Hey if I wanted to deodex the miui or ics launcher, would they work on my evo 3d?
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I don't think deodexing by itself going to make any apps portable. From my understanding some core apps seems to be depending on framework. So, you might need to modify the framework to get your app working probably.
With that in mind, just give it a try as you might be lucky without being troubled with anything.
By the way for the two launchers you mention (aside from MIUI [?]depending on custom framework?) there might an already made package for it. Also, ICS launcher is on Market if my memory serves me right.
Good Luck.
Im needing themers to make my skinny rom shine. Alot of people have expressed interest in theming, well nows your chance. Have at it.
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I'm gonna make a couple probably tomorrow.
I have started to make icons for another theme...but want to learn how to change menu s, fonts, etc. I have a ton of reading to do....good place to start?
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Look at the community rom thread in general, there is a link to an easy kitchen.
The difference in most devs and users is the power of their search-fu.
jokersax11 said:
Im needing themers to make my skinny rom shine. Alot of people have expressed interest in theming, well nows your chance. Have at it.
Ideas
Boot animation
Fonts
Colors
Icons
Small mods
Themed apks
Check out themes in popular phones for more ideas
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Okay, so to no avail I have tried to get UOT Kitchen to work, and everytime I try, no matter what format I put the .zip file into it fails to install. Any other avenues you suggest for creating a theme?
Explain everything you did
xTMFxOffshore said:
Okay, so to no avail I have tried to get UOT Kitchen to work, and everytime I try, no matter what format I put the .zip file into it fails to install. Any other avenues you suggest for creating a theme?
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Okay, so I can cook it just fine, but it fails at the .zip process. I have tried using both edify script (MTD and EMCC) and Amend scripting. Both of those failed. Tried flashing them, tried unzipping them, and putting in the framework and senseui in again, nothing seems to work.
Senseui? This is a motorola phone. You only need to modify the main framework and systemui.apk
xTMFxOffshore said:
Okay, so I can cook it just fine, but it fails at the .zip process. I have tried using both edify script (MTD and EMCC) and Amend scripting. Both of those failed. Tried flashing them, tried unzipping them, and putting in the framework and senseui in again, nothing seems to work.
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I meant system not sense. Haha. Modify them how?
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I used uot kitchen for skinny btw
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I couldn't make it work but gonna try another thing.
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I think it needs a updated binary script that's why it wouldn't work when I tried a few months ago
Hm....now to figure out how to update the binary script. And to what....heh.
uhh crap, I think you can pull it from the latest rom and put it in the theme zip
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hit me back up, I sent you one like a hr ago.
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Just hit you back up. Sounds like a plan.
Messenger is skanky dude I think emailing will be faster lol
This isn't working out so well.
I would rather not install another app to change icons. How involved is it to actually pull the apk from the ROM, replace the stock icon and push it back through.
I messed with this some on my Vibrant decompiling apk's and doing basic icon and xml changes but that was so long ago I don't even know if the process is relevant. I also only played with non stock apks like launchers, never anything that is already compiled to the ROM initially.
I'm wanting to push in custom icons for Facebook, Twitter, camera, market ect....
Thank you
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blizzard1017 said:
I would rather not install another app to change icons. How involved is it to actually pull the apk from the ROM, replace the stock icon and push it back through.
I messed with this some on my Vibrant decompiling apk's and doing basic icon and xml changes but that was so long ago I don't even know if the process is relevant. I also only played with non stock apks like launchers, never anything that is already compiled to the ROM initially.
I'm wanting to push in custom icons for Facebook, Twitter, camera, market ect....
Thank you
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After you decompile look in the hdpi folder I and replace the picture named icon with one that have the same dimensions.
I think I'm not sure it was a long time when I messed with apps
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Kratz17 said:
After you decompile look in the hdpi folder I and replace the picture named icon with one that have the same dimensions.
I think I'm not sure it was a long time when I messed with apps
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Me too this is why I wanted to dbl check. Also, some of these apps split to another folder right? Would I need to pull both?
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Its not all that difficult, just have to decompile the app, swap icons in res/drawable/ folder I believe(might have to look elsewhere), recompile. Then as long as it's NOT a system app, sign it. Then push back to phone. There are a couple of tools to use. I like using just apktool, but apk Multi-Tool is good as well. Try them out, see which you like more.
Apk Multi-Tool
apktool
Do note though, doing it this way, whenever the app has an update(facebook, twitter,etc.) you will have to re-do this. Let me know if you have any other questions, i'll try to help.
and p.s. shortercut is a good lightweight app to add custom icons.
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Me too this is why I wanted to dbl check. Also, some of these apps split to another folder right? Would I need to pull both?
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you can (most of the time) swap the icon with 7zip, no need to decompile and recompile. Some apps put the icon in /res/drawable, some in /res/drawable-hdpi. If you need more help after trying this out go to the theme help link in my sig.
OK so I have this ROM I want to edit for the galaxy nexus I have a bunch of apps that I have on the rom that fix a lot of the issues people have with the ROM. I did some research before and it said to decompile the app and recompile it in the settings.apk of the ROM. Unfortunately I don't even know how to do that plus I want to make the app look like it was originally part of the ROM as the method above leaves the app with the same name and icon and sometimes let you go into android settings and access it but in general it just makes it a system widget which I don't want to do. Anyways any help is appreciated, and please bear with me its my first time doing it and I just gained interest to do it a short week ago
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My dad has a vizio tablet and is very disappointed with the performance of it. I've told him if there was a custom ROM I could install to it, it would delete the unnecessary bloatware and speed it up but I haven't found anyway to root or a custom recovery or ROM for it. Am I not looking in the right places?
Thanks!
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Your in luck, vtab with Honeycomb was just finally rooted (link below). No ROMs yet (no custom kernels), but you can get App Quarantine, Root Uninstall, etc and have at it. I extended my battery life a ton by deleting the phone.apk that was unnecessarily eating up battery power searching for a cell signal.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1280349
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Awesome...now I've heard u can compile cm or another ROM for different devices by implementing the device source or whatever its called into it. I may be wrong since I'm not a dev but at least rooting will allow us to take the unneeded software off. Too bad it won't get rid if vizios ugly and cumbersome ui
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