1 page.title=Customization
7 <h2>In this document</h2>
10 <li><a href="#androidBootScreenCustomization">Boot Screen Customization</a></li>
11 <li><a href="#androidNetCustPlat">Network Customization Platform</a></li>
12 <li><a href="#androidCustomizingPre-LoadedApps">Customizing pre-loaded applications</a></li>
13 <li><a href="#androidBrowserBookmarks">Customizing browser bookmarks</a></li>
14 <li><a href="#androidEmailProviderCustomization">Email Provider Customization</a></li>
15 <li><a href="#androidThemes">Platform Themes</a></li>
22 <a name="androidBootScreenCustomization"></a><h3>Boot Screen Customization</h3>
24 <p>At startup, Android displays a splashscreen image while booting the device. Do the following if you wish to modify the default splash screen:</p>
26 <ol><li>Create a 320x480 image, <code>splashscreen.jpg</code> in this example.</li>
27 <li>Using ImageMagick, convert your .jpg file to .r format:
28 <pre class="prettify">
29 convert screen.jpg screen.r
32 <li>Use the rgb2565 application to convert the image to 565 format:
33 <pre class="prettify">
34 rgb2565 < screen.rgb > screen.565
37 <li>Use fastboot to flash the image to the device:
38 <pre class="prettify">
39 fastboot flash splash1 screen.565
45 <a name="androidNetCustPlat"></a><h3>Network Customization Platform</h3>
49 <a name="androidNetCustPlatNetworkConfig"></a><h4>Network Configuration</h4>
51 <p>Android stores network configurations as a resource that gets compiled into binary at form at build time. The XML representation of this resource is located at <code>//android/frameworks/base/core/res/res/xml/apns.xml</code>. This file does not include any configured APNs. You should not modify this file, but instead configure APNs by product at build time (see Build-time APN Configuration below).</p>
52 <p>Each network configuration is stored in an XML element following this syntax:</p>
53 <pre class="prettify">
54 <apn carrier="T-Mobile US"
57 apn=" wap.voicestream.com"
61 proxy=" 216.155.165.50"
63 mmsc="http://216.155.174.84/servlets/mms"
68 <a name="androidNetCustPlatAPNConfig"></a><h4>Build-time APN configuration</h4>
70 <p>To set the APN configuration for a particular product target, add an <code>apns-conf.xml</code> file to the product configuration (do not modify the default platform APNs). This allows multiple products, all with different APNs, to be built off the same code base. </p>
72 <p>To configure APNs at the product level, add a line to the product configuration file like the example below (<code>vendor/<vendor_name>/products/myphone-us.mk</code>): </p>
74 <pre class="prettify">
75 PRODUCT_COPY_FILES := vendor/acme/etc/apns-conf-us.xml:system/etc/apns-conf.xml
80 <a name="androidNetCustPlatAPNRunTime"></a><h4>APN configuration at run time</h4>
82 <p>At runtime, the Android reads APNs from the following file:</p>
83 <pre class="prettify">
84 system/etc/apns-conf.xml
87 <p>Android supports the following run-time network configuration methods to choose the appropriate APN from the list of configured APNs:</p>
89 <li><b>Automatic Configuration</b>: At boot time, Android determines the correct network configuration based on the MCC and MNC from the SIM card and automatically configure all network settings.</li>
90 <li><b>Manual Configuration</b>: The platform will also support runtime (user) manual selection of network settings by name, for example, "Company Name US," and will support manual network configuration entry.</li>
91 <li><b>WAP / SMS Push Configuration</b>: The network configurations are standard Android resources. You can upgrade a resource at runtime by installing a new system resource APK package. It will be possible to develop a network configuration service which listens to a specific binary SMS port for binary SMS messages containing the network configurations. NOTE: The implementation will likely be network operator dependent due to inconsistent SMS ports, binary SMS formats, etc.</li>
