this post, and possibly continue to work on the theme to make it more attractive.

Would you like to work with us? You can send your creations to the iphone theme to email [at] esferaiphone.com and the best ideas come to Cydia published in an upcoming update theme.

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