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Shizuku: App that lets you use system APIs with higher privileges without root

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Re: Shizuku: App that lets you use system APIs with higher privileges without root

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Post by teroshan »

Shizuku is a boon to get around Android's limited app auto-update capabilities, which helps when using non-Google Play apps.

See [1] for a list of apps leveraging Shizuku.

I use:

- Droid-ify [2] as a F-Droid alternative, to have auto-updating apps

- Mihon [3] as a Manga reader, with auto-updating extensions

- Canta [4] to remove bloat

[1]: https://github.com/timschneeb/awesome-shizuku

[2]: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.looker.droidify/

[3]: https://github.com/mihonapp/mihon

[4]: https://github.com/samolego/Canta

Re: Shizuku: App that lets you use system APIs with higher privileges without root

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Post by pushupentry1219 »

teroshan wrote: post #2

Shizuku is a boon to get around Android's limited app auto-update capabilities, which helps when using non-Google Play apps. See [1] for a list of apps leveraging Shizuku. I use: - Droid-ify [2] as a F-Droid alternative, to have auto-updating apps - Mihon [3] as a Manga reader, with auto-updating extensions - Canta [4] to remove bloat [1]: https://github.com/timschneeb/awesome-shizuku [2]: https://f-droid.org/package…

I thought droid-ify does auto-update without shinzuku (or root)? I turned it off because I don't like auto-update, but I could've sworn it still works.

Re: Shizuku: App that lets you use system APIs with higher privileges without root

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Post by notpushkin »

kajika91 wrote: post #3

Was looking at who is the author and saw "Copyright [yyyy] [name of copyright owner]" in the LICENCE ( https://github.com/RikkaApps/Shizuku/blob/master/LICENSE#L19... ) Is this still valid? If not does that mean that this app has no license?

It is. The [placeholders] here are a part of the Apache license text describing what to put in the source code to apply the license (see line 179). The author doesn’t follow this, but I think the intention is still clear so it’s fine.

Re: Shizuku: App that lets you use system APIs with higher privileges without root

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Post by Unbiased8678 »

teroshan wrote: post #2

Shizuku is a boon to get around Android's limited app auto-update capabilities, which helps when using non-Google Play apps. See [1] for a list of apps leveraging Shizuku. I use: - Droid-ify [2] as a F-Droid alternative, to have auto-updating apps - Mihon [3] as a Manga reader, with auto-updating extensions - Canta [4] to remove bloat [1]: https://github.com/timschneeb/awesome-shizuku [2]: https://f-droid.org/package…

I have also used canta to remove bloat along with App Ops to manage permissions.

Re: Shizuku: App that lets you use system APIs with higher privileges without root

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Post by TheDong »

kajika91 wrote: post #3

Was looking at who is the author and saw "Copyright [yyyy] [name of copyright owner]" in the LICENCE ( https://github.com/RikkaApps/Shizuku/blob/master/LICENSE#L19... ) Is this still valid? If not does that mean that this app has no license?

Yes it's valid. I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice.

As programmers, our instinct is to try to interpret things literally, as if they can be represented by math or code.

Copyright is a thing of the law, and laws are not like that. Laws are interpreted by humans, who generally attempt to interpret the spirit, and generally apply reasonable interpretations.

It's clear the author of the code intends it to be available under the Apache 2, and that's good enough.

Re: Shizuku: App that lets you use system APIs with higher privileges without root

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Post by jeroenhd »

teroshan wrote: post #2

Shizuku is a boon to get around Android's limited app auto-update capabilities, which helps when using non-Google Play apps. See [1] for a list of apps leveraging Shizuku. I use: - Droid-ify [2] as a F-Droid alternative, to have auto-updating apps - Mihon [3] as a Manga reader, with auto-updating extensions - Canta [4] to remove bloat [1]: https://github.com/timschneeb/awesome-shizuku [2]: https://f-droid.org/package…

What limitations are there these days? My F-Droid updates apps automatically in the background, for instance.
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