New here so if this is the wrong place for my question please move, thanks.
I've just got myself a UK Fire TV and I've started making an XBMC skin based on it by using the adbFIRE screenshot feature but this still involves a lot of guess work on colours and textures. So my question is can I get access to the Fire TV's source images somehow or are they available online anywhere?
Thanks.
PS I'm Hitcher over at XBMC forums.
HitcherUK said:
New here so if this is the wrong place for my question please move, thanks.
I've just myself a UK Fire TV and I've started making an XBMC skin based on it by using the adbFIRE screenshot feature but this still involves a lot of guess work on colours and textures. So my question is can I get access to the Fire TV's source images somehow or are they available online anywhere?
Thanks.
PS I'm Hitcher over at XBMC forums.
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From my experience getting the screensavers off the AFTV, I'm guessing you need a rooted device to get the files they use off the AFTV, and to probably even find them. I'm guessing they are in /data/data somewhere.
No root for UK models and I tried accessing that folder using XBMC's file manager but it's not available.
HitcherUK said:
New here so if this is the wrong place for my question please move, thanks.
I've just myself a UK Fire TV and I've started making an XBMC skin based on it by using the adbFIRE screenshot feature but this still involves a lot of guess work on colours and textures. So my question is can I get access to the Fire TV's source images somehow or are they available online anywhere?
Thanks.
PS I'm Hitcher over at XBMC forums.
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May need just snip the screenshots and use the color dropper. Most images seem to have a slight gradient, but it may not be very noticeable.
You could try grabbing one of the system dumps or pre-rooted images scattered throughout the forums, extracting the Launcher, and try decompiling it if you want to get true sources, but that may be more trouble than it's worth.
elmerohueso said:
May need just snip the screenshots and use the color dropper. Most images seem to have a slight gradient, but it may not be very noticeable.
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Yeah, that's what I'm doing at the moment but it's not ideal when diffuses are used and there's no way of knowing the opacity of images, plus I can't simply hide the text when gradients are used.
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You could try grabbing one of the system dumps or pre-rooted images scattered throughout the forums, extracting the Launcher, and try decompiling it if you want to get true sources, but that may be more trouble than it's worth.
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If I knew how to I would.
Here's what I've done a couple of days -
EDIT: Cant post links yet so you'll have to work it out for yourselves.
youtu.be/GA5KT8KMz_I
HitcherUK said:
Here's what I've done a couple of days -
EDIT: Cant post links yet so you'll have to work it out for yourselves.
youtu.be/GA5KT8KMz_I
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That looks awesome. It looks like your selected and deselected text needs to be fixed (boxes seem to always show "Artist" deselected and "Genres" selected). Any chance you could post it github and perhaps invite others to help out?
elmerohueso said:
That looks awesome. It looks like your selected and deselected text needs to be fixed (boxes seem to always show "Artist" deselected and "Genres" selected). Any chance you could post it github and perhaps invite others to help out?
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They're just screen grab textures hence the text which is why I'm trying to get to the actual source files if possible to make things easier - transparency being the main one.
I prefer to work alone so I know what's what.
So can anyone with root have a dig in some of the unavailable folders for me?
Thanks.
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They're just screen grab textures hence the text which is why I'm trying to get to the actual source files if possible to make things easier - transparency being the main one.
I prefer to work alone so I know what's what.
So can anyone with root have a dig in some of the unavailable folders for me?
Thanks.
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I grabbed the newest pre-rooted image, extracted the Launcher apk, and grabbed the graphics ("drawable-xhdpi" folder) and sounds & fonts ("raw" folder) I could find. APK and zipped resources attached. I'm very much looking forward to see your skin progress!
That's awesome, thanks.
Is the Fire TV open source?
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That's awesome, thanks.
Is the Fire TV open source?
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Source code can be found at http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201452680, but I'm not sure how much of the code they actually released.
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Ok, so I searched that exact search string and did not see anything like it so here is my question....
