ClearGate

Answer the gate. Skip the ad.

A tiny Android app that gets MyGate's full-screen ad out of your way after you approve or deny a visitor.

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The problem

If your housing society uses MyGate, every visitor or delivery pops up a full-screen request on your phone. You tap Approve or Deny, and MyGate swaps the request for a full-screen ad. Close that and MyGate opens its home screen, which has more ads. That happens every time, for every visitor.

What ClearGate does

1. A visitor arrives. MyGate shows the entry request, as usual.
2. You tap Approve or Deny. Your answer goes to the gate exactly as before.
3. The ad is skipped. As soon as MyGate confirms your answer ("Entry approved for …"), ClearGate presses Home for you. You land back where you were, whether that's your home screen or the lock screen.

It never touches the approve/deny screen itself, and it waits for MyGate's confirmation before acting, so your answer always goes through.

Private by design

• Only sees MyGate. It uses Android's accessibility feature, restricted to the com.mygate.user package. Other apps are invisible to it.
• No internet permission. It can't send anything anywhere. The activity log stays on your phone.
• Open source. Everything it does is in AdSkipService.java.
• Pause any time from the app or the Pause ClearGate Quick Settings tile. Pausing switches its accessibility fully off.

Install

1. On your phone, download ClearGate.apk and open it. Allow "install unknown apps" for your browser if asked.
2. Open ClearGate and follow the short intro. It walks you through the two settings it needs:
   • Accessibility → ClearGate → On, so it can see MyGate's screens.
   • Run unrestricted in the background, so your phone doesn't stop it.

Updates use the same link and install over the previous version.

Troubleshooting

My banking app says "Unauthorized app" or "Accessibility permission detected"

Many banking apps (Axis Mobile, ICICI iMobile and others) refuse to run while any accessibility app installed outside the Play Store is switched on. It's an anti-fraud check, and ClearGate can't and won't hide from it. Instead, pause ClearGate while you bank. The easiest way is the ClearGate widget:

• Widget: add your banking apps (up to 4) in ClearGate's Settings › Banking apps, then add the widget from Settings › Pausing. Your banks appear on the widget. Tap one and ClearGate pauses, then the bank opens. The widget also shows whether ClearGate is on, with a Pause/Resume button; shrink it to one row for a compact version.
• Other ways to open a bank with ClearGate paused: long-press ClearGate's icon, or use Pause & open in Settings › Banking apps.
• Resume reminders (Settings › Pausing): while paused, a notification shows ClearGate is paused · Resume, and nudges you once if you're still paused after about 10 minutes.
• Quick Settings tile (Settings › Pausing): pause or resume from the notification shade.

Resuming: tap Resume (notification, tile, widget or app). Accessibility settings opens: tap ClearGate (on some phones it's under Installed apps or Downloaded apps), turn it on and tap Allow. ClearGate then takes you back to your home screen. Android only lets you switch accessibility on, which is why this step can't be a single tap.

While paused, MyGate's ads show as usual.

The accessibility switch is greyed out ("Restricted setting")

Android 13 and newer block accessibility for apps installed outside the Play Store. Go to Settings → Apps → ClearGate → ⋮ (top right) → Allow restricted settings, then turn it on again. The app's setup screen has a shortcut to App info.

It worked, then stopped

Some phones (Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, Realme, Samsung and others) aggressively stop background apps. Set ClearGate's battery usage to Unrestricted and, if your phone has it, turn on Autostart. Also check that it's still on in Accessibility settings.

The ad still shows after a MyGate update

ClearGate recognises the screen by its "Entry approved for …" text, so a MyGate redesign can break it. Check Recent activity: if you see "You answered a visitor" but no "Ad skipped" after it, open an issue with a screenshot of the screen that stayed open.

I was using MyGate when a visitor came, and it sent me to the home screen

That's expected: after you answer a request, it always presses Home. Just reopen MyGate.

How it works (for developers)

• AdSkipService is an AccessibilityService limited to com.mygate.user (config). When the approve/deny screen appears, it starts a 20-second watch. If MyGate's "Entry approved/denied for …" screen appears in that window, it performs GLOBAL_ACTION_HOME. It falls back to Back only while MyGate is still in front.
• It never acts outside that window, and never while Approve/Deny buttons are on screen, so using MyGate normally is unaffected. The activity log only records your answer and what ClearGate did, not screen contents.
• The UI is Jetpack Compose with Material 3 Expressive (MaterialExpressiveTheme, expressive motion, Material shapes, dynamic color).

Build from source

There's no local setup needed: every push to main is built by GitHub Actions and published as the latest release. To build locally you need JDK 17+, the Android SDK (platform 37) and Gradle 9.8:

gradle :app:assembleRelease

Without the signing secrets, local builds are signed with the debug key.

Stack: Kotlin + Java · Jetpack Compose · Material 3 Expressive (material3 1.5 alpha) · AGP 9.4 · minSdk 26 (Android 8.0) · targetSdk 36.

Disclaimer

ClearGate is an independent personal project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to MyGate or Vivish Technologies. It doesn't modify MyGate, block its network traffic, or bypass any of its features: it presses Home for you after you've answered, just as you could yourself.