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how i need resize a launcher or other things

kaassaus said:
how i need resize a launcher or other things
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Please use the 'search' tool..
Plus VigiDroid recently typed a guide for resizing .xml's.
A real dev should know what to do instead of opening these useless threads.

You shouldn't be too harsh to him. He was either unsure or confused on what to do.

XDeveloperX said:
You shouldn't be too harsh to him. He was either unsure or confused on what to do.
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Look at the other threads he have opened. The answers to all his questions are just somewhere at XDA (I think he can imagine that) so the next step is using the 'search' tool.
I think everyone can do this.
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Resizing
Here's the link for the thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1296554

mrweqa said:
Here's the link for the thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1296554
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I was traying resize rosie.apk but nothing i was in the values-mdpi file
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kaassaus said:
I was traying resize rosie.apk but nothing i was in the values-mdpi file
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Wait did you even read my guide...? Nothing about values-mdpi... If you read the guide correctly you would learn that to resize you have to edit the values in xml files in /res/layout or /res/layout-mdpi or /res/layout-port or /res/layout-land
And it doesn't just happen all correctly with one change of a file and majority of the time when you change something you notice nothing has changed, this happens to me all the time, it just takes patience to get it right!

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Wait did you even read my guide...? Nothing about values-mdpi... If you read the guide correctly you would learn that to resize you have to edit the values in xml files in /res/layout or /res/layout-mdpi or /res/layout-port or /res/layout-land
And it doesn't just happen all correctly with one change of a file and majority of the time when you change something you notice nothing has changed, this happens to me all the time, it just takes patience to get it right!
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@VigiDroid
Sorry my friend but i must correct you the .xml files that you must edit are not in the res/layout or res/layout-mdpi folder they are indeed in the res/values and res/values-mdpi folders unless i'm mistaken but as i resized your lockscreen for SenseOnFire rom those were the .xml files i edited

stevie67 said:
@VigiDroid
Sorry my friend but i must correct you the .xml files that you must edit are not in the res/layout or res/layout-mdpi folder they are indeed in the res/values and res/values-mdpi folders unless i'm mistaken but as i resized your lockscreen for SenseOnFire rom those were the .xml files i edited
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Are you questioning my experience? haha
Now you see it seems I have overlooked lockscreen (which is why I could not get it to resize) nearly every other app you have to modify the .xml files in the layout folder but as a general rule you should just go and look into every .xml file and try and note if anything might be related to a layout..

if have try apk manager but my java doing weard :S

kaassaus said:
if have try apk manager but my java doing weard :S
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Try apktool, its better IMO, and whats wrong with java?

VigiDroid said:
Try apktool, its better IMO, and whats wrong with java?
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Dont know little bit rear
and does it works on windows because when i open the file in winzip it only show a jar file
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Jellybean Porting Thread

This thread is to assist porting of Android 4.1 (Jellybean) to ICS devices
A good base ROM for porting: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1737849
Ramdisk diff
This is a diff file for the Jellybean ramdisk from ICS. This is from the galaxy nexus and will have to be changed for your specific device. Some notes that are not shown in the diff are that /sbin/adbd and init changed -- These are both binaries so they need to be manually taken from the jb ramdisk.
http://pastebin.com/xwCLRrT0
Files changed in /system/
This is a list of files that have changed in JB... Please check /vendor/{device vendor}/{device name}/ and[/SIZE][/SIZE] /device/{device vendor}/{device name}/ in the CM source to make sure they don't overlap... If any do, just keep your cm9 versions.
/system/app/ - Basically every apk, don't even bother copying individual changed files
/system/bin/
adb.p dumpsys.p mksh.p sdptool.p
applypatch.p fsck_msdos.p mtpd.p sensorservice.p
app_process.p gzip.p ndc.p servicemanager.p
bluetoothd.p hciattach.p netcfg.p service.p
bootanimation.p hostapd.p netd.p setup_fs.p
brcm_patchram_plus.p installd.p pand.p smc_pa_ctrl.p
bugreport.p ip6tables.p ping.p surfaceflinger.p
dalvikvm.p ip.p pppd.p system_server.p
dbus-daemon.p iptables.p racoon.p tc.p
debuggerd.p keystore.p rild.p tf_daemon.p
dexopt.p linker.p run-as.p toolbox.p
dhcpcd.p logcat.p schedtest.p vdc.p
dnsmasq.p logwrapper.p screencap.p vold.p
drmserver.p make_ext4fs.p screenshot.p wpa_supplicant.p
dumpstate.p mediaserver.p sdcard.p
NEW
atrace content e2fsck mdnsd requestsync uiautomator
/system/xbin/
dexdump.p/system/etc/apns-conf.xml.p fallback_fonts.xml.p permissions
audio_effects.conf.p gps.conf.p ppp
dhcpcd media_profiles.xml.p security
event-log-tags.p NOTICE.html.gz.p system_fonts.xml.p
NEW
audio_policy.conf media_codecs.xml security
fallback_fonts-ja.xml preferred-apps
/system/media/ & /system/fonts/ - Just take it all from jb as pretty much none is device specific.
/system/framework/ - Everything

Very cool, and answers a few problems I was having. Great work man, really helpful
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I think I might just start from scratch again and use this to make a new first version.I hope this can help me get a booting version for the Sensation, but I make no promises. What I have so far is just bootlooping. Thanks for your work and the post......

