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Inure App Manager

An elegant Android app manager.

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About

Inure is an Android application package manager irrespective of whether they're installed or not, it can scan through any app's internal components and modify them on the go. It also packs a nice looking Terminal Emulator, Usage Stats, Split/APK Installer and various other tools and many of them are waiting to be implemented as well. On top of that, Inure's all functionalities been made to work with both Root and Shizuku modes.

Inure's development was started as an independent learning project which later has become one of the most ambitious and intuitive Android apps developed by a single person and is based 100% on custom UI APIs developed to be used only in this app with its own native theme engine, crash handler, image renderer and a beautiful animation framework.

Along with it own UI perks, Inure also supports dynamic Material You colors with dedicated accent and theme color modes.

The app is in stable testing stage. You can join app's Telegram Group and get development related updates.

Features

See the concise list of features of the app here.

Screenshots

App's Interface

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Accessibility

Various accessibility features to make the app more accessible to users. Inure also supports an option to add more colors to interface of various types including Pastel, Coffee (soothing) and Retro (color blocked) for users who don't prefer monochromatic interface or have difficulty using it.

Including that, Inure also supports highlighting clickable elements and divider for users who have difficulty in differentiating spaces between interface elements.

Further more, it's also possible to disable all animations to reduce excessive motion in the app. Inure has options to adjust animation requirements over multiple levels from all animations to no animations with fine granularity.

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Menus and Dialogs

Inure has 3 different styles of Menu and Dialogs type depending on how they're required, the popup type used for quick actions follows the user thumb on the screen, the modal dialog is used to adjust panel level preferences and chip style dialog for managing filter flags and tags. These three work together to refine a good level of UX and UI without overloading the user with a lot of options.

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Visually Challenged Users

Inure is designed to be as user friendly as possible despite its complexities. For users with visual difficulties, it come across to cause really low confusion while browsing through its interface and processing the displayed information through a screen reader. A user with such difficulty has demoonstrated the ease of use of the app here.

If you've any questions or suggestions for design, please initiate a discussion or create an issue.

Contribute

Include your app in Inure's FOSS panel

If you are a developer and want your app to be listed in the FOSS panel of Inure and show a FOSS indicator alongside your app, there are two ways this can be done.

1. You can publish your app on F-Droid. Inure automatically marks the app as FOSS if it's available on F-Droid.
2. You can add open_source and open_source_license tag in your app's manifest file and Inure will fetch this info during the runtime and will include your app based on the flag.

<application
   .....
   >
   
   <!-- Set to true to indicate the app is open source -->
   <meta-data
      android:name="open_source"
      android:value="true" />
   
   <!-- License of your app -->
   <meta-data
      android:name="open_source_license"
      android:value="GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3" />

</application>

Participate in Community Permission Descriptions

Community permissions descriptions of some OEM or Developer defined permissions for native framework or system apps whose details Android doesn't or cannot provide. You can read the complete guidelines here on how to contribute.

Developers

Inure's repo doesn't require any special setup, clone/fork the repo and run in Android Studio and let the initial setup finish automatically and you'll be good to go.

Want to show you were here?

You cannot do the above still wanna show your support? hit the star and let me know you were here and appreciate the project.

Translation/Localization

You can take participation in app's translation on Crowdin and watch Inure work in your language and make the app more user friendly to everyone speaking your tongue.

Alternatively, you can also edit/upload your locale's strings from app/src/main/res/values-locale-code directory.

License

Inure App Manager Copyright © 2023 - Hamza Rizwan

Inure App Manager is released as open source software under the GPL v3 license, see the LICENSE file in the project root for the full license text.

Behind The Scenes

Designing of interface skeletons for Inure

Audio Player interface design (later removed)

Presentation design for Batch interface