The Store loads for me, but it doesn't allow me to do anything else.

10 days later

I have AuroraStore installed, and configured to open all play/market links, and I disallowed Google Play from handling links. And yet, when I try to open a link in an app, Play Store opens. It's infuriating. What can I do?

    cannot help wondering if Google has something to do with the trouble with Aurora, but that might just be a conspiracy theory.

      VAULT you can set the link configuration on aurora to open playstore links and disable the same on playstore(app) in that way you can install apps easly

      not sure if anyone else is seeing this but now even searching for appname play store and opening the link in external app (aurora) isn't pulling up the app in question to download.

      I've switched to using the play store fully with an anonymous Google account

      One solution is to use obtanium in "monitor" mode to check apkmirror for app updates, and get from apk mirror.

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      madduck
      If you're in private/incognito mode it won't work. Copy the link to a regular, non-incognito tab. Does that solve your issue?

      15 days later

      Aurora still not working correctly. Rate limited, time out....

        a month later

        Thanks for the tip! This was driving me nuts!

        16 days later
        • [deleted]

        Hey guys,

        I have another question regarding the Aurora store.
        Does the store actually offer a self-update function or do you always have to download the latest APK's from the manufacturer?

        I did not install the store via F-Droid but via the manufacturer's website.
        Recently several new stable builds came out and the app unfortunately didn't offer me any of them for download.

          In order to search for an app on Aurora Store using an external link, I tried Chromium based browsers like Brave, Kiwi...or Firefox and they all failed. The only browser that works every single time for me is Tor. I'm happy with this workaround but I still wish there would be more alternatives to Aurora where I could install apps on Google Play anonimously.

          [deleted] It has an update tab which will look for the latest versions for all installed applications.
          You do have to press ''update all'' manually.

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            9irzbh92
            Hey thanks for your answer, but that's not what I meant unfortunately.

            I mean the Aurora store app itself, not my installed apps.

            • [deleted]

            Does anyone else have any ideas perhaps?

              [deleted]
              Hi V0nium!
              Unfortunaltely, no.
              But thanks for the question. Since I am also interested in this, I did some research again.
              I didn't find a solution for automatic update of the Aurora Store App, but I found out that there is version 4.3.0 (48) (stable) since yesterday!
              I downloaded it manually as .apk directly from the developer website and installed it.
              Works fine!

                [deleted] You could consider reinstalling Aurora Store from the F-Droid repo through an app store such as the F-Droid app, Droid-ify or Neo Store. You can keep it updated from there.

                Or if you don't want to do that, you could consider using Obtainium and adding Aurora Store in it with the link to Aurora Store's Gitlab page. The apk signature from Gitlab is probably identical to the one from their website so it should work to keep it updated.

                If you already use an F-Droid app store on your device, the simplest approach is probably to reinstall Aurora Store from there. If not, you can try out Obtainium.