cutthecord

Discord Android app patches.

Binaries

Automatically patched binaries are available on distok.a3.pm/cutthecord.

To be able to install them (when moving from official discord app), you'll need to first uninstall Discord app and restart your device. You may also need to enable play protect.

You can just update directly from APKs there once you do that, so this is a process you only need to do once.

Toolchain setup

• Get apktool
• Get a keystore, see here, step 1.
• Get 72x72 copies of latest version of mutant standard emojis with codepoints. I have a zip here.
• Extract the emojis you got somewhere.
• Clone this repo somewhere, edit emojireplace.py and set the extracted_mutstd_path folder to the folder you just extracted emojis to.

Building an patched discord app

• Get a Discord apk (cough apkmirror, aptoide API).
• Extract it with apktool (apktool d <apk path>)
• Get all the necessary patches for that version. Necessary patches are not available for all versions and are only required to get some versions to pack together correctly.
• Get optional patches you want for your version. If the patch you want isn't available for your version, you'll have to port them yourself.
• Apply the patches (patch -p1 < <patch name>).
• Edit emojireplace.py to point to extracted discord folder (extracted_discord_path), and apply emoji patches (python3 emojireplace.py)
• Build the new APK (apktool b com.discord-831)
• Sign the new APK (jarsigner -keystore <keystore path> <foldername>/dist/<foldername>.apk <alias>)
• Get your new APK from <foldername>/dist/<foldername>.apk, install and enjoy!

Building patches

diff -crB -x "dist" -x "res/raw" -x "build" CleanFolder PatchedFolder > patchname.patch

Disclaimer about emojos

This [thing] uses Mutant Standard emoji (https://mutant.tech), which are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).