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 ...
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 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.
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
@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!