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[Q] APK Tool

For the life of me I can not recompile my systemUI.apk using the APK Tool
I decompiled it using:
java -jar apktool.jar b systemui.apk ./systemui
I get a few errors which I think should be ok if I could just Force the compile.
But the F orce doesn't seem to work. Any suggestions???
Here's the command line that I'm using.
java -jar apktool.jar b -f systemui/ newsystemui.apk
Any suggestions???

You have to install framework from framework-res.apk first with apktool....then you have to recompile systemUI.apk with dependencies ....the systemUI.apk uses the framework u installed as its base to decompile and recompile...
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Edit..decompile systemUI with dependencies ...
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Thanks, got it.
Cranky...
MitRa

[Q] an interesting Apktool error

hi. I use apktool to decompile an apk but when i try i take errors. for example i can decompile framework-res and twframework-res on the other side i cannot decompile settings.apk, systemui.apk etc. this why?

I see this is your first post so maybe you haven't seen this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1755243
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Decompile & Compile apk

I use apktool for decompile and recompiling but howcome I can not recompile SecSettings.apk on JB 4.1.2 any new thing should be done? help please.

smali help

hello everyone
i searched a lot but couldnt find anything so postiong here
i was trying to add some featues to home.apk and i got some errors while recompiling
so i tried decompile and recompile without editing anything...i didnt even open the decompiled home apk folder LOL
but i am getting lots of smali errors only in styles.xml
i think that apktool removes some templates from styles.xml i dont know what it means i just got it from my search
so can someone help me in fixing that error....
@serajr
 @SpaceCaker
 @marcussmith2626
 @iSiddharth

Either wrong framework loaded or using wrong apktool version
And please stop abusing the mention system - I won't reply to anymore mentions

marcussmith2626 said:
Either wrong framework loaded or using wrong apktool version
And please stop abusing the mention system - I won't reply to anymore mentions
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Ah sorry
But what do u mean by WRONG apktool version??

abhishekr700 said:
Ah sorry
But what do u mean by WRONG apktool version??
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use
gingerbread/ics/jb 1.5.2
https://code.google.com/p/android-apktool/downloads/list
jb/kitkat/lolipop apktool rc3
https://bitbucket.org/iBotPeaches/apktool/downloads
use correct framework-res
plus any other framework eg tw-framework

Use Advanced APK Tools for decompiling the APK files and you can also use the Attached Dex Editor to edit classes.dex files.....
Advanced APK tools is specially made for Xperia devicex. (use your "framework-res.apk" to install firmware in Advanced APK Tools)
(Drag and drop classes.dex in "Quick-Baksmali.cmd" to decompile and drag and drop the output folder is "Quick-Smali.cmd" to recompile.
Advanced APK Tools : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2639400

compile source code

Hey Guys I need to compile source code of a app and it is in java so apktool will not work and also don't advice eclipse if you can provide how to convert .java to smali that will also help

Noobdead said:
Hey Guys I need to compile source code of a app and it is in java so apktool will not work and also don't advice eclipse if you can provide how to convert .java to smali that will also help
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Use the compiled bytecode .class file with dx
Then use baksmali to get .smali from .dex files
Code:
dx --dex --output=filename.dex compiled_file.class
baksmali filename.dex