revanced-patcher/README.md

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   Continuing the legacy of Vanced
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# 💉 ReVanced Patcher

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ReVanced Patcher used to patch Android applications.

## ❓ About

ReVanced Patcher is a library that is used to patch Android applications.  
It powers [ReVanced Manager](https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-manager),
[ReVanced CLI](https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-cli)
and [ReVanced Library](https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-library) and a rich set of patches have been developed
using ReVanced Patcher in the [ReVanced Patches](https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-patches) repository.

## 💪 Features

Some of the features the ReVanced Patcher provides are:

- 🔧 **Patch Dalvik VM bytecode**: Disassemble and assemble Dalvik bytecode
- 📦 **Patch APK resources**: Decode and build Android APK resources
- 📂 **Patch arbitrary APK files**: Read and write arbitrary files directly from and to APK files
- 🧩 **Write modular patches**: Extensive API to write modular patches that can patch Dalvik VM bytecode,
APK resources and arbitrary APK files

## 🚀 How to get started

To use ReVanced Patcher in your project, follow these steps:

1. [Add the repository](https://docs.github.com/en/packages/working-with-a-github-packages-registry/working-with-the-gradle-registry#using-a-published-package)
to your project
2. Add the dependency to your project:

   ```kt
    dependencies {
        implementation("app.revanced:revanced-patcher:{$version}")
    }
   ```

For a minimal project configuration, 
see [ReVanced Patches template](https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-patches-template).

## 📚 Everything else

### 📙 Contributing

Thank you for considering contributing to ReVanced Patcher.
You can find the contribution guidelines [here](CONTRIBUTING.md).

### 🛠️ Building

To build ReVanced Patcher,
you can follow the [ReVanced documentation](https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-documentation).

### 📃 Documentation

The documentation contains the fundamentals of ReVanced Patcher and how to use ReVanced Patcher to create patches.
You can find it [here](https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-patcher/tree/main/docs).

## 📜 Licence

ReVanced Patcher is licensed under the GPLv3 license. Please see the [licence file](LICENSE) for more information.
[tl;dr](https://www.tldrlegal.com/license/gnu-general-public-license-v3-gpl-3) you may copy, distribute and modify ReVanced Patcher as long as you track changes/dates in source files.
Any modifications to ReVanced Patcher must also be made available under the GPL,
along with build & install instructions.