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help with edited .apks

So I'm going through my apps, looking to change their icons to some custom ones that I have (so they all have the same style). Everything runs smoothly: I transferred them all to my pc, opened the apks with winrar, replaced the icons, resigned them and then installed them through adb. However, when I open my app drawer, the icons end up being different sizes. Some are smaller than the others. All the icons that I am using to replace the originals are all 60x60 so I'm not sure what the problem is. Is there something in the .apk itself that tells the phone what to scale image to or something? Any help would be appreciated.

I know this is quite irreverent to your question, but may I ask how do you sign apks? I really haven't found any way yet.. not a simple way at least.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=646962
after signing you need to delete the original app from your phone (unable to just overwrite), put the signed app in your sdk/tools folder and then install it with "adb install 'whatever_your_app_name.apk"

bump for anyone interested
There must be something in the apk that tells the OS how much to scale an image because as soon as I replaced the stock icon with a custom that was the same dimensions everything worked smoothly.

Your best bet is to keep the same size as the originals, sometimes images are stretched to fill their containers.

the problem was actually that they'd end up being smaller in the launcher than they should be. I was overwriting 48x48's with 60x60's thinking they'd work like bettercut and just scale correctly but I was wrong.

How To NinjaMorph

So I recently released a new app for theming and modifying apks and jars right from the phone, this app is called NinjaMorph.
Here I am just going to explain how to use NinjaMorph as per request from those that have the app.
NinjaMorph was made so that we could more easily make changes to the system apks and jar files from our phones without needing to apply a packaged theme or hook our phones up to the computer.
In order to use NinjaMorph you will need Busybox installed, cp properly symlinked, and at least 20mb of space of your SD card.
When you first open the app you will see three buttons at the bottom.
The first is "New Project", which is the one your going to start with.
Select "New Project" and navigate to an apk or .jar file of your choice, excluding apps that need to be signed like Market apps.
A good example would be for you to go to "System" > "framework" > "framework-res.apk"
The app will then extract the contents of the apk, as well as making a backup of it on your sdcard "/sdcard/AndroidThemes/backup/"
After its done it will ask you to pick a file to change, navigate to "res" > then a drawable folder with images in it.
Once there you should see all the images there in that folder, select one and it will ask you to pick one to replace it with, NinjaMorph will rename the file you pick to replace it to the appropriate name.
After that just keep changing things until you've done everything you'd like to do.
If you have an existing project you can use the "existing Project" button to continue where you left off.
If your done with your project and you want to apply the changes, Choose the "Finish Project" button and select which project you want to finish, NinjaMorph will do its thing and thats it.
Note that after making some changes you may need to reboot to see the changes made.
Anymore questions, ask away.

Wow this seems pretty great! good work Stericson!
I will try it to change around a few files in CM5 for the G1.

Let me know how it goes

Loving it, the next step would be to select multiple files to replace, and then have it either chose a directory to find the replacements, or individually select the replacements one at a time.
its like theming has been revolutionized.....again
Thanks! Just made theming on-the-run possible...I'm screwed now, gonna be playing w/ my theme everywhere, where as before I had to be at my home computer

im totally buying this, great job

I'm not sure how this lets you theme your phone without a computer... don't you need a computer to create the new graphics that you're using to replace the old graphics?

you can DL them from the web straight to your phone- eg. manup456's droid icons...

So, I could potentially change Blue color on Power Widget to green by using this? Provided that I have necessary Settings.apk on SD card or those PNGs have to be extracted to a folder? Am I getting this right?
Or change icon for particular application?

They need to be extracted to a folder..

I can't find the app in the Market. I'm on a Espresso 2.1 rom.

Your work is incredible, I have not put my phone down for three days.

great app, but takes forever going back and forth and back and forth

You know you can copy multiple files at once right? Use the copy button.

and that does what exactly?

Wow, Slick, Fast, Totally awesome!
Great way to easily micro-customize a theme.

if i move a .apk i got from the market into the /system/app folder and install it from there, will i not have to worry about resigning it?

so i changed my battery around and now the market dosnt work

One issue that I'm seeing currently is that the app will FC if I try to delete a project after having applied it.

