Android Developer Verification Package blacklisted in Aurora Store
Details
- External ID
- 48845131
- Source
- HN
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- Launched
- July 9, 2026
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- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3972520908004779
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
So, I have a Lenovo Idea Tab (11") tablet where I don't use a Google account, and several Google apps are disabled including the Play Store. I use Aurora Store and F-Droid to install and update packages. Only time I enable Play Store is to install an update to Play Services because Aurora Store can't (conflicting packages, meaning the signing key of the Play Services package has changed). I keep it disabled because it ignores the 'Don't Auto-update Packages' setting and updates Google apps packages without permission (and sometimes re-enables them)...What does show up as an update in Aurora? The Android Developer Verification package. Of course I immediately blacklisted it. Possible avenue to not install it?Don't know if this will really stop it but it will be an interesting experiment. Will let you know in the near future.Discuss.
Enrichment
- Theme
- consumer mobile utilities and tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
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- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
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- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Replicating or modifying a native client like Aurora Store requires deep reverse engineering of Google's proprietary Play Store Protobuf APIs and device attestation protocols.
What it would actually take: The stack involves an Android client communicating with Google Play private endpoints via reverse-engineered Protocol Buffers, utilizing a distributed token-dispenser service to simulate real device signatures and GSF IDs. The difficult challenges are bypassing Google's anti-bot mechanisms, handling Play Integrity/SafetyNet, and dynamically resolving split APKs. This requires deep reverse-engineering skills and continuous maintenance against undocumented server-side changes.
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #13 of 37 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 175 days after the earliest competitor.
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