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I still have old Android phones that I'm not using because of outdated kernels/OS versions and their disadvantages in terms of vulnerabilities, but given the ha
by ByThyGrace 4y ago
I still have old Android phones that I'm not using because of outdated kernels/OS versions and their disadvantages in terms of vulnerabilities, but given the hardware is completely fine I would use them as offline general purpose tools if I had an easy way to install old store apps in them.
So does anybody know if there is perhaps an archive of old APK app files (old as in Android KitKat and earlier)?
- giantg2 4y agoSomeone else linked to the Github. If nothing else, you could build APKs for yourself.
- lalopalota 4y agoback when Yalp Store was working, it would let you decrement version numbers. if the author hadn't removed them from the play store and you guessed correctly, you could download older versions. i think sites like apkmirror also provide older versions.
- tssva 4y agoAPKmirror does allow you to download older versions. APKMirror started in 2014 so they may have versions of some apps which are old enough to work on KitKat, released in 2013, and older.
- Aachen 4y agoThe newer Aurora store works the same, but you have to guess the version numbers and I'd assume they don't go back very far. Since Aurora and Yalp both just talk to Google's app repository, Yalp presumably has the same limitations and you wouldn't find something of 8 years old there.
- Aachen 4y agoF-Droid has a few versions of history for each app, but that might not be enough for 4.4 compatibility in some cases. Many apps haven't been updated in years though, so those will surely work :). I recently installed a metronome thing whose last release is from April 2013, works as intended on Android 11.