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Google Play Store installation for Sailfish OS devices
Installing Play Store to Sailfish OS requires some downloading and terminal commands but luckily the terminal part is repeatable and easily scriptable - leaving us with only the downloading part.
Download and extract packages
Download compatible Google Apps from this link and extract them to /home/nemo/gapps-kk-20140606 so that the directory looks like following:
[root@Sailfish nemo]# ls -al /home/nemo/gapps-kk-20140606/ total 24 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Feb 26 12:02 . drwxr-x--- 31 nemo nemo 4096 Feb 26 12:15 .. drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 26 12:02 META-INF -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 733 Feb 28 2008 install-optional.sh drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 26 12:02 optional drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Feb 26 12:02 system
Download Google Play store release 7.3.25 which supports downloading of apks from this link and extract the apk to /home/nemo/playstore so that the directory contains the play store apk as playstore.apk. You can do ln or rename. I did with:
ln -s com.android.<truncated>.apk playstore.apk
The directory looks like this:
[root@Sailfish nemo]# ls -al /home/nemo/playstore/ total 17320 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 26 12:16 . drwxr-x--- 31 nemo nemo 4096 Feb 26 12:15 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 nemo nemo 17723383 Feb 26 12:15 com.android.vending_7.3.25.K-all_0_PR_142209747-80732500_minAPI14(240,320,480dpi)_apkmirror.com.apk lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 99 Feb 26 12:16 playstore.apk -> com.android.vending_7.3.25.K-all_0_PR_142209747-80732500_minAPI14(240,320,480dpi)_apkmirror.com.apk
The script
In short the playstore-reinstall.sh script does the following:
- Stop aliendalvik
- Remove existing store from file system
- Copy downloaded store to file system
- Copy gapps to file system
- Set rights to the files
- Start aliendalvik
- Install the downloaded Play Store
- Prevent Play Store from updating itself to prevent “pending” problem
Download option
Download the playstore-reinstall script to a convenient folder. I will use Download as an example.
Copy paste option
If you are not comfortable with downloading you can copy paste the script from below and save it as /home/nemo/Download/playstore-reinstall.sh - for below examples to work.
#!/bin/sh srcdir="/home/nemo/gapps-kk-20140606/system/priv-app" destdir="/opt/alien/system/priv-app/" deletedir="/home/nemo/deleted/" playstore="/home/nemo/playstore/playstore.apk" user=`whoami` if [ "$user" != "root" ]; then echo This script requires root privileges. Please try again with devel-su. exit 0; fi reinstall () { echo 1: Stopping aliendalvik systemctl stop aliendalvik systemctl mask aliendalvik echo 2: Replacing Play Store with a compatible one from file $playstore chattr -i /home/.android/data/app//incoming/com.android.vending.apk rm /home/.android/data/app//incoming/com.android.vending.apk chattr -i /data/app/com.android.vending-2.apk rm -f /data/app/com.android.vending-2.apk cp -a $playstore /data/app/com.android.vending-2.apk echo 3: Copying files from $srcdir to $destdir cp -a $srcdir/GmsCore.apk $destdir cp -a $srcdir/GoogleLoginService.apk $destdir cp -a $srcdir/GoogleServicesFramework.apk $destdir cp -a $srcdir/Phonesky.apk $destdir echo 4: Setting up rights chmod 644 $srcdir/GmsCore.apk chmod 644 $srcdir/GoogleLoginService.apk chmod 644 $srcdir/GoogleServicesFramework.apk chmod 644 $srcdir/Phonesky.apk echo 5: Starting aliendalvik systemctl unmask aliendalvik systemctl start aliendalvik echo 6: Installing Play Store. Please check the latest download enabled version from http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-play-store/google-play-store-7-3-25-release/ apkd-install $playstore echo 7: Preventing Play Store from updating itself touch /data/app/com.android.vending-2.apk chattr +i /data/app/com.android.vending-2.apk echo 8: Finished - remember to finish Play Store install in your device. } sign_out () { echo Skipping and quitting, bb. } echo This script requires that you have done following: echo 1: downloaded gapps-kk-20140606 from https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95832962473395379 and extracted it to /home/nemo/gapps-kk-20140606 echo 2: downloaded 7.3.25 play store and extracted it as $playstore echo -n 'Do you want to continue? [Y/N] ' read answer case "$answer" in Y|y) reinstall ;; N|n) sign_out ;; esac exit 0;
Execute the script
Start terminal and run the following:
devel-su cd /home/nemo/Download unzip playstore-reinstall.zip chmod a+x playstore-reinstall.sh ./playstore-reinstall.sh
And finish the Play Store installation on phone screen.
Repeat
The above script is safe to repeat so feel free to experiment.
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