Allow the pm CLI utility to install APKs from anywhere in your filesystem.
This is done by modifying the SELinux policy to allow system processes running under the user system_server to read APK files from fuse and sdcardfs filesystems.
At some point between the release of Android 8 and 9, Google changed the way the pm install utility handles APK installation. Before that change, you could install APKs from anywhere in your filesystem, but now you are required to provide an APK from a "trusted location" like /data/local/tmp to be able to install it.
This is annoying because it makes you run additional commands or take extra actions (e.g., copy, move, change file permissions) to move or copy the APK to a trusted location before actually installing it.
- Install APK using root, handling new limitations of "/data/local/tmp/" folder
- Bug: can't install APK files using "pm install" via device
This module was only tested on Android 14, but in theory, it should work on any Android version starting from Android Oreo.