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What Are Your Favorite FOSS Android Apps?
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Obtainium is great for updating apps hosted outside the playstore, big upside being you don't need to bother with FDroid releases
What do people prefer to use for apps that can't be updated through Obtanium?
what kind of apps cant be updated through playstore/fdroid?
what are the one you are using?
it's not that they can't be (maybe some apps I use can't) but rather that I don't like some things about F-Droid. One of the big things being unreliable app updates. They are often significantly outdated compared to GitHub releases.
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/android/#f-droid
"Due to their process of building apps, apps in the official F-Droid repository often fall behind on updates. F-Droid maintainers also reuse package IDs while signing apps with their own keys, which is not ideal as it gives the F-Droid team ultimate trust."
This is somewhat outdated, developers can now opt in to reproducable builds using their own keys
https://f-droid.org/docs/Reproducible_Builds/