I am using Zone23's EVO-Zone Riptide Rom. I love the ROM and the theme has everything I like except for the little Android guy. I like the blue, but as much as I dislike Apple as well I can do without the little crossed out apple on Andy's chest. I modified photoshopped it and it came out just fine. I thought maybe that was the same one used in the list of contacts too but when I list my contacts, you can see the small Andy with the crossed out apple on his chest in the list. I am looking for what apk file find that little icon. I have tried the following apks and did not see it. I am hoping someone may know:
phone.apk
htcdialer
contacts provider
htccontacts
phone
I did find the large one in: Phone.apk\res\drawable-hdpi\phone_default.png
I have attached the examples of what I did thus far and the one icon I am trying to change.
Thanks in advance for any help!
I changed the avatars all at once....so I'm not sure what is what, but there are 2 more in
system\framework\com.htc.resources\res\drawable-hdpi
bluebeast213 said:
I changed the avatars all at once....so I'm not sure what is what, but there are 2 more in
system\framework\com.htc.resources\res\drawable-hdpi
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Yep, that did it. Never would have thought to look there. Lots of good things to change in that folder. Thanks for the help!
No problem, man.
I have finally got a nook
so, I have started porting my Sony homescreen replacement to work on the nook
so far it can get the list of books and shelves (collections), but not much else.
http://code.google.com/p/sonyprst1home/
I'll try to keep this thread updated with how it's going
please let me know if you would like to test this out (I can send you an apk to install)
All new releases will now be made on the google code page above.
it would be grat to have the apk and some screenshot
i would be interested to see a screen shot...
Awesome! Time to test it! I'm at school right now, so this is probably a terrible idea, but I might as well have something to do, right?
Edit: Have some screen shots. Ignore the 10:16 in corner of all the screen shots, I have an app that does that. (Sorry for the massive post)
Mini-Library / Homescreen
Pressing Menu on the Homescreen
Pressing "My Home Settings" here brings you to this screen
Library
Apps Page 1
Apps Page 2
It still seems to have various elements in color besides the app icons and the book covers.
Googie2149 said:
Awesome! Time to test it! I'm at school right now, so this is probably a terrible idea, but I might as well have something to do, right?
Edit: Have some screen shots. Ignore the 10:16 in corner of all the screen shots, I have an app that does that. (Sorry for the massive post)
Mini-Library / Homescreen
It still seems to have various elements in color besides the app icons and the book covers.
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How does Cover flow work??
persichini said:
How does Cover flow work??
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The screen flickers and does nothing when I click it :/
I`m trying t use your launcher, but got this:
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I`m trying t use your launcher, but got this:
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And you are running the apk you downloaded from this thread?
I'll have a look, but I thought I had taken out the code trying to open the database directly.
Googie2149 said:
The screen flickers and does nothing when I click it :/
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Only the main page, books and collections screen have been worked on so far.
I haven't even opened the other screens yet, so opening them could do anything (including crash)
It is worked ! , thank you
aspellclark said:
And you are running the apk you downloaded from this thread?
I'll have a look, but I thought I had taken out the code trying to open the database directly.
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i`m use apk from http://code.google.com/p/sonyprst1home/downloads/detail?name=SonyPrsT1Home-0.0.4.14.apk&can=2&q=
At now, i solved this issue by editing permissions of file from screenshoot path "chmod 666".
pilson66 said:
i`m use apk from http://code.google.com/p/sonyprst1home/downloads/detail?name=SonyPrsT1Home-0.0.4.14.apk&can=2&q=
At now, i solved this issue by editing permissions of file from screenshoot path "chmod 666".
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if you use the apk from this thread, it uses a different method of accessing the database, and doesn't need permissions changed on the database file.
Wow, I love this forum!!
From what Googie posted, I can see this is another cool thing to try out.
Now to get an SD card.
Screensaver
aspellclark said:
if you use the apk from this thread, it uses a different method of accessing the database, and doesn't need permissions changed on the database file.
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Wow, thanks for the great work. Really nice application for too many books and collections.
However, as the project was opensource, are you going to release the modified source somewhere? in a branch or tag or something?
I would like to see the screensaver feature working for last launched book, would try myself if the code was available.
the code is already available at the google code site in the first post
aspellclark said:
the code is already available at the google code site in the first post
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As you mentioned the APK here has a different way of accessing some file, and I don't see a tag or branch for the nook, I understand that the code is the one for the PRS-T1, correct me if I am wrong.
It's the same code. I am making a single apk that will run on a Sony and a nook (and other devices in future)
First general release (0.1.0.00) which runs on both the Nook and Sony is now available on my google code page.
aspellclark said:
First general release (0.1.0.00) which runs on both the Nook and Sony is now available on my google code page.
