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Decompile/Compile in Eclipse

So how can i decompile framework-res in to eclipse to edit it. i tried importing and it didnt show values folder or anything like that.

Eclipse is for coding or editing an open source project... decompile with apk multi-tool them edit files with notepad++
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ok now i do that. and i recompile with absolutely no errros. i just get two warnings can this be the problem? i get a warning that says cannot find resources. under it says checking if resources has changed.
aapt:warning: string 'permdesc_accessUsb' has no default translation in C:\Program Files (x86)\RandomROM Development\RandomKing's Kitchen\Apk Manager 5.0.2\projects\framework-res.apk\res ; found: es_US
what does this mean?

Use apk multi-tool and not the kitchen. You can try ignoring the error and see if it works.
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marcusant said:
Use apk multi-tool and not the kitchen. You can try ignoring the error and see if it works.
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Holy ****e I am behind...Now I have to learn the multi-tool.

i use the tool and not the kitchen and now i get a jave:83 error

Unable to recompile SystemUI.apk using apktool

I have been using apktool 1.4.3 to decompile and recompile framework-res.apk without any problem.
However while I can decompile SystemUI.apk without problem, I cannot recompile it. The error is shown below.
I have done searching in this forum but still can't find the solution.
Please kindly help thanks.
Code:
C:\apktool>apktool b systemui.apk
Exception in thread "main" brut.androlib.AndrolibException: brut.directory.PathN
otExist: apktool.yml
at brut.androlib.Androlib.readMetaFile(Androlib.java:142)
at brut.androlib.Androlib.build(Androlib.java:159)
at brut.androlib.Androlib.build(Androlib.java:154)
at brut.apktool.Main.cmdBuild(Main.java:182)
at brut.apktool.Main.main(Main.java:67)
Caused by: brut.directory.PathNotExist: apktool.yml
at brut.directory.AbstractDirectory.getFileInput(AbstractDirectory.java:
103)
at brut.androlib.Androlib.readMetaFile(Androlib.java:138)
... 4 more
C:\apktool>

Sorry if I posted on wrong sub-forum

Have you tried recompiling with version 1.4.2?

who_mike_d said:
Have you tried recompiling with version 1.4.2?
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The error still exists thanks

nighos said:
The error still exists thanks
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Check if you set the right path for java
Its sometimes in program files or programs x86
Check the portal news. There was an article of an modded apktool version specially for ics
I had the same errors like you
Had these path settings wrong

Leave off the .apk. To compile the SystemUI folder type 'apktool b SystemUI'. Its also case sensitive
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nbeebe24 said:
Leave off the .apk. To compile the SystemUI folder type 'apktool b SystemUI'. Its also case sensitive
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You are right! Such a stupid mistake
Thanks

nbeebe24 said:
Leave off the .apk. To compile the SystemUI folder type 'apktool b SystemUI'. Its also case sensitive
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I didn't even notice he did that, that should fix the problem
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nighos said:
You are right! Such a stupid mistake
Thanks
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No problem
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i got the same error however i did not write ".apk" at the end of line.
Code:
C:\Users\x\Desktop\Apktool>apktool b SystemUI
I: Checking whether sources has changed...
I: Smaling...
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.jf.util.PathUtil.getRelativeFile(PathUtil.java:44)
at org.jf.smali.smaliFlexLexer.getSourceName(smaliFlexLexer.java:2922)
at org.antlr.runtime.CommonTokenStream.getSourceName(CommonTokenStream.j
ava:345)
at org.antlr.runtime.tree.CommonTreeNodeStream.getSourceName(CommonTreeN
odeStream.java:106)
at org.antlr.runtime.tree.TreeParser.getSourceName(TreeParser.java:78)
at org.jf.smali.smaliTreeWalker.getErrorHeader(smaliTreeWalker.java:372)
at org.antlr.runtime.BaseRecognizer.displayRecognitionError(BaseRecogniz
er.java:192)
at org.antlr.runtime.BaseRecognizer.reportError(BaseRecognizer.java:186)
at org.jf.smali.smaliTreeWalker.smali_file(smaliTreeWalker.java:451)
at brut.androlib.mod.SmaliMod.assembleSmaliFile(SmaliMod.java:85)
at brut.androlib.src.DexFileBuilder.addSmaliFile(DexFileBuilder.java:43)
at brut.androlib.src.DexFileBuilder.addSmaliFile(DexFileBuilder.java:33)
at brut.androlib.src.SmaliBuilder.buildFile(SmaliBuilder.java:64)
at brut.androlib.src.SmaliBuilder.build(SmaliBuilder.java:48)
at brut.androlib.src.SmaliBuilder.build(SmaliBuilder.java:35)
at brut.androlib.Androlib.buildSourcesSmali(Androlib.java:222)
at brut.androlib.Androlib.buildSources(Androlib.java:179)
at brut.androlib.Androlib.build(Androlib.java:170)
at brut.androlib.Androlib.build(Androlib.java:154)
at brut.apktool.Main.cmdBuild(Main.java:182)
at brut.apktool.Main.main(Main.java:67)
C:\Users\x\Desktop\Apktool>
just changed an icon inside drawable-hdpi

try using this set of apk tools. this works great for me with ICS & Jelly Bean. And also make sure your SDK's are up to date. extract the folder from the zip file and use normally.