App not working
I tried to morph the Helix2...would this be one of the signed apps you cannot morph with ninjamorph? BTW I love the app!

Tried to replace some .9 png's from ADW launcher for 1.6. got a black screen after reboot.
Changing pics on other apk's is working.
The start checks are done again and again. Is this a an issue of my phone software?

[Q] Workaround for more paper icons?

I've been using adw with the "paperless theme" recently and love it (look it up).
It includes a bunch of icons for common apps to make them fit in with the hand drawn theme. Unfortunately, on my hero a lot of them dont work, probably due to sense customisations and replacements. End result is a mixture of awesome paperness and the normal icons, bleh.
I want to download the apk for the theme so that I can open it up, get the icon files out and then use bettercut or something to apply them to shortcuts of my choosing. Only problem is, I can't work out how to get hold of the apk. I can't find it outside of the market, and once installed it doesn't show up in File Manager's apps list, so I can't copy it to SD.
Is there a way of retreiving it from the phone? Or 'intercepting' the market link and directly downloading the apk to SD instead? I've read about a solution using adb to get the apk off the phone but since my trusty hero won't connect over usb any more, that's not an option.
Any ideas?

pizza65 said:
I've been using adw with the "paperless theme" recently and love it (look it up).
It includes a bunch of icons for common apps to make them fit in with the hand drawn theme. Unfortunately, on my hero a lot of them dont work, probably due to sense customisations and replacements. End result is a mixture of awesome paperness and the normal icons, bleh.
I want to download the apk for the theme so that I can open it up, get the icon files out and then use bettercut or something to apply them to shortcuts of my choosing. Only problem is, I can't work out how to get hold of the apk. I can't find it outside of the market, and once installed it doesn't show up in File Manager's apps list, so I can't copy it to SD.
Is there a way of retreiving it from the phone? Or 'intercepting' the market link and directly downloading the apk to SD instead? I've read about a solution using adb to get the apk off the phone but since my trusty hero won't connect over usb any more, that's not an option.
Any ideas?
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pizza65 said:
I've been using adw with the "paperless theme" recently and love it (look it up).
It includes a bunch of icons for common apps to make them fit in with the hand drawn theme. Unfortunately, on my hero a lot of them dont work, probably due to sense customisations and replacements. End result is a mixture of awesome paperness and the normal icons, bleh.
I want to download the apk for the theme so that I can open it up, get the icon files out and then use bettercut or something to apply them to shortcuts of my choosing. Only problem is, I can't work out how to get hold of the apk. I can't find it outside of the market, and once installed it doesn't show up in File Manager's apps list, so I can't copy it to SD.
Is there a way of retreiving it from the phone? Or 'intercepting' the market link and directly downloading the apk to SD instead? I've read about a solution using adb to get the apk off the phone but since my trusty hero won't connect over usb any more, that's not an option.
Any ideas?
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If your usb doesn't work anymore use the wireless adb... pretty sure its on the market still. Get root explorer and check in system/app you'll find your apks there copy and paste them to your sd card.

here you go

[Docks] Technica Designs docks

Updated: 9.29.10
9.28.10 - Added Dock5
9.29.10 - Added Dock6 & Dock7
I am a Graphic Designer and I am currently working on some Custom Docks for us Android users. I'm releasing several sets of docks plus specialty ones. Some may not be seen in thumbnails. I will try and create docks regularly.
How to Apply Docks:
1. Download rar file below
2. Unrar to SD (internal or external)
3. Install Launcher Pro
To Apply:
Menu/Preferences/Appearance Settings/Dock background/Custom
Choose your dock
Please share your comments and suggestions and I will continue to work hard on making more for everyone.
Also, if you really like them, please feel free to donate!

