Always Update Google Play Store Per Release
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^ Update Google Play Store (New Version) Every MinMicroG Releases. ^
MinMicroG doesn't use 'Play Store', to be precise.
It uses a patched version of it by Nanolx that enables microG users to make In-App-Purchases, that they wouldn't be able to do with vanilla playstore. Unfortunately, the patched playstore hasn't been updated in over a year.
I recently tried an experiment to patch a newer playstore version myself that you can find here:
https://github.com/FriendlyNeighborhoodShane/microg-phonesky-iap-support/releases/tag/28.8.18-21
And experimental minmicrog builds with it here:
https://github.com/FriendlyNeighborhoodShane/MinMicroG-abuse-CI/releases/tag/2022.01.24
People who've tried it (including me) have experienced crashes with it, but feel free to play with those yourself.
I haven't gotten a good chance to look at the crashes yet, but the problem seems to be in APKtool and how it's decompiling/recompiling the APK.
Cant install or update the .apk, guess thats not normal i think
Yes, the new apk is signed by my keys and it can't update over nanolx's patched playstore. You can replace it in your system partition (or magisk module) manually, or just flash the linked minmicrog zips.
So replacing the playstore signed with your keys with the latest one is causing bootloop. any fix for that?
I can't say anything without a logcat from the bootloop, but I can guess it probably doesn't come with all the new privileged-permissions whitelisted for A12.
If you see errors like this in your bootloop logcat:
System : java.lang.IllegalStateException: Signature|privileged permissions not in privapp-permissions allowlist: {com.android.vending (/system/priv-app/PatchPhonesky): android.permission.XXX}
You can just add the relevant permissions (in this example, android.permission.XXX) to /system/etc/permissions/com.android.vending.xml inside the zip, recompress, and flash.
This build uses an up-to-date (30.4.21) vanilla (unpatched, self-updating) playstore:
https://github.com/FriendlyNeighborhoodShane/MinMicroG-abuse-CI/releases/tag/2023.07.29
Will make a release soon.