Releases: Victor-root/AdAway-Community
🚀AdAway Community v6.5.0-c
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Victor-root
Victor
First full AdAway Community release.
This is an unofficial community-maintained build of AdAway, focused on keeping the app usable while upstream activity is limited.
✨ Main changes
- 📱 Added VPN stability fixes for recent Android versions.
- 📺 Added Android TV / Leanback support.
- 🎮 Added TV-friendly home screen and remote/D-pad navigation.
- 🔄 Improved VPN state sync between app UI, Android VPN state, notification and Quick Settings tile.
- 🧠 Separated VPN user intent from runtime VPN service state.
- 🚫 Prevented background/internal sync paths from silently restarting VPN after manual disable.
- 📶 Reduced unnecessary VPN tunnel rebuilds during network changes.
- 🧭 Added AdAway Community About section and links to this fork.
- 🧹 Removed donation/sponsor references from the app.
- 🛠️ Hid the old APK self-updater UI for now, because it still pointed to official AdAway infrastructure.
📦 Installation
This APK is signed with the AdAway Community signing key.
It cannot be installed directly over the official AdAway APK.
Uninstall the official AdAway app before installing this build.
Future AdAway Community updates should install normally over this version.
🔗 Links
Android TV work used as a base:
https://github.com/sunmasters/Adaway-For-TV
AdAway unofficial apk v6.1.4-VROOT
It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or signed by the official AdAway maintainers.
This build is published for testing and convenience while the upstream PR is waiting for review.
The official repository currently appears to have limited review activity, so this build is provided as a temporary workaround for users affected by these VPN issues. If the upstream PR is accepted and merged, this unofficial build/release will no longer be needed and be removed.
Related upstream PR:
🛠️ What changed
This build includes a VPN-mode stability patch for several issues where AdAway VPN could behave inconsistently or become unstable.
It is intended to improve cases where the VPN could:
- restart after the user explicitly disabled it;
- stop or desynchronize unexpectedly in the background;
- enter unstable restart/reconnect loops;
- rebuild the VPN tunnel too often during network changes;
- show inconsistent states between the app UI, Android VPN status, notification and Quick Settings tile.
Main changes:
- 🧠 separate VPN user intent from runtime VPN service state;
- 🚫 prevent background/internal sync or update paths from silently restarting the VPN;
- 🛑 prevent sticky service restart from resurrecting VPN mode against user intent;
- 🔄 improve synchronization between VPN service state, app UI, notification and Quick Settings tile;
- 📶 avoid unnecessary VPN tunnel rebuilds when secondary networks flicker;
- ⚡ reset VPN reconnect throttling for explicit user starts;
- 🧯 reduce unstable restart/reconnect behavior in VPN mode;
- ✅ keep the welcome/setup flow working on first launch;
- 🧩 include a small German XML resource fix needed during testing.
📱 Tested on
- Oppo Reno 13 Pro
- Android 16 / ColorOS
- AdAway VPN mode
- Daily usage for two weeks
Observed result:
- ✅ VPN no longer restarted by itself after manual disable;
- ✅ VPN remained stable during normal background usage;
- ✅ no more visible VPN restart/reconnect loop during daily use;
- ✅ Quick Settings tile stayed coherent;
- ✅ app UI, Android VPN key icon and VPN state stayed consistent;
- ✅ Wi-Fi / mobile data changes did not cause unwanted VPN restarts;
- ✅ local-network IoT connectivity stayed stable;
- ✅ Ecovacs Home robot vacuum stayed reachable through the patched VPN.
📦 Installation notes
Because this APK is signed with my own signing key, it cannot be installed as an update over the official AdAway build.
You need to uninstall the official AdAway app before installing this APK.