Clould anyone point me to the location of the icons for the home screen are please? I'm using IconFinder to make me a custom homescreen but it's a hasle to have to store them into Gallery and then crop... would me much easier if they would just pop up with the theme icons.
Thanks
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st1114g said:
Clould anyone point me to the location of the icons for the home screen are please? I'm using IconFinder to make me a custom homescreen but it's a hasle to have to store them into Gallery and then crop... would me much easier if they would just pop up with the theme icons.
Thanks
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Others, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but they are built in to an apk, so you would have to extract the apk, change the icons, and then reconsruct the apk.
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Others, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but they are built in to an apk, so you would have to extract the apk, change the icons, and then reconsruct the apk.
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I believe you're right. It's been a while since I've decompiled a launcher. In any event, if anyone does need to decompile and recompile an .apk I would recommend elesbb's APK Tool GUI. Makes the whole job very easy. Once you have all of your icon images you should be able to drag and drop them into their appropriate folders and recompile.
Thank you for the replies! I was hopping to be an easy-breeze doing but I guess not... I will try the tool you recommended: ) Wish me luck
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I want the touchwiz icon for the app drawer to use in launcher pro. Can someone get it for me or explain how I an extract it from my phone? Thank you
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knock.back said:
I want the touchwiz icon for the app drawer to use in launcher pro. Can someone get it for me or explain how I an extract it from my phone? Thank you
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If you mean the one below its in system/app/TouchWiz30Launcher.apk/res/drawable-hdpi and its called mainmenu_icon_application.
Grab a theme or rom that has this launcher included and unzip it with 7zip then go get it.
Is it possible to do that from my phone? Won't it tell me the apk is already installed? My computer is out of comission for a minute
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Edit: I was able to extract the file but when I try to set it in launcher pro I can't find it... I can find the folder its in but it doesn't show up
Edit #2: got it just had to run the meddia scanner thanks for the help
No worries, glad it worked.
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How to get the Home Icon from Touchwiz...see the attached (print screen then crop from TW), i need it very badly...
I was wondering if there was a way, and how to, edit the default app icons, so when opening up the app list or placing one on the home screen, the icon is one other than the original?
Thanks
You would have to change the icon in each apk file.
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What rom are you using? Because cm6.1 and 7 nightlies you can pick any picture you want on your desktop only. I think there are some launchers that will let you pick also.
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fundio said:
What rom are you using? Because cm6.1 and 7 nightlies you can pick any picture you want on your desktop only. I think there are some launchers that will let you pick also.
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redemptive, but i have launchepro, so I know I can use the feature on that. But what I mean is: I have really nice icons i found, and I use SiMi folder widget. I can't edit the icons in the widget, those are the default ones in the apk. However, i tried editing the apk itself, but it disappeared when i rebooted, which seems to happen a lot.
Did you sign the apk after you got done editing it? Any third party apks will need to be resigned, any stock apks do not.
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Did you sign the apk after you got done editing it? Any third party apks will need to be resigned, any stock apks do not.
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Last time i tried this using apk manager, it still wouldnt work, but i can give it another shot.
I get to signing it, but from there i try to install and it says "application not installed"
Do I need to uninstall the original apk first or something?
crazyg0od33 said:
I was wondering if there was a way, and how to, edit the default app icons, so when opening up the app list or placing one on the home screen, the icon is one other than the original?
Thanks
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If you use adw or lp, you can do that by long pressing the icon and selecting a custom one. If not, you'll have to theme them
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FINALLY I figured out apk manager for image editing!!!
Now my apps dont disappear on reboot and my widgetlocker is sexy again!
Thanks guys
How did you do it? Does it have to be signed?
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Download apk manager from the forums...then when you use it on the apk, just extract it, don't decompile it, then drop in your image and zip it as a regular apk, don't recompile, and then sign it...that's it
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I am trying to add fonts to the clockq widget. I've never done anything like this before and it isn't working, so I am hoping for some help here.
I tried going to the apk for clockq under data/app and renaming it to a zip file, then extracting it. At that point in the assets folder there is a fonts folder. So I figured I would just paste in a bunch of fonts, rezip the whole thing and rename it to .apk
Didn't work. Broke the app. Had to re-download from the market.
Anyone able to tell me what I did wrong? Please
Pretty sure that would involve decompiling, adding your fonts, modifying several .xml files, then adding your changes to resources.arsc before re-compiling, signing and installing.
artvandelay440 said:
Pretty sure that would involve decompiling, adding your fonts, modifying several .xml files, then adding your changes to resources.arsc before re-compiling, signing and installing.
