Re:Ask HN: How to stop Google Play Store from replacing apps...
by david_allison on Thursday July 14, 2022 @05:25PM
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Get in touch with the maintainers if it's causing a problem, they probably don't realise and it's typically very easy to perform a parallel release under a different applicationId.
GPL'ed code, but so is FairEmail:
https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/blob/7082f6ee93ed1...
Most of the relevant code is in parallel-package-name.sh