App Warden is a FOSS app management utility.
Features
- Free/Libre software - Has GPLv3 License
- Beautiful design - Based on latest material design guidelines
- Detects Trackers & Loggers across whole device
- Allows to disable all trackers/loggers
- Advance profile based app de-bloater
How does it work?
AppWarden has a static curated list of known trackers (Exodus Privacy) , each app's dex file is read to retrieve the class names, these class names are then matched with the signatures of known trackers & loggers to find them.
A list of currently known trackers & loggers can be found here & here
Loggers in the context of Warden means all utilities which are used to log user activity on an app or logcat in general. Not all loggers are evil. But few logging tools like ACRA, xLog are very powerful tools that can send user data to devs without user's consent. So do read the app's Privacy Policy, beforehand.
Warden uses su pm to manage the components.
De-Bloater (Requires Root)
Warden provides a profile based de-bloater where a profile is created in a format specified as in this sample scripts You need to place this profile/your custom profile at ExternalStorage/Warden/Profiles to make them appear in app.
De-Bloater is an experimental feature, will improve it over time. Default action for debloating is 'disable' you can configure it to 'uninstall' or 'hide' from settings.
Nuke it! (Requires Root)
Nuke it! is another experimental feature that scans all apps on the device and disables all know tracker components automatically. It also gives an option to export components names per-app basis.Components here means: Activities, Services, Providers & Receivers
Changelog For v1.0.3:
- Optimized memory requirements
- Reduced APK size by 45%
- Added app sorting & filter
- Added single click de-nuke option
- Added option to exclude system app from nuke it.
- Added in-app updater
- Fixed cache residual issue
- UI improvements & minor bugs
