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by WatchDog 1549 days ago
Isn't vanced just a patched version of the official app?

It's not mentioned in the article, but I imagine the copyright infringement, goes a lot further than simply infringing the trademarks and logos.

Presumably, they don't want to release the source code, because it would make it blatantly obvious.

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> Isn't vanced just a patched version of the official app?

I believe that it is. Although they don't have the source code, just the binary which they have modified in order to add features, see smali[0]. Other projects like the Google camera mod are using similar approaches to modify or port official apps

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/30837786