I've spent the last few hours trying to recreate something I accomplished in the past with nothing more than what is on my phone and I can't figure it out. I am running and have been running Calk's ROM and outside of Astro File Manager I don't believe I've added anything to my phone to do this. The attached picture shows a shortcut in the standard TWLauncer for a Citrix ICA file. I created this and remember the option for me to select an Icon and I remember choosing the one that is shown. Several people have asked me how I did it and I'd like to create others, but can't seem to figure how I did it. It really shouldn't be that difficult. I can easilly create an Astro Shortcut that I can name anything I want and it works, but I'm not able to edit the icon. If I switch to another Launcher I can hold-click on the icon and edit it to be something else, but in the default launcher as shown I'm not able to figure this out. Can anyone surmise what I did? It is possible that in a version of Astro or a version of Calk's ROM this option was there and now it's not, but outside of that I'm either missing something or just being clueless (not at all unusuall).
Bump - anyone have any thoughts?
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Can't seem to find any info on this that is relevant, just some stuff for much older versions and for WP.
I switched out my stock email app with the XFinity app, as it seems to be more reliable on retrieving email. The only problem I have with it is the icon is too big (touches the top and bottom of the launch bar) and the text is too long/doesn't wrap.
I was able to change the icon to a more standard icon via winrar etc, however I can't find a successful way to fix the text issue. Is this even possible?
Attached a pic, app is in lower right:
Well since you have it in the launcher I think the only way to do this would be to edit an .xml file (no idea which one) inside the .apk. You could always put it on the home screen using Launcher Pro, LP lets you customize the name. Probably not what you want to do, but just throwing it out there
Yeah I'm addicted to GTG though
I found several references to changes to strings.xml to allow wrapping etc and possibly change it entirely (not a lot of info there), but it appears to maybe be for an older version or something as the file isn't located in the apk where everyone says it should be.
Thanks though
As a previous iPhone user the one thing I can say I miss is the ease of using the ssh feature after jail breaking and having access to the system files If I wanted to change lets say the "camera icon"- I could ssh into the phone and go into the system file folder and find that one file name, remove it and replace it with the new icon jpeg. That's it! End the ssh session and BAM! I have a new icon for my camera.
Or if i wanted to change the dial pad background on my phone or the way the keys light up on my old iPhone I would just ssh and go to the "phone" jpeg file and just change it out. and BAM I have a new phone skin.
I'm sure you get my point....
So now that I'm using Android I love how the options are there to change. However I'm OCD and don't like to download all these files and icon packs which takes up storage on my S3. So I have installed sshDroid and using Filezilla successfully accessed my phone. ( Yes I'm rooted)
Now I downloaded a few icon packs but I don't want to keep the download on my phone. What I want to do is choose a few icons I like, ssh into my phone and replace lets say the "google+" icon with a new one.
The question is where in the world is the file? How do I access the stock system icons?
This is where Android is awesome to customize but hard as crap to find files.
Can someone provide me with instructions, or a link to instructions on how to do this?
I've been on Google and I'm not really finding the answer to my question. I just simply want to change my icons so I can make my own theme.
Please help! Thanks
You have to use an icon pack in a launcher or decompile the app you want to change the icon for and then swap the icon out and then rebuild the apk and install.
Your better off with an icon pack. As there is no easy way. Android was made for developers mainly.
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Can someone please make a touchwiz grid of 6x8 scroll on for me? Or help me figure out what I'm doing incorrectly when trying to modify it? Currently I'm using a 4x6 and I've tried to modify the apk using the apktool. I've been able to get the apk decompiled, but then when I look in the output folder all I see is another directory titled "smali" and that's empty. This is driving me crazy and I'm sure there's something I'm overlooking but this has just gotten on my last nerve! Any tips/help is appreciated. I'm aware of the fact that there are multiple 3rd party launchers but I'm too attached to the weather widget to give up TW. Even though I no longer have any issues with TSF Shell, I'm still drawn away from it. I've been a user of Nova & Apex since I rooted my HTC Inspire 4G last year, and when I was on stock I used GO Launcher EX & LauncherPro.
I came across this thread which was very helpful, it got me to the point of at least being able to decompile an apk. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1989533
I also came across this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27433971 and at first I wasn't able to get far. So what I tried to do was take a little advice and follow some steps from both threads and I'm not getting anywhere except 1 step ahead of where I left off with it. I know this stuff isn't the easiest thing to do, but I'm sure it's not the hardest thing to do either.
I guess Ive been on mostly basic stock phones, with Android One.
Im struggling to figure out how to create a shortcut on the home screen.
5 essentials for me are,
wifi
apps
settings
battery and
download.
for the life of me I cant figure out how to create shortcuts.
When I tried to create something from my prefered file manager, it never showed up on any of the screens...
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help?
So, my old phone's screen died. As it happens, I still have access to it via a HDMI out, but I just wanted to migrate all the Nova stuff straight across to my new phone.
But I've customised Everything.
The backup-restore process tried to bring across as much as possible, but I'm beginning to think that, for my level of customisation, maybe I should see if I can edit the backup file by hand before I restore it (hear me out).
My problems with restore:
1. Nova Prime. The first app link the restore should launch is to prompt the user to reinstall Prime. Took me a while to realise why a bunch of things weren't working the way I used to enjoy.
2. Wallpaper. You could argue this is not a launcher setting, but even if it was an option to dump the image into the backup file (is it an archive?), it would make migration smoother. Not a biggie though, and the o/s should let you sort it yourself, providing you can locate the original image of course.
2. Apps not present. So you just restored the Nova backup to a new phone and a bunch of icons don't work. But wait: the ghost-icon launches straight to an app store search for them - excellent! Love this. Except for those 5% of apps that you hunted down APKs and side-loaded. Okay, this issue is a bit niche and probably belongs in a backup app that saves APKs rather than Nova. Fair enough. If new-Nova could talk to old-Nova, it'd be a cool migration feature though.
3. Icon pack stuff. I've replaced all my icons using an icon pack + no labels. Searching icon packs and selecting the perfect icon takes time, so I appreciate that the restored ghost icons "just work" once the matching app is installed. A bunch of icons didn't appear though: I think these were widget-like shortcuts, maybe? E.g. my new device's 'phone' app wasn't recognised as the same one as my old one, so all those contact shortcuts had to be remade (cue icon pack searching again). Using Nate Wren's "The Grid" (presuming I shouldn't just dump the Play URL here; search for it if you're interested), there are so many icons but no reliable way to find an exact icon (is there a hidden icon title name I can search for somehow?). Reinstating icons would be easier if custom icons could be more identifiable somehow. Could I read the backup file and/or tune it by hand, perhaps?
Might write a few more items later. Cheers for any ideas or explanations that might help.