Dyluck said:
Updated: 9.29.10
9.28.10 - Added Dock5
9.29.10 - Added Dock6 & Dock7
I am a Graphic Designer and I am currently working on some Custom Docks for us Android users. I'm releasing several sets of docks plus specialty ones. Some may not be seen in thumbnails. I will try and create docks regularly.
How to Apply Docks:
1. Download rar file below
2. Unrar to SD (internal or external)
3. Install Launcher Pro
To Apply:
Menu/Preferences/Appearance Settings/Dock background/Custom
Choose your dock
Please share your comments and suggestions and I will continue to work hard on making more for everyone.
Also, if you really like them, please feel free to donate!
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I will def be checking htese out

Very nice. Love the black/blue one. Looking forward to others. Thank you.
Sent from my SCH-I500 using XDA App

I can't get LPP to find these. I downloaded them and unpacked them to my sd card, but when I go to choose my dock in "custom" it routes me to my gallery. I tried putting the file in the gallery and it wouldnt show up. I even converted the file from .png to .jpg to see if it would show up and it didn't. How do I do this? TIA

Nice. Ill try them out soon

zeroxg4 said:
I can't get LPP to find these. I downloaded them and unpacked them to my sd card, but when I go to choose my dock in "custom" it routes me to my gallery. I tried putting the file in the gallery and it wouldnt show up. I even converted the file from .png to .jpg to see if it would show up and it didn't. How do I do this? TIA
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Try this: unmount then remount your sd card or reboot. Those are about the only two ways I've found to"refresh" the sd card listings of photos.
Sent from my CDMA Hero. I got some hot Froyo on Hero action here!

zeroxg4 said:
I can't get LPP to find these. I downloaded them and unpacked them to my sd card, but when I go to choose my dock in "custom" it routes me to my gallery. I tried putting the file in the gallery and it wouldnt show up. I even converted the file from .png to .jpg to see if it would show up and it didn't. How do I do this? TIA
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When you use custom it takes you to the gallery, I use the Launcherpro Icons and docks app from the market (not free) and create a sub-folder for docks (and icons) not available through that program. They show up in the gallery in whatever folder name I have for them.
The benefit for me is that once I finish modding launcher pro I can use that program to quickly and easily hide the icons/docks from the gallery.
Hope that helps.
EDIT: and what user7618 says

[GUIDE][WIP] Live Wallpapers on Lock Screen

I saw a couple of people post about it here on XDA and on OnePlus Forums. I wanted to do this myself too for a while and finally got my hands to getting around to work on it.
I enjoy seeing a new wallpaper every hour or so, it does drain battery, but for me it is very aesthetically pleasing. However, I have not seen anyone be able to put a live wallpaper on the lock screen.
Yes, there is the option of getting CM and lock screen widgets, but I like the stock OS feel and it works fine IMO. After some digging around I finally got an idea on how to do it, but it still doesn't work or works in small parts.
(almost working) Guide for getting Live Wallpaper on Lock Screen : (I'll be using Muzei as the example but I'm sure it will work for other ones too)
1. The first thing to do is find the location of where the app stores the images. For Muzei it's in /sdcard/android/data/net.nurik.roman.muzei/cache/artcache/ . I am using the reddit plugin so there's an extra directory there. The files for Muzei are actually not saved as .jpgs, but if you convert them you can get the original image.
*From this point on I tried automating the process with tasker but it has had mixed results so I'll do it step by step manually.
2. You want to copy over the image from the directory where they are saved to /data/system/users/0/ . (you need explorer with root permission to do so). Inside this folder there are 4 important files. Namely "wallpaper" "keyguard_wallpaper" "wallpaper_info.xml" "keyguard_wallpaper_info.xml" The wallpaper file is the one on your home screen and the lock screen wallpaper is the keyguard.
3. Delete "keyguard_wallpaper_info.xml". Delete "keyguard_wallpaper". Next, rename the image to "keyguard_wallpaper" and save it just as is without any extension. Change the permissions to 707 (-rwx---rwx) and change owners to system. Reboot and voila you changed the wallpaper.
With an automated program like tasker this process should be automatic. Once a new wallpaper is updated it shows up in the directory and triggers the process. You delete the old keyguard_wallpaper. Move the new image to the directory and rename it. Delete it from the original wallpaper directory. Change permissions and it should work. However, it does not. even if you do it manually, the lock screen resets to the stock OP Never Settle lock screen. This is where I need help. I don't know why it resets, and where could I possibly find the file that is doing this? I pretty much debloated the phone even removing oneplus stuff but there still seems to be something on a deeper level. If you know how to fix this it would be great if you could share as I hope to help some people. Any feedback on layout of the post, on using tasker, and on anything else is much appreciated.
Cheers.