Neo-Store VS Obtainium

F-Droid is one of the first apps I install when restoring my phone. That said, I usually use F-Droid to install an alternate frontend. There's Neo Store[0] which is a fork of Droid-ify[1] which itself is a fork of Foxy Droid[2]. Personally I use Neo Store, includes more repos by default and can auto update apps.

[0]: https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Store

https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Store/issues/163 https://github.com/Droid-ify/client/issues/45 https://git.bubu1.eu/Bubu/fdroidclassic/-/issues/14

Play Store → Fdroid, Neo Store, Aurora Store

Hi, I use Neostore to manage my Foss apps... including setting the repos to various foss projects (Izzydroid.. ) , Mull is part of it. Maybe accessible from F-Droid too but Neostore is way better

You could then try to use Neo Store

The alternative I use is Droid-ify. Also check out Neo Store.

https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Store im using this one

Maybe try NeoStore, it's a modern F-Droid client

Just FYI, there's an Android app called Obtainium that lets you add Github (and a few other) repos to it. Obtanium will then check those repos for updates and install the new APK for you. Its pretty slick for people that prefer to get their APKs direct from the dev.

https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium

While F-Droid will manage updates to anything installed through it's shop, you aren't stuck manually checking and updating things if you go decide to download APK releases directly. Obtanium is essentially a tracker/updater for managing your APKs from a broad range of sources. At the moment I'm only using it for a Bluesky client I grabbed off GitHub but I can see replacing the F-Droid shop with it once I've really settled on my app choices. Something on the list to investigate later.

LinkSheet FFShare Obtainium

A trick from another forum: there's an app named Obtainium which can monitor and update almost everything not installed from the regular store(s).

Obtainium (version 1230): Get Android App Updates Directly From the Source.

https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium Getting updates for the non Google Play Apps

"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. Additionally, the requirements for an app to be included in the official F-Droid repo are less strict than other app stores like Google Play, meaning that F-Droid tends to host a lot more apps which are older, unmaintained, or otherwise no longer meet modern security standards."[2]

[1]: https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium#readme

I like this app for interfacing with fdroid: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.machiav3lli.fdroid/

I also like this CLI for bulk downloading apks for initializing a new device over adb: https://github.com/mvdan/fdroidcl

To get releases faster there is obtanium: https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium

``` import os import json import subprocess import requests obtanium_url = "https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium/releases/latest" app_data_dir = "/Android/data/dev.imranr.obtainium/files/app_data/" sources_file = os.path.join(app_data_dir, "sources.json")