jase33 said:
try using this set of apk tools. this works great for me with ICS & Jelly Bean. And also make sure your SDK's are up to date. extract the folder from the zip file and use normally.
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same problem
i uploaded apk,
i decompile, change an icon from drawable, but cannot recompile.

Actually, You don't need to decompile/recompile to change the images, brother. Just change SystemUI.apk to SystemUI.zip. Extract it. Edit the images you want to change. Drag the edit images into the .zip and in compression level select store. It will replace the files in .zip. Change .zip back to .apk. Try it now, it should work.
PS: Selecting store means it doesn't compress the images, Dragging the edited images into the .zip, selecting store and stuff isn't necessary, but it helps sometimes is it makes mimimal changes to the apk.

Your also going to want to get the sources from your framework-res.apk, by this command.
apktool if framework-res.apk
This should/might clear up your recompiling errors.
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Need help from expert(themer) XML Error

Hello there
Trying to make some modifications to SystemUI.apk.
When trying to recompile the SystemUI.apk I got some error, which is this:
http://pastebin.com/qLBsLdDB
"D:\Apk_Manager_ICS\other\..\projects\SystemUI.apk\res\layout\status_bar.xml:30: error: Error parsing XML: mismatched tag"
Thats the first error line I read, and that's where I made changes, So I figured there must be something wrong in the code.. so I edit status_bar.xml and check it for xml errors and this is what comes up:
"XML parsing error at line 30:
Premature end of data tag
com.android.systemui.statusbar.phone.PhoneStatusBarView line2"
So I guess that means there's something wrong at line 30, But I can't seem the find out what's wrong.
So I'm asking, any theming expert can see whats wrong here:
http://pastebin.com/bWDhSsSz
Hope anyone can help me figure out what's wrong here
Thanks in advance!

Its either the fact that you're editing the XML in Notepad or your apktool.jar doesn't compile the latest ICS systemUI's. I've had this issue with decompiling before and I had to find an old apktool.jar that I themed back in the SGS2 days and it worked with 0 issues.
Also, have you just tried straight decompiling and compiling to confirm its an issue with the apktool.jar? If you do get the error without making changes, theres your issues.
If you don't, download Notepad++ and try again.

Nitroz said:
Its either the fact that you're editing the XML in Notepad or your apktool.jar doesn't compile the latest ICS systemUI's. I've had this issue with decompiling before and I had to find an old apktool.jar that I themed back in the SGS2 days and it worked with 0 issues.
Also, have you just tried straight decompiling and compiling to confirm its an issue with the apktool.jar? If you do get the error without making changes, theres your issues.
If you don't, download Notepad++ and try again.
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Alright, thanks for your reply, ill try it when I get home in a few hours. What about the XML error I'm getting? I am using Notepad++ and when I check for XML errors there, it gives me the error @ line 30. Any idea?

nerotix said:
Alright, thanks for your reply, ill try it when I get home in a few hours. What about the XML error I'm getting? I am using Notepad++ and when I check for XML errors there, it gives me the error @ line 30. Any idea?
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It depends what you're doing. If you've changed a line of code that you shouldn't then it will error like theres no tomorrow. We need to decipher if this is the issue yet, it might not be.

Nitroz said:
It depends what you're doing. If you've changed a line of code that you shouldn't then it will error like theres no tomorrow. We need to decipher if this is the issue yet, it might not be.
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Alright, ill let u know =)
P.S Could u perhaps give me ur tools? APKManager and/or Apktools etc, the things u use.

Ok, I did it remotely from college, I decompiled the SystemUI.apk and compiled directly again, worked fine. So I guess next is the XML?
Thanks for helping!

