Xposed - Legacy thread. Don't panic, Xposed is still here.

Sounds interesting.I hope that you make a apk that simplifies things for simple user like rom control in AOKP
Keep up the good work my friend

That's great, decompiling/compiling apks is not really my cup of tea lol thanks rovo89

May be useful for my themes, keep working on it

Very interesting... Will try soon.

This looks like a really great idea and could help reduce the need for dev's being pestered by users for mod's every time a new rom is leaked/released, well done sir, hope to see this take off

I will definitely have a swing at this over the next few days. This looks like fun!

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Thanks for the "thanks" everyone. I decided to create an installer first before looking into the other things. This way, I hope a few people can test whether it works on their device (see first post for the APK).

Some notes about this:

• The installer holds the app_process executable and the XposedBridge.jar as assets and can install it to the correct locations (root permissions required!).
• It will automatically create a backup of /system/bin/app_process at /system/bin/app_process.orig, which can be restored either via the app or via shell (e.g. adb, works in recovery as well).
• I have only tested it on ICS (LPQ Stock). Honestly, I do not have the time to test it with anything below that. If somebody wants to do this, I can help you to get started with the code. app_process was not changed very often, so chances are rather good that it will work with only few changes.
• The installer requires SDK15 (4.0.3) for the same reason.
• Improvements for any part of the code are welcome! It should be easy to use for both users and developers.
• (Un-)Installing the installer app alone does not change anything (at least not now). Please use the buttons inside the app.

The next step should now really be to load modules dynamically, I hope I can use standard installable APKs for that (although the framework will probably request enabling confirmation for technical and security reasons).

From what I read, Rom Control seems to be something like the Settings app for ROM-specific stuff? I am not so sure yet whether I want to implement generic settings in the framework.
Having a standard interface for setting loading/saving (like or using Android's Shared Preferences) would probably make sense. But the settings themself can be very different from module to module, so I would rather let those bring their own settings menus.

What I did though was to implement an installer. My idea how it should ideally work for end users:

1. Install the Xposed Installer
2. Click the "Install/Update" button in the installer
3. Install one or more modules
4. Configure the modules (if necessary)
5. Have fun!

Where "install" would mean that you can download the app from the Play Store or a website and install it with the usual package manager. At least for steps 1 and 2, this is working already. For the others, I have to see.

Dynamic module loading is implemented now as well. Modules are normal apps with a special metadata tag and an asset describing which classes to load. You can look at my modifications for examples how this works. I think it is quite simple to develop and use.

I feel that Xposed is quite stable right now. It should be very easy to install both the framework and the modules without any knowledge about modding.

Also for developers, creating a new module is not too complicated. If anyone wants to give it a try, I'm happy to help you getting started. I'm convinced that Xposed is great alternative to APK modifying, but it will not work without developers creating modules for it.

Speaking of modules, I have published one for the famous CRT off effect: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1583963
The source code is also available at Github. See how it has less than 40 lines (and only about 10 LOC)? I think that this is awesome!

I was not able to install it as normal app hence pushed them to system/app using root explorer.

It works perfectly on XXLPS SENSATION ROM ICS V 3.2

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