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THANKS, great work! Watching for code check-in
I can't check in the code until I get home tonight, sorry.
Greetings all, I have been busting my brains trying to get the resolution proper on my S4 with the Awesome Note HD app. worked great on my S3 and would like to continue to use it. I've tried using the Xposed DPI per App module and it's not re-sizing the app appropriately. I know I have it installed and working as I can alter other apps. Any help trying to solve this issue would be greatly appreciated.
This baffles me as well. I've tried every option possible in Xposed, googled several threads and even enabled ALL permissions, but nothing works. Xposed will alter pretty much any app except Awesome Note.
Same here
luckychef28 said:
This baffles me as well. I've tried every option possible in Xposed, googled several threads and even enabled ALL permissions, but nothing works. Xposed will alter pretty much any app except Awesome Note.
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I to have tried this but failed. Is there any way to do this people...
My guess would be find the XML file in the apk responsible for drawing this and the set the dimensions of it to wrap_content or fill_parent. Seems like it's hard coded.
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If anyone can get it to work I'd be interested in using the app
elesbb said:
My guess would be find the XML file in the apk responsible for drawing this and the set the dimensions of it to wrap_content or fill_parent. Seems like it's hard coded.
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Thanks for the info. I think I'll give your tutorial and tool a try and see if I can get it to work.
luckychef28 said:
Thanks for the info. I think I'll give your tutorial and tool a try and see if I can get it to work.
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If you do, let me know please
No luck so far, but this is the first time I've ever tried modding an app. I've been able to locate and edit the layout, layout portrait and layout landscape xml files, but no change. Obviously I'm missing something (likely very simple). I'll keep researching/learning and post back with any updates.
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elesbb said:
My guess would be find the XML file in the apk responsible for drawing this and the set the dimensions of it to wrap_content or fill_parent. Seems like it's hard coded.
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Question to you: the fill_parent/wrap_content code is all over the layout xml files. Do I have to change every entry or should I be looking at a specific line?
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No luck so far, but this is the first time I've ever tried modding an app. I've been able to locate and edit the layout, layout portrait and layout landscape xml files, but no change. Obviously I'm missing something (likely very simple). I'll keep researching/learning and post back with any updates.
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Question to you: the fill_parent/wrap_content code is all over the layout xml files. Do I have to change every entry or should I be looking at a specific line?
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Youre gonna have to figure out which one draws what you are looking at and what is not being drawn correctly. I hate xml, when i make programs, 90 percent of my layouts are made programmatically. thats how much i hate xml.
Edit: nevermind lol
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Damn, ever bit of this app is coded. Every tab, every title, every icon, every title. As far as I can see, the only way to get a real workable and attractive setup is to rewrite the graphics. I can get a few things to stretch - background now fills and bottom icons on main page are larger - but the right side dead space is still there and tab text remains the same, though the tab backgrounds have shifted and grew just a hair. Moving all of the files from the drawable-nodpi folder to the drawable folder allows Xposed to have some control, but not enough.
I think the biggest problem is our phones resolution. 1080 is just not supported properly. Though I did dig around and find a "true" listing for support of small, large and extra large screens. Personally, I'm beginning to hate this app, but I'll keep plugging away for the learning experience.
Mind you I am a COMPLETE NOVICE at this. If you'd like to see what I've been able to figure out thus far, and maybe add some input, I'll gladly send you the apk. Just PM me. I'm using @elesbb APK Tool which has a 2 second learning curve.
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Damn, ever bit of this app is coded. Every tab, every title, every icon, every title. As far as I can see, the only way to get a real workable and attractive setup is to rewrite the graphics. I can get a few things to stretch - background now fills and bottom icons on main page are larger - but the right side dead space is still there and tab text remains the same, though the tab backgrounds have shifted and grew just a hair. Moving all of the files from the drawable-nodpi folder to the drawable folder allows Xposed to have some control, but not enough.
I think the biggest problem is our phones resolution. 1080 is just not supported properly. Though I did dig around and find a "true" listing for support of small, large and extra large screens. Personally, I'm beginning to hate this app, but I'll keep plugging away for the learning experience.
