I have looked and looked and found things to make live wallpaper in the past that no longer work. I have the animation already in a gif, png files, avi files but everytime I load the animation it's too big for the screen so was trying to make a live wallpaper to actually be able to see it. and I have had NO luck. If anyone could help me out with what I need or someone who could help me out? My nephew wanted a ninja turtle wallpaper. MUCH appreciated in advanced.
** I seen the wallpaper template for eclipse but when I run it, all I get are errors with the file and can't even start it. The run.bat (customlivewallpaper2.0/2.6) starts and then just hangs there and does nothing. I've used the free apps in google play and that's when it just doesn't look right all stretched out on the screen. **
Here's a link to the zip I created with the picture files. I had to add it to my google drive cause the file was too big.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0CWousOd0ntS3lHYXMwM0drSjA/edit?usp=sharing
Paste the errors from eclipse here, may be something simple to fix.
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Hello XDA people,
When i put files on my SD card. Android doesn't see the files right away. Most of the time after a couple of boots. This is really irritating me. I unmount the device but still no files.
Does someone have the answer for this? Searched the crap out of google, but couldn't find anything useful.
And another question, when i have wallpapers. They show up like i want them to be on my background. But android gives you this retarded cut out tool. That enlarges the wallpaper. Does anyone know a good app to get rid or replace this?
Thanks.
You do know you can enlarge the area that the wallpaper thing tries to cut out? just drag an edge of the yellow box and it will expand it. Can't really help with the files not appearing tho, sorry.
Try "wallpaper set and save" - it's in the market and it's free. Or get Zedge (which is BRILLIANT!) That too seems to be able to set wallpapers a lot better than the native method. You just can't select your own wallpapers with that.
The other problem is something I've seen on the forums a few times. Do a search and you may find some answers.
Still cant find a solution for the file problem. Please someone help
@ johncmolyneux.
Yes i know Zedge it's good. Thanks for the solution for the wallpapers.
Anyone????
I think you have to set up ADB. That was the only thing i could do to get rid of this problem But ABD has it's benefits, believe me
Here's a guide.
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?
LilaLurch said:
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.
LilaLurch said:
...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).
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
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Did you try APK Icon Editor?
Also, the APK itself can be sort of protected, but most of side-loaded repacked APKs should work.
This is on a rooted Verizon S5 SM-G900V with Alliance ROM 4.4.2. Is there any way to invert the background and text without inverting images? Especially in Chrome, but it would be nice for the whole phone. White lettering on a black background is much easier to read.
I'm seeing screenshots online of Alliance that are nice and dark (I think it's called Black Glass?), including the phone dialer. How do I get the whole android theme dark.
Same thing with other apps. There's a few local TV news apps that have a bright white background that I wish I could customize to a dark theme. The Samsung Music Player is bright white as well. Anyway to make these dark in Alliance?
The problem I've noticed with third-party dialer apps is that they let you type the phone number, but when you hit the phone button to place the call, it opens up the Android dialer with the bright white background. Right back to square zero. Basically, I'm just trying to figure out how to get that nice black look like I'm seeing on some of the alliance ROM screenshots.
Thanks.
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The problem I've noticed with third-party dialer apps is that they let you type the phone number, but when you hit the phone button to place the call, it opens up the Android dialer with the bright white background. Right back to square zero. Basically, I'm just trying to figure out how to get that nice black look like I'm seeing on some of the alliance ROM screenshots.
Thanks.
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The app on 4.4 you needed to theme was called InCall.apk there is an app on 5.0 call LegacyInCallUI.apk so would amuse that its this one but if you are running a custom rom then it may have the original InCall app, if you look is System\app or System\Priv-app folder (most likely the priv-app folder teh one you need will be in there.
Problem at the moment is that apktool has a problem with Samsung apk's and compiling them, its not so much apk tool as more likely something Samsung have added in their security to prevent apktool working as it should, so you can decompile apps fine if the app does compile then you can use the .png files, xml files but the resources arsc most likely will cause the app to crash. Also they have use .pkm files which you can't see like you can with .png files so you need specific software to look at them, again Samsung trying to prevent theming of stock apps.
Hmmm. Well, that's all a bit over my head. So, is there not an easy way to install an app or change a setting somewhere? I'm not sure what to actually to click on with all those files you mentioned. I find searching for files in Android to be confusing and nothing like a Windows PC with the usual file directory locations. Like, WHERE is the C:\ drive on the phone?
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Hmmm. Well, that's all a bit over my head. So, is there not an easy way to install an app or change a setting somewhere? I'm not sure what to actually to click on with all those files you mentioned. I find searching for files in Android to be confusing and nothing like a Windows PC with the usual file directory locations. Like, WHERE is the C:\ drive on the phone?
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The apps are in the system folder called
system\app
system\priv-app
system\framework
But if you have never done theming before then don't even try you would need to start with simple things and learn what to do and what not to do.
Can't help with the app question as I have no idea, maybe there is something that someone else can answer that for you.
I am looking at theming these form myself but I don't have the time at the moment, I don't share them any more though as there are far too many ungrateful people around these days.