New to Developing

[KsKnightmare]

So I want to slowly work my way up to developing roms, and i figured the best place to start would be in modding current roms to what i want, or at least modding apps within the roms, but i can't open the .xml's with anything. Notepad++ and eclipse will not read them write. do i need something else?

[czerdrill]

yes download apk manager from xda developers and decompile the apk

[KsKnightmare]

yes download apk manager from xda developers and decompile the apk

ah thanks a bunch works. now if only i can figure out what i want to do with it lol

[czerdrill]

haha possibilities are endless...colors, text, layouts i think, its all there very fun to edit xmls and make the phone even more customized

[KsKnightmare]

another noobish question. lol so pretty much all the xml's im going to want to change are in the res folder. correcT?

[KsKnightmare]

Ok I was able to mod the xml's but now I can't get it back to apk form to install on my phone lol. I did zip apk, and sign apk, but compile apk wouldn't work

Sent by wasting my battery

[mojo_droid]

Ok I was able to mod the xml's but now I can't get it back to apk form to install on my phone lol. I did zip apk, and sign apk, but compile apk wouldn't work

Sent by wasting my battery

you forgot to build it, there is an option in apk manager that does all these steps for you, i think its option 11, but i cant remember exactly

[czerdrill]

after making your xml edits you want to compile apk...if its a system apk your done, you dont have to zip or sign it...if its a third party apk i believe you'd have to compile, and then sign...no need to zip.

[KsKnightmare]

ok, i decompiled the apk, modded the xml's then save and click compile, it comes up and says building apk, then it says error occured. brutexception could not execute command.

[czerdrill]

hey man, does it have any other message? or just that? if you can copy and paste exactly what it says maybe i can figure it out