Redesign AOSP with WanamKit

Better known for customing TouchWiz, Wanam Kit also Works With Vanilla Android too

There are countless Android ROMs out there, but unless you build the ROM yourself, chances are there are always going to be one or two things you would like to change. Wanam Kit originally found fame as a means to de-bloat Samsung’s TouchWiz user interface, which was notorious for its excessive bloatware until the Galaxy’s S6 feature cull. However, Wanam Kit also works with stock ROMs as the Xposed module lets you make a wide range of tweaks to any ROM based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). These customization include visual changes such as replacing the standard battery icon, to more functional changes such as disabling lollipop’s new heads-up style notification system. Once you’ve installed Wanam Kit, you can make your changes by exploring the app’s various menus and then disabling or enabling the different options as desired. Before any of these changes become active, you need to reboot your device, so the only downside is that if you want to experiment with a few different changes then you may need to reboot several times before you’re happy with the end result. This module requires root access and the Xposed framework. If you haven’t installed Xposed, Lollipop users can find the necessary files and instructions at the XDA Developer thread goo.gl/DFXwGg. If you’re running an earlier version of Android, you can install the Xposed framework via an in-app updater, available from goo.gl/PAGTpi.

Steps:-

• Activate Wanam Kit

Download Wanam Kit (Xposed) from the Google Play store. Open your Xposed Installer, tap Modules and make sure that Wanam Kit is selected. To activate this module, reboot your device. Then open your Wanam app. At this point, you’ll see the main Wanam menu.

• Customizable status bar

Select Status bar. In this section, you can customize the stock status bar, including changing the battery icon. You can replace it with a circle battery icon, hide the battery icon completely, or display the percentage of battery remaining by selecting ‘Show Battery Text’. 

• Tweak your battery text

If you do choose to ‘Show Battery Text’, you’ll get access to some additional options that allow you to customize this battery text. You can change the colour of the text, the typeface/font used, and the typeface style by choosing from Italic, Bold or Normal.

• Edit or hide your clock position

You can change the position of the digital clock that appears towards the right of the status bar. To make this change, tap Clock position and choose from Right, Center or Left. You can also remove the clock completely by tapping Clock position and then Hide.

• More detailed notifications 

Do your notifications fail to give you enough details at a glance? You can enable the ‘Expand all notifications’ option so that all notifications appear expanded. The Status bar section contains several options, including enabling and disabling Lollipop’s heads-up notifications.

• Additional options for notifications

When heads-up notifications are enabled, you have additional options. If you have a habit of dismissing notifications and forgetting to act on them, you can enable Ongoing notifications. You can also increase the delay before you can dismiss a notification using ‘Heads up delay.’ 

• The advanced power menu

If you’re constantly booting into your bootloader or recovery, you can save time by adding these to your power menu. Exit the Status bar and select System from the main. Select Advanced reboot > Reboot options and select Soft reboot, Recovery or Bootloader.

• More menu options 

There are two other options you can add to your advanced power menu. The first is Enable mobile data where you add an option to turn your mobile data on and off. The second is Quick dial, where you add a telephone number to your power menu.

• Quick dial shortcut 

To add a quick dial shortcut to a telephone number of your choice, tap Quick dial number and then enter the telephone number. If you want to disable this feature at any point, select Quick dial number again, but this time delete the entire number and tap OK.

• Improve device’s performance 

Even if you dismiss an app, it can leave processes running which has an impact on performance. Using Wanam, you can kill all processes running in the foreground; just long press your device’s Back button. To activate this functionality, select ‘Long BACK kills process’.

Restrict permissions with XPrivacy

Decide what personal info and hardware apps can access

It was recently announced that the next generation of Android, Android M, will give users granular control over app permissions. However, if you’ve got a rooted device you can already do this with the XPrivacy module. This lets you to select apps and deny them access to various information on your phone. As well as this, it will also let you fool your phone to protect your privacy. You can manually input a location, new number and a host of other details so an app believes you’re elsewhere or sends the wrong phone number to apps to keep your real details safe. Read on to find out how to install XPrivacy, block apps from mining your data and change your settings to keep your identity secret.

Steps :- 

1. Install XPrivacy

To begin, ensure your phone is rooted and you have the Xposed Framework installed. Then either go to the Xposed Module Repository (http://goo.gl/KK8yMB) or search for [Root] XPrivacy Installer in the Google Play store and download the free app.

2. See your apps list

Reboot your device. Head into the Xposed Installer app and tick the box next to XPrivacy. Reboot your phone again and this should cause XPrivacy to become active. If this is the case, open up XPrivacy and you will see your full list of apps.

3. Fool your phone 

Tap the menu in the top right and hit Settings. This is where you can trick your phone into giving out fake details. Change your location, phone number or any of the other options. When apps read this information it will take its details from here.

4. Deny specific permissions

Tap on a particular app and a screen will appear showing all the permissions you have granted it. By pressing the tick next to it, the app will believe the data in your new Settings list, such as your pretend location.

5. Restart your handset

Once you have selected the permissions you want to remove from the account, restart your phone. When it turns back on, the app should now be reading the fake data. Remember apps sometimes require genuine data to work, such as Google Maps.

6. Block all permissions

If you want to perform a blanket deny on all permissions for an app, hit the tick box next to the app name and it will automatically tick everything off for you. This is a particularly useful procedure for games because they shouldn’t need to access anything.