Install apps at flash

[adamhos]

Way over my head but,
if I want to put my preferred apps in a 'rom .zip' I download, can i.? Before I flash

I know that's probably rom building 101, forgive my noobish question!

is it just an apk file or is there more to it than that?

thanks

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[clodfelterac]

sure... youll need the com.app... (system/data)
dont extract the zip... just open it (gedit/7zip), navigate to system/app, drag/drop the apks that you want into the zip... update zip if prompted...

 

[LeslieAnn]

Yes you can and yes it is just an APK.
If the rom has a Data folder, you can figure it out. My roms usually have this folder in the rom already. If your rom doesn't have it, you can copy the folder and the appropriate lines from the installer (META-INF\com\google\android\updater-script) into another rom.

Some apps do not like being placed in data/apps, some refuse to work from stem/apps.

My advice is pull apart Harmonia and look at the folder structure and the installer structure.
These are the lines that need to be added to the installer script
package_extract_dir("data", "/data");
set_perm_recursive(1000, 1000, 0771, 0644, "/data/app");

 

[adamhos]

thanks for the quick response
so if i save with appsaver, can i just drop those apk's to the data folder?

 

[LeslieAnn]

Typically, yes.