What's Xposed Framework For Android & How To Install It!!!

Android is known for its extensive customisation but unless you have a phone that is rooted, you can only customise using widgets and launcher apps. Rooting your device expands the horizon, giving you ability to modify the kernel of the OS. Unlocking the bootloader and flashing custom recovery takes you to another level of experience. However, flashing with custom ROM mods, you end up giving up stability, simplicity and reliability of Stock Android ROM (also referred to as Vanilla Android).

Xposed Framework is a ground-breaking development that enables all kinds of customisation allowing Android users to enhance the feel of their device without having to get through system files or APKs, using root access to get direct access to the core of the OS and utilise the resources to run different modules on the device. It lets you mix and match system elements called modules to create a system you prefer, it should feel awesome to have such a power to build things as we want them to be.  Let’s see how the same can be installed.

These modules run on device memory unlike custom ROMs it’s not complicated process to revert the changes made by you as they can be removed easily by disabling the module and rebooting. You don’t have to make changes to your apps wither because everything happens at system level and works on all android versions above Ice-Cream Sandwich (4.0.3) brought to us by XDA Recognised Developer rovo89. The potential we are talking is virtually unlimited and most developers have already flipped to this for deploying their mods.

Xposed Additions – Comes with a configuration option that allows you to control some addition power and button features which includes full control of how the device must react during                   USB Plug/Unplug and button re-map which allows you to assign new actions to click or long press of each button, including disabling it This re-map feature can assign different action for awake and sleep state.

Gravity Box – Is a module whose primary goal is to provide the users of ASOP devices with a tweak box to turn their Vanilla ROM into a custom one packed with additional tweaks without flashing. Most preferences can be changed by on-the-fly without rebooting.

Wanam Kit – Customises Kitkat Stock ROMs with features as to enable Numeric battery, clock    position, status bars, skip Music with Volume buttons, security and many more..

Boot Manager – with this app module one could prevent selected apps of running on system startup. Only apps with permission BOOY_COMPLETED are rendered. System apps are marked with exclamation mark and restrict system apps you have to donate.

XuiMod – is a small collection of unique features ported from other ROMs and some by you like Volume Disable in Lock screen, Lock screen torch, Animation Controls & many more..

Dynamic Notifications – allowing device screen discreetly to show notifications without unlocking the lock screen.

XPrivacy – can prevent applications from leaking privacy sensitive data. This module can restrict categories of data accessible by an application.

And many other features like Network Speed Indicator, YouTube AdAway, Instagram Downloader, and many more. One of the best part of Xposed Module is they can be layered on top of another, meaning that you can change the behaviour or appearance of a app or system element with Module A and tweak it with Module B and so on.

All you must do to get these awesome features on your device is a rooted device and then download the Xposed Installer which you can get from the Xposed Module Repository or from XDA developers. Once you’re done installing you’re all set with basic framework upon which you can start using the modules you like.

It’s as easy as installing an app on your device and setting couple of UI Controls. So let’s get straight to it.

Disclaimer: Please proceed with your own risk and Elite-Cyber-Tech is not liable if your device gets damaged during the process.

Make sure your using Android 4.0 or above and your device is rooted.

     1)      Download the latest Xposed Framework Installer App and downloaded APK to your device and             install it. Once you have launched the app after installation from your app drawer it will looks             something like this,

 

     2)      Go to Framework and tap Install/Update button and eventually a Superuser request would pop up           which you should make sure to grant.

       Framework will then install by itself and notify when installation process is completed. After this you might want to reboot the device before starting to use the framework. Now Xposed Framework itself doesn’t bring any default functionality to your device, you must setup the foundations for its modules and they’re the ones that bring the attributes to your device.

     

      Find the installer on: http://repo.xposed.info/module/de.robv.android.xposed.installer

      Source: Xposed Module Repository.