If it still persists in your notifications and eating up battery, you might have encountered a bug. Q: Why does Shelter always run in background?Ī: Please try removing Shelter from “Recent Apps” every time you close it. There is no other reason why one would prefer Shelter over Island except for this one. Note that this doesn’t necessarily mean that Island has anti-features like tracking (and I don’t think it has either), it’s just that I wrote Shelter as an FOSS replacement of it. Q: Why not use Island by OasisFeng, the creator of Greenify?Ī: Simply because it is not an FOSS app and it bundles with non-free SDKs. This is due to the limitations of the Android system, and I can do nothing about this. * Any other bugs or limitations imposed by the Android system.Īlso, Shelter cannot create more than 1 work profile on one Android device, and cannot co-exist with any other apps that manages a Work Profile. * Backdoors installed into the firmwares (no way to work around this) * Backdoors installed in your Android system (so please use an open-source ROM if you are concerned about this) * Security bugs of the Android system or Linux kernel Shelter is not a full sandbox implementation.

* Clone apps to use two accounts on one device This is especially true if you use apps from Chinese companies like Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent. * “Freeze” (disable) background-heavy or seldom-used apps when you don’t need them. * Run “Big Brother” apps inside the isolated profile so they cannot access your data outside the profile If any developer out there own these devices and could make Shelter run on these ROMs, please send pull requests and I’ll be happy to merge them. If you are running Shelter on these ROMs, you are on your own.

I currently provide no support for such ROMs because I personally do not own any of these devices. Some vendor / custom ROMs may have a broken implementation that may cause crashes and even bricking of your device. This app depends on your Android system’s implementation of Work Profile. All source code is available in this public Git repository and the sources are licensed under WTFPL. Shelter comes with absolutely no advertisement / statistics / tracking SDKs bundled with it. Shelter is a Free and Open-Source (FOSS) app that leverages the “Work Profile” feature of Android to provide an isolated space that you can install or clone apps into. PLEASE READ README.md BEFORE YOU START USING THIS APP!

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