Just started teaching myself to program Android apps. I have a book called "Android Apps for Absolute Beginners" by Wallace Jackson. Im in the process of making a hello world app and the instructions for making an icon for my app is a bit convoluted.
I have 3 icons, 72x72, 48x48, and 32x32. I have put them in /res/drawable-hdpi/icon.png, /drawable-mdpi/icon.png, /drawable-ldpi/icon.png, respectively.
The app runs in the emulator, but when i goto the app drawer it shows a default icon instead of mine.
Any help would be great. As a side note, is 72x72/hdpi what would be used for qHD and 1280x800 tablet screens?
Still cant figure this out, if anyone could help itd be great. Thanks
Your Manifest file must point to the name of your icon in the drawable folder, instead of the default icon. So do that where it says android:icon="@drawable/icon"
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Not sure how you are having problems here.... If you have not edited the manifest file it will look for the icon.png in whichever drawable folder the phone is using. Eg.. HTC Desire will read from drawable-hdpi.
This is a good resource for creating icons btw...
http://android-ui-utils.googlecode.com/hg/asset-studio/dist/index.html
One thing to note is that the emulator (and sometimes real devices) are bad at refreshing icons. Try and uninstall your app before running it again from Eclipse.
Tony
Thx guys. My manifest and folders were good, but I was using a 1.5 AVD. As soon as I changed it to 2.3 it worked. I'll have to test later to find out how to get it to work on older versions of Android
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Is there a way to search for downloaded apps on Atrix without having to scroll through the pages?
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the search button.....
Pirateghost said:
the search button.....
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Lolz.. I could almost see the facepalm on your face..
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I know what you mean...
Here's what I do:
1. Install Go Launcher EX. It puts a nice 'NEW' badge on every recently installed app.
2. I use Folder Organizer (Free on the Market) which allows you to organize your apps in folders, and once setup, every time you download and install a new app or game, it will prompt you where to put it's icon (i.e. Games under game's folder, Music player under Media folder, etc).
I hope this helps you.
Cheers!
Rayan
Rayan said:
I know what you mean...
Here's what I do:
1. Install Go Launcher EX. It puts a nice 'NEW' badge on every recently installed app.
2. I use Folder Organizer (Free on the Market) which allows you to organize your apps in folders, and once setup, every time you download and install a new app or game, it will prompt you where to put it's icon (i.e. Games under game's folder, Music player under Media folder, etc).
I hope this helps you.
Cheers!
Rayan
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thats cool and all, but seriously, from the main screen hit the search button and type in the name of an app...it pops right up.
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thats cool and all, but seriously, from the main screen hit the search button and type in the name of an app...it pops right up.
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True, but sometimes I tend to forget which apps and games I just downloaded, specially when I'm just trying out stuff.
Rayan
Hello in pretty new to android in general but I know how to do a bit of tinkering especially on ios and I was wondering if there is a way to change what app opens(could be something really obvious as I Sao in new to android) for example when uses out the game pad I want the playstation pocket app to open.
Cheers tony
So no one knows?
So no one can tell me if it is even possible or not, please just asking for an answer
The XPERIA Play launcher app opens up based on a setting in the app that detects the controller slide out. If the PS Pocket app has that option press the menu button and see if its there. Otherwise theres nothing in the OS that tells it to do this so you're SOL.
We all know that HTC launched the Dot View Case along with the HTC One M8 which impressed a quiet a lot of us. But one of the drawbacks it had was the lack of support for apps other than the system apps.
Also recently Shen posted a tweet showing some progress in the right direction which definitely brought light to our hopes.
So I came across this idea which will help speed this up and could be ready in a few weeks.
My idea is to make use of an app called Dynamic Notifications which is available in the Play Store. For those who don't know, it like the Active Notification found on the Moto X.
So what we can do is replace the icons in the app with the ones similar to the Dot View icons. I have already ripped apart the Dot View App to get my hands on the font used which I have attached below. So using this font we can simple create icons like the one I have attached.
I know it would be inappropriate to modify someone else's work but we could take the permission of the developer and if possible the developer of the app could himself take this project up.
I already tried this but I am kind of novice in app modding and keep getting installation errors.
The icon which I make has white font with transparent background so you might not see the thumbnail but click on it to view it.
AshritShetty said:
We all know that HTC launched the Dot View Case along with the HTC One M8 which impressed a quiet a lot of us. But one of the drawbacks it had was the lack of support for apps other than the system apps.
Also recently Shen posted a tweet showing some progress in the right direction which definitely brought light to our hopes.
So I came across this idea which will help speed this up and could be ready in a few weeks.
My idea is to make use of an app called Dynamic Notifications which is available in the Play Store. For those who don't know, it like the Active Notification found on the Moto X.
So what we can do is replace the icons in the app with the ones similar to the Dot View icons. I have already ripped apart the Dot View App to get my hands on the font used which I have attached below. So using this font we can simple create icons like the one I have attached.
I know it would be inappropriate to modify someone else's work but we could take the permission of the developer and if possible the developer of the app could himself take this project up.
I already tried this but I am kind of novice in app modding and keep getting installation errors.
The icon which I make has white font with transparent background so you might not see the thumbnail but click on it to view it.
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did you sign the app? that could explain the installation errors
Hi, Of interest if you install NOLed notifications app from market - which should show flashing squares on screen in stead of LED - designed for phones with no LED, but cool with this case as you should see different colours for each app - only odd side effect - it flashes time and weather when you have notifications - not its own squares - would be good if someone could code something without this side affect.
