Bank app doesn't work (Google Services mirror instaled) Pixel 8pro

graphik

Hi¡
I have created a specific user-profile for banks. I have downloaded the app for different banks, from aurora, anonymously, but one of them doesn't work. I have installed mirrored Google Services.

When I open the app, it says that it should be downloaded from the official Google Store. But I would like to avoid to use a Google account. Do you know how could I fix it?. Thanks in advance

tac

graphik You can spoof the installation source (which is also why it's really silly for an app to "check" this as it can be trivially bypassed):

pm install -i com.android.vending <name>.apk

It's just that this switch is not exposed by adb install, which makes it more cumbersome, since the file has to be pushed to the device first.

And for newer apps that are distributed in the form of several split APKs, you might have to do a staged install with pm install-create, which is even more cumbersome but still perfectly doable. If that's the case and you're interested, let me know and I can post an example.

Probably9857

Apps can tell where they are installed from. Not much you can do about this, other than install from Play Store.

Is it possible to use their website instead of the app?

Otherwise, you're going to need a Google account. It doesn't have to be in your banking profile though. You could install from Play Store in the owner profile, and push the app to your banking profile.

I don't think there are any great solutions for this, unfortunately.

graphik

Probably9857
Yes, I can use it from the website.
Ok, I get it.
Thank you man

graphik

tac
Interesting. I do not know this procedure. I would be delighted to see an example.

tac

graphik OK. There you go. For a staged install, you first create a session:

pm install-create -i com.android.vending /data/local/tmp/base.apk

As output from this command you'll get an identifier, which has to be referenced thereafter. In the examples below it's 12345678.

Then you add the APKs one by one. For example:

pm install-write -S `stat -c %s /data/local/tmp/base.apk` 12345678 0 /data/local/tmp/base.apk

pm install-write -S `stat -c %s /data/local/tmp/split_config.arm64_v8a.apk` 12345678 1 /data/local/tmp/split_config.arm64_v8a.apk

pm install-write -S `stat -c %s /data/local/tmp/split_config.xxhdpi.apk` 12345678 2 /data/local/tmp/split_config.xxhdpi.apk

And so on (if there are more). Note that for each APK you have to include the file size as a parameter, which I am sort-of automating here with stat(1). The following parameters are the session identifier mentioned above, and a counter incremented for every subsequent file.

Once all the files have been added, commit the result with:

pm install-commit 12345678

This is an example, assuming you have all the APKs waiting in /data/local/tmp, for example copied with adb push. Or, if you have the app already installed, with sufficient privileges you could "borrow" these files that are already on your device with something like:

cp `find /data/app/ -path \*com.example.app\*.apk` /data/local/tmp/

Just for completeness, since it would require superuser privileges not available to us, alternatively to all of the above, you could simply edit the installation source in place, without having to reinstall the app at all:

sed -i -e "/com\.example\.app/s/com\.aurora\.store/com\.android\.vending/g" /data/system/packages.xml

Although you'd have to stop the runtime while doing this with stop from adb shell.

Note: these are just examples intended as an illustration and a proof of concept. Please do not attempt to run them without understanding what they do first.