LTE Cleaner FOSS

A maintained-ish improved fork of the @TheRedSpy15’s LTE Cleaner project

Tired of the abundance of phone cleaners on the Play Store? Tired of them being extremely shady? Tired of them doing nothing? Tired of ads? Tired of having to pay? Me too.

There are simply way too many apps out there that claim to “speed up your device”. In reality, they don’t do anything. LTE Cleaner only aims to clean your phone by removing safe to delete files, which not only frees up a lot of space, but also improve your privacy. Since LTE Cleaner removes .log files, which well, log what you do.

LTE Cleaner is 100% free, open source, no ads, and deletes everything it claims to.

Install

GitHub release Build it yourself Original F-Droid (outdated) Original source code (outdated) Original GitHub release (outdated)

Features

• Clipboard clearing
• Whitelist
• Daily cleanup

Cleans:

• Empty folders
• Logs
• Temporary files
• Caches
• Advertisement folders

To do list (not guaranteed because i’m busy irl):

• Black background on dark theme?
• (proper) Fragments?
• Predictive back gestures?
• Extra optimizations?
• Code cleanups
• Compose? (really low priority, because this will literally take decades to implement, lots of code changes, and importantly will took longer to compile and requires more resource and increases APK size to 50MB!! (see Open Video Editor project, before and after the Compose update))
• baseline profile (not ready yet…)
• Clean SD card (has to support minimal Android 10+, hopefully we can use StorageAccessFramework to make this work, but it might be a huge work that can take days, not possible with my spare time)
• Regex whilelist
• About screen (designing the UI would be really painful, and using external dependency will also significantly enlarge file size)

Screenshots

The Team

Contribute to this project:

• Test the app with different devices
• Report issues and feature requests in GitHub’s issue tracker or Codeberg’s issue tracker
• Create a Pull Request
• Translate this app into more languages

Compiling the app

First, export some variables (for Linux users. Windows user might want to adjust this a bit): bash export JAVA_HOME="${JAVA_HOME:-/usr/lib/jvm/java-21-openjdk-amd64}" export ANDROID_SDK_ROOT="${ANDROID_SDK_ROOT:-~/.android/SDK}"

Then go to the project root directory, and run this command: bash ./gradlew :app:assembleRelease

if you’re using Windows, change ./gradlew to gradlew.bat

License

LTE Cleaner is Free Software: You can use, study, share, and improve it at will. Specifically you can redistribute and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.