Also here's the latest play store app 3.9.16
Again found admist the huge collection of apps here on XDA
What's New
The most notable and immediately apparent new feature is the long overdue ability to remove apps you've previously downloaded from the All Apps list. If you like to try a lot of apps, that list is likely very cluttered. With the new Google Play, you can trim it to your heart's content.
Update #1: You can multi-select by long-pressing any app in the list and then tapping more apps, then delete them all in one go.
Update #2: The new Play Store now keeps track of your location in lists, including My Apps and All Apps, so when you click into an app and back, it drops you into the same spot.
Update #3: The notification icon that shows up when you have app updates has changed, and notifications are now expandable.
Update #4: The notification icon after installing an app now shows the app icon instead of something generic.
any more info can be found below
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/1...bility-to-remove-apps-from-the-all-apps-list/
Related
Because of the recent enhancements of the Google Play Store, we from pocketpc.ch have thought ourselves about further improvements and opened opened an issue (http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=36810) with the following content at Google:
Since the introduction of the Play Store are purchased apps no longer displayed filtered. Instead, in the category "All" appear in the category „Personal Apps“ now all apps that were ever loaded on the concerned account.
Currently, on pocketpc.pc is running a survey on this topic:
http://www.pocketpc.ch/android-apps/167613-umfrage-gekaufte-apps-google-play-store.html#post1496412
Also has a corresponding thread to this topic, with a reference to the above named survey, opened at the XDA Developers:
Link to this thread
From an upcoming update of the Play Store, we hope the following functions:
1. Filter for purchased apps (or a own, different, area)
2. Ability to delete apps in the category "All"
So please help us to make the Play Store more user-friendly and vote for a better future!
Link to Google Issue Site:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=36810
Amazon
Amazon app suite
Amazon Kindle
Amazon Music
Amazon Appstore
Audible
Black Hole
Bubbles
Caller ID
Cloud
Enchanted Forest
FamilyBase Companion
Gmail (I use Cloudmagic)
Google Korean Keyboard (include Chinese if you don't use Chinese either)
Google Play Books
Google Play Games
Google Play Movies & TV
Google Play Music
Google Play Newsstand
IMDb
Isis Wallet
Message+
My Infozone
News & Weather
NFL Mobile
Phase Beam
Pico TTS
Podcast
Slacker Radio
TalkBack
TV Launcher
Verizon Location Agent
Verizon Support & Protection
VZ Navigator
Wikipedia Extension
Wireless Emergency Alerts
Xperia Social Engine Sharing
Xperia with Twitter
Youtube karaoke extension
I'd disable the Email app, but there were frequent popups telling me is crashes. So I just leave it enabled instead. Also I am aware what the Wireless Emergency Alerts is supposed to be about. It's not illegal per se to disable it, is it?lol
Well guys, you're free to add on to this list if you got anything else. STOP THE BLOATWARE INVASION!
Awesome... Now others can add their suggestions and we can keep the OP updated as we go.
Wireless emergency app will let you disable the Amber alerts, so you can keep the severe weather alerts going.
We might find a dev that is familiar with Verizon bloat and they may be able to help figure out what apps are and do, and what is safe to remove.
How to do this? pm command through adb? Or any app can help?
It is kind of weird since you can't do it through the launcher. Go to settings > application manager. Then swipe over to all to view all installed and system apps. Select them individually and disable them.
JediDru said:
It is kind of weird since you can't do it through the launcher. Go to settings > application manager. Then swipe over to all to view all installed and system apps. Select them individually and disable them.
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Thanks a lot.
Hi All,
This is my first post and apologies in advance if I have not put this in the correct forum.
I have activated the dual messenger functionality on my samsung galaxy J7 (2018) model running android Oreo 8.0.0
Only Whatsapp messenger was chosen to be activated - skype and other messenger apps have not been activated.
What I have noticed is that progressively system apps are started to be duplicated in the app list and also have the orange symbol in the bottom right hand corner of the app icon. I can only find these in the app list - applications such as app detective do not list the duplicated app in their app lists. It should be noted that power and memory consumption apps do list the duplicated system apps as running or using resources.
To date the following apps have been duplicated without my prompting:
Android System
Android System Webview
Badgeprovider
Chrome
Google Play services
Google Services Framework
Google Text to speech engine
Key Chain
Phone
Settings (triplicated)
Settings Storage
Is this normal for this functionality - the duplicated instances are of slightly different sizes and use different memory. I just cant find anything anywhere that explains why these are gradually appearing in my app list. I have tried disabling one instance - but it will be labelled as disabled but continues to use memory and mobile data.
Your help in advance is appreciated.
Regards
JD
Using a Moto G Play (2021) Android 10-11 here but this applies to many new phones who's company transitions their stock documents, gallery, etc apps into third party ones such as "Files by Google" or the like.
Though, each time I want to choose a file when using another app, the stock Files application opens up after disabling "Files by Google" meaning the stock documents app is still there.
I want to know if there's a way to have it so I can pull the original Files app as a usable and standalone app on my home screen rather than finding a document managing app on Google Play.
The original DocumentsUIGoogle.apk is shown in the phone's app storage but it's not shown as it's own application where one could simply add as an app in their home screen.
How can I add "Aurora Droid" as an option to the list that pops up in the Android "Open With" 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 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" app. aka "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?
To update the record, I still do not know what "magic" adds an app to the "Open with" list, but it happened again in this thread today:
How hard can it be to find a simple text editor that edits any text file stored anywhere you want it to be stored on your internal or external sdcard?
In that case, when you tapped on a text file in some file managers, the "Open with" contained the FOSS "Simple Text Editor" tool by Maxim Starkov (aka MaxiStar); but in other cases, that text editor wasn't part of the list of "Open with" options....
Sigh... I wish someone knew what the "magic" is that puts an application (such as a text file editor) into the "Open with" listing when you tap on a text file to edit it.
Otherwise, it's almost completely arbitrary - and that's sad if Android is really that random that the "Open with" list is essentially left to chance.