Looking for some assistance on getting a themed app to behave properly. It's a keyboard (Flext9) I downloaded from the Amazon Market for free as a promotion (normally 5.00). I have NO intention on distributing this at all. It's solely for me, and as a learning experience.
This is my first go round at themeing..so if I don't understand what your telling me..go easy..
With the help of DroidXCon, nitsuj17 (how to write up), Chopperdog, Gunnermike, and google, I figured out how to decompile, edit the xml's, recompile, edit the images in gimp, re-draw the patches with draw9patch for the .9's, re-compile .9's with xUltimate, replace the images with 7zip.
At this point if I sign the apk, it breaks like two or three of the functions and robs the xml edits, and .9 edits. It basicallly screws things up royally. (I have used multiple signing tools and they all do the same thing)
The way I get it to function is to install the stock flext9 keyboard, overwrite the app file in data\app with the themed one, change the permissions and owner using root explorer, and I'm good. It's fully functional and themed appropriately. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21063130/SC20110621-233700.png.
The only thing with this is I get an error message when I try to change a setting in preferences [Amazon Marketplace something..Error with the application. Please re-download from Amazon Marketplace] here's the logcat of that error. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21063130/logcat.txt
It only happens once, then not again.
The REAL problem is when I reboot the phone the app is removed from keyboard and languages in settings, and the option in input method is completely gone. However, the app is still installed. The file is still in data\app and if I try to re-install, it prompts me to overwrite the "installed" app. (There is a already a version of this installed. Do you want to overwrite?). However, the app name has changed in the settings-manage applicatons-All from Flext9 to com.nuance.flext9.input-1.apk.. (the file name in data\app) which is different.
Trying to get this to work... more from a "I want to conquer this thing" than I reallly want this keyboard..haha..
any help would be greatly appreciated..
thanks in advance.
david
Lttlwing16 said:
Looking for some assistance on getting a themed app to behave properly. It's a keyboard (Flext9) I downloaded from the Amazon Market for free as a promotion (normally 5.00). I have NO intention on distributing this at all. It's solely for me, and as a learning experience.
This is my first go round at themeing..so if I don't understand what your telling me..go easy..
With the help of DroidXCon, nitsuj17 (how to write up), Chopperdog, Gunnermike, and google, I figured out how to decompile, edit the xml's, recompile, edit the images in gimp, re-draw the patches with draw9patch for the .9's, re-compile .9's with xUltimate, replace the images with 7zip.
At this point if I sign the apk, it breaks like two or three of the functions and robs the xml edits, and .9 edits. It basicallly screws things up royally. (I have used multiple signing tools and they all do the same thing)
The way I get it to function is to install the stock flext9 keyboard, overwrite the app file in data\app with the themed one, change the permissions and owner using root explorer, and I'm good. It's fully functional and themed appropriately. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21063130/SC20110621-233700.png.
The only thing with this is I get an error message when I try to change a setting in preferences [Amazon Marketplace something..Error with the application. Please re-download from Amazon Marketplace] here's the logcat of that error. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21063130/logcat.txt
It only happens once, then not again.
The REAL problem is when I reboot the phone the app is removed from keyboard and languages in settings, and the option in input method is completely gone. However, the app is still installed. The file is still in data\app and if I try to re-install, it prompts me to overwrite the "installed" app. (There is a already a version of this installed. Do you want to overwrite?). However, the app name has changed in the settings-manage applicatons-All from Flext9 to com.nuance.flext9.input-1.apk.. (the file name in data\app) which is different.
Trying to get this to work... more from a "I want to conquer this thing" than I reallly want this keyboard..haha..
any help would be greatly appreciated..
thanks in advance.
david
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If you cant get it signed correctly you could use ninjamorph app to decompile, swap out the stock files with your themed .png and .xml files.
The Good: decompiles, recompiles and swaps out the app for you without having to resign it.
The Bad: You have to swap out files one by one, it can take awhile.
I wouldnt use it to theme anything but it works great for swapping out files you have already modded. I used it on my TW4 launcher. Was really easy to pull my modded files from dropbox to SD and swap em out..
If you have a hard time with it. Check out YouTube.
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If you cant get it signed correctly you could use ninjamorph app to decompile, swap out the stock files with your themed .png and .xml files.
The Good: decompiles, recompiles and swaps out the app for you without having to resign it.
The Bad: You have to swap out files one by one, it can take awhile.
I wouldnt use it to theme anything but it works great for swapping out files you have already modded. I used it on my TW4 launcher. Was really easy to pull my modded files from dropbox to SD and swap em out..
If you have a hard time with it. Check out YouTube.
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yo thanks man...I hadn't tried that yet..but I'll give it a go...
I am assuming I would want to swap out the .9's with the themed/re-patched/recompiled .9's I have correct?
Yes.... Especially the .9's! Ninjamorph will give you some options as far a resizing the .png's but as you prob already guesssed dont try it with .9 images. Just swap em out 1 for 1.
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GrainOsand said:
Yes.... Especially the .9's! Ninjamorph will give you some options as far a resizing the .png's but as you prob already guesssed dont try it with .9 images. Just swap em out 1 for 1.
