[Android Apps and Games] GalaxyA325G:
Yikes. OMG. I'm sorry. I'll stop reporting the new Aurora Store bugs then. He has more important things to worry about. Much more important. Thank you for letting me know (as someone else told me that he wasn't responding to him either - so that's likely why).

I apologize for being insensitive at a time of need.

Oh. Don't worry about me being able to get apps. I can get anything I want to get. Nothing can stop me from getting apps.... for example... these exist...

AppBrain <https://www.appbrain.com/>

APKPure <https://apkpure.com/>

APKCombo <https://apkcombo.com/>

4matters <https://42matters.com/>

etc.

Most people don't seem to be aware that the Google Play Protect features work completely independently of the Google Play Store app - so you get the checks upon every installation and once a day thereafter on all apps installed on the device - even if you have no Google Play Store app on your user partition (e.g., even if the Google Play Store app is uninstalled - Google Play Protect still works).

Hell, my entire Android phone is mounted over Wi-Fi on my LAN as just a drive letter on Windows, where I simply slide APKs over from Windows to my Android on my PC monitor and they install just like that...

Plus, with the Aurora Store "not deleting" APKs that I've installed, I just copy them from the Aurora\Downloads directory back to the PC (I always wondered if those are the full APKs though - or hardware specific APKs???).

Spoiler content hidden.

I have no problem obtaining apps... I'm trying to IMPROVE the Aurora Store by reporting the new bugs. Just like I reported bugs to the developer of the App Finder who fixed EVERY ONE OF THEM immediately - much to his credit!

I'm a QA kind of guy (I used to work in QA fore decades in the Silicon Valley - filing more successful product change requests than anyone in the company's history - by an order of magnitude - on extremely complex million-dollar server software).

I'm simply reporting three issues - that's all... as I've been using AS for many years - but more so lately as I was testing other apps such as MuntashirAkon App Manager and others which make use of the "Open with..." pass to the Aurora Store.

Aurora Store fails a LOT lately, with cryptic error messages

(I simply keep trying and eventually it works)

The Aurora Store back button doesn't work as expected (when an app has passed control over to the Aurora Store).

The Aurora Store play vs market links are changing such that the market links work better than the play links (with respect to other apps I'm using).

I don't fully understand that statement but that just means I have to do more research. Remember, I'm no coder. I'm just a normal user.

However, I think the scraper Aurora Store uses might be this one perhaps?

<https://github.com/facundoolano/google-play-scraper>

But I'm not sure of that.

(I simply assume it's using that scraper).

There are a few Aurora Store bugs listed, namely

Aurora Store fails 80% to 90% of the time lately...

With multiple cryptic undecipherable error messages

Aurora Store doesn't "back" out properly anymore...

Ask @Skyica about that problem set

He is the developer of the App Finder

Which passes data to the Aurora Store

Aurora Store doesn't properly use market / play links (which screws up the "Open with..." options)...

market.android.com://?id...

play.google.com://?id...

Again, @Skyica knows this better'n I do

Plus, he's a developer - I'm simply a user

Funny story... people asked me to put the detailed screenshots INSIDE the body of the text instead of attached to the bottom en masse...

Sigh... you can't please everyone!

No matter how hard you try to! :)

BTW, I didn't notice the spoilers at first, and then things kept changing as I was editing for absolute clarity - so I apologize that two of us were editing the posts at the same time (by accident). My mistake for not noticing that until you just said it now...

No problem.

I try to be completely detailed as I've seen a billion "help - it's broken" threads (as have you) which provide no data.

I'm on the android newsgroup on Usenet every day and I'd say about half the threads are that way - where there's not enough detail to help the person.

Me? I try to help. Where I can. How I can.

And to do that, I need to be detailed.

Anyway, I'll back off as I've reported the three bugs I had wanted to report. Thanks for helping with such a fantastic app (which I've been using for years).

Aurora Store has allowed me to maintain privacy from Google by not having to have any Google Account on my phone for years!