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Edge ReVanced

Microsoft Edge Canary for Android, brought closer to the Kiwi Browser experience.
Chrome Web Store extensions, on-device DevTools, a custom new tab page, and a thumb-friendly tab switcher.

What changes

• Extensions without a whitelist. The familiar blue install button works directly on Chrome Web Store pages. A successfully installed extension is enabled immediately; there is no need to copy its ID into Developer options. Individual extension UIs may still depend on mobile support from their author.
• DevTools on the phone. Edge gains a DevTools menu item. The bundled Chromium frontend connects to the current tab through a local CDP proxy, so neither a computer nor remote debugging is required.
• Your new tab, not Microsoft’s feed. The new-tab settings contain one URL editor; MSN, news, weather, and wallpaper controls are removed. New profiles default to tabpage.ariex.ru, which supports separate settings for multiple accounts, but the URL can be changed inside Edge at any time.
• Tabs within right-thumb reach. The first card starts at the lower right, newer tabs grow upward in reverse order, and a short grid sits in a reachable area. Long lists still scroll all the way to the screen edge without a permanent empty gap below.
• Swipe up for tabs. Swiping upward on the toolbar opens the tab switcher with either top or bottom address-bar placement.
• Custom branding. The app is named Edge ReVanced, uses the regular Edge icon instead of the Canary badge, and shows Miku artwork in the real Android system splash without an artificial launch delay.
• No recurring account notice. Only the repeated Microsoft account summary dialog is dismissed; account sign-in and sync continue to work.

Screenshots

Custom new tab A full personal start page replaces Microsoft NTP, with sync, multiple accounts, and large touch targets.	Mobile DevTools DOM, styles, Console, Sources, Network, and the rest of Chromium DevTools. The » overflow button remains reachable.
Thumb-friendly tabs The active tab is on the right, older cards sit below, and newer tabs grow upward. Primary actions no longer require crossing the screen.	Real Android splash The system splash is replaced as an Android resource: no second Activity, fake screen, or launch delay.

_{Real Edge Canary 152.0.4184.0 screenshots from a OnePlus 13 running Android 16 in portrait orientation.}

Install

1. Download edge-revanced.apk.
2. If the official Edge Canary is installed, uninstall it once because the signatures differ.
3. Open the APK and allow installation from the selected source.
4. Install future releases over Edge ReVanced to keep the profile, tabs, and settings.

The same APK can be installed through ADB:

adb install -r 'C:\path\to\edge-revanced.apk'

The stable link above always downloads the latest raw APK, not a ZIP archive. The versioned APK and matching .rvp are available on the Releases page.

Change the new tab URL

Open Settings → New tab page → New tab URL, enter an absolute HTTP or HTTPS address, and confirm it. The next new tab uses the saved value immediately; rebuilding or repatching the APK is not required.

English is the fallback application locale, and the added UI is also localized in Russian. Edge ReVanced does not force the device or browser language.

Project architecture

clean monolithic Edge Canary APK (arm64-v8a)
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                ReVanced Patcher 22
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       ┌─────────────────┼──────────────────┐
       │                 │                  │
 Kotlin bytecode     mobile.rve        DevTools frontend
 resource patches    runtime Java      + touch adaptation
       │                 │                  │
       └─────────────────┼──────────────────┘
                         ▼
              rebuilt DEX and resources
                         │
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             persistent private signing key
                         │
                         ▼
                    patched APK

• EdgePatches.kt contains structural fingerprints and static DEX/resource changes.
• extensions/edge/mobile builds into mobile.rve. Runtime code hosts the DevTools proxy, handles Chrome Web Store installation, dismisses the exact account notice, and adjusts the Android tab-switcher views.
• devtools-mobile.js adapts the bundled Chromium DevTools frontend to a narrow touch interface.
• bootstrap.ps1 verifies ReVanced CLI by SHA-256, checks out a pinned official Gradle plugin commit, and prepares DevTools.
• patch.ps1 applies the .rvp, repackages, and signs the APK. verify-patched-apk.ps1 checks the preference-backed new-tab bytecode, Chrome Web Store hook control flow, Canary icon replacement, and the tab-layout animation continuation.
• edge-canary.ts discovers and downloads the latest monolithic ARM64 Canary APK for CI through the public contract of the MIT-licensed EFF apkeep project.

An .rvp is a JAR container with patch metadata, JVM patch classes, their Android DEX form, the runtime extension, and resources. Microsoft Edge code is not distributed inside the patch bundle.

The investigated alternative of keeping an old customized Edge UI while transplanting a newer libchrome.so is documented in research/core-runtime-transplant.md. The experiment found that the native library, generated Java JNI multiplexer, callbacks, and their transitive Java dependencies form one versioned runtime unit; a five-file engine swap is not a safe release architecture.

.\scripts\bootstrap.ps1
.\scripts\build.ps1

.\scripts\patch.ps1 `
    -Apk 'C:\path\to\Edge-Canary-arm64.apk' `
    -Keystore 'C:\secure\edge-mod.keystore'

.\scripts\patch.ps1 `
    -Apk 'C:\path\to\Edge-Canary-arm64.apk' `
    -Rvp 'C:\path\to\edge-revanced.rvp' `
    -Keystore 'C:\secure\edge-mod.keystore'

.\scripts\patch.ps1 `
    -Apk 'C:\path\to\Edge-Canary-arm64.apk' `
    -NewTabUrl 'https://example.com/start'

.\scripts\patch.ps1 `
    -Apk 'C:\path\to\Edge-Canary-arm64.apk' `
    -SideBySide

Verified compatibility

Patches and user flows have been tested with ARM64 builds:

• Edge Canary 152.0.4180.0;
• Edge Canary 152.0.4184.0.

Latest full device test: OnePlus 13, Android 16.

License

Edge ReVanced is licensed under GPLv3.