Ooh, so much better versions of games you have
Update: I am fairly new to the nature of this sub and I realized I made a mistake. I should have asked if anyone here wants to hoard these files for me as I am already clearing my APK files. Tbf I havent touched these apks for almost 7+ years.
For additional context, I am not rich and I only have 2TB storage for data hoarding.
Considering how often a game or app gets taken down from the play store or simply refuses to install because its not been updated for your version of android, (even though the game will likely work just fine) I would highly recommend archiving APK files.
It’s worth it to hoard anything.
Except for CP of course.
Even CP worth hoarding… if you are one of those dudes working on filters to detect it
don’t ask woman about her age
don’t ask man about his salary
don’t ask ML specialist how they made model capable of detecting illegal content
Share them so no more get deleted
I have 500 gigs of media(sitcoms and movies)
I think many would be incompatible or will be, soon
I think you could decompile and recompile them if needed, but I don’t know much about Android/apk related stuff
but most android apps are made in java which runs on a JVM
you can still run them with an android emulator
Its still opening but what I meant is that even with OBBs and other datas, some games still wouldn’t run.
No, because most of them have data to download anyway, so if they go down, the APK itself will be useless.
If you backup /obb’s, it usually won’t. From Android 1.0 - 11, that should be fine.
The hard part is with newer Androids that block access to the /Android/data/obb trees.
There’s many ways to access obb, like use the built-in file manager.
for only 8 gigs i wouldn’t even bother thinking about it tbh
Most of them are not in playstore anymore and this folder includes OBBs. I tried running some of them but unfortunately they dont run anymore. At least on android 9+. I have deleted them now.
I would assume you could emulate an older version of Android and run them on that?
No offense, but that was stupid. It’s 8 gigabyte. It doesn’t cost you anything to keep 8 GB around. If you’re really needing that space just get a flash drive or something and save it somewhere.
I know but I have to let them go I guess for my mental health too. I just hope this wont be me back in the future.
So on the grand scheme of things, someone out there is definitely holding on to them so no harm no foul. That being said, what the guy at the top comment implied is that 8GB is such a small amount of space that you shouldn’t even have to “worry” about keeping it, just keep it because its so small it won’t do you no harm to have it around.
Or dump it into data hoarders and let someone else take the storing burden.
You could have tried on an older android device first. But for 8 gigs, I wouldn’t even have bothered. I’d just throw them in a bucket and be done with it.