F-Droid: Android FOSS app store

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  • client

    F-Droid client with Material UI. (by Droid-ify)

  • Glider

    Glider is an opinionated Hacker News client. Ad-free, open-source, no-nonsense.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • fdroidcl

    F-Droid desktop client

  • 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 straight from the source.

  • 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

  • Neo-Store

    An F-Droid client with modern UI and an arsenal of extra features.

  • 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

  • foxy-droid

    Yet another F-Droid client

  • Harmonic-HN

    Modern Android client for Hacker News

  • And I just discovered another one today: Harmonic.

    https://github.com/SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN

    I'm still searching for "just right". And while I know that posting comments is an experimental feature in Glider, I was pretty miffed today when I lost a somewhat lengthy reply that I had spent the previous thirty minutes drafting.

    Nevertheless, I know better than to blame anyone but myself for the loss. I should have been copying my progress to a safer location the entire time, and the source is right there, waiting for my patch. As always, the joys of free software abound.

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  • It's a shame Aurora Droid[0] isn't maintained anymore, I found its UI to be far easier to use than the alternatives like you mentioned.

    [0]: https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/auroradroid

  • This is the discussion on implementing a popcon-style feature in F-Droid if you want to read through where the project got to: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/396

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