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that begs one question: where to get the apk from?

Next to the other suggestions there's evozi's apk downloader that generates apks based on pasted Google Play URLs[0] and the ability to download apks in the proxied Play Store replacements 'Yalp' and 'Aurora' which are available in F-Droid

[0] https://apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader/

You can either install it from your real hw device and, once connected via usb, do a $ adb pull test.apk or you can download it from these sites:

(I've tried them both for different RE purposes and they also have the latest updates for a lot of apps) APKCombo [1] & APKPure [2].

[1] : https://apkcombo.com/

[2] : https://apkpure.com

From your device using adb pull?

Is there a more reliable way to get the APK programmatically, without having to use an android device as a middleman?

I know of gplaycli (https://github.com/matlink/gplaycli/) but its reliability leaves a lot to be desired afaik.

There is also the Yalp store (open source Google Play service front-end), as well as a bunch of third party websites that will happily give you an untrusted APK (they all claim to be secure and original, but somehow the sha2 hashes of identical versions are n=3 always different for me).

Could it be that it's a case of multiple APK? Perhaps different CPU architecture? In any case I would check the value of versionCode first (https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/manifest...).

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ext.ui

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