i am looking for a guide on to editing an apk. Actually,i want to edit the icon of an app,it's images and some text like button please suggest me some guides
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Hello People
Hope I am in the correct section here.
I am trying to delete/re-arrange Menu entries in Settings.apk for my HTC device. From some research I performed and from some Gingerbread mods I know that the file to edit is the HtcEntryProxy.smali. However it is a bit difficult to find out what exactly is going on there!. How to I find which values to change in order to delete some menu entries ?
I have successfully decompiled the apk and I can re-compile it too.
Thanks in advance.
Just some questions [yeah, used search and no lucky]
1. How can I theme CM9 with the Theme Chooser? Any tutorial, template? Don't know anything about it. [If possible, a noob-medium tutorial about apks]
2. What can I do with the arsc file?
3. How can I edit those XML files?
4. How can I change the icon of some apps? [which the theme doesn't theme...]
Well, I just want to know it, I have a theme here, but want to edit some stuff. Or I could also start from zero to make the perfect theme for me.
Thanks.
Edit: with a lot of search on google [I mean a lot] and a friend helping me, I was finally able to do some stuff. With apktool I managed to decompile, and just easy, I've been able to edit a Theme chooser apk like it was mine, edit the xml files and the arsc files were already decompiled. By myself I could also add some apps to the APKs, like chrome. [PS: if someone has a cool Google Chrome square icon, please share ]
I know to to make a theme, but was wondering how to make use of the theme chooser in CM10. It looks like I need to build an apk but I haven't found any guides on how to go about that. Any pointers?
Try the easy way while you wait for help
Well I've been building a theme for months and there's the easy way and the impossible way, one is to extract a template theme or any theme for that matter and replace all the images with your own as long as you don't touch the .9s and use the apk multi tool (googleable) to extract optimise and sign it for you. Thats the easy way
The other is to decompile which lets you edit XML files and .9s but I haven't managed to get that to work and no amount of internet can help me. Which means no changing the name of the theme and no uploading to the market. Which is what I planned to do. But give the easy way a go if you just want it for yourself and friends etc.
I had also posted another question here on the forums trying to figure out why I couldn't theme MMS.apk and Phone.apk; one_love_420 was kind enough to respond and mentioned the same thing you did, which is to utilize theme chooser. So that is what I ended up doing. I found a template for CM10 theme chooser and added in some lines so I could also theme MMS.
one_love_420 also provided me a link to this forum post, which helps with learning how to modify the xml files and personalize the theme.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11545308
I have actually edited .9.png files before, with my old Samsung Moment. granted that was on Android 2.2 but still applies right?
Personally I preferred to use Draw9Patch and xUltimate (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=700904) and Photoshop.
Here are some guides that I have looked at previously:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=605662
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1638978
Thank you for your response SimBol10! Also, let me know if you have any questions about .9.png editing and I'll try to return the favor!
hello guys .. i want to know what xml files should i edit to change the color of this.
please see the attachments for the picture..
thanks guys ..!!
Hello sorry if I open this discussion here but I wanted to make a small application you have more experienced in modding and I have not found a section dedicated just to modding ....
The question is how to change the app phonek @. apk
That is, I have been looking around if there were any guides but the only one I've found is that
for viewing photos in full screen Russian, in fact it's not really clear ... but I managed ...
I state that I have decompiled the file Phonek @. apk I tried to do what I wanted ... but to no avail!
In addition my need would be to enlarge the photo of the layout of the contacts and I wanted to ask them. Xml file should I change what strings? in practice when I view a contact appears to me through the screen .... It's annoying is what I tried to do it myself but I can not, I can not understand what are their settings .......
thanks a lot for those who want to help me out ....