Hello, i am trying to change the main PNGs (contacts, phone, messaging, etc...) and i cant seem to find the APK that stores them, can anyone help me with this!
I'm using JellyWiz
Thanks in advance.
Are you talking about the icons?
System/Apps
Open the APK with 7zip or alike, Open res folder, then drawable hdpi, then you find the png. Icon is 45x45.
That's how I got mine to change.
If you are doing anything more complex like editing the program itself, I believe you need to decompile and then recompile with APKtool.
Thanks for your help but what APK are they stored in?
Edit: sorry, I see what you're talking about, thanks
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I am currently using Better Cut on my home screen to change the shortcuts to some custom icons I made. I want to replace the icons in the app drawer (or perhaps in general) as well (I am using Launcher Pro but I might not be opposed to ADW), however I can't figure out how to do that. I sorta figure the icons would be in the APK files, however when an application gets updated, I would have to replace the icon would I not?
If that's the case, I don't think it would be worth it, but if there's an easier or more doable way I'd love to hear it.
Thanks!
It's my understanding that you'll have to change the app's actual icon.
Find the apk you want to change.Convert the apk file into a zip file.
Replace the icon's png, in res folder, with your icon. Convert back into an apk. Sign apk. Reinstall.
Its not as simple as it should be, or maybe I haven't found an easier method. I'm having trouble signing the apk.
I hope this helps. Good luck.
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sp3a12uk said:
It's my understanding that you'll have to change the app's actual icon.
Find the apk you want to change.Convert the apk file into a zip file.
Replace the icon's png, in res folder, with your icon. Convert back into an apk. Sign apk. Reinstall.
Its not as simple as it should be, or maybe I haven't found an easier method. I'm having trouble signing the apk.
I hope this helps. Good luck.
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Thanks, I thought it'd be about like that. When an app is updated, I will have to re-do the whole procedure won't I?
Yes because it replaces everything. Let me know how it goes.
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If you install eclipse and download the adw theme template you can put all your icons In there and it will change them. Or you can download an adw theme and pull it from the phone and change all the icons In there. I think the theme apk is in data/app. And then resign the apk.
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Hi, I have downloaded Youlu phone book replacement for my HTC Hero and I really like the app but not the widget.
I have been playing round with .apk and .png files over the last few day I decided to try and customise the widget by making the background transparent and changing the icons.
With the .png's changed and the apk zipped and signed I install the app, apply the widget and there it is my first customised widget on my home screen.
But when I try to open the app either via the widget or the app draw get a message asking me update my settings file and a link to download the original apk. And I am unable to use the app.
Any help anyone could give regarding this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Cjward23
P.S. I have highlighted the custom Youlu widget on Screenshot, the badly drawn red line is not part of the widget
Anyone?
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see for APK Manager 4.9 - here you can find information about manipulating apk's
I used APK manager to modify the .png files. But the app seems to know that I have modified the .png files and won't let me open it.
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cjward23 said:
Hi, I have downloaded Youlu phone book replacement for my HTC Hero and I really like the app but not the widget.
I have been playing round with framework-res.apk over the last few day I decided to try and customise the widget by making the background transparent and changing the icons.
With the framework changed and the apk zipped and signed I install the app, apply the widget and there it is my first customised widget on my home screen.
But when I try to open the app either via the widget or the app draw get a message asking me update my settings file and a link to download the original apk. And I am unable to use the app.
Any help anyone could give regarding this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Cjward23
P.S. I have highlighted the custom Youlu widget on Screenshot, the badly drawn red line is not part of the widget
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Why are you modifying the framework-res.apk. Shouldn't you modify the apk of the Yolulu app?
If you really need to make the changes in framework-res, don't resign it. Never resign system apks. Just make the changes, and zip it back up.
appelflap said:
Why are you modifying the framework-res.apk. Shouldn't you modify the apk of the Yolulu app?
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Thanks for pointing out my mistake. I have modified the Youlu APK not the framework-res.apk. got framework-res on the brain at the moment.
I have corrected my mistake in the first post.
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cjward23 said:
Thanks for pointing out my mistake. I have modified the Youlu APK not the framework-res.apk. got framework-res on the brain at the moment.
I have corrected my mistake in the first post.
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Why don't you contact the developer? Maybe he is willing to help you.
Hi. I was wondering, is there any way to mod the window that pops up when you click on the widget? I want to get some sharp corners and a black/gray bg.
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Hi. I was wondering, is there any way to mod the window that pops up when you click on the widget? I want to get some sharp corners and a black/gray bg.
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hey any luck with this i want to do the same
Selfless bump.
Is it just a png that can be changed or is it a more complicated endeavor?
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right ive opened up the apk theres no relevent png's so i guess the colours etc are in xml's how do i set it to transparent and move it to bottom of screen?
I know it's not what you want to hear, but...
