XPrivacyLua-poweful privacy manager for Android.

XPrivacyLua

Really simple to use privacy manager for Android 6.0 Marshmallow and later
Revoking Android permissions from apps often let apps crash or malfunction. XPrivacyLua solves this by feeding apps fake data instead of real data.

Features

  • Simple to use
  • Manage any user or system app
  • Multi-user support
  • Free and open source

Restrictions

  • Determine activity (fake unknown activity, see here)
  • Get applications (hide installed apps)
  • Get calendars (hide calendars)
  • Get call log (hide call log)
  • Get contacts (hide contacts, including blocked numbers)
  • Get location (fake location, hide NMEA messages)
  • Get messages (hide MMS, SMS, SIM, voicemail)
  • Get sensors (hide all sensors)
  • Read account name (fake name, mostly e-mail address)
  • Read clipboard (fake paste)
  • Read identifiers (fake build serial number, Android ID, advertising ID)
  • Read notifications (fake status bar notifications)
  • Read network data (hide cell info, Wi-Fi networks, fake Wi-Fi network name)
  • Read sync data (hide sync data, like calendars, contacts, etc, see here)
  • Read telephony data (fake IMEI, MEI, SIM serial number, voicemail number, etc)
  • Record audio (prevent recording)
  • Record video (prevent recording)
  • Send messages (prevent sending MMS, SMS, data)
  • Use camera (fake camera not available and/or hide cameras)
Hide or fake?
  • Hide: return empty list
  • Fake: return empty or fixed fake value
You can see all technical details here.

Notes

  • Some apps will start the camera app to take pictures. This cannot be restricted and there is no need for this, because only you can take pictures in this scenario, not the app.
  • Some apps will use OpenSL ES for Android to record audio, an example is WhatsApp. Xposed cannot hook into native code, so this cannot be prevented.
  • The get applications restriction will not restrict getting information about individual apps for stability and performance reasons.
  • The telephony data restriction will result in apps seeing a fake IMEI. However, this doesn't change the IMEI address of your device.

Compatibility

XPrivacyLua is supported on Android 6.0 Marshmallow and later. For Android 4.0.3 KitKat to Android 5.1.1 Lollipop you can use XPrivacy.

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