F-Droid Privileged Extension App Cloning app for Android description
Note: F-Droid requires root privileges to install Privileged Extension as a system priv-app.
https://www.androidfreeware.net/download-f-droid-apk.html can make use of system privileges or permissions to install, update and remove applications on its own. The only way to obtain those privileges is to become a system app.
This is where the Privileged Extension comes in - being a separate app and much smaller, it can be installed as a system app and communicate with the main app via AIDL IPC.
This has several advantages:
- Reduced disk usage in the system partition
- System updates dont remove F-Droid
- The process of installing into system via root is safer
Instead of this build, most users will want to install the Over-The-Air (OTA) update ZIP file is called https://www.androidfreeware.net/download-f-droid-apk.html.privileged.ota. This is here to update Privileged Extension when it has been installed using the OTA ZIP.
