Full rebranding of Nextcloud clients (Android, iOS, Windows, macOS) – Community Edition

[Jegode]

Hello everyone,

I need help with a full rebranding of Nextcloud Community Edition clients for my company.

What I want is:

• Replace the default Nextcloud logo with my own company logo.
• Change all the colors to match my company’s branding.
• Replace every “Nextcloud” text with my company’s name.
• Remove all references to “Nextcloud” so users only see my company brand.
• Apply these changes to the official clients: Android, iOS, Windows and macOS.

The web interface was easy to customize with the Theming app, but I need guidance for the clients:

• How can I rebrand and rebuild the Android app? (repo: Nextcloud Android)
• How can I rebrand the iOS app? (repo: Nextcloud iOS)
• How can I rebrand the Windows desktop client? (repo: Nextcloud Desktop)
• How can I rebrand the macOS client? (same desktop repo as Windows: Nextcloud Desktop)

Questions:

• Do I need to fork and compile each repository separately?
• Is there any step-by-step guide, documentation, or best practice for rebranding these clients?

Thanks in advance for your help!

[tflidd]

Here some references for branding vs. theming:

Is rebranding allowed?

Hi, I’m wondering if rebranding Nextcloud is allowed. So in my locality, if I try to pitch Nextcloud as an alternative tech stack it won’t work. But if I pitch it as Sydney Cloud, Sydney Talk and Chat, Sydney Office, Sydney Mail etc etc then it might be used better. Not sure if anyone gets this but instead of using an online software basically a renamed local version (completely based on the latest nextcloud) might grab better attention. So is this legally allowed? Would it be allowed to basi…

https://nextcloud.com/blog/branded-nextcloud-clients/

@Jegode

Do I need to fork and compile each repository separately?

As far as I understand, e.g. for iOS you need to fork the app, make your branding modifications and then publish on the app store (need of a developer account, passing through review process etc.).
The desktop clients are perhaps a bit easier in the way that you don’t have the app stores. Perhaps in Europe, with alternative app stores, this might become easier…???

I don’t know if many passed through these steps and documented this publicly.

If it is not just a private project to try out things for the fun of it, it’s perhaps worth figuring out how much the effort is and how much this is in comparison to the enterprise subscription.