[Android Apps and Games] GalaxyA325G:
EDIT ONE DAY LATER... (it's all fixed now! See post #183)...

Funny you mention that the links from AF opened up differently in AS, as yesterday I was using Aurora Store version v4.2.5(47) which natively showed up in my listed options for installing from the Muntashirakon App Manager, and from Shortcut To URL by Mio...

... but today I overwrote that older Aurora Store version with version 4.3.1 - and - much to my chagrin (mirroring what you saw), I lost the ability to CHOOSE the Aurora Store when opening intents (see screenshots).

So maybe something changed in the Aurora Store GUI between those two versions which prevents us choosing the Aurora Store as an option from within other applications?

Let's say, for our example, I want to install the AF app onto an unrooted Android phone that doesn't have a Google Account set up on that phone.

This worked yesterday, for example, with the older Aurora Store skin but it doesn't work today because Aurora Store disappeared from the available options!

Assuming you don't have a Google Account set up on your non-rooted Android phone, you can't use the Google Play Store app to get AF but you can create a link on your homescreen which WILL install AF.

Using a web browser, as a failsafe double-check action, first confirm the desired app exists on the Google Play Store repository

<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=scadica.aq>

Log into the Aurora Store using the default rate-limited anonymous@gmail.com account

In your clipboard, construct this URI

market://details?id=PACKAGE-NAME

Specifically for AF, the URI would be

market://details?id=scadica.aq

Open the Shortcut to URL by Mio app

Paste the "market" URI above into the URL field

Press OK

It will ask you to name it (I named my new shorcut "install af" and it will ask you to "Add to Home screen" to which you press "Add Automatically"

That will put the newly created "install af" icon to install that app on your homescreen

Tap the newly created "install af" icon

It should ask how you want to open it (aurora or app manager?

If you choose to open it in the Muntashirakon App Manager, it will show you the "Interceptor" as follows:

Action = android.intent.action.VIEW

Data = market://details?id=scadica.aq

URI =intent://details?id=scadica.aq#Intent;scheme=market;launchFlags=0x13000000;sourceBounds=104%20805%20206%20991;end

Flags = ACTIVITY_PREVIOUS_IS_TOP

Flags = ACTIVITY_FORWARD_RESULT

Flags = ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK

Then press "Send edited Intent" and choose the Aurora Store this time around (if it is an option!)

In the Aurora Store you'll see a blue button to "Install" the app.

The problem is this worked fine yesterday with the Aurora Store being an option in AF - but after I updated the Aurora Store, AF failed to provide the option of choosing the Aurora Store.

NOTE: Of course, if you're a normal person you would have just installed AF using only the Aurora Store but there are actually some very clever reasons not to install that way - but even so - we're trying to debug why the Aurora Store showed up in the options yesterday using the older Aurora Store version, but not today using the newer Aurora Store version.

Along the same vein, I had seen this YouTube video earlier today when I was debugging why I lost my ability to choose the Aurora Store market links from Muntashirakon App Manager just after I had updated my Aurora Store app.

Unfortunately, with the latest version of the Aurora Store, the option of choosing the Aurora Store to install from my Muntashirakon App Manager also instantly disappeared - just by moving from the Aurora Store version v4.2.5(47) to 4.3.1 (I think).

After updating the Aurora Store to the latest version, no longer can I get the option of the version 4.3.1 Aurora Store links mimicking Google Play Store links to stick in my Samsung Galaxy A32-5G Android 12 Settings for the Aurora Store - which isn't related to you directly but which might be a bug in the Aurora Store GUI.

Long press on the Aurora Store homescreen app icon

Tap on "App Info"

Scroll down to tap on the "Set as default" option

Make sure "Open supported links" is set to "on"

Tap on the "Supported web addresses" option

Turn on the "play.google.com" option

Unfortunately, there is no "Save" or "OK" button

So every time I go back into those settings, they are unchanged.

Unfortunately, I don't get the "Add link" option shown in that YouTube video, so I can't add "market.android.com" - which may be an issue with the latest 4.3.1 version of the Aurora Store I'm using (I distinctly remember the option being there in the previous version for other uses such as with the Muntashirakon App Manager utility).