[UTILITY] Android Utility - [apktool|dex2jar|smali|more][Mac & Linux][Feb13, 2012]

CleveRuse · Aug 11, 2011

I usually don't have a problem with patches while changing hues as long as I decompile first, obviously. If I'm also changing brightness, or just to be safe, I'll select the image with select tool, so that the patches (border) is excluded. Also, grabbing specific colors works ....but takes long to open option in GIMP.

I'm editing all highlights and buttons to be smoother (removing creases) by selecting inner area, blurring, then applying a gradient effect so it appears rounded slightly (I especially hate when the highlight is creased and button is not) .....I need the shading to expand smoothly, so I need to use continuous lines for atleast the right side.

Note: I have found that some .9s w/ double dotted or lined sides do recompile correctly and have also found that for some .9s w/ images inside them, one dot on each side of 3 corners is the only thing that works so that the area expands but not the image inside (especially small perfectly round buttons) I'd love to know why HTC can do this and we can't

tommytomatoe · Aug 11, 2011

fowenati said:
Yep, btw have any Idea which XML decides the color of the text of the menu items (i.e. when you press the menu button the icons have text and their color), I changed the background of the menu to black and the text is black too, I'm pretty sure its in framework or systemUI, but I can't find it.

I don't remember who I was helping but this mod is intensive. It involves framework.jar and a lot of other smali. To be honest I havent ddone it for sense 2.1++ so I don't know. The smalis are much more intricate in the later sense roms. Damn htc. Lol. It is a hard mod to do. But if you know how to do it then I wish you the best!

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tommytomatoe · Aug 11, 2011

CleveRuse said:
I usually don't have a problem with patches while changing hues as long as I decompile first, obviously. If I'm also changing brightness, or just to be safe, I'll select the image with select tool, so that the patches (border) is excluded. Also, grabbing specific colors works ....but takes long to open option in GIMP.

I'm editing all highlights and buttons to be smoother (removing creases) by selecting inner area, blurring, then applying a gradient effect so it appears rounded slightly (I especially hate when the highlight is creased and button is not) .....I need the shading to expand smoothly, so I need to use continuous lines for atleast the right side.

Note: I have found that some .9s w/ double dotted or lined sides do recompile correctly and have also found that for some .9s w/ images inside them, one dot on each side of 3 corners is the only thing that works so that the area expands but not the image inside (especially small perfectly round buttons) I'd love to know why HTC can do this and we can't

Interesting find man! Well here is the skinny (I think). As far as we know HTC has their own compilers for their sense apps. They have written proprietary methods to make apps that are slightly different than the basic AOSP methods. I think I read that somewhere (posted on the apktool thread). That's why certain apps (HTC_ime) are a super pain.

This isn't an official statement, just something I read a long time ago.

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fowenati · Aug 11, 2011

tommytomatoe said:
I don't remember who I was helping but this mod is intensive. It involves framework.jar and a lot of other smali. To be honest I havent ddone it for sense 2.1++ so I don't know. The smalis are much more intricate in the later sense roms. Damn htc. Lol. It is a hard mod to do. But if you know how to do it then I wish you the best!

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Agh I've been trying to do this for the past 3 days straight, so tiring. I was hoping it would be as easy as changing a single XML value

CleveRuse · Aug 11, 2011

tommytomatoe said:
Interesting find man! Well here is the skinny (I think). As far as we know HTC has their own compilers for their sense apps. They have written proprietary methods to make apps that are slightly different than the basic AOSP methods. I think I read that somewhere (posted on the apktool thread). That's why certain apps (HTC_ime) are a super pain.

This isn't an official statement, just something I read a long time ago.

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Well that's cool .....for them! LOL, Thnx man!

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tommytomatoe · Aug 11, 2011

Announcement.

Coming soon to android-utility

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fowenati · Aug 12, 2011

tommytomatoe said:
Announcement.

Coming soon to android-utility

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That's AWESOME considering I'm helping dev/theme SupraROM for the E3D! Do you happen to have a 3VO tommy? *wishfull thinking*

tommytomatoe · Aug 12, 2011

fowenati said:
That's AWESOME considering I'm helping dev/theme SupraROM for the E3D! Do you happen to have a 3VO tommy? *wishfull thinking*

Unfortunately I am stuck on an unrooted evo og. Would be cool though.

Have fun with supra rom

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fowenati · Aug 12, 2011

tommytomatoe said:
Unfortunately I am stuck on an unrooted evo og. Would be cool though.

Have fun with supra rom

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why unrooted?

tommytomatoe · Aug 12, 2011

fowenati said:
why unrooted?

I had to get it fixed so I unrooted and s on. And that latest ota has no root method and being s on I can't roll back with the newest hboot 2.16. Its okay. It have me time from mods to write android-utility. And plus I discovered new things like renaming packages and Modding the sense UI while unrooted.

