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Is android modding dying?
| What srsly??
| Root fucking owns. Anyone who says otherwise is a basic bitch re: their phone OS and loves bloated OSes
| it was born dead.
| >>416732
>The heck is magisk?
literally an app to control your rooted phone + a mod repository
>The twrp app
nobody uses the app, just flash twrp and forget about it
>Anyone still doing this stuff?
I have a SGS3 with Lineage 14.1, Nexus 5 with some sort of Android 9.0 build, and SGS6 with SGS8 port installed.
| At this point we probably should get rid of Android totally, instead of modding it
| >>416732
I think you confuse 2 things, is rooting dying? No, i flashed twrp on my phone and rooted using magisk, kind of usefull app, though it soft bricked my other phone. I would be dying with all the bloat on my phone if i would be without root. Now, is modding dying? Idk, xposed still exists but i haven't heard any news about lineage getting upgrades/updates or any other project being as good as lineage...
| LineageOS is alive and well afaik
Is magisk open source?
| I stopped modding since august I guess, mostly because of magisk. I don't like it and everyone says it's god's bless or something. Also I want to let my tired bullhead die on stock, unless lineage release pie on it.
| >>417052 >>416868
So, what is magisk anyway? Is it a "su binary" just like superSU? Or is it a complete modding framework? (Like xposed iirc)
| >>417236
In short it's a mix of xposed an supersu, it has both of features but with a lot less amount of modules, so xposed is still better. But one thing i like very much about it is that it has a root hide built in.
| >>416732
The twrp app still works. Why should it be updated?
LineageOS is active developed and well maintained for a bunch of devices. The issue is that some devices are pretty restrictive and not popular enough for a custom ROM. I would always check compatibility before getting a device.
Magisk is no longer necessary - at least in LineageOS. A root permission Dialog is a default component and can be enabled in the Developer Options.
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| Both cwm and superSU are dead at least. The twrp app is last updated 2 years ago. I dunno the status on lineageOS, but my phone isn't supported anyway. Also, root is no longer a thing? The heck is magisk? Anyone still doing this stuff?