I pulled system.apk from phone and then opened it as a rar archive and manually edited pngs without loosing quality, then saved it as a settings.apk
and pushed it to system/app/.
Nothing has changed, except looks of power widget, though all pngs in anything connected with settings should have changed (even the green/orange - depending on rom - selected button background)
Why is that?
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Hey guys. Just a quick question. I've successfully edited the images inside a few .apk files to match my theme and then installed them on my phone without any problems.
However, now I'm trying to edit some .apk files that are apps with widgets. Specifically, Advanced Task Manager and N1 Torch. I wanted to edit the widgets' image files so that the "focused" and "pressed" highlights of these apps' respective widgets are no longer Android's hideous orange color. But when I make changes to the widgets and install my modded .apk files, the widgets are broken. They won't load. Any advice? Thanks.
mabe http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=669577
Never mind. Got it all settled. Fixed my widgets. Thanks.
So on a DroidX, the ugly Corporate notification PNG and the Yahoo! Mail notification PNG's are stored in /system/app/setup.apk
I've copied the Setup.APK off my device, modified the images making the new images the same size and pixel size and then packed them back in the .APK and then copied back to /system/app
I can't seem to make the images work. I really don't like the Corporate icons on the DX, it's ugly as sin.
At first I was getting a crash when going to Settings -> Accounts but I've rebooted my device.
When I went back in, my new PNG's flashed very briefly but then went back to the default PNG.
When I edit the Setup.APK using NinjaMorph or Rootexplorer my PNG's are there so I don't get why it's not working.. those in the /system/app folder don't need to be re-signed or re-installed right?
Any ideas?
So, I'm not sure if I'm in the right place here (literally just activated my xda account). I want to customize some icons for a few apps, but not just the app icon. The main app I am concerned with is called SystemPanel Task Manager. It has some widget icons to choose from for an "End All" widget. I want to edit the image files (probably .png's), but I can't find the data on my SD card. Any hints as to where I can find these files?
You have to replace the pngs in the apk files (Zip packages that contain Android applications).
System applications are located in /system/app/ and non-systems apps in /data/app/
As long as you only want to change images, you can just pull them from the apk file and push them back in using 7zip or the like, but if you want to change xml or code, you would have to decompile the apk.
I have started to make my own theme by opening apk and changing it to zip and editing png in Photoshop so far Ive changed icons, font, background and basically anything drawable but now I want to change the lock screen. How would I go about doing this? I dont see anything that resembles a lock screen in any drawable folders or anywhere else. Heres a list of the items I see from this apk that I unzipped:
assets
META_INF
res
AndroidManifest.xml
classes.dex
resources.arsc
Am I missing something?
Is there a mod or a way to turn the sense 6 status bar fully transparent like AOSP KitKat, unlike its current half transparency. Please do not suggest exposed, I'd rather edit system files.
Sent from my HTC One M8
Status bar (and others....)
If you decompile SystemUI.apk (found in /system/priv-app), look for status_background.9.png in res/xxhdpi and edit the image to make fully transparent. The xxhdpi folder also has the images for all the status bar and quick toggle icons if you should choose to change those as well...
As a note - I did this on my work computer (without actually decompiling the apk) by extracting SystemUI.apk to my dropbox and then simply renaming it to SystemUI.zip and decompressing it with 7-zip. After I made the changes I wanted (signal icons, wifi, nav bar bg, and some others), I re-zipped the contents of SystemUI (not the folder itself as it will make a redundant directory in the zip file and break your SystemUI), I renamed back to SystemUI.apk and placed the new SystemUI.apk in the appropriate directory, making sure permissions are set correct. Then reboot....
This worked for me... it's a bit tedious, but I get bored at work sometimes... lolz.