Tuesday, 30 December 2014

YouTube AdAway

This is a simple Xposed module to help you get rid of YouTube ads and branding layers, tested on my GalaxyS4 (Android 4.3) and Nexus5 (Android 4.4+) against the latest YouTube updates (5.7.36), it should work on any Android device supported by Xposed framework (Android 4.0+) on some older YouTube updates as well (tested with 5.3.28).

Requirements:
- Xposed Framework ( API 52+)
- Android 3.0+ (GB version available here: http://wanamlite.com/youtube-adaway/)
What's in:
- Remove YouTube Ads
- Remove Channel Logo
- Remove videos suggestions
- Remove Information card teasers
How to Install:
- Install Xposed Installer App
- Install Xposed framework through Xposed Installer
- Install YouTube AdAway App
- Open Xposed Installer App and enable my App on the modules list
- Reboot
Q: Why this application "may" requires an update for each official YouTube App update.
A: Because the YouTube application sources are proguarded, which means the generated classes names (by Proguard) are changing for each release, this should happen only if a clean proguard (producing a new classes map) is done, that's why we need to update the classes names on YouTube AdAway each time.
Notes:
Reboot is a MUST after updating YouTube App or my App
- This application is NOT a modified YouTube App
- You won't get any (signature) issues if you update your official YouTube App
- If you get any issues playing YouTube videos you can just uninstall my App or disable it on the Xposed modules list

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