I'm trying to make custom icons for a firestick sideloaded app.
I have used Apktool to decompile the apk. I've changed all the icons I wanted to and recompiled and signed.
On my P30 Pro the app and icons all reflect how I would like them to.
On my Firestick on the front page the app icon is OK. However if I go to the Apps section and view all in that list it actually still has the old icon...
Does anyone have any idea where or how to edit that? I've skimmed through the files many times and confident I haven't missed any icon files. I just don't understand it.
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I love my vibrant without a doubt. But I wish our icons were as eye catching as iphones... I keep googling for two months.. sure ive found some icons but just basic ones like phone icon, text, notepad, sms, and most of them are crappy quality because they arent original iphone icons just look a likes or remakes
Can someone help me find preferably new iphone icons from their newest firmware.... a complete set would be great.
Thank You!!!
Something like this, maybe? http://suavehd.xengi.org/
StefanB86 said:
Something like this, maybe? http://suavehd.xengi.org/
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how can this work for android though.
obviously both phones run on completely different os builds, file names etc.
crazy_kat_matt said:
how can this work for android though.
obviously both phones run on completely different os builds, file names etc.
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Icons on our phone are just png files. Any png file with the right size will do. There are various apps on the market to change icons on the home screen. If you want to change it in the app drawer too you can use apk manager to extract each apk you want to change. Swap out the icon in the res/drawables, zip it back up and sign it again.
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What is the correct size of the png icons that would most likely resemble the iphone icons?
I feel like alot of icons I find online are too small.
JJG2 said:
What is the correct size of the png icons that would most likely resemble the iphone icons?
I feel like alot of icons I find online are too small.
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well the default samsung messaging, gallery, video and so forth are 72x72 but I guess smaller icons would work too, even if they are a bit grainy.
Edit: The iphone icons in the above website are 120x120 so they are higher resolution than our default ones. I tested it by swapping out the calculator icon in TouchWizCalculator.apk in system/app. It works nicely.
I wondering if there is a way to change the icons, not programs, in the TouchWiz dock. Example - I hate the green phone icon and want to substitute in the ICS phone icon. I can use desktop visualizer to create a shortcut icon...however, TouchWiz only lets you add apps from the drawer to the dock, and desktop visualizer shortcuts do not show in the app drawer (only on the desktop).
I'm not rooted...yet. I don't want to use a launcher other than TWiz because every single one of them is laggy on the Note.
n00b thought - is there a way, with or without root, that I can use root explorer, find the icon .png being used for the phone, and just replace it with a different .png of my choosing?
Thanks!
You can do it, but it'll take a little bit of work.
Use APK Manager to decompile the apk, find the icon, change it, compile, sign, and replace the original apk with your modified one.
Thanks for the info...led me on a fun journey last night through apk multi-tool. Learned a ton. Ultimately, I couldn't push the apk back to the phone after recompiling because it was a system app...need to root. Fun stuff tho!
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Thanks for the info...led me on a fun journey last night through apk multi-tool. Learned a ton. Ultimately, I couldn't push the apk back to the phone after recompiling because it was a system app...need to root. Fun stuff tho!
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Rooting is easy and only takes like 2 minutes. Look at the various methods on the development threads.
Here is a good one!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T40_b0M34OA
If you end up wanting to that is.
probably a really stoopid question......
but if I wanted to swap the application (not the icon) in the touchwiz shortcut area how do I do that under ICS. On Gingerbread I just selected edit and could drag and drop a replacement app onto the drawer, but following ICS update I can't. Am I being a total dufus?
Jon.
Just go to the app drawer, hit menu then edit, drag the icons out and drag the ones you want in. No root, no app required.
Edit dock from app drawer!!!
DeerChaser said:
Just go to the app drawer, hit menu then edit, drag the icons out and drag the ones you want in. No root, no app required.
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Man, thanks!! I've been trying to do this for two days now, your post really helped a guy out!! I've now replaced the stupid email app with K9 Mail in my dock!!
Ken
ok, im trying to hide this app, from the app drawer by editing the manifest.xml file, and i did it, to be specific i just remove this line from manifest.xml "<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />" but i want to hide it, and still have the option to open it...
i tried to start the application using titanium backup, but it doesnt give the option to open app...
im trying to do it by editing manifest.xml. i know there apps to hide anothers app..
if you have any idea of how to, ill appreciate it...
(im not an expert on this, and i dont even know if im asking in the right forum)
Hey, did you come across a solution? I'm facing exactly the same problem right now: The App's gone from the drawer but no longer executable by no means.
