Installing apps from second profile

MrR

So, I understand that if I install an app in tha Admin profile I can "push" the app on other user profiles.
But what I'd like to do is install Google Play on a second profile, safely install the apps I need from the Google Store and then "activate" some of those apps also on admin profile without installing Goggle Play in Admin.
Would I be able to do that? I don't want to install another app store so if it's not feasible should I somehow "extract" the apk on the second profile and install it on Admin?

rustybird

Maybe there's a better way but this works:

adb shell 'pm install-existing --user 0 com.example.app'

MrR

rustybird
nice, I'll look into this

DeletedUser213

Does anyone know of a more elegant way of doing this? I'd like to achieve the same thing, install apps on a second profile and then "push" them to either the main profile or a different profile.

Oggyo

DeletedUser213
Check the reply here - https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/4842-app-tracking/6

treequell

DeletedUser213 You can do it elegantly from the system user (main profile) to a secondary user. But not from secondary user to another user, for the reason given in the link that Oggyo provided.

daycare-escapee

treequell

Regarding Oggyo reply, I understand the security concern if Secondary profiles were allowed to install the apps to Owner profile. But how about allowing the Owner profile to install/enable such app themselves from within the Owner profile (w/o using adb)? Currently, the Owner profile can already see such apps as Not installed for this user.

The idea of using a dedicated profile for installing apps from Playstore is excellent. However, using the Owner profile for this has a major impact on battery life due to multiple instances of Play Services running in the background. (Assuming you want to use Play Services for FCM push notifications in Secondary profiles)

An ideal solution here would be to have a dedicated secondary profile just for sourcing apps from Google Playstore and unchecking Network permissions during installation. Then, enabling such apps from the Owner profile.

DeletedUser213

@treequell @Oggyo makes sense, thanks for the replies!

silent_muppet

daycare-escapee
Genius suggestion, I would rather use the play store instead of aurora. Right now I use a second profile with the play store configured to install apps so they actually work on Android Auto on my the main profile. Of course I still need to use adb to copy over the app which kind of sucks.