Xposed module to change the look and feel of the Android Resolver Activity dialog.
Master: 
Coverity: 
Yes, it now works on Pie with EdXposed!™
Lollipop 5.0 or higher. Works on Lollipop, Marshmallow, Nougat, Oreo
and Pie.
An AOSP ROM.
Xposed or EdXposed.
This module changes the look and behavior of the dialog shown when
picking an activity (app) to open a URL or document (intent).
On Lollipop, by default, you get a list of apps the very first time a
given document type is opened. Then, for the subsequent times, the
last app is shown at the top, with an “Always” and a “Once” buttons,
and the other apps are pushed down another header.
With this module you can pretty much remove some of the space wasted
by all the headers and buttons by:
Always using the “first time” menu, where the Always and Once
buttons are shown at the bottom.
Also hiding the Always and Once buttons too. In this case a single
tap on the App name will launch the activity, and you won’t be able
to mark an app to “Always” launch any more.
These are the three possible configurations:
Stock:
Always use first time intent chooser (with the last selected app
promoted to the top):
Always use first time chooser and remove Always/Once:
Finally this is how the app looks:
Support is provided in the dedicated XDA
thread.
Download from the Xposed Modules
Repository.
Remote Preferences java
library from Andrew Sun
I copied the getContext() method
from Marcel Bokhorst‘s
XPrivacyLua project.
Updated Android build stack (Studio, Build Tools, Gradle).
Shows which Xposed module manager is used at various places around the
UI. One of Xposed Installer, EdXposed Installer or EdXposed Manager.
Fixed rare crash when launching an Xposed module manager when the
module is disabled.
Fixed Coverity-detected rare error conditions.
Hide the module controls when the module is inactive and when UI and
module versions do not match. Since now settings can be changed on the
fly, revert back to the 1.x behavior.
Typos and wording changes in the UI. Shows short git revision.
Added logcat debugging.
Handle EdXposed Manager
in addition to EdXposed Installer,
for latest versions of EdXposed.
Bump Xposed API from 81 to 82.
Support Travis & Coverity in GitHub repo.
Use Remote Preferences,
so that we don’t depend on MODE_WORLD_READABLE ever again.
No reboots are needed anymore when changing settings on all Android
versions.
Added a license button in the preferences Legal sections, opening
to the GPLv3 in the GitHub repository.
Now targeting Android SDK 27 (instead of 23).
EdXposed compatibility.
The preferences application now looks up both EdXposed Installer as
well as the regular Xposed Installer.
Now on GitHub.
Oreo Support.
The way the Once and Always buttons are hidden has been changed in
this release.
The code is now simpler, and should work across all supported
Android releases.
MODE_WORLD_READABLE was causing anCosmetic changes only.
The module is working on Lollipop, Marshmallow and Nougat (this is not
news, version 0.4 was fine as well)
Updated target SDK to 25 (7.1 Nougat)
Still show setting toggles when the module not active in Xposed, or
when there is a version mismatch between the UI and the module (used
to be hidden).
Fix intent when opening the Xposed Installer, it could fail on some
versions of the installer that do not implement the OPEN_SECTION
intent.
Log version in Xposed log file upon start-up.
Marshmallow 6.0 compatibility.
Note that because of Xposed limitations on Marshmallow, you will
have to reboot to enact the changes. On Lollipop, the app is able to
change the setting on the fly, and no reboot is needed.
Lollipop 5.0 compatibility: Target SDK v21 instead of v22. Thanks to
XDA’s Curious Boy.
Fix FCs on CM12.1. Thanks to Alexey71 on XDA.