AdAway

AdAway is an open source ad blocker for Android using the hosts file.

For more information visit http://adaway.org

Support

You can post Issues here or obtain more detailed community support via the XDA Thread.

Authors

AdAway is currently maintained by 0-kaladin and Dāvis Mošenkovs. The original author is Dominik Schürmann.

Build with Gradle

Build Executables

1. Have NDK directory in your PATH (http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html)
2. Change to "AdAway" directory with cd AdAway
3. Execute ndk-build to compile native binaries.

Build APK

1. Have Android SDK "tools", "platform-tools", and "build-tools" directories in your PATH (http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html)
2. Open the Android SDK Manager (shell command: android). Expand the Extras directory and install "Android Support Repository"
3. Export ANDROID_HOME pointing to your Android SDK
4. Execute ./gradlew renameExecutables (IMPORTANT unusual step!)
5. Execute ./gradlew build

Contribute

Fork AdAway and do a Pull Request. I will merge your changes back into the main project.

Development

I am using the newest Android Studio for development. Development with Eclipse is currently not possible because I am using the new project structure.

1. Clone the project from github
2. From Android Studio: File -> Import Project -> Select the cloned top folder
3. Import project from external model -> choose Gradle

Translations

Translations are hosted on Transifex, which is configured by ".tx/config".

1. To pull newest translations install transifex client (e.g. apt-get install transifex-client)
2. Config Transifex client with "~/.transifexrc"
3. Go into root folder of git repo
4. execute tx pull (tx pull -a to get all languages)

see http://docs.transifex.com/client/

Coding Style

Code

• Indentation: 4 spaces, no tabs
• Maximum line width for code and comments: 100
• Opening braces don't go on their own line
• Field names: Non-public, non-static fields start with m.
• Acronyms are words: Treat acronyms as words in names, yielding !XmlHttpRequest, getUrl(), etc.

See http://source.android.com/source/code-style.html

XML

• XML Maximum line width 999
• XML: Split multiple attributes each on a new line (Eclipse: Properties -> XML -> XML Files -> Editor)
• XML: Indent using spaces with Indention size 4 (Eclipse: Properties -> XML -> XML Files -> Editor)

See http://www.androidpolice.com/2009/11/04/auto-formatting-android-xml-files-with-eclipse/

AdAway/jni

Forked from the following sources and slightly modified to compile!

• dnsmasq: https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_external_dnsmasq
• libpcap: https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/tree/libpcap-1.7.4
• tcpdump: https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/tree/tcpdump-4.7.4

Changes

Please review the following commits for the changes made to the sources above in order for them to compile in this project:

• Commit: https://github.com/Free-Software-for-Android/AdAway/commit/1f4ccb3cec3758757341ad90813506fc2a8fdf7b
• Commit: https://github.com/Free-Software-for-Android/AdAway/commit/289df896c0ac4f96bd862e8a5054f1011ec07cac
• Commit: https://github.com/Free-Software-for-Android/AdAway/commit/08da0745b0732b94221c0f5746160fef8126fd99

Licenses

AdAway is licensed under the GPLv3+.
The file LICENSE includes the full license text.

Details

AdAway is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

AdAway is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with AdAway. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Libraries

• ActionBarSherlock
  http://actionbarsherlock.com/
  Apache License v2

• Android Donations Lib
  https://github.com/dschuermann/android-donations-lib
  Apache License v2

• RootCommands
  https://github.com/dschuermann/root-commands
  Apache License v2

• Mongoose Webserver
  https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose
  GPLv2 License

• Tcpdump/Libpcap
  http://www.tcpdump.org/
  BSD 3-Clause License

• HtmlTextView
  https://github.com/dschuermann/html-textview
  Apache License v2

• Trove
  http://trove.starlight-systems.com/
  multiple licenses

Images

• status_enabled.svg, status_disabled.svg, status_update.svg
  Dropbox Emblems Tango by Charles A.
  http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=7818&replies=19
  Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

• status_fail.svg
  Faenza Icons
  GPLv3

• icon.svg, banner.svg
  AdAway by Dominik Schürmann
  New version by Alin Ţoţea-Radu
  GPLv3

• Menu Icons
  Original Android Icons