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onyxbits commented 7 years ago

Add a means to effortlessly disable bloatware via ADB:

Must differentiate between Gapps and Vendor bloat (some users might want to get rid of both, others only of the later).
Needs an option to undo the cahnge ... we can probalby just query the list of disabled system apps and renable them all. No need to keep track of everything.
What exactly is bloatware? I don't want to hardcode packagenames, so we probably need to download a list that can be checked against what's backed into the ROM.
Is Chrome and Facebook bloat? Strictly spoken: yes. But some users might want to keep either. So the UI probably needs to be a Treeview with the three top level nodes "Google", "Vendor", "Arguable"

DragoonAethis commented 7 years ago

Vendor bloat might be difficult to handle simply because there's so much of it out there. Individual models from the same vendor can have 2 or 3 sets of completely different packages, some vendors integrate their bloat into the System UI, and so on. You'd have to find which device model + firmware version you're working with and provide the bloatware list for that specific combination (you could probably share lists between devices in the same "generation"), but that'd be Sisyphean work.

A solid alternative would be to provide a list of all system packages and hide the ones known not to be bloatware or essential for Android/Google Play Services to work properly, then let the user pick what he wants to disable, with a large warning that this might break his device and that a factory reset might be required if something goes wrong. (Full ADB backups would be useful to help the less cautious users there, but that's probably stretching the definition of Raccoon as a "package manager" of sorts.)

onyxbits commented 7 years ago

hm ... I had this (probably) naive idea of simply querying the packagemanager via ADB to list all system apps. Then check those packagenames against a list of known bloatware apps.

DragoonAethis commented 7 years ago

This would be okay, just that having a reliable list of known bloatware isn't "just", but is rather complicated.

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