97 <a name="androidCustomizingPre-LoadedApps"></a><h3>Customizing pre-loaded applications</h3>
99 <p>To customize the list of Android packages for a particular product (applications, input methods, providers, services, etc.), set <code>PRODUCT_PACKAGES</code> property in the product configuration, as illustrated below:</p>
101 <pre class="prettify">
102 PRODUCT_PACKAGES := \
103 <company_name>Mail \
104 <company_name>IM \
105 <company_name>HomeScreen \
106 <company_name>Maps \
107 <company_name>SystemUpdater
110 <p>Package names should correspond to the <code>LOCAL_PACKAGE_NAME</code> specified for each package's build target. For example, the <code>Android.mk</code> build target for <company_name>Mail, referenced above, could look like this:
112 <pre class="prettify">
113 # Build the <company_name>Mail application
114 LOCAL_PATH:= $(call my-dir)
115 include $(CLEAR_VARS)
117 LOCAL_MODULE_TAGS := user development
119 LOCAL_SRC_FILES := $(call all-java-files-under,src,tests)
121 LOCAL_STATIC_JAVA_LIBRARIES := <company_name>login-client
123 # Specify the package name
124 LOCAL_PACKAGE_NAME := <company_name>Mail
126 # Specify the certificate used to sign the application
127 LOCAL_CERTIFICATE := vendor/<company_name>/certs/app
129 include $(BUILD_PACKAGE)
131 # Build the login client static library
132 include $(LOCAL_PATH)/client/Android.mk
135 <p>Note that the home screen is just an Android application that can be replaced entirely or customized by changing source code and application resources (Java source, layouts, etc.).</p>
139 <a name="androidBrowserBookmarks"></a><h3>Customizing browser bookmarks</h3>
141 <p>Browser bookmarks are stored as string resources in the Browser application: <code>//android/packages/apps/Browser/res/values/strings.xml</code>. Bookmarks are defined as simple value string arrays called "bookmarks". Each bookmark entry is stored as a pair of array values; the first represents the bookmark name and the second the bookmark URL. For example:</p>
142 <pre class="prettify">
143 <!-- Bookmarks -->
144 <string-array name="bookmarks">
145 <item>Google</item>
146 <item>http://www.google.com/</item>
147 <item>Yahoo!</item>
148 <item>http://www.yahoo.com/</item>
149 <item>MSN</item>
150 <item>http://www.msn.com/</item>
151 <item>MySpace</item>
152 <item>http://www.myspace.com/</item>
153 <item>Facebook</item>
154 <item>http://www.facebook.com/</item>
155 <item>Wikipedia</item>
156 <item>http://www.wikipedia.org/</item>
157 <item>eBay</item>
158 <item>http://www.ebay.com/</item>
159 <item>CNN</item>
160 <item>http://www.cnn.com/</item>
161 <item>New York Times</item>
162 <item>http://www.nytimes.com/</item>
163 <item>ESPN</item>
164 <item>http://espn.go.com/</item>
165 <item>Amazon</item>
166 <item>http://www.amazon.com/</item>
167 <item>Weather Channel</item>
168 <item>http://www.weather.com/</item>
169 <item>BBC</item>
170 <item>http://www.bbc.co.uk/</item>
171 </string-array>
173 <p>Like and Android application resource, the platform will load alternate resources based on the platform configuration values. See <a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/resources-i18n.html">Resources and Internationalization</a> in the Android SDK for details. To configure bookmarks for a specific mobile network operator, place your customized bookmarks in a separate <code>strings.xml</code> file and place it under a Mobile Network Code (MNO) specific resource folder. For example, <code>Browser/res/values-mccXXX-mncYYY/strings.xml</code> where XXX and YYY represent the three-digit MCC and two to three digit MNC values.</p>
