[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GalaxyA325G:
How can I add any app (for example, "Aurora Droid") as an option to the list that pops up in the Android "Open With" menu?

Note: The question is valid for adding ANY app!

Note: Aurora Droid is just one example.

You can skip to the screenshot as it's just detail below as to WHY I want to add AuroraDroid to the OpenWith menu!

Like many here, I don't use the default Google Play client (normally I have com.android.vending disabled) and (for privacy reasons) I don't have any Samsung or Google account (or any other account) registered in the Android 11 settings of my Samsung Galaxy A32 5G phone.

Settings > Accounts and backup > Manage accounts === none

But it's OK to NOT have a Google Account registered to the phone because the Aurora Store app will spoof a sign-in to the Google Play repository, so I don't need (nor do I want) a Google account set up on the phone.

Even without a Google account set up on the phone, the Google Play app (aka com.android.vending) will still scan for and manually UPDATE about a score of "google apps" that it knows about (mostly these are the small subset of stock apps which come with the phone initially from the carrier).

Since the Google Play app can only find a tiny subset of the apps on the Google Play repository to update, there's really no value in enabling the Google Play app in my situation.

That's because even if I temporarily enable the Google Play app (aka the "Play Store" or "com.android.vending") will only update a very short list of stock apps (about a score or less which it calls "Google Apps", but that's incorrect nomenclature as com.android.vending will also update pre-installed stock Samsung and T-Mobile apps).

It would be great if I could use the Aurora Store to scan for all the hundreds of apps that have updates on the Google Play repository, so that I can (if I want to) update any set of them at a simple tap of an update button after that list of hundreds of apps that have updates on the Google Play repository is enumerated.

However, as far as I can tell, the Aurora Store doesn't have a setting to manually check for app updates, en masse, on the Google Play repository without actually updating the apps (that is, the Aurora Store has a setting for AUTOMATIC updating, which isn't what I want, and of course, you can type in the name of any given app and the Aurora Store will allow you to update it - but that's also not what I want).

A workaround is to add any decent free ad free gsf free "app updater", where I can then manually update ALL my apps (whose lists are in the hundreds and not just the extremely few that the Google Play app updates).

Update Software Checker - OS Version Info, by Inspire Zone

App Update Checker - Update Software, by Pratham Tech

Software Update Checker : App & Game Updater 2021, by Pnixo

While these update checkers scan the Google Play repository to find HUNDREDS of apps that need updating, not just the score of apps that the com.android.vending app finds), and while these update checkers have a button to update each of the hundreds of apps whose newer version was found on the Google Play repository, ALL of them "open with" a list of apps that does NOT include the Aurora Store (see screenshots below).

How can I add "Aurora Droid" as an option to the list that pops up in the Android "Open With" menu?