A-Team Android Image Toolkit

Cross-platform GTK3 Android image and device toolkit for Windows and Linux.

Modules

1. A-Team Sparse Chunk Converter — sparse chunk -> raw super.img.
2. A-Team Super Image Extractor — lpunpack based dynamic partition extraction.
3. A-Team EROFS / EXT4 Image Rebuilder — supplied unpack/repack scripts (Linux-oriented).
4. A-Team Super Image Creator — dynamic super.img creator.
5. A-Team Vendor Boot Extract / Rebuild — vendor_boot ramdisk extraction/rebuild.
6. A-Team Vbmeta Security Disabler — supplied vbmeta flashing workflow.
7. A-Team Android Image Kitchen — supplied Windows/Linux image kitchen.
8. A-Team Terminal — command console with copyable output.

Device controls

The main window exposes quick buttons for:

• adb devices
• adb reboot
• adb reboot recovery
• adb reboot bootloader
• fastboot devices
• fastboot reboot
• fastboot reboot recovery
• fastboot oem unlock
• fastboot flashing unlock

Unlock commands require confirmation because bootloader unlocking can erase user data.

Project layout

• src/ — application source (core/ and gui/)
• modules/ — toolkit modules and their bundled tools
• scripts/ — launcher, Windows bootstrap, hidden launcher, and update helper
• tools/ — bundled command-line tools; development helpers are under tools/dev/
• config/ — Python dependency requirements
• assets/ — application artwork
• Project_Working_Folders/ — persistent per-module working directories

The root directory is intentionally kept for user-facing launchers, documentation, licensing, and project metadata.

Platform Tools

The toolkit bundles the Android platform tools it needs in:

• Linux: platform-tools/linux/
• Windows: platform-tools/windows/

The GUI and modules automatically select the correct bundled tools for the host platform from platform-tools/<platform>/, with a PATH fallback where appropriate. Shared image tools (simg2img, img2simg, lpunpack, lpmake, and mke2fs) are kept in this single canonical location so modules do not carry duplicate copies.

Official Android Platform-Tools information: https://developer.android.com/tools/releases/platform-tools

GTK3 prerequisites

Linux typically needs GTK3 + PyGObject, for example on Debian/Ubuntu:

sudo apt install python3-gi gir1.2-gtk-3.0

Windows can use an existing Python distribution with GTK3/PyGObject. If gi is not available, the Windows launcher automatically prepares the MSYS2 UCRT64 GTK3/PyGObject runtime (using an existing MSYS2 installation or winget when available) and then launches the same application code. Linux behavior is unchanged.

Launch

Linux:

./START_LINUX-A-Team-Android_Image_Toolkit.sh

Windows:

START_WINDOWS-A-Team-Android_Image_Toolkit.bat

The launcher and supporting bootstrap/update scripts live under scripts/; they are implementation details and normally do not need to be run directly. The application source lives under src/ and is loaded from there by the launchers.

The architecture is module-first: each directory under modules/ contains a manifest and module.py, so future A-Team packages can be added without changing the application shell.

Magisk Boot Patcher

Module 08 presents the supplied A-Team Magisk 0.07 patcher through the same file/browse/options/log workflow used by the Super Image Creator. The supplied patcher binaries are Linux ELF and are therefore enabled on Linux; the original source is retained unchanged inside the module.

Integrated updater

The Device Tools header includes Check for Updates. The updater reads the platform-specific metadata from Updates/, compares the published display version with the installed toolkit version, and can download/install the referenced update package. It tries the A-Team Forgejo server first and automatically falls back to the GitHub mirror at https://github.com/PizzaG/A-Team-Android_Image_Toolkit if Forgejo is unavailable. An optional sha256 field can be supplied in the JSON for archive verification before installation. The update prompt is opened as a separate popup window.

Expected update metadata fields:

{
  "version": "2",
  "display": "1.3.1",
  "file": "A-Team-Android_Image_Toolkit-v1.3.1.7z",
  "changelog": "Release notes here",
  "sha256": "optional sha256 hex digest"
}