[tutorial]Fix for recompiling framework-res with apktool 4/15/2012

he_stheone64 · May 8, 2012

Since many of you guys might only be in need to decompile all the .9`s in com.htc.resources, there is a workaround that allows you to compile these.

Decompile with:

1. java -jar apktool.jar d --keep-broken-res com.htc.resources.apk com.htc.resources-decoded

This ignores all errors and decompiles the apk incl. all patched pngs.

2. Make your changes and copy the changed png`s in any given decompiled apk (I use calendarprovider.apk for this task, very slim apk, compiles fast...) and compile them

I will look into the current state and see, whether I can brute force the apk to build

fisha21 · May 8, 2012

he_stheone64 said:
Certainly you can address a lot of areas, but I don`t like half baken Themes, so I decided not to publish the Skin and Theme, that is basically ready.

I know exactly what you mean...I had to go from v0.1 to v2.1 before I had something I was happy to release. Still new to m.10 editing, so I'm not entirely sure what aspects of Sense these control. Hopefully you'll manage to find a workaround for the com.htc.resources issue.

Any ideas how the stock skins are able to change the lockring, but custom skins cannot?

Edit: you posted your workaround while I was typing this...fast work! I will try that out a bit later and let you know how it works. To be honest, I'm prob more keen to get at the xmls in there. Have managed to sort most of the .9.pngs by making the custom skin....a trick I learnt from you, by the way, so thanks for that

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he_stheone64 · May 8, 2012

It`s not only the lockring, same issue with Rosie dock...

You will also have all xml`s decompiled with this workaround, but now compiling them successfully will be a bigger task. In any case now you have a base to start fixing issues, which is more likely then staring at a base of empty folders

chrisch1974 · May 8, 2012

he_stheone64 said:
It`s not only the lockring, same issue with Rosie dock...

You will also have all xml`s decompiled with this workaround, but now compiling them successfully will be a bigger task. In any case now you have a base to start fixing issues, which is more likely then staring at a base of empty folders

For fixing the recompiling you first need to fix the *ERR* folders and get their correct names. Or you are maybe going to loose the correct dimension values for your resolution.

he_stheone64 · May 8, 2012

Thx chrisch - I certainly did that already and dimens values are just fine in the correct value folders. Can someone upload framework-res.apk from One X ROM? - Edit: got it already...

In any case I can only spend a very limited amount of time on this project (since I use a One S), but using this base I`m sure you have enough good guys here in One X forum to go fo it.

Scabes24 · May 8, 2012

fisha21 said:
I know exactly what you mean...I had to go from v0.1 to v2.1 before I had something I was happy to release. Still new to m.10 editing, so I'm not entirely sure what aspects of Sense these control. Hopefully you'll manage to find a workaround for the com.htc.resources issue.

Any ideas how the stock skins are able to change the lockring, but custom skins cannot?

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Some of the images & colors used for the stock skin.apks are in the m10 files in fusion.apk.

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he_stheone64 · May 8, 2012

chrisch1974 said:
For fixing the recompiling you first need to fix the *ERR* folders and get their correct names. Or you are maybe going to loose the correct dimension values for your resolution.

chrisch - do you have a clue about the correct names needed for the ERR folders? I was able to track down all errors, but without the correct folder names, these will surely not compile properly.

chrisch1974 · May 8, 2012

he_stheone64 said:
chrisch - do you have a clue about the correct names needed for the ERR folders? I was able to track down all errors, but without the correct folder names, these will surely not compile properly.

I'm not sure atm. I was comparing it with a Sense 3.5 GB com.htc.resources and there are some folders missing now like values-w1dp-hdpi, values-w2dp-hdpi, values-w4dp-hdpi and values-w5dp-hdpi. But really not sure which ones are missing too.

I'm also trying to catch them with aapt atm. But looks like a pain.

