Any Android App Developers Here?

erco

How hard or easy is to change the splash screen on a free commercial Android app? It's not for distribution, it will only ever be seen by a dozen people or so. I'm pitching a product to a company and I would like my contact info to pop up on the splash screen. I have no source code, just the site for the APK file.

Seairth

erco wrote: »

How hard or easy is to change the splash screen on a free commercial Android app? It's not for distribution, it will only ever be seen by a dozen people or so. I'm pitching a product to a company and I would like my contact info to pop up on the splash screen. I have no source code, just the site for the APK file.

This is someone else's app you are attempting to modify?

erco

Yes, but the program/app will never be distributed. It will only be loaded on a tablet and phone that I submit with the project.

MrBi11

I've been thinking of getting a copy of this for some personal apps for around my home.
https://www.b4x.com/b4a.html
I'm not sure if it'll do what you desire, but may help.

Heater.

erco,

An Android apk file is a zip archive containing Java code, assets, etc. As such you can unzip them and have a look inside:

$ unzip sample.apk 
Archive:  sample.apk
  inflating: res/layout/main.xml     
  inflating: AndroidManifest.xml     
 extracting: resources.arsc          
 extracting: res/drawable-hdpi/ic_launcher.png  
 extracting: res/drawable-ldpi/ic_launcher.png  
 extracting: res/drawable-mdpi/ic_launcher.png  
  inflating: classes.dex             
  inflating: META-INF/MANIFEST.MF    
  inflating: META-INF/CERT.SF        
  inflating: META-INF/CERT.RSA       
$

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_application_package
That sample.apk came from here: http://sample-file.bazadanni.com/2012/02/android.html

As you see there are some png images in there that probably make the apps splash screen and back ground etc.

So, you could try unzipping the app, look for the splash image, swap it out for one of your liking and zip the lot back up again.

I have no idea if Android will then load and run the modified package as you may well have upset it signature or hash.

Worth a try I guess.

Mickster

One quick solution isn't free but it will do what you want and a whole lot more.

https://www.42gears.com/products/surelock/

Mickster

MrBi11 wrote: »

I've been thinking of getting a copy of this for some personal apps for around my home.
https://www.b4x.com/b4a.html
I'm not sure if it'll do what you desire, but may help.

Been using this for 4 years now and highly recommend it.