See [1] for a list of apps leveraging Shizuku.
I use:
- Droid-ify [2] as a F-Droid alternative, to have auto-updating apps
- Mihon [3] as a Manga reader, with auto-updating extensions
- Canta [4] to remove bloat
[1]: https://github.com/timschneeb/awesome-shizuku
[2]: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.looker.droidify/
Also Ambient Music Mod[2] which gets you constant low power background music recognition a la Pixel on non pixels.
[1] https://gitlab.com/secure-system/Insular [2] https://github.com/KieronQuinn/AmbientMusicMod
Is this a common behavior? Do you know why?
The stated reason is always "we don't want malware being able to steal your account information".
The non-stated reason is often "it makes our threat modeling easier if we can rely on the OS' defenses existing and working so we assumed. As a consequence of that assumption we are not entirely sure that what we are doing is safe from ordinary adversarial behavior on a device without these guardrails. So we don't want to run in such an environment and find out that our concerns were justified".
> Promon Shield protects most of the banking apps on the German market. As of April 23, 2018, four out of the top ten financial apps in Germany make use of Promon’s solution.
I'm switching banks now to find one that lets me use my non rooted phone in peace.
As for why? I'm not sure. My guess is to prevent clueless people running their banking app with malware installed. preventing roots might just be a side-effect.
As for newer Android versions I don't remember exactly what my issues were, but I think it had to do with a manual confirmation for update or non-background updates. To be confirmed though.