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url: /apps-and-modules/development.md
description: >-
  ADB, shells, automation, Linux environments, and hardware tools for developers
  and advanced rooted Android users.
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# Development & Automation

**Development & Automation** tools for rooted Android devices - terminal & shell environments (**Termux**),
**ADB & debugging** helpers, developer tools (**Shizuku** and friends), full **Linux environments**,
automation apps (**Tasker, MacroDroid, Automate**) and hardware/sensor utilities.

## ADB & Debugging

* **[ADB Root](https://github.com/evdenis/adb_root)** - A Magisk module that runs the adbd daemon as root and skips USB authentication. `FOSS` `[M]`
* **[Android-ADB-over-WiFi](https://github.com/warren-bank/Android-ADB-over-WiFi)** - Toggles a rooted device's Android Debug Bridge daemon (adbd) between USB and WiFi mode. `FOSS` `[LSP]`
* **[Debug Assistant](https://github.com/ThePedroo/DebugAssistant)** - The simplest yet powerful logcat capture system as Magisk module. `FOSS` `[M]`
* **[Hotspot Wireless Debugging](https://github.com/droserasprout/io.drsr.hotspotadb)** - Xposed module to allow Wireless Debugging over Wi-Fi Hotspot. `FOSS` `[LSP]`
* **[LADB](https://github.com/tytydraco/LADB)** - Local ADB shell. `FOSS` | [▶️](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.draco.ladb)
* **[Log Catcher](https://github.com/hxreborn/Log-Catcher)** - Captures logcat and kernel messages during startup and archives them as timestamped tarballs after unlock. `FOSS` `[M]` `[K]`
* **[Logcat Extreme](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=scd.lcex)** - Logcat reader and capture tool for rooted Android devices. `Proprietary`
* **[Loki](https://github.com/trinadhthatakula/Loki)** - Logcat reader that captures, saves and shares another app's logs using root or Shizuku. `FOSS`
* **[Magisk-WiFiADB](https://github.com/mrh929/magisk-wifiadb)** - Enable WiFi ADB automatically. `FOSS` `[M]`
* **[Wireless ADB Switch](https://github.com/Smooth-E/wireless-adb-switch)** - Quickly enable or disable Android's Wireless Debugging feature. Includes widgets and a quick settings tile for convenience. `FOSS` | [🌱](https://f-droid.org/ru/packages/com.smoothie.wirelessDebuggingSwitch)

## Automation

* **[⭐ MacroDroid](https://play.google.com/store/search?q=macrodroid\&c=apps)** - Easy to use automation app. `Proprietary`
* **[⭐ Tasker](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dinglisch.android.taskerm)** - An advanced and powerful automation app. `Proprietary`
* **[Automate](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.llamalab.automate)** - Lets you create custom automation workflows using flowcharts, enabling seamless management of tasks, files, and device settings. `Proprietary`
* **[crond4Android](https://github.com/powerAn2020/crond4android)** - Cron daemon for scheduled jobs on KernelSU, APatch, and Magisk. `FOSS` `[M]` `[K]`
* **[FIRERPA (lamda)](https://github.com/firerpa/lamda)** - On-device control platform driven by a Python client: remote desktop streaming, UI/OCR automation, traffic capture, built-in Frida and proxy/VPN networking. Runs with or without root. `FOSS`
* **[Geto](https://github.com/T31n/Geto)** - Applies device settings automatically when selected apps are launched, using `WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS` granted through Shizuku or root. `FOSS` | [🌱](https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.android.geto/)

## Developer Tools

* **[⭐ Shizuku Fork](https://github.com/thedjchi/Shizuku)** - Shizuku fork with automatic Shizuku startup, automation, and recovery features. `FOSS`
* **[AndroidSpect](https://github.com/thecybersandeep/androidspect)** - Live runtime audit for installed Android apps, serves a browser dashboard. `FOSS` `[LSP]`
* **[Bluetooth Hook](https://github.com/jingyu233/bluetoothhook#english)** - Inject virtual BLE devices into Android system Bluetooth scan results, facilitating Bluetooth application debugging for developers. `FOSS` `[LSP]`
* **[Dhizuku API for Xposed](https://github.com/iamr0s/Dhizuku-API-Xposed)** - Force applications to support Dhizuku. `FOSS` `[LSP]`
* **[DuckPolicy](https://github.com/Xposed-Modules-Repo/com.strawing.duckdevicepolicy)** - Makes apps see no device-policy restrictions on your own device. `Proprietary` `[LSP]`
* **[KSU Toolkit](https://github.com/backslashxx/ksu_toolkit)** - Small extensions on top of KernelSU for testing and debugging purposes. `FOSS` `[K]`
* **[Nano for Android NDK](https://github.com/Magisk-Modules-Repo/nano-ndk)** - Allows temporary recovery use, so you can trigger it from adb shell or TWRP Terminal. `FOSS` `[M]`
* **[Py2Droid](https://github.com/Mrakorez/py2droid)** - Install Python 3 on Android, including the standard library (STDLIB). `FOSS` `[M]`
* **[SELinux Permissive](https://github.com/evdenis/selinux_permissive)** - Magisk Module that switches SELinux to permissive mode. `FOSS` `[M]`
* **[Shevery](https://github.com/HmnDev-Tech/shevery)** - Based on shizuku with Jetpack Compose, Material 3, and compatibility enhancements. `FOSS`
* **[Shizuku](https://github.com/RikkaApps/Shizuku)** - Use system APIs directly with ADB/root privileges. `FOSS` | [🌱](https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/moe.shizuku.privileged.api) | [▶️](https://play.google.com/store/search?q=shizuku\&c=apps)
* **[SQLite3 for Android](https://github.com/rojenzaman/sqlite3-magisk-module)** - Provides a statically linked `sqlite3` binary for arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86 and x86_64. `Proprietary` `[M]`
* **[Zygisk-Loader](https://github.com/HanSoBored/Zygisk-Loader)** - Module for hot-swapping native libraries into Android applications without rebooting. `FOSS` `[K]`

### Frida & Reverse Engineering

Frida allows you to inject your own scripts into black box processes, enabling you to hook function calls, modify arguments and return values, and perform other runtime manipulations on applications.

