The next-generation Android package manager — all the power, half the friction.

AppManagerNG is a continuation of the App Manager project — a full-featured, root/ADB-aware package manager for Android — with a focus on user experience, polish, and approachability without sacrificing any of the depth that makes the original a power user staple.

Think of it as AppManager with a friendlier front door: the same engine, the same root/ADB capabilities, the same component blocking and tracker scanning — but layered behind a Material 3 interface that doesn't punish casual users for opening it.

A new main-menu entry that flips the standard "app -> permissions" view on its head. Pick a permission group (Camera, Microphone, Location, Contacts, SMS, Phone, Files & media, Calendar, Body sensors, Physical activity, Nearby devices, Notifications) and see every installed app that holds it, with a one-tap toggle per app and a master Revoke for all apps action in the toolbar. Changes persist through the same rule store the per-app permissions tab uses, so they survive reinstalls.

• Material 3 with dynamic colours
• Rich app information page (activities, services, providers, receivers, app ops, permissions, signatures, shared libraries)
• Activity launcher and activity-shortcut creator
• Activity interceptor
• Tracker and library scanner with class dumps
• Manifest viewer/exporter
• App usage, data usage (mobile + Wi-Fi), storage info
• Install/uninstall APK / APKS / APKM / XAPK (with OBB support)
• APK sharing
• Backup/restore APK files
• Batch and single-click operations
• Logcat viewer, manager, exporter
• Profiles
• Debloater
• Code editor
• File manager
• Simple terminal emulator
• Aurora Store / F-Droid client launch integration
• APK signing with custom signatures
• Backup encryption: OpenPGP (OpenKeychain), RSA, ECC (hybrid + AES), AES
• Foreground UI component tracking

• Revoke runtime + development permissions
• App-op mode editing
• Display/kill/force-stop running apps and processes
• Clear app data/cache
• Net policy view/edit
• Battery optimization control
• Freeze/unfreeze apps

• Block any component (activities/receivers/services/providers); native + Watt + Blocker import/export
• View/edit/delete shared preferences
• Backup/restore apps with data, rules, and extras (permissions, battery opt, SSAID, etc.)
• View/edit system configurations (blacklisted/whitelisted apps, permissions)
• View/change SSAID

See ROADMAP.md for the full prioritized roadmap. Version targets:

• v0.2.0 — applicationId rename to io.github.sysadmindoc.AppManagerNG, fresh keystore, GitHub Actions release pipeline, NG CONTRIBUTING.md
• v0.3.0 — Material 3 dashboard refresh, Pro Mode toggle, edge-to-edge (Android 15/16 compliance)
• v0.4.0 — Permission Inspector (review/bulk-revoke dangerous permissions across all apps; critical-package guard; recovery action)
• v0.5.0 — Onboarding flow, settings reorganization, global in-app search, contextual help

Grab the signed APK from GitHub Releases — pick AppManagerNG-<version>-arm64-v8a.apk for modern devices or AppManagerNG-<version>-universal.apk for maximum compatibility (older 32-bit ARM and x86_64 emulators).

Obtainium is the recommended path for users who want automatic update checks straight from GitHub Releases without going through any store.

1. Install Obtainium.

2. Add App → paste the URL: https://github.com/SysAdminDoc/AppManagerNG

3. (Optional but recommended) Use the bundled config file for fully pre-tuned settings (correct ABI auto-detection, version regex, prerelease-skipping):

   • Open Obtainium → Settings → Import/Export → Import Apps From File.
   • Select docs/distribution/obtainium-config.json (the file is wrapped in the standard Obtainium {"apps":[…]} backup format so the import flow accepts it directly).

Obtainium will then auto-track every signed release published to this repo and notify you on update.

APK signing certificate SHA-256 fingerprint:

21:5F:B4:70:63:2E:A6:CD:59:A4:BA:AB:35:0A:9E:0B:99:AD:11:0F:DD:FA:F5:A9:EA:64:61:E5:D0:C2:38:6C

Verify with AppVerifier or:

apksigner verify --print-certs AppManagerNG-<version>.apk | grep SHA-256

The same fingerprint is published in machine-parseable form at a stable URL so AppVerifier and similar tools can fetch it without scraping the README:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SysAdminDoc/AppManagerNG/main/docs/fingerprints.txt

The file is comment-tolerant (# prefix) and uses the same package: / sha256: record pairs as SD Maid SE's published fingerprints.

See BUILDING.rst. Submodules must be initialized before building:

git submodule update --init --recursive

See CONTRIBUTING.md. Translation contributions go through Weblate (link TBD).

Released under GPL-3.0-or-later. Per-file SPDX headers and the LICENSES/ directory follow the REUSE specification — please preserve them.

See COPYING for the full GPL-3.0 text. Vendored third-party components retain their original licenses (Apache-2.0, BSD-2-Clause, BSD-3-Clause, CC-BY-SA-4.0, GPL-2.0, ISC, MIT, WTFPL) as documented in LICENSES/.

AppManagerNG would not exist without the years of work that went into the upstream App Manager project by Muntashir Al-Islam and the broader contributor community. AppManagerNG was bootstrapped from upstream commit 3d11bcb on 2026-04-30.

The original project remains the canonical implementation; AppManagerNG is a parallel effort focused on UX polish and approachability. If you want the upstream experience — or want to contribute features broadly applicable to the package-manager domain — please direct your effort upstream first.

A full list of credits and bundled libraries is available in the About section of the app.