[[[ UPDATE ]]]
Stable Release is heading your way… soon… have had some more issues creep up on me that I want to fix firsthand.
Pre-releases are back in the meantime.
I’ve been in the process of simplifying, restructuring, and improving the code quality, and visual quality of the app locally.
Releases have been, and will be less frequent as I’m doing more local testing before pushing releases.
Pre-releases will return for simple things like bugs, crashes, issues and such.
I’m creating more checkpoints for myself and this project as I shift my focus to stability and improvement in visual quality & user experience ahead of new feature implementation.
It’s time to truly stabilize things instead of simply moving forward with development at lightspeed.
Thank you for your patience, and much love to you all!
Shizuku+
The advanced privileged-process manager for Android.
Shizuku+ is an enhanced version of Shizuku built on top of thedjchi/Shizuku, with quality-of-life improvements, backported optimizations, exclusive Plus APIs, M3E theming & TCP connectivity improvements, and more.
Shizuku lets normal apps use system-level APIs directly via a privileged process started with adb or root. Shizuku+ keeps full compatibility while adding features for power users and developers through the API and in-app with advanced settings and experimental developments.
✨ Check out everything else this fork offers in the feature section further below!
🌐 Languages: English · Simplified Chinese · Help Translate on Crowdin
Contributors welcome! If you’ve found a bug or want to improve the codebase, please open an issue or pull request — the project is actively looking for contributors and collaborators.
⬇️ Download
Get the latest release from GitHub Releases — see the release notes there for what’s changed recently.
✨ Shizuku+ Core Features
- Universal Privilege Provider: One interface for Root, ADB Shell, and Dhizuku (Device Owner).
- OneUI 8+ Theming Fix: Lets theming engines like Hex Installer or Substratum keep working on Android 16/17 and OneUI 8+.
- Dhizuku Mode: Share the system Device Owner binder with any app that has Shizuku permissions — set up via ADB, no root needed.
- Customizable Gestures: Swipe left, swipe right, and long-press actions, configurable per app.
- In-App Changelogs: See what’s new after an update without leaving the app.
- Bulk Management: Multi-select apps to grant/revoke permissions or hide them in one tap.
- Per-app API scopes: Limit what each authorized app can do (shell, package manager, activity manager, app ops, system settings). An app with a scope off can’t get around it with an interactive shell or its own background services.
- Quick safety check (optional, off by default): When an app asks for access, see where it was installed from, when, and its signing certificate. Add your own VirusTotal or Pithus key to also see whether scanners flag that exact APK; only its hash is looked up.
- Safe by default for other apps: Shizuku+‘s riskier APIs for other apps (other apps’ private data, SMS, contacts, location, screenshots, input, reboot) stay off until you turn them on in Developer options → Unrestricted access (unlock Developer options by tapping the version 7 times in Settings → About).
- App list sorting up front: A sort chip leads the filter row: name, last installed, last updated or granted first, and tap again to reverse.
- In-App Knowledgebase: Clean, offline-first Material 3 peek dialogs with rich guides, copyable command snippets, and direct action buttons without navigating away.
- Activity Log with Morphe Timeline: Visual node rails with dynamic pulsing status halos, repetitive activity occurrence grouping, and multi-criteria sorting.
- Root Compatibility Hub & Enhanced SU Bridge: Seamless translation of legacy
su -c commands into Shizuku IPC with POSIX argument parsing and Android 14–17 support.
- Universal SU Automation: One-tap ‘Magic Setup’ to configure installed root apps to use the Shizuku+ SU Bridge.
- Customizable Floating Navigation Bar: Configurable 2 to 5 tab destinations (Home, Apps, Hub, Service Doctor, Terminal, Settings) with an interactive M3 Compose bottom sheet customizer, haptic feedback, live AMOLED+ surface preview, quick presets (Home Center, Terminal, Doctor), and physical direction-aware slide transitions.
- AMOLED+ Specular Rim Theming: True black AMOLED+ mode elevated with frosted glass luminous rim highlights (
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3)), backed by a unified recursive card border engine across Home, Settings, Service Doctor, and Root Compatibility.
- App Profiles Automation: Per-app foreground Binder Firewall rules (Default, Block, Allow) automatically adjusting system permissions as you switch between apps.
