diff --git a/util/etc/launcher_protoutil b/util/etc/launcher_protoutil
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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2013 The Android Open Source Project
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# Set up prog to be the path of this script, including following symlinks,
+# and set up progdir to be the fully-qualified pathname of its directory.
+prog="$0"
+while [ -h "${prog}" ]; do
+    newProg=`/bin/ls -ld "${prog}"`
+    newProg=`expr "${newProg}" : ".* -> \(.*\)$"`
+    if expr "x${newProg}" : 'x/' >/dev/null; then
+        prog="${newProg}"
+    else
+        progdir=`dirname "${prog}"`
+        prog="${progdir}/${newProg}"
+    fi
+done
+oldwd=`pwd`
+progdir=`dirname "${prog}"`
+cd "${progdir}"
+progdir=`pwd`
+prog="${progdir}"/`basename "${prog}"`
+cd "${oldwd}"
+
+jarfile=launcher_protoutil_lib.jar
+libdir="$progdir"
+
+if [ ! -r "$libdir/$jarfile" ]; then
+    # set jar location for the Android tree case
+    libdir=`dirname "$progdir"`/framework
+fi
+
+if [ ! -r "$libdir/$jarfile" ]; then
+    echo `basename "$prog"`": can't find $jarfile"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# By default, give decoder a max heap size of 1 gig. This can be overridden
+# by using a "-J" option (see below).
+defaultMx="-Xmx1024M"
+
+# The following will extract any initial parameters of the form
+# "-J<stuff>" from the command line and pass them to the Java
+# invocation (instead of to the decoder). This makes it possible for
+# you to add a command-line parameter such as "-JXmx256M" in your
+# scripts, for example. "java" (with no args) and "java -X" give a
+# summary of available options.
+
+javaOpts=""
+
+while expr "x$1" : 'x-J' >/dev/null; do
+    opt=`expr "x$1" : 'x-J\(.*\)'`
+    javaOpts="${javaOpts} -${opt}"
+    if expr "x${opt}" : "xXmx[0-9]" >/dev/null; then
+        defaultMx="no"
+    fi
+    shift
+done
+
+if [ "${defaultMx}" != "no" ]; then
+    javaOpts="${javaOpts} ${defaultMx}"
+fi
+
+if [ "$OSTYPE" = "cygwin" ]; then
+    # For Cygwin, convert the jarfile path into native Windows style.
+    jarpath=`cygpath -w "$libdir/$jarfile"`
+else
+    jarpath="$libdir/$jarfile"
+fi
+
+exec java $javaOpts -jar "$jarpath" "$@"
diff --git a/util/etc/manifest.txt b/util/etc/manifest.txt
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+Main-Class: com.android.launcher3.DecoderRing