In fact, Cydia Substrate for Android is strikingly similar to an Android tweak called Xposed Framework, which has been around for over a year. but not quite as exciting as “Cydia for Android,” is it? Cydia vs.
Those devs can then offer tweaks to app and system frameworks.Ĭydia Substrate does the same thing for rooted Android devices. It lets developers inject code into apps that they didn’t write. This is more of a toolbox for developers, and is Cydia in branding only.Ĭydia Substrate is the Android equivalent of “Mobile Substrate,” one of the key components in installing jailbroken iOS apps. But if you're expecting the familiar jailbreak app store with a brown icon, that’s not exactly what’s happening here. But that didn’t stop its developer from releasing, well, a different kind of Cydia for Android.Ĭydia developer Jay Freeman (better known as “Saurik”) today released Cydia Substrate for Android.
But on Android – where Google Play lets you download apps for both unhacked and hacked devices – Cydia makes a lot less sense. It picks up where the walled garden of Apple’s App Store leaves off. When you jailbreak an iPhone or iPad, your first stop is the legendary jailbreak app store, Cydia.