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Woah.
way over my head, thank you. I might've tried to figure it out if it just involved signing or something, but even that would've required more help.
Oh well.
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Download rom toolbox from the market you can change the whole system font
I know a simple apk decompiler, it turns Apk to zip and zip to apk it has a ui to let me know if u still like to try
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Linch89 said:
Download rom toolbox from the market you can change the whole system font
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Unfortunately doesn't effect the widget font. Wouldn't necessarily want the same font there anyway.
@ubuntunerd: I am always interested in learning more. Isn't that what I was doing already though? (Change .apk to .zip, unzip, fiddle around, rezip, change from .zip to .apk)
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TheAtheistReverend said:
Unfortunately doesn't effect the widget font. Wouldn't necessarily want the same font there anyway.
@ubuntunerd: I am always interested in learning more. Isn't that what I was doing already though? (Change .apk to .zip, unzip, fiddle around, rezip, change from .zip to .apk)
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Well I guess it will be about the same but I have try some apks that wouldn't change to zip so I use the decompiler
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TheAtheistReverend said:
Unfortunately doesn't effect the widget font. Wouldn't necessarily want the same font there anyway.
@ubuntunerd: I am always interested in learning more. Isn't that what I was doing already though? (Change .apk to .zip, unzip, fiddle around, rezip, change from .zip to .apk)
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I'd use apk manager. Search for it here on xda. Great tool.
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artvandelay440 said:
I'd use apk manager. Search for it here on xda. Great tool.
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That's the one I was talking about
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Can't hurt to try. I'll let y'all know if it works.
OK, I don't know if I am missing something but that doesn't seem to do anything that the phone's installer doesn't already do.
What is the point of that app if all it does is install/uninstall apks?
TheAtheistReverend said:
OK, I don't know if I am missing something but that doesn't seem to do anything that the phone's installer doesn't already do.
What is the point of that app if all it does is install/uninstall apks?
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It allows you to decompile/recompike, zipalign, and sign apks.
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The stock home launcher supports different icons. Long press on an icon and touch the paint brush to choose a icon or use custom.
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Where can we download more icons?
Mindspin_311 said:
Where can we download more icons?
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look for icon packs on xda or google play
if its an apk, you can extract it, and use the individual .png file icons
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look for icon packs on xda or google play
if its an apk, you can extract it, and use the individual .png file icons
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Most icon packs say they are for certain launchers. How would we go about extracting them for use on a stock phone?
Apk is basically a zip file just extract. I think ypu can use 7zip or zarchive on android.
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Can someone help me or point me in the right direction for editing a theme? I want the Cobalt theme to have transparent status bar, transparent system backgrounds(dialer, settings...etc) just like the HoloGlass Beta but with all the nice stuff from Cobalt(https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dustinb.theme.cobalt) (HoloGlass https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mix3d.theme.hologlass.beta)
I'm still trying to figure this out, I've decompiled both themes, copied like 50 images from cobalt(signal, wifi...etc) to hologlass overwriting the originals, edited preview and changed the default wallpaper then recompiled, signed it, installed but the only thing that I can tell is different is the default wallpaper, everything else is the same, the preview didn't even work, just shows a red X....I don't understand.
If it's a system app you don't want to sign it. You need to preserve the original signatures if I remember correctly. Utilities like apk multi tool can do this for you when it's time to recompile. Could that be the problem?
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Im at work....but when I get home I will tell you how to do it with 7Zip. Very easy to do
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DocHoliday77 said:
If it's a system app you don't want to sign it. You need to preserve the original signatures if I remember correctly. Utilities like apk multi tool can do this for you when it's time to recompile. Could that be the problem?
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I didn't know a theme was a system app?
Well I was wrong, It mostly worked, most things changed except WiFi and signal bars(Which was one of the main features I wanted from cobalt) Maybe it would be easier just to take the transparent stuff from holo glass and put it into cobalt? Idk but I still need help with this...
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I didn't know a theme was a system app?
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It depends on what you're theming. I'm just guessing but the status bar is probably in the SystemUI.apk or SecLauncher2.apk. so to theme it would require modding the correct system app.
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DocHoliday77 said:
It depends on what you're theming. I'm just guessing but the status bar is probably in the SystemUI.apk or SecLauncher2.apk. so to theme it would require modding the correct system app.
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ok, but signing it didn't break it so idk.