For the moment you could try to delete the *ERR* folders and try to fix the rest to rebuild it. It will result in a not 100% correct com.htc.resources but it will maybe help until we can fix the rest.

he_stheone64 · May 8, 2012

I did that already (that was my first "dirty" attack

), but then there are multiple errors about missing resources. Everything else is fixed, but renaming these folders is a pain.

fisha21 · May 8, 2012

he_stheone64 said:
It`s not only the lockring, same issue with Rosie dock...

You will also have all xml`s decompiled with this workaround, but now compiling them successfully will be a bigger task. In any case now you have a base to start fixing issues, which is more likely then staring at a base of empty folders

Thanks for spending time on this, considering you don't even have a One X!

Just to confirm, the above approach works for .pngs and .9.pngs, thanks!

Now just trying to work out how to edit colors.xml. Since its in one of the hidden xml folders, I can't just drag and drop a recompiled edited version. I know resources .arsc contains the compiled xmls - is there any way to copy the info from the recompiled resources.arsc into the stock com.htc.resources.apk?

fernando sor · May 8, 2012

Just a reminder the apktool in the op is has the updated smali baksmali properties to decompile systemui. Just as instructed in the op make sure your resources are installed in apktool

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he_stheone64 · May 9, 2012

fisha21 said:
Thanks for spending time on this, considering you don't even have a One X!

Just to confirm, the above approach works for .pngs and .9.pngs, thanks!

Now just trying to work out how to edit colors.xml. Since its in one of the hidden xml folders, I can't just drag and drop a recompiled edited version. I know resources .arsc contains the compiled xmls - is there any way to copy the info from the recompiled resources.arsc into the stock com.htc.resources.apk?

That`s not possible, you need to fix the ERR folders first to compile resources.arsc

Anyway - I didn`t want to "highjack" this thread, so back to One S business

@ fernando - any positive results with the new merged apktool version (also on framework)?

fernando sor · May 9, 2012

he_stheone64 said:
That`s not possible, you need to fix the ERR folders first to compile resources.arsc

Anyway - I didn`t want to "highjack" this thread, so back to One S business

@ fernando - any positive results with the new merged apktool version (also on framework)?

Well I was able to decompile 4.0 sense com.htc.resources and I had not been able to do that with my apktool so huge thanks there. I haven't tried it on framework-res yet but i will today.

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fernando sor · May 13, 2012

he_stheone64 said:
That`s not possible, you need to fix the ERR folders first to compile resources.arsc

Anyway - I didn`t want to "highjack" this thread, so back to One S business

@ fernando - any positive results with the new merged apktool version (also on framework)?

the framework-res compiled with the same errors minus th plurals errors.

Rainbowbright081 · May 18, 2012

Fern do you know what xml file I would need to change to fix the text color and size on my widgets?

The red text, supposed to be white, and smaller... I have looked and looked to no avail... Google not my friend so much right now....

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fernando sor · May 18, 2012

Rainbowbright081 said:
Fern do you know what xml file I would need to change to fix the text color and size on my widgets?
View attachment 1068895

The red text, supposed to be white, and smaller... I have looked and looked to no avail... Google not my friend so much right now....

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Thanks for the donation bro.
I don't work with widgets much but my guess is if you can't find it some text is in m10 files. Hit the link in my sig. Those guys do a lot of widget work

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RegnierD · May 27, 2012

Heya Fern! I haven't seen you since the OG DInc! (Back before I even knew what apktool was, lol!)

