mrambossekandClaude Opus 5 d7dda40e4e app: tell the user before the run when Shizuku is installed but not started
Distinguishes not-installed (say nothing — don't nag users who don't use
Shizuku) from installed-but-stopped (amber banner: start it to include
shell-tier tests), plus running-unauthorised and ready. Detection is
listener-based since pingBinder() only becomes truthful once
ShizukuProvider delivers the binder; a launch-time poll would show a false
"not running". Installed-vs-not needs the <queries> entry on Android 11+.

Verified on-device: with shizuku_server stopped, the banner shows before
pressing Run; the title also now clears the status bar/cutout after the
safeDrawingPadding fix.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 09:51:01 +02:00

echolot — measure, don't guess

Echolot

Free software for detecting and debugging local network issues from an Android phone — built for people who actually know what a neighbor table is.

Most "wifi analyzer" apps show you signal bars. Echolot aims at the layer where home and office networks actually break: duplicate DHCP servers, broken IPv6 RAs, MTU black holes, NAT64 weirdness, multicast that dies at the AP, DNS that answers differently than it should. It records what it observed, separates observation from interpretation, and exports the whole run so you can argue with it later.

Status: pre-release. The capability prober runs on real hardware; the production app and the probe server are not built yet.

Repository layout

docs/              design docs — the contract for everything below
echolot-prober/    capability prober: validates the no-root feasibility matrix on real devices

The Go probe server and the production app land here as siblings.

Design docs

The three specs are draft-complete and reviewed; treat them as the contract.

Doc What it defines
docs/feature-catalog-and-feasibility.md Full feature list + the no-root feasibility matrix
docs/measurement-schema.md Archived/exportable measurement JSON (observation vs finding, two-clock rule, anonymization)
docs/probe-protocol.md Client↔server wire protocol (pinned TLS control plane, binary UDP data plane, STUN, canary DNS)
docs/build-status.md Running log of decisions and next steps

Privilege tiers

Every result records which tier produced it:

  • app — no root, no special setup. The bulk of the functionality.
  • shizuku — ADB-shell privileges via wireless pairing, no root. Shipped in v1.
  • root — future optional module.

Licensing

Part License Why
All code (app, prober, server) GPL-3.0-or-later The value here is the platform-API research; copyleft keeps derivative apps free
docs/ (the specs) CC-BY-4.0 A wire protocol and a measurement format should be implementable by anyone, without license anxiety

Full texts: LICENSE (GPLv3) and docs/LICENSE (CC BY 4.0). Sources carry SPDX-License-Identifier headers.

If you want to build a compatible server or client, the protocol and schema docs are deliberately permissive — go ahead.

Building

See echolot-prober/README.md. Short version, from echolot-prober/:

echo "sdk.dir=/path/to/Android/sdk" > local.properties
./gradlew :app:assembleDebug
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