Dev Preview Hints Android P Could Remove Rootless Substratum Support - baderevich1941

Google sensible released the first developer prevue for Android P, this class's starring Android upgrade. While the Bone brush up brings with a number of parvenue features, information technology also removed one feature that takes a immense come to happening Android customizations. According to a past report from XDA, Android P doesn't keep going custom overlays like Substratum themes.

Last year, much to the surprisal of many in the Android community, Android 8.0 Oreo brought with rootless Substrate support. This allowed users to install custom-built themes on their devices which were previously just available on rooted devices. Now, Google seems to ingest taken away that sport in Android P.

As the report explains, if a user tries to install a customized overlay in Android P, the pursual message pops up in the logcat:

"1239 W PackageManager: Package couldn't be installed in /information/app/com.dropbox.android.SwiftDark.Android81NexusorPixel-wb7JxFaAXaHgw7WkZFCvEQ==
03-07 21:00:13.099 1179 1239 W PackageManager: com.android.host.pm.PackageManagerException: Overlie com.dropbox.android.SwiftDark.Android81NexusorPixel must be autographed with the platform certificate."

The aforementioned message means that Mechanical man P merely supports overlays installed by the system, something that is currently recovered on the theme engine in the Razer Phone. The write up further adds that as shortly as a user upgrades to Humanoid P, the list of installed overlays disappears. Members from the Substratum team have also confirmed the issue.

With Android P, if a user wishes to install a bespoken overlay, they will sustain to resort to rooting the gimmick and installing a custom ROM. Unrooted users volition not be able to make any customizations to the Osmium, including installing themes, dynamic emoji, customizing pilotage bar icons, lock screen customizations and other personalization options, which Substratum offered. However, since this is the first developer preview of Android P, we can still keep our hopes up and dearly wishing that Google reverts the changes in forthcoming releases. The Substratum team also plans to set about a postulation to get Google to come back support for the functionality.