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Virtuous Ten Studio

Virtuous Ten Studio (VTS) is the ultimate solution for the modification of android applications. This program allows you to manage entire Android projects within an easy to use and familiar environment.

The intended group of users covers anyone from a themer over ROM devs up to the smali godsknown for their awesome mods of existing apks. The modifcation of smali code is one of the biggest features in VTS. You can easily decompile, edit and recompile any apk or jar file.
However, the application is not limited to smali files. You can edit almost any file found inside an apk or jar.

VTS has been designed to run on Windows, has been in development for nearly a year and has gone through many stages of testing. We now feel that the it is mature enough to be released publicly.

Features
A full list of features can be found here.

• Never before seen UI
  
  • Fully featured IDE
    
  • Integration of useful thrid party tools
    • ApkTool
      
    • ADB
      
    • Zipalign
      
    • Sign
      
    • many more
    
    
  • Work with your apks just like having real java code
    
  • Support for apks and framework jars
    
  • Easily keep track of multiple apks/jars with the Solution Explorer
  
  
• Edit smali code like never before
  • Syntax highlighting
    
  • Jumping to smali references (method calls, fields, classes, gotos)
    
  • Help files on almost every smali command and topic
    
  • Connection between smali code and public.xml to expose hex references
    
  • Have a helpful look at the java source of any smali file if needed
  
  
• Communicate with your device with yet to be seen ease
  • Tight integration of most ADB commands
    
  • Push apks easily to any place on your device
    
  • Remote import files to edit them with VTS
    
  • Debug your device with the integrated Logcat-Viewer
• Enhance your workflow with useful additions
  • Easily create backups of your projects
    
  • Compare backups against the current source base to track down and merge changes
    
  • Paste often used smali snippets right from the editor

Screenshots




Bugs & Issues

We have set up a public bugtracker where you can post your issues. Please search if there are already similar issues before creating new tickets.
The bugtracker is located here.

We am also usually available on IRC, channel #vts-dev on Freenode.

Download and more information

The downloads and many more resources can be found on the official website: Virtuous Ten Studio

I'm sure everyone has noticed there hasn't been any real development activity since VPGB. For those wondering what's up, the main reason is I need to get a dedicated machine setup for it. I'm currently dual booting my laptop and have ended up stuck in Windows for various things a lot. Since moving to AOSP, for the most part I'm dead in the water without Linux. The other part is it just takes so damn long to build it from source, depending on what I'm working on, it can take hours between making a change and being able to test that change. I just can't have my only machine tied up all the time for that. So basically my options are continue to work very slowly until I can get another box setup, or go back to Non-Sense until then. I will likely open a poll on that very topic soon.

So, what have I been doing? A few months back, I stumbled on a project in progress to create the ultimate APK editor. I sought out the person working on it to try and get in on testing it, and would up joining the project. We've added a lot of really cool stuff since then, and are actually shooting for a release in the next week. I'm typically a pretty modest guy, but a month from now, this will without a question be THE tool for modding. What's so special about it you ask?

Current features include:

• Built in apk decomple/recompile
  
• Optional built-in Java decompile
  
• Capability for M10 editing
  
• Quick access to push, logcat, adb shell
  
• Syntax highlighting
  
• Popup and standalone help-tips for all smali commands
  
• Instantly jump to any method, class, field or branch target
  
• Instantly see what lines reference a jump target
  
• Choose apktool or framework version
  
• Hover over hex references to see their name from public.xml and value from bools/strings/etc
  
• Ability to set markers on lines and jump to next/prev marker
  
• Global search/replace
  
• Import from device

So yea.. This is what my main focus has been on for a while, and I think it's about to pay off for everyone

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I'll make this short, I'm conflicted about even posting this, but here goes...

So here's the deal... I've got about a week until the domain and hosting is up for renewal. Last year wasn't an issue, donations and ads covered the site fees without a problem. Those of you without ad-blockers may have noticed about a year ago now ads disappeared. Google, for reasons they refuse to disclose revoked my AdSense account. Along with that, with development slowing, donations for about the last 8 months have dropped to almost nothing. As always, donations are in no way required, and the perks for doing so are nothing special, as I am not selling anything here. I got another ad provider about a month ago, which so far has racked up $1.90.

Development has slowed, but has not stopped. I don't have anything ready for public testing yet, but have been working on ICS for a couple of weeks now. It is still my hope that I will be able to take this one base, and build it for both the OG, 3D, and the NS4G, possibly with more to follow after that, just to give everyone an idea of where things are headed and why nothing has moved forward with VPGB or the 3D RC2. GB is on the way out, and rather than put any more time into it, I'm getting a jump on the latest and greatest.

With all that said, even without the rom(s), there are a good number of folks here who have benefited greatly from these forums. No matter the outcome, hosting will be renewed, and the forums will not be going anywhere. But I want to ask that if you have been helped here, please consider making even a small donation. If roughly 40 people were to make even a $5 donation, the renewal fees would be covered for another year. With 2100 registered users and nearly 40,000 posts worth of activity, many people have made a home here even after moving on to other phones and carriers. No one is in any required to give anything, but should you so feel inclined, or if you have been meaning to but just not gotten around to it, now would be the time.

I may have created it, but VaelPak would be nothing without all of you.. So thanks for all of the support thus far and for listening. I'll keep doing what I do, you keep doing what you do, and here's to kicking some ass in 2012.

-Vaelek

Soooo. The other day, MrsV and a friend were Skyping.. Somehow it got on the topic of a "celebrity top 5 list".. if you catch my drift... And I got roped into naming mine on the spot.. As it's not something I keep on the tip of my brain, it's been revised a few times, and probably still isn't right

Anyhow.. In no particular order, the current top 5 as follows

Courtney Thorne-Smith (According to Jim, Alley McBeal)


Kaley Cuoco (The Big Bang Theory, 8 Simple Rules)


Renee O'Connor (Xena)


Drew Barrymore (Too much to list, you know who she is )


Yvonne Strahovski (Chuck)


And the current runners up:

Alyson Hannigan (How I Met Your Mother, American Pie, Buffy)



Milla Jovovich (Resident Evil, 5th Element, Run Lola Run)


Nicole Sullivan (Mad TV, Rita Rocks, King of Queens)


Anna Faris (Smiley Face, My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Scary Movie, The Hot Chick)


Emilie de Ravin (Lost)



Who's next? (keep it clean...and scale images to 600px wide or less please)