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did you sign the app? that could explain the installation errors
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I used APK Manager to decompile and then recompile the .apk file. Do you know of a better way to do the same ?
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Hi, Of interest if you install NOLed notifications app from market - which should show flashing squares on screen in stead of LED - designed for phones with no LED, but cool with this case as you should see different colours for each app - only odd side effect - it flashes time and weather when you have notifications - not its own squares - would be good if someone could code something without this side affect.
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Thanks for sharing, I will try and look into it !
Hey,
I've been trying to do the same thing. I also got stuck at resigning the app.
I'm trying to replace HTC voice assist with Google now.
The logcats implied that I needes to be signed with HTCs certificates. Does that make sense?
Any suggestions?
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Finally I was able to over come the signing problem and could get the app to install. The default size of the images used in the app was 216 X 216 which according to me was very small and the icon displayed is as shown in attachment 1.
After which i increased the size to 400 X 400 but sadly the image is now being chopped off from the sides.
This according to me is because of the image size set in the app which I don't know how to edit.
If it would be very kind if someone could help / guide me with this one.
I have also attached the .apk file if anyone is interested in looking into it
David 617 said:
Hey,
I've been trying to do the same thing. I also got stuck at resigning the app.
I'm trying to replace HTC voice assist with Google now.
The logcats implied that I needes to be signed with HTCs certificates. Does that make sense?
Any suggestions?
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I used this app called APK Edit from the PlayStore to overcome the signature problems
David 617 said:
Hey,
I've been trying to do the same thing. I also got stuck at resigning the app.
I'm trying to replace HTC voice assist with Google now.
The logcats implied that I needes to be signed with HTCs certificates. Does that make sense?
Any suggestions?
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If you can do this please let me know!
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I used this app called APK Edit from the PlayStore to overcome the signature problems
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You used this - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gmail.heagoo.apkeditor ?
It seems that you can only replace the resources with this but now edit the actual code. Is that true or did I miss something?
David 617 said:
You used this - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gmail.heagoo.apkeditor ?
It seems that you can only replace the resources with this but now edit the actual code. Is that true or did I miss something?
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Yes, its the same app.
Initially I thought the process will be as easy as replacing the images but now when I see, I need to edit the code to resize the images for which I will have to use the traditional methods like APK Manager.
But editing the code is beyond the scope of my knowledge and so will be looking forward to others.
I'm comfortable editing the code, I'm just lost as to how I repackage and replace the old apk.
Maybe if you find anything on that you can post it here and we can get to work on it together...
Thx
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When I make a apk into a signed zip I use this:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=zip.me
Don't know if it is any relevance to this thread but it's worth a try.
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David 617 said:
I'm comfortable editing the code, I'm just lost as to how I repackage and replace the old apk.
Maybe if you find anything on that you can post it here and we can get to work on it together...
Thx
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I hope this guide is of help to you : http://droidcandy.weebly.com/how-to-use-apk-manager.html
My upcoming Xposed module will include notifications for all apps:
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And a dialer... http://i.imgur.com/0pzY76H.jpg
And music metadata/controls.
And a game of Snake, cause why not, https://twitter.com/MohammadAG/status/467642113266421760
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My upcoming Xposed module will include notifications for all apps:
(Text at the bottom auto scrolls to show all text)
And a dialer... http://i.imgur.com/0pzY76H.jpg
And music metadata/controls.
And a game of Snake, cause why not, https://twitter.com/MohammadAG/status/467642113266421760
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This is cool!
I recognise your handle. Did you used to frequent Nokia Users forum way back when?
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Chris_c81 said:
This is cool!
I recognise your handle. Did you used to frequent Nokia Users forum way back when?
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NokiaUsers and talk.maemo.org
MohammadAG said:
My upcoming Xposed module will include notifications for all apps:
(Text at the bottom auto scrolls to show all text)
And a dialer... http://i.imgur.com/0pzY76H.jpg
And music metadata/controls.
And a game of Snake, cause why not, https://twitter.com/MohammadAG/status/467642113266421760
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Awesome work my friend !
Also thank you for creating the 3 Finger Screen Lock Mod :laugh:
But wouldn't it be possible to achieve this without the need to root ? For example by modifying the Dot View App ?
AshritShetty said:
Awesome work my friend !
Also thank you for creating the 3 Finger Screen Lock Mod :laugh:
But wouldn't it be possible to achieve this without the need to root ? For example by modifying the Dot View App ?
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As an art user I'd love this.
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I'm not a big fan of smali editting, especially with Dot View being a Play Store package, so no, sorry.
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Hi,
This week, every once in a while a popup comes on screen for what looks like a game.
Not much info, just a button on bottom to INSTALL. Have no idea where this came from.
Been using same apps on my phone for a long time, nothing new lately.
Any ideas what it might be or how to find it????
Ken
This is one I just got.
Another one. Any ideas where these are from????
Hi
install Popup Ad Detector-Detect app and you WILL find out which app cause this adds
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=popup.ads.detector
OR
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=krow.dev.addetector
sh93 said:
Hi
install Popup Ad Detector-Detect app and you WILL find out which app cause this adds
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=popup.ads.detector
OR
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=krow.dev.addetector
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Thanks, will try both.
Hi
sh93 said:
Hi
install Popup Ad Detector-Detect app and you WILL find out which app cause this adds
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=popup.ads.detector
OR
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=krow.dev.addetector
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Hi,
Worked great, found it already, it was an app called S10 Wallpapers, hit delete, all gone.'
Thank again for the app suggestions,'
Ken