Post #96995
2025-12-28 03:01 UTC
Replies (6)
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@owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 2025-12-28 03:22
Google has been pushing developers toward using app bundles instead of APKs. The actual APK you get is specific to your hardware. The easiest way to get an APK is to ask the developer. If that's not an option, you can consult a search engine—there are plenty of sites that distribute them (though there's no way of verifying their integrity). Do you have permission to upload the APK? What app is it?
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@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2025-12-28 03:28
You should probably check if it's already up on APKmirror. It likely is.
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@url@feddit.fr 2025-12-28 05:23
You can use something like this to extract apks https://github.com/AbdurazaaqMohammed/APKExtractor
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@hummingbird@lemmy.world 2025-12-28 08:40
There are tons of tools which can extract the installed apks from your device. Neobackup and totalcommander for example.
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@lucg@lemmy.world 2025-12-29 14:09
"Aurora store" is a client for the Google Play servers that lets you download the apk to a directory Edit: I seem to be wrong, it gets into a cache directory for installation but you can't seem to choose where that is
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@Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2025-12-29 16:57
I just used Swift Backup with Shizuku to move an app from my old phone to the new one. It had an apk, but had some other files with it too. I don't know enough about it to know whether the app can be used without those files, or if they're linked to me at all, but the app works on the new phone :)