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F-Droid supports adding third-party repos, no need to create another app, right? Right?
F droid is dificult, the landing page is senseless and searching isnt intuitive. Feels a bit disjointed
They probably don’t have a designer, but as a platform they’re actually solid. App devs can’t pull a switcheroo like uploading malicious apk because they can only upload source code (which will be made public), not binary. You can be sure apps you download there 100% generated from the published source code, unlike downloading from, say, release page on some random github repo.
Use Droidify or Neo Store. Both are in F-Droid repo, and both are better IMO.
Ahbso Droidify is a kind of store. I was wondering why I had it installed on my phone. I don’t think I would ever try to repackage things or how they explained it.
Installed Neo Store. It’s a joke IMO, for one single reason.
The app starts up and asks me for two permissions. “The app works better without battery optimizations.” Alright? I’m not willing to sacrifice battery life for random app updates. I’ll check for updates manually, and regularly, thank you.
And: “Please allow notifications if you want notifications.” No.If I want neither of those, there’s no way to proceed. I press the back button, it closes the app.
Fastest uninstall ever. 😐
With a lacking thought process like that, I don’t trust the store at all because the devs clearly don’t have a lot of forethought.
So…a repo manager asks to notify you of updates, and check for them in the background…and that requires an essay long screed?
FYI I have battery optimizations enabled, and notifications disabled. App works great.
But whatever, I genuinely give no shits if you use it, or don’t.
Neither of those permissions should be required for an app store. If someone wants to check for updates manually they should be able to do that.
Required means not optional… which both are…
Also, it’s not unusual for a repo manager to request the ability to check for background updates, or send notifications…which again, are both optional.
If they only learned a bitfrom Flathub.
Any idea how this demand is different from the current state of Android?
Under Epic’s terms, any app downloaded from anywhere would operate identically to apps downloaded from Google Play, without Google imposing any unnecessary distribution fees.
Last time I used it, I downloaded all my apps through F-Droid, and I didn’t think they were paying Google anything?
They probably mean, for example, not having to prompt the user to allow installs from “unknown sources”, allowing alternative app stores to update apps and themselves automatically in the background like Google Play does, allow installations from alternative stores with one tap without extra user interaction, etc.
There are differences between play store and other store. For instance, on fdroid you have a pop up asking each and every time if you want to install or update the app after pressing install button. Play store you just click install and let it do its work in the background.
I don’t think fdroid can update app by itself in the background. Play store can.
I mean third party store doesn’t have access to some of the api play store have, things you don’t care but that is important to normies and that would induce reduced profit from epic store.
You don’t have that popup on NeoStore and other alternatives, because they use Android’s new APIs. F-Droid (the app) somehow gets nowhere. Still can’t export/import package sources either.
I used droid-ify recently, which is well maintained and still got these pop up. Are you sure we’re talking about the same thing ? I mean pop up that says « would you like to install x app ». Yes no. And you got to give permission to the store first to even show this pop up.
Updates specifically, initial install still gives the pop-up.
From my recent experience both the main F-droid app and Droid-ify can do silent updates. Not sure how automatic they are though.
F-Droid has allegedly had automatic/silent installs for a while now, although only on newer versions of Android (12+).
Man, I never bought an iPhone because I despise apple and their closed ecosystem, so I was with android since the start.
But google has made me want to not buy android phones for over a decade, but what else is there
“Epic’s filing to the US Federal Court shows again that it simply wants the benefits of Google Play without having to pay for it,” Google’s spokesperson said. “We’ll continue to challenge the verdict, as Android is an open mobile platform that faces fierce competition from the Apple App Store, as well as app stores on Android devices, PCs, and gaming consoles.”
Is this the mocking? Its not a very good mocking!