Edited: Nvm I got it. I'm dumb.

T-Macgnolia said:
I think I might just start from scratch again and use this to make a new first version.I hope this can help me get a booting version for the Sensation, but I make no promises. What I have so far is just bootlooping. Thanks for your work and the post......
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Do you have gtalk? I might want some help porting to my device.
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MДЯCЦSДИT said:
Do you have gtalk? I might want some help porting to my device.
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Yeah I got it now lol, my user name is tmacgnolia on gtalk.
Edit: My mistake man it is Tony Roach.

anyone else having pastebin issues? site seems like its down D:

Same here! Lots of answers solved.

Anyone having any luck? Im porting it to the Droid Incredible and im getting the same errors in my logcats no matter what i do.

Albinoman said:
Anyone having any luck? Im porting it to the Droid Incredible and im getting the same errors in my logcats no matter what i do.
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Have you edited the ramdisk?
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MДЯCЦSДИT said:
Have you edited the ramdisk?
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Thats what my friends doing right now.

What exactly do we edit in the ramdisk?
Can somebody explain a bit more?
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medicjunKie said:
What exactly do we edit in the ramdisk?
Can somebody explain a bit more?
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Extract the boot.img using a kitchen on linux
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MДЯCЦSДИT said:
Extract the boot.img using a kitchen on linux
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I hate feeling like a Noob, and Having to ask, but once its extracted, and we have the kernel and the Ramdisk, what do we actually edit?

medicjunKie said:
What exactly do we edit in the ramdisk?
Can somebody explain a bit more?
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budm said:
I hate feeling like a Noob, and Having to ask, but once its extracted, and we have the kernel and the Ramdisk, what do we actually edit?
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The main thing you have to edit is the init.rc, but you may need to edit other things as well. I still have not found the right combinations of edits for my port to boot, Anyway use something like WinMerge to compare the files from the ramdisk of your base ROM with the ramdisk of the SDK. You can also edit the files while you have them in WinMerge.

Thank you so much, I will definitely try using that tool, and that gives me a direction to try towards.
cheers!

Ok guys i feel like im getting closer. The exact error im getting is,
Could not find method com.android.providers.settings.DatabaseHelper.setWriteAheadLoggingEnabled, referenced from method com.android.providers.settings.DatabaseHelper.<init>
Anyone have any ideas? I know that settings is crashing but i don't know what to do about it. Here is the full logcat http://paste.ubuntu.com/1065069/

Is the whole pastebin is to replace everything in init.rc? Or some of it?

DaXmax said:
Is the whole pastebin is to replace everything in init.rc? Or some of it?
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It is a diff
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Albinoman said:
Ok guys i feel like im getting closer. The exact error im getting is,
Could not find method com.android.providers.settings.DatabaseHelper.setWriteAheadLoggingEnabled, referenced from method com.android.providers.settings.DatabaseHelper.<init>
Anyone have any ideas? I know that settings is crashing but i don't know what to do about it. Here is the full logcat http://paste.ubuntu.com/1065069/
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That means that it can not find com.android.providers.settings.DatabaseHelper.setWriteAheadLoggingEnabled that is referenced in the init of the ramdisk. So you need to look at the init of the ramdisk and see where it is looking for that file and then place that file where it is suppose to be.
Also I finally got my port booting but it does not get passed the bootanimation and I got the adb working, yay.

[Q] How to compile github java source?

Hey guys, i downloaded Gallery2.apk Source code from CM github.
How can i compile this myself and make changes to it? I already imported it into my Eclipse environment but it generates a million errors..
Thanks guys.

elesbb said:
Hey guys, i downloaded Gallery2.apk Source code from CM github.
How can i compile this myself and make changes to it? I already imported it into my Eclipse environment but it generates a million errors..
Thanks guys.
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those system apps use lots of hidden API which is not available in android SDK (security reason i guess)..
maybe this blog can help u out http://devmaze.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/using-com-android-internal-part-1-introduction/

Maybe you will need to add some external libraries like the supportv4 library.