Mind you I am a COMPLETE NOVICE at this. If you'd like to see what I've been able to figure out thus far, and maybe add some input, I'll gladly send you the apk. Just PM me. I'm using @elesbb APK Tool which has a 2 second learning curve.
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This sounds like the Camera APK i use a DPI of 320, and the camera is all fritz out and small. I decompiled it just to take a peek as i don't have the time right now to fix it, but it looks all hard coded and yes everything has to be coded even the tab, button, everything ANDROID IS FUN
Any news about this?
If anyone knows how to solve this problem, let me know, please!
luckychef28 said:
Damn, ever bit of this app is coded. Every tab, every title, every icon, every title. As far as I can see, the only way to get a real workable and attractive setup is to rewrite the graphics. I can get a few things to stretch - background now fills and bottom icons on main page are larger - but the right side dead space is still there and tab text remains the same, though the tab backgrounds have shifted and grew just a hair. Moving all of the files from the drawable-nodpi folder to the drawable folder allows Xposed to have some control, but not enough.
I think the biggest problem is our phones resolution. 1080 is just not supported properly. Though I did dig around and find a "true" listing for support of small, large and extra large screens. Personally, I'm beginning to hate this app, but I'll keep plugging away for the learning experience.
Mind you I am a COMPLETE NOVICE at this. If you'd like to see what I've been able to figure out thus far, and maybe add some input, I'll gladly send you the apk. Just PM me. I'm using @elesbb APK Tool which has a 2 second learning curve.
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I am new to android app development but am spending more and more time on these threads. I have a Verizon sgs4 with eclipse ROM. I would love to see the progress you've made with this app but I'm new and not sure how to message you. If you have time feel free to send me that apk and I'll see if I can try and help.
Did anyone get anywhere with this? This seems to be the only app that looks like it will do everything I want, but just isn't scaled correctly. Unless anyone knows of a good alternative?
UPDATE - thanks to kwerdenker pointing me in the right direction I stumbled upon this post which is amazingly helpful for anyone else interested!
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+LutzLinke/posts/TNhQ4ypuurw
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I'm trying to add a custom iconset I made to a paid theme of mine. As posted by a couple other people there are apparently some issues with this that no one can figure out. Well I am making this post to hopefully find people who are willing to help me squash this. As an independent themer with limited time this frustrates the piss out of me. I also have Go Locker themes that no one can every help me with my issues and it drives me crazy... anyway back to Zooper. This is my post from G+
having problems with my apk when I build it since I added my custom iconset. can anyone give me any insight on this?
currently it's in
assets/iconset/whatever/whatever/config.xml.jet with the font in there also whatever.ttf.jet
this is how it's exported in the apk templete from the app itself though and thats the only thing not working, is the iconset.
so to recap, the app install, loads, and works minus my icons from the custom iconset.
I'm lost.
I also tried removing all the .jet extensions like someone suggested and it didn't fix it...
the name of the iconset shows up and everything. just no preview image. it was like that when it was .jet too.
tried taking away all the .jet extensions everywhere too... no luck
trying to build using Android Studio if that matters
so far I tried taking out one of the folders so it was just
/assets/iconsets/whatever/config.xml & the font and that got letters to show up at least, just not from my font.
I also tried putting the zip file in there so it was
/assets/iconsets/whatever.zip
no luck either way... anyone else care to chime in or have any other ideas?
AntwonJenkins said:
I'm trying to add a custom iconset I made to a paid theme of mine. As posted by a couple other people there are apparently some issues with this that no one can figure out. Well I am making this post to hopefully find people who are willing to help me squash this. As an independent themer with limited time this frustrates the piss out of me. I also have Go Locker themes that no one can every help me with my issues and it drives me crazy... anyway back to Zooper. This is my post from G+
having problems with my apk when I build it since I added my custom iconset. can anyone give me any insight on this?
currently it's in
assets/iconset/whatever/whatever/config.xml.jet with the font in there also whatever.ttf.jet
this is how it's exported in the apk templete from the app itself though and thats the only thing not working, is the iconset.
so to recap, the app install, loads, and works minus my icons from the custom iconset.
I'm lost.