Yep, just decompile once more, edit a simple XML like the status_bar.xml and change a hex code, like an ICS Blue hex code or something like that

Nitroz said:
Yep, just decompile once more, edit a simple XML like the status_bar.xml and change a hex code, like an ICS Blue hex code or something like that
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I changed a hex for res\values\colors.xml and compiled it, worked fine.

nerotix said:
Hello there
Trying to make some modifications to SystemUI.apk.
When trying to recompile the SystemUI.apk I got some error, which is this:
http://pastebin.com/qLBsLdDB
"D:\Apk_Manager_ICS\other\..\projects\SystemUI.apk\res\layout\status_bar.xml:30: error: Error parsing XML: mismatched tag"
Thats the first error line I read, and that's where I made changes, So I figured there must be something wrong in the code.. so I edit status_bar.xml and check it for xml errors and this is what comes up:
"XML parsing error at line 30:
Premature end of data tag
com.android.systemui.statusbar.phone.PhoneStatusBarView line2"
So I guess that means there's something wrong at line 30, But I can't seem the find out what's wrong.
So I'm asking, any theming expert can see whats wrong here:
http://pastebin.com/bWDhSsSz
Hope anyone can help me figure out what's wrong here
Thanks in advance!
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Hi
a closing tag is missing in your file a "</LinearLayout>" is missing ,
add </LinearLayout> at line 30

el_liberator said:
Hi
a closing tag is missing in your file a "</LinearLayout>" is missing ,
add </LinearLayout> at line 30
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Added, rechecked with N+++ for errors and there's none! Thanks a ton! gonna try to compile right away!

el_liberator said:
Hi
a closing tag is missing in your file a "</LinearLayout>" is missing ,
add </LinearLayout> at line 30
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Does it matter where I put that closing tag? I mean if I place it @ line 30, wouldnt it matter if its suppose to be closed earlier one?

[Q] Able to de and re compile framework-res.apk?

I was just wondering if anyone with the UAMDL software has been able to decompile and recompile the framework on here yet.
I have tried with the APK multi tool and the decompile works fine but when I try to recompile it errors our right away.
Anyone have any luck with this?
If so what tool did you use?

Yes I have.
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I'd like to know this as well, and how people have been successful. I haven't had any luck installing framework-res.apk or recompiling a modified app. From my understanding, it's an issue with apktool and aapt that needs to be updated.

TheArtiszan said:
I was just wondering if anyone with the UAMDL software has been able to decompile and recompile the framework on here yet.
I have tried with the APK multi tool and the decompile works fine but when I try to recompile it errors our right away.
Anyone have any luck with this?
If so what tool did you use?
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That and SystemUI.apk are both missing files needed for them to decompile and recompile right
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elesbb said:
Yes I have.
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Can you elaborate on what tools you used and how to set it up please?
I have been stuck trying to get this to work for over a week now.
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evil1art said:
That and SystemUI.apk are both missing files needed for them to decompile and recompile right
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There are ways for making it work though
TheArtiszan said:
Can you elaborate on what tools you used and how to set it up please?
I have been stuck trying to get this to work for over a week now.
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I used the tool in my signature and you have to remove some layout paramaters in the xml files then recompile and copy the originals over to the newly compiled apk.

elesbb said:
There are ways for making it work though
I used the tool in my signature and you have to remove some layout paramaters in the xml files then recompile and copy the originals over to the newly compiled apk.
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Im the one who figured out the missing style for the systemui
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evil1art said:
Im the one who figured out the missing style for the systemui
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Yeah so did I lol. Ive ran into that issue before and thats all you have to do to get around it.

elesbb said:
There are ways for making it work though
I used the tool in my signature and you have to remove some layout paramaters in the xml files then recompile and copy the originals over to the newly compiled apk.
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We have our own modified apk manger works good
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We have our own modified apk manger works good
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Ahhh. That makes life a lot easier lol. How did you modify it? Build it from source or edit the jar file?

elesbb said:
Ahhh. That makes life a lot easier lol. How did you modify it? Build it from source or edit the jar file?
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Modified the original files and changed memory heap etc
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Oh okay that makes sense.
I am editing the framework res apk
Making changes only to the arrays.xml file in the values folder.
Which styles should I be commenting out and then which file should I copy to the original?
I tried putting a + in front of a few lines based on the errors I was getting but that seemed to make it worse.
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I think the arrays and other values xml get compiled into the resources file no?
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I think the arrays and other values xml get compiled into the resources file no?
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Everything in the values directory is found in your resources.arsc file in the apk.
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Ah that makes sense.
The changes made for layouts, does that go into the same area though?
Just wondering if that might cause a problem since that is what I would want to move over.
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That is odd.
I can get this to decompile in apk multi tool but not Elesbb's GUI
I get the following error:
Tue 06/25/2013
0:46:56.39
Decompiling.. "C:\Users\Bill\APK GUI\framework-res.apk"
I: Loading resource table...
Exception in thread "main" brut.androlib.AndrolibException: Multiple resources: spec=0x010802f4 drawable/ic_ab_back_holo_dark, config=-hdpi
at brut.androlib.res.data.ResConfig.addResource(ResConfig.java:65)
at brut.androlib.res.data.ResConfig.addResource(ResConfig.java:58)
at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.readEntry(ARSCDecoder.java:197)
at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.readConfig(ARSCDecoder.java:166)
at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.readType(ARSCDecoder.java:131)
at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.readPackage(ARSCDecoder.java:106)
at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.readTable(ARSCDecoder.java:83)
at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.decode(ARSCDecoder.java:49)
at brut.androlib.res.AndrolibResources.getResPackagesFromApk(AndrolibResources.java:390)
at brut.androlib.res.AndrolibResources.loadMainPkg(AndrolibResources.java:56)
at brut.androlib.res.AndrolibResources.getResTable(AndrolibResources.java:48)
at brut.androlib.Androlib.getResTable(Androlib.java:48)
at brut.androlib.ApkDecoder.getResTable(ApkDecoder.java:166)
at brut.androlib.ApkDecoder.decode(ApkDecoder.java:99)
at brut.apktool.Main.cmdDecode(Main.java:131)
at brut.apktool.Main.main(Main.java:68)
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Did I miss something.

