F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.
  • @TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml
    50•1 year ago

    There was once a time where I thought living with apps from only F-Droid was impossible.

    Now, F-Droid is my only app store, and I only use Aurora Store for banking apps (and even then, I prefer to do banking on desktop).

    • Domi
      13•1 year ago

      I recently switched to a phone with only microG installed, absolutely 0 Google services.

      It works insanely well nowadays.

        • Domi
          5•1 year ago

          I don’t think it’s possible to get rid of everything in the stock ROM.

          I usually install LineageOS on all my phones but I’m on /e/OS right now because Lineage is not available yet.

    • Ensign RickEnglish
      5•1 year ago

      Just started doing exactly this recently. Aurora fills the gaps for the stuff that I need without the play store.

    • kratoz29English
      4•1 year ago

      I got late to the party, I still use the Google Play Store, but I find some neat apps with Fdroid from time to time, and I was like “hey this isn’t that bad” I feel weird to have spend so much time looking for individual APK files ngl.

  • RQG
    32•1 year ago

    Yeah I always look for apps on fdroid first if I need something. It doesn’t have everything but a lot of the time there are great FOSS apps available.

    I also love that you can filter apps for different criteria such as privacy, close source dependencies etc.

    It’s a great project. Reminds me I should tip them some for their great work.

    • @Blizzard@lemmy.zipEnglish
      15•1 year ago

      I always look for apps on fdroid first if I need something

      Me too, and if it’s not there then I recently discovered Aurora Store which let’s you download from Google Play anonymously and is itself available on F-Droid.

      Reminds me I should tip them

      Nice try, Philip J. Fry!

      • @miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
        14•1 year ago

        How’s the Aurora Store working right now? Last time I used it, anonymous accounts started getting rate-limited pretty severly, rendering it quite painful to use

        • @TangledRockets@lemmy.world
          7•1 year ago

          The latest versions of Aurora store have a setting to automatically search in the browser which evades the playstore-side rate limiting. It’s a little annoying, but that’s on playstore, not aurora.

      • RQG
        2•1 year ago

        Made me exhale audibly through my nostrils.

  • @makeasnek@lemmy.ml
    12•1 year ago

    My favorite F-droid app: !boinc@sopuli.xyz

    • Open Source
    • Uses your phone’s spare computational power to help scientists working on everything from cancer research to finding pulsars and black holes. You choose which projects to contribute to. Phones are more compute-per-watt efficient than most computers, and every little bit helps!
    • Can’t be published in Google Play store due to their ToS (it downloads and executes code from outside of its own APK which is not allowed)
    • Make sure to limit CPU usage to keep temps down. If your phone can’t get rid of heat easily, this app is not for you.
    • @Albbi@lemmy.ca
      25•1 year ago

      Seems like awful use of your phone battery. Things like this are much better suited to desktop computers than anything that runs off battery. Even if they are more efficient as you say, they wear out much faster, leading to e-waste.

      • @makeasnek@lemmy.ml
        2•1 year ago

        By default it only runs when battery is full and plugged into a charger. If you are keeping temps low there is no battery damage. I have ran this for years on several different phones.

    • @naut@infosec.pubOP
      1•1 year ago

      can’t trust it (blindly) for some reason… but there are other reasons I will not get into here

  • @Cheradenine@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    11•1 year ago

    If you are not already using it, https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium, it’s updated and improved frequently

    ‘Get Android App Updates Directly From the Source.’

    Currently supported App sources:

    Open Source - General: GitHub GitLab Codeberg F-Droid Third Party F-Droid Repos IzzyOnDroid SourceForge SourceHut Other - General: APKPure Aptoide Uptodown APKMirror (Track-Only) Huawei AppGallery Jenkins Jobs Open Source - App-Specific: Mullvad Signal VLC Other - App-Specific: Telegram App Steam Mobile Apps Neutron Code “HTML” (Fallback): Any other URL that returns an HTML page with links to APK files