- Privileged App Backup & Restore: Comprehensive backup and restore of split APKs and user data using native SAF tree picker, freeze/unfreeze controls, and glanceable filter chips.
- Adaptive Service Doctor: Diagnoses and fixes service startup, Samsung Auto Blocker (read from its real settings now) and OEM battery restrictions, with diagnostic checks safely excluding optional root bridges (like the SU bridge) from false positive fixes.
- Helper notifications: Problems show up in one place. With the Watchdog on, its notification says whether Shizuku+ is running and offers a fix button when something’s wrong; without it, one quiet notification updates in place. You pick how much you hear (off, only when it stops or needs you, or every problem), and nothing pops up over the app you’re using.
- Expressive morphing icons: Setting icons morph from an “off” shape into your chosen shape when you switch them on, with Spin, Morph, Pop, Sweep or Liquid motion. There are Material’s shapes plus the original hand-built “classic” ones, and experimental switch designs where the icon itself is the switch.
- Integrated Feature Guides & Smart Tooltips: Long-press any setting for contextual explanations and direct links to the relevant knowledgebase guide.
- Quick Settings Tile: Check and toggle the service status from your notification panel.
🚀 Plus API Features
Shizuku+ provides exclusive system interfaces for advanced automation and tools — none of these exist in stock Shizuku:
- AICore+ Automation Bridge: Privileged UI automation (hierarchy dumps, tap/swipe) for AI-driven tools — no root needed. (added)
- AVF (Virtual Machine) Manager: Create, start and stop AVF virtual machines, on devices whose firmware supports AVF. (added)
- Privileged Storage Proxy: Fast access to shared storage and read-only access to installed APKs for backup and file tools. Other apps’ private data (
/data/data/, /Android/data/, /Android/obb/) is off by default; turn on Developer options → Unrestricted app data access for tools like Neo Backup. /data/data/ also needs root. (added)
- Device Spoofing (Spoof Device Identity in Settings): Present a different device identity to bypass device-specific restrictions. (added)
- Intelligence Bridge (AI Core Plus): Screen context for AI tools (pixel colors, layer captures, system context). NPU scheduling isn’t offered: there’s no public API for it, so the call says “not supported” instead of pretending (#633). (added)
- Window Manager Plus: Force free-form resizing, manage the Bubble Bar, and resilient overlays. (added)
- System Theming Bridge (Overlay Manager Plus): Privileged overlay management for rootless theming (e.g. Hex Installer). (added)
- Network & DNS Governor: Manage Private DNS and firewall routing for rootless ad-blockers. (added)
- Deep Process Control (Activity Manager Plus): Lets process managers kill apps and set standby buckets more aggressively. (added)
- Continuity Bridge: Secure state and task handoff between Shizuku+ devices. (added)
See the Shizuku±API repository for full documentation and client bindings.
🛠️ Backporting & Optimizations
Shizuku+ makes regular Shizuku apps faster and more compatible without any code changes:
- Transparent Shell Interceptor: Routes common
pm, am, and settings commands through faster native APIs.
- Local ADB Proxy: Emulates an ADB server on port 15555, so legacy apps can use Shizuku without Wireless ADB staying on.
- SU Bridge: A Shizuku-backed
su drop-in for non-rooted apps that support a custom root path. Common root commands are translated into real framework operations where shell UID allows it — iptables --uid-owner per-app blocks become live NetworkPolicy restrictions, resetprop reads/writes real system properties, and chmod/chown apply for real — falling back to mocked success only when an operation genuinely requires root (e.g. flashing partitions or loading kernel modules).
plus CLI Helper: A privileged command-line utility, available inside rish.- Dynamic App Database: Keeps app descriptions and suggestions in the UI up-to-date from GitHub.
⚙️ Modular Control
Everything in Shizuku+ is optional. Use the Plus Features category in Settings to toggle:
- Transparent Shell Interception
- Individual Plus APIs (AVF, Storage, Intelligence, etc.)
- Home screen card visibility
- Activity Logging
🔌 Third-Party App Compatibility
Shizuku+ installs under its own package (af.shizuku.plus.api) so it can coexist with stock Shizuku. Because most Shizuku-aware apps look specifically for the moe.shizuku.privileged.api package, Shizuku+ ships a lightweight Compat Hub — a tiny companion app that registers that package name and forwards binder/permission requests to Shizuku+.
