canary-491 released in canary channel

Changelog:
- testing the new canary buildscript - no module changes

canary-492 released in canary channel

Changelog:
- Temporary workaround for hooks page not able to connect to Xposed service (until they fix it)

canary-493 released in canary channel

Changelog:
- Fixing kill forground app (by pushing nexus launcher to work the way it should)

canary-494 released in canary channel

Changelog:
- A17b4 - Fixed physical button remap when screen is off

canary-495 released in canary channel

Changelog:
- A17QPR1b3: Fixed statusbar gestures
- A17QPR1b3: Fixed Screen gestures and related system UI crash
- Added option to hide navigation bar insets (Thanks to eXtreames@Github)

canary-496 released in canary channel

Changelog:
- A17qpr1b4: Fixed icon transparency (I couldn't make a fix, but Gemini could!)

canary-497 released in canary channel

Changelog:
- Fixed PX boot-looping in certain conditions

NOTICE: canary 497 only works on Lsposed Vector - Other users please don't install this update

canary-498 released in canary channel

Changelog:
- fixed compatibility with official LSposed. (For reasons unknown to me, they prefer to block remote activation. So, from now on, no automated activation for you: do it yourself. Do let me know if you managed to understand their mindset)

canary-499 released in canary channel

Changelog:
- Reverted some unintentional changes

Hi everyone,

We started working on PixelXpert (formerly AOSPMods) back when Android 12 was the latest thing on Pixel devices—was it the Pixel 6? Honestly, I don't even remember anymore.

Back then, modding was done in a different way. We had to decompile Pixel's SystemUI code, modify it, recompile it, and ship it out. Every single month, a new update would release and we had to do the whole thing all over again.

Then we shifted to Xposed and LSPosed. It was widely available, the Android source code was easily accessible, and almost everything was standard Java. Because it was straightforward Object-Oriented code, we could easily use LSPosed to hook into running processes and change whatever we wanted. We knew exactly what to expect, and monthly updates or device differences didn't really complicate things.


Things changed:

First, Google pushed everyone toward Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. Kotlin introduces functional programming features that Java doesn't natively support, so during compilation, the compiler has to "invent" complex structures under the hood to make it work. This results in deeply nested code blocks and unpredictable runtime signatures. Jetpack Compose makes this even worse with endless layers of compiler-generated wrappers. It runs fine on your phone, but it's a total nightmare for Xposed modding. It makes reliably hooking into runtime processes incredibly difficult, and lately, some mods have become totally impossible.

Second, the LSPosed team stopped public development a while ago. While there are some forks and limited testing groups around, the framework just isn't as open, stable, or universally available as it used to be.

Finally, Google is dropping updates faster than ever —they even added a Canary channel— but they've limited releasing official Android source code to 2 or 3 times a year. That leaves us working with outdated sources. Our only option is reading decompiled code, which is heavily optimized and obfuscated at compile-time, making it incredibly hard to reverse-engineer.

To sum up: up-to-date source code is hard to get, Android has shifted to heavily optimized machine-generated code, and the Xposed infrastructure isn't reliable enough anymore to justify the massive time investment.

Because of all this:
we are shutting down the PixelXpert project indefinitely.

We just can't bear the pressure of reverse-engineering such highly complicated, hard-to-get code on a fragmenting framework anymore.

Over the past 5 years or so, a lot of brilliant developers contributed to PX. The list is way too long to write out here, and it would be unfair to leave anyone out, but you can see all of them in the contributors' section on our GitHub page. Huge thanks to every single one of them for the time and energy they gave to the modding community.

We also want to thank all the users who suggested features, shared ideas, and helped us test the canary versions. We really appreciate you.

It wasn't all for nothing, though. We had a great time modding Android together and made some awesome friends along the way, which is priceless.

Hopefully, the kind of features PX offered will just become standard in future Android versions.

Yours,
The PX Team