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.
This app depends on your Android system’s implementation of Work Profile. Some vendor / custom ROMs may have a broken implementation that may cause crashes and even bricking of your device. One such example is MIUI from Xiaomi. I currently provide no support for such ROMs because I personally do not own any of these devices. If you are running Shelter on these ROMs, you are on your own. 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.
Features / Use Cases ===================
- Run apps inside the isolated profile so they cannot access your data outside the profile - “Freeze” (disable) background-heavy or seldom-used apps when you don’t need them. This is especially true if you use apps from "some company". - Clone apps to use two accounts on one device
Caveats =======
Shelter is not a full sandbox implementation. It cannot protect you from:
- Security bugs of the Android system or Linux kernel - Backdoors installed in your Android system (so please use an open-source ROM if you are concerned about this) - Backdoors installed into the firmwares (no way to work around this) - Any other bugs or limitations imposed by the Android system.
Also, 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. This is due to the limitations of the Android system, and I can do nothing about this.
• Top positive commentover 2 years ago • 0 replies
Open source, easily create work profile and tabs for cloned apps, separated by main system
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• Top positive comment6 months ago • 0 replies
Free and open source. The setup was easy and straightforward. Finally, I was able to replace Parallel Space and it's annoying ads. The cherry on top was that it seems it let me clone every app on my phone :)
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Positive comment • 5 months ago • as an alternative to Island
Open source, easily create work profile and tabs for cloned apps, separated by main system
Free and open source. The setup was easy and straightforward. Finally, I was able to replace Parallel Space and it's annoying ads. The cherry on top was that it seems it let me clone every app on my phone :)