Made some progress and decompiling ok now on a different computer.
If I add the + before the layouts would that cause operation issues?

I would like to know too.
Still having trouble.
What did you do too decompile?

Okay I can now get it to recompile adding the +layout to the xml files that were erroring in the compile log and only other change was made was to the arrays.xml file to enable bluetooth tethering like on the GS3 did.
however when I push it to the phone and chmod and try it I get a boot loop.
Did I do something wrong?
Am I supposed to copy out the resource.asrc from the file I compiled like a zip then add it to the original that I pulled using 7zip or something?
Any input would be greatly appreciated.

TheArtiszan said:
Okay I can now get it to recompile adding the +layout to the xml files that were erroring in the compile log and only other change was made was to the arrays.xml file to enable bluetooth tethering like on the GS3 did.
however when I push it to the phone and chmod and try it I get a boot loop.
Did I do something wrong?
Am I supposed to copy out the resource.asrc from the file I compiled like a zip then add it to the original that I pulled using 7zip or something?
Any input would be greatly appreciated.
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Move the AndroidManifest.xml and Meta-INF folder from the original apk to the modified one.
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SlimKat settings.apk impossible to decompile?

ok so im having issues decompiling settings apk in slimkat 4.4.4. For the fact of the matter i cant even install there framework-res.apk
i get
Code:
Exception in thread "main" brut.androlib.AndrolibException: Multiple resources: spec=0x01080220 drawable/default_wallpaper, config=-sw600dp-nodpi
at brut.androlib.res.data.ResConfig.addResource(ResConfig.java:63)
at brut.androlib.res.data.ResConfig.addResource(ResConfig.java:56)
at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.readEntry(ARSCDecoder.java:199)
at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.readConfig(ARSCDecoder.java:168)
at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.readType(ARSCDecoder.java:134)
at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.readPackage(ARSCDecoder.java:109)
at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.readTable(ARSCDecoder.java:81)
at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.decode(ARSCDecoder.java:49)
at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.decode(ARSCDecoder.java:40)
at brut.androlib.res.AndrolibResources.installFramework(AndrolibResources.java:687)
at brut.androlib.Androlib.installFramework(Androlib.java:640)
at brut.apktool.Main.cmdInstallFramework(Main.java:252)
at brut.apktool.Main.main(Main.java:91)
when i try to install, resulting in the inability to decompile the settings.apk
any pointers?

I think you need modified apktool because of The real dark slim feature

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I think you need modified apktool because of The real dark slim feature
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doesn't advanced apktool come with beta 9 apktool?

xdarkmario said:
doesn't advanced apktool come with beta 9 apktool?
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No idea

Yea slim releases their own apktool ever since they messed with the resources and broke normal apktool support on it

^found it @xdarkmario
https://github.com/SlimRoms/apktool/tree/kk-ver-2.x

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^found it @xdarkmario
https://github.com/SlimRoms/apktool/tree/kk-ver-2.x
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is that for windows? looks a bit "linuxy"

xdarkmario said:
is that for windows? looks a bit "linuxy"
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https://github.com/SlimRoms/apktool/tree/kk-ver-2.x/scripts/windows
https://github.com/SlimRoms/apktool/tree/kk-ver-2.x/release
https://github.com/SlimRoms/apktool...-lib/src/main/resources/prebuilt/aapt/windows

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https://github.com/SlimRoms/apktool/tree/kk-ver-2.x/scripts/windows
https://github.com/SlimRoms/apktool/tree/kk-ver-2.x/release
https://github.com/SlimRoms/apktool...-lib/src/main/resources/prebuilt/aapt/windows
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cant launch these files, says apktool.jar is corrupted and another error with aapt
found one from there website
http://slimroms.net/index.php/downl...apktool-install-windows-1-5-3-kitkat-trds-3-0