[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tommytomatoe:
### UPDATE 05.30.2011. With sound advice from Brut.all, I should be able to ad a compile 9.png option that is much more ideal. :-)

### UPDATE 05.29.2011. WIth a permission from amon_RA, I will include his recovery img in the utility to allow folks to install a custom recovery :-) Also, with advice from xHaus, I will include function to install PC36IMG. A little teaser version will be out in the next couple of days as time permits. Lastly, I think I've come up with a way to compile raw 9.png. It is a complete workaround and is no way efficient but I am not sure how else to do it for Unix systems...I am testing this tonight and tomorrow. :-) Thank you everyone who has chimed in. I appreciate your contributions to blue waffle magic pack ;) END UPDATE ###

### UPDATE 05.25.2011. I think I will name this Android Utility, with subtitle Blue Waffle Magic Pack (thanks dirk and NewZJ). :-) So far, I have a tool for adb with extensive prompts for user interaction. Also, beginnings on an apktool and smali wrapper. Taking a little longer because I want this tool to be extensive yet easy to use. END UPDATE ###

May 18, 2011

Hey gang. I've been modding and playing with Android roms for a little while now. I have great thanks to the great minds out there who came up with the tools that has made this all possible, and I am talking about JF and Brut.all and company. Anyways, as I was getting started, all the resources were here and there, but never really in one location. Like adb, apktool, how to root, et cetera et cetera. Not that it was hard to find or anything, but I think for the novice beginner it would be easy to have it all in one. I am personally thankful to aamikam, myn, and JsChiSurf for answering my questions from the start.

Lately I've had several aspiring Devs ask me questions about how to get to started with themes, android sdk, apktool, et cetera. It's great to see so many people trying to learn to do stuff here and there.

Anyways...what I am really trying to get to is this. I am writing a little script that incorporates all the basic tools and some other special scripts that I've put together. I know of Danesh's apkmanager for the PC and Linux. My idea is to have something similar, but also to incorporate some of the little tricks I've picked up along the way. I am on a Macintosh and so the first release will be for the Mac, but it is pretty easy to make that work for Linux as well. The goal for the script I think will be to allow beginners and seasoned veterans a nice point to do all the stuff they would normally individually.

I've written a chunk of the script thus far and I am happy with how it has turned out. I am looking for a very inclusive tool yet easy to use.

So far, my idea is to include these things.

Adb (all the fun stuff)

Apktool

Smali/baksmali

Deodex

Odex..maybe...it requires dexopt-wrapper...on the phone

Sign apk/update.zip

Optimize png

Remove dex

Updater-script writer

Zipalign

Nandroid support

My question is, what would you like to have in the tool? Possible names for said tool? I was just going to call it android tools. I am looking for feedback and within the next week I will have this thing up and running. Thanks for your time!

All the best,

tt

Screen Shots:

ADB Menu [as of May 21, 2011]

Installation Menu [as of May 30, 2011]