Sorry for bumping this old thread, but I endured reading about 10 pages of search results without success.
Thanks in advance!
You can use my app "App Quarantine" to do the job. You can disable the app in question (so it's no longer in the application drawer) and re-enable it as you want. Therefore you could use the home screen widget for quickly launching the app.
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You can use my app "App Quarantine" to do the job. You can disable the app in question (so it's no longer in the application drawer) and re-enable it as you want. Therefore you could use the home screen widget for quickly launching the app.
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Hey, thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately I'm searching for a solution to get along without any 3rd party app.
Which means, I want the app to be "set invisible" before even installing it on the phone. I'd really like to know, which file of the apk has to be edited in which way to achieve this.
It'd be totally fine if it simply didn''t appear on the drawer.
Any other ideas?
I have an idea.
I have replaced the icons with a completely transparent .png image and recompiled the apk.
Remember you should not change the file name of the original icon, just replace the content.
I have used apk editor pro for this work.
The app will be in the launcher or app drawer but it will remain invisible.
You should also replace the app name with 3 to 5 spacebars.You can remember the position of the app in the app drawer.
Everyone will see you tapped on a empty space and a app started
I have tested this.
So you can be sure.
One more thing
If you see any folder like mipmap_anydpi_xxx in /res you should delete it
4RCH1 H4CK3R said:
I have an idea.
I have replaced the icons with a completely transparent .png image and recompiled the apk.
Remember you should not change the file name of the original icon, just replace the content.
I have used apk editor pro for this work.
The app will be in the launcher or app drawer but it will remain invisible.
You should also replace the app name with 3 to 5 spacebars.You can remember the position of the app in the app drawer.
Everyone will see you tapped on a empty space and a app started
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4RCH1 H4CK3R said:
I have tested this.
So you can be sure.
One more thing
If you see any folder like mipmap_anydpi_xxx in /res you should delete it
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Thread has been moved to the proper location, even though it is a 9-year-old thread...
I can't understand.
Clark Joseph Kent said:
Thread has been moved to the proper location, even though it is a 9-year-old thread...
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So where should I post the reply?
I've searched and searched through probably 20+ threads on here and on google, I've searched through SystemIU.apk and can't find exactly what i'm looking for, for the most part. I found MOST of the icons in the SystemIU, and know i can resize and make them transparent and put it back into the apk, however once I upgraded to Beans 12, for ever whatever reason I have this freaking DATE on the status bar that drives me CRAZY!
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Since I wasn't editing the xml files, I was extracting the apk and editing the images, then placing the images back into the apk without actually decompling it. I can't find where the WED is, and it's driving me crazy.
I'm thinking I will probably actually have to decompile the APK and edit the XML files. But can anyone else offer any suggests or know what I can do to fix this? Or what xml files most of the system icons are present in so I can go in and remove them completely?
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Upon further exploration...apparently there were new features added to the phone...please disregard. You now have the ability to hide in the date/time section.
Hey everyone, I was not quite sure where to post this so I'll put it here.
I recently took on the task of theming the KIk Messenger app.
I sucessfully decompiled and edited images, but I want to change the chat background. There is no .9.png or .png for this in the drawable-xhdpi folder. So I had to look in the XMLs. After I looked in the values folder, I find an XML labeled colors. Going through this, I find some different lines like "chat_background_color" so I edit the hex color codes as I liked and then I saved and closed XML Notepad.
I recompiled the apk and signed it, and then installed it back to my phone. I open up the app and find that nothing has changed. What am I doing wrong? I've tried editing all sorts of text, and even when I decompile again and look at the XML, my changes are still there, so why arent they showing up?
Please help!
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Exleh said:
Hey everyone, I was not quite sure where to post this so I'll put it here.
I recently took on the task of theming the KIk Messenger app.
I sucessfully decompiled and edited images, but I want to change the chat background. There is no .9.png or .png for this in the drawable-xhdpi folder. So I had to look in the XMLs. After I looked in the values folder, I find an XML labeled colors. Going through this, I find some different lines like "chat_background_color" so I edit the hex color codes as I liked and then I saved and closed XML Notepad.
I recompiled the apk and signed it, and then installed it back to my phone. I open up the app and find that nothing has changed. What am I doing wrong? I've tried editing all sorts of text, and even when I decompile again and look at the XML, my changes are still there, so why arent they showing up?
Please help!
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Not sure if this is still relevant, but I got it to work
I edited these in the colors.xml:
registration_background_color
profile_background_color
invite_background_color
chat_list_background_color
chat_list_header_background_color
chat_background_color
profile_background
chat_info_background
misc_background
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