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This Week in F-DroidTWIF curated on Thursday, 18 Jul 2024, Week 29F-Droid coreF-Droid Client and Basic 1.21.0-alpha0 are live, the changelog has all the fun ...
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I did not totally understand what the title is about.
Besides these updates and new apps, we also have many apps removed or downgraded in our scanner running. PiliPala has been added back and more removed apps will come back with non-free bits removed. But others may never come back because upstream has been inactive for a long time or not willing to fix the problem.
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I really like F-Droid for their scanning and privacy-first build system.
But I currently use Obtainium as I get way faster updates, where I would need to wait longer to get updates.
But a good in-between could be to get K-9 mail, Mull etc. from dedicated repos and use F-droids builds for less trusted apps.
Obtainium is only okay if you trust the developer. There is no scanning and apps may contain proprietary parts.
I use Obtanium, but I also like to wander around fdroid categories and discovering apps to try. Is there something similar with obtanium? Where do you find new apps?
I use "F-Droid Basic" with some repos, most importantly IzzyOnDroid and use Obtainium for updating.
Yeah not perfect. But there is apps.obtainium.imranr.dev
Great site! Thanks for the info
The goal is just to make harder apps to install easier. So it is not perfect.
@boredsquirrel @merde Wait, which app took 6 months to get updates built verified from source by F-Droid?
I think 6 months was an exaggeration.
I remember Mull taking very long and skipping multiple updates. K-9 Mail, now under the Mozilla Namespace, also took long, even though I am not sure if the updates are prereleases yet.
The same for the Fossify Apps, which took like a month or so longer to appear?
This may all be wanted or inherent because of submission and build delays.
@boredsquirrel Fennec/Mull are huge tasks to clean up, delays are expected but are measured in weeks. K-9 pre-releases are coming as they appear, but you need to enable Beta updates in app details menu. Fossify apps were included when ready.
Thanks!
Perhaps it's this part:
Besides these updates and new apps, we also have many apps removed or downgraded in our scanner running. PiliPala has been added back and more removed apps will come back with non-free bits removed. But others may never come back because upstream has been inactive for a long time or not willing to fix the problem.