About 25% of my apps are from F-Droid. The rest are from Play Store. I want to use Aurora Store to install apps rather than Play Store.

I have installed Aurora Store. Do I simply remove Play Store from GrapheneOS and it will remove all the Play Store apps at once or do I need to first remove them one by one, then remove Play Store, then install each one via Aurora Store?

  • OrthoSticeEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    Be aware that just a few days ago Aurora Store’s anonymous login function suffered a big outage due to Google throttling the “fake” accounts it uses. It’s been working again since a few days, but it’s clear that Google doesn’t love it.

    EDIT: as pointed out by @mranderson17 the issue was different. Check his reply to my comment.

    • mranderson17@infosec.pubEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      According to the developer the issue a couple weeks ago was due to hitting the existing rate limiting because of growing numbers. Not because google was all of a sudden caring more than they used to.

      Was there a more recent issue? Things have been working for me since that account pool increase. I see another issue referencing anonymous login rate limiting but that was already happening before and you could request a new account from the account settings page and it would generally resolve it.

    • CatherineHuffman@burggit.moeEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      The solution is to go into your app settings and set Google Play links to open in Aurora. Then do a DuckDuckGo for the apps and when you click the link it will open in Aurora. Not ideal but it’s worked well for me.

  • binboupan@lemmy.kagura.euEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    IIRC apps in Aurora Store are signed with the same keys Google Play uses so the order doesn’t matter. You don’t have to reinstall your apps.

    • TheWiz@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Most apps I’ve found haven’t had this issue but I did run into it for the first time not too long ago. I have a separate profile with sandboxed google play for when I absolutely need something that requireres play services

  • unkunst@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Just install.aurora and deinstall Google play and u can update everything through aurora or install it

  • AlmostDachshund@rammy.siteEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Removing the Play Store would not uninstall any other app. But why would you want to uninstall the apps and then install from Aurora? Aurora get its apps from the Play Store, but anonymously.

    • animist@lemmy.oneOPEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I didn’t know if I had to install them directly from Aurora or not to ensure that Aurora would recognize they’re on the device and thus provide updates. I’m not a developer so this information isn’t intuitive for me

    • animist@lemmy.oneOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      I haven’t had enough time to fully look at it as I only just installed it a few days ago. I’m worried that if I uninstall Play Store and Google Services that the apps will no longer be sandboxed, though I’m not sure this is the case (I know enough to know that I don’t know anything).