How To Create or Edit An Updater Script In Android

In this article, we are going to learn how to create an updater script for Android or edit a script you already have. An updater-script file is simply a text file that contains all the commands which tell the clockworldmod CWM what to do with a zip file. The updater-script file is written with a scripting language.

To create an updater script you need Notepad++, It’s strongly recommended to use it instead of Notepad. You can download Notepad++ from here and install it on your PC. After downloading Notepad++, open it and from the File Menu select New, create the commands and create your own updater-script.

Warning

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The updater-script is located in Meta-inf/com/google/android/updater-script. Below you will find all the command used in the updater-script file with the explanation what the commands do.

Ui_print. This command prints the word inside the quotations.

Example – ui_print(“xolo – next level”); prints Xolo next level in your cwm recovery.

Mount – This command mounts the partition, so if you want to add files to system partition you have to mount system partition, data for data partition
To mount system – mount(“ext4″, “EMMC”, “/dev/block/mmcblk0p5″, “/system”);
Here mmcblk0p5 is the name of system partition for mtk 6589 chipsets (this name varies from device to device)
To mount data – mount(“ext4″, “EMMC”, “/dev/block/mmcblk0p7″, “/data”); (partition name varies from device to device)

format – This command formats the specified partition.
It is highly recommended to include this command to format system and data if you are making updater-script for ROM
To Format system – format(“ext4″, “EMMC”, “/dev/block/mmcblk0p5″, “0″);(partition name varies from device to device)
To Format data – format(“ext4″, “EMMC”, “/dev/block/mmcblk0p7″, “0″);(partition name varies from device to device)
package_extract_dir(” “, “/”) – This command extracts all the files from the folder mentioned inside first quotation to the partition or directory inside second quotation
For system – package_extract_dir(“system”, “/system”);
(this copies all files from system folder in zip to system partition in phone)
For data – package_extract_dir(“data”, “/data”);

package_extract_file(” “,”/”) – This command extracts the single file inside between the first quotation from zip to the partition or directory inside the second quotation

symlink – This command creates links to its executable files

Here is an example for super su binaries – symlink(“/system/xbin/su”, “/system/bin/su”);

set_perm_recursive – This command sets permission for folders
here android uses Unix permission system
in Unix
4 – read
2 – write
1 – execute
so
rwx is 4+2+1 = 7
rw is 4+2 = 6
rx is 4+1 = 5 
Example – set_perm_recursive(0, 0, 0755, 0644, “/system”);
In this 0 is a user id for the owner that refers to root. It means that permission owner for system folder. and 0 is root user means it unrestricted access to the system. it is given in order to run programs to run properly
second 0 also refers to root. but here it refers to group id 0

set_perm – This command sets permission for a specific file
Example – set_perm(1000, 1000, 0640, “/system/etc/bluetooth/auto_pairing.conf”);
here 1000 refers to user id system and 0640 is rw-r—–
and this command sets the permission rw-r—– for the file auto_pairing.conf.

unmount – This command unmounts the partition
Example – unmount(“/system”); – unmounts system.