just click on the shortcut.
Ive applied new icons I asked, but seems like they have alotta empty space around them and use too much of space in my small statusbar. I was wondering whether I could just crop them and replace in TMA folders keeping the same name. Would that work?
Here's SS to illustrate my problem (I cant see new icons)
Edit. I opened battery icon with image editor, but seems like everything is ok with the image files themselves. So what may cause the problem of huge space around new icons?
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Sure you can! As long as you mention Tickle My Android, you can share it with anyone!
I think it's your xml that's behind this. If you're interested, I can suggest a possible code change.
just click on the shortcut.
Ive applied new icons I asked, but seems like they have alotta empty space around them and use too much of space in my small statusbar. I was wondering whether I could just crop them and replace in TMA folders keeping the same name. Would that work?
Here's SS to illustrate my problem (I cant see new icons)
Yes, it would. Or you could put them in a new folder under a different name. TMA's very flexible. It'll scan your icon folders and use whatever icons are available.
So you could actually just delete all the icons the tool comes with and use your own instead. If you wanted, of course!
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I opened battery icon with image editor, but seems like everything is ok with the image files themselves. So what may cause the problem of huge space around new icons? No icons were moved, centered or else.
BTW!! Check the SS in my earlier post very closely. There is a strange thing, I can see all those icons as if they were doubled (grey color). And those grey icons (battery percentage) looks like in a perfect position, not just messed all over the place. Interesting.. But there is no grey clock (it's like on lockscreen), that's explains why it might seems ok in grey, but its not, there is also spacing problem in grey icons
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Can you share a screenshot of your phone before you change the icons? And did you make any other changes?
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here's SS before. I changed signal and battery icons in SystemUI and framework. No additional changes.
here's SS before. I changed signal and battery icons in SystemUI and framework. No additional changes.
Okay, so it looks like it's something to do with the icons.
Can you do something for me please? Try just replacing one of the icons and see what it does. And then try replacing the icons with a different selection.
That'll help narrow down precisely where the problem is.
I'm about to be away from the house for a few hours but I will take a look at this as soon as I can.
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changed batter icon, here's SS
There is also some space but not that huge.
Could you tell me how to use files I have backuped?
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I've asked a Q and it's in your inbox, please reply me when you have time, thanks!
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changed batter icon, here's SS
There is also some space but not that huge.
Could you tell me how to use files I have backuped?
So that suggests it's something to do with the icon you used. I'll have a look at it when I can, hopefully later today.
Your backup files are all stored in user_files/BACKUP. Just copy the files you want to restore into the _out folder and remove the time and date from the name.
Nope, that's what I was going to suggest!
You didn't need to pm me about this. Just posting here would have been fine.
As for your query, some apps are designed to be hard to modify. It's possible yours is detecting the change in filesize or something. I'd suggest contacting the apps developer directly.
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Hello community,
I have this Tool and it's just awesome ! but I search someone who could help me move the icons :
In left : Signal, wifi, bluetooth, notifications,
In Center : center clock,
In Right : battery with percentage (like on the screen for the battery percentage)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lc2w8i58ug74in3/sqdfgh.PNG
-> like iPhone (not the style icon but just the order).
Can anyone help me? I have skype
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I have this Tool and it's just awesome ! but I search someone who could help me move the icons :
In left : Signal, wifi, bluetooth, notifications,
In Center : center clock,
In Right : battery with percentage (like on the screen for the battery percentage)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lc2w8i58ug74in3/sqdfgh.PNG
-> like iPhone (not the style icon but just the order).
Can anyone help me? I have skype
(Quote me for have a notification email, or send me a message)
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Thank you! :good:
If you want to know about moving parts of your statusbar around, it's worth looking at my tutorial here:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1767593
It's about how to center the clock and can get quite complex. But it will give you enough information to be able to do this.
Oh!! I think developers don't like to release an English version as it's years been passed, that's why I wanted to give it try, anyway thanks for the reply!
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i have trouble changing clock color.
here is my status_bar.xml
when i modify this and add android:textColor="#ff278ab1" /> like from this tutorial,nothing happens!
and when i modify styles.xml like this
i can not re compile!
any help will be appreciated
oh i forgot: i was able to change battery icon.
device:galaxy ace 2
here is my status_bar.xml
and when i modify styles.xml like this
i can not re compile!
any help will be appreciated
oh i forgot: i was able to change battery icon.
device:galaxy ace 2
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i hawe question after fresh reinstal windows 7 what i hawe to instal on pc to this tool work corectly i hawe jawa but ewery time i try mod my system ui apk i want secounds clock i mod and interface fc and main statusbar gone i hawe moded this befor reinstal system on pc and all work great but now i cant do this corectly pleas help sir
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TMA is a quick, powerful and easy-to-use tool that uses a piece of java called "apktool" to decompile and recompile Android app's.
