vaginessa/liveboot

Sources for the LiveBoot app for rooted Android devices

This is the sauce for the LiveBoot app.

License

Copyright © 2011-2022 Jorrit Chainfire Jongma

This code is released under the GPLv3. LICENSE, COPYING.

Spaghetti Sauce Project

This library is part of the Spaghetti Sauce Project.

About

LiveBoot is an app for rooted devices that shows the logcat and dmesg output on-screen during boot. It has been around since 2014, (then) supporting Android 4.x (or 2011 and Android 2.x if you include its predecessors).

Opening the source

It does some neat tricks, others could learn from it. It's not really in active development anymore (and hasn't been for years), but now and then people nag me to fix it when it breaks, and sometimes I do. Now you can fix it too! A little joy as 2020 finally ends!

Open source but in-app puchases?

Yes, please still buy it. Or press the Freeload button that has been in most of my apps for many years that gives you all the features for free. Or recompile it yourself so it does that.

Download

You can grab actual releases from Google Play or in the XDA thread.

Feedback

It puts it in the XDA thread.

Disclaimer

This hasn't been in active development for a while, and contains code that has been copy/pasted and passed around throughout my projects for many years. It wouldn't surprise me if there's code in here somewhere that was already smelly back in 2011. This is not a shining example of how to build apps in 2020.

Especially if you're primarily familiar with newer devices, there may be some weird constructs with regards to root, but keep in mind this app should still be working on Android's as old as 5.0, and supporting several different root solutions and versions.

I did not go through the code to clean it up before dumping it here. Comments could be outdated or just plain wrong.

If it breaks, you get to keep all the pieces.

Dependencies

Primarily depends on libRootJava and libCFSurface.

Enjoy!

Or not.