WebToApp icon # WebToApp ### Build Android APKs from web projects, directly on your phone. **An on-device APK workshop that goes far beyond URL wrapping — it can fork and exec full server runtimes, ship a hardened anti-censorship network stack, sign bundles for Google Play, and run MV3 browser extensions, all without a PC or a remote build server.** **English** · [简体中文](.github/docs/README_CN.md) [![Stars](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/shiaho777/web-to-app?style=for-the-badge)](https://github.com/shiaho777/web-to-app/stargazers) [![Forks](https://img.shields.io/github/forks/shiaho777/web-to-app?style=for-the-badge)](https://github.com/shiaho777/web-to-app/network/members) [![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-Unlicense-blue?style=for-the-badge)](LICENSE) [![Android](https://img.shields.io/badge/Android-23%2B-3DDC84?style=for-the-badge&logo=android&logoColor=white)](#)

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WebToApp: My Apps home, Create App picker, main toolbox, and per-app APK actions running on an Android phone
--- ## What makes WebToApp different Most "website to app" tools stop at wrapping a URL in a WebView. WebToApp is closer to a pocket-sized APK workshop, and the hard parts are exactly where it diverges: - **It runs real server runtimes on-device.** Node.js, PHP, Python, Go, and WordPress are fork+exec'd as native binaries straight from app storage — like Termux, packaged into an installable APK. URL-wrapper tools cannot do this at all. - **It ships a hardened, anti-censorship network stack.** DNS-over-HTTPS, TLS fingerprint spoofing (Chrome / Firefox / Safari JA3 templates) with a local MITM bridge, Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) on the GeckoView engine to encrypt the SNI, per-app proxies, and CORS bypass for locked-down SPAs. - **The whole build is self-contained.** Binary AXML/ARSC patching, permission pruning, V1/V2/V3 signing, and Google Play-ready AAB export all happen inside the app via `apksig` — no remote build queue, no PC. - **It stays extensible after shipping.** Add JS/CSS modules, Tampermonkey-style userscripts, or MV3 Chrome extensions (live-searched and installed from the Chrome Web Store) without rebuilding the host. - **The host UI speaks 10 languages out of the box.** Chinese, English, Arabic (RTL), Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Japanese, and Korean — switch anytime in Settings; new in-app copy is maintained for all ten. --- ## Capability overview A quick scan of what's in the box. Each links to the detailed feature map below. | Area | Highlights | | --- | --- | | **Build targets** | Web · HTML · Frontend · WordPress · Node.js · PHP · Python · Go · Image · Video · Gallery · Multi-Web | | **Browser engines** | System WebView by default; optional GeckoView (Firefox) runtime for ECH / SNI encryption | | **Network & anti-censorship** | DoH (7 providers), TLS fingerprint spoofing + MITM bridge, ECH, static/PAC/SOCKS5 proxies, CORS bypass | | **Privacy & hardening** | 50+ vector browser fingerprint disguise, resource encryption (AES-256-GCM), anti-debug, activation gating | | **Local runtimes** | Native Node.js 18.20, PHP 8.4 + Composer 2.10, Python 3.14, official Go 1.26, WordPress 7.x over SQLite | | **Extensions** | Built-in modules, userscripts with `GM_*`, MV3 Chrome extensions, live Chrome Web Store search | | **APK/AAB output** | On-device V1/V2/V3 signing, Google Play AAB export with targetSdk rewrite, keystore management | | **AI coding** | Prompt-driven generation of web apps, modules, userscripts, and runtime projects; auto-retry on 429/5xx | | **Host languages** | **10 UI languages** — 中文 · English · العربية · Português · Español · Français · Deutsch · Русский · 日本語 · 한국어 (Arabic RTL) | --- ## What you can build | Input | Output | Good for | | --- | --- | --- | | Website URL | WebView-based APK | Landing pages, tools, dashboards, docs, internal systems | | HTML / static front-end | Localhost-backed APK | React, Vue, Vite, static builds, offline web apps | | Node.js / PHP / Python / Go | APK with an on-device local server | Small server apps, admin tools, demos, prototypes | | WordPress | APK running WordPress over local PHP + SQLite | Portable sites, theme/plugin demos, content packages | | Images / video / galleries | Media-focused APK | Albums, course materials, portfolios, offline viewers | | Multiple sites | Tab/card/feed/drawer multi-web APK | Link hubs, portals, app collections | | Installed APK | Rebranded clone or shortcut disguise | Icon/name/package experiments, repackaging research | --- ## Full feature map WebToApp has a large number of switches. The sections below group them by use case, kept collapsible so the top of the page stays scannable.
