Loophole

One-tap Quick Settings toggle for Android Developer Options.

New in version 1.1.0

Turning Developer Options on now switches USB debugging and wireless debugging off first, so it no longer brings back a debugging session you left enabled. Note that this ends any active adb connection.
Long-pressing the Quick Settings tile now opens Loophole instead of the system App Info screen.
Adding the tile now tells you whether it was added or is already there.
The app, tile and widget now follow Developer Options live.

Loophole is a one-tap Quick Settings toggle for Android Developer Options.

If you're an Android developer, Developer Options is basically always on. But a lot of banking and fintech apps treat that as a red flag and refuse to open, or silently degrade, while it's enabled -- even though you're not doing anything shady, you're just building.

The normal fix is: open Settings, find Developer Options, toggle it off, open your banking app, then remember to turn it back on later. Loophole turns that into one tap from the notification shade.

Features:
* Reads and toggles Developer Options directly via a Quick Settings tile
* Optional home screen widget as an alternative to the tile
* Simple in-app switch as a fallback / status view
* No ads, no analytics, no tracking

Setup note: toggling Developer Options programmatically requires the WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS permission, which Android only allows to be granted manually once via adb (it cannot be requested through a normal runtime permission dialog):

adb shell pm grant android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS

Full setup instructions are in the project README.

A note on permissions: the app does not make network requests and holds no INTERNET permission. However, the manifest does include ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE, WAKE_LOCK, RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED, and FOREGROUND_SERVICE. These come from Jetpack Glance, the framework used to build the home screen widget, which relies on WorkManager internally to schedule widget updates and survive process death. They are a byproduct of the widget framework itself, not of any network or background activity Loophole performs.

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Version 1.1.0 (4) suggested Added on Aug 21, 2026

arm64-v8a armeabi-v7a x86 x86_64

This version requires Android 7.0 or newer.

It is built and signed by the original developer, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.
Permissions
- view network connections
  
  Allows the app to view information about network connections such as which networks exist and are connected.
- run foreground service
  
  Allows the app to make use of foreground services.
- run at startup
  
  Allows the app to have itself started as soon as the system has finished booting. This can make it take longer to start the phone and allow the app to slow down the overall phone by always running.
- prevent phone from sleeping
  
  Allows the app to prevent the phone from going to sleep.
- android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS
- com.shubhang.loophole.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
Download APK 2.1 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log

New in version 1.0.2

Fixed permission disclosure in app description (network-related permissions come from the Glance widget framework, not app network activity).
Enabled reproducible builds.
Enabled code and resource shrinking, reducing APK size.

Version 1.0.2 (3) - Added on Jul 26, 2026

arm64-v8a armeabi-v7a x86 x86_64

This version requires Android 7.0 or newer.

It is built and signed by the original developer, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.
Permissions
- view network connections
  
  Allows the app to view information about network connections such as which networks exist and are connected.
- run foreground service
  
  Allows the app to make use of foreground services.
- run at startup
  
  Allows the app to have itself started as soon as the system has finished booting. This can make it take longer to start the phone and allow the app to slow down the overall phone by always running.
- prevent phone from sleeping
  
  Allows the app to prevent the phone from going to sleep.
- android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS
- com.shubhang.loophole.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
Download APK 2 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log

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