[HOW TO] Add more wallpapers to TwWallpaperChooser

[tarobun]

Although there are 26 wallpapers in TwWallpaperChooser.apk, only 5 are selectable. To add the missing wallpapers (or more) to the TwWallpaperChooser app, do the following:

1) Decompile TwWallpaperChooser.apk (apktool d TwWallpaperChooser.apk)
2) Make sure there are no errors, if so grab another copy of TwWallpaperChooser.apk
3) Edit the file res/values-hdpi/arrays.xml
4) Add wallpapers as new items (images should be in res/drawable-hdpi).
eg.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <string-array name="wallpapers">
        <item>wallpaper_bliss</item>
        <item>wallpaper_brown</item>
        <item>wallpaper_cafe</item>
        <item>wallpaper_canyon</item>
        <item>wallpaper_cat2</item>
        <item>wallpaper_circle</item>
        <item>wallpaper_desert</item>
        <item>wallpaper_field</item>
        <item>wallpaper_flower</item>
        <item>wallpaper_glass</item>
        <item>wallpaper_grass</item>
        <item>wallpaper_grass_new</item>
        <item>wallpaper_light</item>
        <item>wallpaper_motion</item>
        <item>wallpaper_nexuswallpaper1</item>
        <item>wallpaper_phasebeam</item>
        <item>wallpaper_rock</item>
        <item>wallpaper_secdesert</item>
        <item>wallpaper_speedlight</item>
        <item>wallpaper_secdesert</item>
        <item>wallpaper_stars</item>
        <item>wallpaper_street</item>
        <item>wallpaper_street_lights</item>
        <item>wallpaper_tree</item>
        <item>wallpaper_venezia</item>
        <item>wallpaper_zanzibar</item>
    </string-array>
</resources>

5) Recompile TwWallpaperChooser.apk (apktool b TwWallpaperChooser TwWallpaperChooserNew.apk)
6) Extract new resources.arsc file from TwWallpaperChooserNew.apk (unzip TwWallpaperChooserNew.apk resources.arsc)
7) Rename TwWallpaperChooser.apk to TwWallpaperChooser.zip
8) Add new resources.arsc file to TwWallpaperChooser.zip (zip TwWallpaperChooser.zip resources.arsc)
9) Rename TwWallpaperChooser.zip to TwWallpaperChooser.apk
10) Put TwWallpaperChooser.apk back on phone.

 

[mattcfk]

works like charm! simple and easy instructions!!!

can i use this method to add in new wallpapers?

 

[Transform]

I have managed to extract the TwWallpaperChooser.apk using Android Commander. I have followed steps 1 and 2 but the directory in step 3 doesn't exist on my phone. Can someone help?

 

[sileshnair]

I have managed to extract the TwWallpaperChooser.apk using Android Commander. I have followed steps 1 and 2 but the directory in step 3 doesn't exist on my phone. Can someone help?

You can see the directory only after decompiling the apk. It is inside resources.arsc in the normal apk.

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[Transform]

Ok so I got as far as step 8 in this guide:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1188389

where I moved the TwWallpaperChooser.apk from my device to the 'place-apk-here-for-modding' folder.

I then completed step 1 of the guide in this thread but I'm not sure where to go next...