If third-party apps don’t detect Shizuku+:
- Start the Shizuku+ service (ADB or root).
- On the home screen, use the Compat Hub card to install the companion (it’s bundled in the app; installation goes through the running service, so start the service first).
- Re-open the third-party app — it should now detect Shizuku and receive the service binder.
Alternatively, install the drop-in build, which registers as moe.shizuku.privileged.api directly (do not install it alongside stock Shizuku).
🔒 Privacy & Backups
Nothing leaves your device except update checks, a public app-compatibility list from this repo and, only if you opt in, crash reports (with addresses and other apps’ commands stripped) and the safety check’s VirusTotal or Pithus hash lookups. Backups never carry your ADB key or the list of apps you allowed, and the risky APIs for other apps are off until you turn them on. The details, with links to the code, are in docs/PRIVACY.md.
☑️ Requirements
Minimum: Android 7+ · Fully supported through Android 17 (SDK 37)
- Root mode: Requires a rooted device
- Wireless Debugging mode: Android 11+ and all Android TVs
- PC mode: All devices
- Start on boot: Available only with Wireless Debugging or Root mode
On Android 16+, Shizuku+ requests the new Local Network Protection permissions so wireless-debugging discovery and pairing keep working; on Android 17, it transparently handles the hidden-API deviceId change so authorized apps still appear and permission grants still apply.
📃 License
Apache 2.0
🙏 Acknowledgements & Upstream Projects
Shizuku+ is a community-driven enhancement and fork of thedjchi/Shizuku, which is itself a fork of the original RikkaApps/Shizuku. This project is not affiliated with the original RikkaApps team.
Thanks to the following upstream contributors and projects whose work makes Shizuku+ possible:
- RikkaApps / Rikka — For the foundational Shizuku project and its elegant API design.
- thedjchi — For the intermediate fork and quality-of-life improvements, and for carrying the Android 17 (SDK 37) compatibility work that Shizuku+'s A17 support is adapted from.
- kerneldroid / Nightzuku — Origin of the Android 17 hidden-API
deviceId compatibility approach (the Android17Compat / InstalledPackagesCompat reflection layer) and Local Network Protection handling that this fork’s A17 support descends from.
- rushiranpise / Shizuku-Next — For high-reliability fork improvements: watchdog auto-recovery, persistent TCP handling, Google TV remote pairing optimization, and APK observer re-arming across manager updates.
- HmnDev-Tech / Shevery — For inspiring modern Jetpack Compose M3 Expressive layouts, side-by-side namespace isolation concepts, biometric authorization gates, and modular extensions.
- roro2239 / Stellar — For architectural concepts in multi-dimensional granular permissions and companion lifecycle startup bindings.
- LandonMoran — For porting Nightzuku’s Android 17 support into the thedjchi fork and verifying it end-to-end on a physical Android 17 device (pairing, service start, and the authorized-apps list), which is the field validation Shizuku+'s port builds on.
- Muntashir Akon & DP-Hridayan — For the aShell You codebase, which inspired the terminal, snippet, and shell automation features.
- iamr0s — For Dhizuku, enabling the unified Device Owner privilege mode, and AndroidAppProcess for standalone Java process execution.
- pascua28 — For native Samsung System UID 1000 escalation integration.
- ShizukuExt-SystemUID — For conceptualizing systemic UID 1000 privilege escalation beyond standard limits.
- XiaoTong6666 / Sui & RikkaApps / Sui — For system-level superuser interface architecture and root bridging concepts.
- timschneeb / awesome-shizuku — For ecosystem cataloging and curation of Shizuku-compatible applications.
