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>The vanced team will "NEVER" make its source code public. Making the source code available on the internet can cause serious complications for us.

What would those complicatiosn be?

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WatchDog|4 years ago

Isn't vanced just a patched version of the official app?

It's not mentioned in the article, but I imagine the copyright infringement, goes a lot further than simply infringing the trademarks and logos.

Presumably, they don't want to release the source code, because it would make it blatantly obvious.

shabier|4 years ago

> Isn't vanced just a patched version of the official app?

I believe that it is. Although they don't have the source code, just the binary which they have modified in order to add features, see smali[0]. Other projects like the Google camera mod are using similar approaches to modify or port official apps

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/30837786

post_break|4 years ago

Someone else could make a better version of it. But if I had to guess, they are using some internal tools or hacks to make it work the way it does.

grishka|4 years ago

Top-secret internal tools like jadx, apktool, the Android SDK, and a text editor? This is all I used to build my patched version of Instagram.

danuker|4 years ago

This points to an NDA with Google.

lucb1e|4 years ago

I was wondering if one of the authors was a youtube employee and took code perhaps, but yours is the simpler explanation. Sounds logical to request this from Google's POV.