
# [20.0.0](https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-patcher/compare/v19.3.1...v20.0.0) (2024-08-06) ### Bug Fixes * Downgrade smali to fix dex compilation issue ([5227e98](5227e98abf
)) * Improve exception message wording ([5481d0c](5481d0c54c
)) * Make constructor internal as supposed ([7f44174](7f44174d91
)) * Merge all extensions before initializing lookup maps ([8c4dd5b](8c4dd5b3a3
)) * Use null for compatible package version when adding packages only ([736b3ee](736b3eebbf
)) ### Features * Add ability to create options outside of a patch ([d310246](d310246852
)) * Convert APIs to Kotlin DSL ([#298](https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-patcher/issues/298)) ([11a911d](11a911dc67
)) ### BREAKING CHANGES * Various old APIs are removed, and DSL APIs are added instead.
Continuing the legacy of Vanced
💉 ReVanced Patcher
ReVanced Patcher used to patch Android applications.
❓ About
ReVanced Patcher is a library that is used to patch Android applications.
It powers ReVanced Manager,
ReVanced CLI
and ReVanced Library and a rich set of patches have been developed
using ReVanced Patcher in the ReVanced Patches repository.
💪 Features
Some of the features the ReVanced Patcher provides are:
- 🔧 Patch Dalvik VM bytecode: Disassemble and assemble Dalvik bytecode
- 📦 Patch APK resources: Decode and build Android APK resources
- 📂 Patch arbitrary APK files: Read and write arbitrary files directly from and to APK files
- 🧩 Write modular patches: Extensive API to write modular patches that can patch Dalvik VM bytecode, APK resources and arbitrary APK files
🚀 How to get started
To use ReVanced Patcher in your project, follow these steps:
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Add the repository to your project
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Add the dependency to your project:
dependencies { implementation("app.revanced:revanced-patcher:{$version}") }
For a minimal project configuration, see ReVanced Patches template.
📚 Everything else
📙 Contributing
Thank you for considering contributing to ReVanced Patcher. You can find the contribution guidelines here.
🛠️ Building
To build ReVanced Patcher, you can follow the ReVanced documentation.
📃 Documentation
The documentation contains the fundamentals of ReVanced Patcher and how to use ReVanced Patcher to create patches. You can find it here.
📜 Licence
ReVanced Patcher is licensed under the GPLv3 license. Please see the licence file for more information. tl;dr you may copy, distribute and modify ReVanced Patcher as long as you track changes/dates in source files. Any modifications to ReVanced Patcher must also be made available under the GPL, along with build & install instructions.