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Cross-platform GUI written in Rust using ADB to debloat non-rooted android devices. Improve your privacy, the security and battery life of your device.
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Uninstallation commands and installation on Linux #815

Open Gibtnix opened 12 months ago

Gibtnix commented 12 months ago

Hi,

First of all, great work! Adding a GUI to ADB for debloating Android is extremly useful, thanks a lot! 👍

Still, I have a two minor questions that I tried to answer by inspecting the source code, however I did not find an easy answer. I don't know whether feature request is the right form, still I found it the best matching one. Therefore, I'd like to quickly ask:

  1. How are the respective packages removed? On the command line, I noticed that usually two commands are required: 
    
# first, uninstall any updates that might have been installed (without this step, they might be kept)
adb uninstall <package>

disable the app and delete user data (adding '-k' keeps the data)

adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 



Doing so, I never had any automatic re-installations or re-activations (as noted). Therefore, I wanted to ask whether both steps are performed here, too? If not, it might be worth extending, but I'm not an ADB expert...

2. Besides this functional issue, I am curious whether there is a way for a system-wide install on Linux, in particular for Debian-/ubuntu-based distributions?

As far as I see, there are no configuration files created (or are there any?) and besides ADB, there seems to be no real dependency, i.e. installing can be done by copying the binary to `/usr/local/bin` (or a similar path on other distros). If this is the easiest option (or is there maybe a PPA somewhere?), I think this could be realized using a small shell script that downloads the latest binary from GitHub. Do you have any interest in adding such a script to the repo? If so, I would create one as soon as I find the time for it...