apk-editor
Feature suggestion: App Cloning
It would be great if APK Explorer and Editor could support App Cloning.
Being able to sign apks is part of the solution, so adding an option to edit the app name and app UID could make it easier to install multiple versions of the same apps (not only 2 versions like when using Android Work profile, but many more like App Cloner. Has this feature been considered? Thanks for the feedback!
@jo-chemla Thanks for this suggestion and sorry for the long delay from my side. Basically, I"m against implementing features that might be potentially used for illegal things are feels like spoon-feading. That's why this app not natively supports features like renaming app name or package id or changing app icon. Anyone with some knowledge on AndroidManifest can easily do it though.
I was searching for exactly this feature. I need something like Parallel but open source. I basically want to have a few different instances of the Brave browser were to be logged in or not logged in in to different sites like Gmail not for doing anything ilegal but to protect my privacy in the front of hundreds of companies that sell our data collected when we visit different websites through coockies and fingerprinting the device. Maybe think on doing it in a way that cannot be used as you mentioned for ilegal stuff. Let's say you don't allow icon change and the name will be the same plus a number at the end ex. Brave 2, Brave 3 and not allow the altering of the content of the APK apart from the new signature and name.
