You can use zap.store and Obtainium interchangeably. Should work for most apps.
Thank you!
zap.store featured in the top stacker.news of the week!
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It's not an iOS app store yet, but one day! And it's not a web app store yet... but coming 👀
#Robosats v0.6.1-alpha released:
> Android app comes back stronger than ever!
> After we skipped several Android app releases in order to focus on the decentralization, now the Android app comes back with all the strength. The Android app is now THE BEST WAY to use RoboSats. The It's a full RoboSats self-hosted client, it connects to all RoboSats coordinators and can generate robot identities fully locally.
https://github.com/RoboSats/robosats/releases/tag/v0.6.1-alpha
Thank you! Indexing Github is just the start. We'll index much more, and users will be able to swap relays - much like it's possible to swap repos in F-Droid.
Blossom and bittorrent 2.0 will be the major distribution methods as zap.store is based on on NIP-94
Thank you! You are not doing anything wrong.
It will get better:
nostr:npub10r8xl2njyepcw2zwv3a6dyufj4e4ajx86hz6v4ehu4gnpupxxp7stjt2p8 Nice app but I don't understand where is the apk sourced? Right now Obtainium give an update for Molly, from Github, but Zap.store is still not showing the update.
Also you say that it's permissionless, how can I add an app? Is it only dev that can add an app or anyone?
Latest Molly should show now
nostr:npub10r8xl2njyepcw2zwv3a6dyufj4e4ajx86hz6v4ehu4gnpupxxp7stjt2p8 Nice app but I don't understand where is the apk sourced? Right now Obtainium give an update for Molly, from Github, but Zap.store is still not showing the update.
Also you say that it's permissionless, how can I add an app? Is it only dev that can add an app or anyone?
Great question!
We run an indexer that gets data and artifacts from various repositories. It can be slow sometimes, but it's improving - in quantity and speed.
All data is written to wss://relay.zap.store and https://cdn.zap.store (a blossom server). At the moment both are read-only for everyone except this pubkey.
The zap.store Android app fetches data from that relay which for now is hardcoded. Why? First reason is security: we do not have all the tools in place yet to let users confidently determine the trust profile of an app, so we're effectively curating. And second is UX: the NIPs for apps and releases are new and in flux, having control over the relay allows us to fine tune without causing many issues.
Once we progress with all that we will let users choose their own app relays. So you are right that it's not fully permissionless today, although you could definitely fork app and relay and run your own. But it will soon be.
What is the repo with the APK?
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Why am I not seeing the latest version of SimpleX on zap.store? v5.7.2
Cause the hamster (me) didn't get to make a full turn in the wheel and re run the indexer. Later today!
Obrigado!
Check out how altstore works
For iOS there is a short term fix, or rather workaround, based on the altstore/sideloadly approach.
And there is the long term solution, to enable surfacing such good quality apps (with right incentives) that iOS users will end up leaving it.
After multiple years of trying, Tim Apple FINALLY allowed me to KYC with his stupid company and bestowed upon me one of his Apple Developer accounts.
Incredible that a dirty Argentinean without a fixed residence, phone number or valid POA like me was able to be blessed by their grace. Truly can’t wait for nostr:npub10r8xl2njyepcw2zwv3a6dyufj4e4ajx86hz6v4ehu4gnpupxxp7stjt2p8 to obsolete this system.
Regardless of my bitterness of how horrendous this process was I’m very excited about bringing many of my apps to a permissioned App Store next to you, starting with nostr:npub1w0rthyjyp2f5gful0gm2500pwyxfrx93a85289xdz0sd6hyef33sh2cu4x.
Thanks for taking the time. It's the only report like that I know of. Would you mind sharing which device and OS version you are running? Feel free to DM
Are you on 0.1.1? Can you try cleaning the local cache?