174 <p>Android loads any configuration-specific resources as override values for the default values, so it is only necessary to include the bookmarks string-array values in this file.</p>
178 <a name="androidEmailProviderCustomization"></a>
179 <h3>Email Provider Customization</h3>
181 <p>The default email provider settings are stored as string resources in the Email application (<code>//android/packages/apps/Email/res/xml/providers.xml</code>) as illustrated below.</p>
182 <p><providers></p>
183 <pre class="prettify">
184 <!-- Gmail variants -->
185 <provider id="gmail" label="Gmail" domain="gmail.com">
186 <incoming uri="imap+ssl+://imap.gmail.com" username="$email"/>
187 <outgoing uri="smtp+ssl+://smtp.gmail.com" username="$email"/>
189 <provider id="googlemail" label="Google Mail" domain="googlemail.com">
190 <incoming uri="imap+ssl+://imap.googlemail.com" username="$email"/>
191 <outgoing uri="smtp+ssl+://smtp.googlemail.com" username="$email"/>
193 <provider id="google" label="Google" domain="google.com">
194 <incoming uri="imap+ssl+://imap.gmail.com" username="$email"/>
195 <outgoing uri="smtp+ssl+://smtp.gmail.com" username="$email"/>
197 <provider id="android" label="Android" domain="android.com">
198 <incoming uri="imap+ssl+://imap.gmail.com" username="$email"/>
199 <outgoing uri="smtp+ssl+://smtp.gmail.com" username="$email"/>
200 </provider></p>
202 <!-- Common US providers -->
204 <provider id="aim" label="AIM" domain="aim.com">
205 <incoming uri="imap://imap.aim.com" label="IMAP" username="$email"/>
206 <outgoing uri="smtp://smtp.aim.com:587" username="$email"/>
208 <provider id="aol" label="AOL" domain="aol.com">
209 <incoming uri="imap://imap.aol.com" label="IMAP" username="$email"/>
210 <outgoing uri="smtp://smtp.aol.com:587" username="$email"/>
212 <provider id="comcast" label="Comcast" domain="comcast.net">
213 <incoming uri="pop3+ssl+://mail.comcast.net" username="$user"/>
214 <outgoing uri="smtp+ssl+://smtp.comcast.net" username="$user"/>
216 <provider id="compuserve" label="CompuServe" domain="cs.com">
217 <incoming uri="imap://imap.cs.com" username="$user"/>
218 <outgoing uri="smtp://smtp.cs.com" username="$user"/>
220 <provider id="dotmac" label=".Mac" domain="mac.com">
221 <incoming uri="imap+tls://mail.mac.com" username="$email"/>
222 <outgoing uri="smtp+tls://smtp.mac.com" username="$email"/>
224 <provider id="earthlink" label="Earthlink" domain="earthlink.net">
225 <incoming uri="pop3://pop.earthlink.net" username="$email"/>
226 <outgoing uri="smtp://smtpauth.earthlink.net:587" username="$email"/>
228 <provider id="juno" label="Juno" domain="juno.com">
229 <incoming uri="pop3://pop.juno.com" username="$user"/>
230 <outgoing uri="smtp://smtp.juno.com" username="$user"/>
232 <provider id="live" label="Windows Live Hotmail Plus" domain="live.com" note="@string/provider_note_live">
233 <incoming uri="pop3+ssl+://pop3.live.com" username="$email"/>
234 <outgoing uri="smtp+tls+://smtp.live.com" username="$email"/>
236 <provider id="hotmail" label="Windows Live Hotmail Plus" domain="hotmail.com" note="@string/provider_note_live">
237 <incoming uri="pop3+ssl+://pop3.live.com" username="$email"/>
238 <outgoing uri="smtp+tls+://smtp.live.com" username="$email"/>
240 <provider id="msn" label="Windows Live Hotmail Plus" domain="msn.com" note="@string/provider_note_live">
241 <incoming uri="pop3+ssl+://pop3.live.com" username="$email"/>
242 <outgoing uri="smtp+tls+://smtp.live.com" username="$email"/>
244 <provider id="mobileme" label="MobileMe" domain="me.com">
245 <incoming uri="imap+tls://mail.me.com" username="$email"/>
246 <outgoing uri="smtp+tls://smtp.me.com" username="$email"/>
248 <provider id="netzero" label="NetZero" domain="netzero.com">
249 <incoming uri="pop3://pop.netzero.com" username="$user"/>
