kasnder / greasedroid

Implementation of "I Want My App That Way: Reclaiming Sovereignty Over Personal Devices", accepted as Late-Breaking Work (LBW) for CHI 2021

AppGenie (previously called 'GreaseDroid')

Note that this repository is solely meant be used for research purposes. It is NOT intended for piracy and other non-legal uses.

Authors: Konrad Kollnig, Siddhartha Datta

AppGenie aims to make it easier for Android users to make their apps fit their special needs. This repository provides a proof-of-concept of the paradigms behind AppGenie.

Before using, please change the provided signing key release-key.keystore.

keytool -genkey -v -keystore my-release-key.keystore -alias alias_name -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000

AppGenie web application

Usage:

1. Set up apktool, jre, python, and fill out data/config.csv
2. Install Python requirements: pip3 install -r requirements.txt
3. Run python3 app.py to start patching files (deploy publicly wth ngrok)

CLI Tool: testing/cli

Usage

1. Place apk file to be decoded, compiled and signed in the ./data/ directory
2. Run python3 apk_parse.py --apk <apk-filename>

Patches: testing/patches

This project ship a range of patches that can be run by providing the path the directory with the decompiled app resources from apktool.

For instance, if the app ./store/com.twitter.android.apk was decompiled into ./com.twitter.android:

./patches/com.twitter.android/3_remove_status_updates.sh ./com.twitter.android