GreaseDroid

• Note: This repository is solely meant be used for research purposes. It is NOT intended for piracy and other non-legal uses.
• Note: This repository is an archival copy of the primary GreaseDroid respository.

Authors: Konrad Kollnig, Siddhartha Datta

GreaseDroid 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 GreaseDroid.

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

GreaseDroid 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