🌐 Browser engine & networking - **Dual engine** — System WebView by default, or an optional GeckoView (Firefox) runtime downloaded on first use. - **Kernel flavor disguise** — present as Chrome, Edge, Samsung Internet, Firefox, or Safari-style while keeping the real engine. - **Desktop mode**, custom User-Agent, and JS/CSS injection at document-start / end / idle. - **Popup handling** — same window, external browser, popup window, or block. - **Proxies** — static HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS5, PAC, authentication, bypass rules, and a local HTTP-to-SOCKS bridge. - **DNS-over-HTTPS** — Cloudflare, Google, AdGuard, NextDNS, CleanBrowsing, Quad9, Mullvad, plus custom endpoints; strict or automatic modes. - **Encrypted Client Hello (ECH)** — encrypt the SNI in the TLS handshake (GeckoView only; auto-wires DoH + GeckoView when toggled). - **TLS fingerprint spoofing** — impersonate Chrome 131 / Firefox 133 / Safari 18 JA3 profiles (or custom ciphers), served through a local TLS-MITM bridge so the outgoing ClientHello matches a real browser. - **CORS bypass** — on by default for static SPAs that call external APIs blocked by CORS; same-origin traffic is left alone, and CORS-only apps can use a lightweight `PrivateNetworkNativeBridgeAdapter` without the full Native Bridge surface. - **Failover** — automatic fallback to mirror URLs when the primary target is unreachable. - **PWA** offline cache strategies, custom error pages, per-app host overrides, and payment-scheme handlers. - **Compatibility toggles** — blob download interception, scroll memory, image repair, clipboard / orientation / notification polyfills, private-network bridging, and Native Bridge capability gates. - **Download location** — system Downloads, app-private storage, or a user-picked SAF folder, wired through the full packaging passthrough chain.
🛡️ Privacy, fingerprint defense & hardening - **Browser fingerprint disguise across 50+ vectors** — User-Agent, WebGL, Canvas, AudioContext, ClientRects, timezone, language, memory, media devices, WebRTC, fonts, battery, permissions, performance, storage, notifications, CSS media, iframe propagation, and error-stack cleanup. - **Hosts-rule ad blocker** with cosmetic MutationObserver filtering, **20 built-in community filter lists** (EasyList, uBlock Origin, AdGuard, AdAway, plus 8 language-specific lists), per-source enable/disable/delete, and custom subscription rules bundled into the APK. - **Resource encryption** (PBKDF2 + AES-256-GCM) for packaged config, HTML, media, and BGM; optional custom encryption password stronger than package/certificate-derived keys. - **Runtime hardening** when encryption is on — anti-debug, anti-Frida, DEX-tamper checks; threat response of log-only, silent exit, or randomized crash. - **WebView/content isolation** for storage, WebRTC, Canvas, Audio, WebGL, fonts, headers, and IP surfaces. - **Activation-code gating** — local verification, or your own HTTPS endpoint signed with EC P-256. See the [remote activation docs](.github/docs/remote-activation.md).
📦 Local server runtimes (fork + exec on-device) - **Node.js** (18.20.x) runs in a dedicated `:nodejs` OS process via a native `node_launcher` wrapper loading `libnode.so`; supports custom native `.node` extensions. - **PHP 8.4** from `pmmp/PHP-Binaries`, downloaded once on first use, with Composer 2.10.x and custom native extensions (`zend_extension`, `.so`). - **Python 3.14** — Flask, Django, FastAPI via uvicorn, Tornado, the built-in HTTP server; pip dependencies resolved into `.pypackages`, custom native extensions supported; binary names are versioned so future bumps do not hard-code paths. - **Go 1.26** — official Linux arm64 toolchain (`.tar.gz` from `dl.google.com`, USTC mirror for CN), on-device `go build` / `go mod` / `go run`, `vendor/` offline builds, static serving, and the native `go_exec_loader` wrapper; DNS and CA trust go through the same local JVM bridge used by PHP. - **WordPress 7.x** over local PHP + SQLite (`sqlite-database-integration`), with theme and plugin import. - **Linux Environment** screen manages toolchains and dependencies for Node, PHP, and Python. - **Port Manager** coordinates runtime ports across generated apps via broadcast receivers. - A **local DNS bridge proxy** (HTTP CONNECT in the Android JVM) gives runtimes working DNS resolution and outbound HTTP where the musl/packed binary can't reach the system resolver.
