ba11b0y / simple_android_debloater

Simple Android Debloater is a desktop app built with Rust and Tauri to disable system packages. Similar to Universal Android Debloater

Simple Android Debloater

This software is in beta 🚧

Simple Android Debloater is a free and open source project to disable unwanted system apps that careers / OEMs force install in our mobile phones.

This is an attempt like Universal Android Debloater built with Tauri and Sveltekit.

Unlike UAD, this tool is aimed to be beginner friendly so as to not uninstall apps unexpectedly which can brick the device.

Note: Disabling system apps can also soft brick the device

Features

Standard features

• Disabling and Enabling a package
• Auto detect devices and heartbeats
• Customizable prompt settings
• Search and Filter Packages

Features over UAD

• Labels and Discussions powered by Github Discussions
  • Can be crowdsourced and moderated
  • Refreshed automatically once a day and can be triggered manually
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• Bulk Enable and Disable
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• Export and Import Settings, Results and Other data
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Download

Goto the latest Releases Page click on assets and download the installers applicable for your OS.

Supported Platforms:

• Windows: Installer (setup.exe, .msi),
• Mac: Installer (.dmg), App (.app)
• Linux: Installer (.deb), Image (.AppImage)

Screenshots are available in static directory.

Usage

Prerequisites

• In the phone
  • Make sure Usb Debugging is turned on
  • This requires one to enable developer options
• In the PC
  • Make sure to download ADB Tools for your PC.
  • ADB need not be in Path. Setting path is tedious in windows.
  • Use settings -> custom_adb_path pointing to the downloaded folder
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Read More from XDA On Setting up USB Debugging and ABD

Usage

• Click on Devices found in the left sidebar
• Use the search bar for searching
• Filtering for system, thirdparty, disabled, enabled app states
• Packages that are disabled by DPM (Device Policy Manager) are hidden

Development

Frontend Server Only: npm run dev

Run rust and node at once: npm run tauri dev -- --verbose

Tauri Quickstart Docs

Logs

Platform	Location	Example
macOS	$HOME/Library/Logs/{bundleIdentifier}	/Users/Bob/Library/Logs/com.ahiravan.simple-android-debloater
Windows	%APPDATA%${bundleIdentifier}\logs	C:\Users\Bob\AppData\Roaming\com.ahiravan.simple-android-debloater\logs
Linux	$HOME/.config/${bundleIdentifier}/logs	/home/bob/.config/com.ahiravan.simple-android-debloater/logs

TODOs:

• List Devices

• List Packages

• Hashset Packages

• Validate deviceID, userID, packageGetAll are valid

• Flowbite modal to open up if validation fails

• Disable packages

• Adb track device

• Github discussion for package

• Prepackage ADB Custom ADB Path Instead

• Persist Settings

• Dark Mode

• Export Packages in CSV / JSON

• Import CSV and Bulk Enable / Disable

• SDK Compatability checks