{"id":107,"date":"2014-06-07T09:48:53","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T09:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.catalystlogic.com.au\/?p=107"},"modified":"2026-03-01T01:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T14:44:18","slug":"android-bootanimation-zip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/54.253.247.134\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"Android Bootanimation.zip"},"content":{"rendered":"

After playing with a few animations, I wanted to make some edits to them, and try converting some existing gifs\u00a0into boot animations.<\/p>\n

I found that when editing the series of images, if I pulled few out. edited them, and put then back into the Bootanimation.zip those particular frames did not play. And if I replaced all of the images, the phone wouldn't even boot.<\/p>\n

After incorrectly assuming it was the image format, and size, and bit depth, the following column in 7 Zip tipped me off.<\/p>\n

\"7zip\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Ensuring the files were not compressed when added them back into the Zip worked. The zip only functioned as a container for the images, the compression should be done at the image level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After playing with a few animations, I wanted to make some edits to them, and try converting some existing gifs\u00a0into boot animations. I found that when editing the series of images, if I pulled few out. edited them, and put then back into the Bootanimation.zip those particular frames did not play. And if I replaced ...continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/54.253.247.134\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/54.253.247.134\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/54.253.247.134\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/54.253.247.134\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/54.253.247.134\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/54.253.247.134\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"http:\/\/54.253.247.134\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/54.253.247.134\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/54.253.247.134\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/54.253.247.134\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}