Show HN: Ssh – WhatsApp Incognito Mode (with Backstory)

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Impressed about how fast these guys have developed this app. It works perfectly. But, let's see which is the next Whatsapp move... (I'm talking about this news http://www.deccanchronicle.com/141110/technology-mobiles-and...)

Just tried it. You need to enable Accessibility for the app in order for it to work.

What other access do you get when getting the Accessibility credentials from the system?

We have configured accessibility to only get all notification changes from the WhatsApp app. Nothing else. Although I should say you can have access to all events of you interacting with the screen: window changes, window touches, etc.

For the Android versions below 4.3, this is the only way to have access to the notifications. There is a much nicer (for the concerned user too) way to access them in 4.3+.

This looks very useful! Do i need to root my device to make this work? Otherwise, how did you guys achieve this without root access?

Thanks!

There's no need for a rooted device. We just read the notifications.

It's pretty straight-forward, except when you have messages from several contacts. There, the notification says "3 messages from 2 friends", so we had to use reflection to get the full text.

Nice. It work as advertised. This is going to make my WhatsApp-addicted extended family very happy!

It's been a fun ride! 200 commits in 30 pull requests in 4 days for a total of 8k lines.

There's a few details on how we organized ourselves to hack this app together, but if you have more specific questions or comments, please shoot me over here!

very good app and it was developed in few days, great!

That was SO fast!

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