❓ Question - Include patches in build time for non-root devices?
Charlyo opened this issue · 6 comments
Hello @Rikj000 and thank you for this amazing patches. I Do not plan to have a rooted / bootloader unlocked but It would be nice to make sure 3rd party apps can be used with android auto. I do my own android builds with microg.
Is it possible to come up with the same patches without needing xposed for an aosp build?
Thank you
Hi @Charlyo
You could de-compile the Android Auto app,
look for the functions being hooked, patch those in a similar way,
re-package the app, uninstall the original and install the patched version instead.
This method is inferior compared to the Xposed hooks though,
because you'll have to manually re-patch each AA update,
and AA updates are enforced upon users.
The Xposed hooks realize the same thing, without modifying AA itself,
which makes updating AA easy and re-patching not required.
Doubt that this will be possible on ROMs with an existing AndroidAuto stub .apk in the system partition though.
Because the .apk signature will be different, which will likely block you from installing a patched version.
Unless you also re-package the stub with the same signature as your modified AA .apk,
and then include that in the system partition of a ROM you've build yourself,
which is a lot of work, and will require an unlocked bootloader to initially flash the ROM,
but root / xposed will not be required.
To simply work around the .apk signature checks, you can look into another Xposed module, Core Patch,
which disables signature verification, but does require root / xposed.
Lastly, for non-rooted devices, if you want to keep it simple, check the honorable mentions
With KingInstaller, AA-Store, AAAD and AAEase,
you should be able to already get a decent amount of 3th party apps working on a non-rooted device.
Likely not all of them though.
Thank you @Rikj000 for the explanations!!!
Unfortunatelly king installer is not working for me (android 13). It still says it was installed by KingIInstaller
Unfortunatelly king installer is not working for me (android 13). It still says it was installed by KingInstaller
Give AA-Store, AAAD and AAEase a try, if those don't work either,
you'll have to take the hard route described above,
or go the root / xposed way.
Closing this issue due to the question being answered.