You could purchase Folder Organizer (paid app by the same dev). It has same functionality but with more options, like changing the backgrounds of the folders, changing app icons, and you can add shortcuts, contacts, bookmarks, etc to folders.
Just a suggestion. It's the best app I've ever bought, and the couple of bucks has to be worth the time of changing the xml files.
Sorry I couldn't offer a better answer, but if you want to just change Apps Organizer I'm sure you need to figure out where the values are in the xml & change it accordingly.
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Folder Organizer uses the panel_background.9.png file from the system framework res drawables folder. That's why it's not in the apk. In order to change the look, you have replace this file with the modded panel_background.9.png file you want to use in your framework.apk. However, because you're modding the panel_background.9 file, it will be like this for ANY apk that also accesses this 9.png file. But that's what you need to do if you really want to mod the backgound to have sharp corners.
I can't find it under root explorer
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I'm looki to remove the arrows from a sense 4 HTCIME (Keyboard) if you can leas me to a tutorial or give me any ideas on what needs to be done or where I can start digging. I've been doing searches on google and nothing please help with any ideas, thoughts your time is greatly appreciated
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I think you can't 100% do it as you don't have the source code. But if you're lucky and HTC has put some of these things in the apk's xml, then you might be able to do it.
First pull / copy the apk for the IME from the device, use apktool to extract and look at all the xml files to see if there are any tags / values for the keys and arrows. This is one approach. Another would be to modify the bytecode using smali / baksmali but those are too advanced stuff, you might have to spend a lot of time on that.
Why not just get any market keyboard that doesn't have the arrow keys?
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I think you can't 100% do it as you don't have the source code. But if you're lucky and HTC has put some of these things in the apk's xml, then you might be able to do it.
First pull / copy the apk for the IME from the device, use apktool to extract and look at all the xml files to see if there are any tags / values for the keys and arrows. This is one approach. Another would be to modify the bytecode using smali / baksmali but those are too advanced stuff, you might have to spend a lot of time on that.
Why not just get any market keyboard that doesn't have the arrow keys?
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Cuz I love the layout and I have a themed HTC keyboard that I absolutely love and I want to keep..
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The goal is to be able to change small things in some apps.
For example, there is an app called SnapChat which allows you to send a picture for 3 seconds and then closes the picture. In this scenario, I would like to be able to edit the .apk file to allow to stay for 4 seconds. Would this kind of this be possible?
How so?
Um....you can do this within the app.....stock....
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Matthenson20 said:
Um....you can do this within the app.....stock....
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I know, it was a poor example. But I'm just wondering if it would be possible to do small changes like this to apps?
Dgameman1 said:
I know, it was a poor example. But I'm just wondering if it would be possible to do small changes like this to apps?
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most apps are customizable. there are threads over in android general/hacking specifically about this topic.
OK I have looked a lot. I want to change a lot of things not just an app. I want to change my app icon color I want to change the color of my clock widget my wheat her widget the resize outline of the box also the color of the lock on the lock screen. Anybody pm me plz I am clueless at this stuff.
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You can change alot of things in apps just by playing around with them. Using Apktool or another decompiling tool, you can change alot in the res/values folders Theres alot of stuff you can play around with in the various xml files
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OK I have looked a lot. I want to change a lot of things not just an app. I want to change my app icon color I want to change the color of my clock widget my wheat her widget the resize outline of the box also the color of the lock on the lock screen. Anybody pm me plz I am clueless at this stuff.
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use the search box at the top of the page. type in theme/mod apk's. pages of stuff will come up. here's 1 place to start- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2069287
So you are saying I can't decompile or recompile apks on my phone? I have to use adb to push/pull and then use a program to decrypt the XML then I can change the values to what I want?
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So you are saying I can't decompile or recompile apks on my phone? I have to use adb to push/pull and then use a program to decrypt the XML then I can change the values to what I want?
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You're gonna have to adb push/pull unless you build your own ROM.
You can get apktool from here: https://code.google.com/p/android-apktool/
[email protected] OK. :/ hard drive crashed.
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You can swap out images but you definitely can't change app settings like animations and such without the right tools and procedures.
[email protected]'$ [email protected]@XY
OK. I don't want yo change animations just yet. I want to edit app icon colors widget colors. I pretty much want to theme everything.
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use 7zip on your computer to swap out png's. change app's name from whatever.apk to whatever.zip then move it to your computer using 7zip open the archive. don't extract or unzip. navigate to res folder and open it. find the png files you want to change and insert your png files you want. make sure they are the correct size, in the correct format (png) and are named correctly. exactly as they are in the zip file. then close the zip transfer it back to your phone and rename back to whatever.apk i do suggest doing some more research before doing this. there are a lot of threads dedicated just for this. use the search engine at the top of the page. XDA provides it for this exact reason.