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Little Coding Experience Required!
This Tutorial Will Show You The Basics To Start Coding Your Own Tweaks!
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We Will Be Creating A Tweak Sends An Alert On Screen After Respring. Useless I Know But A Good, Simple Start.
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STEP ONE:
[Starting Your Tweak]
STEP TWO:
[Begin Coding]
STEP THREE:
[The Makefile]
STEP FOUR:
[Installing/Testing]
[Starting Your Tweak]
1. Create A New Tweak Instance in Theos:
Type the command "~/thoes/bin/nic.pl"
2. Select "New Tweak" by typing "5"
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3. Next you will name and add other information, for this example, your Project Name will be PopUpOnStart, Package Name will be com.YourName.popuponstart, here is what it should look like:
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4. You're done with Theos for now!
Type the command "~/thoes/bin/nic.pl"
2. Select "New Tweak" by typing "5"
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3. Next you will name and add other information, for this example, your Project Name will be PopUpOnStart, Package Name will be com.YourName.popuponstart, here is what it should look like:
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4. You're done with Theos for now!
STEP TWO:
[Begin Coding]
1. Open the folder where you created your tweak
Default location for windows is "C:\cygwin64\home\%YOUR NAME%\popuponstart"
2. Now open the file "tweak.xm"
This is the file where ALMOST ALL of your code goes
3. Delete everything in the file, then type "%hook SpringBoard", type carefully!
What Does This Do You Might Ask:
4. Now go down a couple lines and type "-(void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(id)application"
We need to tell that when this operation is run after every respring to send a alert, so here is what we are going to type:
What this does is tell the operation to run like it normally does.
5. We have a couple more lines to type, so here are all rest of the code we have to add, this all goes on a new line below '%orig;'. (it has been annotated so you know what the code does):
6. If you have any questions about what is happening, feel free to message me!
7. Check your code, and make sure it matches: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]
Default location for windows is "C:\cygwin64\home\%YOUR NAME%\popuponstart"
2. Now open the file "tweak.xm"
This is the file where ALMOST ALL of your code goes
3. Delete everything in the file, then type "%hook SpringBoard", type carefully!
What Does This Do You Might Ask:
We are 'hooking' into a header, these headers are where all iOS code is kept. We have to hook into these headers so we can 'edit' their operations!
A little confusing i know.
A little confusing i know.
4. Now go down a couple lines and type "-(void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(id)application"
We need to tell that when this operation is run after every respring to send a alert, so here is what we are going to type:
-(void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(id)application {
%orig;
} What this does is tell the operation to run like it normally does.
5. We have a couple more lines to type, so here are all rest of the code we have to add, this all goes on a new line below '%orig;'. (it has been annotated so you know what the code does):
UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Hello" //Title of your popup message
message:@"Insert Text Here" //Message of your popup message
delegate:self
cancelButtonTitle:@"Okay" //Cancel button text on your popup message
otherButtonTitles:nil];
[alert show];
[alert release]; //Keeps your alert from having memory leaks
} 6. If you have any questions about what is happening, feel free to message me!
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STEP THREE:
[The Makefile]
1. Open the file called 'Makefile' with Notepad++ (or your alternative)
2. Make some space at the top and add these lines:
2. Make some space at the top and add these lines:
a. This code will allow you to make your tweak work for new and old devices
b. This code will make thoes use the iOS Files of choice, for us it will be iOS 8.1
(This does not restrict your tweak to iOS 8! Our tweak WILL work on iOS9 and possibly iOS7)
c.This code allows your tweak to work at all! We have to use parts of a library called 'UIKit'. Place this code on a new line after the line "PopUpOnStart_FILES = Tweak.xm":
d. This code is for installing our tweak over wifi
export ARCHS = armv7 arm64 b. This code will make thoes use the iOS Files of choice, for us it will be iOS 8.1
(This does not restrict your tweak to iOS 8! Our tweak WILL work on iOS9 and possibly iOS7)
SDK = iPhoneOS8.1 c.This code allows your tweak to work at all! We have to use parts of a library called 'UIKit'. Place this code on a new line after the line "PopUpOnStart_FILES = Tweak.xm":
PopUpOnStart_FRAMEWORKS = UIKit d. This code is for installing our tweak over wifi
THEOS_DEVICE_IP = PUT YOUR iDEVICE'S IP HERE STEP FOUR:
[Installing/Testing]
1. On your jailbroken iDevice, install "OpenSSH"
2. Back on your computer, in the command prompt type "cd ~/popuponstart"
3. Next Type "SDKVERSION=8.1 make", if you get errors, then look at the completed version
Heres what it looks like with no errors:
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4. Finally, type "SDKVERSION=8.1 make package", if you want to install it to your device over wifi, continue to step, if not move that .deb file to your phone and install it with iFile or Filza!
