AuroraStore

# Aurora Store

Aurora Store enables you to search and download apps from the official Google Play store. You can check app descriptions, screenshots, updates, reviews, and download the APK directly from Google Play to your device. 

To use Aurora Store, log in using Google Play account, when you first open and configure Aurora Store.

Unlike a traditional app store, Aurora Store does not own, license or distribute any apps. All apps, app descriptions, screenshots and other content in Aurora Store are directly accessed, downloaded and/or displayed from Google Play. 

Aurora Store works exactly like a door or a browser, allowing you to log in to your Google Play account and find the apps from Google Play. 

*_Please note that Aurora Store does not have any approval, sponsorship or authorization from Google, Google Play, any apps downloaded through Aurora Store or any app developers; neither does Aurora Store have any affiliation, cooperation or connection with them._*

[<img src="https://f-droid.org/badge/get-it-on.png" alt="Get it on F-Droid" height="90">](https://f-droid.org/packages/com.aurora.store/)
[<img src="https://gitlab.com/IzzyOnDroid/repo/-/raw/master/assets/IzzyOnDroid.png" alt="Get it on IzzyOnDroid" height="90">](https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.aurora.store)

## Features

- FOSS: Has GPLv3 licence
- Beautiful design: Built upon latest Material 3 guidelines
- Account login: You can login with either personal or an anonymous account
- Device & Locale spoofing: Change your device and/or locale to access geo locked apps
- [Exodus Privacy](https://exodus-privacy.eu.org/) integration: Instantly see trackers in app
- [Plexus](https://plexus.techlore.tech/) integration: Instantly see app compatibility without Google Play Services or with microG
- Updates blacklisting: Ignore updates for specific apps
- Download manager
- Manual downloads: allows you to download older version of apps, provided
  - The APKs are available with Google
  - You know the version codes for older versions 

## Limitations

- The underlying API used is reversed engineered from the Google Play Store, changes on side may break it.
- Provides only base minimum features
  - Can not download or update paid apps.
  - Can not update apps/games with [Play Asset Delivery](https://developer.android.com/guide/playcore/asset-delivery)
- Multiple in-app features are not available if logged in as Anonymous.
  - Library
  - Purchase History
  - Editor's choice
  - Beta Programs
  - Review Add/Update
- Token dispenser server is not super reliable, downtimes are expected.  

## AI Usage

Aurora Store is developed with the help of AI tooling. Here is what that means.

**In this project**

- AI assistance is used in day to day development: writing and refactoring code,
  reviewing diffs, and drafting documentation.
- Nothing gets merged that a maintainer has not read, understood and tested.
  Generated code is a starting point, not a finished result.
- Accountability does