So can I go into apks on my PC and replace the icon.PNG inside with a different one and put it back on my phone? I just like all of my icons to be themed the same on my homescreen. Thanks.
Basically, if it's a system apk you can just use 7-zip to replace the icon.png file then push it back to system.
If it's a market apk you'll have to re-sign the apk after you change the icon.
I use autosign.bat, got it off of xda somewhere, android themes maybe.
Cool thanks I will look into doing this. Its he one reason I liked using ads launcher. For themed icons.
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I would like to take the icons from my Vibrant and use them on the LauncherPro Dock of my other phones.
Where can I find (for example) the Dialer icon... just the basic green dialer. My nexus has a clear/very little color icon, and I was not able to find our icon on some sites by googling...
Thanks.
bump, id like to hear the answer to this myself.
s15274n said:
I would like to take the icons from my Vibrant and use them on the LauncherPro Dock of my other phones.
Where can I find (for example) the Dialer icon... just the basic green dialer. My nexus has a clear/very little color icon, and I was not able to find our icon on some sites by googling...
Thanks.
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All of the system icons are located inside the .apk for the various system apps. For example, the Dialer is DialerTabActivity.apk in system/app/. If you open DialerTabActivity.apk in Root Explorer or WinRAR and look in /res/drawable-hdpi, you will find an image file named ic_launcher_phone.png. If I am understanding you correctly, that is the icon you are looking for.
Each icon would be located in a separate .apk for that particular application.
I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to find out the correct application activity code to rename icons so they replace the applications default
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Please read the announcement in this forum before posting.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/announcement.php?f=617
This is not development, so moved to Q&A
Pull your framework-res and have a look, or the apps apk and change it directly.
What im trying to do is add icons to a theme im making , ive added some which i had to rename in order for them to replace some of thr default icons for apps when activating the theme. But i would like to replace some other default icons but i need to find out what to rename my custom icons too in order to replace the remaining default app icons when i activate the theme (adw launcher)
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AngelDevoid said:
What im trying to do is add icons to a theme im making , ive added some which i had to rename in order for them to replace some of thr default icons for apps when activating the theme. But i would like to replace some other default icons but i need to find out what to rename my custom icons too in order to replace the remaining default app icons when i activate the theme (adw launcher)
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I had the same issue with my modded theme ADW theme, you need to pull the apps such as "Conversations.apk" which is basically MMS.apk on 1.6 and either change the icon in the apk itself or rename the icons in the theme to what they are now called in 2.1, and the only way you'll find that out is by pulling the apks and opening them.
Ferk.... alot of digging around , after ive found as many as i can that work ill post a list of what to rename your icons to in your theme to replace the default icons. If you or anyone else already knows some can ya post it to help out thanks
Looking for stuff like this .....
Shortcut icon to the camera is named ....
Com_camera_cameraactivity
(or something like that)
So i would need to rename my icon from icon.png to com_camera_cameraactivity.png , then place it in the theme apk using eclipse , under a folder named /res/drawables_hdpi/ .
After that i would install the theme and the camera icon will have changed to the icon i want.
So thats the info we require ; the correct icon renames for as many apps as posible .
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I know all the basics about how to build a rom and remove/add apps and all that, just want to know how to build in a theme and change the default background.
I want to be able to theme sense, theme the wallpaper, pulldown notifications bar, and other similar stuff. Would really love a guide, Thanks.
Change default_background.jpg in drawable and mdpi. That's good for most folks. I've been making my themes cleaner and I notice it decompiles better if you put those jpgs in the decompiled folder and recompile then copy the resources.arsc from your recompiled apk along w the jpgs back to your original framework.
You might need a guide if you didn't follow that.
..you'd still have to have your wallpaper set to the default image in the first place, otherwise it wouldn't be seen after theme application until you set it back to default by hand.
hey everyone got a quick question.
so ive searched and searched multiple forums and threads and i just can't find away to do this. what i would like to do is change some miui system icons with out applying a whole theme. like going into the icons of the theme and just changing the ones on my homescreen. i know that if you use a different launcher you can change them but i do not want to use an alternate launcher i would like to use the stock launcher. if anyone can't point me in the right direction on changing them feel free to post in here or message me.
thanks in advance
You can either open the theme you're using and modify or add the icons, or you can use Desktop Visualizer. You'll still have the app icons on your screen, you can just put them in a folder if you want. Use a Desktop Visualizer widget, don't use the shortcut.
If you need help changing your theme (or making an icon theme if you're not using a theme) you can pm me & I'll do it for you. Just send me the icons and name them what you want them to be. If you don't know how to name them properly, I can do it. I just need to know what you want the icon to represent.
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You can either open the theme you're using and modify or add the icons, or you can use Desktop Visualizer. You'll still have the app icons on your screen, you can just put them in a folder if you want. Use a Desktop Visualizer widget, don't use the shortcut.
If you need help changing your theme (or making an icon theme if you're not using a theme) you can pm me & I'll do it for you. Just send me the icons and name them what you want them to be. If you don't know how to name them properly, I can do it. I just need to know what you want the icon to represent.
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sounds good what is the best way to edit a miui theme? through 7zip?
and yeah if i can't figure it out ill just send you the theme along with the icons that i would like changed. appreciate your time!
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sounds good what is the best way to edit a miui theme? through 7zip?
and yeah if i can't figure it out ill just send you the theme along with the icons that i would like changed. appreciate your time!
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7zip should work. Unzip the theme, and inside you'll see an "icons" file. Add a zip extension and extract. Add/replace the icons that you want - they have to be named the process name. For example, if you want to add an icon for the Market, you'd name it "com.android.vending.png". You wouldn't add the png extension since it's already there. The MIUI Music app would be com.miui.player.png, and so on. Once you've finished, rezip the icons and remove the zip extension. Then zip up the whole theme and change zip to mtz.
I know a lot of the popular process names off the top of my head because I do this a lot. It's actually faster for me to do it for you than to try to give a step by step guide, so if you run into issues send me a pm.
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I have searched and searched for a decent tutorial on how to create or modify an icon pack that can be used with Apex, Nova, or Go Launcher. I have decompiled an apk to see how it works, but I cannot figure out what exactly needs to be edited. However, I do see the folder full of the icons, but I'm not sure what I need to do with some of the XML files. Can anyone point me in the right direction??
I basically want to create a icon pack later, but for now.. I have made a couple icons that I want to add to an existing icon pack I'm using. Thanks guys!
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I have searched and searched for a decent tutorial on how to create or modify an icon pack that can be used with Apex, Nova, or Go Launcher. I have decompiled an apk to see how it works, but I cannot figure out what exactly needs to be edited. However, I do see the folder full of the icons, but I'm not sure what I need to do with some of the XML files. Can anyone point me in the right direction??
I basically want to create a icon pack later, but for now.. I have made a couple icons that I want to add to an existing icon pack I'm using. Thanks guys!
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Bump! I would love to know this myself!
Here is a tutorial for Apex:
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1649891
Here is a tutorial for Go launcher:
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/an...94-making-icon-pack-golauncher-questions.html
And for nova launcher you can use the icon packs you created for go launcher to work with nova launcher.
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