[Installing Over Wifi]
This is quite faster than manually transferring
5. Download "WinSCP" if you're on windows or just open the terminal for mac, click the correct system to continue:
Windows:
Mac:
2. Back on your computer, in the command prompt type "cd ~/popuponstart"
3. Next Type "SDKVERSION=8.1 make", if you get errors, then look at the completed version
Heres what it looks like with no errors:
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4. Finally, type "SDKVERSION=8.1 make package", if you want to install it to your device over wifi, continue to step, if not move that .deb file to your phone and install it with iFile or Filza!
[Installing Over Wifi]
This is quite faster than manually transferring
5. Download "WinSCP" if you're on windows or just open the terminal for mac, click the correct system to continue:
Windows:
1. Open WinSCP
2. In 'Host Name' type your iDevice's IP address
3. Leave 'Port Number' at "22", and change 'User name' to "root"
4. Change 'Password' to "alpine"
5. Click Login!
6. Open cygwin and type "SDKVERSION=8.1 make package install"
7. Type 'alpine' whenever it asks for your passcode
8. And now your brand new tweak is installed to your device, and you cannot rotate your springboard!
2. In 'Host Name' type your iDevice's IP address
3. Leave 'Port Number' at "22", and change 'User name' to "root"
4. Change 'Password' to "alpine"
5. Click Login!
6. Open cygwin and type "SDKVERSION=8.1 make package install"
7. Type 'alpine' whenever it asks for your passcode
8. And now your brand new tweak is installed to your device, and you cannot rotate your springboard!
Mac:
1. Open the native terminal and type "ssh root@%YOUR DEVICE IP HERE"
2. When it asks for your password, type "alpine"
3. Now type "SDKVERSION=8.1 make package install"
4. And now your brand new tweak is installed to your device, and you cannot rotate your springboard!
2. When it asks for your password, type "alpine"
3. Now type "SDKVERSION=8.1 make package install"
4. And now your brand new tweak is installed to your device, and you cannot rotate your springboard!
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*If you have any questions about this tutorial or about development at all, message me!
*Tutorials on how to prepair your computer for development are evrywhere, for the windows version, look into the Links section
*Want more examples? Go to [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] for more open source tweaks!
*Want a specific tweak made? Message me!
*Add my repo to Cydia! Repo: LacertosusRepo.github.io
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This looks like a helpful post im going to look into it more later.
Sounds fun making my own tweak i can think of a couple right now lol.
Sounds fun making my own tweak i can think of a couple right now lol.
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I am terrible at coding, literally know nothing whatsoever, more of a 'do it now' kinda guy so the likelihood of me learning is like... zero.
Looks good though man, nice detail to it.
Looks good though man, nice detail to it.
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Thanks for creating this it sure will assist others in tweak making, Thanking the topic and +REP to you!
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TTG_GYPSY wrote This looks like a helpful post im going to look into it more later.
Sounds fun making my own tweak i can think of a couple right now lol.
Good! In the links section check out more tweaks ive made open source.
Zill wrote I am terrible at coding, literally know nothing whatsoever, more of a 'do it now' kinda guy so the likelihood of me learning is like... zero.
Looks good though man, nice detail to it.
Hah, yes it can be hard to get into but is good to know.
Kuruh wroteThanks for creating this it sure will assist others in tweak making, Thanking the topic and +REP to you!
Thanks for the rep!
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How good are you with header files and such?
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IBM wrote How good are you with header files and such?
Pretty decent, i can find what im looking for using the easy header search by Limineos,
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LacertosusDeus wroteYou think you could help with RaisinToast? [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]IBM wrote How good are you with header files and such?
Pretty decent, i can find what im looking for using the easy header search by Limineos,
It's basically an alternative UIAlertView that I was wanting to use for a credit popup, but no matter what I did, I'd get a few errors. I eventually gave up on it, but I'd like to try again.
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IBM wroteLacertosusDeus wroteYou think you could help with RaisinToast? [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]IBM wrote How good are you with header files and such?
Pretty decent, i can find what im looking for using the easy header search by Limineos,
It's basically an alternative UIAlertView that I was wanting to use for a credit popup, but no matter what I did, I'd get a few errors. I eventually gave up on it, but I'd like to try again.
Ahh im very sorry but i am not very good when it comes to that type, to show you what i mean, here is what i focus on and some other Objective-C: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]
Plus, i dont have a Mac making it harder for me to develop in the first place, since i use Cygwin.
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