[Android Apps and Games] hunterhunny83:
"How To Make Widget Skins Transparent"

TOOLS needed: 7zip or Winrar and ApkManager v4.9* by Daneshm90 of xda

1. Transfer the apk from your phone to your computer. It's probably in a place like data/app or data/data or the like

2. Open the apk with 7zip (or Winrar). Do not extract the whole thing, just open it. Inside you'll see a folder called "res"; transfer that somewhere on your computer.

3. Inside the res folder you'll see a bunch of folders. The images you want to edit are usually in a folder labeled "drawable", but you may have to look elsewhere

4. Find the background image you want to edit. It might be labeled widget_bg or something helpful like that.

5. Edit it how you want. In the case of transparency, you want to delete the background and make it entirely transparent. Save it in the same format and do not change the name. (Note- if your file has .9.png in it, you're dealing with something else. I can't really help you on this)

6. Drag the res folder with your modified images back into the archive, using 7zip. You might want to use a duplicate of the apk, just to have the original on hand in case something goes wrong.

8. Place the modified apk into the place-apk-here-for-modding folder in the APK Manager folder

9. Open up script.bat. Select your project using option 22.

10. Do the following things- Extract APK (1), Zip APK (3), zip as regular apk (2), sign apk (4)

At this point you should have a signed version of the apk in the place-apk-here-for-modding folder. You can transfer it to your phone now and install it. Or install it directly onto your phone through apk manager if you have ADB enabled.

*Apk Manager 4.9 - Modifying Ur Apk

Features:

- Extract, Zip apk's.

- Optimize pngs (ignores .9.pngs)

- Zipalign apks

- Sign apks

- Push to specific location on phone

- Incorporates brut.all's apktool

- Pull apk from phone into modding environment.

- Batch optimize apk (Zipalign,optipng,or both)

- Quick sign an apk (Batch mode supported)

- Batch Ogg optimization

- Compression level selector (monitor status above menu)

- Batch install apk from script (option 16)

- Logging on/off has been removed. Instead a log.txt is created which logs the activities of the script organized using time/date headers

- User can change the max java heap size (only use if certain large apks get stuck when decompiling/compiling apks) (Option 19)

- Improved syntax of questions/answers

- Error detection. Checks if error occured anytime u perform a task, and reports it

- Read log (Option 20)

- U can now set this script as ur default application for apks. When u do, if u double click any apk it will install it for u.

- Supports batch installation, so if u drag multiple apks into the script (not while its running) it will install them all for u. U can ofcourse drag a single apk as well

- Added framework dependent decompiling (For non propietary rom apks). (Option 10). Checks whether the dependee apk u selected is correct.

- Allows multiple projects to be modified, switch to and from.

Instructions (Windows):

- Place apk in appropriate folder (Any filename will work, if running for first time folders will not be there, you must run and then the folders will be created)

- Run script

- Minimize the script

- Edit files inside the project folder

- Maximize the script

- Allows to modify system apk's using apktool but ensures maximum compatibility in terms of signature / manifest.xml

Orignally created by Ilangoadigal from other forum

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LINK FOR DOWNLOAD

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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZJTFFLI7

http://depositfiles.com/en/files/x33e5g04v

http://www.zshare.net/download/801778048c8cfcab/

http://uploading.com/files/d3mm5616/apk_manager_4.9.zip/