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I've been using LineageOS on my phones for a couple of years now, recently reinstalled and made the decision to not install the Play Store... and am totally hap

I've been using LineageOS on my phones for a couple of years now, recently reinstalled and made the decision to not install the Play Store... and am totally happy with it! I get most of my stuff from F-Droid and some software vendors provide APKs straight from their websites and whatever is Play Store exclusive, I simply don't use. It was going really well, at least until recently, when here in Germany they started introducing mandatory apps for online banking, available (of course) only on Play Store or App Store. I wouldn't even mind everyone's app-obsession if they'd at least always provide a store-free APK as well.

Yetanfou 7y ago
Use YALP [1] or Aurora [2] (both are on FDroid) to get the APK's for your banking apps. These apps This is what I do for the Swedish electronic ID app, it has worked for years and hopefully will continue to do so. [1] https://f-droid.org/en/package/com.github.yeriomin.yalpstore/ https://f-droid.org/en/package/com.github.yeriomin.yalpstore... [2] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aurora.store/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aurora.store/
- klingonopera 7y ago
  Tried 'em both, IIRC Yalp didn't work, Aurora seemed fine. Since it was a banking app, I got the APK of many different sites/programs and compared the hashes, and one of the programs had definitely tampered with the APK, but I can't remember which. Since I left Aurora on my phone, they seemed to have passed on untouched APKs, but don't take my word for it. EDIT: Also, this voids me of any "warranties" my bank would offer me, so I'm really not going down that path. Really, the only correct thing would be for the bank to offer the APK on their site, but I'd probably have to wait until the government forces this to happen (if ever).
  - Yetanfou 7y ago
    YALP and Aurora get the APK directly from the play store, that is the whole point about these programs. Get the source to Aurora (or YALP) and find out how it downloads the APK from the play store. Now either build something which does what you want (e.g. feed it an identifier and it downloads an APK), simplify the existing code until only the required functionality is left or use Aurora as it is. You can feed it a Google account (if you have one) to log in to the play store or it can do so 'anonymously'.

Yetanfou 7y ago

Use YALP [1] or Aurora [2] (both are on FDroid) to get the APK's for your banking apps. These apps This is what I do for the Swedish electronic ID app, it has worked for years and hopefully will continue to do so. [1] https://f-droid.org/en/package/com.github.yeriomin.yalpstore/ https://f-droid.org/en/package/com.github.yeriomin.yalpstore... [2] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aurora.store/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aurora.store/

klingonopera 7y ago
Tried 'em both, IIRC Yalp didn't work, Aurora seemed fine. Since it was a banking app, I got the APK of many different sites/programs and compared the hashes, and one of the programs had definitely tampered with the APK, but I can't remember which. Since I left Aurora on my phone, they seemed to have passed on untouched APKs, but don't take my word for it. EDIT: Also, this voids me of any "warranties" my bank would offer me, so I'm really not going down that path. Really, the only correct thing would be for the bank to offer the APK on their site, but I'd probably have to wait until the government forces this to happen (if ever).
- Yetanfou 7y ago
  YALP and Aurora get the APK directly from the play store, that is the whole point about these programs. Get the source to Aurora (or YALP) and find out how it downloads the APK from the play store. Now either build something which does what you want (e.g. feed it an identifier and it downloads an APK), simplify the existing code until only the required functionality is left or use Aurora as it is. You can feed it a Google account (if you have one) to log in to the play store or it can do so 'anonymously'.