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Found it more stable and the UI looks a little better, imo.

Source here - https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore/-/releases

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago

It's been a while, thanks for the heads-up!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I haven't heard of Aurora before. I'm guessing it's similar to F-Droid? Just extract and install the APK?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It's a wrapper over Google Play not F-Droid. Much nicer interface, you can filter for things like ads/paid/GSF, you can bypass some regional blocks, you can login with Google accounts or use it anonymously etc.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Its only recommended that you use a throw away Google account for paid apps on Aurora. So I've been told.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Never happened to me, but technically your account can get banned using Aurora since it's against the TOS. Also i mostly use aurora for privacy, so an different account only to download apps is a good idea. (Ideally you should even use the anonymous feature, but i had some stability problems with that so i switched to a throwaway account)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Thanks for the responses! I'll look more into it over the weekend!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I would add the exodus feature, which shows a list of trackers from an app.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago

It lets you install Google Play apps without Google Play itself

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Aurora Store is a play store wrapper.

Aurora Droid is an F-droid wrapper.

I use Aurora droid. It is much better than just Fdroid. Search works well, updates are easy, and what is that? App pictures and icons actually load?? 😂 It generally is nicer to use than F-droid and you can add many different repositories to it including custom ones

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

You have to leave always use data/wifi option on then icons and pictures load.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Why is this not updated in the F-Droid repo?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago

Takes a few days

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

BTW could anyone get it working on GrapheneOS? It crashes when I start typing a search request. (I've not tried the new version yet, but older versions installed from f-droid crashed.)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

Works for me, I downloaded the new version directly from their Gitlab. v4.3.5 worked fine as well.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You might be blocking access to a specific Google Play Store domain or IP. I use Rethink firewall and experienced this when I was blocking a lot of Google's domains. I am using Lineage OS.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I don't, however my ISP can do. I'll try to connect over VPN to check, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago