Theo:David What apps can I look for to test your Spain Google Play Store country
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On XDA Developers, the Aurora team told me that Aurora simply looks up what
the phone "thinks" is the country. But I don't have a Google Account and I don't have the Google Play Store
app on the phone, so I was wondering what Aurora Store used for the Google
Play Store country when it looked for the apps that Theo and David Wade
were looking for.
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They told me Aurora "uses whatever is set as locale on your phone or spoof
configuration if any."
I wasn't aware there's a default locale nor how to spoof it.
In Settings > General Management > Language", my Android 13 Galaxy phone
listed "English (United States)".
But Android 13, especially with Samsung's One UI, allows for per-app
language settings; so there must be a definitive programmatic way Aurora
uses to get the default locale.
Resources.getSystem().getConfiguration().getLocales().get(0)
Looking up a way for a user to figure out the default locale that Aurora is
going to use, I'm not sure, but perhaps the system "language & region"
settings are used to determine the default locale?
This reports, for example, my system locale is "EN-US".
C:\> adb shell getprop persist.sys.locale
en-US
But this didn't report anything:
C:\> adb shell getprop persist.sys.country
I'm trying to help David Wade and the rest of us understand how Aurora
chooses what regional apps to make available to us.
As a test, tried to set my locale to Spain, to see if that changes
anything.
First, with the EN-US locale, with all filters off, I looked in Skyica and
in Aurora Store for David's suggested Spanish locale supermarket app.
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Neither finds the app.
I tried to use adb to change my locale to Spain.
C:\> adb shell setprop persist.sys.locale es-ES
C:\> adb shell setprop persist.sys.language es
C:\> adb shell setprop persist.sys.country ES
C:\> adb shell setprop ctl.restart zygote
C:\> adb shell dmesg
Unfortunately all fail because my bootloader version is unrootable.
So I manually changed language/country in the Galaxy settings.
Android13: Settings > General management > Language > Add language >
(3dots) > All languages > Espa�ol > All regions > Espa�a
Set Espa�ol (Espa�a) as default language?
[Keep current] [Set as default]
To test if the changes took:
C:\> adb shell getprop persist.sys.locale
es-ES
Then I tried Aurora Store to see if that supermarket app shows up.
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I was hoping that would work. But it still doesn't show up in Aurora.
I rebooted & try again. Nope. Still no go.
What did I do wrong?