Upstream & Sister Projects
| Project |
Author |
License |
Role |
| Shizuku |
RikkaApps / Rikka |
Apache 2.0 |
Foundational privileged-process architecture |
| Shizuku (fork) |
thedjchi |
Apache 2.0 |
Intermediate fork with QoL improvements; carried the Android 17 compat work Shizuku+ adapted |
| Nightzuku |
kerneldroid |
Apache 2.0 |
Origin of the Android 17 hidden-API deviceId + Local Network Protection compatibility approach |
| Shizuku-Next |
rushiranpise |
Apache 2.0 |
High-reliability fork: watchdog auto-recovery, TCP persistence, and APK re-arm updates |
| Shevery |
HmnDev-Tech |
GPL-3.0 |
Modernized Compose UI, biometric gates, and modular extensibility inspiration |
| Stellar |
roro2239 |
Apache 2.0 |
Granular multi-dimensional permission system and lifecycle bindings inspiration |
| Shizuku (fork) |
pascua28 |
Apache 2.0 |
Samsung UID 1000 system execution exploit |
| ShizukuExt-SystemUID |
ShizukuExt Team |
Apache 2.0 |
System UID privilege escalation concepts |
| Dhizuku |
iamr0s |
Apache 2.0 |
Device Owner binder sharing (Dhizuku Mode) |
| AndroidAppProcess |
iamr0s |
LGPL-3.0 |
Standalone high-privileged Java process wrapper |
| aShell You |
DP-Hridayan / Muntashir Akon |
GPL-3.0 |
Privileged shell execution and script snippet terminal inspiration |
| Sui |
XiaoTong6666 / RikkaApps |
Apache 2.0 |
Superuser interface architecture and root bridge concepts |
| awesome-shizuku |
timschneeb |
CC0-1.0 |
Ecosystem curation and community application directory |
Open Source Libraries
Full license texts and per-library details: OPEN_SOURCE_LICENSES.md | NOTICE
👥 Contributors
Code Contributors
| Contributor |
Contribution |
| thejaustin |
Project founder & primary maintainer — all core Plus features, UI/UX, and infrastructure |
| thedjchi |
Intermediate fork base; Android 17 (SDK 37) compatibility groundwork |
| Kevin Doremy |
Dead code removal, unused import cleanup, layout & class refactoring |
| Ryfter |
mDNS timeout improvements, FGS subtype refactoring, notification UX |
| vvb2060 |
AGP build system updates, LTO optimization, license clarifications |
| Haruue Icymoon |
Documentation & README improvements |
| djbclark |
Fork-migration guide (FORK_MIGRATION.md); stock-API transaction-code, onTransact logging, locked-device ADB foreground-service, CI release-notes and bug-report link fixes (#572–#582) |
| Enursha |
BinderContainer keep-rules and binder delivery to stock clients; manager “not running” status fix (#307, #308) |
| udmodz0 |
Ecosystem tooling, repository automation, and awesome-shizuku curation |
Translation Contributors
Plus many more via community translation through Crowdin — thank you to all translators!
Machine-assisted drafts: where a language was still incomplete, missing strings were filled with AI-assisted drafts in strings_machine_translated.xml and are flagged for native review. If you speak the language, corrections are very welcome — see TRANSLATING.md.
Acknowledgments
- Special thanks to AkayamiShurui42 for the proactive security research and stability patches (Reference: #239).
- Thank you to AlexeiCrystal for identifying MIUI crash bugs and suggesting the Compat Hub workaround for legacy apps (#241, #242).
- Thank you to ddnexus and kai-bash for highlighting the Device Owner factory reset trap and Google Backup conflicts (#237).
- Thank you to Kevinco1 for feedback on root compat app detection issues (#243).
- Thank you to aragortsantiago6-beep and Scoop2389 (Pixel 9a) and ConversionRituals (Xiaomi) for on-device Android 16/17 testing, crash reports, and logs that drove the SDK 37 hidden-API and Local Network Protection compatibility fixes (#317, #323).
- Thank you to gmm96 for extensive multi-round logcat debugging across several builds that pinned down the Cached Apps Freezer binder-delivery bug (#371).
- Thank you to bilemke for isolating the stock-API regression that led to removing the legacy binder proxy (#584), and to everyone who filed crash reports and tested builds recently.
- Thank you to odorizzioficial for the complete Brazilian Portuguese translation (#409), and for the detailed report on the Samsung “Sleeping apps” Watchdog freeze (#415).
- Thank you to deathgamer29016 for isolating the Samsung One UI 8 / Android 16 Dhizuku mode authorization regression (#670).
- Thank you to alexyao2015 for reporting the Wireless ADB custom port persistence issue on Pixel 9 running Android 17 (#668).
- Thank you to NickShlyft05 for providing manual crash logs and hardware reproduction on Motorola Moto G Power running Android 16 (#649).
- Thank you to 0xlne for architectural insights on package name randomization and enterprise profile stealth detection (#469).
- Thank you to starboyopunole for Awesome-Shizuku community coordination and ecosystem tool integration.
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