asLody/whale

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

Whale is a cross-platform hook framework written in C++ that runs on Android, iOS, Linux, and macOS, supporting ARM/THUMB, ARM64, X86, and X86_64 architectures. It provides Xposed-style Java method hooking, native inline hooking, runtime class/object manipulation, and a built-in JIT engine for generating executable instructions in memory.

Use cases

• hook java methods on android xposed-style
• inline hook native functions on linux or macos
• bypass android hidden api policy
• hotfix an app at runtime without repackaging
• monitor or tamper with app behavior for analysis
• inject into a system process as an xposed replacement
• modify class inheritance relationships at runtime

When to choose

• you need native or java-level hooking across android, ios, linux, and macos from one c++ library
• you want xposed-style method hooks without the xposed framework
• you need multi-architecture support including arm64 and x86_64
• you want a built-in jit engine to generate custom hook instructions

When to avoid

• you need a hook framework on non-jailbroken ios in release builds, since inline hooking only works in debug mode there
• you need a actively maintained project - the latest release dates to late 2020
• you only target windows, which is unsupported
• you prefer a pure-java or pure-swift solution over c++ integration

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

security reverse-engineering compiler security reverse-engineering mobile-development developer-tools cpp hook-framework inline-hook xposed-style jit-engine native-hook method-hook android ios linux macos

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