accrescent VS Obtainium

It's security is sub-par. If you're looking for secure app updates the Play Store is the way to go (if you're willing to compromise your privacy). They also use remote signing for apks (so, F-Droid builds then signs the APKs on behalf of developers).

One thing I'm hoping will pick up speed is Accrescent - https://accrescent.app/. It is in a very very alpha stage at the moment and only includes a handful of apps. It's built with security in mind from the get-go and doesn't compromise just to support lower, outdated/insecure android versions.

If you really prioritize security you should use Play Store. If you value privacy as well I can only suggest you do what I do: use a mixture of F-Droid, Aurora Store (praying that this project doesn't die, it does not seem very vigorous at the moment) and Accrescent (praying that this channel gets adopted by many more FOSS projects, sees accelerated development and ends up replacing the other two)

Accrescent is an open-source app store focused on security and privacy: https://accrescent.app

Accrecent is another app store alternative, but I'm not sure about its state of development.

I'm simply providing more information that gives another perspective on F-droid which is what the OP asked for. I don't know why I got so many downvotes or why you're implying that I am one of these people which think F-droid is bad. The comment you quote certainly has it's own merit that offers a good counter point. There is however an upcoming better Foss store in my opinion called Accrescent.

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.

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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")