[APP] Facebook Icon Remover (ROOT) - Remove the new Camera and Messenger icons

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Hello everybody I was annoyed by the new camera and messenger icons that came with the latest Facebook update so I wrote Facebook Icon Remover to easily disable them. This application requires root. I've had reports that when disabling/enabling the icons the main Facebook icon may disappear from your home screen (but not your application drawer) but you can simply add it back. Let me know if you have any issues using this application.

EDIT: Just a heads up that I will no longer be supporting Facebook Icon Remover. If you wish to hide icons for any applications you should checkout my latest app CCSWE App Manager. More info here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1639707

Originally Posted by machx0r

NOTE: You shouldn't need this application if you are running ICS as it already provides a mechanism to hide applications in the app drawer.

Turns out it's very simple for manufactures to disable this option in the stock ICS settings app and from what I've seen it looks like most of them do. The latest version 1.0.4 has been updated to support ICS devices.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Unintentionally sent from my Nexus One using xda Premium app.

Thank you very much, this is very useful.

Yeah! Thanks!

Works perfectly! AND! Keeps the icons off even after removing the app. Nice.

Originally Posted by machx0r

Turns out it's very simple for manufactures to disable this option in the stock ICS settings app and from what I've seen it looks like most of them do. The latest version 1.0.4 has been updated to support ICS devices.

Out of curiosity: in Java, how do you disable apps for ICS? Always met by segmentation faults when using the PackageManager.

Originally Posted by sibbor

Out of curiosity: in Java, how do you disable apps for ICS? Always met by segmentation faults when using the PackageManager.

I'm launching a process to start su and executing the pm command to disable components. There seems to be an issue in ICS with the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable not getting set in a shell launched by su. See this thread for more details:

https://github.com/ChainsDD/su-binary/issues/6

Originally Posted by machx0r

I'm launching a process to start su and executing the pm command to disable components. There seems to be an issue in ICS with the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable not getting set in a shell launched by su. See this thread for more details:

https://github.com/ChainsDD/su-binary/issues/6

so u simply use

pm disable com.facebook.katana

or some additional commands are needed?

Originally Posted by mike1986.

so u simply use

pm disable com.facebook.katana

or some additional commands are needed?

That would disable the entire Facebook application and all it's components. If you want to disable a specific component you need to provide the class also. From the pm help:


pm enable PACKAGE_OR_COMPONENT
pm disable PACKAGE_OR_COMPONENT

And...

The enable and disable commands change the enabled state of a given package or component (written as "package/class").