Can't install Android App support or Android apps

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Freshly flashed Xperia 10 iii.

| Sailfish OS 5.0.0.68 (Tampella)

Purchased free licence which appears at https://account.jolla.com/devices

Searched in Jolla Store for ‘Android AppSupport’ and it does not appear.

Tried the suggestion from the Trouble shooting section of the docs via ssh

devel-su
pkcon install feature-alien

which gives the response

[root@Xperia10III defaultuser]# pkcon install feature-alien
Resolving
Querying
Testing changes
Finished
Fatal error: The packages are already all installed

I rebooted anyway, and tried Jolla Store again - still no sign of ‘Android AppSupport’

If I try to install and Android app such as F-Droid, the install fails after ~30 seconds with an error ‘Problem with installing F-Droid, Problem with store, could not install F-Droid’

Any clues how to proceed?

Thanks

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What does “purchased free license” mean?
Android App Support is a paid feature.
IV and V are a bit different with being beta (and subscription in the future), but for the III it is very much a normal paid license.

license
license610×200 20.5 KB

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OK - my mistake. I’ll go and pay

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You’ll not regret. It’s worth the small money. Appsupport really works good. Word suggestions could be better but usable.

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I’ve paid, and installed F-Droid from Jolla Store. But it does not appear in the App Drawer Grid that appears when I swipe up on the home screen.

  • Is there some other way to open an app?
  • Are Android apps opened differently to ‘native’ apps?
  • What do I need to do to have it appear in the App Drawer Grid ?
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Hmmm, odd.
You should first install AAS itself - from store.
Does Settings have an entry for it? (And there - is it running?)
Android apps will show up like any other app in the drawer.

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Try install Aurora Store from the F-Droid and reboot the phone. After reboot all the icons should be in place. In the Aurora Store you will find all the apps which are on Google Play Store.

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Not an easy way, but something for the worst case scenarios: Settings -> Applications-tab -> F-Droid -> Open Android-settings -> Open

No when everything works as expected.

I’m assuming you have logged in with your Jolla-account on your phone, but have you tried to reboot the phone after the purchase “just in case”?

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That was it - thanks. F-Droid now running and appearing in the grid

:+1: I will install Aurora Store, when I’ve got a few other Android apps up and running from F-Droid

Which they are doing now - thanks!

My next question will be about how to access and install apps from OpenRepos and / or Chum. I’ll do some searching, but any shortcuts or useful links would be very much appreciated

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Chum Installer is here

Storeman installer is here

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Thanks again for all your help.

Everything seems to be working as it should. Time to put the computer and the phone away, and have a beer :slight_smile:

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