After recently breaking my Xperia X I finally had no choice but to upgrade to an Xperia 10ii (it is much better then I expected though I would still have preferred a less high device) and am currently setting everything up.
I installed the aptoide store and updated it, after this I was constantly being shown ads and it also seems that the apks found are not what they are supposed to be, specifically I tried finding whatsapp and I got something that was not whatsapp that was 5 times the size of the apk I then downloaded from apkpure/directly from whatsapp.
I have removed aptoide since it was clearly pushing viruses and currently obtain the apk either directly from the source if they offer direct downloads on their website (whatsapp) or from other more trusted sources.
Against all my better judgement I installed the Aptoide store on my phone again, unlike last time I was unable to update the app after installation and it seems the un-updated client actually behaved.
If I download whatsapp apk directly from whatsapp website the version is currently 2.21.24.23. When I search through aptoide they will offer version 2.22.1.10 and there are also loads of different but also bigger version numbers compared to the official version.
Since some weeks my Aptoide Appstore (v6.3.1 installed from Jolla Store) doesn't show updates under the "updates" tab.Instead, if you search in the store an installed app, you are able to update.I've tried to delete the cache and data&configuration in Apoide settings and I would like to not unistall/reinstall Android support.
my events screen shows a notification from 26 days ago about there being an update in aptoide. i didn't feel like starting android support just to update some rarely used app at the time. but, yes, when i open aptoide now it doesn't show any updates even though there are.
i vaguely remember this happening before with an outdated store version so i'm pretty confident it'll work fine again once the latest version of aptoide makes it to harbour. if you can't or don't want to wait for that and you trust aptoide, you could always just try and download it from their website directly.
F-Droid was a fork of Aptoide circa 2010, once upon a time. As already said, Aptoide will give or sell you proprietary packages (bad, for most F-Droid fans). Aptoide seems more successful financially and more popular (good).
When you go to some aptoide-related sites, you have to allow much more javascript (bad) to see anything. Their developer site, aptoide dot org, requires insecure connection (bad). They use github (bad, IMO).
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