I like it, gives you the option for older versions as well. When I updated my old browser and the look and feel completely changed, I had to go back years but I eventually found what I liked.
F-Droid Awarded Open Technology Fund's FOSS Sustainability Grant
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#22F-Droid is indeed a nice alternative for Play Store, but still, it's not perfect. https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/
Note that most of that page is a matter of the authors having a completely different security model than F-Droid rather than what I would consider to be true defects.
It's not. Stop being in an echo chamber. Refer to this post for more valid criticism: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42653176
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#23I've got about 80% of my apps that would normally be on F-Droid installed through Obtainium (https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium), which handles Git releases (among other sources). The F-Droid client feels clunky and in the past I had some update errors that were annoying. With some improvements it should return to being a good discovery tool and app manager, so this is good news.
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#24I've got about 80% of my apps that would normally be on F-Droid installed through Obtainium ( https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium ), which handles Git releases (among other sources). The F-Droid client feels clunky and in the past I had some update errors that were annoying. With some improvements it should return to being a good discovery tool and app manager, so this is good news.
It seems that Obtainium "curates" apps, i.e. derives lists of downloadable apps, is by crowd-sourcing this task. See:
https://apps.obtainium.imranr.dev/
I also believe the client is doesn't limit itself to FOSS.
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#25I've got about 80% of my apps that would normally be on F-Droid installed through Obtainium ( https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium ), which handles Git releases (among other sources). The F-Droid client feels clunky and in the past I had some update errors that were annoying. With some improvements it should return to being a good discovery tool and app manager, so this is good news.
It seems that Obtainium "curates" apps, i.e. derives lists of downloadable apps, is by crowd-sourcing this task. See: https://apps.obtainium.imranr.dev/ I also believe the client is doesn't limit itself to FOSS.
I was not aware of an Obtanium catalog like that. That's a nice feature that I see hidden at the bottom of the Add App screen. You can also use Obtanium to install from F-Droid sources and really just any apk, so it's superior in many ways, except in 1) discovery (which that catalog helps) 2) as devs aren't curating F-droid releases with care, sometimes it's a pain to setup, especially when a package is always `apk-latest` or something.
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#26Couldn't deserve it more. Makes it easy to install FOSS alternative apps to what you find in the play store which aren't infested with dark patterns and adware.
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#27I use f-droid and the aurora store. The play store was disabled the day I got the phone. There has been a few issues but I stuck with f-droid for many years. Good for them.
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#28For me, F-Droid is the apt of Android.
- Installs software adequately
- Terrible search ergonomics
It checks all the boxes.
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#29F-Droid is indeed a nice alternative for Play Store, but still, it's not perfect. https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/
This reads really weirdly and seems to downplay concrete threats/malicious activity in the play store and emphasise best practice/security model violations on F-Droid.
I get F-Droid is the subject, and it's reasonable to make space to highlight issues with it here but it doesn't seem reasonable to conclude your security posture is better if you go with the play store.
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#30Well deserved. Though, I have problems in "discovering" apps for a particular purpose. It would have helped if there was a vote-based curated app categories section. My current strategy is googling for "[category (e.g. 2FA or note-taking)] + reddit + open-source" then opening up each suggestion's git source and manually look for things like tech stack or project stars or number of contributors.
Yeah exactly that's my issue #1 with Fdroid