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De-compile, Edit, And Re-compile APK File

I've had a job to do some changes in an Android application.  I thought it was gonna be easy. But when they said they had no source code of that app but have the .apk file only, I was like "Whuaaat...? I mean how am I supposed to do that without source code?" But then I thought, "Okey, maybe I can start it over from scratch again." And I did it. I was starting to make a 'cloning' from that app. But I couldn't do it. With a short time that I had, I decided to search of how to get source code from compiled .apk file. After some searching, and trying some methods, I found this amazing app: APK STUDIO. It really, really, really helped me a lot. I can just decompile an .apk file, edit it, and recompile it and boom, an edited .apk file was just done. If you have the same problem and want to edit your compiled .apk but you've lost your source code, then you should use this app. Go to this thread and get APK STUDIO . It's free.

Make My Own Custom Android Launcher

Android has such a great opportunity to be installed some kind of 3rd party launcher. There are a lot of launchers I can find that can be downloaded, but I can't get what I want. Some have a huge memories which are not good for my device and also make my device runs to be slowing down, and some have a beautiful appearance, but still hard and slow. I've been using Dodol Launcher for a long time as it is light, has a nice design, and simple, but sometimes it freezes up and makes my phone doesn't respond to anything. The point is, I want something that is fit in with my own. So I thought, why not I make my own launcher? I've searched for some tutorials about how to make my own Android launcher. It was a bit difficult as almost every sample projects that I got won't work and couldn't be installed even there was not such an error before finally I found this tutorial . It's pretty awesome and I start off by this tutorial although there are some errors in it. I u...