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Install apps from the store

Pick apps on the car's screen and install them in one go, including Google Play apps like Waze.

You need: the car with LocalStore on it, connected to Wi-Fi or your phone's hotspot.

1. Pick your apps

  1. Open LocalStore on the car's screen. Apps lists what's available, with its icon and a category filter.
  2. Each app shows where it comes from and whether we've tested it. The list refreshes each time LocalStore checks in.
  3. Tap Install on the app you want. The card shows progress until it's done.

2. Apps we host (like Firefox)

Nothing else to do. LocalStore downloads each one, checks it against our signature, and installs it. The status line at the top shows progress.

3. Google Play apps (like Waze)

  1. If Aurora Store isn't on the car yet, LocalStore installs it first, automatically.
  2. Aurora Store opens on the app's page. It's set up to sign in anonymously, so you don't need a Google account. You can sign in with your own Google account in Aurora Store if you prefer, for example to get apps you've bought.
  3. Tap Install in Aurora Store.
  4. Installs are allowed for up to 10 minutes, and locked again as soon as the app lands. If the time runs out, tap Install on the app in LocalStore again.

If an app won't install from Aurora Store

"This app is not compatible with your device" or "App not supported". Aurora Store is describing the car to Google Play as a car, or as a TV, and Google Play then refuses the download. Aurora has to describe it as a phone. In LocalStore, open Apps, find the Aurora Store card and tap Use the phone profile, then open Aurora Store and try again. The card always says which device Aurora is showing. (The same setting is in Aurora Store's own menu under Spoof manager: choose OnePlus8Pro_EEA.)

The download finishes but the app never appears. Android normally asks "Install this app?", and this head unit never shows that question, so the install waits. LocalStore finishes it for you: on Apps you'll see Waiting to install with a Finish install button. Or tap Unlock installs for 10 minutes on the Aurora Store card before you start; LocalStore then finishes each install as it arrives, even while Aurora Store is on screen.

"Server busy, please try again later". Google is limiting the shared anonymous sign-in. Wait a while and tap Install again, or sign in to Aurora Store with your own Google account.

Aurora Store closes by itself after a minute. Version 4.8.4 of Aurora Store does this. LocalStore installs 4.8.3, which doesn't. If Aurora Store updated itself, install it again from LocalStore.

Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV and Prime Video don't play on the car's screen. They need a copy-protection part that this head unit doesn't have, so the apps may install and sign in but the video won't start. The same goes for watching them in a web browser. YouTube, VLC and apps that play your own files, such as Plex, don't need it.

"A copy signed by someone else is installed" means the car already has a different build of that app, for example from another store. Remove it under My apps first (this deletes its data), then install again.

See the full list of apps, with each app's own page and status.