• db2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    201·
    1 year ago

    you will need to do factory reset

    Or you could just reenable the app with adb. 🙄 This isn’t doing anything you couldn’t do with a one-liner.

    • dalë@reddthat.comEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Yes, but as this app is designed for people like me who don’t have access to other hardware then factory reset would be my only option.

    • TooMuchVanced@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      If you don’t have a desktop you can’t use it so to have something that does the same that you can use on mobile is pretty cool.

    • TooMuchVanced@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      The app lets you use system features that are normally not available for regular apps. Basically it runs a service which has access to some System API’s that can be granted to regular apps so think of it like you would have root without having root.

    • kadu@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      It’s just a on-device GUI for the built in debugging tools, which might be used to grant permissions apps can’t usually request by themselves.

      It’s like USB ADB, but on device.

  • olof@lemmy.mlEnglish
    35·
    1 year ago

    From their readme:

    For the project as a whole, it is not free. You are FORBIDDEN to distribute the apk compiled by you (including modified, e.g., rename app name “Shizuku” to something else) to any store (IBNLT Google Play Store, F-Droid, Amazon Appstore etc.).

    I don’t get it?

      • Adanisi@lemmy.zipEnglish
        61·
        1 year ago

        Redistributing modifications or otherwise modifying, improving and sharing software isn’t stealing…

        Their “exception” basically defeats the point of the free license it uses (Apache2.0). It’s more source-available than libre or open source, thinly veiled by the Apache license at the top of the project. I find it interesting that they chose a free license to base it on in the first place if they then go on to invalidate a good chunk of it’s user protections.

        If they really don’t want people to pass off other work as theirs, they could have just used the 4-clause BSD license, with it’s advertising clause, or Apache 1.0, also with an advertising clause (not great for libre licenses, but would fit and wouldn’t be quite so bad as what they’ve done).