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I've been trying to change the background of some apps to transparent, everything that I've read makes it sound as if all I have to do is add one line to the manifest and bam it's done, but I can't get it to work, is it realy just as easy as editing one line or do I need to do more, any advice or links on how to would be appreciated...

You shouldn't have to edit any xml files to change backgrounds. Simply use 7-zip to open the archive and navigate to your .png background file (usually in the /res/drawable_hdpi folder) edit it with your program of choice, (gimp, photoshop, etc) then put your modified png back in the original folder before pushing to your device.

But if there is no background .PNG file then the XML would be the place to go correct

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yes, if there is no png, then edit the xml value #ff0000 to #000000

just in the res/styles xml, I've tried that and when I try to recompile I get an error message, I'm using apk manager 4.9...

did you sign it first?

what I do is decompile, edit the xml file, recompile and then sign, but I can't recomplie...

lol, misread that last one, sorry. Which error are you getting?

Would you be able to troubleshoot this in IRC?

What I mean is that Im trying to the add the transpancy line because there isn't a color for the background, I'm wanting to make the app transparent, and the error in the log says unknown or can't be found

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Originally Posted by adude247

What I mean is that Im trying to the add the transpancy line because there isn't a color for the background, I'm wanting to make the app transparent, and the error in the log says unknown or can't be found

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That means your apk has dependencies that it can't find when recompiling. If you know which dependency it is, you can choose option 10 when decompiling and follow the prompts. If the original compiler didn't recompile the resources.arsc file as well, i believe you're hosed, since you can't find the dependency.