25 Sept 2026, 10:26 UTC≈4,850 views144 reactionsread 12 November 2026 Folks.
I was on vacation for the past three and half weeks and spent some time working on a few exciting side features, such as an overhauled audio player, a PDF viewer (which will be turned into a eBook viewer, not reader, eventually), image viewer, and a font viewer. I have spent a significant amount of time understanding how process isolation works on Android and implemented the PDF viewer in a way such that its …
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5 Sept 2026, 02:19 UTC≈8,020 views105 reactionsread 12 November 2026 Why can certain apps having no internet permissions apparently connect to the internet?
They are using a separate provider application. This is true for a lot of applications that use FCM/UnifiedPush protocols to provide notifications (in which case they are either using Google Play Services or a UnifiedPush client). Large software vendors also do something similar: Gemini, for example, doesn't have an internet perm…
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4 Sept 2026, 11:54 UTC≈15,100 views136 reactionsread 12 November 2026 File
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4 Sept 2026, 11:54 UTC≈7,650 views99 reactionsread 12 November 2026 App Manager v4.1.1
App Manager v4.1.1 improves permissions, installation, ADB connectivity, and several other parts of the application. Visit Settings > About > Version/Changelog for details.
Revoke Internet Permission
App Manager can now block internet for individual applications utilizing the eBPF rules in root or ADB mode. To block internet for an application, go to the "Uses permissions" tab and click on the to…
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29 Jun 2026, 21:05 UTC≈10,900 views126 reactionsread 12 November 2026 I am aware of the Android 17 issues. A hotpatch will be released for Android 17 next week. While most changes from Android 16 to 17 are minor, they have changed a core API which used to let App Manager list the applications themselves. So, basically a minor change causing a major issue.
If you need to access the app details page of an app, you can do so from a supported web browser (Chrome, Brave, etc. should work O…
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29 Jun 2026, 02:05 UTC≈20,000 views221 reactionsread 12 November 2026 File
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29 Jun 2026, 02:05 UTC≈9,640 views147 reactionsread 12 November 2026 App Manager v4.1.0
App Manager v4.1.0 comes with massive performance boosts, newly added ADB backup support, UI enhancements, and various other improvements. Visit Settings > About > Version/Changelog for details.
ADB data backup
App Manager now offers full support for ADB backups. A new "ADB data" backup option has been added which supersedes standard internal/external data backups. It creates package-specific .ab…
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1 Jun 2026, 04:42 UTC≈8,620 views159 reactionsread 12 November 2026 What lies ahead? The future, as I see it, is very much uncertain. We are in a situation where things can go really bad at any moment. We can finally see a mutual agreement among the leaders of the world regarding mass surveillance (whatever they say out loud regarding privacy and security are just a sham), and I do not see anybody doing anything against this alliance. As Saruman put it, they “are to remove only those…
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1 Jun 2026, 04:42 UTC≈7,790 views179 reactionsread 12 November 2026 🎉 6 years of App Manager 🎉
Today marks the sixth anniversary of App Manager. Over the years, I have made significant effort to develop an app that offers some level of control over the digital life in the Android ecosystem.
As of today, I wrote almost 250k lines of code (LOC) with over one million addition and removal in the version control system via 3,650 commits (that's 1.6 commit/day or 11.7 commits/week on ave…
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29 May 2026, 07:45 UTC≈6,940 views52 reactionsread 12 November 2026 Translators.
If you've started translating App Manager as a new translator on or after 17 April 2025, make sure to request explicit permission as stated in the Weblate banner for the project. If you do not request permission, your translations will not be considered regardless of their quality. If you fail to do this by June 14, your past translations will be discarded. Note that asking for permissions does not ensu…
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27 May 2026, 05:58 UTC≈8,290 views154 reactionsread 12 November 2026 📣 May'26 Updates
It's been a while since I posted the last update (which was in September last year). As some of you are aware, I've been very busy with a lot of things and could hardly allocate time to my open source projects. However, I always try to respond to the emails and the issues raised on the GitHub issue tracker.
There's a good news though. My course work for PhD will be completed on the first week of Ju…
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14 Apr 2026, 05:59 UTC≈11,400 views180 reactionsread 12 November 2026 Good news!
I have been successfully able to register App Manager and Captive Portal Controller in the Android developer verification console. From tomorrow, users from countries where App Manager had previously been restricted due to regulatory issues (e.g., Singapore, Thailand, Turkey) should be able to install App Manager without bypassing Google Play Protect. However, I didn't receive any updates from Google rega…
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