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Yes you can, I'm not sure what was the issue of OP but all apps (including paid) are linked to your google account, so they are available on any phone linked to

Yes you can, I'm not sure what was the issue of OP but all apps (including paid) are linked to your google account, so they are available on any phone linked to your google account

Aachen 4y ago
Note GP asked about Android and you're speaking of a Google Play account that you can login to from more than one device to access its content including previously purchased content. I guess for most people they see Google Play as an integral part of Android... ask Huawei what happens if Google can't do business with you or what if you don't like google so much. Of course, one would be even worse off with Apple where there is no decent open source option to speak of, which GP is most likely to be locked into.
- josephcsible 4y ago
  You can copy apps off of Android phones even without Google Play.
  - Aachen 4y ago
    Yeah but it's not a migration. E.g. you don't get access to your data in many (most?) cases, often thanks to security consultants like myself who see their scanning tool warn that backups are enabled for an app and put a recommendation in the report to not let users access their own data. (FTR I've never done that, but had colleagues that I had to argue with...) Just yesterday in an OpenStreetMap chat, I had to disappoint a user who wanted to access a locally stored recording in some app. They didn't have root and so they couldn't access it from outside the app. Backups aka accessing your own data is one of the biggest problems I have as an android user, with as only solution rooting the device and treating it like a normal desktop OS where you also have root, except various apps start to complain when you do so. Apple really has the nicer solution here via the iTunes software.
    - josephcsible 4y ago
      You're absolutely right about the data, but I think the context of this thread was more about transferring the .apk itself, to avoid having to download (and potentially purchase) it again.

Yes you can, I'm not sure what was the issue of OP but all apps (including paid) are linked to your google account, so they are available on any phone linked to your google account

Aachen 4y ago

Note GP asked about Android and you're speaking of a Google Play account that you can login to from more than one device to access its content including previously purchased content. I guess for most people they see Google Play as an integral part of Android... ask Huawei what happens if Google can't do business with you or what if you don't like google so much. Of course, one would be even worse off with Apple where there is no decent open source option to speak of, which GP is most likely to be locked into.

josephcsible 4y ago
You can copy apps off of Android phones even without Google Play.
- Aachen 4y ago
  Yeah but it's not a migration. E.g. you don't get access to your data in many (most?) cases, often thanks to security consultants like myself who see their scanning tool warn that backups are enabled for an app and put a recommendation in the report to not let users access their own data. (FTR I've never done that, but had colleagues that I had to argue with...) Just yesterday in an OpenStreetMap chat, I had to disappoint a user who wanted to access a locally stored recording in some app. They didn't have root and so they couldn't access it from outside the app. Backups aka accessing your own data is one of the biggest problems I have as an android user, with as only solution rooting the device and treating it like a normal desktop OS where you also have root, except various apps start to complain when you do so. Apple really has the nicer solution here via the iTunes software.
  - josephcsible 4y ago
    You're absolutely right about the data, but I think the context of this thread was more about transferring the .apk itself, to avoid having to download (and potentially purchase) it again.