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fowenati · Aug 12, 2011

tommytomatoe said:
I had to get it fixed so I unrooted and s on. And that latest ota has no root method and being s on I can't roll back with the newest hboot 2.16. Its okay. It have me time from mods to write android-utility. And plus I discovered new things like renaming packages and Modding the sense UI while unrooted.

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Ahah well one closed door opens another, does AU support decompiling of Jar files? I want to edit services.jar to remove USB debuging and Allow CRTanims but the dex file comes out to a bunch of gibberish, can AU decompile/recompile this?

tommytomatoe · Aug 12, 2011

fowenati said:
Ahah well one closed door opens another, does AU support decompiling of Jar files? I want to edit services.jar to remove USB debuging and Allow CRTanims but the dex file comes out to a bunch of gibberish, can AU decompile/recompile this?

Au cannot do jars yet. V1.0.2 will.

But...by installing au you automatically get baksmali and smali

Type this for options.

java -jar /usr/local/bin/baksmali.jar

And

java -Xmx512M -jar /usr/local/bin/smali.jar

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fowenati · Aug 13, 2011

tommytomatoe said:
Au cannot do jars yet. V1.0.2 will.

But...by installing au you automatically get baksmali and smali

Type this for options.

java -jar /usr/local/bin/baksmali.jar

And

java -Xmx512M -jar /usr/local/bin/smali.jar

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so baksmali and smali can do jars? awesome! I just write this into terminal right?

tommytomatoe · Aug 13, 2011

fowenati said:
so baksmali and smali can do jars? awesome! I just write this into terminal right?

Yeah! But typing those will just give you the instructions, kind of like just typing "apktool".

Which rom are you Modding? Odex or deodex?

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fowenati · Aug 13, 2011

tommytomatoe said:
Yeah! But typing those will just give you the instructions, kind of like just typing "apktool".

Which rom are you Modding? Odex or deodex?

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Odexed, Im simply trying to merge two mods I found(one for removing USB Debugging Icon) and the Other for CRT Animations.

tommytomatoe · Aug 13, 2011

fowenati said:
Odexed, Im simply trying to merge two mods I found(one for removing USB Debugging Icon) and the Other for CRT Animations.

I see. With odex you need tto deodex the services.odex first before you can mod it.

java -jar /usr/local/bin/baksmali.jar -d framework-folder -x services.odex -o out-folder

In the above, the "framework-folder" refers to all framework files. Just make a copy of system/framework on your working folder (adb pull system/framework /PATH/TO/framework-folder)

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fowenati · Aug 13, 2011

tommytomatoe said:
I see. With odex you need tto deodex the services.odex first before you can mod it.

java -jar /usr/local/bin/baksmali.jar -d framework-folder -x services.odex -o out-folder

In the above, the "framework-folder" refers to all framework files. Just make a copy of system/framework on your working folder (adb pull system/framework /PATH/TO/framework-folder)

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Hmm, I'll try that in my next build, right now I'm just gonna choose one of them to use, since I already have a setup modded services for the CRT Anims.

fowenati · Aug 14, 2011

For some reason I can't decompile Framework-Res.apk, I get a bunch of errors, although it decodes the XML i wanted to edit, then when I try to recompile it it doesnt work. Would sticking the XML in another decompiled APK, recompiling then extracting the compiled XML and saving it into framework-res (compiled) using better zip work?

tommytomatoe · Aug 14, 2011

fowenati said:
For some reason I can't decompile Framework-Res.apk, I get a bunch of errors, although it decodes the XML i wanted to edit, then when I try to recompile it it doesnt work. Would sticking the XML in another decompiled APK, recompiling then extracting the compiled XML and saving it into framework-res (compiled) using better zip work?

Please post the error log in pastebin.com.

And yes that method.generally works

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CleveRuse · Aug 15, 2011

Alright tommy, I was trying to hold off on this .....u know wut, lemme read back some n make sure this post is necessary. Basically my unthemed (unthemed by me,anyway) SystemUI.apk won't recompile properly. I'm not getting any errors (not up or down) but my statusbar keeps disappearing... Hold on..........

Ok, so I need help, lol. I'm on SynergyROM for the bolt. Im trying to edit SystemUI.apk. I've successfully modded this thing a bunch of times already but am now having an impossible time. I'm simply pulling the apk from the ROM, decompiling, then recompiling. I've got both frameworks installed and I'm using the 'mod-here-multi' folder. (option 1, 3, n 5 ....well actually I don't choose 1 everytime cuz I don't see why I have to. It usually works w/out)

(Even if I install framework everytime, it doesn't matter, the stat bar still disappears)

I'm not getting any errors when I decompile cept for 'statusbar_close_on.9.png'. It gets renamed then I recompile without errors. (I've also tried fixing the patch for that .9 ....doesn't matter)

I've tried different apktool versions with no avail also. I just can't figure this thing out. I'm on Sense 3.0 (gb 2.3.4 ...I think)

Here is the SysUI.apk I'm using just invade anyone wants to try it out:

http://db.tt/brRVbLA

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