Along with that, Tickle My Android offers the ability to:
- decompile and recompile multiple files in a batch,
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To use Tickle My Android, you will need:
- - a rooted Android phone or tablet with USB Debugging enabled and a custom recovery installed,
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Download the latest version from the link at the top of this post and run it. (Please don't look in the 'Downloads' tab - it's not working right now.) This is a self-extracting archive which, once it's extracted everything, will put on your PC a new folder called "Tickle My Android". This is where the tool runs from.
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Last Updated 2020-03-12191How To De/recompile An App
Decompiling and recompiling an Android app for the first time can seem quite complicated and time-consuming, but it really isn't once you know what you're doing.
First you'll need to choose which WorkArea you want to use. There are eight WorkAreas in total, which means you can easily work on up to eight different rom's or devices without having to reset the tool everytime you want to change from one to the other.
Inside each WorkArea are five folders. The '_in' folder is where files about to be decompiled go, the '_working' folder contains the results of that decompiling and the '_out' folder contains the recompiled files. There's also a "Frameworks" folder, which will contain the framework files you've installed. You can pretty much ignore that last one most of the time.
(When you first use TMA, you'll be in WorkArea 1 by default.)
To decompile an app, you'll first need to put the relevant APK in the "_in" folder. You can either copy this into the folder yourself or you can 'pull' it from your Android device. If you want to pull the file, this next section is for you. If you don't, skip ahead to the one after that.
How To Pull A File
First select the "Pull FileFrom Device" option.
This gives you the option of pulling some of the most commonly modified system apps, or any other file you wish.
Choose which file you want to pull and the tool will try to do that for you. If the pull fails, it could be that you don't have the adb drivers installed on your PC for your particular device, or the file doesn't exist, or any one of a number of things. Have a look in the "history.txt" file that's automatically generated to see what's going on.
That's actually all we need to know about pulling - it's really not that complicated. Once you've pulled all the files you need, you can move on to decompiling them. But you might need to install your frameworks first..
How To Install Framework Files
If you want to modify a system app (like SystemUI.apk or framework.jar) you'll need to install the right framework files. These are files that contain resources that are shared amongst most of the system apps. Those resources need to be made accessible to apktool (the program that does the actual decompiling) or the app won't decompile fully and it won't work.
There are many framework files available. Stock Android only comes with one (so far) and it's called "framework-res.apk". OEM's like to include their own, though, just to make life more interesting. Samsung used to have "twframework-res.apk" in their rom's before replacing it with "samsung-framework-res.apk". Framework files are found in "system/framework" on your devices internal memory and should be an APK file with "res" in the filename. You need to make sure you install every framework file in your rom to ensure a system app decompiles, so make sure they all are put in the "_in" folder.
Select the "Install Framework File" option and choose whether you want to install all the framework files in your WorkArea or some individual ones. You can select up to five individual files to install in one go.
If the tool isn't able to install the files you'll be shown an error, otherwise you'll go back to the install menu. If you've installed all the framework files you need to, go back to the title menu because we're finally ready to do some decompiling!
How To Decompile A File
Select the "Decompile File" option and choose whether you want to decompile all the files in the "_in" folder or individual ones.
Once you've chosen your files, you'll be asked whether you want to decompile with "Standard" or "Advanced" settings. This is new to Version 16 of Tickle My Android. Apktool has a lot of different options when it comes to decompiling and you can now choose which ones you want to use. The standard settings will just make the tool try to decompile the entire file, as it used to in previous versions. The advanced settings let you control the process a little better..
These are the main decompile options available for the latest version of apktool available at time of writing (2.4.0.). Full explanations of each are available on the apktool github here: https://ibotpeaches.github.io/Apktool/documentation/#decode. To give you an idea though, you can use "Don't Decode DEX Files" if you don't want to modify any smali files, which makes the decompile a lot faster!
Choose your options and the tool will try to decompile your file for you. If it succeeds the decompiled files will be in the "_working" folder, if not you'll get an error message. The full details of that error will be in the "history.txt" file.
