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I tried searching for keepass2android yesterday and none of the results on the Play Store were the app. There was one old icons pack, the rest was just something else.
Is that app shadow banned or something? I can open the app page if I follow a direct link
Please use fdroid, search for apps there, copy the source URL and use it with obtainium
Started using fdroid last week 😅 but hey, keepass2android is not found there, too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Installed Obtainium, will set it up
Why not use KeepassDX? Its better afaik
I do now, it's just that I didn't know about current state of affairs and last was choosing a manager more than seven years ago
If the developer unpublished the app, it won't show up in search results, but the direct link will still work for you if you previously installed it.
Maybe that's it, although ey publishes updates, so I thought it's not the case
You can still update unpublished apps.
I understand, it's just that I thought that the only reason to unpublish would be abandoning an app. I was too pessimistic in that regard
huh that's weird, maybe it's just not very popular and u get other more popular results that technically fit ur search? That has happened to me before when looking for not-very-well-known apps but I find them after scrolling down a bit
Yeah, I thought so, too. Then I opened a list of apps by that author:
![](https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/310ae9ab-d8f0-4911-bf76-19a4a4559568.png)
There's no app ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Suppose it's some regional bullshit, but maybe also something else
yeah that might be it! I think I do remember that happening to me too
I ran into this exactly, but it turned out to be device compatibility. I could never find it in the play store on the (x86) Chromebook, while it always showed up as you'd expect on the arm android.