So I came across this thread a week or more back and implemented it in my ICS rom, but I wasn't happy with it(various reasons but mostly because it is gesture based). So I abandoned it. Fast forward a couple days, jumping from project to project, idea to idea and I somehow ended up porting the latest ICS version of ShenduOS. Then boom, the settings app was *almost* exactly what I wanted. It featured a more natural swiping from tab to tab, similar to most launchers.
So I stripped the code for the tabs from the shendu settings app, stripped that code of any Shendu specific code and re-coded portions of the smali code so I could add it to the settings app of the ICS rom I use as my daily driver. What I ended up with is what seems to be something thats pretty generic and not rom specific.
So now I share with you what *should* work with any ICS+ rom. This guide will be very similar to the one I linked to above.
THIS SHOULD ALSO WORK ON OTHER DEVICES BUT I CANNOT TEST TO BE SURE
Prerequisites:
-experience decompiling/recompiling apk's with APKTool
-experience signing apks
-experience editing/theming apks
I will not go into any of the above any more then just saying when to preform certain actions......
GUIDE:
1. First you will need to decompile the Settings.apk from your ROM with apktool
2. Download the Settings.zip I attached to this post
3. Unzip the Settings.zip and copy the 'res' and 'smali' folders to your decompiled Settings.apk folder(merge with existing folders of the same names)
4. Open 'res/values/strings.xml' from the decompiled settings apk in your favorite text editor and add the following to the end of the list of strings...
Code:
<string name="personalized_setting">Personal</string>
<string name="device_setting">System</string>
<string name="app_setting">Applications</string>
Code:
<item type="id" name="linearLayout1">false</item>
<item type="id" name="personalized_tab">false</item>
<item type="id" name="device_tab">false</item>
<item type="id" name="app_tab">false</item>
<item type="id" name="cursor">false</item>
<item type="id" name="vPager">false</item>7. Decompile the Newly recompiled APK again, from here on out I will assume your editing this newly recompiled/decompiled version.
8. With this step it is very easy to make a typo, so please make sure you are paying Extra attention to details during this step.
-Open up 'res/values/public.xml' and you will find lines similar to the following.
Code:
<public type="id" name="[COLOR="Red"]vPager[/COLOR]" id="[U]0x7f08022a[/U]" />- Each file name will be followed by a line similar to above, you need to search the smali files for the ID(underlined in the example above)
- Then search the public.xml I told you to open above for the name for each line(red in example above)
- Replace the ID in the smali file with the one you located in the public.xml
Code:
!--MainSettings.smali--!
<public type="id" name="vPager" id="0x7f08022a" />
<public type="id" name="cursor" id="0x7f080229" />
<public type="id" name="app_tab" id="0x7f080168" />
<public type="id" name="device_tab" id="0x7f080228" />
<public type="id" name="personalized_tab" id="0x7f080227" />
<public type="layout" name="mainsetting" id="0x7f040090" />
!--DeviceSettings.smali--!
<public type="xml" name="device_settings_headers" id="0x7f050051" />
!--AppSettings.smali--!
<public type="xml" name="app_settings_headers" id="0x7f050052" />
!--PersonalSettings.smali--!
<public type="xml" name="personal_settings_headers" id="0x7f050053" />-Find a section similar to the below....
Code:
<activity android:label="@string/settings_label_launcher" android:name="Settings" android:taskAffinity="com.android.settings" android:clearTaskOnLaunch="true" android:launchMode="singleTop">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<action android:name="android.settings.SETTINGS" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>Change this section to the below:
Code:
<activity android:label="@string/settings_label_launcher" android:name="Settings">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
Code:
<activity android:name="MainSetting" android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar" android:taskAffinity="com.android.settings" android:launchMode="singleTask">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<action android:name="android.settings.SETTINGS" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
<activity android:label="@string/settings_label_launcher" android:name="PersonalSettings" android:taskAffinity="com.android.settings" android:launchMode="singleTask">
<intent-filter>
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
<activity android:label="@string/settings_label_launcher" android:name="DeviceSettings" android:taskAffinity="com.android.settings" android:launchMode="singleTask">
<intent-filter>
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
<activity android:label="@string/settings_label_launcher" android:name="AppSettings" android:taskAffinity="com.android.settings" android:launchMode="singleTask">
<intent-filter>
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
11. What you have is 3 tabs with no settings. I left this for you to do, as each rom has its own specific settings options. Most ASOP roms store the main page of settings options in the 'res/xml/settings_headers.xml'. Copy/paste/reorganize each of these options into the 'app_settings_headers.xml', 'device_settings_headers.xml' and 'personal_settings_headers.xml' files which are also located in 'res/xml/'.
12. After all is said and done above, you *may* need to edit/theme the 'res/layout/mainsettings.xml' to suit your roms specific look.
NOTE:
If you are attempting this on a Non-ASOP Rom or are having trouble you may need to follow these additional instructions
And to finally end this, here are some screenshots where I added this feature to the settings.apk of our twistedmodICS rom by pwn.
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