Customize Galaxy S3 Keyboard

There are many customizations that you can do on your Android and now you can design the keyboard also. Customize your keyboard according to you to get the best output from it. XDA developers have come with such a procedure using which you will be able to create your own Galaxy S3 keyboard. Now create new themes and try them out and share.

Over a period of time we have seen that there only few keyboard themes available and it may be possible that you don’t like any of them so now create one of your own. The process is little complicated so be sure that you fulfill every step correct manner otherwise you may lose your device.

Requirements:

Create a back up so that you can restore your data in case you lose it.
Also create a back up of keyboard apk so that in case you fail to customize the keyboard, you can restore the old one.
Charge your device to its full battery power.

Download and Install:

Android SDK.
Notepad++
7zip
Image Editor: Paint.net, GIMP or any of your choice.
APK Tool.
LatinlmeDictionaryPack.apk and drop it in “System -> apk”.

Galaxy S3 Keyboard

Steps to Create and Customize Galaxy S3 Keyboard:

Grab a working copy of your previous working keyboard apk and access it using file manager.
Extract ‘res -> drawable-xhdpi’ using 7zip and paste them to a new folder. It has PNG images in it.
Change or customize these images using the image editor and save them.
Now in the same folder hold “Shift” key and right click. Now go to “Open Command Window Here” which will open command prompt.
Now type: “apktool d LatinIME.apk” on it. A new folder will appear as a sub folder of your main folder. Go into it and you will see two more subfolders with name “res” and “smali”.
Now go to “res -> values” folder. It contains remaining keys and xml as “clors.xml” and “styles.xml”. Use Notepad++ to customize them and then save.
Now in the command prompt write “apktool b LatinIME”.
Now you will see four folders with name “res”, “smali” “build” and “dist”.
Go to “dist -> Built”. Open it using 7zip and extract “resources.arsc”.
Now go to the present keyboard apk and open it using 7zip. Copy the above extracted .arsc file into it.
Now go to “res -> drawable-xhdpi” where unthemed PNGs list is present. Copy and paste your edited PNGs here.
Close 7zip.
Go to the keybard apk and push it again in “System -> app” and fix the permissions as “rw-r—r—“.
Reboot your device.