First release of Essential Key Tools — remap the Nothing Phone Essential Key to your own actions, no root required.
Highlights
- Four gestures, four actions — single / double / triple / long press, each mapped independently (launch app, flashlight, screenshot, lock screen, media play/pause, ringer cycle).
- Runtime scanCode learning and in-app accessibility-service enablement (one-tap via Shizuku, or a settings deep link).
- Single-press unlock wizard — Shizuku, manual, or ADB paths, with one-tap restore and live per-package status.
- Home screen shows live service/unlock status, a contributor list fetched from GitHub, and a shortcut to the system per-app language screen (English / 繁體中文).
Install
Download EssentialKeyTools-v1.0.apk below and sideload it. Requires Android 15+ (minSdk 35).
Verify your download
Two different SHA-256 values — they measure different things, so they are meant to differ:
- APK file SHA-256 — integrity of this download; the same value VirusTotal indexes:
f859743afe83eb495a943d3958563dd22ff73e3cd7528f343d7fda1821ef9624 - Signing certificate SHA-256 — proves it was signed with the project's release key; identical for every release:
2626819b8a046537b9e680a7a947bf3c40756c0581b2679777cc67d8b93270fe
Verify with:apksigner verify --print-certs EssentialKeyTools-v1.0.apk
VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/f859743afe83eb495a943d3958563dd22ff73e3cd7528f343d7fda1821ef9624