AppSupport lockscreen support

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Submitted by nick8325 on Fri, 2026/05/08 - 23:48
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This patch improves Android AppSupport to allow setting a lockscreen PIN. This is useful for Android apps which refuse to run if a PIN isn't set (such as Rail Planner).

After installing the patch, you should restart Android AppSupport.

Afterwards, you can set an Android PIN by going to: Settings -> Android AppSupport -> press on "Android version" 5 times -> Security -> Screen lock. The PIN will only be seen by Android apps, it won't affect the Sailfish lockscreen.

The code is available at: https://codeberg.org/nick8325/appsupportkeyguardstub

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File appsupport-lockscreen_0.1.1_noarch.rpm45.09 KB08/05/2026 - 23:48

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eson

Sat, 2026/05/09 - 00:19

So why are your RPM's not extractable on a simple Linux system like Linux Mint? No matter from codeberg or OpenRepos.

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nick8325

Sat, 2026/05/09 - 16:29

Apparently libarchive doesn't support files built with the latest version of rpm, see https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/issues/4078

 

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slava

Sat, 2026/05/09 - 02:48

rpm2archive handles it just fine:

$ rpm2archive appsupport-lockscreen_0.1.1_noarch.rpm
$ tar -tvzf appsupport-lockscreen_0.1.1_noarch.rpm.tgz
-rw-r--r-- root/root       205 2026-02-01 22:35 ./opt/appsupport/vendor/etc/init/android.hardware.gatekeeper@1.0-service.software.rc
-rw-r--r-- root/root       142 2026-02-01 22:35 ./opt/appsupport/vendor/overlay/config/config.xml
-rw-r--r-- root/root     22100 2026-02-02 18:54 ./opt/appsupport/vendor/overlay/stub.keyguard.overlay.apk
-rw-r--r-- root/root     29827 2026-02-02 18:54 ./opt/appsupport/vendor/priv-app/KeyguardStub/stub.keyguard.apk
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