This book is incomplete and still in progress
MIUI Theme Guide
This book intends to serve as a complete reference to MIUI theming guide. It is more of an advanced guide. If you're interested in making a basic theme just use the MIUI online designer.
Why this book?
This book is developed as theme guides for MIUI are scattered thoughout the MIUI forums and it left me a lot of figuring out to do. I had to experiment myself to learn how to make a sophisticated theme. I hope to ease the pain of the theme developers. Hence this book.
What is MIUI
It is custom Android ROM from Xiaomi Inc. It is highly themable by design. It comes preloaded on all Xiaomi phones. If you're interested then you can flash your device with MIUI. Check the forums for further help on flashing MIUI on your specific phone.
How to theme MIUI
Prerequisites
- A MIUI device
- Any computer
- An Image Manipulation Program
- Here I've used GIMP, others include Adobe Photoshop, http://canva.com, etc.
- Text Editor
- Here I've used Atom, others include Notepad++, Geany, SublimeText, Vim, Emacs, etc.
- A file-archive tool
- Here I've used 7zip, others include WinRAR, tar cli, etc.
What! Nothing else !!!
Yup. Nothing else. No MIUI theme editor tool. As of the time of writing MIUI MUSE is not available. Hence, it is not mentioned here.