Hey all,
I was wondering whats the process to modify the stock multi-touch keyboard for the Droid 2? I was able to do it with the multi-touch keyboard that Punk.Kaos ported to the Eris, using some Windows batch files for extracting the apk source, compiling, signing, etc. I just can't remember for the life of me what that little program was called. Any ideas?
Thanks!
it would be nice since the space bar is soooo small i keep pressing . instead of space 70% of the times
Alright, I was able to get the program I was thinking of, it is called APK Manager. But the keyboard is a odex file... Which I don't know how to extract the XML files from... Yet.
I'd de-odex before you try to extract. It will be a lot easier. There's the method I used here.
What exactly is de-odex'ing? How will it affect my phone?
Deodexing just means that all of the stray .odex files will be put back into the correct .apk files this is done mostly for theme purposes in order to edit the services.jar file which has to be de-odexed before it can be edited. It won't corrupt anything if you do it right nothing should change on the outside the phone devs leave the .odex files out for loading reasons but nothing significant should change but you might experience a slightly slower boot up process but like I said nothing significant. Most ROM's now are de-odexed though.
So I deodexed my phone so I could work on the LatinIME.apk package. Using the APK-Manager for Linux, I was able to (0) pull the APK from my phone. Then I (9) decompiled the APK, edited the XML files as I wanted.
Now, from here I'm not entirely sure which direction to take. I tried running (13) Compile APK / Sign APK / Install APK, but I got an error saying something on how the signatures didn't match up. Then I tried running (3) ZIP APK (5) Zipalign APK then (8) ADB push, but now I don't even have the keyboard on my phone anymore.
How can I go about doing the correct way to compile my modified code and install it on my phone?
Here are the options I can do, if you're not familiar with APK Manager:
Code:
------------------Simple Tasks Such As Image Editing----------------------
0 Adb pull
1 Extract apk
2 Optimize images inside (Only if "Extract Apk" was selected)
3 Zip apk
4 Sign apk (Dont do this if its a system apk)
5 Zipalign apk (Do once apk is created/signed)
6 Install apk (Dont do this if system apk, do adb push)
7 Zip / Sign / Install apk (All in one step)
8 Adb push (Only for system apk)
-----------------Advanced Tasks Such As Code Editing-----------------------
9 Decompile apk
10 Compile apk
11 Sign apk
12 Install apk
13 Compile apk / Sign apk / Install apk (All in one step)
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14 Batch Optimize Apk (inside place-apk-here-to-batch-optimize only)
15 Sign an apk (inside place-apk-here-for-signing folder only)
16 Batch optimize ogg files (inside place-ogg-here only)
17 Quit
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Anyone? I would love to get my stock keyboard back!
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hi...
i want to change standard notification bar from my htc desire running sense froyo rom with mod battery percentage, animation icons for data, signal, etc.
what i did is :
1. pull framework-res.apk from /system/framework folder
2. extract framework-res.apk using apktool
3. extract & overwrite with icons colour pack v4 downloaded from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=722993 into drawable & drawable-hdpi folder from extracted framework apk folder.
4. bundled modified framework-res.apk using apktool
5. sign framework-res.apk
6. in recovery mode, adb push framework-res.apk to /system/framework. before doing that, i mount /system first..
7. reboot
what i found, everytime i choose network setting or wireless setting it crashed with error message process.com.android.settings has stopped unexpectedly.
why this error occured ? any other step that i did is wrong ?
I just pull from adb, my PC has 7zip installed so can see drill into the compressed file, drag replace the altered images, back out of the compressed file to commit, push via adb, reboot.
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Why not use the UOT kitchen?
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HTCinToronto said:
I just pull from adb, my PC has 7zip installed so can see drill into the compressed file, drag replace the altered images, back out of the compressed file to commit, push via adb, reboot.
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This is what I do, basically. I make the battery mod with UOT, and when the flashable zip is ready I extract the framework-res to some folder and just replace couple of images, then I'll put the modified framework-res back to the UOT-file and flash it. Works every time.
EDIT: I don't extract the files within framework-res.zip, only the .zip itself so I can open it via WinRar and replace the files. It isn't probably even needed, you could probably replace the needed files when browsing the UOT file with winrar/whatever etc etc. Haven't tried.
Can this same method be applied to anything that can be found in the framework ?
Hi,
I use apktool and have a problem.
I sucessful decompile apk and get direcrory with app name.
When compile this directory (without change) I get apk file.
But apk file cannot install on phone!
What I do wrong?
I just decompile and compile without change and apk cannot install...
Help..
atlantisu21 said:
Hi,
I use apktool and have a problem.
I sucessful decompile apk and get direcrory with app name.
When compile this directory (without change) I get apk file.
But apk file cannot install on phone!
What I do wrong?
I just decompile and compile without change and apk cannot install...
