Aimal Patches

A small bundle of Morphe patches for four streaming apps, all of it aimed at one thing: giving the player back the controls the app decided you did not need.

Speed. Aspect ratio. Subtitles you can actually read. On Viki, also the ads and the comments panel that eats a third of the screen when you unfold a phone.

App	Package	Built against
Crunchyroll	com.crunchyroll.crunchyroid	3.117.0
HBO Max	com.wbd.stream	7.9.0.84
Disney+	com.disney.disneyplus	26.14.1+rc2-2026.08.20
Viki	com.viki.android	26.5.0

Every fingerprint matches on structure or on names the apps cannot obfuscate, so newer builds are expected to work and are offered as experimental targets.

com.wbd.hbomax is the Android TV build of HBO Max and is a different app. These patches target the phone and tablet builds.

What this bundle does not do

Nothing here touches DRM, licensing or entitlement. Viki's ad patch flips the same no-ads flag the app already flips for a Viki Pass subscriber, and stops there; rentals and subscriber-only titles behave exactly as before.

There was briefly an HD unlock for Viki. It was removed in v1.1.0-dev.9 once it became clear it did nothing — Viki builds the rendition ladder server-side, so forcing the client's entitlement changes the quality label and not one pixel of the picture. The reasoning is written up in viki/Fingerprints.kt so nobody adds it back.

Install

Add this bundle to Morphe Manager

Or add it by hand: Manager → patch sources → add source → https://github.com/hashtagbasit/aimal-patches

With Morphe Desktop:

java -jar morphe-desktop-*-all.jar patch -p https://github.com/hashtagbasit/aimal-patches app.apkm

All four apps are distributed as split bundles (.apkm); Manager and Desktop merge them for you.

Patches list

v1.1.0  •  main  •  8 patches total

📦 Crunchyroll  •  3 patches

🎯 Supported versions:

3.117.0

💊 Patch	📜 Description	⚙️ Options
Aspect ratio control	Adds a Fit/Stretch toggle to the player.
Playback speed	Unhides the player's speed menu and fills it out to 0.5x-2.0x.
Subtitle styling	Adds subtitle size, font and outline controls to the player.

📦 HBO Max  •  1 patch

🎯 Supported versions:

7.9.0.84

💊 Patch	📜 Description	⚙️ Options
Playback speed and aspect ratio	Adds a floating panel to change playback speed and stretch, crop or zoom the picture.

📦 Disney+  •  1 patch

🎯 Supported versions:

26.14.1+rc2-2026.08.20

💊 Patch	📜 Description	⚙️ Options
Playback speed and aspect ratio	Adds a floating panel to change playback speed and stretch, crop or zoom the picture.

📦 Viki  •  3 patches

🎯 Supported versions:

26.5.0

💊 Patch	📜 Description	⚙️ Options
Playback speed and aspect ratio	Adds a floating panel to change playback speed and stretch, crop or zoom the picture.
Remove ads	Removes pre-roll and mid-roll video ads, and the display banners.
Use the whole screen for video	Hides the comments panel beside the player on tablets and unfolded foldables.

 

How it works

Crunchyroll gets app-specific treatment, because it already has most of this built and switched off. A playback-speed menu sits behind a feature flag with a table that stops at 1.0x, so one patch forces the flag true and widens the table. Aspect ratio and subtitles ride on a small chip row added to the player when it attaches to the window — deliberately self-contained, because tying it to the app's own show/hide callbacks broke on 3.117.0 when those stopped firing.

Crunchyroll's subtitles are the interesting one. They are rendered natively by libass straight into bitmaps, so by the time anything reaches a View there is no text left to restyle. The entire ASS script does pass through one method as a String on its way into the library, though, and ASS carries its styling as plain text — so the script is rewritten in flight and libass renders the result. The catch is that it only takes effect when a track loads, which is why the chips say so when you tap them.

HBO Max, Disney+ and Viki share a single patch. All three play through androidx.media3, so instead of fingerprinting three different player UIs it injects two instructions — one handing the extension an application context, one in the player constructor to capture the ExoPlayer — and does everything else at runtime: the video surface is found by walking the view tree, speed goes through media3's setPlaybackSpeed, and the picture is reshaped through AspectRatioFrameLayout.setResizeMode. A floating panel over the player carries the controls; it dims and collapses a few seconds after you stop touching it, and can be dragged out of the way.

Because none of that depends on any app's layouts or class names, one patch covers three apps that share nothing but their media stack, and it should survive most app updates.

Viki is the exception that proves the rule: it strips media3's Player interface down so far that no (float) method survives on it at all, so setPlaybackSpeed simply is not there. The extension falls back to building a PlaybackParameters and calling the setter that takes one, both found by shape rather than by name. The patch never has to know.

Viki's ads are two independent systems — IMA video ads with Amazon header bidding in front, and a Google Ad Manager banner — and both consult the same entitlement, so one hook silences both. A second hook forces VideoFragment.shouldShowAds() false directly, which matters because the coroutine that fetches the ad tag is launched inside that method's true branch: with it false, nothing is ever sent to doubleclick.net or to Amazon's bidder.

Viki's full-screen patch exists because Viki calls anything wider than 600dp a tablet, which an unfolded foldable is, and then puts the player in a chain at weight 0.65 with a comments panel at 0.35. Unfolding the device made the video smaller. Hiding the panel is enough: ConstraintLayout drops GONE views from a chain, so the player takes the full width. On a phone it is a no-op.

Status

Crunchyroll and HBO Max are tested on device. Viki is built and verified against 26.5.0 (versionCode 78800).

Disney+ is written against a decompiled 26.14.1 but has not been run yet — the hooks it needs were verified in the bytecode, not in the app. Reports welcome.

Building

The Morphe Gradle plugin is published to GitHub Packages, which rejects anonymous requests. For a local build, put a token with the read:packages scope in ~/.gradle/gradle.properties:

gpr.user = <github username>
gpr.key = <token>

Then:

./gradlew :patches:buildAndroid

The bundle is written to patches/build/libs/patches-*.mpp. CI needs no setup; it uses the token GitHub provides to the workflow.

Licence

GPLv3. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or authored by the Morphe project.