Category Icon removal (Live, EPG, VOD, Series) is something that has being doing my head in for some time...
Well aware there are already posts on the forum on how this can be done; however, as a relative 'newbie', without upgrading to VIP status these were not available to me.
After a lot of searching i found what turned out (for me) to be the 'golden ticket'; a post from FierceGorilla stating this could be done in CategoriesActivity.smali - many thanks dude; without the hint i would still be looking!
The (obvious) first step for many people is to just set the visibility of the unwanted category to 'Gone' in the layout xml - not going to work guys...
visibility is controlled programmatically - this now makes total sense as many of the management panels give the option to turn on / off the category icons; 'hardcoded single dns' apps just being a modified panel version ... QED - visibility is hard coded!
So, next came several late 'googling' nights on the back of which i finally made a breakthrough....
What worked for me then ?
I will finally be able to sleep
Well aware there are already posts on the forum on how this can be done; however, as a relative 'newbie', without upgrading to VIP status these were not available to me.
After a lot of searching i found what turned out (for me) to be the 'golden ticket'; a post from FierceGorilla stating this could be done in CategoriesActivity.smali - many thanks dude; without the hint i would still be looking!
The (obvious) first step for many people is to just set the visibility of the unwanted category to 'Gone' in the layout xml - not going to work guys...
visibility is controlled programmatically - this now makes total sense as many of the management panels give the option to turn on / off the category icons; 'hardcoded single dns' apps just being a modified panel version ... QED - visibility is hard coded!
So, next came several late 'googling' nights on the back of which i finally made a breakthrough....
What worked for me then ?
I will finally be able to sleep

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