[Android General] pndwal:
Quite. And I had to look up philately. Just broadened my word-power, - and I don't get it either...

Well, you asked for it!

You've missed a lot...

Especially Magisk Modules, which many devs are utilising to systemlessly enable functions, mods and apps like:

Sound mods incl. AM3D Zirene, Ainur JamesDSP & Ainur Sauron,

game controllers, Fast Charge, thermal engines, ADB and Fastboot binaries for use with Terminal etc, GPU developer preview drivers, AirAudio music streaming, Audio compatibility patches, Audio modification library, Ambient display gestures, mic fix, APTX libraries for O & P, App Systemizer, AptoidePriv, Asus Style Suite (incl. Adds Asus camera to any Android phone!)...

And that's just A!

Others worth a mention:

Other sound mods incl. Dolby Atmos, ICESound & Viper,

Busybox, Call Recorder, untold fonts, CloudflareDNS, CrossBreeder Lite (reduce lag and increase entropy - going to give this a try soon!), Doze for GMS, ExSDCard Access Enabler, FDroid Privileged Extension, Bug Workarounds like F2FS Loopback, Google Framework, GPU Turbo Boost, Greenify, liboemcrypto Disabler (allows DRM protected content to play), LTK (advanced universal and device specific [get that!] governor and kernel tweaks), Low-RAM Config+, Google DNS, Magisk Manager for Recovery (can list and disable Magisk mods in recovery in event they conflict/ prevent booting), MagiskHide Props Config (to pass safetynet CTS profile check), Sony Music, VoEnabler (Experiment and MAYBE get VoLTE/VoWiFi working with your carrier/phone), Xposed Framework, YouTube Vanced, and hundreds more to play with...

All these are easy to toggle on/off to test their effect etc (requires a reboot), and updates arrive thru Magisk Manager.

Here is a conversation between [MENTION=7383447]MotoJunkie01[/MENTION] and myself from Sept 2018 / p28 this thread:

MJ

I'm sure glad to see a new stable and beta release of Magisk. Truly the best systemless rooting Interface on the planet. But I must admit, I was saddened to see SuperSU deprecated after all these years.

PW
[MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION] certainly paved the way. - He has more time for photography and ten-pin-bowling now though ;) . With compulsory military service topjohnwu has no such luxury, but it hasn't slowed his releases as much as many feared, and SU seems to keep pace very well anyhow. And the number of modules contributed by others is starting to become just a tad overwhelming!

MJ

Amen there. The modules repository is growing nicely -- and the modules are a huge reason why I use Magisk over phh-superuser and SuperSU. Being a veteran myself, I have to give huge props to [MENTION=4470081]topjohnwu[/MENTION] -- how he makes time for development is beyond me.

[MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION] by this time had sold SuperSU (To the Chinese company Coding Code Mobile Technology, CCMT) and contracted himself to them to help maintain it for a fixed time. He may have known the writing was on the wall for SuperSU, but was able finally to make some money and then retire from this project altogether, and good on him too - he's now a legend the development community, though he's still active with other projects (eg he recently launched firmware.mobi, a website dedicated to hosting factory images for as many devices as possible for the convenience of users. Also he has an array of apps and still maintains some like LiveBoot - shows logcat and dmesg onscreen as a boot animation as they happen).

This has also allowed for a timely and fairly smooth transition to a new mainstream SU in [MENTION=4470081]topjohnwu[/MENTION]'s Magisk, the success and versatility of which speaks for itself.

It's now known for:

Being fully open source - a very important consideration these days. SuperSU is not, and many are feeling uncomfortable with this, especially now [MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION] is completely hands off, and development is wholely in the hands of the Chinese CCMT company. (Before he left however, [MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION] assured users that these people have their hearts in the right place, and that he had been conducting full code reviews as development went along and approves of the changes. No way to check though. Just got to take his / their word on that... What does that remind me of? - oh yeah - KingRoot!... Sad, but he did deserve the money.)

Being a Systemless Module platform for devs to contribute value added functionality, some of which I've enumerated above.

Magisk Hide, which stays one step ahead of Googles Compatibility Test Suite, can pass SafetyNet check tests (hiding unlocked bootloader etc), hides root from apps, and allows banking apps, Google pay, Pokemon etc etc to work on our rooted devices.

It also has Advanced Settings for:

Preserve force encryption, and

Preserve AVB 2.0/dm-verity

Interestingly, [MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION] supports his own apps (like Liveboot) using Magisk SU. This SU Legend, XDA Moderator Emeritus & Senior Recognised Developer said just 10 days ago (21/03) ”are you using a proper root like SuperSU or Magisk, or are you using lineage/cm's bastard stepchild of a contraption?". Enough said?

As you surely now see, YOU NEED THIS. (And I wrote an essay I didn't intend to.) Just try it! (And click my thumb-up button ;) .) PW