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I would like to know if there is a good open source project that let's me run a copy of a game on my phone without crashing or bugging out after a day or two, nothing on the app store works well enough. I just want to enjoy multiple accounts on an old 32bit mmorpg from 2013-2014.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What "32 bit mmorpg from 2013-2014" are you talking about? This could be an emulator thing, or this could be a multi-user account thing, or it could be a profile-isolation thing...

Many ways to solve this problem if we had some sort of starting point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The games called Iruna Online, account is tied to your gmail. The way to switch between accounts is the clear data on the app, select a different gmail, and redownload game data every time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Android specifically has user accounts you can add to your phone for this.

Additionally, Xiaomi, Huawei, Samsung, and OnePlus also have similar types of virtual space environments, that they brand as Private Space, Secure Folder and Parallel Apps, respectively. All 4, of these, are based on an Android OS feature for supporting multiple user accounts, but with some customizations so that these virtual spaces are like an anonymous user account.

Unfortunately I think they require that the application be marked in its manifest as supporting these types of things, and you may need Root in order to force the functionality on this particular app. I did this with Ingress at some point after they banned me claiming I was cheating and gps hacking (probably my bad Nexus 6 GPS that liked to jump around a lot) -- because they have similar functionality. Account tied directly to your gmail.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I thought of using a separate user but I seems calls and texts don't get through to the second user on my phone (or at least they get delayed), plus setting up things like music and other apps like discord for notification is too much of a hassle. For the built-in parallel apps on android only work for social media type apps. Seems like my best bet would be work profile.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

This gotta be the first time i ever hear about a "game cloner".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

True, for just the seperate app this works. Other App cloners would change IDs and shit to make that work, no idea about signing keys or updates. Work profile is the only stable way, apart from seperate profile

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's the game you talk about, if you don't mind sharing?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Unlikely. I've used this with moderate success when I needed to run two Discord accounts: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oasisfeng.island

But I think it partially just uses the builtin Android profiles functionality.