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Hiya peeps,
I'm making my morph theme, bu i'm running into issue's with the thm file. I have 7 parts I want to morph. the file name of the folder is exactly the same as the thm file. And this is the content of my thm file:
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AdvancedLauncher.apk
/system/app/
Browser.apk
/system/app/
Camera.apk
/system/app/
Launcher.cpy
/system/app/
Music.apk
/system/app/
Settings.apk
/system/app/
framework-res.apk
/system/framework/
Then when I go into metamorph 1.7 all I see is the top 3, advanced launcher, camera and browser.
LINK TO THEME FILE
Can somebody tell what I'm doing wrong????
Try doing the copying first (i.e. place anything with .cpy at the top of the list)
ThnQ for replying. I already got that part working. Only now I'm running into another issue. everytime I apply my theme to my G1 my market and my metamorph, and my messing app stop working even tried fix all apk issue's in recovery. No effect.
Could this be because I maybe screwed up the size of a couple images ?
Usually when I theme an app I move it from /data/app to /system/app and then edit the files and do an update.zip to install the themed application. However, the problem with this is that I am not informed of market updates after moving the app to /system/app. Now I know that some people just edit the apk itself and resign it and that allows it to stay in /data/app.
I tried doing this, edited an apk, resigned it and that part went well. However, then I'm confused. Do I uninstall the app that's sitting in /data/app? Do I just cut and paste the new apk into /data/app? Or do I just install the new apk using Astro or something and let it overwrite the existing one.
I tried all three and it doesn't seem to work for me. It appears like everything went ok and it tells me application installed but none of the edits I make stick. Further, I noticed that in /data/app all the apks are named com.something.something.apk, whereas if you download an edited APK from some website it's usually named Facebook.apk, or Pandora.apk, etc.
So how the heck do I do this? I know the resigning is working because I edited the "Pandora.apk" that I downloaded from another source and resigned it, but when I try to pull from my phone I get the error that it either didn't install, or it does install but no changes happen.
How do you get com.something.something.apk to become Pandora.apk or Facebook.apk and then install it directly without having to do an update.zip??
anyone have a clue?
somebody anybody haha...why do my apps disappear from the app drawer after editing the apk in /data/app??
Dude i feel your pain, i've been in the same position.
Check this out it might help:
What are you editing in the apk?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6479689&postcount=1
If your changing the name then the update can't find the apk, you cant move house but keep the same adress, you wont get your mail!!
Also if your wanting to update the edited apk, it will be overwritten by the updated version so your back to square one.
Hope this helps.
Search for apk tool, it will do what you want.
I was looking at the system/app folder on a stock 2.1 rom and noticed there were some files with an .odex extension. The files with the .odex extension seemed to mirror to some degree the files with an .apk extension.
My question is: how does an odex file differ from an apk file?
I'm trying to add the Android AOSP keyboard to my update.zip and it keeps giving me forced close. It works fine when I install the apk manually. But once I place it in /system/app it will force close after flashing the update.zip via recovery.
Can someone please tell me how to fix this? I have tried several apk's and even build my own keyboard from the source found on android.git.kernel.org
Any help will be very much appreciated.
I'm having the same issue with some other apk's. They install fine on the phone from apk, but force close once added via /data/app or /system/app
The apk's that do it all have a lib folder inside, I tried putting those libs /system/lib but that didn't help.
I'm sure I'm missing something simple here but what?
I tried putting those libs /system/lib and /system/app but still FC
but I didn't use .odex, is it need?
mainicia said:
I tried putting those libs /system/lib and /system/app but still FC
but I didn't use .odex, is it need?
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I used deodexed sources. Also I made it work by extracting the lib from the apk and placing it in /system/lib and leave the lib file inside the apk too. Removing it from the apk caused the force closes.
Welcome all,
I wanted to edit something in the strings.xml file after installing the framework apk and lg-res and after decompiling and editing what I want and then recompiling and copying META-INF folder and Androidmanifest file to the new compiled apk file then signing the apk file and then copying it to system/app when restarting the phone works normally but when trying to open the settings from the launcher the launcher FCs and when trying from the Status Bar the SystemUI FCs
btw I'm using IZS updated version
After that when I doubted my work
I did the previous steps but without changing any thing in the files just decompiling/compiling the files and signing and copying it
AND when I restarted the same problem happened so Does that mean I did something wrong or installing files was wrong or what ??
Thnx all