I also tried removing all the .jet extensions like someone suggested and it didn't fix it...
the name of the iconset shows up and everything. just no preview image. it was like that when it was .jet too.
tried taking away all the .jet extensions everywhere too... no luck
trying to build using Android Studio if that matters
so far I tried taking out one of the folders so it was just
/assets/iconsets/whatever/config.xml & the font and that got letters to show up at least, just not from my font.
I also tried putting the zip file in there so it was
/assets/iconsets/whatever.zip
no luck either way... anyone else care to chime in or have any other ideas?
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Font-based icon sets are broken in Zooper APKs. This has been a known problem for a long time and there have been some attempts to fix this issue but those were by users most of the time (here is one good example: https://plus.google.com/u/0/106201536507820539535/posts/dY1vras522H). The devs haven't responded to this for a while now. Might be they are working on it, might also be that theme APKs are not a priority anymore since the buyout through Themer. Hard to tell since the communication with the developers has stopped almost entirely.
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Font-based icon sets are broken in Zooper APKs. This has been a known problem for a long time and there have been some attempts to fix this issue but those were by users most of the time (here is one good example: https://plus.google.com/u/0/106201536507820539535/posts/dY1vras522H). The devs haven't responded to this for a while now. Might be they are working on it, might also be that theme APKs are not a priority anymore since the buyout through Themer. Hard to tell since the communication with the developers has stopped almost entirely.
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Thank you so much for this information. It's sad to see one of the best customization apps on Android lose support like that but not surprising. So... are we able to create Themer themes? I can't imagine them being much different than their Zooper counterpart.
I finally got my wife interested in the Kodi box, and she went in and added scores of movies to Genesis' "Favorites." Apparently, the thumbnails ate up all the space on my Fire TV and I started getting disc full warnings during movie playback. From the Kodi launch area, I cleared all the data (3.5 GB), and I was back to square one with my Kodi installation. Since I've been using Backup to make backups of my setup, I reinstalled Backup and pointed it to where my archived backups are. But when I hit "Restore," all I get is an empty window with the following header text: "Backup - Backup Folder Name." Any suggestions?
Skin Problem? Confluence skin? Seems more like a kodi question
desmoloch said:
Skin Problem? Confluence skin? Seems more like a jodi question
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I am using the default Confluence skin, but I don't think it's a skin problem. (Insert Proactive reference here.)
I'm not convinced this Backup add-on is quite ready for the light of day.
Raymondo17 said:
I am using the default Confluence skin, but I don't think it's a skin problem. (Insert Proactive reference here.)
I'm not convinced this Backup add-on is quite ready for the light of day.
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It's worked for me in the past on the same build--13.2 and aeon nox skin. But, yes last week the restore function brought up a blank page, no file to select. You could try adbFire for backup/restore. I was told tvaddons has this feature but I looked everywhere in maintenance tool and it just isn't there.
KLit75 said:
You could try adbFire for backup/restore. I was told tvaddons has this feature but I looked everywhere in maintenance tool and it just isn't there.
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Yes, I tried using adbFire's "Restore" function, but apparently it will not read XBMC Backup's backup files. At least it didn't work for me. I believe you have to have made the backups using adbFire in order to use adbFire for the restoration, and unfortunately, I did not.
Yes. That's probably right. Sorry. What I should've said is if you still have it setup make a backup with adbfire then restore.
're-reading the op, there is an advancedsettings that will store all your thumbnails on external. I use it myself. It does of course required root. I can send it to you if you want.
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Yes. That's probably right. Sorry. What I should've said is if you still have it setup make a backup with adbfire then restore.
're-reading the op, there is an advancedsettings that will store all your thumbnails on external. I use it myself. It does of course required root. I can send it to you if you want.
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Please do! That seems to be a big issue with the Fire TV's limited space, so I'd love to avoid that problem.
Do you know whether it will store the thumbnails on my Mac that's on the network, or does it have to be on a hard drive connected to the Fire TV?
Sure. I'll pm you when I get home later.
No these are for usb drive. There maybe a way to store to a network share (that'd be cool) but I'm not sure how to amend them. Plus I'd wonder about how bad the lag would be loading them. I've got the xml on both aftvs. One's a 500gb , ones a thumbrive. I find I don't need a big drive though. I use network shares like you. I don't do much gaming.
Usb 3.0 is the way to go. And I notice at Wal-Mart, a 16gb for around 10 bucks.