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Theo:David

What apps can I look for to test your Spain Google Play Store country
issue? <https://i.postimg.cc/gkqCRBf1/aurora-espanol.jpg>

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.
<https://xdaforums.com/t/app-5-0-aurora-store-open-source-google-play-client.3739733/post-90011933>

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".

adb shell getprop persist.sys.locale

en-US

But this didn't report anything:

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.
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tempos21.eroskiclub.pro>

Neither finds the app.
I tried to use adb to change my locale to Spain.

adb shell setprop persist.sys.locale es-ES
adb shell setprop persist.sys.language es
adb shell setprop persist.sys.country ES
adb shell setprop ctl.restart zygote
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:

adb shell getprop persist.sys.locale

es-ES

Then I tried Aurora Store to see if that supermarket app shows up.
Drat! <https://i.postimg.cc/gkqCRBf1/aurora-espanol.jpg>

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?

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On 21/03/2025 08:12, Marion wrote:

Theo:David
What apps can I look for to test your Spain Google Play Store country
issue? <https://i.postimg.cc/gkqCRBf1/aurora-espanol.jpg>

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. <https://xdaforums.com/t/app-5-0-aurora-store-open-source-google-play-client.3739733/post-90011933>

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".

adb shell getprop persist.sys.locale

    en-US

But this didn't report anything:

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. <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tempos21.eroskiclub.pro>

Neither finds the app.
I tried to use adb to change my locale to Spain.

adb shell setprop persist.sys.locale es-ES
adb shell setprop persist.sys.language es
adb shell setprop persist.sys.country ES
adb shell setprop ctl.restart zygote
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:

adb shell getprop persist.sys.locale

     es-ES

Then I tried Aurora Store to see if that supermarket app shows up.
Drat! <https://i.postimg.cc/gkqCRBf1/aurora-espanol.jpg>

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?

You didn't listen to what I told you. What you should have asked the
Aurora team what country is set in the accounts it uses to access the store.

My phone is set to English Language. It it is in the UK. My Locale is
set to English. I can see the app providing I use an ID that has Spain
as the Country. In order to set the country to Spain you need to add a
Spanish Payment card. How this works in practice I don't know as many
Spanish residents do not have Spanish Bank accounts, they use Wise or
Revolut. Wise is Belgium, Revolut is I think UK.

Dave

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