I've got some issues recompiling the SystemUI.apk from the Evo LTE, and I was wondering if you could provide a little guidance. I've used the resources from your OP, and got these errors when trying to build. (Ubuntu 12.04)

Code:

toddrick@Ubi:~/sdk/apktool$ ./apktool b SystemUI
I: Checking whether sources has changed...
I: Smaling...
I: Checking whether resources has changed...
I: Building resources...
Exception in thread "main" brut.androlib.AndrolibException: brut.common.BrutException: could not exec command: [aapt, p, -F, /tmp/APKTOOL6421459638993419441.tmp, -I, /home/toddrick/apktool/framework/1.apk, -I, /home/toddrick/apktool/framework/2.apk, -S, /home/toddrick/sdk/apktool/SystemUI/res, -M, /home/toddrick/sdk/apktool/SystemUI/AndroidManifest.xml]
	at brut.androlib.res.AndrolibResources.aaptPackage(AndrolibResources.java:193)
	at brut.androlib.Androlib.buildResourcesFull(Androlib.java:301)
	at brut.androlib.Androlib.buildResources(Androlib.java:248)
	at brut.androlib.Androlib.build(Androlib.java:171)
	at brut.androlib.Androlib.build(Androlib.java:154)
	at brut.apktool.Main.cmdBuild(Main.java:182)
	at brut.apktool.Main.main(Main.java:67)
Caused by: brut.common.BrutException: could not exec command: [aapt, p, -F, /tmp/APKTOOL6421459638993419441.tmp, -I, /home/toddrick/apktool/framework/1.apk, -I, /home/toddrick/apktool/framework/2.apk, -S, /home/toddrick/sdk/apktool/SystemUI/res, -M, /home/toddrick/sdk/apktool/SystemUI/AndroidManifest.xml]
	at brut.util.OS.exec(OS.java:87)
	at brut.androlib.res.AndrolibResources.aaptPackage(AndrolibResources.java:191)
	... 6 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "aapt": java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory
	at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:475)
	at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:610)
	at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:483)
	at brut.util.OS.exec(OS.java:78)
	... 7 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory
	at java.lang.UNIXProcess.<init>(UNIXProcess.java:164)
	at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(ProcessImpl.java:81)
	at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:468)
	... 10 more

Any suggestions? I'm trying to get rid of the lone menu software key for good, and change the value under home key for multi-press or whatever it's called from false to true, so that long-press home works for recent apps again until I finally decide where I want that to be mapped.

fernando sor · May 28, 2012

Hey regnier what's up ?
I would install resources from the evo rom and also did it decompile ok with no errors?

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RegnierD · May 28, 2012

fernando sor said:
Hey regnier what's up ?
I would install resources from the evo rom and also did it decompile ok with no errors?

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Yup! I did:

Code:

apktool if (dir to SystemUI)
apktool if (dir to framework-res.apk)
apktool if (dir to com.htc.resources.apk)
apktool if (dir framework-htc-res.apk) (just in case)

Everything decompiled fine, giving the usual flag errors. I'm giving it a shot on Win7, because it looked like my Ubu terminal was rejecting some commands from apktool (I think because they didn't have ./ in front of the commands).

Edit: It was a no-go. I got apktool to build the apk after I specified a directory, but I had no statusbar after I compiled and pushed.

Is there a step I'm missing after I make the necessary edits to the xml file I'm after?

Code:

apktool d (dir to SystemUI)

(my edit to the navbar.xml)

apktool b SystemUI (dir to build)

If you have a spot of time, hit me up on G-Talk.

regnierdehrvand

fernando sor · May 28, 2012

RegnierD said:
Yup! I did:

Code:

apktool if (dir to SystemUI) apktool if (dir to framework-res.apk) apktool if (dir to com.htc.resources.apk) apktool if (dir framework-htc-res.apk) (just in case)

Everything decompiled fine, giving the usual flag errors. I'm giving it a shot on Win7, because it looked like my Ubu terminal was rejecting some commands from apktool (I think because they didn't have ./ in front of the commands).

Edit: It was a no-go. I got apktool to build the apk after I specified a directory, but I had no statusbar after I compiled and pushed.

Is there a step I'm missing after I make the necessary edits to the xml file I'm after?

Code:

apktool d (dir to SystemUI) (my edit to the navbar.xml) apktool b SystemUI (dir to build)

If you have a spot of time, hit me up on G-Talk.

regnierdehrvand

Post your 1 and 2.apk (resource's) and your systemui. Let me rule a few things out first

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