App Manager For Platform

[Tharow]

Support for App Manager to be built-in to a ROM as the installer application.
Uses Build variants to separate platform and standard implementations.
PR: #1935

I will likely to combine FabricatedOverlayBuilder into AMFP as it requires a custom implementation of the Idmap2 service to create the overlays.

Features:

• Uninstaller
• Unarchiver / Archiver
• SSAID Editor Functionality see System Server Impl
• Session Installer
  • Session Installer Currently works by reading all the data from a session then installing the selected app, needs to be a separate feature for overwriting the session install, under normal situation we need to approve the installation not install it ourselves.
  • Allow installing an app with permissions already configured, can be done with the shell as well, will need to back-port the feature to adb as well.
• Handling of android.permission.REQUEST_INSTALL_PACKAGE, a discussion of this feature need to be done in depth as besides the cts verification rules there is quite a few ways to handle the use of the permission by apps.
• Internal or external handling of "known" installer apps, that bypass the install dialog, while there is a install in background feature already in AM is should only be used for known apps so that malicious apps can't background install without user interaction.
• Override normal "Self Destruct" feature in AM as users can't update platform version on there own, and can't be left without critical feature required by the OS.
• Override intent list for Interceptor to avoid system crash with two "installers" present.
• Android.bp and other soong files needed by the lineageOS/AOSP build system.
• System Server impl of AMServer for interacting with system_system gid and pid directly. also means that AM doesn't require use of id 1000 in manifest if it can access it via server instead.
• Use System Debugging flag for logging instead of requiring debug build.

[BD9Max]

Request: installer not creating app shortcuts to start page (launcher). Add option to create shortcuts?

[Tharow]

Request: installer not creating app shortcuts to start page (launcher). Add option to create shortcuts?

Not related, and most launchers already support turning that feature off.

[MuntashirAkon]

@Tharow: Any updates?

[Tharow]

@Tharow: Any updates?

Yes, the biggest thing I'm trying to get working is loading sessions I have a way to accept session installation Confirmation and confirm it.

We'd need to add android.permission.PACKAGE_VERIFICATION_AGENT if we wanted to control incoming installs (it would let us intercept any install including those from markets) and modify them as we pleased.

Good news we don't have to touch apex as it's not handled by the front end, infact nothing besides the package server can deal with them at all and it just redirects it to the ApexManager. adb install was the only way I found to install them. On stock and lineageos as thoses are the only kind of environment this feature will work on. Due to the asop build requirement. Maybe magisk but I've never used it.

The other required configuration files have been made
For sysconfig, privapp-permission, and default-permission

Uninstallation is easy once a dialog is made for it.

[BD9Max]

Request: installer not creating app shortcuts to start page (launcher). Add option to create shortcuts?

Not related, and most launchers already support turning that feature off.

But apps installed with App manager installer doesn't create shortcut to launcher/home/drawer despite launchers setting "auto add shortcuts for new apps" is enabled.

App managers installer is good with features but then one needs to manually add shortcuts :/

[MuntashirAkon]

But apps installed with App manager installer doesn't create shortcut to launcher/home/drawer despite launchers setting "auto add shortcuts for new apps" is enabled.

App managers installer is good with features but then one needs to manually add shortcuts :/

Unfortunately, our ability to fix issues is restricted to what we can control. Since we cannot control your launcher, we cannot do anything about it. We expect that any Launcher3 (AOSP) based launcher will support automatic shortcut creation. We have no control over the behavior of your favorite launcher.

[BD9Max]

But apps installed with App manager installer doesn't create shortcut to launcher/home/drawer despite launchers setting "auto add shortcuts for new apps" is enabled.
App managers installer is good with features but then one needs to manually add shortcuts :/

Unfortunately, our ability to fix issues is restricted to what we can control. Since we cannot control your launcher, we cannot do anything about it. We expect that any Launcher3 (AOSP) based launcher will support automatic shortcut creation. We have no control over the behavior of your favorite launcher.

Ok I'm not sure if it works with Launcher3 but at least not with Launcher2. Thanks this clears it.

[Tharow]

First Successful Build!