I have an app-driven board game (Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth) and would like to ensure that I will have access to the app when my son is old enough to play with me. I do not want to rely on the app being available on the play store for years to come. I am able to back up the apk file and install it on a different device, but then it does not include the dlc that I paid for. Is there a way to back up the app plus dlc so that I can access the complete game on any android device without the play store?
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I have an iPod touch and as Apps are slowly being ported from iOS to Android, making me want to use my phone more.
Anyways, are purchases, including free apps, saved to our account on Google? The App Store stores every app downloaded regardless, free or paid.
Example: App goes free for 24 hours on the App Store. Download it for free. Goes back to 0.99 after 24 hours. You uninstall it. Come back a week later and realize you want it again. Installs without charge or fee.
Example 2: Same as above but it's free first. Download the free version. Uninstall it. Week later you want it back, now its 0.99. Download again, no fee or charge.
The examples are of iOS and how the App Store works. Is the Play Store like that?
Play market doesn't work like that because an app that is free cannot later be charged for so no the market is not like app store in that respect.
However if you buy an app in a sale and uninstall it you can of course reinstall that at no cost and you get a trial period to test apps during which you can cancel the sale.
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Nope, google play is more fair to the developers, if the developer decides to ask money for it after giving the app for free you just have to buy it even if you had it installed before when it was free.
Why? as example:
You downloaded monkey app 3.0,
when the developers updates it to version 4.0 and wants to ask money for it they also want everyone to buy it and not just the people who are downloading it for the first time.
A new version of a certain app is not always "Just a update" it could be a whole different app because it's fully rewritten or something like that.
And if you wonder why the play store doesn't offer the older free versions...
The play store doesn't want people to use outdated apps like any other store.
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Nope, google play is more fair to the developers, if the developer decides to ask money for it after giving the app for free you just have to buy it even if you had it installed before when it was free.
Why? as example:
You downloaded monkey app 3.0,
when the developers updates it to version 4.0 and wants to ask money for it they also want everyone to buy it and not just the people who are downloading it for the first time.
A new version of a certain app is not always "Just a update" it could be a whole different app because it's fully rewritten or something like that.
And if you wonder why the play store doesn't offer the older free versions...
The play store doesn't want people to use outdated apps like any other store.
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You are basically saying if the developer pulls the free app and then relaunches something similar paid. In that scenario you could get a copy of the apk from when the app was free by either your own Titanium Backup if you use it, or by Googleing for it. Then keep that apk around for other devices, etc. Thats one of the nice things about being able to sideload apks, you are not restricted to what is listed on Google Play.
It's a good move for developers, but not for buyers. Where Apple is good for buyers, not developers.
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For security reasons I bought a new phone compatible with CM and installed CM11M12 +freecyngn +Xprivacy without the Gapps. Previously I had a Windows phone. I imagined there to be issues obtaining apps but wouldn't have guessed their extent.
There is a Windows-program that allows for fetching the .akps from the Play Store but it is required that one has authenticated a device first which requires one to have installed the Play services.
There are online tools like evozi that allow for downloading the .apks but due to lacking knowledge in how to verify that the .apks indeed haven't been manipulated I rather avoid those. I don't want to become part of a botnet or install spyware.
There's the Amazon App Store, but that requires the app to be kept installed and the user signed in, and it spies on the user, so no option either. And while Amazon already is missing quite a few apps that are available on the Play Store, it's even more the case with all the other app-stores.
F-Droid is excellent but there are non-free apps that have no FOSS-alternative.
I could imagine flashing stock again and downloading the .apks and storing them somehow on my computer before reinstalling my current system. The question: Is there any other way in obtaining the apps from the Google Play Store that I don't know?
Needless to say that if I have the choice between the convenience of apps on one hand and a system that minimizes spying on the other I choose the latter without the blink of an eye.
Thank you for your help
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You could find the apks floating around but can't promise they haven't been edited. Any of the paid apps that you install will try to verify by connecting to Google play store. Any pirated apps normally include things like keyloggers and screen screen recorders. I'll be honest your will be hard pressed. But then Google doesn't really do much more then ms does
Thank you for your reply, Zelendel.
So if I buy an app in the Play Store on my device using stock ROM, flash CM without Gapps and try to install the same app it won't work because it'd try to verify the purchase and for that the installed Play Services are necessary?
Luckily the apps I'm looking for in particular are mostly free apps. Will they run without the Gapps?
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Thank you for your reply, Zelendel.
So if I buy an app in the Play Store on my device using stock ROM, flash CM without Gapps and try to install the same app it won't work because it'd try to verify the purchase and for that the installed Play Services are necessary?
Luckily the apps I'm looking for in particular are mostly free apps. Will they run without the Gapps?
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As long as they are not programed to use the Google services or to call back to Google play then yes.
In all my apps, I have added code to have my app verified on my web server. It's mostly for catching warez users.
I have noticed in the last few months several entries for some of my apps that originate from Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, USA. I figured they must have some staffers dedicated to validating apps for illegal content. I thought they'd use the Play Store to install the app in the first place.
I didn't think too much of it until a few days ago when I noticed that two of my paid apps were being used to access my web server yet the Play Store didn't register purchases for that time. This happened right after I published the apps (just a few minutes after).
I'm aware IPs can be spoofed but considering the apps were calling home even before the apps became available to all users (the Play Store has to propagane published apps around the world and that takes several hours), I have reasons to believe the apps were actually being sideloaded at Google.
Does anybody know anything about this? Google's terms mention nothing about Google being authrorized to sideload apps (much less paid apps).
Just ran across this. Not my app. Just posting it.
Running on MM on a Note 4 just fine.
Apps is a shortcut that launches the Play Store's Top Charts filtered to show you only apps and not games. It DOES NOT allow you to download paid apps for free.
With the most recent updates to the Play Store, it's become increasingly difficult to find the most useful non-game apps without first sifting through an ocean of angry poultry, fruit samurais, and candy smashers.
Cut through all of it and life's enjoyment to get to your favorite 'productivity' tools like facepad and chirper in just one click.
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Apps launches the Play Store on a hidden "Apps Only" page, giving you direct access to the Top Charts for apps, without all the games.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.happening.studios.apps
Hi! (new to this forum so I hope I'm not off-topic or in the wrong place)
So I've recently got a Matepad 11, running on HarmonyOS 2.0, knowing it would be kinda troublesome in some cases with the lack of GMS. But I've successfully installed the apps I wanted (APKPure, mostly) and managed to connect to my Google accounts for what I needed. However, now I'd like to download a game - Pokémon Masters EX - which relies on Google Play Games. I don't have any problems with other Google Apps (Drive for example) but this one is causing me trouble. I'm using GSpace to download it directly through the Play Store, launching it through GSpace, outside of GSpace, launching the game before Play Games etc etc... But the outcome is the same ; the game launches, but asks for GMS (other apps did that but they run well), so I try to connect to Play Games, which will either crash or stuck in an infinite loading.
So I wanted to know if it was useless to try, or if there is a way to make it work.
Thanks in advance and have a great day!