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I thought so..thanks..
Yeah..it's locking up...when I try to select the new image to replace with...force closed twice..
Tell me this doctor...why does the 'values' folder with the xml files I edited not show up when you "open archive" with 7zip or when the .apk is extracted with ninjamorph? Hard to change if it ain't there.
Lttlwing16 said:
I thought so..thanks..
Yeah..it's locking up...when I try to select the new image to replace with...force closed twice..
Tell me this doctor...why does the 'values' folder with the xml files I edited not show up when you "open archive" with 7zip or when the .apk is extracted with ninjamorph? Hard to change if it ain't there.
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perhaps thats the wrong xml to edit?
EDIT: Go around 1..just changing out the .9's = FC sandwich... grrr...this app is like fort knox..
Lttlwing16 said:
perhaps thats the wrong xml to edit?
EDIT: Go around 1..just changing out the .9's = FC sandwich... grrr...this app is like fort knox..
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Now, your gonna make me buy this damn keyboard just for the challenge of theming it....
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GrainOsand said:
Now, your gonna make me buy this damn keyboard just for the challenge of theming it....
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U should got it wen it was free lol...its a nice keyboard I like it better than swype actually its just ugly
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GrainOsand said:
Now, your gonna make me buy this damn keyboard just for the challenge of theming it....
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haha..you don't have to man...unless you want too..
com.nuance.flext9.input-1.apk...decompile with apktool...file res\values\colors.xml ---styles.xml--edit..recompile...7zip open archive..same files no where to be found.. where do these go?..do the values get pushed to all the other xml files..?
Maybe this is the problem.
When I sign the apk..it seems like the .9's take, but the xml edits go to hell..and I lose the trace input function (hmmm...I edited the xml for that in the disappearing values\colors.xml file...) and the voice command function is broke as well. (connection error).. HOWEVER, with a davlik wipe, fix permissions in cwm, the app is still there after reboot....(this has been the standard with apk manager opt 16 and autosign tool)
Still unsuccesfull with ninjamorph
if signing is the problem then all you need to do is decompile the apk, make all your edits, and then recompile. Then to bypass the signing just extract the META-INF folder and AndroidManifest.xml from the original unthemed apk and add them back into your newly compiled apk.
Bubbadogg14 said:
U should got it wen it was free lol...its a nice keyboard I like it better than swype actually its just ugly
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My thoughts exactly...and how I ended up here..: )
Lttlwing16 said:
My thoughts exactly...and how I ended up here..: )
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Sorry, ive been busy updating my themes. Some apk's like phone.apk, swype.apk and camera.apk are very tempramental when it comes to modding them. I these .apk's you have to drag and drop your modded files into place. Im not sure if that is the problem tho as these .apk's will usually show up in app/drawer and even will launch but will FC upon opening them To be honest im a little stumped on this one. Looks like you did everything right, so im not to sure whats going on there.
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Last resort you can try the signapk app in market, its also FREE, I must admit tho it has only worked for me once with the TW Program monitor.......
GrainOsand said:
Last resort you can try the signapk app in market, its also FREE, I must admit tho it has only worked for me once with the TW Program monitor.......
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Thanks grainosand..
Funkbot got me fixed up in IRC..
Had to place the Android Manifest and META INF in file and push to the system/app
It now sticks on reboot..BUT the voice feature is broke.. grr..
Lttlwing16 said:
Thanks grainosand..
Funkbot got me fixed up in IRC..
Had to place the Android Manifest and META INF in file and push to the system/app
It now sticks on reboot..BUT the voice feature is broke.. grr..
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Glad to hear it....
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I decompiled my systemUI apk and made changes on it (Fergie's mods). Now I don't understand how to get it on my phone.
It's fully recompiled. But apparently I have to sign it. There's so many different things people do:
-zipalign
-optimizing apks
and more stuff I can't even remember. What do I have to do to get this mod onto my phone? If anyone can please tell me how to do this I will be very grateful.
Also, I used apktool, not apkmanager if that matters.
(As you can see, I'm fairly new at this. I just added the mods by following Fergie's guides, don't understand 95% of what I did).
onasri15 said:
I decompiled my systemUI apk and made changes on it (Fergie's mods). Now I don't understand how to get it on my phone.
It's fully recompiled. But apparently I have to sign it. There's so many different things people do:
-zipalign
-optimizing apks
and more stuff I can't even remember. What do I have to do to get this mod onto my phone? If anyone can please tell me how to do this I will be very grateful.
Also, I used apktool, not apkmanager if that matters.
(As you can see, I'm fairly new at this. I just added the mods by following Fergie's guides, don't understand 95% of what I did).
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Signing is the one thing that prevents me from making things to share with all of you. So I just become greedy and use it all for myself hahaha
You should also say which OS you're running. I run Ubuntu, hence the reason I Google "Android xda Ubuntu Sign apk" or in my case: the latter but "rom" replaces apk. I couldnt explain how SEO works, because I can't sign using Ubuntu!!!!!!!!!! Ahhhhhhhrrrrrggggg!!!!¡!!
