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This thread is inspired by the Candy Shop threads in the Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4, and Nexus 7 sections. Big thanks to Matthew for helping me learn to build these mods. After I got the concept down, I figured out I could build Zipthemer mods directly from my phone. I thought I would share how to do that with the rest of the community. This is not a tutorial on how to use Zipthemer, but I will link to one once I get this organized. I'm using a lot of images so I hope this is pretty clear. Now, without further delay...
First thing you will need is a file explorer with root access and read/write permissions. In this guide I will be using ES File Explorer, but any should work. Using the file explorer, you will navigate to /system and find the system apps you want modify. Most of these will be found in either system/app, or system/framework.
You will want to copy (not cut) the apps and paste them somewhere on the sd storage. You will then want to extract them so you can see what is inside them. Once extracted there will be a folder of the same name as that app.
When you open that folder you will want to navigate to the res folder. Inside this folder you will see several drawable folders. Different devices, and sometimes different roms place the image you want to edit in different folders. Also, some images have a normal and inverted folder. The inverted folder is for the dark themes included in the rom, like dark carbon, dark stalk, the real dark slim, ect. It may take some searching to find the image you want to change. To start with, you can use any of the zips posted in the Candy Shop threads to start with. Then all you will need to do is change your image, or possibly add a different folder (or rename the one that's there). I will be using an existing mod I made (Phone Mod in the pics) and changing the image in this tutorial. The mod changes the picture on the call screen for contacts with no picture assigned. I did the entire mod from my phone, including editing the pic (though some images may require more precise editing that needs to be done on a pc). I used a wall paper from Zedge, changed the size using Picsart, then ES File Explorer to finish the mod.
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This thread is inspired by the Candy Shop threads in the Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4, and Nexus 7 sections. Big thanks to Matthew for helping me learn to build these mods. After I got the concept down, I figured out I could build Zipthemer mods directly from my phone. I thought I would share how to do that with the rest of the community. This is not a tutorial on how to use Zipthemer, but I will link to one once I get this organized. I'm using a lot of images so I hope this is pretty clear. Now, without further delay...
First thing you will need is a file explorer with root access and read/write permissions. In this guide I will be using ES File Explorer, but any should work. Using the file explorer, you will navigate to /system and find the system apps you want modify. Most of these will be found in either system/app, or system/framework.
You will want to copy (not cut) the apps and paste them somewhere on the sd storage. You will then want to extract them so you can see what is inside them. Once extracted there will be a folder of the same name as that app.
When you open that folder you will want to navigate to the res folder. Inside this folder you will see several drawable folders. Different devices, and sometimes different roms place the image you want to edit in different folders. Also, some images have a normal and inverted folder. The inverted folder is for the dark themes included in the rom, like dark carbon, dark stalk, the real dark slim, ect. It may take some searching to find the image you want to change. To start with, you can use any of the zips posted in the Candy Shop threads to start with. Then all you will need to do is change your image, or possibly add a different folder (or rename the one that's there). I will be using an existing mod I made (Phone Mod in the pics) and changing the image in this tutorial. The mod changes the picture on the call screen for contacts with no picture assigned. I did the entire mod from my phone, including editing the pic (though some images may require more precise editing that needs to be done on a pc). I used a wall paper from Zedge, changed the size using Picsart, then ES File Explorer to finish the mod.
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