allenymt/PrivacySentry

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2283 stars · 300 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

PrivacySentry is an Android privacy compliance toolkit combining a Gradle plugin with a runtime SDK, using annotations plus ASM bytecode instrumentation (via the Booster framework) at compile time. It intercepts and records calls to 60+ sensitive APIs (device identifiers, personal data access), supports delaying calls until the user accepts the privacy agreement, and generates Excel reports of all detected calls to help apps pass app-store and MIIT compliance reviews.

Use cases

• detect sensitive API calls in my Android app before a privacy compliance audit
• pass MIIT / app-store privacy compliance review for an Android app in China
• hook Android methods that read IMEI, device ID, or other personal data
• block sensitive APIs until the user accepts the privacy policy
• generate a report of personal data collection calls across my app and third-party SDKs
• instrument bytecode at compile time without adding runtime performance overhead

When to choose

• You ship an Android app to Chinese app stores and must satisfy MIIT privacy compliance requirements
• You want compile-time bytecode instrumentation of sensitive API calls with zero runtime performance cost
• You need automated, exportable (Excel) audit trails of who called which sensitive API and when
• You need to defer or gate sensitive API calls until after the user agrees to the privacy notice, with multi-process support

When to avoid

• Your project is not Android (iOS, web, or server-side software)
• You are on AGP below 8.0 and cannot or will not use the legacy 1.3.6 release line
• You need runtime dynamic hooking (Xposed-style) rather than build-time static instrumentation
• Your app depends on third-party SDKs that perform their own ASM transformations (e.g., AMap) and conflict with the plugin

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security privacy monitoring logging testing build-tool sdk mobile-development android-tools security privacy developer-tools testing jvm android gradle-plugin bytecode-instrumentation asm booster privacy-compliance sensitive-api-hooking miit-compliance app-store-review privacy-audit kotlin hooking china mobile

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