privileged-extension

F-Droid Privileged Extension

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    License

    Apache License 2.0

    Note: F-Droid requires root privileges to install Privileged Extension

    as a system "priv-app".

    https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fdroid.fdroid can make use of system privileges or permissions

    to install, update and remove applications on its own. The only way to

    obtain those privileges is to become a system app.

    This is where the Privileged Extension comes in - being a separate app

    and much smaller, it can be installed as a system app and communicate

    with the main app via AIDL IPC.

    This has several advantages:

    * Reduced disk usage in the system partition

    * System updates don't remove F-Droid

    * The process of installing into system via root is safer

    This is packaged as an OTA (Over-The-Air) update ZIP file. It must be

    installed using TWRP or other Android recovery that can flash updates

    to the system from the /data/data/org.fdroid.fdroid folder on the

    /data partition. The standalone APK is called

    https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fdroid.fdroid.privileged, and that provides updates after this

    OTA package is installed.

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