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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea@universeodon.com
9mo
Hey, brain trust. Just checking: it's not possible to have two copies of the same app on Android, right?

There are usability problems I have solved for myself on MacOS (and a wack variant of Debian, come to think of it) by the simple expedient of downloading a piece of software more than once, and just... changing the name on it to convince the OS it's actually a different app, and assigning it a custom icon so I can tell the different versions apart. I can't also do that somehow on Android, right?

Because it would solve a variety of problems for me to be able to have multiple copies of, for instance, FairEmail and/or K-9.
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walnut 🌱 @walnut@thesoftestpaws.net
9mo
@siderea
Sometimes you can kind of do that by downloading the app from multiple places, but it depends on if they use a different internal name. Unfortunately FairEmail does not; downloading from github, play, and fdroid all use eu.faircode.email . Don't know about K-9. If you built it yourself it'd be easy to change the name, but I doubt this is the answer you're looking for.
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