revanced-builder VS LSPatch

Revanced Builder used to be a great web builder for ReVanced but now it's dead. I want to move my keystore to the official builder (or any other) so I don't have to uninstall my apps, but whenever I import revanced.keystore from Revanced Builder to the official Revanced app on Android, any patch will fail.

I saw that the windows builder has been discontinued, so is there no way for ARM7 users with no alternative phone to install? I've tried googling it but everything is several months out of date. Trying to use the old installer on a whim seemed to kick up a lot of errors and produce non working apk files.

You should be able to use Revancify on your armv7 device, or you can try the ReVanced Builder on PC. The builder can be buggy though. There's also the CLI on PC, but it's a bit difficult for beginners and I don't know of a good guide for it.

You've used this NodeJs Builder (https://github.com/reisxd/revanced-builder) right? If so how did you use it because for me the oauth client id patch gives me errors on it.

You can use revanced builder and select patches just like manager. It still need Zulu though. Link to Revanced Builder - https://github.com/reisxd/revanced-builder/releases. Download the windows version and run it. Just make sure to select these 4 patches - https://revanced.app/patches/com.reddit.frontpage.

You can try using revanced builder, the setup is quite a bit more complex but personally I've had better results with it

I tried Revanced builder based on this comment from my new Patron Saint, and it worked.

That said... Besides creating an issue for the devs in hopes they either fix or find the problem, i can't think of any other way to do it other than using the cli (or the unofficial, yet trustworthy builder)... And that's a bit less beginner-friendly...

Here's where I got it. It's where I've always gone to get the instructions for Termux. I just really prefer the termux version over the revanced manager.

Once Shizuku Service is running download and install LSPatch (https://github.com/LSPosed/LSPatch/releases/download/v0.5.1/manager.apk)

Then there's the fact that starting with Android 11 it's no longer necessary to first use ADB over USB to initiate ADB over network so, anybody can start ADB on the device itself, use apps like Shizuku, LSPatch (rootless Xposed), LADB, Termux (apt install adb) etc, automate the ADB commands (via Tasker, let's say) on system boot-up and so on (to let's say, disable the shitty OEM/carrier app packages etc).

Taichi is not open-source, even if it might be ok I strongly discourage using it as much as you can. There is an open-soucre equivalent which is LSPatch

LSPatch - A non-root Xposed framework extending from LSPosed

For ADB there's https://anl.ink that provides a nice GUI on Windows. If you'll be using ADB you might also want to checkout LADB, Shizuku & LSPatch.

Download and install latest manager.apk for LSPatch.

Unfortunately, I haven't used Lspatch as I'm always rooted. Didn't find any solid guide online. You can check their github Readme https://github.com/LSPosed/LSPatch/blob/master/README.md

You also have the option to add Magisk or some other root method of your choosing - yes, despite I have my gripes with the way Google is "sanitizing & normalizing" Magisk at the expense of harassing certain individuals via trolls in the community to discourage them from making their own builds of it and sharing them I guess it's still overall positive that such stuff are becoming more accessible over the years like this.

For AdBlock, if you're on Android 9+, you can do to Wifi Settings, then Private DNS, and set dns.adguard.com as the custom DNS. For Xposed, you can look into LSPatch. I never used it before tho so I can't really help you with how it works.