🧩 Extensions & automation - **Built-in modules** — video download (YouTube / Bilibili / Douyin / Xiaohongshu extractors), video enhancer with YouTube cleanup (ad skip, max quality, background play, SponsorBlock), web analyzer, find-in-page, dark mode, privacy tools, content enhancer, element blocker, and YouTube launcher. - **Userscripts** — Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey-style `.user.js` with a `GM_*` bridge (storage, requests, styles, menu commands) and promise-based `GM.*` APIs gated by script grants. - **MV3 Chrome extension runtime** for manifest content scripts in isolated or main worlds, with `chrome.*` polyfills for runtime, storage, tabs, scripting, and declarative network-request parsing. - **In-app Chrome Web Store search** — browse and install browser extensions by keyword (or paste a store URL / extension ID), with offline fallback to manual import. - **Export codes** (`WTA1:` gzip + Base64) and QR sharing via ZXing. - **AI Coding** skills to generate modules, userscripts, MV3 extensions, front-end apps, and local runtime projects, with automatic retry/backoff on 429/5xx and plan-mode exit that waits for user approval.
📱 App experience - **Splash screens** — image or video, with skip behavior, trim ranges, and fixed orientation. - **Background music** — playlists with synced LRC lyrics, lyric animations, custom font/color/stroke/shadow, and online music search. - **Toolbar, status bar (light & dark), navigation, floating-window mode, and long-press menu styles.** Status bar color can follow theme, a custom color, full transparency, or **PAGE_TOP** (sample the page’s top pixels so the chrome matches the content). - **Download location mode** — system Downloads, app-private directory, or a custom SAF folder picked by the user. - **Announcement templates** for launch, interval, and no-network moments. - **Host app language** — switch the entire builder UI among 10 languages (中文 / English / العربية / Português / Español / Français / Deutsch / Русский / 日本語 / 한국어); Arabic is full RTL. - **Translation overlay** — 20 target languages via Google, MyMemory, LibreTranslate, Lingva, or Auto engines (in-page translate for the *content* of generated apps, separate from host UI language). - **Print bridge** — intercept `window.print()` and blob/data-URL PDFs to the Android print framework / PDF export (with an onPageStarted re-inject fallback so late navigations stay hooked). - **Notifications** — Web Notification polyfill, scheduled and persistent notifications with progress, URL-polling foreground service, deep links, boot auto-start, scheduled launch, and background-run service. - **Per-app usage stats** with Vico charts and URL health monitoring.
🔧 APK / AAB export & signing - **Custom package name**, `versionName`, `versionCode`, icon, label, architecture target, and export format. - **Build-time permission injection** with unused permissions pruned from the template manifest. - **One-tap AAB export** — auto-builds the APK on demand, converts it to a Play-ready signed AAB with `targetSdk` rewritten to the Play-required level (currently 35) and protobuf metadata generated locally; cancellable mid-build. - **Keystore management** — create, import, export, delete, and certificate-fingerprint viewing; PKCS12/PFX/JKS/BKS import including Android Studio upload-key cases where store and key passwords differ. - **Signature schemes** — V1, V2, V3 independently controlled, with auto-fallback for legacy certificates; custom V1 signer filename for `META-INF/.SF` / `.RSA`. - **Performance options** — image compression, WebP conversion, code minification, lazy loading, DNS prefetch, and preload hints. - **Full project and app-data backup/restore.**
🗂 File manager & project tooling - **File manager** — a single screen to view, share, install, open, and clear build outputs (APK builds, AAB exports, app clones, build logs) and a user-files directory, with a read-only build-log viewer. - **Website scraper** for offline packs — HTML, CSS, JS, images, fonts, `url()`, `srcset`, `@import`, path rewriting, same-domain limits, depth limits, and size limits; parallel streaming worker pool with main-thread progress callbacks. - **Multi-Web layouts** — tabs, cards, feeds, drawers, per-site icons/theme colors/extraction selectors/refresh intervals, and shared JS/CSS. - **Gallery apps** — categorized media, grid/list/timeline views, shuffle/single-loop, sorting, thumbnail bar, overlays, auto-next, and playback memory. - **App Modifier** — shortcut disguise or real binary clone with manifest/resource patching and re-signing.
🔬 Specialized tools & research features - **Forced-run**, **BlackTech**, **device disguise**, and **Icon Storm** are included for technical demonstration and must only be used with informed user consent.
