However, my experience shows that even for previous releases (for which the source code is published), there wasn't really anyone who digged into it deeply enough to help analyse and fix some of the issues. It might work if that other person has thoroughly studied how ART works and did a lot of research to understand how Xposed can best be integrated into it.
I wouldn't accept any foreign code without very close review to make sure it's "the right way" to implement it. Given that my time for Xposed is pretty unreliable, I would not be able to fulfill my part in this. That makes it quite hard to work on it with someone else, unless there's some really close communication and common understanding how things should work. Working on Xposed isn't really straight-forward, it's an iterative process in which I hardly know what to do next until it's done. There are a couple of reasons why I won't do that. You can have that opinion - but in the end, it's my own decision whether I want to publish my current WIP or not, and you'll have to respect that decision. The thing is the demand is alot, and if people want it quicker they could pay I suppose? GravityBox as well is useful to me because I still get to keep Stock ROM. Both are which impossible to get without Xposed. I mainly use Xposed for Adblocker and YouTube Background Play. There are alot of things that Xposed has that you can't just cherry pick and put it in your build. I suppose that might take some time but people are getting impatient unfortunately. He wants to make sure it works completely fine. He did say that the work to make it work with Nougat is simply too much and he can't give a ETA when he will finish. Personally, I've had to setup a local build env for LineageOS, so I can make a custom ROM for my phone, in an attempt to add some of the features I miss by not being able to have Xposedīut I think its going to be a lot of work for me to do this."
"However from what I understand there are significant technical difficulties with the JIT in Android 7+, and its unclear whether it will be possible for a system like XPosed to be compatible with this
I suppose though someone could start a Kickstarter campaign (I have no idea how to do that neither I know how to handle the campaign). I'd still like to think that Rovo is working on it for both Nougat and O without expecting a donation. If someone feels passionate about this, they should probably start a Kickstarter campaign to raise a large amount of money to pay for updating this to support Android 7 and probably Android 8 (as that is due out in a few months)" "I checked and the initial commit was 26th March 2012. It doesn't help when people are demanding for you to release ASAP.
Many projects have been abandoned purely because the developer gets tired of doing it without having some sort of motivation.
A sad situation, but its unrealistic to expect one developer to maintain this for years on endĮxactly, he's doing this for free.