Hi
Which is a good open source cloning/dual app? Shelter, Island works great but it creates a work profile. In this use case the app needs to be installed in the normal profile only. There are some apps in the play store but those are way too intrusive, they need all kinda permissions there.
Another way out that I thought of is changing the package name of the apk. Will this work? Any foss app that can do this in the phone itself?
What’s the issue with the work profile?
Embrace the work profile.
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Plus @Licaon_Kter
For one in the device in which this needs to be used, if the work profile needs to be set up, it asks for mandatory samsung account sign in. Even if we do this, then in the work profile we will have to once again set up tracker control and bunch of other things to make sure that samsung is not helloing their servers every now and then. Moreover the work profile will have the default samsung keyboard, samsung browser etc. Yes we can install heliboard, fennec (miss mull) but again it will be a very time consuming thing. The app that we need to clone or set up as a dual app is needed for like twice a week and that too for around 10 mins.
Is there any way to change the package name or something and install it in the main profile itself?
Apps that do this fundamentally break the security mechanism that ensures apps are what they are.
Please try for a phone that can run a better OS: Comparison of Android-based Operating Systems
Considering they control the system, any blockers you add are or apps you remove are merely surface deep in the possibility.
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Oh so we are SOL?
Whenver I look at comparisons like that I miss divest os more n more. Thank you for everything SZ. Coming back to the query, unfortunately we cannot spend more and this phone does not support any custom rom or os, thanks scamsung, so we have to figure a way out with what we have.
You are right, but of what I have tested in multiple non rooted samsung phones with tracker control, if we disable each and every samsung service from TC, then one never gets the OS update notification until and unless one manually presses the check update option. Sure this doesn’t mean at all that samsung isnt phoning back home. But it does lead to suppress atleast some of the things that it keeps on doing in the background. Again I might be wrong totally.
sure, just rebuild the app yourself, just like I do… 
we know, but… it works
Are you sure it needs a Samsung account? I just tried Insular on my One UI 6 device, and it did not ask for a Samsung account at all.