Yeah I've had good success with patching apps. If the app complains the phone is an emulator, just patch the byte code that is checking for emulators too :)
Unfortunately I could not patch any apps yet. They open with a blank screen and crash after a few seconds. objection can't connect to the server. My phone doesn't seem to be easily rootable, so I'm kinda stuck for a while.
apkpure.com has a track record of serving malicious APKs.
If you run it in a sandbox environment it's probably okay-ish, but if you already have the app installed from a trusted source on your phone, you can grab the APK file with `adb pull`.
This require a rooted phone. Or you can patch the app with objection, so you don’t need the root: https://github.com/sensepost/objection/wiki/Patching-Android...
Can download the APK from places like https://apkpure.com/