Once your app is decompiled you will be free to modify it however you like. Change images, alter layouts, add functionality..whatever you want to do. When you're done, you'll need to recompile your app to be able to use it again.
How To Recompile A File
Select the "Recompile File" option and choose whether you want to recompile all the files in the "_working" folder or individual ones.
Once you've chosen your files, you'll again be asked if you want to recompile with standard or advanced settings.
You can find explanations of the first few options on the apktool github again: https://ibotpeaches.github.io/Apktool/documentation/#rebuild. It is very important to know what the options that you've selected but there are two that's worth paying extra attention to..
"Copy Original "AndroidManifest.xml" And "META-INF" Folder" - Modified system apps need to be signed with the same 'key' as the original app, or they won't run. This option ensures that the original key is used on the new app. If you want to change the Manifest file, though, you'll need a different key which involves disabling signature verification. That's a bit more complicated than this tool allows for..
"Use "aapt2" [apktool_2.3.2+]" - More recent apps can be constructed with a newer version of a tool called aapt. If you're trying to modify a file made with the newer version, you'll need to have this option actve for the recompile to work. There's no easy way to tell if this is needed or not so, if you get an error, try again with the option turned off.
(Different versions of apktool will have different options. Selecting an option that isn't available on the version of apktool you're using will cause an error.)
There are also options to sign and zipalign your recompiled apps. Signing uses a generic key and zipaligning can sometimes break V2 signature checks so, if you've no idea what that all means, it's best to leave these options alone until you know you need them.
And TMA has an option to put your recompiled apps into a ZIP file that you can flash in a custom recovery. I'll go into this in more detail in the next post but I always recommend replacing system apps this way. It's much safer than trying to replace them while the phone is running.
Choose your settings and sit back while the tool does its thing.
Once it's finished you'll get a message saying the file recompiled...or one saying it didn't. If it didn't, you can find the full error text in history.txt.
If your file recompiled, you'll find it in the "_out" folder. It's now ready to go back to your phone.
It's up to you how you do that but the route I always recommend above all others is using a flashable ZIP file. Check out the next post if you want to know more!128How To Create A Flashable ZIP File
Once you've got a recompiled app, you need to put back to your phone. If you've modified a system app, I always suggest using a flashable ZIP file in recovery. That way you're replacing part of the system, while the system isn't running. Using a file manager app, or using adb, is asking for trouble. I've broken a tablet that way and nearly a phone as well.
Tickle My Android can create that flashable ZIP for you and it's really easy to do so. You can either tell the tool to do it as soon as the app's recompiled, or use the dedicated option on the title screen.
To start, select the "Create Flashable ZIP File" option from the title screen. You'll then be asked if you want to use files from the "_in" folder or "_out" folder. This can be handy if you want to make a flashable ZIP of the unmodified apps. I normally have at least one of those containing my original SystemUI.apk just in case a mod goes wrong.
Next you'll be asked to choose your files. You can add up to five files to the flashable ZIP. Once you've confirmed which file, or files, you want to use you'll be asked where those files are going in the ZIP.
Make sure your apps go back to the right folder. If you put a modified framework-res.apk in the "system/app/" folder, for instance, those modifications won't be actioned.
Once you've chosen where the files are going, you'll next be asked what filename you want the ZIP file to have. TMA will automatically generate one for you based on the current date and time, but you can have whatever filename you want. Make sure not to use too many special characters or it could confuse the tool and/or the recovery. If you want to use the default filename, just press ENTER.
The tool will now ask you to confirm all the details.
If you're happy, then the ZIP will be made and placed in the same folder as the tool.
Copy this to your phone, flash it in reoovery and enjoy! But always, always, always make sure you have a backup first!!105F.A.Q.
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Q. I can't de/recompile something!
Q. I'm getting a 'Java Not Installed" error...but I do have Java installed!!
28I started this thread on the 3rd of May 2012.
That's 5 years ago.
And that's really shocking. Where have all the years gone??
To mark the occasion, I just wanted to say a big THANK YOU to everybody who's downloaded TMA, helped with debugging and new features, and all the wonderful people who post on here. I know there are other decompiling and deodexing tools out there. Your support means a lot to me, it really does.
TMA is still going. I'm not working on a new version yet, not until Android O means I have to change things yet again, or until I come up with a new feature. But this tool and this thread are still very much live. And everybody who's reading it and this post are automatically the greatest people ever!
