Since the carousel uses apk icons that are so large (256x256 i think) and sideloaded apps show up blurry, i have tried decompiling an apk, switching out the png icon, recompliling it then resigning it but for some reason it never works on the device. Either it won't install, or the app will install but will then force close (the icon does show up high-res though!).
I've tried using Formatter, APK Edit, and the APK Multi-Tool Script, but none of them have allowed me to create an APK that will actually run correctly on the KF.
Do you guys have any suggestions on what am I doing wrong? Part of me thinks that it has to do with replacing a low-res icon (72x72 or something like that) with a high res one (256x256) but I'm not sure and am kinda a n00b at altering APKs...
Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
The high res icons are loaded dynamically from amazon. That's why they seem to take some time to appear on that blasted stock carousel. If you aren't connected to wifi they show up as blank. AFAIK you cannot add them yourself.
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I was talking about sideloaded apps NOT acquired from the Amazon Appstore
APK editor
Did you try APK Icon Editor?
Also, the APK itself can be sort of protected, but most of side-loaded repacked APKs should work.
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Hey all, just got my Incredible, and I really wish this beauty had the Droid's Neural Network wallpaper. Does anyone know of a a way to get it? The NexusMod wallpaper has the Droid background but it also has the Nexus-size pulses which makes it look horribly wrong and cheap. I loved the smaller pulses from my Droid... surely some of you miss it too, so let's fix it!!!
...any ideas?
Look on the market for nexus mod live wallpaper, the free version works great. The paid version lets you set custom colors.
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Like I already said, the NexusMod LWP has the Nexus-sized pulses, which were larger and more square then the ones for the Droid. I prefer the Droids. Any other ideas?
I think its available on the one of the Kaiser Roms on this forum. You can try to remove it from there or possibly request the APK from a motorola droid forum somewhere else.
Well, that might work, I have plenty of access to Droid roms and such, but I would need root in order to install a new Live Wallpapers.apk into the system directory, otherwise the install will fail. If anyone has the know how to create a LWP, we could do it that way...
You could make a custom apk ya....but I don't see it happening...especially for free. Ever.
Good luck though.
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Well, that might work, I have plenty of access to Droid roms and such, but I would need root in order to install a new Live Wallpapers.apk into the system directory, otherwise the install will fail. If anyone has the know how to create a LWP, we could do it that way...
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I've installed live wallpaper apk's to my sd and installed them without root and they work and show up in the live wallpapers menu also.
It's not that they're live wallpaper .apks, it that they're THE LiveWallpapers.apk that makes them the problem. Livewallpapers.apk exists in the /system/app/ directory as a system file, so attempting to install it will try and overwrite the existing one, which the phone won't allow.
Ok.. I use the Google+ app on my phone. But because it its not a web app, if I ever am on this network and I see some image that someone has posted which I like, many times I would love to be able to save to my phone. But because this an app, and not built for a browser, I can't just long-press and save it.
And obviously google has not as of yet built this functionality into this app in any other way.
BUT....after much poking and prodding in and to the google+ app, I notice that when you are viewing an image, you CAN set it as your desktop wallpaper!
But, once I set it as my wallpaper, I cannot find it! Using root explorer, I have searched for every .jpg, jpeg, .png, and .bmp and no dice. I have tried opening up quickpic (the free market app), and hit ”display hidden images” (which hides icons and other stuff you wouldn't want to see anyway), and look through EVERYTHING that is revealed...but still I cannot find it. Its on my desktop as the wallpaper, so it must be on the phone.
It is driving me crazy. Does anyone have any clue where a file like this might be stored? I imagine a wallpaper image could be anywhere in the sys partition or the sdcard, but it wouldn't need to be convertthan those above extensions I search on, right? So WTF? Where could it be?
Any help is greatly appreciated!
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Could anyone point me to the directory on the Kindle Fire where the icons for the apps are stored, sideloaded apps have blurry icons, for example Worms, has a blurry icon, and I was wondering if I could replace it with this one: https://lh5.ggpht.com/SVGmuCTroV4NwMeZfsX-DfdhzTVdwp9PGGi3BHTrbEV04rDJLMBykdyRdNEo3hqXCA=w124
Found it, /data/app then open the apk with an archive viewer then res/drawable/icon.png
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Found it, /data/app then open the apk with an archive viewer then res/drawable/icon.png
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Can you tell me wich viewer you have used for this. And maybe you have a source for some high resolution icons?
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Can you tell me wich viewer you have used for this. And maybe you have a source for some high resolution icons?
