Awesome new app I've never heard of before now, but makes keeping up with all the Android Nostr clients *so* much easier.
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Tnx to #[0] we found this 🙂
"Obtainium allows you to install and update Open-Source Apps directly from their releases pages, and receive notifications when new releases are made available."
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https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium
Discussion
I don’t understand why not just get it from fdroid?
And there are security issues because of how fdroid signs updates which aren’t always immediately available, sometimes over 1week lag. Best work around until now was subscribing to every apps release page with rss and then manually update apps individually.
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Oh man, this is already a better UX than ant appstore I've ever used. Simple and to the point.
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Its highly useful but I'd recommend most use f-droid. I think its a little safer and their process is a bit better with respect to avoiding broken builds and releases.
When available, definitely.
Would more use this when it's not available as many devs don't spend the time to get on F-Droid understandably.
Hi Seth, have you seen this video about f-droid’s security issues? Would love to hear your thoughts. https://youtu.be/lAbgeJau3eE
Shout-out to Imran. I've got a bit over 80 apps in my feed at this point. I'm running GrapheneOS without Google Play Services and I've got most of my bases covered. It's allowed me to consolidate almost all my apps together. I still use Aurora Store for some things that have no external release path (like banks), but on his issue tracker it seems Imran recently said that he might look into adding Google Play as a source as well.
He originally created this with the intent to make apps auto (unattended) update like Google Play Store, but he's using Flutter and there isn't a compatible plug-in yet. But he's still planning for that it seems, even considered the possiblity of making his own plug-in.
Cool things coming for app distribution on Android. Checkout Accresent as well, it's still in Alpha, but it solves most of the security issues that F-Droid introduces. Molly is already being distributed there by their dev.