[General Topics] Yeedatoy:
If anyone here uses Project themer or Iconify, you probably know by now that each of these adds hundreds of apks to your device. Personally I only use a few specific features in these apps, so why have 100 apks added to your device when you only use 5 or 10? Each of these apps require root, and use magisk to properly theme SystemUi, etc..but there are certain add ONS that require Lsposed, however you are forced to give magisk permission to add all overlays and reboot your device before using just the Lsposed related features, for example the QS headear clock and QS header icon mods.

The stock market opens soon so I'm not going to get crazy here, so please use common sense for some of this because I won't go overly in depth. You will need two additional apps here aside from whichever of these theming mods you may be using. One of these is an amazingly useful app made by one of the kings of theming @DerTyp7214

And @RKBD The app is called Overlayer and can be found in the play store.

[Root] Overlayer - Apps on Google Play

Enable and Disable Android-Overlays

play.google.com

The other is your choice. But it needs to be a root file explorer app. I recommend Root Explorer ( the best file manager of all time IMO) or Material Files, because Android 13 has some strange changes that won't allow access to some files that should be accessible with root. Material Files by @HaiZhang is the only file manager I've found so far that can access all of them.

Well need a starting point for this, so we'll assume that you've installed one of these theming apps and picked your desired addons. That's where the Overlayer app comes in. Overlayer shows all overlays on your device and which ones are active and which are not. So I've used Project Themer and here's an example of what Overlayer looks like for me

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Notice what I've circled and that I'm only using one of these, at least under this section of overlays. Now look at Project themer where I've added my items of choice and we can clearly see the correlation

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If I want to still be able to choose between a few options here, I'll need to keep the overlay.apk #124 and all of its variants AT, GE and so on. You will also find overlays under SystemUi and Android System, as well as Settings possibly in the Overlayer app. You simply want to take note of which Overlays you're using, which you may use, and the rest we can DESTROY. Using your file manager, we go to the directory Data/ADB/Modules and find either the Project Themer module or Iconify module, open it....then go to System/Product/Overlays and click on select all, and then carefully go through them and unselect the ones you need and delete the rest. Here is what I have remaining.

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Maybe 10 out of 100 overlays that were originally added or more. I just wanted some subtle transparency, the QS header clock, my dual sim carrier messages that scrolled over the entire top of my header to go away, and a thinner brightness slider. I didn't need all the unused apks on my phone. Here is my device.

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So That's basically it...like i said...just use common sense. This can be used for any overlay related mod. Thanks @DerTyp7214