I want to edit the 3g icon and other icons that appear in the status bar on my rooted incredible, can anyone point me in the right direction? ive searched google to no avail, does anyone know of any websites or tutorials i can use to learn about UI editing for android?
thanks in advance
If you're just replacing png image files you can just use 7zip to do that.
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Some of the icons are in the famework.apk and others are in the SystemUI.apk all the icons will be in the drawable-hdpi folder in both apk's. Just use winrar or 7zip to extract the apks and edit whatever icons you want to edit.
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Is there a tutorial for resizing APK's on windows ive read a few threads about it but all of them look like LINUX based i think i have all the software i need but im lost because when i try to decompile the apk i want to resize i cant view the xml or smali files am i doing something wrong??i use brutt.all's apktool and apk manager 5.0
after decompiling the project is moved to the projects folder for you to work on, use something like notebook++ to do the editing works fine like this for me.
Do you mean NOTEPAD++??
Maybe......... lol
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will that read xml and smali???
it will and yes i meant notepad++
thanks and what values do i need to change to resize an apk for the wildfire??
Check this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=697994
ive read that tutorial and the paths it tells me to navigate to are not the same am i missing something
Yeah, beacause this is tutorial on how to resize rosie and change the workspace size, from 4x4 to 5x5. This is just a suggestion on how to resize something. If you want to resize some apps, you should decompile a file, and change every value from MDPI to LDPI. Basically, you have to multiply every value with 0.75. For example, you have value 100px so after you multiply it will be 75px and so on.
so will i have to do that for all APK's the reason i ask is that i want to resize a wildfire s rom to a wildfire VigiDroid has taken over SFM 1.1 and needs help resizing some APK's so i thought i would TRY and help but its not easy
@MarcelXDA
Just noticed you are in contact with VigiDroid
i have decompiled HTC Album.apk which files should i be looking at to resize the images in the album there are supposed to be 3 images in the preview i only get 2 and a bit
You know that little white word bubble icon in the middle of the thinkpads status bar that you can set favorites to? How can I get rid of it? I am on a us thinkpads tablet that ha been rooted.
It's buried in a system file if you want to try to hack it & cook a new ROM for us. Wed' all be incredibly grateful!
I can provide some insight into this.
It's in the systemui.apk. I've removed the icon itself by making the images associated blank. That way i didnt have to decompile / recompile, however if you press that specific location, it'll still activate.
I can attach my hacked apk for 3.1 HC if you guys like.
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I bet a lot of people would like it!
Let me get this right.... All you did was rename from .apk to .zip, unzip (assuming with 7zip), replace the graphic file, and rezip, un-rename, and it worked?
If that's the case, I'm going to try replacing all of those blasted bar graphics wherever they are with something at least grey. They burn out my eyeballs, especially when I have a screen filter on. Nandroid, here I come....
Yea, that's essential what I did. Just don't remove any of the files. You'll have to decompile and recompile for that.
I've attached my modified SystemUI.apk
rename to SystemUI.apk and push it to /system/apps/ and reboot
i recommend doing a fix permissions after pushing.
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Hello. I need help
I need to create an Custom Status Bar, How I can create this?
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Unless you're an expert at Java, know how to build android apps at a high level, you can't do it.
Your question was how to create a status bar, but i suppose you're asking "how to THEME it", right?
Well, you can use UOT Kitchen for starters. After that, you can move on to advanced theming. There are many guides for it on our forum.
Sorry, if you only want to change the icon
mrallyluz said:
Hello. I need help
I need to create an Custom Status Bar, How I can create this?
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JUST EDIT framework-res.apk (battery) and systemUI.apk (others icon)
with change extention .apk into .zip
and extract in some folder.
then, open res>drawable-ldpi>CHANGE IMAGE THAT YOU WANT (with same resolution).
arter finish,
compress again all file that you extracted. with .zip
AND LAST,
RENAME .zip that you make, INTO .apk again:highfive::highfive::highfive:
Hello,
I'm a new Nexus 4 user, and I really want to know where is the settings background wallpaper located?
On S3 on 4.1.2 also on CM10 roms, the background is located in nodpi folder. In Nexus I cant find it, I've tried to download cm10.1 rom, but I cant locate it.
Any help would be much appreciated.
wallpapers are part of an apk, not in a folder
khanh1289 said:
wallpapers are part of an apk, not in a folder
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And apk's contain, wait for it, folders! Gasp!
Check the folders inside your launcher apk, OP.
he was asking which folder he can find the wallpapers in, to which I replied it's in an apk not in a nodpi folder like his S3; am i missing something? I know that apk are basically executable zip file that contain folders - that still doesn't make it a "folder" per se.
They are in launcher.apk /res/drawable-sw600dp-nodpi .. Really isn't hard to search each of them yourself either until you find PNG or the word "wallpaper"
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@op. The image your looking for is background-holo-dark in framework-res.apk, drawable-nodpi folder.
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Can AnyOne Teach Me How Can I change icons In A Launcher
CHETAN TUTEJA said:
Can AnyOne Teach Me How Can I change icons In A Launcher
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use apktool to decompile the apk and then in res/drawable and res/drawable-ldpi change the images you want. make sure that you dont change the image name and images with extension .9.png. recomplie and use it.
Lemme Try
Trying
use themes
amit34521 said:
use apktool to decompile the apk and then in res/drawable and res/drawable-ldpi change the images you want. make sure that you dont change the image name and images with extension .9.png. recomplie and use it.
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why we can't change .9.png image?
Failure
It Didn't Work Icons Are Still The Same
IT Is Like SOme Icons Different In One Launcher And Different in Other?
CHETAN TUTEJA said:
It Didn't Work Icons Are Still The Same
IT Is Like SOme Icons Different In One Launcher And Different in Other?
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you have to change the icons of the apps themselves, some launchers don't use the app's icons, but their own
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amit34521 said:
use apktool to decompile the apk and then in res/drawable and res/drawable-ldpi change the images you want. make sure that you dont change the image name and images with extension .9.png. recomplie and use it.
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why not change 9 patch png's? as long as you have the black borders, it'll work
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you have to change the icons of the apps themselves, some launchers don't use the app's icons, but their own
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why not change 9 patch png's? as long as you have the black borders, it'll work
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but for that you must know how to edit them properly else you will face problems.
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but for that you must know how to edit them properly else you will face problems.
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yeah, true
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So what can i do
U just wanna change the icons right?
U dobt need to mess with .9.png
Its easy to edit them though but its not needed for changing the launcher icons...
First thing is...
U need 7zip program
Now choose the app u wanna change the icon off
Right click the app and open it with 7zip
Browse into the "res" folder and drag and drop the drawable-ldpi to a location where u can edit it
I choose the desktop
Now in the drawable ldpi folder ull have a pic named "ic_launcher_icon.png"
Or sumthing resembling to this as its diff in some apps
Edit that image and open the apk with 7zip again and drag and drop only the edited pic in the res/drawble-ldpi/
Push the apk using adb or by root explorer...
Ur done
Happy to help
Hmm
But There Are Not All The Apps Icons In Drawable ldpi So What Can I Do Them
Every app has individual icon
U have to open every apps drawable ldpi and edit the icons...
A easier way is to download a icon pack for the specific device
Open the flashable zip
Ull have a "unpack" folder
There will be many folders named "app.apk"
app=name of apps
Try using the ics icon pack for galaxy y
In these folders ull have the images....edit the images and zip it again...FLASH
and its done
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