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Evil Hide

This app is used to hide other apps' icon in the launcher. Note: After hide, the hidden app cannot be launched from anywhere before it is unhide.

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Notice:

Only tested on Nexus 4 and Nexus 5X. I also find that this app may not work on some ROM, such as MIUI for these ROM will kill apps that not show in the recent tasks, which cause the broadcastreceiver not work.

Feature：

  • You can choose to hide the icon of this app. Then you can launch it by inputting password in the dial pad.
  • No root needed!（Only for rom build from AOSP and android version is bigger than 5.0. For example Nexus series, including Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 5x, Nexus 6p and etc）

Theory

Before Android 5.0, you can use the following shell commands to hide other apps （root permission is needed!）：

adb shell pm endable <package_name>
adb shell pm disable <package_name>

After Android 5.0, you can use the following shell commands to hide other apps（root permission is not needed!）:

adb shell pm hide <package_name>
adb shell pm unhide <packag_name>

Difference between disable and unhide： hide is equals to uninstall -k which means uninstall application but keep data

In fact, the hide command finally call the following function from android.content.pm.PackageManager. Unfortunately, it is marked as @hide, so you cannot use it in sdk.

/**
 * Puts the package in a hidden state, which is almost like an uninstalled state,
 * making the package unavailable, but it doesn't remove the data or the actual
 * package file. Application can be unhidden by either resetting the hidden state
 * or by installing it, such as with {@link #installExistingPackage(String)}
 * @hide
 */
public abstract boolean setApplicationHiddenSettingAsUser(String packageName, boolean hidden,
        UserHandle userHandle);

Usage：

If you'd like to use no root version. Please make sure you satisfy the conditions and switch to the noroot branch:

git checkout noroot

The default launch password is #1234 Launch method: Open dial pad，input #1234，then press call button. This app will be launched After that, you can switch the app's hidden state in the list

Todo list：

  • Android M dynamic permission
  • Support hide and unhide commands
  • Use password to launch hidden apps