Addons Detector detects addons used by your installed applications. It has all the tools to find push notification ads, popup ads and icon ads.
If you are looking for the app that uses AirPush or other push notifications, you can easily find the app and uninstall.
If you are getting popup ads on your device, make sure to read the help text inside the app. It explains how to get rid of them.
Besides push notifications, using this app is a great way to see what advertising agencies apps use, and what tools they have integrated.
Does the normal scan not detect the spam ads? Enable the notification monitor and you can easily see which program puts a notification in your notification area.
Another cool feature that we added is the live scanner. This scanner scans newly installed and updated apps for selected addon categories and displays a notification if they are found. This feature is reserved for users that have donated.
**To support us you can now easily donate through inapp billing.**
Check the help function in the app to see all the addons we currently detect, or visit https://public.addonsdetector.com/what-we-detect/)
*** Known issues ***
Samsung Galaxy 3 keeps talking to me when on my home screens saying folder is open or similar.
This seems to be an ICS/Samsung bug. It happens for some people and also with other apps that use the accessibility service such as Tasker, Light Flow and others.
Try to fix it:
Samsung S3: - Go to Settings -> Accessibility -> Talkback "ON" - Select "Settings" from the bottom of the page - Uncheck all Talkback options - Switch Talkback "Off" again - Go back to Settings -> Application manager -> All - Disable Google TTS (text to speech) - Disable Samsung TTS (text to speech)
More issue details here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=23105
DISCLAIMER:
We can't guarantee that our results are 100% correct. Sometimes addons, like pushnotifications, are integrated in larger sdk's, and the developer doesn't need to use them, although we detect them. We strive to be conservative about marking apps as suspected, but errors can occur.
sdk analytics, middleware analysis
3.96:
- A few bug fixes and perfomance improvements.
- Improved Google Play compliance
3.92:
- Fix SSL errors on Android 7.0 and older.
- Fix SSL errors on newer devices with outdated SSL trust store.
- A few bug fixes and performance improvements.
3.88:
- Fix issue with multi dex detection.
3.84:
- Prepare for handling app categories
- Update dependencies
3.80:
- Fix cached live scan results not loading/displaying permissions
3.78:
- Improve scanner logic for .so files
- Add monochrome icon for Android themed icons display
- Sort addon types on localized name in app detail activity.
- Minor stability improvements
3.80:
- Fix cached live scan results not loading/displaying permissions
3.78:
- Improve scanner logic for .so files
- Add monochrome icon for Android themed icons display
- Sort addon types on localized name in app detail activity.
- Minor stability improvements
3.74.4:
Fix a few minor crashes.
3.74.2:
Reduce file size.
Fix a minor crash.
3.74:
Reduce file size.
Fix a few small issues.
3.72.6:
Fix a few rare crashes.
3.72.4:
- Add version code to app detail listings
- Improved scan performance
- Smoother scan progressbar (and fix for the crash that it caused on older Androids)
3.70:
- Rewrite notification listener and shortcut listener to use Room Database and more modern code. Should fix crashes. (Note that this removes currently stored items)
- Use new Rust based dex analyzer
- Re-add Bugsnag as crashreporting library, add a opt-out function in the settings and always disable session tracking, so it's only used for reporting crashes.
3.70.4:
- Fix crash
- Handle upcoming Google Play archived apps
- Remove accessibility service for notifications, we already have a more proper notification service integrated
- Update app icon to be adaptive
- Target SDK 33 and update app to behave correctly
- Add handling of notification permission in Android 13 for livescanner
- Bump several dependencies and do some maintenance
Some minor fixes
Added privacy notice about scanresult uploading. Disables upload unless the user agrees with it.
Fix a few memory leaks.
Fix some crashes.
Add permission for livescanner FOREGROUND_SERVICE. It would not run on Android 10 otherwise.
Fix some crashes.
Fix some donation issues.
Fix donations not working/crashing.
Update translations.
Reduce memory usage and fix memory leak dashboard.
Handle definitions update more properly and fix not taking in account startup check setting.
Add popup spam detection guide to the help page
Fix a few crashes.
Fix empty help screen.
Updated several translations. Thanks translators!
-Updated scanner code to increase scan speed 2x.-Scan devices with huge apps list properly (finally).-Updated translations. Thanks translators!
--Updated translations. Thanks translators!- Fix duplicate Android Backup Service addon in scanresultWant to help translate? See the menu option in the app for more info.
-New Bulgarian translation! Thanks translators!-Updated Airpush detection logic to detect version 9.-Fix missing permissions. Now we catch all.-Add search function in Permission Explorer.-Add summary of permission to permission list items.-Fix crash when user has a huge amount of apps.-Use PrettyTime to display human readable relative timestamps.-Improved and optimized network code, by using OkHTTP.-Bumped minimum required Android version from 2.2 to 2.3.-Minor fixes.
- Updated translations. (German, Chinese Simplified and others). Thanks translators!.
- Fix scan related crashes.
- Hotfix for crash during scan.
-Updated Translations: Russian, Vietnamese, German and others. Thanks to the translators!
-Updated translations.-More UTF-8 code improvements.
