Category Archives: Android

Override DNS v5.4.1 released

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  • User facing improvements:

    • Adaptive icon
    • Added test button when possible
    • Added a dedicated service for Oreo+ versions and a persistent notification (can be switched off)
    • Added “always use iptables” option for N+ Android versions
    • Improved logging: added autoscroll, timestamp, failure reasons, live messages, persistance
    • Fixed rotation problems, ProgressBar, layout for small screens, buttons layout
    • Improved: notifications, app load time, root detection
    • removed Showcaseview library

  • Internal improvements:

    • Fixed: SELinux detection, Magisk detection, restore button, network disconnections detection
    • Improved: Wi-Fi SSID detection, code style
    • Reduced preferences size, source code, compilation time
    • Simplified mantainability with command templates
    • Disabled StrictMode in release versions
    • Introduced: Gson, ButterKnife

Cross compile fstrim for Android on Ubuntu 18.10

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Install compiler

$ sudo apt install gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi

Get sources and compile

$ apt source util-linux
$ cd util-linux-*
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure --host=arm-linux-gnueabi CFLAGS="-static"
$ make LDFLAGS="--static" fstrim
# OK with warnings

Check

$ file fstrim
fstrim: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, BuildID[sha1]=5f6d5789d8c27197fb5fadbc18f5cd506b330dc4, with debug_info, not stripped

Override DNS new release (v5.1.0)

Android, Override DNS, Programming
Changelog

  • Make everything faster
  • New feature: the app can use DNS servers listening on alternate ports (ur0011)
  • New feature: the app can now be activated as a Device Administrator (ur0020)
  • New feature: support for 64-bit architectures in setools-android
  • New feature: auto clear notification (ur0031)
  • New feature: custom notification priority (ur0032)
  • Migrate root library from RootCommands to libsuperuser
  • Add OpenDNS on port 443 in the predefined list of available servers
  • Ask again for root permissions after an upgrade
  • Add iptables cleanup procedure in the Advanced settings
  • Upgrade gradle, EventBus, setools-android, android-rate, showcaseview, dashclock-api
  • New library: vntnumberpickerpreference
  • bugfix when busybox replaces toolbox/toybox
  • bugfixes