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.

  • thantik@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • thantik@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        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.

        • Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.worldOP
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          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.

    • Pantherina@feddit.de
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      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

  • NiaTheCat@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    3·
    1 year ago

    Shelter, Insular (f-droid, FLOSS fork of Shelter), or Android Work Profiles/User Profiles if your phone lets you manually control them. If not, Shelter or Insular manage it for you.

    On Samsung, Secure Folder will also do it.

    These create a separate user profile that is shown with a little icon on the corner of the app icon, separate from your main phone user profile (this includes being separate from your VPN connection, if any, keep that in mind). They'll all do what you're trying to do if you stick your games in them.