Browse > Home / ice cream, mods, tricks / Enable Virtual buttons on Android ICS

Enable Virtual buttons on Android ICS

February 4, 2012 | Author:

Share

You can Enable Virtual buttons on Any Android Ice Cream Sandwich ROM (Android 4.0.x), with a simple trick.

You must follow the instructions below very carefully in order to get Virtual buttons on ICS.

Step 1: Use any: ES File explorer or Root explorer to copy system > framework > framework-res.apk to PC.

Step 2: Keep a backup of the original APK  & Decompile the copied APK using APK Tool. APK Tool 1.4.3 would work fine.

Step 3: Open /res/values/bools.xml using a text editor, find config_showNavigationBar and set its value to true.

Step 4: (Optional) Optionally you can turn off backlight for your hardware capacitive buttons. To do this, edit arrays.xml. Search for config_autoBrightnessButtonBacklightValues and set all item values to ’0′ (i.e.zero).

Step 5: To avoid keyboard overlapping problem, you need to adjust the dimensions for the virtual buttons.Open dimens.xml, find navigation_bar_height and edit its value to something which suits you best. 37.0dip should be good.

Step 6: Compile the APK using aapt. Copy the modified APK back to system > framework.

You should now have enabled onscreen Virtual soft button for back, home and multitasking. Capacitive buttons will be disabled for some users, for others, they would continue to work.

Follow us on Google+, Twitter for latest in Android mods, news.

 

Written by · Filed Under ice cream, mods, tricks 

Read More

Comments

  • http://twitter.com/Anunakin Marcus Fazzi

    Any command line for “Compile the APK using aapt” ?

  • deathblade

    im having trouble recompiling after the changes… keep getting errors, using virtuous ten studio, would love to find out whats wrong and get this working

  • ganesh

     use apkmanager 5

blog comments powered by Disqus