How the hell to bypass mandatory Google Play Store in-app updates?

[Lanchon]

@RobbieTechie wouldn't it be justified to provide a way to manually edit the string in the APK? or maybe at least read it from a file it exists? it'd break some things for sure, but most things should keep working without updating.

[Lanchon]

i wonder if you might consider getting (part of) the string via https (on error use static in apk) at app startup, from a URL like:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ElJaviLuki/GrindrPlus/master/gradle.properties

and we have a repo just for the string.

or if feeling really adventurous, you can parse:

https://apkpure.com/grindr-gay-chat-for-android/com.grindrapp.android/download

[ElJaviLuki]

I've created a new Discord server for further discussion.

[ElJaviLuki]

@RobbieTechie wouldn't it be justified to provide a way to manually edit the string in the APK? or maybe at least read it from a file it exists? it'd break some things for sure, but most things should keep working without updating.

your proposal about reading it from an existing file seems interesting. once obtained, we could save it locally kinda cache