Hey guys,This is a small tut for all of you askng for itFirst off you will need to have apktool setup and working for decompiling ICS apks.Another tool you will want and will make life a lot easier is notepad++Im not going to go into detail about how to do that, there are plenty forums and thread the cover that.Once you get everything set follow these steps and you will be on your way to making what every you want .Because there are already so many different roms out there u already probably know what you cannot take a systemui.apk from say DroidTh3orys rom and install it on a stock 4.0.2 base. This is for a few reasons, first the systemui and the framework-res kinda go hand and hand, So say that droidtheory has notification toggles, and u flash a stock systemui that u added a search softkey, you will likely have a systemui force close on boot, the two apks depend on each other to work properly. That said you MUST use the framework-res.apk from the rom you will be working on.So pull the framework-res.apk and the systemui.apk from the rom you are wanting to modify and place them in your folder you have setup for apktoolType
apktool if framework-res.apkThis will install the framework and next
Apktool d SystemUI.apkAnd this will decompile the systemuiOnce that is done it is a good idea to rebuild right away without changing anything to confirm that your apktool is working, you would rather know now that it is not working than after you edit stuff and have fail errors and send you on a ghost chase looking for bugs when it never worked in the first place.After we know that your apktool setup is working here are some places to start playing withThe common is the icons, changing icons is easy, do what u want with them, just keep in mind a few things.
- Pngs have to be over a transparent backround
- Do not change the size of the png, the portrait are 96x160 and 160x96 for landscape
After than comes the fun stuffFor adding buttons, there a few things that need to be added,Starting at /res/layout/navigation_bar.xmlHere is where you would add another icon to the nav bar. This is where u want to use notepad++If you read the line a few times it will start to make sense. From top to bottom on the first layout is left to right in portrait mode, then followed by the "lights out" , then landscape icons and their order, and again the "lights out"Keep in mind if you add another icon u will want to add another lights out dot so that when the softkeys time out you will have four dots for your four keys. Follow this process for both portrait and landscape.Il give an example for adding the search key seeing as how this is the most popularIn the navigation_bar.xml you will want to add this to start, add in both port and similar one to port only change the @
drawable/ic_sysbar_search to ic_sysbar_search_landThis will add the button to the bar, it's a good idea to add the invisible 0dip in between to get the spacing right if you are only going to have a total of four keys, because keep in mind there needs to be room for the menu to show up when an app calls for it.Next you need to add the values for the key u just added,So jump over the res/values and find the followingIn ids.xml you need to add the search id:
falseIn the strings we need to add the @strings/accessibility_search that we added in the navigation_bar.xml:
SearchNow here is where it gets trickyWe need to public also, but by adding to public we need to tell it where to get the smali info from, so we need to do a few things now, first add the public code so jump to /res/value/public.xmlAnd add :Now the "
0x7f0e0095" this is where it will be identified in the nav in the smali.So we need to add a .method in the correct smaliSo jump over to SystemUIsmalicomandroidsystemuistatusbarphone.NavigationBarView.smaliAnd add the .method public as follows, but one warning, you need to make sure that the number we are adding is not already taken, a simple search of the file will verify it does not already exist, if nothing pulls up add this:
.method public getSearchButton()Landroid/view/View; .locals 2 .prologue .line 73 iget-object v0, p0, Lcom/android/systemui/statusbar/phone/NavigationBarView;->mCurrentView:Landroid/view/View; const v1, 0x7f0e0095 invoke-virtual {v0, v1}, Landroid/view/View;->findViewById(I)Landroid/view/View; move-result-object v0 return-object v0.end methodLast thing to do would be to create you actual icon for your search, remember you need two one port and one land and name ic_sysbar_search_land and ic_sysbar_search and these go in the drawable-xhdpi folder and your good to goNow, you are all done, you have just added a search key to your systemui.apk
and dont forget to check out my original thread here for over 55 different mods just for Axi0m plus links in op for 4.0.2 and 4.0.3 base roms too
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/12333-mod-axi0m-21-softkey-1-mods-55-and-counting/page__pid__337823__st__870#entry337823
