Quote: Originally Posted by Primokorn Originally Posted by Hi Marcel, I indeed have a few questions & remarks about your statements.

• Lollipop added huge changes with the SELinux policies, the new runtime compiler... compared to the previous Android updates and rovo89 doesn't have a lot of time to spend on his hobbies as you said. BUT once Xposed will be stable enough on Lollipop we can hope to keep something stable for a while. AFAIK he never talked about stopping the development of Xposed so we can still be optimistic.

• You said that 'nobody else is helping with the project' (XPrivacy) but rovo89 is also alone to support Xposed's development. Since you have more free time now (aside from your other projects) did you take a peek at Xposed framework to accelerate its development for Lollipop?

• Finally, you are a professional developer. A professional developer should have profitable projects instead of hobbies. Can we deduce that you make use of Xposed development to argument your lower investment into XPrivacy? As already said I do understand your point of view as a professional developer. Having less activity on this thread, less donations, receiving bad reviews again and again on Google Play from newbies,... Even with a working version (beta/stable + no flashable zip...) of Xposed, do you sincerely expect a high increase of downloads/donations?

I feel that XPrivacy is no more a profitable project for you and you are mentioning all kinds of reasons to stop its development. Maybe I'm wrong... That's the definition of a feeling



Once again I do understand and respect your work. I just want to know what is the real future for XPrivacy. Do we have to wait Xposed/XPrivacy before updating to 5.1, 5.2... or will it never happen? Thanks.

The reason I have put the XPrivacy project on hold (and not stopped), is that I first want to see how Xposed evolves. In my previous comments I have expressed my concerns about this, also because I felt somebody has to speak up. Basically I see no point in putting a lot of effort in XPrivacy anymore (and I regret having put already hundreds of hours into compatibility with Lollipop), if there is not being put a lot of effort in Xposed. Given how Xposed has been evolving since the release of Lollipop, this seems a fair conclusion to me. I hope things will change, but I am afraid Xposed is slowly dying. My bet would be more on El Pollo and less on Xposed, because the developers of El Pollo are known to be devoted.Since I am and will be working on a big paid project these days, I have not enough free time to put significant effort into Xposed. Moreover, I try to do just a few things very good, meaning that if I would invest significant time into Xposed (or another framework), I would stop investing time into XPrivacy. Both projects are simply to big to do at the same time.XPrivacy has never been about the money. The donations I got for XPrivacy are nothing compared to what I earn with a paid project. Nevertheless, and I have said that before, everybody needs motivation to undertake something and the number of donations, the Play store ratings and the general involvement of people are not very motivating. Basically XPrivacy is less fun to me these days. Loyalty and the importance of the project to many are my main motivations to not stop with the project.I expect the number of XPrivacy users to drop significantly when there will be no stable Xposed for the latest Android versions and/or Xposed needs to be flashed. The number of Lollipop users at this moment is still limited, but that will change over time. Even at this moment the number of one star ratings because of no Lollipop support is significant. The group of novice XPrivacy users is quite big and I expect them to have problems installing Xposed when it has to be flashed.If I want to stop the XPrivacy project, I will let it know, just like I have been expressing how I feel about the XPrivacy project all the time, which I do, so that everybody knows what to expect.