Help..
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What apk is it?
Some .apk's just will not install. I had an apk that compiled 1MB smaller, without change. Its not a perfect system.
Name is not important, but original file size is 1,376 MB
and compiled file size now is 1,372 MB
Where is 4KB?
Well I only asked the name incase it was one I myself had issues with or someone else had.
Now I just think you're doing something suspicious by answering.like that
4KB not as bad as 1MB. But you're still losing size which will be why it won't install.
Can't help any more than that I'm afraid. Except to say I have seen the issue before and never resolved it
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I tried more apk without sucess..beacause I dont tell a name.
Actual apk is BeoGSP-6.apk and there I lost 18KB...
I dont understand this compiler!?
Is there any another compiler with more working chance?
Can I export resource to Eclipse and make apk from here?
There is also APK manager. its pretty similar as far as I can tell.
There's APK Manager or APK Multi Tool which I use and both do the job quite well. I need APK Multi to decompile ICS or newer APK's and I use APK Manager 4.9 to decompile the APK's from the oxygen ROM.
If it decompiles and recompiles without errors then the only thing you might need to do is sign the APK. It won't install if it's a non-system APK and you haven't signed it.
APK Manager 4.9 option 16 signs the APK's so I just use that and if there're no errors it will sign and install fine.
Thanx! Works with APK Manager. This is a great thing!
I signed apk and now work
Hey I am trying to mod some apps and there icons and backgrounds.
I remove res folder with 7zip and mod the pics and overwrite the res folder is the .apk.
Then if they are .9 files I used the program to make them .9 again but the lastest ones are not .9
Then I put the .apk into apk multi-tool modding folder
hit 25 (select the APK)
hit 1 to unzip
hit 3 to zip
hit 4 to sign
I now have 2 files the original (I guess) the singed and unsigned
I have transfered all 3 over to the SD card and I tried to install all 3
the signed and unsigned gets parse error
the original says installing then right at the last it says not installed?
I have tried on GO launcher and tunein radio. I have also tried signing them with the system app with no luck!
Any ideas?
May be this not a right place to ask, but I have this problem with recompiling an apk with apkmanager.
I'm trying to mod settings.apk and had done few modding in strings.xml. Since I have edited an xml I delete the resources.arsc file from the keep folder and also sign it after recombiling. But when I install the apk in my phone it never opens and force closes.
I've tried again by not deleting that file but that time no modifications where shown, And the next time, I didn't sign it and tried again to install the unsigned apk. But that too fails.
Anyone know why this happn?
Before modifying the APKManager, make sure the framework-res.apk and twframework.apk been set, and don't forget to delete the file resource.arsc and the file you have modified, then enter at apkmanager windows, don't forget to rename Unsigned to system file that you modified
my rom is stock odex i used universal deodexer and deodexed my.system/app and system/framework folders in my pc . now my question.how can i install that app and framework folders to my phone ??(i tried replace with root explorer but it does not .(how can i make thats to a flashable zip?
but
my problem is not that . i can make a flashable zip . its working fine but after i flashed old .odex files doesnt delete. how can i add it to meta inf for when flashing delete app and replace new app and same for framework
You just need to put in a simple delete line into the update script
for example
Code:
delete("/system/app/Vending.apk");
will delete the Vending.apk from the folder system/app
remember if you are manually pushing files with a root browser you need root permissions and you need to set the correct file permissions - for most apps in the app folder it will be rw-r-r
thnx
thanx i learned if i want to delete folde i will use delete_recursive
help
look .
delete(system app systemui.odex
this is working succesfully but after i flashed my zip system ui is lost . it doesnt show . i looked system app its deodexed permissions is rw--r-r its true but doesnt show . what's can i do ?
denizarca said:
look .
delete(system app systemui.odex
this is working succesfully but after i flashed my zip system ui is lost . it doesnt show . i looked system app its deodexed permissions is rw--r-r its true but doesnt show . what's can i do ?
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most likely if the status bar just doesn't show but does not display a force closed message its because the SystemUI.apk is not correctly signed
as long as the file name is correct and it is correctly compiled with no errors the only thing left is the signing
You can sign an apk easily with zipsigner (playstore)
just copy the apk to any folder on your sd card
start zip signer
select your apk as the input
select the name you want to call it for the output (make it different from the input - you can change the name later)
select platform key as the key you wish to sign (this is for system apps for user apps use a test key)
sign the apk
once done the apk will be outputted as a zip file
change the name of this zip to the name of your apk and don't forget to change the .zip extension back to .apk
put in a flashable and flash in cwm with system mounted
you can check any errors with the SystemUI.apk by doing a logcat via adb as the phone is starting up
By searching the logcat for SystemUI you will be able to see any errors in it and why its not starting - eg Signature mismatch skipping loading