What's wrong with F-Droid? Why not put the apps on there?
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Because open source devs insist on fragmentation
Many things are wrong with fdroid, few are right:
F-Droid Security Issues
F-Droid is a popular alternative app repository for Android, especially known for its main repository dedicated to free and open-source software. F...
Because fdroid sucks:
- Only allows FOSS apps
- No reputation layer
- No social layer
- Delay for listing new apps
- Delay for publishing updates
- Looks like shit, normies will not use it
fdroid sucks, but not for those reasons. How about it uses fdroids signing key, unlike obtainium, which uses the developer's signing key.
I'm all for a store that only allows FOSS apps, but I don't like how they use their own signing keys. That's definitely suspicious.
The problem with good UX is that it is more often then not used for evil.
most important apps are signed by fdroid, not by the app devs (for the most part at least; fdroid offers a method to build the app in a way that permit devs to sign themself, but pratically noone uses it cause require much work).
So if someone compromise fdroid, he can put arbitrary malware in the update of all your fdroid apps.
I mainly use Obtainium and Github release urls. Some apps are unforunately only available via Fdroid.
You can install fdroid apps with Obtainium. It even works for 3rd party repos.
Nice, I need to look into that.
also if you hack a bit with regex you can turn every http page in a repo. I update whatsapp and electrum from obtanioum and versioning is handled like a charm
WhatsApp is supported out of the box (just pick the "WhatsApp source"), no need for regex tweaking!
yeah, electrum with proper version recognition is more challenging 😅