[Android Apps and Games] GalaxyA325G:
Note to "theimpulson"... notice that the Nova launcher also uses "market://" links in the examples reproduced below...

This post is all about a one-in-a-million efficient way to use the Aurora Store to

perfectly populate any phone

EXACTLY as it was before!

It's all about perfection!​

The well-thought-out tried-and-true tested-for-years use model below makes use of Aurora Store's wonderfully

unique

ability to NOT DELETE an APK after installing it...

and​

It makes use of the ability of the Aurora Store to intercept other applications - which allows tremendous efficiency as described in detail below (so that others can reproduce what Aurora Store has perfected).

This screenshot shows the UNIQUE ability of Aurora Store to NOT DELETE APKs...

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Given that unique ability of Aurora Store to NOT DELETE an APK after installing it... below I describe a powerful and convenient set of use models for repopulating a new phone (or a phone that was factory reset) taking advantage of that wonderful Aurora Store NOT DELETE feature!

Let's assume you are like I am, where on all your computers, you maintain a consistently organized folder & menu selection hierarchy.

This well-organized menu hierarchy is portable so you simply copy a file or folder verbatim from one phone or computer to another - which makes it really efficient since everything is always in its correct place (which you defined, a decade or more ago and you just hone over time to make it even better).

Almost nobody (one out of a million probably) knows, for example, that you can literally copy (verbatim!) the Windows XP start menu folder of shortcuts to every Windows thereafter, including WIndows 10, and by pinning that Windows XP folder to the Windows 10 taskbar, instantly you get your exact cascaded accordion-style pullout menu to all your apps - so your menus are always the same!

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I could explain more how that intelligent-menu-magic works, especially as 999,999 people out of a million still think the Windows XP start menu disappeared (it never did!) - but that's for another forum...

My point is that any computer - should be set up - IMHO - intelligently and consistently - such that EVERY DEVICE is set up the way YOU want it to be.

And Aurora Store's unique ability to NOT DELETE APKs helps a lot!

Fast forward to Android, where if you temporarily (or permanently) load the Nova free launcher, you can back up the homescreen setup to a file.

A fantastic feature of the Aurora Store is you can automatically NOT DELETE the APK after installing - so you ALWAYS have your original APK saved automatically onto Windows (since Android is always mounted as a Windows drive letter).

Then, when you get a new phone (or when you factory reset your current phone) - you simply load the backup file and voila!

Your new homescreen is EXACTLY the same as your old one was!

The only thing missing... are the apps you haven't installed yet.

That is, apps which are installed - show up perfectly

But apps not yet installed show up as grayed-out intelligent icons

Of course, given the entire Android phone is already mounted over Wi-Fi as a drive letter onto Windows... you could just doubletap on each APK (that the Aurora Store didn't delete when you first installed the app) on your Android to install it onto Android.

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Given EVERY APK was already auto-magically saved by the Aurora Store onto Windows, you could just tap on those APKs in Windows to install them on Android - one by one (since the internal and external Android sdcards are each mounted as a separate drive letter onto Windows)...

But even easier you could even dispense with mounting Android as a drive letter onto Windows over Wi-Fi and just use scrcpy mirroring with adb over Wi-Fi to just slide the APK over from Windows to Android which instantly installs the app...

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But wait... there's an EVEN EASIER way to repopulate any phone (whether new or factory reset) with all the old apps exactly in the same place on the new phone (taking advantage of the Aurora Store "Open With..." capability we've been discussing in this thread lately)!

Install the Nova free launcher on phone #1

SAVE your exact homescreen & folder icon positions to a file

Install the Nova free launcher on phone #2

Note phone #2 can be phone #1 after a factory reset

LOAD that backup file into phone #2 using Nova free launcher

The result will be the EXACT same homescreen organization!

All apps already installed will show up exactly as before

Any apps not yet installed will have grayed out intelligent icons

Tap on the grayed-out icon

Up pops a form saying

"This app is not installed"

"The app for this icon isn't installed."

"You can remove it, or search for the app and install it manually"

Press the "SEARCH" button.

Select an app from the "Open with..." list

Yalp Store

F-Droid

F-Droid Basic

App Manager

Aurora Store

Optionally... If you select the MuntashirAkon App Manager

You can see/edit the intent that refers to that app

(e.g., market://details?id=ca.cmetcalfe.locationshare)

Or, you can pass that intent unchanged to the Aurora Store

That will install the desired app.

Which will populate the grayed-out icon with the app!

All in the exact place on phone #2 that it was on phone #1.

Easy peasy!​

This has got to be one of the easiest ways to exactly duplicate the apps and the homescreen folders and app icons on any number of Android phones (making use of the Aurora Store "Open with..." property).

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Voila!

Phone #2 {phone #3, phone #4, etc.) is an exact duplicate app hierarchy of phone #1....

... (thanks, in part, to the

unique

capability of the Aurora Store to save all the APKs and/or to open the proper intent to the app when the intelligent grayed-out icons are tapped!)