Skip to content

CandyBar Tools

Dani Mahardhika edited this page Mar 22, 2017 · 17 revisions

These are several tools provided by CandyBar to help you creating icon pack for Android.

  1. Icons Builder
  2. Appfilter Cleaner
  3. Appfilter Converter (Coming soon)

1. Icons Builder

You can build icon list using Icons Builder. Icons Builder will convert *.png file into drawable.xml and arrays.xml. You can get Icons Builder from here.

How to Use Icons Builder

  1. Download IconsBuilder.jar, open it from your PC or laptop. Then you will see CandyBar Icons Builder window like image below.

2. Prepare your `*.png` files. Put all of your icons inside one folder like image below.

3. Select all of your `*.png` files drag and drop to CandyBar Icons Builder window.

4. Click "Generate" button. If success, generated `drawable.xml` will be saved inside same folder of your icons.

Create Category for Icons

Put *.png files inside another folder as category. Select all folders, drag and drop to CandyBar Icons Builder window then click "Generate".

Sort Category

Just put number infront of category folder without space.

Generate arrays.xml

Check "arrays.xml" on top of CandyBar Icons Builder window.

2. Appfilter Cleaner

You can use Appfilter Cleaner to remove duplicate activity or activity that doesn't have icon in appfilter.xml. You can get Appfilter Cleaner from here.

NOTE: Don't forget to make a backup for original appfilter.xml

How to Use Appfilter Cleaner

  1. Download AppfilterCleaner.jar, open it from your PC or laptop. Then you will see CandyBar Appfilter Cleaner window like image below.

2. Click browse to select appfilter.xml **(1)**, folder contains all icons **(2)**, and output for cleaned appfilter.xml **(3)**.

You can use categorized icons for folder contains all icons

Or put all icons inside one folder

3. Click "Clean Appfilter" to begin cleaning. You can see which activity removed and why inside log box.