dcsms said:
those system apps use lots of hidden API which is not available in android SDK (security reason i guess)..
maybe this blog can help u out http://devmaze.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/using-com-android-internal-part-1-introduction/
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Hmmm thanks for the link. I looked at it real quickly this morning and it may be what I need. once I get home I'll post the errors I'm getting.
But they mostly pertain to that link where some imported things cannot be found.
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elesbb said:
Hmmm thanks for the link. I looked at it real quickly this morning and it may be what I need. once I get home I'll post the errors I'm getting.
But they mostly pertain to that link where some imported things cannot be found.
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u must follow all those 5 step to make all hidden API available in eclipse ... i've try it....
i can compile SystemUI with eclipse throught those guide...

dcsms said:
u must follow all those 5 step to make all hidden API available in eclipse ... i've try it....
i can compile SystemUI with eclipse throught those guide...
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Thanks man!
I was able to use smali to do what I wanted and theo0so was able to help me sign it with CM keys to allow it to run
But there were a lot more things I wanted to mess around with, so when I get a day off I will follow all steps Thanks again!
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Help needed in creating a simple build. prop editor

Hello guys
I was thinking to create a simple build.prop editor. someone can help me where should I start. it's a simple project so I want to work myself to get some experience in android app development. As I know I have to provide root permission in android manifest. Xml but how the activity can read build.prop file
Thank you
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Root commands need to be executed the command line way.
You can get the content of a file using
Code:
cat <filepath>
For executing these commands I recommend using the RootTools library.
First of all get basic Linux command line knowledge.

nikwen said:
Root commands need to be executed the command line way.
You can get the content of a file using
Code:
cat <filepath>
For executing these commands I recommend using the RootTools library.
First of all get basic Linux command line knowledge.
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So it means I should use Ubuntu
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saif kazi said:
So it means I should use Ubuntu
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No, it does not mean that.
If you want to do anything which needs SU permission, you need to do it without the Android API. You run a command on the built-in command line on your phone from your app. Now in Java you are able to read the output of the command and parse it to get the required information.
There is no other way of doing it because Android was not designed to be rooted.

saif kazi said:
Hello guys
I was thinking to create a simple build.prop editor. someone can help me where should I start. it's a simple project so I want to work myself to get some experience in android app development. As I know I have to provide root permission in android manifest. Xml but how the activity can read build.prop file
Thank you
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I used this repo as a base for mine, see if it can be any use to you and try altering it as much as you can so you can see what your able todo
https://github.com/nathanpc/Build.prop-Editor

Nx Biotic said:
I used this repo as a base for mine, see if it can be any use to you and try altering it as much as you can so you can see what your able todo
https://github.com/nathanpc/Build.prop-Editor
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Looks like he has already forked it.
https://github.com/saifkazi/Build.prop-Editor
If you want to release your version, have a look at the original license: https://github.com/nathanpc/Build.prop-Editor/blob/master/LICENSE

Nx Biotic said:
I used this repo as a base for mine, see if it can be any use to you and try altering it as much as you can so you can see what your able todo
https://github.com/nathanpc/Build.prop-Editor
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Haha, I was about to suggest my project when I saw the Google Alerts email, but looks like you already did.
Thanks very much!

nathanpc said:
Haha, I was about to suggest my project when I saw the Google Alerts email, but looks like you already did.
Thanks very much!
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No problem man!

Editing XML wierd characters

Hello!
I'm trying to edit one of the XML's of the S Health app so hopefully I can discover some way to hide some info from the widget. However opening the said XML file in Notepad++ gives me a bunch of weird characters.. How do I procede?

testmonkey1 said:
Hello!
I'm trying to edit one of the XML's of the S Health app so hopefully I can discover some way to hide some info from the widget. However opening the said XML file in Notepad++ gives me a bunch of weird characters.. How do I procede?
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Hi,
You cannot just pull out the file and edit it. You need to learn to decompile it first and then edit. When done, recompile. Hope this helps ?
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Jishnu Sur™ said:
Hi,
You cannot just pull out the file and edit it. You need to learn to decompile it first and then edit. When done, recompile. Hope this helps ?
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Ahh I thought it was the same as when replacing images, just change the file in 7z and resign the app.
How would one go àbout the most easy/fast way to decompile? I am no developer, I just want to edit out some text that is displayed on a widget by removing a couple of ljnes in the XML (I guess), nothing fancy. I don't want to be installing SDKs and what not..

testmonkey1 said:
Ahh I thought it was the same as when replacing images, just change the file in 7z and resign the app.
How would one go àbout the most easy/fast way to decompile? I am no developer, I just want to edit out some text that is displayed on a widget by removing a couple of ljnes in the XML (I guess), nothing fancy. I don't want to be installing SDKs and what not..
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The easiest way is this mate :
1. Download tickle my android.
2. Download java applet 6U25.
3. Framework.resapk and other abc-res.apk.
4. Run tickle my android and decompile.
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Jishnu Sur™ said:
The easiest way is this mate :
1. Download tickle my android.
2. Download java applet 6U25.
3. Framework.resapk and other abc-res.apk.
4. Run tickle my android and decompile.
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Thanks a lot mate