• After 15+ years, we've made a big change: Android Forums is now Early Bird Club. Learn more here.

Root SUroot

Me neither. I'd.like to.get a better understanding of the xml files in apks though.

I tried to re theme the phandroid app. Edited bg and text.entries in loads of em. Installs fine buy force closest.

Had to.request help on xda but not had any get
 
once youve opened them you must zip align and resign it before repushing it back to the device
also the image res must be the same for all files
 
All the images work fine. It's when I recompile with the xml that's the issue.

I'm using apk manager
 
Rastaman-FB said:
yeah hes really taken it on, hes a future dev tbh.
i dont want to be dev level
Click to expand...

Lol...I just love doing this stuff, that's all..
Actually, I'm a doctor :D
This is what being bored does to you..After a couple of weeks, will be too busy to do most of this anyway..
 
danfrance said:
Me neither. I'd.like to.get a better understanding of the xml files in apks though.

I tried to re theme the phandroid app. Edited bg and text.entries in loads of em. Installs fine buy force closest.

Had to.request help on xda but not had any get
Click to expand...

Use Apk manager..
At the last step, choose the option to recompile as a system app. Then choose to retain everything except classes.dex. That will solve the force closes. The xml should sometimes be left out too.(If the xml is not depended upon. Depends on the app)

There's a new tool called Apkedit which might be useful if all you need is to edit the values

Aside: Had a USB brick today.. :)
 
Thanks for the advice but I've spent far too long on it now... as much as I.want everything black with grey text to save battery, I can't go through it again.
 
As a windows RAD developer I'm interesting in looking into the finer arts of Android soon.

Looked into iPhone an started to build a few apps, just couldn't get on with Apples TOC's etc
 
droidzone said:
Use Apk manager..
At the last step, choose the option to recompile as a system app. Then choose to retain everything except classes.dex. That will solve the force closes. The xml should sometimes be left out too.(If the xml is not depended upon. Depends on the app)

There's a new tool called Apkedit which might be useful if all you need is to edit the values

Aside: Had a USB brick today.. :)
Click to expand...


Ah no, it doesn't show up in the string section, so I'd have to browse via "other content" and edit the xml's again manually, which doesn't help unfortunately.
 
danfrance said:
Ah no, it doesn't show up in the string section, so I'd have to browse via "other content" and edit the xml's again manually, which doesn't help unfortunately.
Click to expand...

Well then, look at the smalis from apk manager. Only while recompiling, do what I suggested..It worked for some system apps that I was trying to patch..They would fc on recompile..then just tried setting that option..and Voila..a patch was born
 
droidzone said:
Well then, look at the smalis from apk manager. Only while recompiling, do what I suggested..It worked for some system apps that I was trying to patch..They would fc on recompile..then just tried setting that option..and Voila..a patch was born
Click to expand...


Ill try. thing is, if I recompile with the changed images, it fails error.

So I have to decompile, amend xml and then recompile. Then extract, amend images, zip and sign.
 
danfrance said:
Ill try. thing is, if I recompile with the changed images, it fails error.

So I have to decompile, amend xml and then recompile. Then extract, amend images, zip and sign.
Click to expand...

Yes, apkmanager automates that.

But make sure that you recompile only those files you've patched. The other files should be added to the zip(apk) as such. If you choose apkmanager to recompile, it will ask you what you dont want to modify
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom