feat: Background Patching

[HifeFish]

Type

Functionality

Issue

Patching an app sometimes takes a long time on my phone and it at least seems to not make any progress while ReVanced Manager is in the background, even though background activity is allowed and sleep disabled.

Even worse, if I use other apps, sometimes when I return to ReVanced Manager, it shows the app's home screen with no indication if the patching was successful or any way to install the patched .apk. So my only choice seems to be to restart the whole process.

In this instance, I was trying to apply 10 patches to the Youtube app yesterday and I had to start over at least three times and it never concluded. Then today it took at most a few minutes to finish, so there might be a time-dependent issue involved, but that doesn't change the original issue.

Feature

a) Make Revanced Manager continue patching in the background

and maybe additionally:

b) provide a notification, when patching has concluded.

c) If patching is still interrupted somehow, provide a resume option, if some of the steps had already completed; e.g. if patching was successful, then the app was closed, provide an option to install the patched .apk.

Motivation

I would like to be able to still use my phone while a lengthy patching operation is in progress and moreover not risk having to restart the process.

Additional context

ReVanced Manager Version: 0.0.54 Build: release Model: SM-G955F Android Version: 9 Arch: arm64-v8a

Acknowledgements

• [X] I have searched the existing issues and this is a new and no duplicate or related to another open issue.
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[GarvinSchaub]

The issue could occure since there is no real state management in place. Rewriting this to include a persistent state management could be a ton of work in my unasked opinion.

[oSumAtrIX]

ReVanced Manager will soon be released as a full rewrite. Over time, many feature requests have been made for the current version of ReVanced Manager, but to accelerate the development of the new version of ReVanced Manager, we have to focus on it, which I am closing this issue according to the contribution guidelines:

Requests can be accepted or rejected at the discretion of maintainers of ReVanced Patches

This feature request has been closed for one or more of the following reasons:

• Stale for too long/ Low priority/ Maintainers un-interested/ Too complex to realize
• Feature planned/ already implemented for the new version of ReVanced Manager

Regardless, anyone who comes across this feature request can PR it to the current version of ReVanced Manager until the new version is ready. Thanks for your feature request!