250 <outgoing uri="smtp://smtp.netzero.com" username="$user"/>
252 <provider id="sbcglobal" label="SBC Global" domain="sbcglobal.net">
253 <incoming uri="pop3://pop.sbcglobal.yahoo.com" username="$email"/>
254 <outgoing uri="smtp://smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com" username="$email"/>
256 <provider id="verizon" label="Verizon" domain="verizon.net">
257 <incoming uri="pop3://incoming.verizon.net" username="$user"/>
258 <outgoing uri="smtp://outgoing.verizon.net" username="$user"/>
260 <provider id="yahoo" label="Yahoo Plus" domain="yahoo.com" note="@string/provider_note_yahoo">
261 <incoming uri="pop3+ssl+://plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com" username="$user"/>
262 <outgoing uri="smtp+ssl+://plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com" username="$user"/>
265 <!-- Common UK providers -->
267 <provider id="aol-uk" label="AOL" domain="aol.co.uk">
268 <incoming uri="imap+ssl+://imap.uk.aol.com" label="IMAP" username="$user"/>
269 <outgoing uri="smtp+ssl+://smtp.uk.aol.com" username="$user"/>
271 <provider id="bt" label="BT Internet" domain="btinternet.com">
272 <incoming uri="pop3://mail.btinternet.com" username="$email"/>
273 <outgoing uri="smtp://mail.btinternet.com" username=""/>
275 <provider id="tiscali" label="Tiscali" domain="tiscali.co.uk">
276 <incoming uri="pop3://pop.tiscali.co.uk" username="$email"/>
277 <outgoing uri="smtp://smtp.tiscali.co.uk" username="$email:wq"/>
279 <provider id="yahoo-uk" label="Yahoo" domain="yahoo.co.uk" note="@string/provider_note_yahoo_uk">
280 <incoming uri="pop3+ssl+://pop.mail.yahoo.co.uk" username="$user"/>
281 <outgoing uri="smtp+ssl+://smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk" username="$user"/>
284 <!-- Common Germany providers -->
286 <provider id="freenet" label="Freenet" domain="freenet.de">
287 <incoming uri="pop3://mx.freenet.de" username="$user"/>
288 <outgoing uri="smtp+ssl://mx.freenet.de" username="$email"/>
290 <provider id="gmx" label="GMX" domain="gmx.de">
291 <incoming uri="pop3+tls://pop.gmx.net" username="$email"/>
292 <outgoing uri="smtp+tls://mail.gmx.net" username="$email"/>
294 <provider id="T-Online" label="T-Online" domain="t-online.de" note="@string/provider_note_t_online">
295 <incoming uri="pop3://popmail.t-online.de" username="$email"/>
296 <outgoing uri="smtp://smtpmail.t-online.de" username="$email"/>
298 <provider id="web.de" label="Web.de" domain="web.de">
299 <incoming uri="pop3+tls://pop3.web.de" username="$user"/>
300 <outgoing uri="smtp+tls://smtp.web.de" username="$user"/>
304 <p>As with all Android application resources, the platform will load alternate resources based on the platform configuration values. See <a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/resources-i18n.html">Resources and Internationalization</a> in the Android SDK for details. To configure email providers for a specific mobile network operator, place the customized providers in a separate <code>providers.xml</code> file and place it under a Mobile Network Code (MNO) specific resource folder. For example, <code>Email/res/xml-mccXXX-mncYYY/providers.xml</code> where XXX and YYY represent the three-digit MCC and two to three digit MNC values.</p>
308 <a name="androidThemes"></a><h3>Platform Themes</h3>
312 <a name="androidThemesStyles"></a><h4>Themes and Styles</h4>
314 <p>System level styles are defined in <code>//android/framework/base/core/res/res/values/styles.xml</code>.</p>
317 <a name="androidThemesAnimations"></a><h4>Animations</h4>
319 <p>Android supports configurable animations for window and view transitions. System-level animations are defined in XML in global resource files located in <code>//android/framework/base/core/res/res/anim/</code>.</p>