Aurora Store with Aayush Gupta

The Developers' Bakery

We’re back with a fresh new episode at The Developer’s Bakery! 🎉

In this episode, we chat with Aayush Gupta, the maintainer of Aurora Store, a popular alternative to the Google Play Store.

Aayush will share what makes Aurora Store unique, including its features, security measures, and how it compares to other similar stores like FDroid.

We’ll deep dive into some of the technical aspects of Aurora Store, discussing topics such as anonymous login, malware protection, and much more.

As a bonus, Aayush is also a moderator at XDA Developers, one of the biggest Android community out there, and will share his journey getting into it.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

• 00.00 Intro
• 00.51 Episode Start
• 01.13 Aayush’s Introduction
• 02.26 Aayush’s story
• 03.45 What is Aurora Store?
• 05.12 Aurora Store vs FDroid
• 06.10 Aurora Store features
• 08.48 Trusting Aurora Store
• 10.58 Anonymous login
• 13.30 Protecting against malwares
• 14.48 Where to download Aurora Store?
• 16.11 GitLab vs GitHub
• 17.21 Discoverability on GitLab
• 18.51 The history of this project
• 24.42 Who’s maintaining Aurora Store now?
• 25.59 Material Design 3
• 27.07 Managing Translations
• 29.01 Contributing Translations
• 30.26 How to best contribute to Aurora Store?
• 33.47 The Aurora Store Community
• 34.48 Telegram Support Group
• 35.39 What’s next for Aurora Store?
• 37.24 Further reading
• 38.41 Being an XDA Moderator
• 42.44 Where people can find you online?

Resources

• AuroraOSS/AuroraStore on GitLab
• AuroraOSS Wiki
• @theimpulson on GitLab
• @theimpulson on Mastodon
• Aayush’s website

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