andromeda ★ AOSP rootless 8.x

prjkt.io

About this app

NOT COMPATIBLE WITH ANDROID PIE

Support chat:
https://t.me/substratum (#andromeda)

Save yourself the hassle of rooting your stock Android Oreo device altogether with Andromeda, the rootless theming support plugin for Substratum. Take over control of the finest aspects of the system UI and personalise your Android experience without limits.

Andromeda is an add-on app to enable rootless mode in Substratum. Get Substratum for free here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=projekt.substratum

Attention:
Google is preventing stock OMS users from utilising custom overlays. To help us bring back rootless theming support to Android, please star the following issue in Google’s Issue Tracker: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/74354703

Additional requirements:
• Desktop computer: used to activate rootless theming mode
• Andromeda desktop client: https://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/substratum/andromeda-desktop-clients-release-notes-t3668682
• ADB client: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2588979

Detailed guide:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/substratum/official-starting-substratum-andromeda-t3798316

Ratings and reviews

Guess who's spending the day setting their phone up? This guy. I paid for an app to annoy me for 4 hours, then brick my phone. I want a damn refund, this is garbage. And FYI, I've been an Android geek for years. I've used custom ROMs and spent a lot of time in recovery mode. I could have used adb commands to recover my System UI, but it would have taken me even more time. If your software isn't fully developed, don't release it. I saw nothing that indicated I'm paying to be a beta tester.

Force Closes/Crashes on app start. I purchased the app and it refuses to load. The longest it stayed open was for about half of a second, before crashing. The brief toast notification proved useless, as it's impossible to read in the less than a tenth of the second it was shown. I've tried clearing the data, uninstalling/re-installing to no avail. Besides, it's useless if you have root anyway. I was hoping for a performance boost, but there's no point wasting cash on it, if it won't work.

Bought the app because it was promising considering the potential of theming non-rootes phones. However, the app was quite buggy and Google eventually axed it. I suppose I can't ding the devs for that, but the app shouldn't have been paid if the devs wasn't sure if this would last long. I suppose you could simply not update your phone, but I do not think it is wise to stick with older version of Android just for the sake of themes.

What’s new

⚡️ Introducing Andromeda Server! ⚡️
With more functions than ever before, and all of them can be used not only by Substratum but other third-party apps too!

❗️❗️ To start Andromeda Server ❗️❗️
Get the latest desktop client, and follow the instructions inside the app.

🔨 To developer 🔨
Using Andromeda Server on your app is easy! Just follow the instructions on this page: https://github.com/prjkt-io/lib-andromeda