grp / Paperback

Paperback editions are issued when a publisher decides to re-release a book in a low-cost format.

Paperback

A version of Paper modified to pretend to be the Facebook app.

Explanation

Paper was an alternative to the Facebook app released in February 2014 and discontinued in July 2016. While the app was disabled remotely, the client is still functional. This project brings Paper back to life by making it indistinguishable from the standard Facebook for iOS app.

Installation

Prequisites

• Recent macOS and Xcode.

• Ninja to build:

   brew install ninja
  

• ios-deploy to install:

   brew install node
   npm install -g ios-deploy
  

• An unmodified, decrypted copy of Paper.app, version 1.2.6.

• An iOS Developer program membership, to re-sign the app.

Instructions

1. Put the decrypted Paper.app into the same directory as the code.

2. Modify Entitlements.xml to reference the appropriate App ID prefix for your provisioning profile.

3. Set the CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY environment variable to reference the appropriate code signing identity (often iPhone Developer).

   export CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY="iPhone Developer"
   

4. Build:

   ninja build
   

5. Install onto attached device:

   ninja install
   

   Alternatively, package build/Paper.app and install with iTunes or OTA.

License

See the LICENSE file for details.

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Thanks to everyone who made Paper possible.