Does anybody know what the procedure is to remove an in-app browser? There are so many useful apps out there that have unfiltered browsers hiding somewhere inside. Is there some sort of adb permission? Thank you!

[unknown] Moovit, Duolingo (updated version), Mostly Music, Jewishmusic.fm, YWN, Avis car rental, lots of maps and weather apps..... just to name a few of the many that I've come across.

cowculator I've used lucky patcher (which I believe I found somewhere on these forums) to remove permissions. For example if you can access an in app browser through clicking on "help center" in an app, sometimes you can remove the permission to click on "help center" for that app, in lucky patcher. Many times you won't have that option, or even if you do, the app might not work afterwards. This only works occasionally, but I guess it's better than nothing.

[unknown] you can try to find the webview activity and ruin it as much as possible so that when someone tries to open the part of the app which loads the webpage it will just crash. Some apps will completely crash from this but I've successfully done this to a few apps

Removing In-App Browsers

cowculator

McMonster Umm... maybe it's better not to be מפרסם?

McMonster

longing4Mashiach cowculator has a point

cowculator

McMonster Thank you- I'm looking into this now.

McMonster

cowculator הצלחה

cowculator

So, what do we do now?
I'm assuming you're supposed to rebuild APK with modified permissions, I'm just not sure which permissions I need to modify.

cowculator

lgexalter1 Sounds interesting- would you be able to explain a little more?

cowculator

lgexalter1 How do you a) find out which activity uses it, and b) "mess with it"?

cowculator

I'm getting an error telling me that I can't do anything to a certain app "as it is splitted using google's android app bundle".
Is there a way to get around that?

Biden2020prez

cowculator Try finding apk on apkpure

cowculator

Biden2020prez This app has only XAPKs. I'm looking into trying to convert it to APK- do you know anything about that?
(Okay, for those who can't control their curiosity, the app I'm talking about is the MyHyundai app.)

cowculator

Biden2020prez So, ב"ה I now have the app in APK.
The issue is, when I make any changes to it, it can't re-pack the APK, because of the following error: brut.androlib.AndrolibException: brut.common.BrutException: could not exec (exit code = 1)
Is there a way to get around that?

cowculator

lgexalter1 Just poke around the smali files

Where do I find them?

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ב"ה, I was able to successfully kasher the Drive Save & Safe app from State Farm.

CallMeACynic

lgexalter1 Would uninstalling com.android.webview fix the problem?

darth

CallMeACynic see lgexalter1

CallMeACynic

darth Yes but not removing it from individual apps, removing it from android.

Biden2020prez

lgexalter1 Believe it or not, text messages don't work without webview (I once disabled it)

cowculator

Biden2020prez Is there something specific about this that you'd rather not be מפרסם, or is it just that you don't want to give שיעור כללי to the entire forum on tampering with APKs?

L-B

cowculator IMHO It's more like a chabura