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NanoDroid-Overlay Script
Purpose
The nanodroid-overlay Script, respectively it's shortcut novl is used by NanoDroid to handle the
- Pseudo Debloat Feature (Magisk Mode)
- Foce Debloat Feature (System Mode)
Pseudo Debloat Feature
Magisk allows for apps to be magically removed upon runtime, they don't get actually removed from /system but they are pseudo-removed during runtime.
Force Debloat Feature
In System Mode apps can are moved to /sdcard/nanodroid_backups/ or restored from there.
Default Settings
The following applications are debloated by default
- Basic Dreams
- Calendar
- CM File Manager
- crDroid Filemanager and Music Player
- Eleven, Phonograph (Audio Player)
- E-Mail + Exchange2
- Browser, Gello, Slimperience, Via Browser, Jelly (Browser)
- PhotoTable
- Sound Recorder, Recorder
- messaging (SMS & MMS)
- Wallpaper, WallpaperPickerGoogle (Google Wallpaper application)
- Wallpaper Backup
- mGerrit
- FM Radio
- Gallery2
- OmniSwitch
- Screencast
- Snap, Snapdragon Camera (Camera)
- Resurrection Remix Statistics
- Sim Toolkit
Alter the list of pseudo-debloated applications
You can pseudo-debloat applications by adding them to configuration file
.nanodroid-overlay
on your device, in one of the following directories
/sdcard(internal storage)/external_sd(TWRP path to SD Card (if any))- directory containing the zip file
/data(fallabck)
See the default settings.
Alternatively you can also use the NanoDroid Setup Wizard package instead of manual creation of the configuration file.
The syntax is pretty simple:
- one app per line
- name must be an exact match
After you've made your changes, issue the following command on your device, either using adb shell or Termux as root:
nanodroid-overlay --update
This needs to be done in normal environment. If you're in TWRP you'll have to manually mount /magisk (you may use the mount-magisk script from the git repo for this purpose).
Invocation
From within a terminal on your device, for example adb shell or Termux invoke the script using either
nanodroid-overlay [switch] [parameter(s)]
or
novl [switch] [parameter(s)]
Overview
-a, --add [app]
add Overlay for app (if it exists) and add it to the config file; [app] is the name of the app's directory in /system/app or /system/priv-app
-r, --remove [app]
remove Overlay for app (if it exists) and remove it from the config file; [app] is the name of the app's directory in /system/app or /system/priv-app
-s, --show
show all apps that don't have an Overlay (slow)
-l, --list
show all apps that do have an Overlay
-x, --create
create Overlays from config file
-u, --update
The following features are only available in Magisk Mode:
remove existing Overlays and re-create them from the config file
-c, --clear
remove existing Overlays
-g, --genconfig
(re-)create config file from existing Overlays