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I'm using w7. This is unbelievably annoying right now. I can't figure it out.
onasri15 said:
I'm using w7. This is unbelievably annoying right now. I can't figure it out.
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I know you need to use the sdk.
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onasri15 said:
I'm using w7. This is unbelievably annoying right now. I can't figure it out.
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Hi... I am a Windows 7 user as well. I use ApkTool, but mostly APK Manager.
When I need to sign an APK, this is how I do it.
I open the original APK with 7zip and copy out the resources.arsc file and META-INF folder.
I then take the APK that APK Manager spit out - unsignedwhatever.apk and I open that and replace the existing resources.arsc and META-INF folder with those from the original APK that I copied out.
I then rename unsignedwhatever.apk to whatever.apk, place it in a flashable zip and flash it. Works every time... unless I've screwed something else up
Good luck!
Hi, is there any way to change grid size of samsung TW drawer to 4×4 or 4×5.
Please help by providing link on how to do it if possible.
bhatia.mani said:
Hi, is there any way to change grid size of samsung TW drawer to 4×4 or 4×5.
Please help by providing link on how to do it if possible.
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yes, you have to decompile the apk and change values in some resource files. I did it before (raising the values to 6x7) for my Rom and many other members across different devices/forums
There is definitely no exact tutorial how to do it. But if you search you'll find all the necessary entries to change. Of course you need the knowledge about de/compiling the apk.
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yes, you have to decompile the apk and change values in some resource files. I did it before (raising the values to 6x7) for my Rom and many other members across different devices/forums
There is definitely no exact tutorial how to do it. But if you search you'll find all the necessary entries to change. Of course you need the knowledge about de/compiling the apk.
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Thanks ThaiDai.
One more request: can you please help me with the APK I need to modify so that I can atleast try to mod app drawer grid.
bhatia.mani said:
Thanks ThaiDai.
One more request: can you please help me with the APK I need to modify so that I can atleast try to mod app drawer grid.
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If you are asking for this :
Changing number of icons in home screen and apps drawer (dpi modding)
then look here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=35229966&postcount=2
bhatia.mani said:
Hi, is there any way to change grid size of samsung TW drawer to 4×4 or 4×5.
Please help by providing link on how to do it if possible.
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The easiest method is to download the XPosed framework by @rovo89. Then install the launcher 4x5 module.
Use Google to find xposed download link.
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AndroidSlave said:
The easiest method is to download the XPosed framework by @rovo89. Then install the launcher 4x5 module.
Use Google to find xposed download link.
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I remember when i was on stock rom 4X5 module didnt work for me.
treacherous_hawk said:
If you are asking for this :
Changing number of icons in home screen and apps drawer (dpi modding)
then look here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=35229966&postcount=2
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Thanka, this is all what I needed.will try n update if worked (tomorrow)
Can someone find me the stock nexus 6 google dialer 2.1 apk, PLEASE! I can't find it and I am running liquidsmooth and don't have the stock dialer and really miss it. Please help me. :crying:
Go to androidhost.com and put in search Dialer. And 2.1 will be there
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I decompiled Phone.apk in case of select incoming call screen photo transparency, but cannot find right string, any help??...Thx for advance :cyclops:
Did you manage to find it? Couldn't see it myself on AFH.
Unable to download the stock ROM to extract at the minute
You need more than the apk. There's a permissions xml and a library module, too.
I would love to use the Google dialer on aosp. Like brizey said, you need more than the apk.
Flash this one in recovery. Its by Thyrus and djdarkknight. You'll probably end up having two dialers and two contacts apks. So you'll have to delete the ones from System/Priv-apps that don't have google in the name. https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95916177934552274
JRJ442 said:
Flash this one in recovery. Its by Thyrus and djdarkknight. You'll probably end up having two dialers and two contacts apks. So you'll have to delete the ones from System/Priv-apps that don't have google in the name. https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95916177934552274
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Is it blacked out (given the devs that made it)?
brizey said:
Is it blacked out (given the devs that made it)?
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No, just completely themable by the theme chooser if your ROM supports it. Layers I'm not sure about.
brizey said:
Is it blacked out (given the devs that made it)?
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Did you try it?
I did! Works well!! Not blacked out and is exactly what I've been looking for! Nice to couple with OK Google everywhere.
I have a Nexus 5 running CM12.1
My Nexus 5 is rooted
I dont want to use any launcher
How would I change the app drawer button icon?
Jibbe said:
I have a Nexus 5 running CM12.1
My Nexus 5 is rooted
I dont want to use any launcher
How would I change the app drawer button icon?
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Decompile trebuchet(apktool or apkmultitool) and replace the image in its respective drawables folder...then recompile it...that's the best and only way I know of as of now...I don't think Ninjamorph and apps like that have lollipop support.
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Decompile trebuchet(apktool or apkmultitool) and replace the image in its respective drawables folder...then recompile it...that's the best and only way I know of as of now...I don't think Ninjamorph and apps like that have lollipop support.
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Alright, I will try to do that