It's just not right that it doesn't install in Android 15. Damn this planned obsolescence bullshit.
I would pay a few dollars for an updated version!
But it's abandoned. Surely someone knows how to take apart the .apk and repackage it so it can run in android 15?
I have very limited programming knowledge so I don't know why it wouldn't be compatible. But surely someone who knows android could update it?
It has no community so there is no chance of a community-driven update to it. It's just dead and this is shit.
Why isn't there a way to update an old software and then receive just compensation for your hard work updating that software? You ought to be able to resell an abandoned software if you worked hard on an update for it.
Humanity already figured this out for physical assets. Like remodeling your apartment or fixing a car you make payments on. You can fix things that don't belong to you and people can charge money for that, and that's fine. But god damn if you touch someone else's software? WTF?
I guess I just have to come to terms with this game being gone forever.
They say the internet is the sum total of human knowledge. But if you use it long enough, you notice that it forgets.
I wonder if in 1000 years, will even a single existing web page continue to exist in that far future? Will everything we know now, be completely forgotten?
You would not be remodelling the design of the car, you would be remoddeling a single instance of a car.
If you were to remodell the design of an "old" car and start your own company selling cars with that remodelled design, you would get in trouble.
They say the internet is the sum total of human knowledge.
Citation needed.
Also, did you try searching the net for ways to run older android apps on newer android versions? There seems to be sandbox apps that can do just that. You are not the only one with that particular problem. It stands to reason that there are solutions for that.
I got it to work. I had to follow a guide to install ABD (android debugging bridge) and then install USB drivers for samsung phones because I have a galaxy S22. Then turn on developer options, USB debugging, and get my phone authorized in ADB. Lots of fun.
But once I got ADB to work, I was able to uninstall digital wellbeing because it was annoying me with useless notifications I couldn't turn off. Then I tried to install wicked lair since I had already gone through all this trouble.
Come to find out ADB has an option to install deprecated apk's.
adb install --bypass-low-target-sdk-block filename.apk
The game works fine! The fact this option exists in ADB tells me that modern day Android 15 can run old apk's with no problem. This isn't a compatibility issue, it's a forced deprecation issue. This is planned obsolescence. There's no reason to be doing it except to make Google Play more money by fleecing customers who are forced to go out and buy new updated software.
I had to disable google play protect and will probably have to keep it turned off to keep wicked lair. Which is fine by me. Google can suck donkey balls.
