Today, personalization on mobile devices is a key factor, and Samsung knows it. For this reason, we find a software layer that includes different tools and functions to change the visual appearance of your smartphones at any time. As is the case with the well-known themes that we can apply to give a radical change to the smartphone.
However, not only do we find the possibility of using those that come standard or those that are created by other users, but, best of all, we can design them by ourselves thanks to the different tools that it puts at our disposal. available to the Asian manufacturer. In addition to the fact that we will only find this tool in the Samsung store itself, so the story can only be applied on the phones of the South Korean brand.
What can you edit
To begin, it will be necessary to discover what aspects will be edited once we choose a theme or decide to create it ourselves. In case we only download it, we will personalize a Samsung mobile according to four different aspects. But, first, we have to know how we can access such customization.
We are only going to have to pinch the home screen of our Samsung mobile to see the option we were looking for. Among the possibilities at the bottom we will see the Themes button that takes us to it. And, once we are inside, we can see those four categories that we told you before: Themes , backgrounds , icons and Always on Display (AOD).
In each of them we will find the corresponding options already pre-designed by Samsung and those that have been designed by other people for Galaxy phones. In case we decide to choose a complete theme, it will come in most cases accompanied by the corresponding backgrounds, icons and less often than necessary for the Always On Display mode. Although you can always choose to design them yourself.
How to create them
If you have decided to develop it yourself, the truth is that it will be more complex and will take us longer. But, as long as you follow the steps that we will explain, you can achieve great results for your Samsung smartphone. We will start by downloading both Good Lock and Theme Park from the Galaxy Store of our Samsung.
When we have downloaded both software tools, we must open Good Lock and click on the Family tab and tap on Theme Park. Then, click on allow> Create new> and give access to our gallery. Of course, we must bear in mind that Theme Park is not compatible with dynamic backgrounds, so we must establish a static background.
Afterwards, we will have to choose an image from our gallery, this will be the desktop background and with which we will shape the colors that will be chosen for the theme automatically. Once we select said photograph, this Good Lock module will be in charge of adapting them to the different customizable facets of the Samsung mobile. But what can we do?
- Crop the image your way.
- Edit the style : you can choose the color combinations for the backgrounds of the menus and notifications.
- Customize the icons : you will also have the possibility to select the frame color of the icon itself and how the text used for the name of said icons will be.
And not only this, but we can also modify these characteristics of each element:
- Color saturation.
- The level of blur.
- Transparency.
You must bear in mind that the theme you create will be applied to the elements you choose, such as the keyboard, the quick panel, applications … When you have finished customizing or developing your own theme , we will only need to click on the save icon which will appear at the top right of the screen. At that time, we can put the name with which we will identify it each time we want to apply it. Of course, the names cannot contain spaces or special characters, in addition to that we will have a maximum of 20 characters for each name.
And when it is saved, we can easily find it in the My themes section , within Wallpaper and themes, in your Samsung’s own settings. If you want to apply it, you just have to go there and apply it.
Use those of other users
However, if we want to give our Samsung mobile a unique touch, we can always open ourselves to more possibilities and get themes that are not first in the themes application, we refer to the options developed by other users for Galaxy smartphones .
The place where we can find these themes will be the same as we talked about previously, since these two share space. Although they will be in another section of this software tool for the South Korean firm’s mobile devices. To access again, we must follow these steps:
- Long press on any empty area of the Samsung Galaxy desktop.
- Tap on the Themes> Most Popular option. Within this section we will find all those totally free themes. So we will only have to download it by entering one by one in those that we like.
- Download it and click Apply.
Also, we find the possibility of buying them, since as we will see in Galaxy Themes some will have a price. But, for this, we must have an added payment method in our Samsung Galaxy. If you want to configure it, you will have to click on the three horizontal lines of this software tool that will appear in the upper left.
Next, go to the Payment Methods section and add the one that best suits your needs. In addition, we will not only find the option of credit or debit cards, but you can also pay with PayPal and with discount coupons. And as a security element to avoid payments without you realizing it, we recommend activating an option with which you will have to enter a password, fingerprint or facial recognition to be able to buy content. To do this, you will have to follow these steps:
- Enter Topics.
- Click on the three horizontal bars.
- Click on the gear wheel.
- Click on the Ask for password or biometrics switch.
From now on, every time you try to download some paid content within this tool, it will be necessary to enter a password, fingerprint or use facial recognition. This way you will avoid the occasional fortuitous purchase by accidentally clicking on the option to pay for a theme.
