Swype 3.2.4.3020400.50699 Black Edition

WIP modding of the last known Swype release with features such as:

• Larger UI scaling in portrait mode (from 80 - 120% to 100 - 140%)
• Pitch back "Material Dark" theme for AMOLED displays
• Slightly larger fonts
• Updated Emojis from Unicode
• .. Maybe more in the future

Huge thanks to modders over at 4PDA, most of the mods were done by diffing the untouched APK against existing mods by 4PDA folks

---

How to build this mod?

1. Install APKtool & Android SDK
2. Build unsigned APK using apktool:

apktool b swype_last -o Swype_blacked.apk

3. Zipalign Unsigned APK
4. apksign the zipaligned apk.
   4.1. (optional) Use android release keys platform.pk8 and platform.x509.pem

Script I use for steps 3 and 4 sign_apk.sh Swype-blacked.apk:

#!/bin/sh

BUILD_TOOLS=~/Android/Sdk/build-tools/31.0.0/

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
        echo "usage: $0 your-app.apk"
        exit 1
fi

OUT="$1"
OUT_ALIGNED="aligned-$OUT"
OUT_SIGNED="signed-$OUT"

# Debug mode
set -x

"$BUILD_TOOLS"/zipalign -p -v 4 "$OUT" "$OUT_ALIGNED"

# Verify
"$BUILD_TOOLS"/zipalign -vc 4 "$OUT_ALIGNED"

# Sign
"$BUILD_TOOLS"/apksigner sign --key platform.pk8 --cert platform.x509.pem --out "$OUT_SIGNED" "$OUT_ALIGNED"
#"$BUILD_TOOLS"/apksigner sign -ks ~/my-release-key.keystore --out "$OUT_SIGNED" "$OUT_ALIGNED"

# Cleanup
rm -fv "$OUT_ALIGNED"

echo == Done: $OUT_ALIGNED

Some commands for reference:

grep '; fully-qualified' emoji-test-5.0.txt | awk -F ';' '{print $1}' | sort

Installing custom themes - Needs ROOT

Credit: 4PDA post

Enter adb shell as root / termux root shell

• Find the UID and GID of the swype app and note it down:
  ls -al /data/data/com.nuance.swype.dtc
• Extract all the files from the com.nuance.swype.dtc_themes.txz release into the above path
• Set the correct ownership:

chown $UID:$GID -hR /data/data/com.nuance.swype.dtc/files /data/data/com.nuance.swype.dtc/shared_prefs

• Open /data/data/com.nuance.swype.dtc/shared_prefs/com.nuance.swype.dtc_preferences.xml
• Insert all the lines of Inventory.txt in this file before a line that looks like: <string name="downloaded.theme">current theme name</string>
• Edit current theme name with the Name of the theme, ex. nuance.theme.sand
• Edit <string name="swype.theme">/data/user/0/com.nuance.swype.dtc/files/themes/name of the theme folder/name of the apk file.apk</string>
• Kill and restart swype