Nostr Web Client

Exactly what I said too, but Android is not as freefom as they think at first sight. It officially does not want you to leave the Google ecosystem. There must be some "trick" to use a tons of apps you can find on the Google Play store. Even if yku want to be free from Google GFS, or if you don't want to use Gmail, and/or you don't want to be tracked by anyone. But it is possible, my phone is also "degoogled". You can find these kind of smart phone on the market, with all necessary things preinstalled. Therefore you can use them without any apriori IT knowledge.

@DerekRoss - IMHO if you want to develop any Android app (instead of supporting and the Apple universe more and more), it could be FOSS, without GFS, AWS and so on, and could be available on F-Droid. I mean not just #nostr related.apps.Am I right or not? 🙂

Derek Ross 2y ago

Yes. Apps can be installed from anywhere if you go into your settings and allow apps to be installed from external locations. It's really easy and is standard practice. Always has been. So, install your F-Droid store or just go to GitHub, whenever. Just make sure you know what you're installing. You don't want to get malware.

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ᴄʏʙᴇʀɢᴜʏ 👽 2y ago

I'm sure the apps developed by you for Android, definitely won't contain any "unwanted" code 😁😁 But you are right, I forgot to mention that be careful. Om the other hand many of the alternative Android app stores examine the uploaded apps before it will be public (unfortunately the Aptoide is not so secure: it always want to get "root" rights/privileges, I don't know why...)