--- ## Module market WebToApp has a GitHub-backed module market for community JS/CSS extension modules. The catalog is just files in this repository, so contributions use a normal pull-request flow. ``` modules/ ├── registry.json # app-facing catalog ├── submissions.json # CI-generated PR / contributor metadata ├── README.md # contributor guide └── / # each module ``` The app fetches both `registry.json` and `submissions.json` and only shows modules present in both, keeping the in-app catalog aligned with actually-merged PRs. The submissions file also records every contributor per module, so the catalog shows stacked avatars and a contributors leaderboard. Catalog files and module icons route through a global mirror first, with `raw.githubusercontent.com` and jsDelivr as automatic fallbacks, so the store loads fast everywhere (including mainland China). - Users open **Extension Modules** and tap the storefront icon. - Contributors add a folder under `modules/`, update `registry.json`, and open a PR. - The default client cache is one hour, so merged modules propagate without an app update. The high-level architecture lives here; the canonical submission rules, field schemas, reviewer checklist, and CI validation details live in [`modules/README.md`](modules/README.md). The community market carries only JS/CSS extension modules. **Browser extensions (MV3)** are no longer a community catalog — instead the **Browser Extensions** tab searches the Chrome Web Store live: type a keyword, browse results, and install on demand through the existing CRX pipeline. Live search requires a network that can reach Google. ## Architecture - The repository has **three Gradle modules**: `app` (the full builder and host), `shell` (the runtime host embedded into generated APKs), and `clone-host` (host code for app cloning — compiled to a `classes.jar`, converted to DEX via d8, and bundled as an asset for `AppCloner`). - Runtime code is authored in `app` and synchronized into `shell`, so shared WebView/runtime behavior has one source of truth (`core/shell`, `core/webview`, `core/engine`, `core/extension`, `ui/shell`, etc.). - The APK builder patches template APKs at the binary AXML/ARSC level, injects config/resources, prunes permissions, and signs with `apksig`. A separate encrypted build path (`EncryptedApkBuilder`) offers resource encryption, shelling, and integrity checks. - The host pins `targetSdk = 28` deliberately — it is what lets generated apps fork+exec native runtimes (Node.js, PHP, Python, Go, WordPress) from app storage, a capability URL-wrapper tools lack. The AAB exporter separately rewrites `targetSdk` for Play Store distribution. - Server runtimes and the optional GeckoView native runtime are downloaded on first use rather than bundled into the base APK. - The configuration center is `WebApp` (`data/model/WebApp.kt`) and its `*Config` classes — the single source of truth for all feature settings, carried through a full packaging passthrough chain into the generated APK. ## Tech stack - Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Material 3 - Koin for dependency injection - Room 2.7.2 + KSP for persistence - OkHttp 4.12.0 + `okhttp-dnsoverhttps` - `com.android.tools.build:apksig` 8.3.0 for APK signing - `protobuf-javalite` 3.25.5 for AAB metadata - GeckoView as an optional browser engine - Coil for image/video/GIF loading - AndroidX Security Crypto + DataStore for stored secrets - Vico Compose-M3 for charts - ZXing for QR sharing - Apache Commons Compress + xz for project import and website scraping - Native C++ via JNI for `node_launcher` and `go_exec_loader` - Robolectric for unit tests See [app/build.gradle.kts](app/build.gradle.kts) for the complete dependency list. ## Build from source Requirements: Android Studio Hedgehog or newer, JDK 17. The Gradle wrapper pins Gradle 9.4.1. ```bash git clone https://github.com/shiaho777/web-to-app.git cd web-to-app ./gradlew assembleDebug ``` For release builds, configure signing through `local.properties` and `app/build.gradle.kts`. ## Contributing | Lane | What you do | Guide | | --- | --- | --- | | `modules/` | Publish a community module to the in-app market | [modules/README.md](modules/README.md) | | Issues | Report a bug or request a feature | [GitHub Issues](https://github.com/shiaho777/web-to-app/issues) | | Code | Fix a bug or build a feature in the Android client | [CONTRIBUTING.md](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md) | ## Contact Developed by **shiaho**. | Platform | Link | | --- | --- | | GitHub | [github.com/shiaho777/web-to-app](https://github.com/shiaho777/web-to-app) | | Telegram | [t.me/webtoapp777](https://t.me/webtoapp777) | | X (Twitter) | [@shiaho777](https://x.com/shiaho777) | | Bilibili | [b23.tv/8mGDo2N](https://b23.tv/8mGDo2N) | | QQ Group | 1041130206 | ## License [The Unlicense](LICENSE). Advanced features such as forced run, BlackTech, device disguise, and Icon Storm are intended for technical demonstration and must only be used with informed user consent.
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