* **[Florida](https://github.com/Ylarod/Florida)** - Anti-detection build of frida-server for Android, patched and built automatically from Frida upstream. `FOSS`
* **[Jezail](https://github.com/zahidaz/jezail)** - On-device pentesting toolkit that exposes a REST API and web interface for device control, app management, Frida, ADB and logcat on a rooted phone. `FOSS`
* **[MagiskFrida](https://github.com/ViRb3/magisk-frida)** - Lets you run frida-server on boot with multiple root solutions. `FOSS` `[M]` `[K]`
* **[MagiskHluda](https://github.com/Exo1i/MagiskHluda)** - Starts a Florida-based, less detectable frida-server on boot, with a web UI to start, stop and configure it. `Proprietary` `[M]` `[K]` `[A]`
* **[Undetected Frida](https://github.com/zer0def/undetected-frida)** - Frida builds with community anti-detection patches applied, also shipped as Magisk/KernelSU modules. `FOSS` `[M]` `[K]`
* **[ZygiskFrida](https://github.com/lico-n/ZygiskFrida)** - Injects the Frida gadget into apps through Zygisk, avoiding the ptrace and APK integrity checks that detect frida-server. `FOSS` `[M]` `[K]`

## Hardware & Sensors

* **[GyroHook Project](https://github.com/AFan4724/GyroHook)** - Allows users to modify the gyroscope sensor data of Android devices. `FOSS` `[M]`
* **[HID Gadget Module](https://github.com/kelexine/hid-gadget-module)** - Enables Human Interface Device (HID) emulation/support on Android Devices. `FOSS` `[M]`
* **[OnePlus Flash Control](https://github.com/Bartixxx32/Opflashcontrol-app)** - Precise control over the brightness of the dual-tone and quad-tone LED flashes for OnePlus devices. `FOSS`
* **[USB HID Client](https://github.com/Arian04/android-hid-client)** - Use your phone as a keyboard and mouse without any software on the other end. `FOSS` | [🌱](https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/me.arianb.usb_hid_client)

## Linux Environments

* **[⭐ Droidspaces](https://github.com/ravindu644/Droidspaces-OSS)** - Run full Linux environments on top of Android, with complete init system support. `FOSS`
* **[Auto-Linux](https://github.com/HanSoBored/Auto-Linux)** - A TUI application to install and manage Linux (chroot) environments on rooted Android devices. `FOSS`
* **[Boot Nethunter](https://github.com/cipherswami/boot-nethunter)** - Boots Kali-Chroot (one Installed with Nethunter apk) in Termux. `FOSS`
* **[Chroot Distro](https://github.com/Magisk-Modules-Alt-Repo/chroot-distro)** - Install Gnu/Linux distributions on Android. `FOSS` `[M]`
* **[DebDroid](https://github.com/NICUP14/DebDroid)** - Debian Container Runtime for Android. `FOSS`
* **[Magisk Docker](https://github.com/mgksu/dockerd)** - Magisk and KernelSU module for running Docker on rooted Android devices. `FOSS` `[M]` `[K]`
* **[Trixie.apk](https://github.com/DesktopECHO/trixie.apk)** - Debian 13 (Trixie) Server/Desktop container for rooted Android 5.0+ devices. `FOSS`
* **[Ubuntu Chroot](https://github.com/ravindu644/Ubuntu-Chroot)** - Run Ubuntu 24.04 on Android With full Hardware Access and pure namespace isolation. `FOSS` `[M]` `[K]`

## Terminal & Shell

* **[⭐ Termux](https://github.com/termux/termux-app)** - A terminal emulator application for Android OS extendible by variety of packages. `FOSS` | [🌱](https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.termux)
* **[Android 16 Linux Terminal VM Persistence](https://github.com/DigijEth/VM_Magisk_Module)** - Keeps Androids Linux terminal running in the background. `FOSS` `[M]`
* **[aShell You](https://github.com/DP-Hridayan/aShellYou)** - Android shell utility app with Material Design 3 UI, letting you run ADB, root and shell commands. `FOSS` | [🌱](https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/in.hridayan.ashell)
* **[ReTerminal](https://github.com/RohitKushvaha01/ReTerminal)** - Material 3 terminal emulator built on Termux's TerminalView, with multiple sessions, virtual keys and Alpine Linux support. `FOSS`
* **[Termux-Root-Recovery-Tool](https://github.com/Ishu43642/Termux-Root-Recovery-Tool)** - Install GSi Rom , Flashing Fastboot Rom, install Twrp Recovery, Boot.img & vbmeta.img files. `FOSS`
* **[TermuxRootMods](https://github.com/rompelhd/TermuxRootMods)** - A Magisk module that enhances the Termux experience for rooted devices. `FOSS` `[M]`