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accrescent | Obtainium | |
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23 | 102 | |
714 | 4,722 | |
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9.4 | 9.8 | |
7 days ago | 4 days ago | |
Kotlin | Dart | |
ISC License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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accrescent
- Accrescent: FOSS Android App Store focused on security, privacy, and usability.
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Alternatives
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)
- Contact manager on android
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22 great apps for GrapheneOS, or how to setup a useful Android smartphone with open source apps only
Accrecent is another app store alternative, but I'm not sure about its state of development.
- Which Bitwarden release should one use ?
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Why is CalyxOS not recommended as much as GrapheneOS?
Another example of an app store properly implementing unattended unprivileged updates is Accrescent. This can definitely be done, and there's no reason why any modern system should require deep privileged access to provide automatic and unattended updates.
As mentioned in another reply here, if you're using Play Store on GrapheneOS, it uses the appropriate API to do this, as does Accrescent.
Obtainium
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Shattered Pixel Dungeon is an open-source traditional roguelike dungeon crawler
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.
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F-Droid, Keyboard Libraries, and Choosing a Browser
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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Treasure within GitHub
LinkSheet FFShare Obtainium
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Can't update the manager
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).
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⟳ 3 apps added, 10 updated at apt.izzysoft.de
Obtainium (version 1230): Get Android App Updates Directly From the Source.
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Top 10 Android Apps in 2013 (not available on the Google Play Store)
https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium Getting updates for the non Google Play Apps
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NewPipe – The lightweight YouTube experience for Android
"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]
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F-Droid: Android FOSS app store
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
- Obtainium – Get Android App Updates Directly from the Source
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⟳ 0 apps added, 7 updated at apt.izzysoft.de
Obtainium (version 1199): Get Android App Updates Directly From the Source.
What are some alternatives?
Neo-Store - An F-Droid client with modern UI and an arsenal of extra features.
git-touch - An open-source app for GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Gitea, and Gitee(码云), built with Flutter
AAA - :iphone: Curated list of THE BEST FOSS Android apps to maximize your freedom & privacy!
saikou - An Android Anilist client, which lets you stream & download Anime & Manga. [UnavailableForLegalReasons - Repository access blocked]
Insular - A sandbox environment to clone selected apps and isolate them from accessing your personal data outside the sandbox (including call logs, contacts, photos and etc) even if related permissions are granted. Device-bound data (SMS, IMEI and etc) is still accessible.
client - F-Droid client with Material UI.
brave-browser - Next generation Brave browser for Android, Linux, macOS, Windows.
BoxBox - Unofficial Android and web app for Formula 1 lovers!
UpgradeAll - Check updates for Android apps, Magisk modules and more!
ReadYou - An Android RSS reader presented in Material You style.
iceraven-browser - Iceraven Browser
ConnectYou - Privacy focused contacts and SMS messenger app built with MD3