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    2 years ago

    Can someone eli5 what Shizuku is? I keep hearing about it on a number of Android App YouTube videos as well.

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      2 years ago

      The app lets you use system features that are normally not available for regular apps. Basically it runs a service which has access to some System API’s that can be granted to regular apps so think of it like you would have root without having root.

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      2 years ago

      It’s just a on-device GUI for the built in debugging tools, which might be used to grant permissions apps can’t usually request by themselves.

      It’s like USB ADB, but on device.