forked from distok/cutthecord
Ave Ozkal
4c3ff4ad3f
Fixed top bar. Unofficial v8.5.4 changelog: - Full implementation of news https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/448273769153298452/551511285582397471/Screenshot_20190303-000846.png - Fun placeholders such as <string name="premium_subtitle_mobile">Something that would a mobile user want to care about buying Nitro chat perks with the bonus of some free pc games.</string>
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# cutthecord
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Discord Android app patches.
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**Latest supported Discord Android version:** 8.5.4 (854), released on 2019-03-03.
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New patch development will be done for the latest supported version.
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## Binaries
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An F-Droid repo is available on https://fdroid.a3.pm/seabear/repo/.
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You can add that to your phone and get updates easily or just download directly from there.
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**You will need to uninstall any and all existing Discord or CutTheCord applications from your phone before installing one, or else installation will fail.**
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Feel free to ignore play protect, it's bullshit.
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## Building
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#### Toolchain setup
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- Get apktool (due to [a bug](https://github.com/iBotPeaches/Apktool/issues/1909) present on apktool v2.3.4, I recommend using [this build](https://elixi.re/i/cq4r2zxg.jar))
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- Get a keystore, see [here](https://stackoverflow.com/a/14994354/3286892), step 1.
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- If you want Mutant Standard emoji patches, get 72x72 copies of latest version of mutant standard emojis with codepoints. I have a zip [here](https://mutant.lavatech.top/72x72.zip).
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- Extract the emojis you got somewhere.
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- Clone this repo somewhere, edit `emojireplace.py` and set the `extracted_mutstd_path` folder to the folder you just extracted emojis to.
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#### Building a patched discord app
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- Get a Discord apk (*cough* [apkmirror](https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/discord-inc/discord-chat-for-gamers/), [aptoide API](https://ws75.aptoide.com/api/7/app/getMeta?package_name=com.discord)).
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- Extract it with apktool (`apktool d <apk path>`)
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Apply the patches (`patch -p1 < <patch name>`).
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- If you want mutant (or other emoji patches), edit `patches/mutant/emojireplace.py` to point to extracted discord folder (`extracted_discord_path`), and apply emoji patches (`python3 emojireplace.py`)
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- Build the new APK (`apktool b com.discord-832`)
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- Sign the new APK (`jarsigner -keystore <keystore path> <foldername>/dist/<foldername>.apk <alias>`)
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- Get your new APK from `<foldername>/dist/<foldername>.apk`, install and enjoy!
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#### Building patches
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After extracting the APK, copy it to a folder that you won't modify (`cp -r com.discord-836 com.discord-836-base`), so that you can easily diff them.
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To get the diff, run `diff -crB -x "dist" -x "res/raw" -x "build" CleanFolder PatchedFolder > patchname.patch`
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#### Porting patches
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You can use `patchport` to easily attempt to port patches.
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It's not really intelligent and doesn't do much more than just checking if an existing patch can be applied to a given version (it also replaces relevant variables required for porting various patches), but it saves a lot of time if used carefully.
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Example command: `python3 patchport.py 839 8.3.9g /home/ave/Downloads/dic/com.discord-841 /home/ave/Projects/cutthecord/`
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