[Tutorial][VIDEO] Add/integrate apps into Settings app! - Android

Hello!
I wanted to make this little tutorial since many people wounder how to add certain apps to settings app
Things you will need
Apktool: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1755243
Notepad++: http://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v6.3.2.html
The procedure
Video tutorial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75ZzDs3seqw
1: Download and extract apktool into a folder
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2: Extract Settings.apk and framework-res.apk from your ROM to the apktool folder
3: Open up cmd and go to the APKtool folder
4: Install the framework
5: Put the app you want to add in the apktool folder then decompile Settings and the app
6: Open the settings folder and navigate to /res/values and open Strings.xml with notepad++
7: Add the name of the app furthest down
8: Navigate to /res/xml and open settings_headers.xml
9: Add this
Code:
<header android:icon="@drawable/..." android:title="@string/...">
<intent android:targetPackage="..." android:action="android.intent.action.MAIN" android:targetClass="..." />
</header>
10: navigate to the decompile app you want to add and open androidmanifest.xml
11: Copy the name at the top
12: Then paste here
13: Hold on your screen and select shortcuts
14: Choose activities
15: Scrool to the app and then press it
16: Enter what you found there here
18: Choose a name for the icon you will be using
19: Go to the app you will be adding and navigate to /res/drawable-****
20: Copy the icon to Settings/res/drawable-**** and rename it to what you put in the XML file
21: And now lets build it
22: When the building is done navigate to Settings/dist/ adn there is you new Settings app
I will add a zip in the attachments, just put the Settings app in /system/app/ folder in the zip then move it to your phone and flash it

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Thanks alot.

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Apps/Setting Tutorial
Excellent work RomWiz
Found this to be a very helpful tutorial - cheers for the info
TheCrazyClub - Xperia Arc S

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Nice!

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Its great to have people like you sharing skills in a simple way. I think some people make it overtly complicated to keep some mystique about such things,or they are useless at communication skills
Sent by backwards engineered alien technology.....

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Video is up

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One thing I want to know is how do I remove the app icon from my drawer, I don't want it hidden by means of a launcher options, I want it completely removed from the drawer, now I found a tutorial on how to do it and I successfully removed DSPManager's icon, however, I came across an error when I tried to remove the icon of Superuser, apktool gives me error during repacking proccess. Can anyone help me?

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annson08 said:
One thing I want to know is how do I remove the app icon from my drawer, I don't want it hidden by means of a launcher options, I want it completely removed from the drawer, now I found a tutorial on how to do it and I successfully removed DSPManager's icon, however, I came across an error when I tried to remove the icon of Superuser, apktool gives me error during repacking proccess. Can anyone help me?
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Post the error.
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RomWiz said:
Post the error.
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Here sir.

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annson08 said:
Here sir.
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There is a error in layout folder
Redo it and try again, if it wont work just send me the apk.
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RomWiz said:
There is a error in layout folder
Redo it and try again, if it wont work just send me the apk.
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It really doesn't work, I even trien to decompile it then recompiling it without changing anything, still the same.
Here's the file, thanks.

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annson08 said:
It really doesn't work, I even trien to decompile it then recompiling it without changing anything, still the same.
Here's the file, thanks.
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Will send you the apk when its fixed.
Edit: Check PM
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great tutorial..
helped me a lot.
is it possible to an applications activity to checkbox...

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Added a new flasher, you should see the Settings app after flashing now.

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Get value for setting
Hello! Thank you for the tutorial. Is there any way to access the setting from another application? For example, if I added something with a key "my_new_pref", could I get it's value anywhere outside of Settings.apk?

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tnx