The idea behind Aptoide came from different sources. This first stage of development was later developed in the scope of SAPO Summerbits. The proposal was accepted and later became what today is Aptoide.
The name Aptoide is formed from the words "APT" (the Debian package manager) and "oide" (the last syllable of "Android").Īptoide started as a proposal of Paulo Trezentos at the 2009 Caixa Mágica Summer Camp. When the user wants a package, they can use the client to search for sources where the application is stored. The concept is inspired by the APT packaging manager, which can work with multiple sources (repositories). The communication between the client and servers is done using an open protocol based on XML. The Android application used to access the stores is open source, and there are several forks such as F-Droid. There are several versions of the Aptoide app: Aptoide for smartphones and tablets, Aptoide TV – an edition for smart TVs and STBs, Aptoide VR and Aptoide Kids – developed for children's devices. The software package is published by Aptoide S.A., a for-profit company incorporated in 2011, and headquartered in Lisbon, Portugal. In Aptoide, unlike the Android-default Play Store, there is not a unique and centralized store instead, each user manages their own store. Aptoide users are recommended to change their passwords.Aptoide is an online marketplace for mobile applications which runs on the Android operating system. The App Store had previously accused Google of treating unfairly by using Play Protect to put security warning on the app. What makes things worse is that the leak of 20 million accounts is only a part of 39 million users that hackers claim to have hold of. If you use a shared password with other sites, you should change the password in those sites as well." If you used a dictionary word or an easy password, your password may be reversed. However, you should not consider your password secure. Although the attack on SHA-1 is possible, it takes a long time to do it in a pure brute force attack. If you are one of the 8.8M users that signed up using your email address, your password is kept encrypted using the SHA-1 cypher in the database. Only if you signed up through the web site to access dashboards. The table has a birthday field and name but was not filled out when you signed up through the Android application. In case you are in the 3% of the users that have created an account to make a comment or a review, your email address will be in the database, as well as the IP and user agent of the last login. There is no information on the databases for the users that didn't sign up. In that case, you are not impacted at all. The official statement by Aptoide reads, "Since you are not required to create an account at Aptoide to use it, 97% of Aptoide users have never signed up.
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