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android studio vm(and other vms), can't run some apps from playstore

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I'm planning to get rid of my smartphone, because it does distract me too much, but some applications, such as banking one, or stores for some reasons, have only an app for either android or ios, not pc

such apps cant be found on playstore via vm, but can be found on playstore if you do google it, then of you click on the link, you can't download it because the device you're using is not compatible or some reason like that

then if you manage to install the app, via other sources, it will crash / refuse to open thanks to some generic error;
I guess that they purposely made such limitations, but the problem is on how can you circumvent such things ?
 
Is there a reason you need these apps specifically? Is there no desktop replacement for it?
My banks website host the exact same service as their phone application, just a slightly different UI.

Either way, hardening is the issue. Applications specifically looking for things like root access, security features (Samsung Security Net), or emulation. If any of those are detected or not detected it will refuse to work. Why this is the case could be a rather long answer but "security" would be the general response. There are many hows, buts and whys to that though.
It could just be that some applications are harder to emulate, which is what the VMs do either way and it could be fixed in a later version.

It would most likely be far easier to search for alternatives, than to search for ways to fix it.
 
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