Editing .apk's

[TopShelf10]

i have searched this on google and there is a few things on this, but i figured id post under development and maybe hope someone sees this who has actually done this or at least ATTEMPTED it.

is there any way to extract .apk and make minor changes to it. For example, i have the app "BlueRSS" which is obviously an rss feeder, and id like to change the color of the widget. no big deal, but it seems like this concept in general is pretty cool and would be fun to tinker with. is this possible? if so is it dangerous?

[arayray]

what i do is when i make a rom i open the apk and since im on ubuntu it opens it in a type of like achriver and you can extract the files to your desktop edit them and just replace them in the rom

what i would do i just use the apk its self and place it in an update folder and sign it and attempt to see if itll work

if you know how to sign roms and open up apks its pretty simple

hope this helps!

[TopShelf10]

what i do is when i make a rom i open the apk and since im on ubuntu it opens it in a type of like achriver and you can extract the files to your desktop edit them and just replace them in the rom

what i would do i just use the apk its self and place it in an update folder and sign it and attempt to see if itll work

if you know how to sign roms and open up apks its pretty simple

hope this helps!

Haha as a matter of fact I have no idea how to do any of that. Feel free to try and give a brief explanation, if it doesn't require you taking up a half hour of your time to write a novel hahah

[arayray]

Haha as a matter of fact I have no idea how to do any of that. Feel free to try and give a brief explanation, if it doesn't require you taking up a half hour of your time to write a novel hahah

lmao got gmail? ill hook u up

[Danation]

Hey, man. Hook us all up

[arayray]

the only way id know to sign an apk is to sign it like a rom

which is to edit it place it in a folder named update and for windows users use these tools and for linux/ubuntu use these tools


if you need help email me or something .: EMAIL REMOVED :.


hope it helps

[blackknightavalon]

Download Auto-Sign.

[eddyy27]

the only way id know to sign an apk is to sign it like a rom

which is to edit it place it in a folder named update and for windows users use these tools and for linux/ubuntu use these tools


if you need help email me or something arayray94@gmail.com


hope it helps

Hope these links help:

Signing Your Applications | Android Developers
APK

[sublime1184]

What you can do is:

1. Put the app in your sdk/tools
2. Open the app with winrar and delete META-INF folder.
3. Then browse to /res/drawable.
4. Replace whatever the icon is with the new icon, with the same name.
5. Resign and re-install the app.
5a. Extract signing.zip to sdk/tools folder, make sure modified apk is in that folder as well.
5b. Make sure the modified apk is the only apk under sdk/tools folder
5c. Run autosign.bat
5d. Re-install app.

[TopShelf10]

Thanks everyone....ill give all of this a shot and let you know how it goes

[adlx]

Thanks everyone....ill give all of this a shot and let you know how it goes

to be able to edit colors, you'll probably need to baksmali the classes.dex inside the apk, edit some smali files and smali again the classes.dex, then rezip the apk, resign if you need, and zipalign (optional).

[TopShelf10]

so i played around with everything last night and it seems to be a lot more straight foward than i expected. however, ive come to the painful realization that i do not have good image-editing software, so im gonna have to look into that so i can start taking advantage of this. i suppose i could start tinkering with some ROMs though. thanks for all of your help, i learn something new everyday from this forum!!

[blackknightavalon]

so i played around with everything last night and it seems to be a lot more straight foward than i expected. however, ive come to the painful realization that i do not have good image-editing software, so im gonna have to look into that so i can start taking advantage of this. i suppose i could start tinkering with some ROMs though. thanks for all of your help, i learn something new everyday from this forum!!

You got Gimp? It's like a free Photoshop with a little MS Paint mixed in.

[TopShelf10]

You got Gimp? It's like a free Photoshop with a little MS Paint mixed in.

Never even heard of, but it sounds good and ill definately check it out. Thank you

[Danation]

I also recommend GIMP. It's free and it's good. Almost as good as Photoshop.