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Just use 7-Zip
...mhhh it does´nt work in my case. I will try to change the icon from Real Racing 2 but it doesnt work.
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...mhhh it does´nt work in my case. I will try to change the icon from Real Racing 2 but it doesnt work.
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Double check your compression settings. When replacing files I think it's supposed to be "Store" or "None". If it's anything other than that, I don't think it will work correctly. Someone please correct me if I am wrong.
I can´t find the location of the Icon and the apk file of Real Racing 2, so can somebody give me some hint in this case?
The same with some other Apps, where are the APK Files normaly located after the installation?
Which drawable directory
I'm also experiencing the blurry carousel images from a sideloaded app. But this is an app that I'm writing myself.
In my res/ directory, I have drawable, drawable-hdpi, drawable-mdpi, and drawable-ldpi.
I've tried putting a very high res image in drawable and drawable-hdpi for the carousel image, but I'm still getting a very blown up, really low res image being used on the Fire.
<application android:label="@string/app_name"
android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher">
is what I'm using to specify...
Which image do I need to actually be making hi res to make this work?
Thanks!
Ninjamorph Pro (paid app on market by Stericson) is an awesome utility to use for this type of thing. You can unpack, modify (including image replacement), and repack any system or market apk from your device without the need for a computer. Works well on my CDMA shooter and KF (cm7). You may recieve an error message saying you have no SD Card when you first run the app. Just run again.
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APK Icon Editor
Check out the free and open-source APK editor: APK Icon Editor.
You can easily change APK icons, particularly for Kindle Fire (there are profiles for these Amazon devices).
Hello All,
I'm quite the noob (see? didn't even use zeroes) and I rooted my Fire using the Kindle Fire Utility. I installed market, did CHMOD and all that to the apk, and installed Market Opener. I can get to the market fine, but most apps I want to download, like the facebook app, or the twitter app, I get "Your device isn't compatible" Anyone have any ideas to remedy this one?
You might be able to fix some of those issues by editing your build.prop to make it look like another device. I believe there is either a utility or tutorial kicking around here somewhere, maybe in the development section?
im not sure theres away around that until someone does a screen density hack, like with the nook color its baked into cm7. eventually it wont be a problem, for now just google apk you want and download it, with my friends i just have a dropbox shared folder and when ever we find an app that we cant acces in the market we just put it in that folder for the rest of us.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1428231
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1416224
I have the same issue with the sideloaded apps that I originally bought on Android Market with my phone. I don't want to root, but it seems like it would be worthwhile for someone to make a utility that will patch an APK to fool Kindle into thinking the app is made for Kindle.
Of course, then maybe there would be some validation issues between the app and the market.
Thanks for all the suggestions guys, I'll try it out when I get home tonight and let you know if anything suggested works.
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I was able to use Resflux to modify the wallpaper assets. It's not as simple as it seems at first because the "default launcher" is actually 5 different apps on the Fire TV.
If there's interest, I may build a web-based utility that lets you fully theme the Fire TV. Let me know if that's something you'd use.
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I was able to use Resflux to modify the wallpaper assets. It's not as simple as it seems at first because the "default launcher" is actually 5 different apps on the Fire TV.
If there's interest, I may build a web-based utility that lets you fully theme the Fire TV. Let me know if that's something you'd use.
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Absolutely.
Absolutely
So I have a Q. From my understanding, the app will list all drawable resources within any app you want to target. I am wondering if you can use this to change the icons (the preview and thumbnail images) of any app on the "Recents" tab without changing the images at source (meaning, in the ".imagecache" folder for that app). So, I mapped the resources of an app (MCPE Edit) which I use to start ES app. The only thing visible in the "Drawing" tab is one image for MCPE (property called "ic_launcher"). If I replace this png with my own along with appropriate ini file, will that replace both the preview & thumbnail images automatically? If possible, this might a better way to do image replacements rather than replacing original app images.
If someone has attempted this and familiar with this process, are there any general rule of thumb (property wise in the "Drawing" class) for FTV home screen image replacements for an application?
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I was able to use Resflux to modify the wallpaper assets. It's not as simple as it seems at first because the "default launcher" is actually 5 different apps on the Fire TV.
If there's interest, I may build a web-based utility that lets you fully theme the Fire TV. Let me know if that's something you'd use.
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worked great. First try I had the wrong version of Resflux. 1.6 definately didn't work. Thanks again for a great guide. Fire TV looks much better with the new background.