I am using Insular and create a work profile.

In the Work profile, say I want to install a modded version of an app; alongwith it I also want to install the normal version in the Home profile.

When I install the second app, it doesn’t installs and a message appears that sort of says, “Another user has already installed this app which is different from this and is of some other version”.

Till now, i always thought work profile makes a complete another instance and no corelation with the Home Profile. I want to know was am I wrong somewhere, or had not doing the setup properly.

  • jetAEnglish
    71·
    1 year ago

    To my knowledge apps have to be the same version across the entire phone, across all profiles, across all accounts.

    For instance if somebody in profile b upgrades the app, users and profile a will see it.

  • acid_falcon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Check out an app called Parallel Space. I used it once to have two accounts in a game ages ago. It’s been a while so I don’t know how it’s going now, but it worked pretty well when I used it

    • private_eye@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I think Parallel Space is kind of a bloatware. But instead of clones, i want isolated apps in different profiles; and yes different versions too.

      • iamak@infosec.pubEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Check out Shelter. Iuse Shelter myself but I have heard that Insular does the same thing. Shelter has an option of installing from APK directly into work profile. I tried installing different versions just now and it worked.

        Edit: Hadn’t properly read your post. Changed my reply to better fit the question